“For this reason I also suffer these things;
nevertheless, I am not ashamed,
for I know whom I have believed
and am PERSUADED that he is able to keep
what I have committed to him until that day.”
2nd Timothy 1:12

Paul was PERSUADED about the faithfulness of God, even as he endured great suffering. People love to sing “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” but how many have truly given that some thought?

Herein is patience, those who know the Lord and have walked with him for some time know that a lot of time goes by between a promise and the realization of it, and in the meantime many trials come upon the believer. It requires therefore, patience and a sure heart and a persuasion, knowing that those who wait on the Lord will certainly and truly find him faithful.

Waiting is one of the most difficult parts of the Christian experience, but when the promise comes, it far surpasses what the believer in any way expected.

“Now to him who is able to do
EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE
all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us,
to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
to all generations,forever and ever.”
Ephesians 3:20-21