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Maybe some of you are ready to throw in the towel and God just wants to encourage you to stick it out just a little bit longer. I wonder how often we quit on something

when our breakthrough is right around the corner. I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

I want to talk to you tonight about faithfulness.

Faithfulness. In Revelation 2 it says be faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life. So faithfulness is something that's supposed to go

all the way through to the very end of our lives. To be faithful means to keep your commitments.

Today people don't really understand, I don't think a lot about the importance of keeping commitments.

And when you keep a commitment that means that you keep

doing it when it's no longer exciting. That means that you keep doing it when you go through times where you're really tired of doing it.

And you do it when it seems like you're not getting the result that you thought that you would get.

And basically I think we should never quit on

anything unless we know that we know that we know that God says I'm finished

with that now. You don't need to do it anymore. Amen? The definition of faithfulness can get

pretty long and I'm going to read you a little bit of it but this is from the

Webster's 1828 dictionary. Dictionary.

And if you ever want to get a hold of a great dictionary,

you order yourself this Webster's 1828 Dictionary online.

34% of this dictionary was the word of God.

definitions have been changed quite radically

from the time when Webster wrote the first dictionary.

Faithfulness, he says, is firm adherence to the truth, firm adherence of your duties

in your relationship with God.

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