Daily Huddle - Thu Oct 15, 2020 When To Quit

Love you all, praying for you, 

I just love God's Word - it's a truth teller, a truth sifter, it is the standard by which every thought, word and opinion is measured.  It gives real talk on real life issues.  There's one in particular that gets a lot of press.  Quitting.  There are only four times in life, to quit.  Never, Tomorrow, Right Now, and When God says.  If God tells you, it's not quitting, it's redirecting - ceasing effort on one thing, to focus your effort on a better thing.  But when to quit always depends on what to quit.  We are familiar with the quotes.  "Winners never quit, and quitters never win."  There is some truth to that.  Most people give up, just before their breakthrough.  When everyone gives up, they do too, and the one who perseveres becomes successful, the rest go on to start something else - to leave it unfinished.  Michael Jordan - "If you quit once, it becomes a habit... Never quit." The best time to quit is never!  The next best time to quit is tomorrow.  That's the secret of never quitting.  I can always quit tomorrow, but not today.  Quitting is always an option, its just that it's rarely the right one.  But not always.  There are two times to quit.  Wisdom knows when to quit.  God says quit sinning!  You better quit that right now.  God takes no pleasure in fools.  Somethings you are to quit right now!  God never told you to do that?  What are you doing?  Quitting is not a good or bad thing, it's a right and wrong thing, it's a timing thing.  If you are doing the wrong thing, either what you know is wrong, (or what God said is wrong), you better quit, before something worse happens.  Go and sin no more.  The other thing to quit, is what God never told you to do.  If God didn't tell you to do this, why are you doing it?  Disobedience, and lack of obedience, like bad deals, don't get better with time.  What you think you should do, is not what you should do.  And every time you are not doing what you should do - the time to quit is right now.  Some relationships, you need to quit, some thought circles, you need to quit, they're a toilet bowl.  Some activities you need to quit.  Some things God told you to do then, is not what He is telling you to do now.  Everything God told you to do, the devil always wants to get you to quit, to give up, to give half effort.  Some people don't quit, but they aren't putting in their full effort.  If you're not 100%, you're still quitting, or at least stealing.  Just because you didn't cease and desist altogether, doesn't mean you're not a quitter.  God said that everything we put our hands to, (that God told you) that you should do it with all your heart, working as unto the LORD, not for men.  (Col 3:23.)  Some people never quit, when God never told them to do that, or told them not to.  Some people quit too early, and never produce the fruit that God intended.  And some people don't know the season, they don't know when to quit, they don't hear God telling them, "That season is past, I have something else for you!"  The secret to quit or not to quit is hearing and doing what God told you.  He will tell you, if you will ask Him and listen.  Praying that PiVAT before dinner is your non-negotiable habit.  It's how you know what God wants you to do today. Quit everything else!  Don't do what you want to do, or what everyone else wants you to do.  Learn to hear and obey what He says to do, so you walk in His plans for your good.  Your future success, depends on your ability to hear and obey today.  Second, praying that you will do PiVAT Weekly and PiVAT Monthly.  Sometimes even in the day to day obedience, we can talk ourselves into the current rhythm, when God wants us to come away with him, and get a longer term perspective.  What He has planned for you this month and this week, will impact your daily activity - if you are aware of them.  Whatever He tells you to do, never quit, never give up.  And if you are obeying, you're not sinning.  Just do what God told you to do in this hour.  Finally, if you are seeking God each day, and week and month for His plans for you.  Those things that He brings to a close, He will tell you when it's time to quit, to cease effort in that direction.  It's not quitting that he's after...  It's finishing - So you can start the next thing He has for you.  He brings progress, He will take you from glory to glory.  When God has you end something, it's because he is beginning something new.  Praying that you will ask God right now.  "What should I quit?"  "Am I doing anything you said not to, or never told me to?"  Leave it immediately.  Praying you will get His plans daily, and weekly and monthly, and never quit what He told you to do.  So you will finish, so you will bear fruit.  Remember, He said His yoke is easy, His burden is light, He goes before you, He stands beside you, He goes with you, and He surrounds you.  Everything He has for you is good, He has strength for you to do it, and wisdom to do it well.  Praying that you will ask, and obey, and when He tells you, never quit, but do it with joy! 

Love you all, 
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