KEEP GOING - DON’T GIVE UP!

Joshua 1:9 NLT This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Keep going. Don’t give up! How often we need to hear those words when life wears us down and we feel like we’ve had enough! Perhaps you feel like that at the minute? Maybe life has ganged up on you, or you’ve had more bad news and you don’t feel very inspired to do much. It might not even be that, but it’s just the treadmill of doing the same thing over and over again that has worn you down.

Whatever it is that has discouraged you God is constantly encouraging us through scripture to keep going, to know He is by our side telling us to be of good courage, to believe for the best, to know He is strengthening and upholding us.😊

In 1 Samuel 30:1-6 David and his men had faced a life changing defeat and the men were wanting to stone David, which was enough to discourage anybody, but David had learned to encourage himself in the Lord. He knew His God had not abandoned him and if he’d just keep going that God would come through for him. It was only 2-3 days later that he experienced an enormous victory and they reclaimed all that was lost and more.😊

Sometimes when we’re under attack and being pressured to give up, whether it’s giving up on a job or a project or on a relationship, pressured to give up on believing for our healing or something else that is taking a long time to happen, it’s the very time we need to hang in there. It could be only 2-3 days to our greatest victory but we’d never know if we gave in to the pressure and gave up believing for what God has promised.😊

Be encouraged to keep going, no matter what! God is fighting our battles for us but He does tell us to be strong and of good courage, to not be afraid, nor be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you. 

So strengthen the weak knees because you can do this with the help of the Holy Spirit. Keep going and whatever you do, don’t give up because God always leads us in victory.😊Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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