DAY #9: October 11, 2010

OK - today's a holiday. Don't take a day off from meeting with the Lord. Endure.

If you were to specifically say to Jesus Christ, “I want a change in me, God. I don’t want to be the same. I want to be different,” what would He do? He’ll do the same three things He did to this man we started looking at yesterday.

#1. He will help you face your fears.

Imagine this scene. Jesus was in a packed room – standing room only, crowded. And all of a sudden He hears some noise above His head in this house. He looks up. The roofs in Palestine were flat. He starts seeing some stuff crumble down on Him. Pretty soon the tiles are being removed and there’s a gaping hole in the roof right where He’s seated. Four men peered down at Jesus and then all of a sudden they start letting a man down on a stretcher. They let this man down on the stretcher, right in front of Jesus, right in the middle of His sermon, right in front of everybody. That’s what I call an interruption!

How would you feel if you had been that paralyzed man? You’d certainly feel embarrassed. You’d probably feel fearful, a little anxiety, a little anxious. This by the way, shows how desperate this man was to be changed. He allowed his friends to tear up a roof (and somebody’s going to have to pay for it) and publicly let him down in front of all these people stopping Jesus in the middle of a sermon. Because he wanted to be changed. That’s how desperate he was. (how desperate are you for change?)

And when Jesus looks at him He doesn’t say, “Excuse me! I'm busy. You’re interrupting me! I'm on my most important point right now!”

Notice what Jesus says, Matthew 9:2 “They brought to Jesus a man who was paralyzed and lying on a mat. Then Jesus said to the paralyzed man ‘Be encouraged young man.” Take heart, cheer up, don’t give up, don't be afraid. It’s OK. You’re not bothering Me. What's the point?

Jesus cares about how you feel. If you’re discouraged He cares about your discouragement today. If you feel lonely, He cares about your loneliness today. If you feel worried, frightened, insecure, anxious about the future, He cares about that. Why is Jesus’ first response to us to ease our fears? Three hundred sixty five times in the Bible it says “Fear not.” That's one for every day of the year. Jesus says “Don’t be afraid!” When you study what Jesus did to people He almost always started with, “Chill out! Don’t be afraid. It’s OK. Be encouraged. Cheer up.” Why does Jesus ease our fears before He does anything else? Two reasons:

Let me give you an encouraging word. I don’t know what you’re going through, what you’re facing this week, what you faced last week, but I do know this: God does. And He cares. He can help you and His first word to you is, “Don’t be afraid. I can handle it.”

So what should you do with your anxieties? What should you do with your fears? You give them to Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 5:7 says, “Give all your worries and cares to God [circle “all] for He cares about what happens to you.” He cares and the Bible says, “Perfect love casts out all fear.”

When you come to Jesus Christ, the first thing He says is, “Before we get started on this personal improvement plan in your life, give Me your fears.” Why? Because fear is a universal problem. But more important than that. Fear is what keeps you from getting close to God. In the final analysis, when you boil it all down the reason you’re not closer to God is because you’re afraid to get closer to God because you fear the unknown. “If I really got close to God, what might happen to me? I might be so changed I don’t like myself.” And so you are afraid to get close to God. We all have these fears. “If I get close to God, what if He turns me into a fanatic? I may have to be on TV and wear funny hair and wear polyester and say ‘Jesus!’”

Push through that fear, because the reason you’re afraid is you don’t know what God’s really like. If you did, you wouldn’t be afraid of Him. Because God is love and “Perfect love casts out all fear.” You just need to get to know God. The better you get to know Jesus Christ, the fewer fears you’re going to have in your life. Just like David prayed in Psalm 34 “I asked the Lord for help and He answered me and He freed me from all my anxious fears.”

Would you like to be freed from all your anxious fears? That is the starting point for personal change. When you come to Christ and say, “Jesus, I want You to change me,” the first thing He’ll do is ease your fears and you won’t have to be afraid any more. What fears do you need to cast at the feet of Christ today? OK then, do it.

