Endure

I was stricken today by this passage...stricken with true hope...not the hope of an empty suit...but a true and living hope. See if your spirit is touched as well.

"Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For,
'Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.'
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls." Hebrews 10:35-39

The greatest days for the church of believers are still ahead. Not days of cathedrals and throngs, but days filled with acts of deliverance, spirit-let witness, and an overcoming tenacity to see the King glorified. Prosperity will no longer be marked by materialism, but an integrity of spirit in the individual. Blessing will be defined as process, namely, souls being brought into the Kingdom. Now is not the time to shrink back into world-birthed ideologies and philosophies. Now is the time to stand for the TRUTH.

Stand strong, Jesus is on his way, either by a new outpouring of the Spirit, or with the sound of a trumpet. Both are good!
Pastor Jim