Top 8 Bible Verses-Persistence …
What kind of persistence does God value?
Can we annoy God by our persistence?
What does the Bible say?
Read these Top 8 Bible Verses-Persistence …
Should we persist in prayer?
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing,
Luke 18:1-8
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” …
Does God want us to be persistent in seeking Him?
Luke 11:9-10
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Should we persist in helping others?
2 Thessalonians 3:13
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
What can we expect if we persist?
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
And so we press on…
Remembering those whose persistence was fueled by faith alone…
Hebrews 12:1-2
… since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
