Shalom,
Today I want to share the "From Faith To Faith" devotional by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland:
A Little
Every Day
Unto what is
the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain
of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and
waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. Luke
13:18-19
If you’re
going to grow in the kingdom of God, you’re going to do it just like a seed
that’s been planted in the ground. How does a seed grow? All at once? No, it
grows constantly—24 hours a day—a little all the time until it accomplishes
what it was created to do.
Most of us
don’t operate that way spiritually. We study and pray very hard for a few days
and then quit. Then, when some disaster comes, we make a mad attempt to pray and
stand on the Word, all the while realizing that, for some reason, we’re just
not as strong as we ought to be.
There’s no
such thing as an overnight success in the kingdom of God! Real strength, real
growth comes as you consistently and constantly keep the Word before your eyes,
in your ears, and in the midst of your heart. Not just when you want to or when
you feel like it, but constantly, like the seed, a little all the time.
A man came
up to me once and said, “Man, your ministry just took off overnight, didn’t
it?”
“If it did,”
I answered, “it was certainly the longest night I ever spent in my life!”
From his
perspective my success did seem to spring up quickly. That’s because he didn’t
see me during all those hours and weeks and months and years I spent in the
Word of God. He didn’t see the daily process that lay behind that success. He
just saw the results.
Make up your
mind to begin that daily process of constant growth today. Determine to start
putting the Word in your heart consistently. Every day a line here, a line
there—a tape here, a tape there.
Begin to act
as though that Word is true every hour of the day regardless of what comes or
how you feel. Keep adding to your faith—meditating on it, confessing it, seven
days a week.
Eventually,
your faith will be bigger than you ever dreamed it could be.
AMEN! Remember as you do this that HE desires your growth even more thn YOU do! SEEK HIM and you WILL find HIM! Here is Brandon Lake with "Talking To Jesus":
Shalom in Him!