Today I want to encourage you to hold fast to the dreams that God has put in your heart. Sometimes we have to continue to work a while before we see results. I bet there are some of you who read my blog that are saying to yourselves, "I want to quit. I've been working toward a goal for quite a while now and it seems like I will never get there. I'm not even seeing results or at least not the results that I want to see."
Well I can tell you I have been there before and I even face that now (well sort of). There are a couple of areas in my life where I truly believe I know what the end result looks like. But right now it doesn't exactly look that way.
Do you know what happens when you plant an apple tree seed? If you water it properly and take care of the soil sooner or later it will sprout up an apple tree. After a while the apple tree will produce apples. But guess what. The apple tree doesn't start producing apples the day after you plant the seed. As a matter of fact, if you were to dig up the seed and look at it right after you planted it there would be nothing different about it. It would just look like a dirty seed.
See that seed needs to go through some days where there is no sunlight. It goes through days that are rainy and it goes through days where people are putting fertilizer (that is manure) on top of it and all around it. It needs to go through some days where there is nothing but darkness and pressure all around it. If you left it above the ground where it was always bright and there was no pressure, it would wither up and die. It would turn to dust. But if you take away the sunlight, throw in some pressure, manure and plenty of rainy days the next thing you know that apple seed will begin to multiply and push it's way through the dirt to the surface. It takes the pressure of the soil and the manure and takes nutrients from them. It takes those rainy days and uses the water to grow.
I believe we are all in places where there is pressure in our lives. For me personally, I know of a couple of places where I feel pressure. If I look with my natural eyes, I don't see much movement or much way of getting through the dirt to the sunlight. I've seen plenty of rainy days lately. But I know what those rainy days mean. Those rainy, pressure filled days where I see know light at the end of the tunnel mean that I am one step closer to getting above the ground and bearing fruit. I'm one step closer to the success that I want and to the goal that I set.
So let me encourage you in this. If you are facing what seems like an impossible situation right now. If you are trusting God and putting your faith to work but you aren't seeing the results you want, don't quit. All the bad stuff that is being thrown at your dream is a sure sign that your sprout is about to push through the surface! You may only be one step from getting the result you wanted. So don't stop trusting God to do what He said He would. This could be your last day in the pressure!
It's happened again. I've blogged myself happy.
And that's another Opinion of the Minion
Well I can tell you I have been there before and I even face that now (well sort of). There are a couple of areas in my life where I truly believe I know what the end result looks like. But right now it doesn't exactly look that way.
Do you know what happens when you plant an apple tree seed? If you water it properly and take care of the soil sooner or later it will sprout up an apple tree. After a while the apple tree will produce apples. But guess what. The apple tree doesn't start producing apples the day after you plant the seed. As a matter of fact, if you were to dig up the seed and look at it right after you planted it there would be nothing different about it. It would just look like a dirty seed.
See that seed needs to go through some days where there is no sunlight. It goes through days that are rainy and it goes through days where people are putting fertilizer (that is manure) on top of it and all around it. It needs to go through some days where there is nothing but darkness and pressure all around it. If you left it above the ground where it was always bright and there was no pressure, it would wither up and die. It would turn to dust. But if you take away the sunlight, throw in some pressure, manure and plenty of rainy days the next thing you know that apple seed will begin to multiply and push it's way through the dirt to the surface. It takes the pressure of the soil and the manure and takes nutrients from them. It takes those rainy days and uses the water to grow.
I believe we are all in places where there is pressure in our lives. For me personally, I know of a couple of places where I feel pressure. If I look with my natural eyes, I don't see much movement or much way of getting through the dirt to the sunlight. I've seen plenty of rainy days lately. But I know what those rainy days mean. Those rainy, pressure filled days where I see know light at the end of the tunnel mean that I am one step closer to getting above the ground and bearing fruit. I'm one step closer to the success that I want and to the goal that I set.
So let me encourage you in this. If you are facing what seems like an impossible situation right now. If you are trusting God and putting your faith to work but you aren't seeing the results you want, don't quit. All the bad stuff that is being thrown at your dream is a sure sign that your sprout is about to push through the surface! You may only be one step from getting the result you wanted. So don't stop trusting God to do what He said He would. This could be your last day in the pressure!
It's happened again. I've blogged myself happy.
And that's another Opinion of the Minion
