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Persistence, perseverance, determination , diligence, resolution , pushiness

Persistence, perseverance, determination , diligence, resolution , pushiness. Sermon detail. Opening hymn: 499 what a friend we have in Jesus Scripture reading: Nehemiah 4:20 Special music: the namihira’s Sermon : the life lessons learned from a dandelion, part 6 (unrelenting effort)

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Persistence, perseverance, determination , diligence, resolution , pushiness

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  1. Persistence, perseverance, determination , diligence, resolution , pushiness

  2. Sermon detail • Opening hymn: 499 what a friend we have in Jesus • Scripture reading: Nehemiah 4:20 • Special music: the namihira’s • Sermon : the life lessons learned from a dandelion, part 6 (unrelenting effort) • Closing hymn: 590 trust and obey

  3. Nehemiah 4:20 • Whenever you hear the sound of trumpet, • Rally to us there. • Our God will fight for us.

  4. The LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DANDELION (6)[unrelenting effort] Yoshinobu Namihira, MD, FACG 3000 halls ferry road vicksburg MS 39180 phone 601 638 9800 , fax 601 638 9808 , e mail: namihira @ earthlink.net www.betterlivingclinic.com ; www.namihira.org

  5. Unrelenting Efforts

  6. 10 secrets of endurance • The leaf of dandelion • Daily schedule • Unity • Dandelion’s root system • The stem • Flexibility • Unrelenting effort • Spreading seeds • Hidden hooks • Service and ministry

  7. Unrelenting effort (1) • Dandelion is not lazy. • It does not sleep away the morning hours. • It is one of the vey first flowers to blossom in the spring time. • In the northern hemisphere (cold climate), you can find the dandelion blooming with snow around it . • In the warmer climate, the dandelion can bloom every month of the year.

  8. Unrelenting effort (2) • some so called Christians do their sharing only at church or for those whose they think good enough. • Some share only one day a week ,like only on Sabbath. • However, Jesus thought to apply the gospel to every person he met under every circumstance

  9. Unrelenting Efforts

  10. Unrelenting effort (3) • All summer long, through 1)heat,2) dust, 3) mud, 4) drought, the dandelion continued daily growth. • As the days get longer, the need for food and energy becomes more intense. • Untiring effort is the basis of all endurance. • “preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching. “2 Tim. 4:2

  11. Growing out of rocks

  12. Unrelenting effort (4) • Growth means change. • Change takes effort. • Effort requires energy. • Through all the summer months, the dandelion works.

  13. Take home point

  14. To him who is determined it remains only to act. -Italian Proverb • The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. -Anon.

  15. The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. | -Dean Acheson • There is nothing impossible to him who will try. -Alexander The Great

  16. Law of parallelism • In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results. -James Allen

  17. Effort : Result formula • A little of EFFORT • A lot of EFFORT • Small result • Great result

  18. Rock climbing with prosthetic leg

  19. Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.' | -Mary Kay Ash

  20. Success – failure turned inside out

  21. Nehemiah 6;3 • I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you? Nehemiah 6:3 | -Bible Nehemiah

  22. In the snow

  23. In the desert

  24. Not by strength but by perseverance • Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. | -Napoleon Bonaparte • In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance. | -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  25. On top of the rock

  26. Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. | -Les Brown • The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy -- invincible determination -- a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. | -Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

  27. Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds.The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.| -Charles Caleb Colton

  28. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. | -Robyn Davidson

  29. No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. | -B. C. Forbes

  30. Man helping woman on rock climbing

  31. You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. | -Henry Ford

  32. An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. | -Thomas Fuller • Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. | -John Heywood

  33. Slow but A little progress Perseverance

  34. A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. | -Robert Hughes • With love and patience, nothing is impossible. | -Daisaku Ikeda

  35. Growing from underneath the snow

  36. If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. | -Samuel Johnson • The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. | -Tommy Lasorda

  37. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. | -Abraham Lincoln • I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.| -David Livingstone • The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. | -Vince Lombardi

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