I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!

DAY #8: October 10, 2010

OK - a new week. A new memory verse. Come on, you can do it. Romans 6:13 (LB) - “Give yourselves completely to God, every part of you. For you want to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for His good purposes.”

I love that verse. To me it screams out - Surrender. Cooperate. Obey.

A long while ago, I read a very sad statistic: a quarter of a million Americans are physically paralyzed – spinal cord conditions and others ways. And over 10,000 Americans a year are additionally paralyzed some way (through an accident).

As I read that statistic I got to thinking: I wonder how many Americans are emotionally & spiritually paralyzed? It’s not as devastating as being physically paralyzed but it’s far more common. I know so many Christians who are stuck in a rut. They are spinning their wheels. They can't seem to get any traction spiritually. What do you do if that's you?

The next few days, we’re going to look at a story in the Bible of a man who was radically changed by Jesus Christ. These principles that we see from his life will help you understand how God changes you. This story is so important it’s recorded by three different writers – Matthew, Mark and Luke – so obviously it’s got some lessons to teach us.

The Bible tells us in Luke “One day Jesus was teaching in a home and they had come from every village and even as far away as Jerusalem to be there [This is a standing room only, packed out audience. It’s a little house and everybody is crammed into this house just to hear Jesus teach.] Some men arrived carrying a paraplegic man on a stretcher and they looked for a way to get into the house to set him before Jesus. When they couldn’t find a way in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof [These guys are pretty innovative, pretty resourceful. They went up on the roof...] and they removed some tile and let him down in the middle of everyone right in front of Jesus”

The man we’re going to look at the next few days was literally paralyzed, physically paralyzed. But the three things that Jesus said to this man are the three things He says to you when you come and honestly say, “Jesus Christ, I want You to change me.” They’re the three things that will help you break free from emotional & spiritual paralysis too. And that’s good news.

Maybe you’ve felt a little frustrated about your inability to change things in your life. You’ve said, “I just can’t change it!” We’ve got some good news for you today. If you were to specifically say to Jesus Christ, “I want a change in me, God. I don’t want to be the same. I want to be different,” what would He do? He’ll do the same three things He did to this man. That's what we're going to look at this week.

Will you pray - "Lord change me - Work in me" ?

Here’s the good news. When God asks you to do something that seems humanly impossible He gives you the power to do it. What change in your life seems impossible? Are you in a relationship right now that is dying before your eyes? And you can’t stop it? You feel powerless, hopeless and helpless? Are you consumed with some painful memories that you cannot forgive and you cannot forget? Are you stuck in a habit that you’ve tried many, many times to change and you can’t?
Is there a health issue your battling right now and you need God's power to show up in your life? Humble yourself and ask God for His help and His power.

I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!

DAY #7: October 9, 2010

This is the end of week one of our spiritual growth campaign. How are you doing? How are you feeling? I know that change can be had and even a Little scary. Stay the course. Do the work. Put in the time. Pay the price. Flourish. Leave the land of languish. Don't short circuit what God wants to do in your life.

Let's keep going practical, determining to make our lives count. What can you do?

#2. DEFINE MY VALUES -(define what matters most).

James 4:14 says, “How do you know what will happen tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog, it’s here a little while, and then it’s gone.” There’s a nice bright cheery verse, huh? What’s it saying? It’s saying pay attention to how short life is.

Folks, If you knew your time was short (which it is), you make a list. This is the practical part I want to ask you to do this week. Write down everything you would do. The goal of this list is to help you define what matters most - and then live for what matters most.

When I wrote down my list I came up with almost fifty things I would want to do if I had a short time left on this planet to live for the purposes of God. Then I took that list and rewrote a shorter list. I circled the ones that I could put into play every day.

