{"id":13702,"date":"2025-10-26T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13702"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:24:19","slug":"a-greater-endurance","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/a-greater-endurance","title":{"rendered":"A Greater Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many believers start the race of faith well, but grow weary when trials come. We lose focus, stumble under the weight of sin, or misunderstand the Father\u2019s discipline. Sometimes we feel exhausted, discouraged, or even tempted to give up. We see others running seemingly effortlessly, while we struggle to put one foot in front of the other. What we need is not more grit and self-effort, but a greater endurance. What can help us endure life\u2019s challenges?<\/p>\n<p>In In the book of Hebrews chapter 12, after portraying the heroes of faith in chapter 11, who by faith endured hardship, the author of Hebrews exhorted weary believers to run their own race of faith with endurance\u2014fixing their eyes on Jesus as their example and source of strength. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13703,"template":"","tags":[2019],"series":[2938],"scripture-book":[1325],"scripture-chapter":[1345],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13702","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","series-jesus-is-greater-an-exposition-of-hebrews","scripture-book-hebrews","scripture-chapter-1345","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13746,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13702\/revisions\/13746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}