Endurance

The last few years of my life God has been teaching me about different types of Faith...or perhaps better put, different aspects to our Faith.

I often preach about using our Faith to move the mountains, to overcome adversity, and to gain the victory over the enemy.

There is however, another facet of our Faith that we must develop or we may come to the conclusion that our Faith has failed. 

I'm talking about Enduring Faith.

Enduring Faith is needed when we are standing on a Promise of God's Word that has not yet been fulfilled. Enduring Faith is also needed in the face of loss and disappointment. 

James 1:2-4 NASB - Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your FAITH produces ENDURANCE. 4 And let ENDURANCE have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Faith would be easy if we always quickly received the answers to our prayers. Time and unexpected circumstances can cause one to lose hope, give up and even become angry with God. In some cases, people have rejected Him altogether. 

Consider the life of Joseph. He had the Promise of God to be a great leader one day. Yet, he was hated by his brothers, thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, falsely accused of rape, thrown into prison...and in all that, he ENDURED. He chose to trust God and keep his Faith in the Promise of God.

If we are to be successful in our Christian walk we must develop mountain-moving-trial-enduring-Faith!