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The good thing about faith is it isn't necessary to know what will happen in
the future. You only need to see where to take the next step. If
you are faithful in taking the next step, slowly but surely, your dreams will come
true. You can go anywhere you want when you are willing to take the
next step. Dreams don't happen in big steps. They are the result of lots of little steps that all add up. When you learn to walk, you have to take a large number of baby steps. Twenty years later, you are ready for the Olympics. That is the way things happen with faith. You start out with baby steps, and eventually take Olympic size ones. The important thing is to take the first step of faith, and then the next, and the next, and the next. YOU MUST BE WILLING TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES Most people want life to be easy. When they want something, they don't want to have to wait for it or work for it. They would like to exercise their faith and have it magically appear. They want to name it and claim it. They want to pray and have God do all the work. If they had their way, God would open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings while they sit in their easy chair, sip lemonade, and enjoy the sunshine of God's love. It wouldn't be long before they became spiritual couch potatoes. People think if they had faith their life would be easier. Nothing could be further from the truth. Faith actually makes your life harder. As long as you have no faith, you can sit on your hands or stand around doing nothing. The minute you take a step of faith, the work begins. The more faith you have, the bigger the job becomes. If you have faith to move molehills, you won't even break a sweat before the job is done. If you have faith to move mountains, you have a lot of hard work ahead. Nevertheless, if you remain faithful, the mountain moves and you move on to bigger challenges. You begin to look at Mount Everest, not because you want to climb it. Instead, you want to be the first person to move it. Never look at faith as the path to a life of leisure. God gave you faith so you could see things other people cannot see and do things other people cannot do. It's impossible to live a life of faith if your are unwilling to do whatever it takes. The heart of faith must be a willing heart. Most people aren't willing to do whatever it takes. They want God to do it for them. They believe if they have enough faith, God will be willing to do whatever they want. When God doesn't do it, they take it to be a sign they didn't have enough faith. They try to muster a little more faith, hoping it will kick start God, so He will solve their problems and make their dreams come true. They don't understand that no amount of faith is going to make God do for them what they can do and should do for themselves. |
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