Are You Sticky and Stubborn?

How much spiritual stick-to-it-ness do you have when it comes to your prayer life, your Bible study, and your fellowship with the family of God? Are you like a piece of scotch tape that will stick to the things of God as long as noone tugs on you? Are you like a piece of duct tape that will hold on to the things of God as long as the circumstances/surfaces aren't too rough? Or, are you like super glue that will stick to the things of God come rain or shine?

Continually persisting (i.e., persevering) is an important attribute of a Christ follower. There is a Greek word in our New Testament pronounced, pros-kär-te-re'-ō. I have highlighted the English words used to translate it in blue:

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 2:41-42, 46-47
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Acts 6:4
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Romans 12:12-13
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Colossians 4:2

We must stubbornly persist in prayer, we must stubbornly persist in the Word, we must stubbornly persist in fellowshipping with and ministering to God's people. We must stubbornly persist.

How stubborn and sticky have you been lately?
Yours in Him,
Pastor B.