What Jesus Has to Say at the Onset of the 21st Century about…

…Faithfulness, Perseverance, Endurance & Loyalty

“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” --

1Cor.4:2

You must strive to be faithful in the little things I’ve told you to do, before I can trust you with bigger,
greater things. It’s natural for man, in his pride, to seek greater things for himself, but the way of My
workings of the Spirit is that you have to show yourself faithful in the little first, before you can be
trusted with more.

All I ask is that you be faithful in the little things.

There are times when it seems perfectly legitimate, reasonable & alright to quit; the only reasonable
thing left to do. But those are often the times when the true heroes are born, those who say, ”Lord,
contrary to all the circumstances, contrary to what my mind tells me and contrary to the way I feel, in
spite of the fact that I know that this rugged road in front of me here will bring a lot of pain &
suffering, as it already has, in fact I’m still suffering... In spite of all this, Lord, I decide & choose to
keep going for You! There are a thousand voices telling me this can’t be the right way when it hurts
& feels so bad, but I’m just going to follow You and Your dreadful road up to that cross, because I
believe in You: You are worth it, and I don’t really want anything else but You! I’ll follow! To the
death!”
Those who have any other motives will sooner or later peter out, anyway. Only those who have Me
for a motivation & incentive to keep going will find the strength to keep going, no matter what.

You don’t have an easy task & I don’t blame you for wanting to give up. The problem is, if you give
up prematurely, you’ll always wonder, “What if I had kept trying? Would we have succeeded?” The
true pioneer would rather die trying than quit prematurely. That’s why I don’t want you to throw in
the towel yet: I want you to become a true pioneer & a perseverer. Hold on!

I teach you faithfulness in the least, before I pour out My blessings on you fully.

Sometimes the plan for the day is just to stay faithful in the little things... doing what you can to help
the other one to make it through their day & their battles with at least the knowledge that there's
someone who cares for them, is concerned about them, prays for them.
Once I've seen how faithful you have been with the little things I have given you to care for, I can
also trust you with something greater: a wonderful witnessing opportunity, or something completely
unexpected...
Him that I can trust in that which is least, I will also trust with greater things, but those who are not
faithful in the little things, often first have to learn to appreciate what they've got.

Even if you never become a better player than you are right now - and I'm saying this in spite of the
fact that I want you to make progress - what matters most to Me is that you keep playing at all &
don't quit.

You're going to have to show faithfulness in the little things before I can trust you with bigger things.
That's just the way it works.
As long as you faithfully obey Me, I bless you accordingly.

It's not that I mind you having fun, I just want you to include Me & let Me in on the fun, & not all of a
sudden act as if you never knew Me. Where is your loyalty to Me?

Sometimes, instead of running away or seeking a new situation to run to, I'm expecting you to look
for ways to improve your current situation first, not giving up on folks around you prematurely.
You're My love for them, so, don't seek for Me to take you - My love for them - away from them
prematurely, when I'm not done yet loving them through you, okay?

Are you willing to learn and to acquire a greater love than what you have known & called love thus
far?
Are you willing to be a prisoner of love and in this find the greatest freedom?
It's all got to do with loyalty, commitment, being a faithful & reliable friend, it's all got to do with
being a man of honor. It's not a pride trip I'm talking about. It's seeing through to the end what
you've started, not stopping at any point short of death & the ultimate extreme. It's learning all that
you have not yet known about love.

I have chosen you to become a special vessel to absorb what I am giving. The only requirement is
that you stay faithful to Me, that you don't take this liberty I have given you as a license to do as you
please or to get sidetracked with other things, but you must constantly seek Me as to how I want you
to invest the time I have given you.

Whoever happens to be fighting on your side, alongside you in My army at the moment is your
brother or sister in arms, and they deserve your loyalty, in spite of any & all weaknesses or flaws.

Persistence equals victory! You've just got to keep on! And nothing else matters!

I don't reward people according to their "great accomplishments," but for their faithfulness in the
little things.

You've got to be faithful in that which is least in your eyes, before I can bless you with that which
you consider much.

I cannot really trust to give you more, if you're not faithful with what you've got, and you certainly
cannot be faithful with what you've got if you don't appreciate it at all and despise it.

The perfect things are going to come later. First I must test every man to see how faithful they are in
the little things!

No matter how "legitimate" anyone's excuse for quitting, it's still an excuse for quitting, and what
they should have done was to keep on fighting, no matter how hard the battle, no matter how hot the
test.

