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Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may be only exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered. Our fear is that the very things our Lord stood for— love, justice, forgiveness, and kindness among men— will not win out in the end and will represent an unattainable goal for us. Then there is the call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

Have Spirtual Perseverance today

There are times when it seems as if God watches to see if we will give Him even small gifts of surrender, just to show how genuine our love is for Him. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness. Concern over our personal holiness causes us to focus our eyes on ourselves, and we become overly concerned about the way we walk and talk and look, out of fear of offending God. “. . . but perfect love casts out fear . . .” once we are surrendered to God  We should quit asking ourselves, “Am I of any use?” and accept the truth that we really are not of much use to Him. The issue is never of being of use, but of being of value to God Himself. Once we are totally surrendered to God, He will work through us all the time.

Today is a great day to surrender yourself

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.

In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.

My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.

I don’t like to hang out with people who have an attitude problem. LOTS of people do there best to avoid those with an attitude problem because coming into contact with them is like begging for unwarranted sarcasm/broken promise. That’s where God comes in and works on a persons Heart. It’s much more fun to be around a person with a great attitude. What do I mean by having a great attitude? Let me try to give you a precise idea with the following paragraph: Team player, humble, keep promises, return money borrowed, polite (among other things, love to say thank you, please, sorry, excuse me, Sir, Madam), willing to pay the price to achieve realistic goals, willing to go beyond the call of duty, generous, conscientious, having honesty and integrity, flexible (i.e. not stubborn), hard working, positive thinking, not sarcastic, not waiting for things to happen ( i.e. proactive in life).  Rest assured, your attitude problem can be a thing of the past. The first step towards having a great attitude is to stay away from people who have a negative attitude.

A good attitude can get you to the top of the mountian faster.

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 Provide nurture and support by focusing on the positive

 Catch your child being good.

Let your children know where the boundary lines are.