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JERRY: Thank you for joining me today. I'm Jerry
Savelle and I believe, praise God, if you will give me the
next few moments, we'll share some things with you from the
Word of God that will inspire your faith. You know, if you've
been going through some tests and trials, some adversity, some
challenges, then I believe that we have a word for you today.
That word is simply this: Don't quit. Don't give up. God has not
overlooked your faith. If you stay in faith, it's just a
matter of time your circumstances are going to
change. That's the promise from God's Word. I want to read to
you Galatians chapter six beginning in verse nine. "Let us
not be weary in well-doing. For in due season, we shall reap if
we faint not." You know, there are many scriptures that talk
about not fainting, not giving up, not quitting. That's one of
the things that Satan endeavors to do. He tries to talk people
into quitting. I'm here to talk you into winning, praise God. I
want to encourage you to stand your ground, don't give up. Just
because the devil says there's no way, that's not the truth.
Jesus is the way and if you'll keep standing on the Word of
God, he will show up in your behalf. Now, today, I'm very
happy and very pleased to share with you one of the messages
that I've preached in the recent Southwest Believers Convention
sponsored by Kenneth Copeland Ministries right here in Fort
Worth, powerful meeting. I believe the anointing of God has
been captured on these broadcasts. I count it a joy to
be able to share them with you. I know not all of you were able
to attend, but praise God, you're going to hear some things
today that I believe is going to encourage you, energize your
faith, and talk you into winning. Here it is. The lesson
I'm sharing is called Don't Quit. I want to talk to you this
week about conquering the temptation to quit. Thomas
Edison once said, "Many of life's failures are people who
did not realize how close they were to success when they gave
up." I'm going to read it again. "Many of life's failures are
people who did not realize how close they were to success when
they gave up." Billy Graham felt like quitting after he preached
his very first sermon. He had four sermons prepared and he was
so nervous that he preached all four of them in under 10
minutes. Can you imagine what the world would have missed out
on if Brother Graham had said, "You know, I just don't think
I'm cut out for this." George Foreman, the former two-time
heavyweight champion of the world, once said, "I know from
experience that you should never give up no matter what." I'll
say it again. "I know from experience that you should never
give up no matter what." My favorite quotes are found from
the Bible. Micah chapter seven and verse eight, "Rejoice not
against my, O my enemy. For when I fall, I shall arise." You
might get knocked down by the enemy, but it's not over. God
will never say it's over until you win. Hallelujah. If you get
knocked down, get up. The Bible says in Proverbs 24:16, "A
righteous man falleth seven times but riseth again." All you
got to do to beat the devil, if you get knocked down seven
times, get up eight. Amen? Never give up. Never give up. Never
give up. Never quit. Look at your neighbor and say, "Never
give up and never quit." Mark chapter nine verse 23, "All
things are possible to him that believeth." How many things?
"All things are possible to him that believeth." Philippians
chapter four and verse 13, the New International Version, "I
can do all things through him who gives me strength." This
tells us that you can do whatever you set your faith to
do. I'll say it again. You can do whatever you set your faith
to do. Life is full of twists and turns and it's easy to
become weary and finally come to a place where you're no longer
willing to keep on keeping on. Quitting's easy. That's why so
many people do it. Amen. There's a lot of people that used to
come to these conventions. They quit. A lot of preachers I used
to preach for, they quit. Amen. Quitting's easy. A lot of people
do it, but you're not one of them. Look at your neighbor and
say, "I am not one of them." Say, "Quitting is not an option
for me." If I can only say one thing this week, thank God I
have the privilege of saying several things, but if I could
only say one thing to you this week, this would be it: Don't
ever quit. Amen. Tell somebody, "Don't ever quit." If you give
up, then you will never know what you could have
accomplished. Always keep in the forefront of your mind that all
things are possible to them that believe. Are you a believer?
Then persevere. Are you a believer? Then don't look back.
Are you a believer? Then make the quality decision that
quitting is no longer an option and that failure is
unacceptable. Years ago, I was preaching in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. I was preaching out in a pasture. They had built a
makeshift platform and people were sitting out in lawn chairs
out in the pasture. In fact, while I was preaching, a cow
walked between me and the congregation. At the invitation,
a German Shepherd came up, praise God. I prayed him
through. Praise God. He's going to heaven. Hallelujah. You know,
this was the setting I'm talking about. Before they turned it
over to me, they had a small group, a band that was singing.
