into more people like this and it impressed me more and more I remember one couple that I um was uh around it was a faithful Christian couple and they had lost a very large amount of money that they had in their retirement and I just overheard

starts out fixing your eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of Faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God Jesus was set on The Joy before him

encourage all of you is, uh, just keep going and a lot of us are different emotional, different personalities. Um, prove your faith through persistence. Uh, prove your faith through continuing to get up. Um, one of the phrases we use

this this guilt. Um just one one uh one thing that I've been blessed by is considering godly saints who really had that simple childlike faith of I'm so thankful and I'm joyful because God forgave me of my sins. It sounds almost like a child said

i have been crucified with christ and it is no longer i who live but christ lives in me and the life which i now live in the flesh i live by faith in the son of god who loved me and gave himself up for me i don't believe it's possible that i can

love that can endure um even when god allows us trials even when god allows us hard things uh and endure the temptations that when we want something and god says no be able to faithfully endure to get up even when we're bored maybe there's no major

remain and continue with you for your progress and joy in the faith and that spoke to me that real love is rooting for a person's progress in the faith not just that they'll have be a convert but that progress and it's similar to how