2 Corinthians 4:15-16 "And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. That is why we never give up..."
In this scripture Paul reveals the secret of his persistent faith, the reason he "never gave up" was because he did what he did for the Glory of God. The motivating factor of his life was not a temporal reward. He did not preach, teach, serve, suffer or live for Jesus so that he could obtain power, prestige or position. He did what he did for the Glory of God, so that more and more people would come to faith in Jesus Christ.
If your service to God is motivated by a temporal reward then you can be bought, easily misdirected and discouraged to point that you give up. But if the motivating factor of your life is to Glorify Jesus Christ and to bring more and more people into the faith and fulness of God, then you have found the place of persistent faith and you are strategically position to turn the world up side down for the Glory of God.
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