Don’t Quit Now

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Today the pressure is on like never before, pressure to just give up and quit. There was a time several years back when preachers all across America were under attack. The devil was doing his best through discouragement and depression to try to get them to stop their ministry and quit their preaching.

This pressure is back, and it's not just on preachers this time. I find that believers everywhere are under this attack like I've never seen before. That's why I want to encourage you. Don't quit, no matter how intense the pressure gets, remember: If you don't quit, you won't fail.

I know from my own life and ministry, when pressure like what we're seeing today starts building and building, that's when we're tempted to ease up on the Word of God, relax our faith and back off from the plans that God has for our lives. Don't do it!

The pressure we're seeing and experiencing is just the devil trying to steal the Word, contaminate our faith and cut our lives short (see Mark 4). He knows that his time is marked and he is on an all out rampage this one final time before the Lord stops him for good.

With all the pressure Jesus experienced during His walk on this earth, the Bible talks about Him setting His face like a flint (Isaiah 50:7; Luke 9:51). Nothing, especially no devil from hell, was going to keep Him from fulfilling His destiny.

If anything, this is the time to press in harder. Double up on the Word, increase in your giving, recommit yourself to the task God has set before you. As you do, you will find yourself stepping up to a higher place in God...a higher place in power. So, reload you faith gun and don’t give up.