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The Right Fight

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I Will Be Joyful In God My Savior - Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

Grow, Sow, and Go in Faith

BY RICK WARREN — APRIL 20, 2024

FROM DARING FAITH.

“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”

Colossians 2:7 (NLT)

God wants you to focus on growing, sowing, and going in faith.

First, God wants you to grow in faith. He doesn’t want you to be a spiritual baby. The Bible says in Colossians 2:7: “Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness” (NLT).

God also wants you to sow in faith. He wants you to learn to become generous—because you cannot become like Christ without becoming generous. The Bible says, “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously” (2 Corinthians 9:6 NIV).

This is the law of sowing and reaping, and it’s true in every area of life. If you sow criticism, you’re going to reap criticism. If you sow love, you’ll reap love. If you sow kindness, you will reap kindness. And you always reap more than you sow. When you plant one corn kernel in the ground, you don’t get one kernel back. You get a whole stalk. You always get back more—positive or negative—of what you put out in life.

Then, God wants you to go in faith.

Hebrews 11:8 says, “It was by faith Abraham obeyed God’s call to go to another place God promised to give him. He left his own country, not knowing where he was to go” (NCV).

Would you do that? Abraham was in his retirement phase, just about to hang it up and settle down. Then God told him to dust himself off and get ready for the greatest journey of Abraham’s life. When you live by faith, it often involves going to places you were never planning to go.

Why is it so important for you to develop your faith? The Bible explains it over and over again:

“Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6 NIV).

“Let it be done for you according to your faith” (Matthew 9:29 CSB).

“Anything that is not done in faith is sin” (Romans 14:23 GW).

Everything God does in your life is done by his grace and through your faith.

How have you grown in your faith in the last six months?

What would the people who are close to you say you are sowing in your life?

Has God asked you to go somewhere in faith? Did you obey or not? What were the effects of your obedience or disobedience?

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This is crazy out of all the tags that is there I choose Habakkuk 3 and look it's Colossians 2:7 !!!!!! 

I Will Be Joyful In God My Savior - Pastor Rick's Daily Hope: 

Sink your roots in him and build on him. Be strengthened by the faith that you were taught, and overflow with thanksgiving.”

Colossians 2:7 (GW)

An attitude of radical gratitude is God’s will for you because it develops your faith.

How does gratitude develop your faith? It happens when times are tough—when things don’t make sense, when you can’t figure it out, when your prayers are unanswered, when everything is going the way you didn’t want it to go. It happens when you can say in those circumstances, “God, I know you’re in control. I know you love me, and I know you can bring good out of this. I’m thankful that you’re bigger than my problem.”

Anybody can thank God for good things. But if you can thank God even in the bad times, your faith will grow stronger as your roots go deeper.

Habakkuk was going through tough times. He said, “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior” (Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV).

In the midst of all the bad things that went wrong, Habakkuk rejoiced. What caused his gratitude? He decided to find joy in God: “I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

When everything else stinks in life, you can be grateful because the Lord is your Savior. He will pull you out. You are not alone. He hasn’t abandoned you. Give thanks to God!

Can you thank God when life stinks? That is the ultimate test of the depth of your faith. When you’re going through tough times, don’t look at what’s lost. Look at what’s left—and be grateful for it!

You can be thankful to God just for who he is. He has promised to see you through those tough situations, and your faith will grow even stronger because of it.

Colossians 2:7 says, “Sink your roots in him and build on him. Be strengthened by the faith that you were taught, and overflow with thanksgiving” (GW).

God’s will for you is radical gratitude—giving thanks in all things. Radical gratitude honors God, creates fellowship, and develops your faith.

Preach Out Of Envy.

‭Philippians 1:15-18 NIV‬

[15] It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. [16] The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. [17] The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. [18] But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, 

https://bible.com/bible/111/php.1.15-18.NIV

Mr Dick....Best pepTalk I've heard.

Best Coaching pep talk by Mr Dick that really made me think ...love it 

https://youtu.be/wIrdZ9PWahc?si=tUBnz8rqOUjspG3z

Haste Makes Waste

It's funny when I started to read today's Devotional from Joyce Meyer book Strength For Each Day. I remember I heard this phrase the other day " Haste leads to waste" 

APRIL 19 SLOW DOWN 

Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes. —PROVERBS 19:2 NLT 

Society has most of us rushing anxiously from one thing to another and expecting everyone and everything to move quickly so that we will never have to wait on anything. When we feel frustrated and impatient because it takes a few seconds longer than normal for the Internet to pull up the answer to a question we have asked, we might take that as a sign that life has become too hurried. 

Although the world is moving at a faster pace all the time, God is not in a hurry. He is extremely patient. If we intend to move in step with God throughout our daily life, we will need to slow down. I tend to think that the more we rush, the more we miss what God wants to show us and say to us.

 I encourage you to take a break from rushing. Try walking more slowly, taking some deep breaths several times day, and focusing on one thing at a time. Take time to think, and don’t make decisions too quickly, because that often leads to regret.

 “Father, I want to walk in step with You. I realize that doing so means I need to slow down. Please help me do things at Your pace rather than the world’s. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”