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God gives us the power of patient, endurance, and supplies encouragement while we're going through the difficult things.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Thank you so much for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

Now, probably when I tell you what I'm going to teach on today, you're going to groan,

but ultimately it will be good for you. I want to talk

today about patient endurance. And the word endure literally means that you have the ability

to go through difficult things, make it all the way through and come out victorious on the other side.

I always like to say that there's a beginning of things and that's usually excited.

We're starting something new and so we're exciting.

And of course, if you make it to the end, to the finish, that's exciting.

But there's also a middle.

And sadly, a lot of people give up in the middle. And they spend their whole life just giving up, going back and starting over. Giving up, going back and starting over. You know, it might be compared to somebody who goes on a diet on Sunday night after dinner, and then

Monday afternoon, when they get hungry, all of a sudden they give in. So it's easy to say

we're going to do something, but it's a little more challenging when it starts to hurt.

And I can tell you that endurance will hurt. It's not going to be comfortable. So

God gives us the power of patient endurance and supplies encouragement while we're going through

the difficult things. Romans 15, 4 through 6. For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our

instruction that by our steadfast and patient endurance and the encouragement drawn from the scriptures,

we might hold fast to and cherish hope. Now, hope is an

expectation that something good is going to happen at any moment. And you know, when you're going

through hard things to keep that hope alive energizes you you're you take it

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