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True Virtue Part 3: When You Feel Like Giving Up

Heb 10:35-37
35 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.37 “For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.

Joshua 6:1-5 NLT
Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in. 2 But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. 3 You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days. 4 Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. 5 When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town.”
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WHY DO WE GIVE UP? When God has promised us so much? Why do we find it hard to keep going and loose trust in the promises of God?
Why do we give up?      
1)Our perspective is often limited

2)Our progress isn’t always obvious.

Joshua 6:10-11, 14
10 “Do not shout; do not even talk,” Joshua commanded. “Not a single word from any of you until I tell you to shout. Then shout!” 11 So the Ark of the Lord was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp. …14 On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for six days.
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Hebrews 10:36
Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Galatians 6:9 NIV
9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.  
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