I’ll give you an example of one that made it to the shorter list. To invest in my family by giving them my full attention. Pretty good, but it sounded kind of broad. So I wrote down what would that look like for me to give full attention to my family. I read somewhere once, nothing becomes motivating until it becomes specific. So make your list, then make that specific; Here’s how I got specific…

1. If I am going to give my full attention to my family, I need learn to be a better listener. I will ask follow up questions to their answers. A lot of times I’ll ask my family question, they’ll give me an answer and I’ll go “OK” and go back to what I was doing.. I can’t settle for that – the same old same old.

2. Don’t talk on the phone when anyone from my family is in the car.

3. Don’t get on the computer until the kids go to bed.

4.. Finally, say YES to all the “Dad, do you want to…” questions. “Dad, do you want to play catch?…YES. Dad, do you want to go hit some tennis balls…YES. Dad, do you want to go to bed and leave me and my friends alone?” YES – I guess. Those types of things. This is just one value I want to change, but if I will do the hard work up front, I know God will honor that work.

I keep going back to Psalms 90:12 (LB) "Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should."

What am I encouraging you to do? Squeeze every bit out of every day, every moment that you can. Be intentional. Don't waste this one and only life you've been given.
I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!

Day #6: October 8, 2010

Let me encourage you to do your best to memorize our first verse this week. You can do it. Ephesians 3:20 (NCV) "With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine."

Let’s turn this idea of living for God into being real practical. I believe there are some things we can do practically that will immediately make a difference. Three steps…

#1. DETERMINE TO LIVE WITH PASSION.

What is passion? A lot of people think it synonymous with excitement. It’s not. Excitement comes and goes. Yesterday I got a slurpy. I was really excited for that slurpy. That’s me. But it’s gone. That’s not passion. Passion is deeper. Passion bubbles up in your soul. It’s what you live for. It’s what you get up in the morning for. Passion recognizes that life is short.

Passion embraces a bigger picture of life. Passion appears when one’s close to God. Listen to how important passion is to God. Matthew 22:37-38, the Great Commandment, from the message Bible “Jesus said, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.' This is the most important ...”

Do you get that? God wants you to love Him with all of your passion. He wants to be your life. He wants to be your passion. You’ve heard me say before, Greeks didn’t write obituaries for each other – They simply asked one question – did he/she live with passion? I dig that. Folks, today if you get nothing else get this – you must live a life of passion. Determine to do just that this morning. Not in your power, but in His.

The frustrating thing for me? I can’t coach you how to live with passion. I can’t give you a heart transplant . you can’t take a pill to get passion. I can’t say, “Get up in the morning and listen to Tony Robbins and walk on hot coals and greet people like you’re amped up on triple expresso - that’s passion.” No, that’s fake. Passion is the result of your pursuing what matters most.

Passion wakes up inside of you when you understand what matters most. Passion comes when you decide to give your life to something greater than yourself. So the question is: Am I living my life with passion and am I passionate about the right things? You’ve got to start there.

What matters most? God. His plans and purposes for your life. The Apostle Paul knew this. That's why he said in Acts 20:24 (NCV)- "I don't care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me--to tell people the Good News about God's grace."

Folks, that is flourishing. That is living in the spirit. That is life. I'm praying you make the choice today to make every moment count. Live with passion. Flourish. I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!

DAY #5: October 7, 2010

God uses His Word (the Bible) to speak to our hearts. His power shows up in our life when we read His Word and live out the Word.

James 1:22-25 (NIV)
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does.

Over the next few days of devotions, I want to encourage you with God's Word. I'm praying that God will inspire you to reach your world for Christ. I'm praying that you'll allow God's power to work in you and that God will do amazing things in your life. To do that, I want to talk about death for a moment.

We don’t like to talk about it, but the reality is death is coming our way. Death is inevitable. No matter how rich or how powerful or how successful you are, mortality is the great equalizer. William Buffet, Bill Gates, Donald Trump - guess what? They’re all living on limited time. (Looks like Donald Trump gets his hair styled at a mortuary… He’s got a head start.)

Psalms 90:12 (TLB)says, "Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should." Really that’s what this whole series is all about (The ME I Want to Be). Saying to “God, teach us to make the most of our time so we don’t waste our time, this limited time that You’ve given us on earth.”

