ENDURE TILL THE END

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By FaithRider » May
14th, 2013, 12:09 pm • Endure Until the End

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He who endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 24:13

I was reminded today about a conversation I
once had with my designer. I was talking with her about a season we had come
through. I was telling her how much I appreciated her hanging in there with us.

I began to think
about the trait I have come to admire in a person is just that, the ability to
hang in there no matter what.

I don't think this is a trait we are born
with; I think it is one of those things that have to be developed in us. You
know, those things God must work in us. And the only way to do that is to go
through some stuff. It's like praying for patience. God will answer, but His
answer will come through times of needing patience and choosing patience when
you'd rather not. Right? It's the same with endurance.

If you have received
our motivations for very long you know my favorite statement, the one my family
grows weary of hearing, everything is a choice. You can choose to be happy or
mad. You can choose to have faith or doubt. You can choose to trust God or not.
Endurance is the same, it's a choice. You are simply choosing to stand when
everything around you is telling you to quit.

Remember Job? He was
in the middle of a time of great challenge. This time had touched his heart
when he lost his children, his finances when it touched his crop and animals
and then, it touched his body. Yet, Job didn't speak against God.

His wife said to him,
"Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!" She
was encouraging him to speak against God, to say that God wasn't who God said
He was.

Now remember, to
bless means to empower to prosper, therefore to curse would stop God from
working on his behalf. What she was encouraging Job to do was to react
according to his flesh and what he was feeling in his emotions. As believers go
through times of challenge they often fall into that same trap.

They begin to
question God and say things like 'why are you letting this happen to me?' Or
'why are you not coming through for me?' These are questioning God; these are
cursing God and putting Him in a position where He can't work on their behalf.

Never do this, no matter what the enemy throws
your way, don't question God. Questioning God is doubt and unbelief. God once
told me this 'wondering is wavering, wavering is doubt, doubt is sin.' Don't
allow your mind to begin to wonder, if you do this will lead you down a path
that will take you directly to sin, the sin of unbelief.

Let's look at something else she said 'are you
still holding your integrity?' What does that mean? When I looked it up in the
Strong's Concordance it means to complete, become whole, to completely cross
over. Aha! You see when you choose to endure to the end; you completely cross
over to God's side.

You are no longer out
in the middle trying to decide if you are fully persuaded, no, you are
completely, wholly convinced that God will do what God said He would do and
there is no backing up. This is the last place the enemy wants you and he will
do everything in his power to keep you from this place.

Because you simply
can't stop someone who refuses to stop. And that is who we are.

God is amazing, we
are not asked to fight a battle that can't be won. No! The battle has already
been won, Jesus defeated Satan completely at the cross. God is simply asking us
to trust Him and to endure to the end. It's that simple, trust God and stand.

Anyone can do that,
no, it's not always easy, but it is possible and it is all it takes to see the
full manifestation of your promise. When you feel you can't do anything more,
simply stand.

The battle has been fought and won, you are
the victor, Jesus caused you to be more than a conqueror through what He did,
you only have to believe God, stand and receive.

Matthew 24:13 says
'he who endures to the end shall be saved.' Saved means delivered, healed, set
free, prosperous, at peace, it means everything that you have need of.

So, stand! Endure!
Endure to the end and deliverance will be seen.

That is all that is
expected of you and God has granted you the ability to do just that. Become a
person who never quits, become a person the enemy can't stop; you can make it
all the way to the end.

Kim Potter
A New Thing Ministry

PO BOX 750 Dayton, TN 37321