Stay Connected to the Vine and Keep Pressing In
Stay connected to the vine and keep pressing in. I want to encourage you in this podcast episode 27 to keep pressing into God. There is so much that HE desires to do in and through you and I don’t want you to forget that.
We can become weary in not seeing progress or change quickly. We can also become frustrated when we feel that our circumstances have not budged an inch.
But just because you don’t see what God is doing [for lack of overnight change] does not mean that God is not doing something.
Stay Connected to the Vine and Keep Pressing In
It’s easy to trust obvious evidence that change is occurring and hold on. But it’s so much harder and requires Faith to see that God is working even if it’s not evident. It’s so important that we stay connected to Christ and keep pressing in even when nothing seems to be happening.
- Don’t grow weary praying.
- Don’t grow weary in doing well.
- Don’t lose heart during trials or the unknown.
God Always Comes Through
God always comes through! Please remember that when you are being faithful God will use whatever your situation is to grow and strengthen you, even when you are oblivious that it’s happening.
- We can’t be faithful with what God gives us without Him.
- We have to be connected to the vine.
- We have to be connected to Jesus.
You have to remain in the vine. The fruit God wants to produce in your life will not grow without being connected to Christ.
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Clarity, discernment, and direction happen when we seek God for them.
We also can not figure out how to do something in our own strength apart from God and expect growth and direction
God wants us to come back to him again and again and again.
And that is for our good!
God is Able to do Anything
God is able to do anything. However, we still have to submit ourselves to what God wants to do in and through us. Doing things in our own strength and through our own ways will not always yield the fruit that we assume.
Taking matters into our own hands don’t always benefit what God is trying to do.
Sometimes the “miracle” is God giving you grace that you didn’t even know that you would need.
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Knock and knock, seek and seek. Matthew 7:7-12 (CSB)
Being saved does not mean that we have spiritually ‘arrived.’
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As tempting as it may be to do things in your own strength and your own way don’t give yourself over to anything but God and his ways.
Even if you feel that you have not been rescued from your situation, or that your situation has not yet changed.
That is not evidence that God is Not working.
Please hold on to God. He is always working.
Your Life Matters and Impacts Others
You can not fathom the magnitude of your life and the impact of your life on this world, this culture, your family, your community in Christ. Your life matters and impacts others.
The enemy wants to distract you from the fact that God is doing an amazing work within and through you.
The enemy wants you to despair and become hopeless.
But please hold on to God.
As a Believer [follower of Christ] you are not in despair, because you are never without hope!
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The Holy Spirit resides in you. The same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the Grave resides in you. Romans 8:11 CSB
Let’s not take that lightly!
We are not capable of doing the things that God wants to do in and through us without God.
Apart from Him, we can do…. Nothing.
A Reminder For When You Are Weary
There is more in the Podcast episode below but all of this to say:
- If you are praying about something – keep praying
- If God has placed you somewhere – don’t move
- If God is speaking to you – be quiet
- If God is telling you to speak – speak loudly and boldly
But please do not get distracted from the things that God has laid on your heart.
God loves us so much that he will allow us to choose our own way, go down a dead-end road just to bring us around again. He will circle you back to get you on the right path again.
Sometimes we wander off trying to figure things out.
“Stop needing to know before you go.”
He Prepares Us, Take Part In That Process
We don’t know how God is going to show up in a situation. But we can know that it is going to be Good. We can know that it will be for His glory
Take part in all the ways God is working in and through your life.
We can not skip the preparation
We can not skip the preparation that God is doing within us and what He may be preparing us for.
When we get to the place that God is taking us to we will be glad we didn’t skip how He was preparing us.
Don’t skip your growth that occurs within the preparation.
Don’t get tired of praying the same prayer.
Don’t grow weary while doing good.
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All Scriptures referenced from the NLT via biblegateway
John 15:1-8 CSB : stay connected to the vine
Luke 10: Jesus sends out the 72
Matthew 7:7-12 CSB : ask, seek, knock
Romans 8:11 (CSB): the same power that rose Jesus from the grave resides in you
Matthew 17:1-13 (CSB): The Transfiguration
Galations 6:9 (CSB): Don’t grow weary while doing good
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