38th Week of the Year

P E R S I S T E N T

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Purposing to accomplish the right goals at the right time with persistence, regardless of the opposition.

“The difference between INVOLVEMENT and COMMITMENT is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was INVOLVED — the pig was COMMITTED.”
~  Martina Navratilova  ~

“Winners are not people who never fail but people who never quit.”
~  Edwin Louis Cole  ~

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
~  Confucius  ~

PERSISTENCE EXEMPLIFIED

1. The Woman of Canaan
(Matthew 15:22-2)
2. Hannah's Infertility
(1 Samuel 1)
3. Jacob Wrestling with Angel
(Genesis 32:24-32)
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PERSISTENCE
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:62

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
Hebrews 12:1

“I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.”
Luke 11:8

“And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. ”
Luke 11:9-10