There will be times when you endure difficulties and feel alone because you chose to follow God. You must never give up!

• Recognize the difficulty: Prepare for hardship and expect challenging times. Keep a positive disposition through adversity. 
• Realize the difference: The world wants to entertain us, God wants to engage us! We experience difficulties in this world because we are not yet home.
• Remain Determined: Even when the world seeks to knock us down we rise again in Christ. Be determined, faith does not happen overnight.

(Verses Cited: Exodus 32:1-4; John 16:33; James 1:2; Matthew 5:11; Romans 14:12; 2 Corinthians 5:10, 4:4; John 16:11; 1 Peter 5:8; Hebrews 13:14; John 17:16; Philippians 4:13; Luke 18:27, 9:58; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; 2 Timothy 4:7)