Gracious Lord, give us outrageous courage as we move forward in our work for your kingdom. Let us see the eternal glory ever before us. Help us look over the stumbling blocks and difficulties in our path that we may step gracefully, yet powerfully, around them in walking with your Holy Spirit. Let not our hearts be troubled with the irritation and banality of life in this fragile and temporary body. Help us to be overcomers who live and move and experience victory within your will. I ask these things in the authority of the name above all names, Jesus, according to your good and perfect will. Amen.
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self his being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV)