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A TENACIOUS LIFE
October 2, 2026Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4
Your commitment makes a difference. The world right now needs people who have backbone, who persevere through challenging circumstances.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
If you’ve received Jesus, tenacity has been downloaded into your heart.
The righteous live not by the mustering of one’s own human courage, but by faith. The resurrection power of Jesus is at work in you, but it has to be obtained by a tenacious attitude of faith. God’s words are spirit and life (John 6:63), and they will sharpen the places that have been dulled by life. God can do a lot through one persistent, obedient,
faith-filled person!
DEFINITION: te·na·cious, adj
Holding or grasping firmly; forceful and persistent.
SAY THIS OUT LOUD:
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul (Hebrews 10:39).
Copyright © 2026 St. Louis Family Church, All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reprinted or distributed in any form without prior written permission of St. Louis Family Church. Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.”It Is Not the Critic Who Counts.” Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, 1 Nov. 2021, www.trcp.org/2011/01/18/it-is-not-the-critic-who-counts/. “Tenacious, Adj.” Collins English Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 2025, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tenacious
