Hello everyone,
I am on Day 23 of reading Faith to Faith Devotional by Kenneth Copeland.
Scripture of the day - Ephesians 4 v 12-16
What's your take on Growing UP and being Fed ?
Here are my thoughts below :
The daily devotionals have shaped me. I like how Kenneth dissects certain scriptures and ties them with his personal life challenges. Today’s topic is “ Growing Up” . When I think of the words “ Growing Up”. I think of a crying infant needing to be nurtured, loved and feed. When having those components, you are set to believe. That you are ready to conquer the world. At least, that’s what I thought. Not so long ago, I had left the church. I did not have a spiritual mother or father, nor spiritual guidance and no foundation. I thought my solution would be just visiting different churches and reading the Bible on my own time. But, that is not enough, if you are not properly equipped. Everything started failing apart in my life and my faith started to dwindle. It took me awhile, to figure it all out. That the only way, you truly can grow if you serve, find a firm foundation and attached yourself to a spiritual mother, father or sister. To be honest, I’m so blessed that the eternal creator has blessed me, with both Pastor Brittany and Pastor Roosevelt. I’m even more grateful, that I was assigned to Pastor Brittany. Continuously, they are still equipping me, feeding my spirit and asissting me through life’s challenges. I know everyday isn’t going to be sunny but atleast I’ll have the knowledge to handle my rainy days because I’m under their covering. So being fed is important, for the soul and it helps you conquer all of life’s challenges and well as spiritually.
Amen, that's really good. It actually reminds me of 2022 I realized that God had switch some stuff up on me but it was mature me. I was trying to get back to the girl I was in college that was so zealous about God. I honored my intimate time with Him, I always wanted to be with Him and when I went to lunch I would imagine it's my date with Him lol.. I couldn't understand why I was having such a difficult time getting back to her. Nothing felt the same and I honestly felt alone. It wasn't until God started to show me that a lot of those things were rooted in feelings. He allowed me to experience love from Him by feeling it. They were good but good to get me to a point to have some type of knowledge of Him so that now when the waves come to take me to and fro He would already have such a powerful reputation with me that I can reflect on Him though I don't feel Him, though I'm alone, though it's hard. When I'm reading this devotion it makes me think of that. I really was trying to revert back to being a spiritual babe relying on feelings and God was like you're not on that anymore. Can you still press when it's hard, can you still do those things you did in college when you're not on cloud nine. This is still something I'm growing into by God's grace.
@Kyndal Elam 👀
@Michaela Miller i know you got something deep for this.
@Jasmine Celestin whats your take on this. To read the devotion click the link in the post.
@Kim Sinor this is deep. My take away is that you're not considered mature even when you're on meat. 🙀
Some people think they're growing be repeating or staying in a climate that they are used to. All because they're getting fed, doesn't mean the diet has changed. A toddler can't stay on milk because of malnutrition and the same is for Christian's. They experience malnutrition, and that is why they're so vulnerable to attacks.
I'm very Thankful for you. Thank you for posting this.