Those who couldn't make it, those who quit, will have an extra amount of love & admiration for those
who didn't quit, who held on in spite of the hardships, because they will know that it took something
they didn't have. As long as you're not giving up, & as long as you're making some kind of progress
& forward movement, not subtly sliding back, but learning from what I show you, you're winning!
You’re a winner, one of those who is going to be held in high esteem & admiration forever by your
brothers & mates, because you're holding on.
Blessed are those who are holding on, who are not giving up, no matter how much temptation
makes them waver or may be tempting them to quit.

It's a fine art, to be able to live in the here & now & fully enjoy it, especially in this day & age when
you're constantly bombarded with advertisements for the "other side of the fence" where the grass
looks so much greener.
But you have to combat these temptations, in your effort to cultivate your stick-to-itiveness &
persistence & determination to do all you can right where you are. It's another aspect of being
faithful in the least, for I cannot promote you, unless you've shown what you can in the situation you
are.
You can flow with My anointing & float on the cloud of My Spirit if you know you're right where
you're meant to be, & that you can make the most of that situation right where you are, wherever you
are, no matter what the circumstances. You don't have to wish you were anywhere else, in fact you
must not. It's poison to your spirit & your fruitfulness. Just tune in & join in & step right into life right
where you are, knowing that I have put you in the place where you're supposed to be, and if it
weren't so, I would have told you or opened the door for you to go elsewhere.

Don't let resignation in! You've got to believe, hold on at any cost!

You still have a lot to learn about faithfulness in the little things.
You can be My hero by being faithful in the small & little things.
The little things you can accomplish by striving for the gifts of humility and faithfully doing whatever
you can to really unselfishly be of help to others for them to make it on their way, that's what I
consider mighty works.
For I look not as man sees. To be faithful in prayer for others, to be faithfully studying and absorbing
My Word, to faithfully tend to the needs of the little ones around you, to faithfully and humbly and
gratefully continue to praise Me, even in the midst of adverse circumstances... that's what I call
mighty feats of the Spirit!

It takes perseverance to change the world, not letting adversity discourage you & turn you away at
the first show of resistance.

You're on show & on trial for Us to see what you do with the smallest possible unit, how faithful
you're going to be in "that which is least."
Don't just idly seek to enjoy the situation as much as possible, trying to squeeze the most fun or
ease out of it, but work at it! Put something into it!

The true believers would rather go down with the ship than desert it! If you really believe that this is
My ship, then you will rather go down with it, when it seems as if it's sinking, than to jump off in
order to try to save your own neck.
If you really believe and know that I am the Captain of this ship, you won't jump into a life boat to try
& be your own captain & "branch" out into your own business.

Those who hold on have got a mightier thing going than anything anyone could accomplish on their
own, no matter how great or strong they may be or think they are. Because this is My doing, and it
has been from the beginning. What you accomplish in it is not quite as important as that you stick
with it, remain a part of it, help to maintain it & do what you can to keep it functioning.
Faithfulness & loyalty to Me is a great thing. A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in the little
things is a great thing.
Faith in Me is a little, unimportant, maybe even ridiculous thing to many unbelievers & scoffers, but
faithfulness to Me is a big thing. I don't even care how successful you are, how great, or what "biiiig"
gifts you have, "one thing is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful!" (1.Cor.4:2)
That's all I ask, and blessed is that servant who will have been found faithful!

You must hold on & not give up in order to inherit the promise, the fruit of your labors, suffering &
patience.

There will always - in this world - be frictions within families, for various reasons. But real love,
loyalty and faithfulness doesn't just stick around as long as you need the ones you love, but even
long after that, simply in gratitude for what you have received when you were in need, and so that
you can return some of the love that you're in a position to give, even if it requires some sacrifice.
It's easy to give up, to chicken out & run when the going gets tough! Everybody can do that. But I'm
not going to win this war with those who run away when the going gets tough, only with folks who
stick, come hell or high water; for them there is no such thing as giving up.

"Try - just a little bit harder!" That's just about one of the basic themes in life. I can give you all the
clues, show you all the tricks & tell you all the secrets, but you've got to do the "wenting," you've got
to try them out & put them into practice. What I tell you always works. Sometimes you just got to try
a little bit harder.

