Hi, this is Joel in Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this pastor. He was walking down the street when he came up on this group of young boys that were surrounding a small dog.

He asked what they were doing. They explained that they were having a contest. Whoever could tell the biggest lie would get to keep the dog.

The pastor launched into a 10-minute sermon starting with, don't you know lying is a sin and ending with when I was your age, I never told a lie.

There was complete silence and just when he thought he'd gotten through to them, the youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give him the dog.

Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about outlast the opposition. We all have things that come against us in life. People that aren't fair.

We are dealing with an illness. Our business has gone down. We are praying, believing, doing the right thing. But nothing is changing.

It is easy to get discouraged and think it is never going to improve. But the way you win some battles is not by defeating the opposition but by outlasting the opposition.

You have to have staying power. You can't be weak and give up because it is not happening on your timetable. Some enemies are stubborn.

You have to outlast the trouble at work. Outlast the difficulty in your marriage. Outlast the slow season in your finances.

We want God to deliver us from the attack. But if he is not changing it, it is real simple. You have to outlast it.

But sometimes we feel like God is forgotten about us. We have seen him turn situations around in the past. But this problem won't seem to go away.

God is still going to turn it around, but this time he is going to do it a different way. You have to have a holy determination. A made up mind where you dig your heels in and say, I am in it for the long haul.

Quitting is not an option. I am going to outlast this sickness. I am going to outlast the addiction. I am going to outlast this injustice. This is what David did. He defeated Goliath in five minutes. No big deal. God favored him and he quickly took down this huge giant.

Over night he became a national hero. But there was another man named King Saul that was against David. Saul was on the throne of Israel when God promised David to throne.

God could have had David defeat Saul like he defeated Goliath. Quickly, no problem. But this time was very different. David had been anointed to be the next king of Israel.

After he defeated Goliath, he left the shepherd's fields and went to the palace to serve King Saul. But Saul was jealous of David. He could see the favor on his life.

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