Today we will be bringing you PART 4 of the ENDURANCE SERIES with men’s expert and pastor Kenny Luck … today we are going to see that when it comes to your spiritual endurance for Christ …your ability to withstand pressure to compromise or give up…and stay faithful over a lifetime.... ENCOURAGEMENT IS ESSENTIAL. Think about it … men who are given encouragement on their journey, take it to heart, and put it to work emotionally are WAY more likely to finish strong than those who receive little or no encouragement. Here is the problem … did you know that most men … including the ones you think are so spiritual … are suffering right now from a lack of encouragement? In fact…we all need to know that a small but meaningful dose of encouragement in the middle of a race is worth more than an hour of congratulations AFTER a race.
We have been learning from God’s Word that every man of God needs to develop spiritual endurance (that was part one) … and that when it comes to your ability to withstand hardship, testing, and adversity over the long haul in your faith journey… LIGHTER IS BETTER (we need to shed sin in our lives...