I was watching a sermon by Bishop Kevin Foreman who pastors a church out of Colorado and Texas called Harvest Church. In his message called The Fruit My Faith Produced, he talked about walking in faith and how faith produces fruit. "Faith," he says, "Grabs something from the supernatural and brings it into the natural." Bishop Foreman said, "We need to fuel our faith". We can do this in three ways.
In the devotional by Jenny Randall called Courageous Creative, she talks about the teeny tiny dot of life. Our life is tiny in the full spectrum of time. What will fill up space between me and my tiny dreams for my life? Obedience to God and his will. Jenny writes, "God fills this tiny dot space in my life with people, resources, tools, training, love and encouragement. He fills it with ideas, songs, movies and art."
I love fueling my faith! When I do that, I am building up my faith muscles. I enjoy watching various pastors around the country preach and lean into their teaching. When I do that, it connects to my creativity.
I was watching a sermon by Bishop Kevin Foreman who pastors a church out of Colorado and Texas called Harvest Church. In his message called The Fruit My Faith Produced, he talked about walking in faith and how faith produces fruit. "Faith," he says, "Grabs something from the supernatural and brings it into the natural." Bishop Foreman said, "We need to fuel our faith". We can do this in three ways.1) "Consuming life-giving messages". In my previous posts, you can find here and here, I offered you some pastors to consider watching throughout the week and find encouragement and strengthen your faith muscle.
2) "Doing things even though it involves fear and risk." The opposite of faith, he said is not fear. "The opposite is being certain". He made a very good point. Walking in in complacency to me is very similar to being certain. We lack faith because we want to be sure of the outcome. We want to be certain it will all work out okay. That is not faith. Faith is walking even though we have fears and knowing risks and trusting God when we have to do something while being scared.
3) "Walk forward while being scared", asking God to help us in our unbelief, trusting in his promises and trusting in his word. There are things that God asks us do and to trust him on even though we are scared. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Psalm 139:5
Faith also can feel like this little section from the Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It can't beat us!" Pa said. "Can't it, Pa?" Laura asked stupidly. "No," said Pa. "It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up." Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
So that is my challenge for you today. How are you walking in faith? How can you get off the complacency cycle that we easily get trapped in? When we trap ourselves because of lack of faith, it somehow traps our creativity. Think bigger. We serve and worship a BIG God.
Lord, help us to walk in faith. Help us to know where we need to let go of being certain, let go of walking in certainty. Lean into your promises and trust God, that you are walking in front of us and behind us. You are our cloud by day and our pillar of fire by night. Help us to see you leading us and walk that way. Help us to strengthen our faith muscles so that we can walk forward in creativity as well.
