Ever felt like its been difficult to get up to go to church on sundays? Ever felt like a hypocrite? Ever felt like a sunday - cellgroup day - easter - christmas christian? I did. Especially, when I first started on the working life, more and more I felt like I needed to conform to the ways of the working place, the ways of gossip, the ways of putting yourself ahead of others, the ways of loving money above most things. The more I conformed to the worldly ways, the more it was difficult to go to church, the more I cried at church at my weakness and resolute to become better the following week, but failed. Again. Weekly. I just couldn't understand why God did not give me the miraculous strength to overcome my weaknesses! I just could not understand why my outward change with my own strength was so short termed.
Things started to change for me only in the beginning of the year when Dellia shared about "going deep" and that we should be consistent in our time spent with the Lord. Weekly, she processed our quiet time with us and slowly, I understood that a inward heart change needed to take place and also realised how shallow my relationship with the Lord is. Slowly but steadily, God has been transforming my mind, and attitude in various areas, and this inward change gave me strength to shine for Jesus DAILY! I experienced victory over many of my weaknesses and am changed from glory to glory! Indeed, its a season for us to grow deep! Praise the Lord.
What about you, dear friend? How is your relationship with the Lord? Are you finding difficulty to be a everyday christian? Are you defeated by your own weaknesses and flaws daily? Today, will you renew the relationship with the Lord and resolute to spend time with The God who Years For You? Believe me, the victorys and blessings you want to experience in your life is correlated to the time you spent with God and obeying his voice.
If you choose to put God first, and to allow him to transform your mind with his words, slowly and unknowingly, you find yourself changing from glory to glory. Like a little ugly caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly, you will start experiencing victory over little areas of your life until you are perfect in Jesus's eyes! Slowly, but surely!
ACCOUNTABILITY ACTION: If you are experiencing difficulty in spending time with the Lord, will you allow your G12 leader to process your quiet time with you? Dellia processing our quiet time with us has taught us many ways in applying the word of the Lord in our lives, trust me, your leaders are God-sent, like ours. Do yourself a favour, hold yourself accountable to your G12 leader about your quiet time! :)
"We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless
we follow His example and give more time to communion with the
Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual
revolution."
- E.M. Bounds-
we follow His example and give more time to communion with the
Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual
revolution."
- E.M. Bounds-
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