When you feel like giving up and throwing in the towel, remember, everything's gonna be alright!

Once upon a time there was monastery of monks that enforced a vow of silence – the monks were forbidden to speak - except every ten years, they were allowed to break their vow of silence and speak two words only. Well ten years went by and it’s one monks first chance to speak. He thought for a second, looked at the head monk in the eye and said, “food bad.” Ten years later, it’s his turn to speak again. He went to the head monk and said, “bed hard.” Well, sure enough, ten years later the big day came again. The man looked the head monk straight in the eye and after a long stare said, “I quit.” “Well, I’m not surprised,” the head monk said, “you’ve been complaining ever since you got here!”

Maybe today you feel just like that monk did. You are tempted to say, “I quit.”

God’s Word for you today is "Don’t quit. Keep going. Don’t give up. Everything’s gonna be alright."

Do you believe that?

As we run this race of faith, there will be times when we wonder if these legs will hold out unto the finish line. Our muscles will cramp, the body will sweat profusely and ache terribly, At the moment we feel like a truck ran over us or someone has taken a piece of lumber and beat the life out of us – or the moment we feel like “I can’ take anymore” - that’s when we’ll be tempted to just give up and quit.

“Continue to run the race!" Run the race, don’t quit and don’t give up. Everythings gonna be alright. Who in this place today believes that running the race of faith would be easy? Raise your hands. My brothers and sisters, it’s not going to be easy. There will moments in our lives where nothing seems to go right – there will be times when it never rains but pours torrential rains day after day. There will times of weariness – there will be times of stress – there will be times when we don’t know where the next penny is coming from - there will be times of testing – there will be trials – there will be persecutions – there will be times when the devil will do his best to back you in the corner – there will be times when Satan will do his best to frustrate you and discourage you - there will be times when the pressure is on BUT the worse thing you can do is give up and quit. Don’t do it!

What has got you to the place where you want to say, “I quit”

What has got you down today?

What has got you frustrated--------discouraged?

“I don’t know how I’m going to pay the bills”

‘I don’t know what we’re going to do with my son (my daughter)”

“I can’t take the pressure of this job”

“I’m so tired. I’m worn out”

“I’m so stressed out. This is making me crazy”

“This is too hard, I’ll never make it.”

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