2. The Devil Wants Us to Give Up Job 2:6-7,9 Luke 8:12 1 Peter 5:8

3. Activities Requiring Endurance Farming (Gal. 6:9; Jas. 5:7) Running (1 Cor. 9:25-27; Heb. 12:1-2) Battling (2 Tim. 2:3; 4:8; Rev. 2:7,11; etc.)

4. Areas of Endurance Coming to Jesus (Lk. 13:22-23) Following Jesus (Jn. 6:66) Bible study (Acts 17:11-12; 1 Tim. 4:12-16) Marriage / parenting (Eph. 5:22 – 6:4) Leadership (1 Tim. 3:1-7; Heb. 11:27) Service (1 Tim. 3:8-13) Preaching (2 Tim. 1:8; 4:3-5)

5. Areas of Endurance Personal struggles (Lk. 22:31; 1 Cor. 10:13; Jas. 1:3-4,12) Persecution (Rom. 5:3-4; 12:12; 2 Thess. 1:4; 2 Tim. 2:10,12; 3:11; Heb. 10:32,36,39; 12:2-7; 1 Pet. 2:19-20; Rev. 2:10) Unity with brethren (Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:13) Abstaining from worldliness (Rev. 13:10; 14:12) Combating error (Rev. 2:2-3) Growth (Rev. 2:19)

6. Never Give Up God does not give up on us! Let us not give up on God! Good things come to those who never give up (Lk. 8:15; Rom. 2:17; 8:25; Jas. 1:12)