Steadfastness Takes GRIT! - August 31, 2025

Pastor Mike invites listeners into a sermon about steadfastness and spiritual habits, inspired by Ephesians and Matthew. He explores how small, faithful actions — like saving, praying, and choosing integrity — compound over time to produce significant spiritual growth.

The message outlines four elements of "grit": grace, resilience, integrity, and teachability, and encourages believers to be faithful in little things so God can work through them and yield lasting, eternal rewards.

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Steadfastness Takes GRIT!

Matthew 17:20

Introduction:  “Stick and Stay and it will Pay”

• Being faithful in the little things is a big

Matthew 17:20; Luke 16:10

• Faithfulness compounds over time, but it takes GRIT!

G - Grace

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” - 2 Corinthians 12:9

 R - Resilience

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. - Galatians 6:9

I - Integrity

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.

And if you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them. - Proverbs 11:3

T - Teachability

“Instruct the wise, and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous, and they will learn even more.” Proverbs 9:9 NLT

“If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.”- 1 Corinthians 10:12 NLT

Conclusion: Faithfulness compounded.

 “Well done, good and faithful servant! …”- Matthew 25:21 NIV

with Pastor Mike Curry

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