The praise and worship team were on this makeshift platform. It
was about three feet off the ground, three or four feet. They
put the drummer on the ground over beside the platform. There
wasn't enough room to put the drums and everything else up
there. They turned it over to me and I started preaching and I
got so excited, I wasn't sure if I'd ever have the opportunity to
preach a second time, so I preached everything I knew,
Kenneth Copeland knew, Kenneth Hagin knew, Oral Roberts knew,
and T L Osborn knew all in one sermon. Hallelujah. I'm running
back and forth across that platform and I got too close to
the edge and I fell off into the bass drum. My bottom is in the
bass drum. My arms and legs are sticking out. Everybody got up
to see where I went. I'm off in the corner sitting in the bass
drum. I said, "Lord, what do I do?" He said, "Get up quick. Do
it now. Don't ask any more questions." I said, "But, Lord,
I fell in the bass drum." He said, "Do a Micah 7:8. When I
fall, I shall arise." I said, "What do I tell the people?" He
said, "Don't even mention the fall. Just get up, take up where
you left off, just act like this is the way you preach all the
time." I got up, got back on the platform, and just took off
where I left off and, you know, had a great service. At the end
of the service, there was a lady who came up to me and said,
"Brother Jerry, how come you done fall off the platform?" I
said, "It was an accident." I said, "But did you see that
recovery? Wasn't that a nice recovery?" She said, "Do you
fall often?" I said, "No, did you see the recovery?" She said,
"Is there something wrong with you? Do you need prayer?" I
said, "Lady, I don't want to talk about the fall. Did you see
the getting up?" A lot of people spend their whole lives talking
about the fall. I fell. We fell. Don't talk about the fall. Talk
about the getting up. Hallelujah. Can you say amen?
You know, if you walk out of this building today over back to
your hotel and you trip and fall on the curb, what are you going
to do? If I did that, I would get up so quick and hope to God
you didn't see me fall. You don't just lay there for the
rest of your life. If I fell out there on the way back to the
hotel and somebody came by and said, "Brother Jerry, are you
all right?" "Well, I think I am." "Well, would you like me to
help you up?" "Oh, no. You don't understand. I fell." "Well, yes,
we saw you fall but you said you're all right. Let me help
you up." "Well, you know, God may be teaching
me something down here." That's stupid.
Pinch your neighbor and say, "That's stupid!" No,
when I fall, I shall arise, Hallelujah! Amen.
Make failure unacceptable. I was preaching down in Jesse's church
and he told me, "You know, I'm going to be preaching about
failure is not an option." I thought, boy we're really
connecting here. We're on the same wave. So Jesse's going to
be talking about failure's not an option and I'm going to be
talking about quitting is unacceptable. Hallelujah, amen!
Overcome the temptation to quit. Everybody has the temptation
from time to time. I came to the Lord in 1969. I owned an
automotive business. I was paint and body man. I restored classic
cars, my dad and I built hot rods and raced cars. When
Kenneth Copeland came 1969, he'd only been in the ministry two
years when I first met him. I didn't want to go to the
services, Carolyn went every service. He was there for a
week. I didn't want to hear any more preaching. I knew I had the
call of God of my life, and I knew if I got under conviction,
I'd have to yield to it and I didn't want to. So I stayed out
of churches most of the time, but Carolyn kept talking about
Kenneth Copeland. She'd been filled with the Holy Ghost since
she was eight years old. She'd been going to full Gospel
churches ever since she was a little girl. She would tell me
every night when I'd come home from work, "Jerry, I want you to
go and listen to this Kenneth Copeland." She said, "He's not
like all the rest." I said, "Well, what makes him different
from all the rest?" Because I thought all they wanted was my
money and my chicken. Carolyn, she fed all the preachers that
came to town. If she didn't feed them, her mother did. I got this
idea in my head that all they wanted was our chicken and our
money. So I wasn't going, because I'd already heard all
that I wanted to hear. She kept saying, "But he's not like the
rest." I said, "What makes him different?" She said, "I've been
hearing the Gospel preached all my life, but I have never heard
it preached like this man does." Finally she said this, "If you
will go tonight, and you don't like him, I will never ask you
to go to another service." I thought, "Now that's the deal
I've been waiting for. Do you promise if I don't like him,
you'll never ask me to go again?" She said, "I promise
I'll never ask you to go to another service if you don't
like him." Well, I started not liking him before I ever went,
because if I don't like him, I don't have to go again. Then I
said, "Now who is this Kenneth Copeland you're so thrilled
about?" She said, "Well, he's from Fort Worth, Texas, and he
used to work with Oral Roberts." I said, "Well, I know who
Kenneth Copeland is." She said, "How would you know who Kenneth
Copeland is? You don't go to church." I said, "Well, there
was a Kenneth Copeland, back in 1957, who had a hit record on
the radio called, 'Pledge of Love'." She said, "It's not the
same man." I said, "Well, why couldn't it be?" She said, "It's
just not. He's not a rock and roll singer." I said, "Well I
didn't say he's a rock and roll singer now, but can't rock and
roll singers get saved?" She said, "Yes, but it's not him."