Let me share with you what the Apostle Paul had to say the Thessalonians.
2 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (NLT) - “We hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and wasting time meddling in other people’s business. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we appeal to such people. No. We command them. Settle down and get to work. Earn your own living. I say to the rest of you, dear brothers and sisters, never get tired of doing good.”

Notice the phrase - “We hear that some of you.” When I read that, I thought about our church. What are people saying about your life? What are people hearing about your life? if somebody was to write a letter about your life what would they say? Here in Thessalonica, Paul says to some of these folks, “We hear that some of you are living - idle lives.” Not a compliment.

The word “idle” is a little confusing because as soon as you hear “idle” you think “motionless, lazy, wasteful, slothful.” But in the NIV translation, it doesn’t use the word “idle” it uses the word “busybody.” It says, “You are busybodies.”

What is a busybody? It’s a lot of movement but no substance. Lots of motion and maybe commotion, but no real progress. Busybodies. They were busy just not with what matters most. They were busy, but not accomplishing anything that really matters.

Any of you know any busybodies? Maybe, in a moment of honest reflection, could busybody describe you? You’ve given the illusion of busyness because somehow in our society we’ve messed things up - we think that busy is better. Or maybe it’s not the illusion. Maybe you’re over here and you’re legitimately busy. Out of control busy. Overcommitted busy. Stressed out busy.

But, are you busy doing the right things? Jesus had some tough words for some folks who were in the church at Ephesus. They were regular attenders. They were busy doing all sorts of stuff. But, they were busy doing the wrong things.

Revelation 2:1-5 (NIV)
1 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.
3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.
5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

Very clearly Jesus is communicating to the church today and saying, “There’s one thing that’s got to be in first place. It’s Me. This one thing above all other things that we might do. It’s Me. You’ve got to put Me first in your life. I’ve got to be there. Your first love has to be Me.” That's His whole point. He sets the whole passage up based upon that one statement. How do we do that? How do we keep first things first?

Matthew 22:37-38 (NIV)
37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

Let’s turn this into being real practical. I believe there are some things we can do practically that will immediately make a difference. Read more tomorrow.

DAY #4: October 6, 2010

Let me encourage to give your all to memorizing Ephesians 3:20 (NCV)- "With God's power working in us, God can do much, much more than anything we can ask or imagine."

There's a third reson we need to see ourselves like God sees us.

$3. NO MATTER WHAT I’VE DONE, JESUS WANTS ME.

That is the biggest mind blower of all. No matter what I’ve done God would want me and would want a relationship with me. Zacchaeus’ appearance made him feel lonely and insecure. And Zacchaeus ’s accusers made him feel bitter and resentful. But it was Zacchaeus’ sins, his own lifestyle, his own choices that made him feel guilty and ashamed.

So Jesus Christ did something even more shocking. He didn’t just walk up to the tree and look up and notice him. And He didn’t just call him by name and affirm him, a Pure One, in front of everybody else who hated him.

But He invited Himself to Zacchaeus’ home for dinner. This is amazing. “He said, ‘Come down quickly’ [to Zacchaeus] for I'm going to be a guest in your home today.” This was unthinkable. That Jesus Christ, the Son of God, would walk all the way through town to find the biggest scoundrel in town and say, “I'm going to go to your house. I'm going to be your guest. Out of all these people, I choose you.

The reaction of the crowd was swift and brutal. “All the people saw this and they began to complain, ‘Jesus is staying with a sinner.’” I can hear them saying the word “sinner” like they’re televangelists. And all the righteous indignation comes out: “This weasily guy? He’s going to stay at his house!”

Jesus Christ knew that Zacchaeus was carrying so much hidden guilt, like many of you are, that there’s no way that Zacchaeus would presume to invite Jesus to his house. Because in his mind he’d be thinking, “I'm not good enough to have Jesus Christ at my house. I'm not good enough to have God as my guest. You don’t know the things that I’ve done. I'm not good enough to have a relationship with Him.” And many of you have felt that way. And you think, “I'm not good enough.” But you’re wrong. You’re dead wrong! It’s not based on your goodness. It’s based on God’s incredible love for you in spite of the fact of all you’ve done He still wants you.

