NEWSPOT DAILY TONIC: We shall steer safely through every storm. By Duke Akamisoko

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Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.
— Polycarp
We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh. Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively. Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us. One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.
one of the most essential thing in life is discipline and devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of-lifestyle too.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness. Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. Above our life we love a steadfast friend. When we steadfastly believe and act our faith in God’s Word, nothing can keep the power in the Word from making all things to become exactly as the Word says. Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously .
Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert – tossed to and fro by every variant wind Beginners are many; finishers are few.
Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God.
We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water.
When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break.
but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that’s life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.
You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it.
Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own intimate sensitivity.
If we mistake God’s silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope. Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green.
Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.
The world has changed around me. I’ve been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.
Have a great Sunday in Jesus name!
Bishop Duke Akamisoko. , 15/7/2023