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    Finding The Strength To Keep Going

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    This document summarizes key passages from the Bible about finding the strength to keep going when emotionally worn out. It provides 4 attitudes that move God to answer: 1) Honestly unloading your burdens on God; 2) Humbly recognizing God's strength and care; 3) Gratefully praising God despite difficulties; 4) Constantly focusing on Jesus as the source and goal of faith. Examples are given from the lives of Jesus, Paul, Job, and Psalms about their determination to keep going through hard times by relying on God.

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    This document summarizes key passages from the Bible about finding the strength to keep going when emotionally worn out. It provides 4 attitudes that move God to answer: 1) Honestly unloading your burdens on God; 2) Humbly recognizing God's strength and care; 3) Gratefully praising God despite difficulties; 4) Constantly focusing on Jesus as the source and goal of faith. Examples are given from the lives of Jesus, Paul, Job, and Psalms about their determination to keep going through hard times by relying on God.

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    This document summarizes key passages from the Bible about finding the strength to keep going when emotionally worn out. It provides 4 attitudes that move God to answer: 1) Honestly unloading your burdens on God; 2) Humbly recognizing God's strength and care; 3) Gratefully praising God despite difficulties; 4) Constantly focusing on Jesus as the source and goal of faith. Examples are given from the lives of Jesus, Paul, Job, and Psalms about their determination to keep going through hard times by relying on God.

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    Finding The Strength To Keep Going

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    This document summarizes key passages from the Bible about finding the strength to keep going when emotionally worn out. It provides 4 attitudes that move God to answer: 1) Honestly unloading your burdens on God; 2) Humbly recognizing God's strength and care; 3) Gratefully praising God despite difficulties; 4) Constantly focusing on Jesus as the source and goal of faith. Examples are given from the lives of Jesus, Paul, Job, and Psalms about their determination to keep going through hard times by relying on God.

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    “When I pray, you answer and encourage me by giving me the strength I need.

    ”
    Psalm 138:3 (TLB)

    God told Daniel: “O Daniel, greatly loved of God, listen carefully . . . Since the first day
    you began to pray and humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard
    FINDING THE STRENGTH TO KEEP GOING in heaven.” Daniel 10:11-12 (NLT)
    WHEN I’M EMOTIONALLY WORN OUT
    Rick Warren THE ATTITUDE THAT MOVES GOD TO ANSWER: HUMILITY

    2 Examples of Determination to Keep Going


    3. GRATEFULLY __________________________________________
    DESPITE ALL THAT’S BAD
    (JESUS) “I’m will KEEP ON driving out demons and healing people—today, and
    “Give thanks IN all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
    tomorrow, and on the third day I’ll reach my goal. In any case, I MUST KEEP GOING—
    1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
    today, and tomorrow, and the next day.” Luke 13:32-33 (NIV)
    “(In grief) Job tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground and
    (PAUL) “We’re hard pressed on every side by troubles, but we’re not crushed and WORSHIPED GOD. He said, ‘I was born with nothing, and I’ll die with nothing. The Lord
    broken. We’re perplexed, but we don’t give up and quit. We’re hunted down, but God gave, and now he has taken away. May the name of the LORD BE PRAISED.’ IN SPITE
    never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again AND KEEP GOING.” OF EVERYTHING that had happened, Job did not sin by blaming God.”
    2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NLT) Job 1:20-22 (GNT)

    1. HONESTLY ___________________________________________ Job showed that I can always be grateful:


    “Unload all your burdens on to him, since he is concerned about you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NJB) • That God is loving and cares for me Job 10:12
    • That God had a detailed plan for my future Job 23:14
    • GOD ALREADY KNOWS ___________________________________ • That God is in control of what I don’t understand Job 34:13
    “The Lord gave each of us our minds, so nothing we think or do can be hidden from • That God will reward me after I’m tested Job 23:10
    him.” Psalm 33:15 (CEV)
    “Here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in your strength.”
    • GOD UNDERSTANDS ____________________________________! Psalm 63:2 (The Message)
    “The Lord knows what’s in everyone’s mind AND he understands everything you
    think.” 1 Chronicles 28:9 (NCV) 4. CONSTANTLY _________________________________________
    “We must focus on Jesus, the source and goal of our faith. He saw the joy ahead of him,
    • GOD LOVES ____________________________________________ so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him. Then he
    David: “I love the Lord, because he listens to my prayers. He listens to me every received the highest position in heaven.” Hebrews 12:2 (GW)
    time I call to him.” Psalm 116:1-2 (GNT)
    “This is why we never give up . . . our spirits are being renewed every day. Our present
    “Morning, noon, and night I complain of my distress, and still the Lord hears my troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably
    voice.” Psalm 55:17 (NLT) great glory that will last forever! So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is
    unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
    “The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NLT/NIV)
    Psalm 103:13 (NLT)
    “We are praying that you will be filled with his mighty, glorious strength SO THAT YOU
    “Cry out in the night . . . Pour out your heart like water in prayer to the Lord.” CAN KEEP GOING no matter what happens—always full of the joy of the Lord.”
    Lamentations 2:19 (NCV) Colossians 1:11 (TLB)

    2. HUMBLY _____________________________________________! “We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us.”
    “Look to the Lord and his strength.” Psalm 105:4 (NIV) 2 Timothy 1:8-9 (The Message)

    “God is the real source of wisdom and strength.” Job 12:13 (CEV)

    “I can lie down and go to sleep, and I’ll wake up again, because the Lord gives me
    strength.” Psalm 3:5 (NCV)

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