“We look at how strong we are, or how much we know, or maybe where we’ve come from. Or what we’ve done and not done. But one of the things that God wants to establish in us and put into us through the power of his Word and through the power of the Holy Spirit, it’s something that comes by faith. And I believe it’s that mustard seed faith, that when it gets stepped on, when it gets put down, when it’s misunderstood. When you misunderstand yourself, when you don’t understand what’s going on. When you look at your last week and say, ‘Oh what happened?’ And the natural tendency of the flesh it wants to say, ‘Well I’m just gonna slack off.’ Yet inside of you there’s something that rises up and says, ‘No, I can’t!’ This is the endurance that I’m talking about. I’m not talking about an endurance that somehow a man says - that by the strength of his will, I will do this! That’s not what I’m talking about, not at all. It’s an endurance that is because of Jesus.” Pastor Steve Yoder
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:55:38 +0000