So now, I'm going for two reasons. Number one, if I don't
like him, I'll never have to go again. Number two, I'd like to
be right one time. I had determined I'm going to get up
and ask him before I leave that meeting, "Are you the same guy
that had that hit record on the radio?" So Carolyn said,
"Please don't embarrass me." I said, "I'm not going to
embarrass you, but I'm going to ask him before the service is
over, before we leave." So we went, and there was a lot of
guys sitting on the platform. I said, "Now which one is this
Kenneth Copeland?" She pointed him out. Then when they turned
the service over to him, he began to preach the same message
he preached this morning. Amen. Same scriptures, same message
that he preached this morning in this service. Amen. Mark
11:23-24, the word of faith he called it. So he started out
preaching about the word of faith and so far, I'm not really
into it. I'm just waiting for him to start begging for the
offering. Then that's when I decide I don't like him, then I
get to leave and I never have to go again. But right in the
middle of his sermon, he just said, "I don't know why I'm
saying this, but somebody needs to hear it. Back in 1957, I had
a hit record on the radio called 'The Pledge of Love'. My mama
prayed me out of that rock and roll business and I'm preaching
the Gospel today. I don't know why I said that, but somebody
needed to hear it." He had that right. I was the one who needed
to hear that. When he said that, all of a sudden he got my
attention. For the remaining 45 minutes, I heard The Gospel like
I'd never heard it before and I couldn't run from my calling,
and I couldn't run from God not another day. Praise God, I
surrendered my life the next morning, February 11th, 3:00 in
the morning, I surrendered my life to The Gospel, to the
calling of God on my life, and praise God, I'm proud to say
that out of Kenneth Copeland's 50 years, Jerry Savelle has been
with him 48 of them, Hallelujah, amen!. You know what? He's still
my favorite preacher, praise God. I told him after he
finished this morning, "That's the message that changed my
life." Amen, changed my life. Prior to that, prior to making
that decision, quitting was a way of life for me. I was a
quitter. I'd get under pressure and I'd look for the path of
least resistance. After I graduated from high school in
1964, I was just going to go into the automotive business. My
dad had taught me the trade, and that's what I wanted to do. I
wanted to work on cars. My dad said, "Son, go to college. Get
an education. This is a hard way to make a living. If you still
feel the same way after you get an education, then you can come
back and always work on cars. So I went to college, not because I
wanted to, but because my dad wanted me to. So I'd been an
athlete growing up, I played baseball all my young life. I
was a left-hand pitcher, south paw pitcher. Even though my mic
went out, I don't quit. I played baseball all my young life, all
the way up to a farm league team. So I thought, "Well, if
I'm going to go to college, I might as well go to play
baseball." But when I got to college, I found out I had to
take courses that had nothing to do with throwing a baseball. I
hated them. Psychology, Algebra, all kind of stupid courses that
had nothing to do with throwing a baseball. So I remember my
first day at Louisiana Tech, when I walked in my first class,
the professor said, "Everybody look around at one another." So
we looked at one another. He said, "Get a real close look at
the person on your left and the person on your right." So we did
and I thought, "What is this all about?" Then he said, "The
reason I'm having you do that is before this semester is up, some
of you will quit." My first day, he said some of us will quit.
You know, two weeks before the first semester was up, he was
right. I quit. I drove my '57 Chevrolet back home, went to
Holmes Pontiac where my dad was the body shop foreman. My dad
said, "Son, what are you doing home in the middle of the week?"
I said, "Dad, I quit." He said, "You quit? Why'd you quit?" I
said, "Well, Dad, they want me to take courses that have
nothing to do with throwing a baseball and I don't want to do
that. I just want to work on cars. Can you give me a job?"
Two weeks later ... Now this is 1964, September, October,
somewhere along in there. The Vietnam War is on hot and heavy.
Two weeks after I quit college, I got a letter in the mail. It
started with "Greetings, Report to your nearest recruiting
office." I showed them. I got back in college. I didn't want
to go to Vietnam, but I went to a different college where they
didn't know my reputation as a quitter. Then, Carolyn and I
got married in 1966 and I'm still going
to college. I think about three semesters
into this, I'm having to work during the day on cars
and go to school at night. I finally decided that, man, this
is too much. I just went full-time working on
automobiles. I went to work ... first of all. My dad had moved
over to the Buick dealership and I went to work for my dad. He
was the body shop foreman and I went to work in the Buick
dealership doing paint and body work. The Buick dealership
supplied us with brown uniforms. Here it had Hullet
Buick, here it had Jerry. I was Jerry. About six weeks later, I
got up one morning for breakfast and I had on a green uniform.
