Endurance and Perseverance // Read Romans 5:3-4
Lord, we confess that we often get impatient and frustrated with difficulty, pain and suffering. Please give us compassion and a better listening ear, so that we may bless those who need your love and grace. Give us the strength to find joy in our sufferings. Remind us that hope is not defined by our circumstances. Hope is eternal.
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Romans 5:3-4
3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,