So Jesus takes the initiative and He says, “Zacchaeus, come on down! I'm going to your house today.”

The truth is, you’ve done a lot of things you should feel ashamed of. We have all hurt other people with our own brand of selfishness. It’s different for all of us. Sometimes it’s overt. Sometimes it’s covert. Sometimes it’s out in the open. Sometimes it’s behind the scenes. But you’ve hurt a lot of other people in your life by things you’ve said, things you’ve done, choices you’ve made. And so have I. Because at the root we’re all basically selfish until God gets a hold of us and turns us around. But Jesus is far more interested in changing you than He is in condemning you. So He looks at you and He says, “I know you, I love you and I want you in spite of all that you’ve done. And I want you to know and love Me and have a relationship with Me.”

You remember the story in the Bible called the Prodigal Son.

You’ve gotten some dirt on your life but you haven’t lost any of your value to God. And, yes, you have blown it but Jesus Christ still wants you.

Jesus says “Those the Father has given Me will come to Me and I will never, never reject them.” I will always accept them. He’s not going to reject you when you take that step toward Him in faith. He’s going to accept you in love. No matter what you’ve done Jesus wants you.

The Bible says, “So he came down at once and he received him with joy.” I love the Message paraphrase. It says, “He scrambled down out of the tree.” I think Zacchaeus was saved before he hit the ground. He thought this is a deal I'm not going to get anywhere else. Where am I going to get a better deal than this? I'm going to take advantage of it right now. I'm not going to delay, I'm not going to wait. I'm going to take advantage of it.”

With the God who made you and a God who has a purpose for your life and a God who loves you that much waiting with open arms, give me one logical reason why you shouldn’t give every part of your life to Jesus Christ from this day forward. Give me one logical reason why you shouldn’t do that! There is none. It would be stupid, it would be foolish to turn down the God who made you and loves you that much. It would be absolute insanity to do that when He’s there waiting for you.

Zacchaeus took Jesus up on His offer for a relationship. And he was changed instantly. It was immediate.

Luke 19:8-9 says, “Zacchaeus stood and he said to the Lord ‘I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor and if I’ve cheated anyone I’ll give them back four times the amount.’ Jesus responded, ‘Salvation has come to this home today.’” The moment he said that he was converted. Something had happened in his heart because the most selfish man in the city all of a sudden became the most generous man in the city – “I'm going to give half of my possessions and anybody I’ve ripped off I'm going to pay them back four times.” What happened? God's power shows up in Zacchaeus and changes his life.

Bottom line: Give your WHOLE life to God. He will never reject you. He will never leave you or burn your or let you down. I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!

DAY #3: October 5, 2010

Why else is it so important to build your self-esteem on what God says about you?

#2. NO MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY, JESUS AFFIRMS ME.

No matter what other people say about me or to me, Jesus affirms me. All of his life Zacchaeus had been ridiculed and rejected. First, by his appearance. He was short of stature. He was a little person. He was handicapped. Second, by his actions. He was dishonest. He was corrupt. So nobody liked either the way he looked or the way he acted. We can only imagine the kind of gossip that was spread about this guy, the most hated man in town – the cruel remarks, the criticism behind his back, the evil things that were said about him. So there’s no doubt he had low self-esteem because he received all these other things from people that were said about him.

But Jesus did something else. He had another surprise for Zacchaeus. He not only stopped at his tree and looked up at him but notice what happened, “Jesus looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. ‘ Zacchaeus,’ He said.” Imagine the shock of Zacchaeus. “He not only stopped. He not only looked up at me in front of all these other people. He knows my name. I didn’t hear anybody tell Him my name. I didn’t hear Him ask anybody what my name is. He just knows it. How does He know my name?”