I will reward you for your faithfulness in the past, but what about your faithfulness today? I need you
today more than I needed you yesterday! As the days are getting darker, and the final battle comes
closer, I need all the help I can get!
That's why it's so important to Me that you stay faithful to Me each day, each moment. There cannot
be an unguarded moment.
Remember Amundsen's "Don't rescue me prematurely!" Don't let the Devil relieve you prematurely
of your duties to Me, before I have dismissed you! Don't let him cheat you out of the greatest
blessings & rewards by listening to his "It's time to relax now," when it really isn't!
Stay faithful to Me at every instant, every moment, & don't let the Enemy call the shots or "time for a
break!" It's not his right to do so, since I'm the one calling the shots, & you'd better stay in tune with
Me & make sure they're My shots & My instructions!

The Enemy knows what tricks he needs to pull out in order to slow you down & tempt you to give up,
to say, "It’s no use." You think you could have probably handled any set of circumstances, but not
these, but you can tell that that's just his engineering. He knows a lot about you and your
weaknesses, too, and what you're the least likely to be able to handle. Well, that's his job for Me: to
test you & find out which your weak areas are, and what it will take to get you to give up.
If nothing can cause you to give up, then this means you tested "negative" to any infection with his
virus of the loathsome Giving Up disease. But sometimes you've got to build a resistance to a
certain disease or virus first. You've got to recognize what you're up against, what his weakening
tactics are, and for this you need to have experienced the symptoms first, and have been confronted
with the virus & the disease.
He tries to overwhelm you with problems and obstacles, things that aren't right, that he instigated
and planted in the first place. But you must not allow them to persuade you to quit!

You think you're in "the wrong film" or that something must have gone wrong for you to have wound
up in that situation, that certainly I must have made a mistake, or your whole life was out of control
to begin with.
All that is what the Enemy would like to have you believe in order for you to take on a defeatist
attitude, and to get you to give up. "Give up! It's no use! Why keep on fighting? You don't stand a
chance anyway!" And sometimes the only answer that comes to your mind, when he asks you "Why
keep on fighting?," is "Because I choose to." You choose not to give up, not to surrender to him,
that's your choice and your determination, and that's what's going to give you the victory, ultimately.

You’re longing for comfort and relief, but what you really need is strength and perseverance, and
these are not as easily obtained, but come through tests of endurance.

The trick for true, selfless givers is to remain faithful, not to become weary in well-doing.

I need faithful warriors who encourage My people and tell them, "It pays to go on! It's worth it to
continue fighting."

You're all finally going to wind up in the Promised Land, thanks to those few Joshuas I will choose
from among you, who will lead you there.
Don't look at the murmurers and complainers, belly-achers & choosers of the wrong track. Look at
Me, and My purpose behind it: to pick out from among them those who will stay faithful in spite of it
all, and who will yet stick out from the rest of them all by refusing to yield to the same temptations.
The temptations will be there, but they won't yield to them. They won't be perfect, either, but they're
just going to have what it takes to lead My people Home...

The grace is given when you need it - "Power for the hour." In the meantime, just keep hanging in
there! It's going to be alright!

Patience and prayer is what you can contribute to the improvement of the situation. Trust that I'm at
work on it. You're not the only one who realized that something is wrong, and things are being done
about it. In the meantime, consider it another test whether you're going to stick or allow this to
become your excuse to quit.

Giving up is just about the equivalant of the original sin.

Adam & Eve gave up resisting the temptation, they gave up resisting evil, they gave up making that
effort to strive to obey Me at all costs... They gave up on believing Me and chose to believe the
Devil's lies instead.
Sometimes all you've got to do is hold on to the right thing when you've got it: the truth, the right
way, the good work, and refuse to give up, refuse to be distracted and stopped, no matter how hard
the Devil will try.
It's called perseverance. Faithfulness. Stick-to-it-iveness. The opposite of giving up.

Quitting is an option that should be a total taboo for you. - A non-valid option, not even to be
considered.

You can make a difference. One man can make the difference. All those heroes: they all made the
difference because they refused to give in.
They refused to let the Devil persuade them that it was no use! They refused to quit. And you've just
got to grasp the importance of what it means not to quit. That's what made the difference between
those who made it and those who didn't: those who did, simply refused to quit.
You may have a hundred legitimate excuses of why you couldn't possibly be expected to make it,
but the truth and magic formula that's going to help you to make it in spite of any of those reasons
still remains the same: refuse to quit!
I'm talking about quitting to make the effort to make a difference, to change anything.

It's the love that is going to draw them to you: a love that is willing to go to any lengths for them, that
isn't going to give up on them too easily.
Do you love them enough to not let them go? To do all you possibly can in order to save them?
I need you to have an attitude that will not give up or resign too quickly but is willing to go to any
length for the sheep, in order to draw them in.
Put some umph into it! Don't give up too quickly!
Love includes not giving up on them prematurely.
Don't give up hope for them. Don't stop praying for them. Don't stop feeding them. Don't quit on
them, and don't stop holding on. Persistence and patience are two important factors in becoming a
successful fisher of men.

