This Week’s Experience – 2/14/2021

Message notes

Tenacity is the strength to one more time than you get .

Series Big Idea: My growth will be dictated by my ability to push through the pain.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

-Hebrews 12:1

Stand firm, and you will win life.

 -Luke 21:19

 Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in.

Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

-Hebrews 12:1-3 (Message)

1 Tenacity is developed when I look to as my .

In this world you will have tribulation and distress and suffering but be courageous for I have overcome the world.

 -John 16:33

Growth=change
Change=loss
Loss=Pain
Growth=Pain

May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the     same attitude of mind.

-Romans 15:5

2  Tenacity is developed when I surround myself with who won’t let me .

LIFE APPLICATION
To discuss during the week with your family or Life Group

1 What is your favorite movie? In what way did the main character need to be tenacious?

2 In what are of life do you need to develop more tenacity?

3 Look again at Gilbert’s two main points based off of Hebrews 12:1-3. What did you learn here? What challenges does this present you?

4 What is your next step as a result of this message?