(Music) JERRY: Hello, everyone.
I'm Jerry Savelle, and thank you for joining me again
today. We really appreciate you watching our broadcast. Those of
you that communicate with us, I want you to know that is such a
blessing to us. We love hearing your testimonies. We also love
having an opportunity to pray with you, believe God for the
breakthroughs, and the turnarounds in your life that
you're believing God for. You know, we've got a lot of people
that desire to mix their faith with yours, and believe God with
you. Not only that, there are people right here on our staff
that are believing God for certain breakthroughs in their
life. But there is a principle that when you pray for somebody
else, then, praise God, that causes your prayers to be
answered right along with theirs. So I want to encourage
you write your prayer requests, send them to us, and we want to
join with you, and believe God with you. And then also, if you
have testimonies, please share them with us because your
testimonies, as we share them on the air from time to time, they
inspire other people to continue to believe God and not quit.
That's our subject today. We're going to continue talking about
quitting is not an option. Praise God. So if you have your
bibles, let's open them once again to Hebrews chapter ten,
and let's look at verse 23. "Let us hold fast the profession of
our faith without wavering." Everybody say "without
wavering." Notice "without wavering." That means you don't
give up. Once you take that step of faith, once you launch out in
faith, then you make the decision that quitting is not an
option. You're not going to waver. You're not going to
compromise. You're not going to give up. No matter how
impossible it looks, no matter how long it takes, you make the
decision that quitting is not an option. And here's the reason
why you refuse to quit. Not just because I'm saying don't quit.
Not just because somebody else says don't quit. Here's the
reason why you refuse to quit. It goes on to say "For he is
faithful that promise." That's God's promise to you, that he
will be faithful to every promise that he's made to you.
What has he said to you today? Think about it. What have you
been promised by God? In your prayer time, when you ask the
Lord to do certain things in your life, what did you believe
that he promised to do for you? Well, if he promised to do it,
then, praise God, he is faithful that promise. What has he said
in his Word? You know, I like to base my prayers on what he said
in his Word, because if I can find out what he says in his
Word, then I've got this strong foundation. I know because his
Word will not return void. I know that if he says it in his
Word, then he intends to bring it to pass. So what has God
promised you? You know, I have people say from time to time ...
You know, "Brother Jerry, God promised me several weeks ago,
or several months ago, but it doesn't look like it's going to
come to pass. What do I do now?" Well, all I can tell you is what
the apostle Paul said: "Having done all to stand, stand." You
know, it sounds like God's got a one-track mind. Yes, he does. He
just expects us to just stand, and keep standing. No matter how
long it takes, you just make up your mind that quitting is not
an option. Now, the amplified version says in this verse that
he is reliable, and trustworthy, and faithful to his Word. So the
message translates and says, "Let us keep a firm grip on the
promises that keep us going. He always keeps his Word." Notice
the promises of God are designed to motivate you, to keep you
going. They're designed to give you the ability to resist the
temptation to give up. If I didn't know what God promised,
then I wouldn't have any reason to just keep standing. If I
didn't know that God is faithful to his Word, then once again, I
wouldn't have any reason to just keep standing. I know that God
is faithful. I know that his Word is true. I know his Word
will not return unto him void, so that's my motivation for
continuing to stand, continuing to believe, and praise God, if
I'm willing to do that, then God promises that he will bring it
to pass. Isaiah 55:11 says, "His Word will not return void."
Amen. Now, I want us to look at something that we didn't cover
on last week's broadcast. I want us to go into Hebrews chapter
six. Hebrews chapter six, and we'll begin reading in verse 11.
It says, "And we desire that every one of you do show the
same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end.
