I want to talk to you about the pathway to permanence.

Would you say those words with me?

The pathway to permanence.

I'm not talking about some stodgy.

We've all arrived and there we're at the top of our game and we'll never get any better and become impressed with

our accomplishments and just settle down, so to speak, permanence in that sense.

But I'm talking about permanence in the solidity of our footings,

permanence in the clarity of our call and mission in life.

A satisfying sense of permanence and knowing I am the Lords, not through any merit of my own

who's already well established and sung about the grace of God today.

The pastor's been preaching about that for several weeks, I'm aware of that.

So when I talk about permanence, it brings us to a place of confidence of our position in the Lord.

We know it's through no attainment of our ours or through some self-sufficiency.

We irrigate to ourselves.

But the permanence that comes of knowing I will never change.

I have set my heart on Jesus. He will never change and thereby

the confidence I have of whatever I am facing can never overthrow me.

It may stun me.

It may shake me, but not shake my faith.

There's a world of difference between shaking you

and shaking your faith.

And I want to talk about the pathway to that,

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