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Don't faint or give up on God!

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“For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” ( Hebrews 12:3 ) The Christian life and ministry can grow wearisome and hard at times, but with Christ Himself as our example, the Lord admonishes us not to faint but always to press on. www.hopecollege.com If our prayers seem to go unanswered, He reminds us that “men ought always to pray, and not to faint” ( Luke 18:1 ). When we grow tired and are tempted to quit, the Scriptures assure us that “in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” ( Galatians 6:9 ). When God has entrusted us with a certain ministry, we need to learn to say, as with Paul, “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not” ( 2 Corinthians 4:1 ). As we see God’s mercy -drops of blessing begin to fall, we then can say, as he did, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day” ( 2 Corinthians 4:16...