That you be not slothful, but followers of them who, through
faith and patience, inherit the promises." Now, notice what it
takes to inherit the promise. Notice what it takes to have a
promise of God fulfilled in your life. What does it take? Faith
and patience. Now, we know that faith is believing God. We know
that patience is the ability to continue to stand no matter how
impossible it looks. The ability to just keep keeping on, so to
speak, no matter how long it takes. So notice it's with faith
and patience that the promises are fulfilled in your life. Then
it says in verse 13 ... And here's a good example of someone
who made the decision over a period of time. He reached a
place in his life where he made the decision that quitting was
no longer an option. It says in Hebrews 6:13, "For when God made
promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
swear by himself. Sang. Surely blessing I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee, and so after he had
patiently endured, he obtained the promise." What does
patiently endured mean? It means he wouldn't waver. It means he
wouldn't compromise. It means he wouldn't back down, he wouldn't
give up. Now, this is a story of Abraham's life later in life. In
the early part of his walk with God, he did waver. He did
somewhat back down, because God had promised him that he would
have a son, and he promised him that it would come through his
wife, Sarah. But you know the story. You can read it in
Genesis chapter 12, all the way through about chapter 17. It was
impossible for her to have a child. She couldn't conceive.
Her womb was dead, the bible says. It was impossible. In
fact, when she heard God say that she was going to have a
child, the bible says she laughed, and God said, "Why did
you laugh?" He said, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
And so God promised that she would have a child, but it
didn't look like it was ever going to come to pass, so she
eventually came to Abraham, and she said, "I have a handmaiden,
and she is capable of conceiving, so perhaps this is
how you're going to have that son. It's going to be through
her." Now, Abraham, I would say that he probably ... I'd be safe
in saying that he compromised. God never intended for him to
have a child by her handmaiden. It was through his wife that he
was supposed to have that child, Sarah. But notice Abraham had
the child through her handmaiden, and as a result of
it, if you study your bible very closely, because he wavered,
because he compromised, because he didn't stick with the Word of
God that God promised him, the bible says ... It teaches us
that God didn't speak to him for a number of years after that,
and then finally, in Genesis chapter 17, God approaches him
and says, "I am the almighty God. Walk before me, and do not
waver. Do not compromise." So what God is saying is "Abraham,
I gave you a promise. You didn't stick with it. I'm the God who
gave you the promise. I don't need your help to make it come
to pass. All I need is your faith." And so Abraham, from
that moment, he made the decision that no longer would he
compromise. No longer would he back off of the promise of God.
And as a result of it, now we pick it up in Hebrews chapter
six, and God is saying that God made promise to him. And because
Abraham patiently endured, he didn't back down like he had in
the past, he didn't give up, he didn't waver, he didn't try to
make things happen himself ... Because Abraham stuck with what
God had promised, then God saw to it that it came to pass. And,
praise God, he'll do the same for you if you just make up your
mind that quitting is no longer an option. Can you say "Amen?"
Praise God. So he says "God willing more abundantly to show
unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it
was impossible for God to lack, we might have a strong
consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope
that is set before us." So, what is God saying? God gave us two
things. He's given us his Word, and he's given us his promise,
and neither one of them are changeable. Once God
makes a promise, he does not change.
Once God gives his Word, he does not back down. So,
you and I have these two immutable things that
motivate us, that should keep us going, that enable us to keep
standing. Number one, we have God's promise. Number two, we
have God's Word, and God says they are unchangeable. So, I
want to encourage you right now. Find out what the Word says
about your situation. Dare to take hold on it, take hold of it
rather. Stand on it. Refused to compromise and you just watch.
You'll come to this conclusion. Your God is a faithful God, and
he will not allow his Word to return void. Hey, watch this
announcement. I'll be back in just a few moments and
we'll finish the lesson. ANNOUNCER: God will never
say it's over until you win, and quitting
is not an option. Jerry Savelle teaches what
the Bible says about conquering the temptation
to quit. In this encouraging four CD series, you will learn
how to stay focused in faith by being truly convinced God will
keep his Word. Being willing to wait by developing patience, and
being in fellowship with God in his Word. You can receive
victory in every area of your life. God is looking for a group
of winners to rise up and show the world that He is greater. In
the powerful book Called to Battle Destined to Win, Jerry
shares how you can experience God's breakthrough power in
your life. God will provide everything you need to pursue,
overtake, and recover what has been lost. Are you ready to win?