Sometimes you've just got to pray for the love to see things through.
Sometimes you've just got to see it through for My sake! Don't think about yourself so much, think
about Me, how proud it's going to make Me if you're going to see it through just for Me, even with no
tangible reward involved.

I'm not nearly as interested in numbers as in the degree of your dedication and faithfulness and
effort to make the best out of what you're given, and I'm the only One who can fairly and objectively
judge that, taking all factors into consideration.
In Heaven, we have different measurements by which we calculate anyone's level of success. We
don't go by numbers, the amount of souls one has won, although it's great if someone has the gift to
win hundreds or thousands to Me... But that still doesn't necessarily make anyone a greater saint
than a comparatively "unsuccessful" saint who's just been plodding away faithfully at whatever their
little tasks were they could do in order to make their world better for Me.
If you want to seek great things, seek the things I consider great, which will usually not be great
achievements to call your own, but things like faithfulness in helping others to live a happier life.

Your success isn't measured by how many people will have accepted your message, but by your
faithfulness in proclaiming it.

The only chance of victory is to keep on fighting. You cannot let the circumstances dissuade you or
get you to quit.
There are only those two options: to either quit or keep on fighting, and sometimes quitting seems
to be the more tempting of the two for a while, until you come back to your senses and realize that it
never really was an option in the first place.

There's always a few minor operations you've got to perform at home and on yourself, first, before
you're ready to face the world and help them out with whatever their problems may be: you've got to
wash up, brush your teeth, comb your hair & get dressed, etc. So, there's a certain minimum amount
of home maintenance required, before you can get involved in any maintenance work on the outside
world...
Faithfulness in the little things is a great thing well disguised.

You’ve got to refuse to let the Devil lie to you and discourage you to that extent where you get to the
point of wanting to quit. That's precisely what he wants!
It's a rough & rugged way, and often you'll be tempted to wonder, "What in the world am I doing
here, anyway?" There won't be rounds of incessant applause. It's a rough & rugged, lonely road!
With so many jumping off your wagon that you're tempted to ask the last few who remain, "Are you
also going to go away?" But then there will always be a faithful few who will end up blowing your
mind, making it worth it all!
When the majority has deserted you, the nice surprise is the few who stick! Who needs the majority?
Who needs large masses and crowds? All you need is a handful that stick!

The onus is on you to change anything about it, not so much on the other parties involved. You can
either want the change, and do fight for it to happen, or give in.
I have put before you the ways of either life or death this day, for you to choose whether you'll take
the high road or the low road. What is it you're going to choose to do? Give up? Quit? Or keep
fighting?
Quitting is not for Me, so don't ask Me, "Don't You think I should better quit?"
I can feel for you, extend My sympathies for your plight, and everything, but I can't possibly
encourage you to give up!
Let’s first try everything we possibly can to make it, to keep it going with renewed umph, strength
and hope from Me.
If it would be My will for you to quit, I would have told you.
You're only through when I tell you you're through.
I just can't give up on you! Nor will I ever encourage you or tell you to give up on anyone else,
especially not anyone you have fought so many battles with and have come such a long way with.
Never give up on anyone prematurely, and always remember how I refuse to give up on you, no
matter how bad you blow it.
Remember the importance of keeping on believing in your people, and not allow some little sin of
theirs that you're just as guilty of to cause you to decide that you're going to quit loving them or
believing in them! Don't commit the sin of ceasing to pray for them (1Sam.12:23), of ceasing to have
hope for them, and faith that I can salvage the situation, no matter how bad. Don't give up on them,
when I never would give up on you that easily!
How can you not hold on to others the way I have held on to you?
Did I give up on you? You may have expected Me to, but I didn't. Did I refuse to forgive you or stop
believing in you? Did I stop caring for you? You may have known that you would have deserved it,
but I didn't. Even so, it is My will for you that you don't give up on them, either.

The trick is not to let the inside attacks of the Enemy dissuade you.
The clue is to keep fighting in spite of both your own weaknesses and theirs.
As the Enemy tries his usual ploy of contradicting My Word and making everything look as if it's
unraveling and going topsy turvy, the trick is, not to be moved by any of these things, and to learn to
look through his schemes, his desperate efforts to discourage and dissuade you from your task.

