Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

frequently, in deaths often. From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. The stress and difficulties Paul faced make it clear that these trials and tribulations required him to exercise patience, or as some biblical translators say, “endurance.” Paul did not faint or give up in the midst of the crisis. James points out the link of patience and faith: My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. —J AMES 1:2–3 James later in his epistle mentions Job as an example of a man who, during a crushing series of trials, endured to see a breakthrough at the end of the testing cycle. In James 5:11 the King James Version speaks of the “patience” of Job, and the New American Standard Bible uses the word endurance . Thus