Call or go online to Jerrysavelle.org and request the
Born to Win Package, including Quitting is not an Option and
Called to Battle Destined to Win. Make the decision today to
never give up, to never quit, and to watch what your
persistence will produce. JERRY: Hey, listen. At
the end of the broadcast, we'll show that
promotional again. All the resources that
we've made available this week. I want to encourage
you to pay very close attention at the end of the
program, and write all that information down because I know
that this material will help build your faith and cause you
to become the winner that God wants you to be. Amen. Now,
let's get back to Hebrews Chapter Six. We were reading
that before we went to the break, and once again, this time
I want to read it from the message translation. It says,
"When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the
hilt, putting his own reputation on the line." Wow. That's a
powerful statement. God would never make a promise if he
didn't intend to fulfill it. That's why you should determine
that quitting is no longer an option. God has put his
reputation on the line. You can depend upon Him. He is reliable.
He is faithful. If you can find out what He has promised in his
Word, then that's your motivation to just keep
standing, and refusing to give up, because once again, God has
put his own reputation on the line, and he's not going to
destroy his reputation. God is a faithful God. Say it with me. My
God is a faithful God. It goes on to say that God said, "I will
bless you with everything that I have." Bless, bless, bless.
Abraham stuck it out, and got everything that had been
promised to him. Now, it's very simple. Abraham stuck it out.
Say that with me. Abraham stuck it out. Put your name in there.
Jerry stuck it out. What is your name? Sarah stuck it out. Tom
stuck it out. What is your name? Fred stuck it out. Make that
declaration right now, that I am going to stick it out. No matter
how impossible it looks, no matter how long it takes, no
matter what's happened to anybody else. I don't have my
faith based on their experiences. I have my faith
based on, it is written, and God has promised certain things that
I have the right to stand on and praise God. I am determined to
stick it out, and if I stick it out, then the same thing will
happen to me that happened to Abraham. What happened to
Abraham? He got everything that had been promised to him. Do you
want everything that God has promised? Do you want the life
of prosperity? Do you want the life of victory? Do you want to
live in divine health? Do you want to win? These are all
things that God has promised you. Abraham stuck it out, and
he got everything that had been promised to him. And praise God,
you are entitled to the same thing. Why? Because you're
Abraham's seed. You're an heir according to the promise, and
praise God. God wants to make it all happen for you just like he
made it happen to Abraham. So, Abraham got everything that was
promised to him. I don't know about you, but I want
everything. Not some, not most of it. I want everything that
God has promised to me, and I know that if I will stick it
out, if I will patiently endure, if I will stand, and having done
all to stand, and just keep on standing, then praise God,
eventually it will come to pass. But you, once again, have to
make that decision. I can't make it for you. You have to make the
decision that quitting is no longer an option. Amen. Now, the
message translation says, "God can't break his Word." And,
because his Word cannot be broken nor changed, the promise
is likewise unchangeable. The promise is likewise
unchangeable. So what has God promised? God's promised to
supply all your need according to his riches and glory by
Christ Jesus. Are you convinced of that? Or, do you go around
crying about your needs? Fretting about your needs.
Worrying about your needs. You see, if you truly believe that
God is going to supply all your needs, even though you may not
have any clue as to how he's going to do it, where it's going
to come from. And I learned a long time ago, that is not my
job. My job is not trying to figure out how God's going to do
it, or where it's going to come from. My job is to dare to
believe that he can do it and that he will do it. Arranging
for it, that's his responsibility. I'm just going
to keep believing that he is going to do what he promised,
and if He didn't intend to fulfill what He promised, then
He should have never made the promise. Now, my attitude has
been all these years, if God didn't intend to do what he said
he would do in this book, then He should have never put it in
my copy of the book, because once I find it, I'm going for
it. Praise God, and I'm not giving up until it comes to
pass. Praise God. I used to say, "I might be little, but I got a
bulldog tenacity, praise God." That's what you need to develop.
This bulldog tenacity that you are not going to quit. Amen.