The first and no.1 requirement for a shepherd is love. Love that will last, love that will be able to look
beyond people’s failures. You’ve just got to keep loving them, no matter what they do, you can’t just
stop loving them.
If loving Me and others is the top no.1 commandment, then the Devil is going to try to get you to
stop loving. Are you going to let him?
Whatever you do, don’t stop loving! Keep on loving, no matter what! There is just no excuse for
failure to love. There’s no valid excuse for stopping to love someone.
I won’t excuse you for ceasing to love them. I expect you to keep loving as I have loved.

Worse things are going to happen than what’s happening right now, and you’re just going to have to
be able to keep going in spite of them! You cannot let it influence you when those on your left and
right are stumbling or falling. You’ve got to stand! You can make an effort to lift them up, if they
want to be helped and lifted up and stand, but if not, you are going to have to keep going and
fighting anyway.
If they decide to go a different way, if they allow themselves to become lukewarm and be influenced
and swayed by the System, you’re still going to have to keep going for Me!
It’s not how much you accomplish for Me, how many you’ve reached for Me that counts, as much as
how faithfully you’ve been keeping going for Me in spite of unfavourable circumstances!
Make Me proud and keep going for Me, just for Me! You can do it! I know you can! I promised you
can!
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth Me.” Prove it! Do it! Make it come true! No
matter what anyone else says or does! Refuse to be diverted by it! Just keep going on, keep forging
ahead in spite of anything they do or might not do! Keep going right ahead! Will you do that for Me?

Will you have been a good and faithful servant, faithfully handing out the bread of life and serving
them the water of life? Or will you use the excuse, “Well, I never saw any sample of a truly good and
faithful servant” to keep you from ever becoming a good and faithful servant yourself?

Being true lovers means to be going through thick and thin together, including the hard times. A fair
weather relationship isn’t as lasting as one that has gone through many ups and downs.
I need folks who will hold on tight to Me through the storm, and who’ll follow Me through thick and
thin.
That’s the kind of love, friendship and relationship I need: the persistent type, the no-matter-what
kind, the against-all-odds sort, facing all difficulties & adverse circumstances. You’ve got to be
ready for a long stretch, and that’s what I’m preparing you for.
You’ll need to learn endurance to make it. You can’t become impatient about My return, nor can you
become weary of hardship so easily. The best is yet to come, but unfortunately, the worst is also yet
to come, so you’ll understand that it takes a few more lessons on endurance before you’ll be ready
for that darkest chapter of man’s history.

In order to finish some things you have started, you’re just going to have to get over any lack of
enthusiasm and inspiration that hits you sometimes, since it’s natural to feel inspired about a
project at the onset of it, but it usually wears down the longer it drags on and actually becomes
work.
You’ll certainly get a lot more accomplished in the long run if you don’t just wait for extraordinary
inspiration to hit you, but simply do it because you know you ought to, and keep working on
something you started simply because you should also finish it…
Remember that one thing is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful, and your faithfulness
in your work for Me is one of the most important qualities, which you know from My Word I’m going
to praise you for.
So you know that faithfulness pays.
If you want to please Me and make Me happy, just be faithful in your work for Me.

Will you stick to what I have shown you, regardless of negative vibes, and gestures of rejection?
It’s all a test of your loyalty to Me. “Will he keep his heart set on Me? Will he remain loyal in spite of
the temptation?”
More often than not throughout history, the sad answer to that question has been “no.” What I’m
looking for especially, is people who will reverse that often-observed course of destiny, and who will
make a yes out of that, a reversal of that generally observed pattern of destiny that so many have
followed before, but one which chosen and special one chooses to break out of to set a new
standard of greater faith, greater obedience, greater loyalty and greater love for Me than their
predecessors.

You feel as though this was some sort of Sisyphus task, to try to raise someone in My nurture and
admonition whose heart seems to be on the wrong side already, but you can’t give up on them
prematurely.
Sometimes they depend on what faith you have in them, and if you don’t have any faith for them,
they figure, “Well, why should I even keep trying then?”
I’m not talking about high expectations here, just enough faith that I’m in control in spite of any of
the momentary circumstances and the way things may seem, and enough unconditional love so that
they won’t have to run all the way to the opposite camp and into the Enemy’s arms because they feel
rejected by you.

It is sometimes required to hang on to certain individuals that you’d rather let go of…
Don’t go looking around for a way to escape in your own efforts, or try to rig one up with your own
arm of the flesh. The Promise says that I will make that way. So, don’t do anything in your own
efforts that you might regret later on.

