Hold On
A couple of weeks ago, God dropped the word perseverance into my spirit.
That’s when I looked up the word. The word perseverance comes from the Greek transliterated word proskartereo. It means to be steadfastly attentive unto, to give unremitting care to a thing.
In our lives, we have plenty of opportunities to quit, to give up. We confess the Word. Nothing seems to happen. We become discouraged and opt to quit.
We’ve prayed and prayed, but our prayers don’t seem to be answered. Again we opt to quit.
We keep being good to people, only to be betrayed....once again. Then we opt to withdraw and not put ourselves out there anymore.
The Bible tells us to seek and keep on seeking, ask and keep on asking, knock and keep on knocking (Matthew 7:7 Amplified Bible).
Quitting for Believers should not be an option. If we are blown away by every disappointment, every difficult time, every distraction, we will never fulfill the purpose God has for us.
We have to determine in our hearts to be steadfast, to be devoted to those things that God has spoken to us to do.
We have to be like a bulldog with a bone. When someone tries to take that bone from him, he digs his teeth in and holds onto it. He refuses to let go no matter how hard the person tries to wiggle it, jerk it or yank it from him. He isn’t giving it up.
When it comes to the things of God, the promises that He has given you both through His Word or through His Holy Spirit, the dreams He has planted in your heart, we should be as that bulldog.
We should dig our teeth into our promise and not give it up no matter how many disappointments, distractions and difficulties come our way. We need to hold onto our promise until we see it manifested.
But most of us give up before our promise comes to pass. Most of us become so discouraged that we decide that God failed us, that our promises are too hard to obtain, that it wasn’t God’s will for us.
No, if we hold onto the promise God has given us, it has to come to pass...no ands, ifs or buts because God’s promises are yea and in Him, amen (2 Corinthians 1:20).
So don’t give up. Hold onto your promise from God, and wait for it to manifest. Hallelujah!
- Annagail Lynes
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