Now, in verse 19, it says, "We have this hope." This is Hebrews
Chapter Six. "We have this hope as an anchor to our soul." The
soul is made up of the mind, the will, and the emotions, and
that's where the real battles are fought. I wrote a book, The
Mind. A number of years ago I wrote a book about the mind is
the battle ground. The mind is where the real battles are
fought. This is where you win or lose what you think, and what
you allow to stay in your thinking. So, notice it says it
will anchor your soul. You know, every time I read that, I can't
help but think of when I was a kid, and my Dad would used to
take me fishing sometimes on the weekends when he'd come home
from work. He'd work half a days on Saturday. My Dad was a paint
and body man. He worked on wrecked cars. He worked at the
Chevrolet dealership mostly, and he'd get off at noon on
Saturday, and sometimes when he'd come home he'd say, "Son,
let's go fishing." And so, we'd go out to a place called Cross
Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana. We'd be out there fishing most
of the afternoon, and when we'd find a good spot, Dad would say,
"Lower the anchor son." He'd have a heavy anchor that had a
rope tied to it, and he'd say, "Lower the anchor son." And so,
I'd lower the anchor there so the boat wouldn't drift away.
We'd just stay in that spot, and we'd catch fish there until you
couldn't catch anymore. Then I'd bring in the anchor and then
we'd move on to another spot. That's what I think every time I
read this scripture. It says, "Which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul." In other words, when I know what God's Word
says, it keeps my thoughts from drifting. It keeps my thoughts
from getting on things that are negative, and things that don't
line up with the Word of God. I have God's Word, and the hope
that it produces, as an anchor to my soul. And that's why,
praise God, you get to the place in your life because you have
this anchor of your soul that you refuse to quit. You refuse
to give up. You know, I've had people say, "Brother Jerry, I
don't know how you have stood so long believing God for that
miracle in your life, when it looks like it's never going to
come to pass." Well, that's a part of the walk of faith. I
mean, if it was easy, everybody'd be doing it. If it
just happened overnight, everybody would be doing it.
But, it doesn't always happen overnight. And sometimes. it
doesn't come to pass in a matter of days or even weeks. I have
stood, and thank God I hadn't had to do this too often, but I
have stood for as long as 20 years on one faith endeavor
before it came to pass. And praise God, when it did come to
pass. Oh, I'm telling- JERRY: Yeah, I was rejoicing. I
shouted. If you were within a few miles, you probably heard
me. I was shouting over that victory because I had stood for
a long, long time and I had every opportunity to give up, to
quit, but I wouldn't give up and God brought it to pass, and
praise God. That proved to me that if I'm willing to stand
forever, then praise God. God will see to it that it comes to
pass. How long are you willing to stand? Are you willing to
stand for just an hour or so? Are you willing to stand for
just until it gets dark? Are you willing to stand? Well, if
something doesn't happen by in the morning, I'm not gonna play
anymore? No, you're going to wind up failing. You're gonna
wind up living in defeat if you have that attitude. No, you need
this anchor for your soul. You need to anchor your mind, your
will and your emotions into the Word of God so that you don't
drift away, praise God, and allow the devil to defeat you
with the thoughts that he plants in your mind. Your thoughts are
important. Paul talks about casting down things that are not
in line with the Word, casting dow thoughts that are not in
line with the Word, and he also talks about in Philippians 4,
what you should be thinking about. So let's look at 2
Corinthians chapter 10, verses three through five. This is
where Paul talks about this: "For though we walk in the
flesh, we do not war after the flesh. The weapons of our
warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds." Make a note of that word,
strongholds. What are strongholds? We'll find out in
just a moment. "Casting down imaginations and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of
Christ." He explains what strongholds are in that verse.
It's imaginations. It's high things that exalted themselves
against the knowledge of God and it's thoughts that are not in
line with the Word of God. They can create strongholds. And the
Bible says that you are to cast them down. Anything that is
contrary to God's Word has the potential of becoming a strong
hold in your mind and notice Paul says you must cast them
down. And when is the right time to catch them down? The moment
they come into your mind. If you allow them to just sit there,
then you're gonna get ... You're going to find out that it gets
harder and harder to cast them aside. No, you need to cast them
down the moment Satan plants them, because what he's trying
to do is steal the Word. He's trying to get you to become
discouraged. He's trying to get you to give up. He's trying to
get you to quit, but remember now you've made the decision.