Hardin Lincoln Mercury, Jerry. I was Jerry. My
wife said, "Didn't you have on a brown uniform yesterday?" I
said, "Yes." She said, "Well, what are you doing in that green
uniform?" I said, "I quit yesterday. I now work for
Hardin Lincoln Mercury." About two months
later, I came in with a blue uniform. Chevyland, Jerry. I was
Jerry. She said, "Didn't you have on a green uniform
yesterday?" I said yes. She said, "Why do you have on a blue
uniform on today?" I said, "I quit." If they made me mad, I
quit. If they didn't do me right, I quit. I just looking
for a way to quit all the time. Quit, quit, quit. That was my
lifestyle. And finally when I surrendered my life to the Lord
after Brother Copeland preached the word of faith to me ... the
first scripture I ever read, John says, "If ye continue in my
Word, you will be my disciples indeed, and you'll know the
truth, and the truth will make you free." And that little word
continue, jumped out of the Bible into my heart, and the
Lord said, "This is the missing ingredient in your life. You
have always been a great starter, but you've never been a
great finisher. And if you don't develop the art of continuing,
you will never be the minister I want you
to be, the husband I want you to be, the
father I want you to be. You have to settle it once and for
all, that quit from this day forward, is no longer an option
in your life. And I think it's very interesting that my theme
has been for 48 years now, isn't that amazing? God would take a
quitter and make his theme, don't quit? And I'm thrilled to
be able to say to you that for 48 years now, quit has never
been a part of my life or my existence, praise God. Amen. And
I discovered that if you don't quit, praise God, you inherit
the blessings. Can you say Amen? CONGREGATION: Amen.
JERRY: Amen. Say this with me, quitting is no longer an
option. CONGREGATION: Quitting is no longer an option.
JERRY: And failure is unacceptable. CONGREGATION: And
failure is unacceptable. JERRY: Now I learned a long time ago,
when you're under the greatest pressure to quit, that's always
an indication Satan just fired his best shot. If this one
doesn't get you, he's finished and you win, hallelujah. So if
you're under great pressure to give up today, then that's a
good indication Satan has just fired his best shot. You're
almost there. Your breakthrough is on the horizon. Don't give up
now. Don't quit now. What you've been believing for is about to
come forth and manifest in the name of Jesus, and I think you
ought to give God praise in advance, hallelujah. Amen.
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MALE: You know, I always loved going to the
Believers Conventions. I've been going to these things since
I was about 12-years-old and I'm about 47. It's amazing. Also, I
love Jerry Savelle, as you see behind me. What an incredible
faithful man. You know the Bible says, the faithful person shall
abound in the blessing. So you know watching him be so loyal to
KCM over the years, it shows he's healthy, he's
wealthy, he's wise. I promise you the stuff that God has done
for Jerry and Creflo and all these people. He's not
a respecter of persons, he wants to do it for you. You just
got to keep hearing more of the Word, and coming to these
meetings. It makes a big difference. That's how our life
was changed, and I promise you, your life will be changed.
FEMALE: One thing that sums up Jerry's ministry for me, and I
love so much about his ministry, is favor. You know, I see the
favor of God is so much upon his life and pretty much every day I
believe God and I claim the favor of God. But hearing Jerry
and seeing the level of favor he experiences in his life has also
made me ... created an awareness and then built up my faith in
that area. MALE: The impact that he's made on my life is to
really stretch my faith, specifically to believe for
favor. And especially, like this year's message, the faithful
shall flourish and thrive in the courts of their God. That just,
has blessed my life so much and impacted my life, my ministry
and the business that I work at. So, it's been an awesome time
and I appreciate all that you guys do. Thank you. MALE:
I've always enjoyed listening to brother Jerry. Especially about
the favor of God and how it surrounds us like a shield, and
how the blessing of God is upon our people. That's
just so amazing and it's impacted my life so much.
JERRY: Wasn't that a great testimony? Listen,
I want to encourage you to send us your testimony.
If this ministry has helped you gain a victory, it's
caused you to overcome, it's caused you to experience
a breakthrough, I want to hear about it. And from
time to time, we'll have an opportunity to share them across
the broadcast so that other people can be inspired and dare
to stand on the Word and believe God for their breakthrough as
well. Here's another one from Carolyn. "I had been sowing into
your aviation fund, and believing God for a car. Praise
God, I got it. Thank you so much for being an inspiration to me."
We rejoice with you Carolyn, and I thank God that he has come
through for you just like he's done for me, many, many times.
There's other testimonies but our time is short today, and
I'll wait and share them on another broadcast. Let me also
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look forward to seeing you again next week. And
remember, your faith will overcome the world.
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