This is real good.
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From: O.Addison Gethers
To: Deaf-blind inspirational life groups ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; bsfm groups
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 8:21 AM
Subject: {dbilg} Sep 22 - A Little Every Day devotional from kcm
Sep 22 - A Little Every Day
"Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It
is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden;
and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the
branches of it."
(Luke 13:18-19)
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Dear Addison,
If you're going to grow in the kingdom of God, you're going to do it just
like a seed that's been planted in the ground. How does a seed grow? All at
once?
No, it grows constantly-- 24 hours a day--a little all the time until it
accomplishes what it was created to do.
Many of us don't operate that way spiritually. We study and pray very hard
for a few days and then quit. Then, when some disaster comes, we make a mad
attempt to pray and stand on the Word, all the while realizing that, for some
reason, we're just not as strong as we ought to be.
There's no such thing as an overnight success in the kingdom of God! Real
strength, real growth comes as you consistently and constantly keep the Word
before your eyes, in your ears, and in the midst of your heart. Not just when
you want to or when you feel like it, but constantly, like the seed, a little
all the time.
A man came up to me once and said, "Man, your ministry just took off
overnight, didn't it?"
"If it did," I answered, "it was certainly the longest night I ever spent in
my life!"
From his perspective my success did seem to spring up quickly. That's because
he didn't see me during all those hours and weeks and months and years I
spent in the Word of God. He didn't see the daily process that lay behind
that success. He just saw the results.
Make up your mind to begin that daily process of constant growth today.
Determine to start putting the Word in your heart consistently. Every day a line
here, a line there--a tape here, a tape there.
Begin to act as though that Word is true every hour of the day regardless of
what comes or how you feel. Keep adding to your faith, meditating on it,
confessing
it, seven days a week.
Eventually, your faith will be bigger than you ever dreamed it could be.
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Scripture Study: Luke 13:18-21
O. Addison Gethers
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