A Prayer for Strength to Endure

Your Daily Prayer

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0	A prayer for strength to endure by Adrian Rogers.
0:09.0	Blessed is the one who persevers under trial,
0:12.2	because having stood the test that person will receive the
0:15.4	crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
0:19.9	James 112.
0:22.3	Jesus is our example.
0:24.0	He is a champion who, when he ran his race, received a crown of joy.
0:29.0	When an athlete runs, he runs to win a trophy. In our verse today, what is the joy that is set before
0:37.1	him? It's the winning race. He endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
0:47.9	That crown gave him the ability to endure.
0:50.8	If you keep the crown in mind, you can bear the cross, but you cannot have the crown if you despise the cross.
0:57.0	We are crucified with the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:01.0	I have a few trophies that I won back in high school on a championship football team, a gold
1:07.0	football, a letterman sweater, and a silver cup.
1:10.7	Do you know what happened to all those trophies?
1:13.0	Someone broke into the house and got the gold football.
1:16.0	The moths had a camp meeting in the sweater.
1:19.0	It's gone.
1:20.0	There are no more letters on that sweater.
1:23.0	And what happened to the silver cup I have in the foggiest.
1:27.0	Friend, athletes run to obtain a corruptible crown,
1:31.0	but we for an incorruptible. Running the race, Jesus had the joy that was
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