Tag: Persistence

WHEN YOUR PERSISTENT PRAYING PAYS OFF

ByDr. Mark April 18, 2025 0 Comments
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8 NIV) My granddaughter called me Tuesday night and informed me that she got the job for which she was praying. She got a job at a location just 15 minutes from her...

DON’T GIVE UP

ByDr. Mark August 22, 2023 0 Comments
“That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake.  Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore.  Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some fell on rocky places,...

PERSISTENCE

ByDr. Mark April 9, 2021 0 Comments
“…for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.” (Matthew 6:6 NLT) With an absence of a broadcast notification or a call from the school, an elementary student heads out to school on a day where the lake effect snow was so deep that it seemed to swallow her rubber snow boots.  It is one of those dark early mornings that...