All tagged perseverance

Preparing the Ground through Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Pray Them Through

It is a Sunday morning in 1985 and my heavily pregnant wife struggles to clothe our two young daughters for church. In the midst of all the hustle and bustle there hardly seems to be a moment for prayer. Does this sound familiar to you? Well it was certainly a weekly occurrence at our house. In reading my devotional message this morning, Pastor E.M. Bounds wrote about how pastors should prepare themselves to preach and how we, as lay persons, should prepare ourselves for worship. He spoke of the parable of the sower and how preparing the ground allows the seed to germinate, and how unprepared soil allows Satan to ruin the prospect of a bountiful crop. He is so right in this.

Patience and Endurance in the Hour of Trial

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Patience and Perseverance

Are we capable of waiting on God without it harming our faith? Is our patience short lived, and our perseverance nearly nonexistent? In this modern era of instant gratification in which everything is about ourselves, and what we want, patience and perseverance are very rare commodities it seems. There is no place that this is any more evident, nor damaging, than in our spirituality, and faith. Yet despite this, God continues to ask us to be patient as we wait on Him, and to persevere in our belief by loving, remaining faithful, and trusting in Him. But are we so conditioned to expect everything we want right now that our faith fades when we go through periods of quiet? Are we able to love, and worship our God, when what we ask of Him is a long time in coming?

Perseverance in our Faith and Prayer

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Perseverance in Prayer

There are times in our lives of faith when we come face to face with something we refer to as the silence of God. We pray for a thing that we know in our heart is within His will, and worthy of being prayed for in the name of Jesus, yet nothing seems to come of it. The question is… do we continue to pray each day for this thing, and not lose faith in God’s promise? Do we persevere in our faith and prayer as we wait on the Lord?