Some situations don’t have a way out. Look at those who have to endure a permanent handicap that
they have to live with for the rest of their lives.
A wife is supposed to be someone to accompany you for life – through the good times and the bad
times. They’re not for discarding or swapping when you feel dissatisfied with them. You need to
learn to see a difficult situation through until the end, and not throw in the towel at the first sign of
adversity.
It’s easy to take on a job you know you’re getting paid for, and which you can quit anytime if things
don’t work out. But the prospect of being stuck in a relationship with no way out, and not much of an
immediate reward or pay-off in sight doesn’t draw many “volunteers.”
If you find yourself stuck in a hopeless and dreadful situation for life, just think about others who are
handicapped for life, and be thankful for your hands and feet.

Show loyalty, and be convinced and sure of what you have.

You might be in this for a longer haul than you may have originally been hoping or preparing for.
I can’t let you off the hook before you get the job done.
I need you to prepare and brace yourself for the long haul, because I’m going to have to prolong this
class, this lesson, for as long as it takes for you to get it.
If you’re going to hang in there, I need you to do it with a whole-hearted attitude.
Hang in there means do it with all your might and whole-heartedly, giving all you’ve got!
Hang in there also means, this could take longer than you originally expected!
It means, you’ve been doing alright so far and you’ve been on the right track, but if you’re going to
make it for the rest of the way, some things are going to have to change now, because change is the
one guaranteed factor of this, My revolution, and has been, from the beginning.
Hang in there, in other words, means, keep changing! Keep revoluting! Keep forsaking all! Keep
forsaking what needs to be let go of and keep forging ahead in a new direction, making progress and
conquering new territories!
Hang in there means, get ready for another U-Turn, and hold on tight as the wheel of My revolution is
going to take you for another upside down and right-side up spin!
The fate of those who realize along the way that they didn’t really want that after all, is not where you
want to go! So, the only option for you is giving it your all!

I need people who are in this for the long haul, and who are prepared to walk all the way, no matter
how long it may turn out to be.
A finished building does look nicer than one that was never finished because the builder didn’t quite
have what it took to finish it.

It’s going to take miracles to get you through all of this. And the more you believe and trust in Me
and My capacity to do them, the more the Devil will fight to prove you wrong. But that’s where
perseverance comes in, the part that determines whether your faith was just another temporary
phenomenon or something real and steady that will last and stand the tests of time.
Time may erode the ground all about you, it may erode health, strength and fitness, but if your faith
is real gold, time will never manage to erode or shake that part of you, you’ll always keep clinging to
Me, and keep trusting in Me.

Some of the rewards for faithfulness can already be obtained in this life, as you’ve seen with a few of
those whom I have specially blessed after years of faithfulness under difficult conditions, whereas
those who tend to making it easy on themselves usually wind up with less and come away relatively
empty-handed in the final analysis.

Look at all the countless saints who lived lives of oppression on account of their own people and yet
held on. If you want to become a real saint, you’re going to have to do some holding on.

Faith is not swayed nor swept away by the stream of conformity of the majority, but has the guts to
be one single, lone believer and rock, and voice of truth – a lone bulwark of truth – in the midst of a
sea of lies, knowing that My Presence within you will surpass and outlast all their furious ragings
against you, their batterings against your walls, their pounding on your shores that moans, “Give
up, finally!”

You can’t give up, no matter how tough it gets. You’ve just got to keep fighting, no matter what odds
you’re up against.

Love is faithful. It takes both the ups and downs, and doesn’t just remain loyal during the good
times.
You learn to take the ups and downs, the bad times along with the good times.
Remember that one thing is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

The flesh may have its advantages, but they’re always finite, and sooner or later it’s bound to let you
down, and the sooner you will have learned to depend on the Spirit, the more and longer you will
find yourself sustained even in situations in which the flesh would have let you down.
I want you to endure and to be able to endure, instead of running out of steam prematurely. That’s
why I need you to learn to put your cards on the Spirit.

You can’t always wait until all the tools at your disposal are going to be perfect. Once you will have
proven yourself to be faithful with the least you’ve got (and believe Me, some have quite a lot less), I
will then be able to bless you with more and with better tools.

As the separation occurs, the division of the wheat from the chaff, and the clarity sets in as to who is
really on My side, and the morass of the half-hearts and undecided is being washed away, it sets
those who truly choose to follow My path, no matter what, apart as a clear and obvious minority but
nonetheless powerful. – Empowered by Me, while the others confide in themselves, in what they are,
what they think they know, and whatever is in their heads.