10/04/2026
Sunday Worship Service | 10/4/26 | Don’t Quit Too Quick
James 1:2-4 KJV
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; [3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. [4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Galatians 6:9 KJV
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Rosa parks- little lady who refused to get up and give a white passenger. Her seat was arrested for her tenacity and refusal to give in to the norm, became the mother of the modern day civil rights movement. Because of her and the events who followed after that many people gain their rights and privileges..
Irene Sendler - operating under the radar in a Nazzy occupied Poland. She reached her life daily to smuggle roughly 2500 Jewish children out of Warsaw.
Young Ruby Bridges, - at six years old, walked past a region crowd to become the first African-American child to the desegregate all white Elementary school in the south.
Oprah Winfrey overcame severe childhood trauma and systematic racism along with deep poverty to break into the media television scene, creating one and most powerful television shows ever and eventually owning a piece of it.
Steve Jobs was exiled and kicked out from Apple, the very company he built. because of his perfectionist and unconventional management style, he was fired but while he was out, he didn’t just go on vacation or go hide under a rock. He used his time to keep inventing new breaking edge technology like products like the iPhone and iPod. Later returning to Apple.
Bible hero’s like David, Joseph, Daniel and the three Hebrew boys and then there was Jesus.
Struggles Build Strength:
Patience Produces Greatness
God has given you three things:
Capability - the power or skill to do something well.
Philippians 4:13 KJV
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Capacity - the maximum amount or power that can be produced or held.
Ephesians 3:20: "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or think, according to his power that is at work within us."
This highlights that God's ability exceeds human limits.
Isaiah 54:2: "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes."
This verse is frequently referenced as a command to expand one's personal and spiritual capacity to receive more from God.
Ability - the capacity, skill, talent, or natural power to do something.
1 Peter 4:11: "If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ" —
Teaches that natural or spiritual abilities should be used to serve others.
Exodus 31:3: "And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship"
This Shows that skill and creative talent come from God.
2 Timothy 1:7: "For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control" —
This Reminds believers that God equips them with inner power and capability.
