A statement of faith in itself does not have any power whatsoever. It’s just a statement. Faith needs a place to grow in; a ground of some sort (grounded? Ground floor? ground coffee??! Lol) to take root in.
There’s this saying that anything put into our hearts, grows. The ground for faith (or fear) is our hearts.
The fertile ground refers to our open hearts. When faith is planted in a fertile believing heart, it will then grow. It grows as we allow words of faith that have been planted to be nurtured. Nurtured how? Many times, words of faith are nurtured through situations where we need to act on these words of faith that are planted in us. That’s where exercise comes in. We exercise by being faithful to these words of faith in our hearts. Faithful in a little, then more will be added to you.
Many Christians are trapped in our own fantasy of one day experiencing ‘breakthrough’ in our lives or in certain areas of our lives yet excluding the Lord Jesus from our daily lives and decisions. Newsflash, the supposed ‘breakthrough’ will never come. Why, because the one who gives the breakthrough hasn’t been given room to break through anything.
If you want your breakthroughs to come, you need to begin to live your today with Christ and allow Him to lead you to and through your breakthrough points. Oh by the way, I should also throw this in – a breakthrough can only happen when you’ve been allowing Him to lead you until you reach those breakthrough points. Do not confuse this with self effort of doing and doing until hopefully you reach those breakthrough points that He finally notices you and gives you some magic dust to ‘breakthrough’. What we are talking about is pertinacious faith in surrendering your every day to Him. Surrendering to something is the evidence of having faith on something.
Faith on Him is of the now and the today. Do not delay any longer. Allow God to lead you today.
I’ll close this post by saying, “’Someday’ isn’t good enough to give everything you’ve got to Jesus. It needs to be today!”
