DON’T GIVE UP! By Team Member: Vickie Peterson
Don’t Give Up is the message that I keep hearing over and over these past few weeks…to me personally and in sermons, devotionals, and scripture. Sometimes I look at the mountains that continue to rise before the youth of our nation and wonder, when will we see results. When will we see the fruit of our labor? The huge, gigantic mountain that looms before me and our youth consists of many factors. Some of the factors are broken homes, neglect, abuse, poverty, religion and drug use. These are just a few of the many situations that our youth are encountering every day and if the truth be known…sometimes my faith waivers a little because the mountain is so enormous and it seems to keep growing.
So I ask you…Who will lead them? Who will cover them in prayer? Who will fast for them? Who will love them like their own? Who will devote their lives for these children and abolish the mountains before them? These all seem like issues for the church…right? WRONG! If you are receiving and reading this newsletter then YOU are the answer to these questions. Why else would you have a connection with HYDRATE? It is because you have a true heart for the things of God and God’s heart beats for the youth of our world.
So this is for you today…Don’t Give Up! Don’t ever give up on your vision for our youth. No matter how alone you sometimes may feel in your quest. You are not alone. Don’t allow the thought of giving up to ever enter your mind just because you don’t see immediate results. Because seeing is not believing but BELIEVING IS SEEING. For example, can you believe that in this present day and in our state, the gospel is being preached in our high/middle schools through Hydrate Ministries! This is major fruit…major breakthrough! So today, I stand on this revelation that something is moving and something is changing in our world. I encourage you to stand on God’s Word that he is indeed faithful. He hears your prayers and will honor your requests. Don’t Give Up!
Galatians 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Lamentations 3:22-24
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Psalm 66:16-20
Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!
Don’t Give Up is the message that I keep hearing over and over these past few weeks…to me personally and in sermons, devotionals, and scripture. Sometimes I look at the mountains that continue to rise before the youth of our nation and wonder, when will we see results. When will we see the fruit of our labor? The huge, gigantic mountain that looms before me and our youth consists of many factors. Some of the factors are broken homes, neglect, abuse, poverty, religion and drug use. These are just a few of the many situations that our youth are encountering every day and if the truth be known…sometimes my faith waivers a little because the mountain is so enormous and it seems to keep growing.
So I ask you…Who will lead them? Who will cover them in prayer? Who will fast for them? Who will love them like their own? Who will devote their lives for these children and abolish the mountains before them? These all seem like issues for the church…right? WRONG! If you are receiving and reading this newsletter then YOU are the answer to these questions. Why else would you have a connection with HYDRATE? It is because you have a true heart for the things of God and God’s heart beats for the youth of our world.
So this is for you today…Don’t Give Up! Don’t ever give up on your vision for our youth. No matter how alone you sometimes may feel in your quest. You are not alone. Don’t allow the thought of giving up to ever enter your mind just because you don’t see immediate results. Because seeing is not believing but BELIEVING IS SEEING. For example, can you believe that in this present day and in our state, the gospel is being preached in our high/middle schools through Hydrate Ministries! This is major fruit…major breakthrough! So today, I stand on this revelation that something is moving and something is changing in our world. I encourage you to stand on God’s Word that he is indeed faithful. He hears your prayers and will honor your requests. Don’t Give Up!
Galatians 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Lamentations 3:22-24
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Psalm 66:16-20
Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!
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