- The Paradox of History
- The Essence of God
- Raw Material
- Available People
- Humility
- Spiritual Gifts
- Meekness
- Baptisms
- Three Functions of the Believer
- Ambassadorship
- Seven Figures of Christ and the Church
- The Mature Believer and Personal Accountability
- Tongues as a Spiritual Gift
- Prophecies of Jesus Christ in the Psalms
- The Perspective of Grace
- Discipleship
- Blessing and Reward
- How to Redeem Time
- Dispensations Timeline
- The Rapture
- The Day of the Lord and The Day of Christ
- The Good Fight of Faith
- Suffering
- Decisions
- No Truce
- Peace
- 10 Principles of Warfare
- God is Able, God Is Faithful
- Present Session of Christ
- Religion: The Enemy’s Ace
- Power In Us
- Faith
- Small Things
- Five Techniques (to spirituality)
- Eight Sabbaths
- Faith-rest
- Strange Tests
- Daily Disciplines
- The Faith-rest Technique
- Three Sources of Temptation
- Divine Wisdom
- The Value of Wisdom
- Evil
- The Royal Code
- The Character of Grace
- The Cross to the Crown
- Water and the Spirit
- Spirituality
- Synonomous Terms
- Reversionism and Recovery
- Soul Strengths and Soul Kinks
- Discipline
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Advance
- The Race of Life
- The Will of God
- The Old Sin Nature
- Energized Prayer
- Abiding: Absolute Thinking
- God’s Faithfulness
- Salvation in The Book of James
- “All things work together …”
- Biblical Spirituality
- Dispensations
- Death
- Endurance
- Essence of God Acronym
- Eternal Security
- Fellowship with God
- Five Commands for Christian Soldiers
- Five Factors of Effective Faith
- Five Techniques of the Christian Way of Life
- Five works of the Holy Spirit
- Five Works of the Spirit in Regard to the Word
- Free Will
- Freedom
- God is Able
- God Revealed
- Greek
- Hebrew Words for Faith
- Hermeneutics
- Imitation of Christ
- Man’s Barrier with God
- Parakaleo
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Recovery
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Retreat
- Spiritual Flexibility
- Spiritual Rest
- Stages of Spiritual Growth
- Take up Your Cross and Follow Him
- The Blood of Christ
- The Call of God
- The Daily Care of the Soul
- The Doctrine of Sin
- The Good Soldier of Jesus Christ
- Christ’s Work on the Cross
- The Church
- The Holy Spirit and Christ
- The I AM Sayings of Christ
- The Importance of the Word of God
- The Overcomer
- The Plan of God
- The Spirit in the Old Testament
- The Way of Salvation
- The Way to be Salt and Light
- The Words of Jesus
- The Work of Christ on the Cross
- Using the Physical to Learn the Spiritual
- Ways of Learning
- The Christian Way of Life
- The Christian Walk
- Scriptural Proof of the Pre-tribulation Rapture
- The Five Crowns
- Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle
- 5 Circles of Faith around Jesus
- The 4 Points of the Cross
- Should I Confess My Sins?
Endurance
The heights by great men seized
and kept did not occur by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward through the night.
Endurance is a vital factor in the spiritual life. (Heb. 10:36) “For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.” (Heb. 12:1-2) “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus…”
Endurance can only be developed by pushing beyond our present limitations. (Rom. 5:3) “We also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance (endurance).”
(Jam. 1:3) “Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance…”
Spiritual endurance involves patient waiting for the will of God to be fulfilled in us by the word of God. (Psa. 119:32) “I shall run the way of Thy commandments, for Thou wilt enlarge my heart.” (Build endurance in me.)
(Isa. 40:31) “Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.”
(Heb. 6:15) “And thus, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise…”
Endurance is the key to the abundant life.
(Joh. 15:9) “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have loved you; abide (endure) in My love.”
(Luk. 21:19) “By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
Endurance is the key to eternal reward.
(2Ti. 2:12) “If we endure, we shall reign with Him.”
Endurance is the result of keeping one’s eyes on Jesus. (Heb. 12:1-3) “Let us run with endurance…fixing our eyes on Jesus…who…endured the cross…for consider Him who has endured…”
(Heb. 11:27) “By faith he (Moses) left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.”
Consider a distance runner’s perspective and apply to the life of faith
“People can’t understand why a man runs. They don’t see any sport in it, argue that it lacks the sight-thrill of body contact, the color of rough conflict. Yet the conflict is there, more raw and challenging than any man versus competition. In track it is a man against himself, the cruelest of all opponents. The other runners are not real enemies. His adversary lies deep within him, in his ability, with brain and heart, to control and master himself and his emotions.” –Glenn Cunningham