"...They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead. But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town..."  

Acts 14:19-20 (NLT)

If there was ever one of the apostles who could be described as tenacious it was Paul! In the passage above we read of time when he was drug outside the city, stoned, and left for dead. But, to the amazement of the disciples of that city, he rose up after the men who had left him for dead were gone. Most people with any good sense would have left that city...but not Paul! Paul was tenacious! He would not be swayed in the Mission Jesus had given him. He got up and went right back into the city!

What a great example for all Christians! The Christian life is not an easy walk! There are many challenges on the way! We must adopt the same tenacious attitude that the Apostle Paul had. We must have an unmovable determination to stick to God's Word and Work! When difficulties and struggles arise we must put our shoulder down and push through them by the power of the Holy Spirit! We must be firm and persistent in our walk with the Lord, so that we may finish the course He has given us to run! Refuse to be persuaded to vary even an inch off the course Jesus has set for you! Be tenacious! Unmovable! Confident in the power of the Holy Spirit working in you to bring you the victory! Always abounding in the work of the Lord no matter what may come your way!

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14 (NKJ)