God not only knows where you are He knows who you are. He knows everything about you. He is personally intimately acquainted with every area of your life. He’s not just some impersonal force that sits up there in the sky and says, “Yeah, I see all of humanity.” He cares about you personally. He cares about you as an individual. And He knows your name. He knows everything about you.

When Jesus looked up at Zacchaeus in front of this huge crowd and He called him by name, that shocked everybody. For two reasons: one, the fact that Jesus knew the name of the biggest scoundrel in town. And two, because of what his name meant. Zacchaeus means “pure one.” Pure one!?! Zacchaeus was anything but pure. He was the biggest crook in Jericho. He was deceptive. He was a despised scoundrel. This was probably the first time in many, many years that Zacchaeus was called by his real name. He was probably called by all other derogatory remarks and comments. I doubt any one called him Pure One. He was anything but pure.

But in spite of Zacchaeus’ sin, Jesus affirms him. Like when God tells Jacob, “You’re not going to be Jacob the manipulator any more. You’re going to be Israel, prince with God. We’re going to just look at your other identity.” God says, “I look beneath all that emotional hurt, all that pain, all that other people have said about you and beneath all that I see a pure one. Zacchaeus, I made you to be pure. I didn’t make you to be a crook. I made you to be pure.” He’s lifting him up. He’s affirming him while everybody else in the world is putting him down.

Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so that we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.” Before you were born God planned the good things He wanted you to do with your life. God has a purpose and a plan and He has good things lined up for you to do. But most people never do them because God gives you the choice to reject His plan and most people do. They don’t live; they just exist. God made you for a reason and a purpose. And it wasn’t for a bad purpose. It wasn’t to blow your life, to waste your life, to fill your life with guilt and shame. It was to do good things with your life. That’s what you were put on earth for. Before you were born God had that plan. But you have to choose God and you have to choose His plan.

Jesus says, “You are God’s masterpiece.” Many of you have this idea that God creates human beings on an assembly line. Because there’s so many of us, millions and millions of us, you think God must mass produce human beings, kind of stamps them out, and while God must love all of humanity, He certainly doesn’t care or pay attention to the details of every individual. How could He? (He could because He’s God.) But many of you think it was an assembly line and you are on that assembly line and by the luck of the draw you got blond hair or brown hair or black hair or green hair or whatever. And God loves you as a human being but He doesn’t really know the details. Wrong! The Bible says, “You are God’s masterpiece.” Masterpieces are not mass-produced. Masterpieces are not produced on an assembly line. Masterpieces are custom creation and you are God’s custom creation.

I heard a guy say one time, “God has your picture in His wallet. That’s how much God loves you.” God doesn’t have your picture in His wallet. The Bible tells us in Isaiah 49:16 that God says “I have engraved you on the palms of My hands.” When Jesus Christ looks at the scars in His hands where He was nailed to the cross, when He looks at those scars, what do you think He’s thinking of? You! Because He died for your sins. God says, “No, I don’t just carry your picture in My wallet. This is how much I love you – this much. I died for you. I have tattooed you on My body. That’s how much you matter to Me. That’s how personally acquainted I am with every detail of your life. That's how much you matter to Me.

It really doesn’t matter what other people say. Jesus Christ affirms you.

Some of you have had some really mean things said to you over the years – things to you, and things about you. You keep playing those tapes over and over in your mind. Tapes like “You’ll never amount to anything... I'm embarrassed to call you my child… You’re a failure… You’re an embarrassment to me… You amount to nothing!… You’re going to be a failure in life.” And you believed those things. And they were lies! There are people in your life, even family members, who have lied to you. And you have to decide “Am I going to believe what other people have said about me or am I going to believe what God says about me?” When a person in anger – a parent, a brother, a person in the schoolyard, an ex spouse – am I going to believe what other people said about me or am I going to believe what God says about me? That will determine whether you’re happy in life or not.

Believe what God says about. I love you guys. Stay faithful. Stay the course. ENDURE!