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•A Prayer to Not Grow Weary in Doing Good•By Anthony Valente👉 And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. (Galatians 6:9-10)If it isn't fun anymore, give up. If it isn't easy, give up. If it isn’t exciting, give up. Walk away. Do what makes you happy. Your happiness and your needs are what really matter at the end of the day.This quitting attitude is a staple in a society that lacks perseverance.Today’s scripture reminds us of the importance of perseverance. While our culture screams at us to focus on our needs, this verse tells us to serve others, to not give up, to take every opportunity to do good — to everyone.When we accepted Christ as Savior, as the Lord of our life, we became His vessels. Galatians 2:20 says: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. As we devote ourselves to studying the scriptures and following the Lord each day, we become more holy, which allows us to reflect on the Lord and enables us to share His love with everyone.As you think about each area of your life, where are you becoming weary? Are your co-workers difficult to work with? Is your spouse not a Christian? Are your children rebellious? Are your relatives causing you great anxiety? Is your neighbor being difficult? Have your friends become distant or negative?In every single one of those areas, in every single situation that you are walking through, our Bible verse tells us to not grow weary. We are not to give up. We are to face each new day with the promise that in due time we will reap good if we keep on doing good to everyone whom God has placed in our path.How does “doing good” look in your daily life? Maybe it's simply interjecting a positive remark when everyone else is critical. Maybe it's keeping your mouth shut when you would rather lash out. Maybe it’s walking away from the gossip. Maybe it’s sitting next to the person whom everyone else ignores. Maybe doing good is a meal, a card, a phone call, even when you don’t feel like it. Maybe doing good is encouraging someone. Maybe doing good is just praying for that person. Maybe doing good is putting what you want aside to spend a few moments giving someone else your attention.With the Lord’s help, we can have all the strength that we need to just keep on doing good to everyone, and not to grow weary or give up. Since Christ is living in us, we can know that no situation is beyond His power or is even out of His plan. He will work in us, through us and for us in every situation that we face today, if we do not give up.Let’s Pray.🙏 Dear Lord Jesus,Thank You that You are in my life, that You are working in all my situations today. Please give me the strength that I need to be able to do good to everyone that I will encounter today. Help me to reflect Your goodness to those around me. Help me to see opportunities where I can be the good today to whoever needs it. Help me to not focus on what I think I need, but to see that You have placed me right where I am today so that I can do good to someone. Help me to trust You as I encounter those difficult people, and show me how to do good to them. Lord, give me strength to not grow weary in doing good. I trust and love You Lord Jesus.In Your Name I pray, AMEN 🙏 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord [always doing your best and doing more than is needed], being continually aware that your labor [even to the point of exhaustion] in the Lord is not futile nor wasted [it is never without purpose].(1 Corinthians 15:57)Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.(Isaiah 40:30-31)Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.(Hebrews 13:16)Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.(Hebrews 10:35-39)You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.(Matthew 10:22)Dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen.(James 5:7)See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.(1 Thessalonians 5:15)For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.(1 Peter 2:15)The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.(Psalm 145:15)So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.(2 Corinthians 4:16)Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.(Revelation 2:7)Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God. For they are traveling for the Lord, and they accept nothing from people who are not believers. So we ourselves should support them so that we can be their partners as they teach the truth.(3 John 1:5-8)But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.(Luke 6:35)Jesus replied, “My light will shine for you just a little longer. Walk in the light while you can, so the darkness will not overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are going.(John 12:35)Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?(1 John 3:13-19)Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.(Matthew 6:10)The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.(John 1:5)But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.(Hebrews 2:9)(pic verse)God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.(James 1:12)Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld