The Force of Endurance (Season 1, Episode 4)

Occupying Force with Richard & Kimberly Wilson

Endurance is a supernatural gift to us. We need it now more than ever! This gift becomes a protective canopy formed through various trials and tribulations. In this episode, we will learn how this gift develops and manifests in and through us. Plus, Kimberly shares her personal testimony of how endurance formed through physical challenges.

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Episode 4: The Force of Endurance

ABOUT THE EPISODE

We wake up every day with craziness going on all around us. The days we are living in are different than anything we have ever known. Our news media is filled with lies and causing the atmosphere to be filled with fear. Those of us called Christians and supporters of our Constitution are ridiculed, if not hated.

What is our position in the midst of the chaos? We must be firm in our trust in God, knowing He loves people and so must we. We need to recognize we are in a spiritual battle that is not against flesh and blood, but this battle is revealed through flesh.

Our position must be one of endurance, seeing that it is a supernatural gift to us. God makes it clear that His power is revealed through our weakness. It is good to see our weakness and admit it so God can then release His Strength in us. The attribute of His Strength that we are looking at today is endurance. Let us discover a key to supernatural life through endurance.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 states, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

• Suffers - To patiently endure, not to lose heart. To persevere patiently and bravely in enduring misfortunes and troubles.
• Envy - To be heated or to boil with envy, hatred, anger.

Matt. 10:22 goes on to say, “…and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”

• Endures - to preserve: under misfortunes and trials to hold fast to one’s faith in Christ. To endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments.
• Save - to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction. Keep one (from injury or peril). To preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue.

Many people refuse the processes that reveal the purpose of life. In 2 Tim. 2:1-10, we see that Paul endured all things for a purpose beyond himself. He understood that his endurance allowed others to obtain the salvation that was in Christ with eternal Glory. Endurance is a divine attribute. Endurance reveals the love of God being released through us. Salvation is a manifestation of divine life in the now, not an outcome in the end.

Being trained in endurance will establish the Kingdom of God in us. Once we conclude that we have the power to overcome all things through God who strengthens us, we are partaking of His divine power.

Spiritual maturity is made manifest when a person refuses to allow any test or trial to have dominion over him. Receiving a promise from God is not nearly as vital to our development as enduring the process we go through in pursuit of the promise.

We are empowered to endure. Be encouraged!