“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10 ESV https://t.co/0AmMMdolJd
#HelloBlessedPeople 🙏🏾
Folk often celebrate the moment they can see.
The accomplishment.
The recognition.
The platform.
The destination.
But what they DON'T see are the thousands of quiet moments that came before it.
The prayers.
The preparation.
The obedience.
The momentary doubt, but
The discipline to keep showing up when nobody was watching but GOD.
Many of the greatest things God does in our lives happen in the uncomfortable, hidden places. In the seasons where it feels like no one notices. In the moments where your faith is being tested and your character is being developed.
DON'T despise these EXPANSION seasons!!
Keep trusting.
Keep working.
Keep growing.
Keep honoring God with your effort.
Because while consistency may be QUIET... God is still at work!!
And in HIS timing, the fruit of that faithfulness will speak for itself.
Faithful consistency is quiet… but its results are LOUD.
“Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
- ROMANS 5:3-5
#BBTB #Consistency #Faithfulness #TrustTheProcess
Don't be intimidated by your inability, and don't be afraid to bare your weakeness before God and others. Jesus came as the Prince of Peace to restore our community with God and to enable selfless community with others. Will you ask him for assistance today?
Somewhere along the way, many of us picked up the quiet assumption that following Jesus would make life easier. Smoother. Happier. And when the road got steep instead, we wondered if we'd done something wrong. But what if comfort was never the point?
God's deepest goal for us isn't a pleasant life — it's a transformed one. He's shaping us, slowly and steadily, into the likeness of Christ. Sometimes that work happens in joy. Often it happens in the hard places we wouldn't have chosen.
When you look back, where do you see God using a hard season to shape you?
Some church will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing.
Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.
—@jaredcwilson
Waiting on God's promises isn't passive. It's an active wrestling — between the part of us that trusts Him and the part of us that quietly wonders if He forgot.
But God's promises have never expired. Not one. The question isn't whether He'll come through; it's when — and that part has always belonged to Him. Our job isn't to manufacture the answer or rush the timing. It's to keep believing, keep walking, keep trusting that the One who promised is also the One who delivers.
What promise of God are you waiting on today?
In all my years of pastoring, I have learned this lesson: a person’s spiritual maturity is not truly visible until they DON’T get their way. Then you see the person.
—@ErikReed