Quitting is not an option. Say it with me. Quitting is not an
option. Make that determination. Do it once and for all. Say it
again. Quitting is not an option, so Satan knows that if
he can plant enough negative thoughts in your mind, then
hopefully, he's thinking you eventually will just let him sit
there and you'll just begin to doubt and you'll let go of the
Word, and if you let go of the Word, then you have no hope to
win. So you must cast those thoughts down. The longer you
allow them to stay in your mind, then the harder it is to cast
them down. Satan will attempt to get you to doubt God's Word. And
if he is successful in this, then he's going to rob you of
the fulfillment of the promise. But remember, you made the
decision. Quitting is not an option. So let's look at Luke,
chapter 18. And a great example of this no quit attitude. We'll
look at this just before we close the broadcast. Today, Luke
chapter 18. And I know you're familiar with this story. It
says in verse one: "And he spake," this is Jesus. "He spake
a parable unto them to this end, that men ought to always pray
and not to fight." Saying there was in a city, a judge which
feared not God, neither regarded man. And there was a widow in
that city. And she came unto him saying, avenge me of mine
adversary, and he would not for a while, but afterward he said
within himself, though I fear not God nor regard man, yet
because this widow troubleth to me, I will avenge her, lest by
her continual coming, she weary me. And the Lord said, hear what
the unjust judge sayeth. Notice, take notice of what this man
said. Now, Jesus is not comparing this unjust judge to
God, but what he is teaching us is perseverance, this no quit
attitude. And it says, "And shall not God avenge his own
which cry night and day unto him, though he bear long with
them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless, when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith
on the earth." The story is intended to reveal to us how
important it is to make the decision not to quit. This woman
kept going to him and the judge kept saying no. Every time she
knocked on his door, he came to the door. He told her to leave,
leave me alone. But she wouldn't quit. She wouldn't give up and
she wouldn't quit, and so therefore he eventually gave her
what she asked for, and this story is showing us how
important it is to develop a no quit attitude, a no quit faith,
and then Jesus said at the close of this story, he said, "When
the Son of Man return, will he find faith on the earth?" What I
believe he's asking is will I find this no quit faith, this
non compromising faith. Will I find this faith that refuses to
give up? You can have that kind of faith if you just spend
quality time in the Word. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
the Word. So develop this no quit faith and praise God, you
just watch. You too like Abraham will receive everything that
God has promised. Amen. Praise God. All right,
let's watch this announcement and then I'll be back in
just a few moments. ANNOUNCER: God will
never say it's over until you win. In Quitting is Not
an Option, Jerry Savelle teaches what the Bible
says about conquering the temptation to quit. In this
encouraging four CD series, you will learn how to stay focused
in faith by being truly convinced God will keep his
Word, being willing to wait by developing patience and being in
fellowship with God in his Word. You can receive victory in every
area of your life. God is looking for a group of winners
to rise up and show the world that he is greater. In the
powerful book Called to Battle, Destined to win, Jerry shares
how you can experience God's breakthrough power in your life.
God will provide everything you need to pursue, overtake, and
recover what has been lost. Are you ready to win? Call or go
online to JerrySavelle.org and request the Born to Win package
including Quitting is Not an Option and Called to Battle,
Destined to Win. Make the decision today to never
give up, to never quit, and to watch what your
persistence will produce. JERRY: Hey, thank you so
very much for joining me today. It's been a joy
and an honor to share the Word with you. I trust I've
inspired your faith and I trust also that I've talked you into
making the decision that quitting is no longer an option.
Don't forget the resources. They're so important. They're
faith building, you've got to have them. My book, Called to
Battle, Destined to Win and four CDs entitled Quitting is Not an
Option. Get them and you can order them by going online,
JerrySavelle.org, and order them right away. Don't delay and be
sure to join with us again next week as we continue this study
on quitting is not an option. Listen, I want to encourage you
to remember this. If you don't remember anything
else, your faith will overcome the world. I'll
see you next week.
