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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Cher shares a personal, faith-centered reflection on stewardship as a daily calling, with a focus on the home, family, and the ordinary things that shape a life. The episode argues that order matters more than hustle or cultural pressure, and that what God has placed in your hands should be managed with intention and joy. In this episode, Cher explains why she sees home management as a spiritual responsibility, how culture can distort priorities, and why keeping the main things first brings peace instead of chaos. Key topics Cher defines stewardship as a day-to-day calling, not a one-time achievement or a pursuit of perfection. She frames home as a real domain of stewardship, alongside roles like wife, mother, homeschooler, creator, and friend. Cher emphasizes that God is a God of order, and that chaos in one area often spills into other areas of life. She shares how becoming a wife and mother shifted her priorities and required her to rethink what belongs at the center of her life. Cher pushes back on cultural messaging that tells women to despise home life or place identity, hustle, or self-expression above family responsibilities. She uses nutrition as an analogy, comparing whole, ordered choices to “quick” options that create hidden burdens. Cher warns that discontentment grows when we focus on what we think we lost instead of what God has actually given us. She points to Proverbs 14:1 as a key scriptural lens: a wise woman builds her home, while folly tears it down. Cher says building a business, platform, or personal brand cannot come at the expense of marriage, parenting, or the care of the home. She closes with encouragement to obey what God has given each person to manage, trusting that peace follows obedience. Download the free guide: https://styleandstewardship.com/guide Timestamps 00:00 – Culture pulls your attention away from home 00:30 – Stewardship as a daily calling 00:50 – God blesses order, not chaos 01:38 – The Steward on Purpose Workbook and what’s in your hands 02:27 – Cher’s roles: wife, mother, homeschooler, creator, friend 03:31 – Stewarding home as a God-given responsibility 04:13 – Learning to be a wife through discipleship and grace 05:25 – Creativity, work, and using gifts in season 06:37 – New roles shift what belongs at the center 07:27 – Why old callings move to the periphery 08:17 – Order in creation and the danger of cultural pressure 09:06 – Why balance is less important than first things first 10:13 – The nutrition analogy: quick fixes versus what is good 11:28 – Why convenience often adds hidden burdens 12:46 – Exchanging good things for fast things 13:36 – Guarding against distraction and discontentment 14:47 – The enemy’s goal: get your eyes outside your home 15:39 – Every home and household looks different 16:26 – Proverbs 14:1 and building instead of tearing down 17:12 – Business growth cannot outrank marriage and family 18:27 – Discerning what cultural messages point you toward 18:44 – Eve, temptation, and questioning God’s goodness 19:54 – Refusing the side road culture wants you to take 20:19 – Stewardship as an ordered structure, not an opinion 20:53 – What you consume shapes your spiritual home 21:43 – Keeping first things first to hear from God clearly 22:31 – Obedience brings peace 23:43 – Culture changes, but God does not 24:10 – An invitation to review, share, and steward well   A wise woman builds her home.  Managing what matters most. What will you Steward well?

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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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