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1. Definition of Relentless 2

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RELENTLESS - WHAT ITS NOT 4

We are not perfect or failure free; we are undefeatable because we have a hope that is beyond this world - that makes us relentless… Your relentless pursuit of the Kingdom of God makes you a winning team. Relentless - persistent, unyielding...ruthless, unrelenting... No Turning Back! We are set free to serve – relentlessly. 5

When things go wrong as they sometimes will; when the road you are trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low & the debts are high; when you want to smile but you have to sigh; when care is pressing you down … Rest if you must but don’t quit. …Don’t give up when the pace seems slow; you might succeed with another blow. Many a failure turns about when he might have won had he stuck it out. Success is failure turned inside out…stick to the fight when you are hardest hit. It’s when things get worse that you must not quit-(Unknown) 6

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Need encouragement when you are tired – end/begining of year Start with the end goal in mind… start well to finish well. Start off with the view of getting to the top of the mountain – one step at a time Graffiti found on Prison wall – “I believe in the sun even when its not shining, I believe in love even when I’m alone; I believe in God, even when He is silent” We generally change for one of two reasons; inspiration or desperation. Success is simply doing God’s will for you’re your life no matter how long it takes or how much opposition you encounter. 8

Caleb there are 40 verses in the Bible that describe Caleb, his life & his character. Caleb was Relentless - he believed God when the majority doubted & died; he inherited the promise of God. Num 14:24 – “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it” Deut 1:36 - Except Caleb … he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.’ 9

Joshua 14:8 - Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God. 10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. 11 As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. 12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim (giants) were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said.” 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb …. as an inheritance. 14 … because he wholly followed the LORD God… 10

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Discussion Relentless - is not stubbornness, its come what may I’ll do it God’s way – can you identify the pitfall of stubbornness vs obedience? Relentless brings fruit that glorifies God, stubbornness inflates the ego which ends in falling… See Rom 8:32 – “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” this is God’s desire for you/I - pursuing HIS will brings results. If you have given up on God, lost your 1 st love, repent & let Him take you to the level of living relentlessly with HIS power - Act 3:19 –”Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” Suffering often comes from holding on long after God said let go! 15