“Keep Pounding”

“Keep Pounding” | Don’t Give Up Series | Lowell McNaney,  Senior Pastor

3 AREAS WHERE WE’RE TEMPTED TO GIVE UP

1) DON’T GIVE UP ON

Luke 18:1

 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Prayers don’t have an

2) DON’T GIVE UP ON

Galatians 6:9:10

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers”

3) Don’t give up on

Romans 7:17 -25

17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Phillipians 1:6

“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in youWill carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” 

4 THINGS WE NEED TO DO:

1) OUR

2) our

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. 

Those who hope In the LORD—will:

1) They will renew their strength. 

2) They will soar on wings like eagles; 

3) They will run and not grow weary

4) They will walk and not be faint” Isaiah 40:28-31

3. IN A

Ecc 4:9,10

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up” 

4) REMEMBER YOUR

Hebrews 4:7,8

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day —and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing”

Romans 8:18 “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us”

“That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present Hard times and the coming good times” Message

“I am convinced that any suffering we endure is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glory that is about to be unveiled within us”  Passion

Hebrews 10:36 “You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised”