ABIDING FAITH MUST BE GROWN

“FAITH, a STRONG, ENDURING FAITH doesn’t just happen, it MUST BE GROWN. ABIDING FAITH that believes My promises and trusts deeply has to be CULTIVATED, NURTURED, WATERED, WEEDED, and PRUNED in order for FAITH that produces the FRUIT of HOPE—true hope, not wishful thinking—the kind of HOPE that DOES NOT DISAPPOINT and becomes the ANCHOR of your soul. A life anchored in ABIDING FAITH is not tossed about by negative circumstances because they know the One who can SHIFT circumstances and who can work all things for their GOOD and for their ULTIMATE BLESSING. ABIDING FAITH is not fixed on your timing or a particular outcome, but it is fixed on your knowing My FAITHFULNESS and TRUSTING My timing and My ways. FAITH IS GROWN as you INVEST TIME in our friendship, WATER the seeds of FAITH that Holy Spirit has planted by MEDITATING on My written Word and LEARNING to hear My voice. FAITH becomes fruitful when you allow Holy Spirit to WEED OUT UNBELIEF, and you welcome the HEALING POWER of the Blood of Jesus to HEAL the wounds in your heart that CLOUD your FAITH and cause you to try and be IN CONTROL. FAITH is SURRENDER but it is NOT PASSIVE. FAITH IGNITES warfare against the enemy who comes to KILL, STEAL, and DESTROY. FAITH learns to recognize the AUTHORITY you have been given as a Son or Daughter of the King, and it calls into BEING that which does not yet exist. FAITH is FIXED on My HEART and TRUSTS My ways. It is not wishful thinking, it is HOPE FIRMLY ANCHORED in who I AM and in what I have PROMISED to do. FAITH’S REWARDS are GREAT. ABIDING FAITH releases PEACE and a TRUE HOPE that does not disappoint, and it calls into being what I have promised. Your ABIDING FAITH will be REWARDED with VINDICATION and GREAT BLESSINGS. Come and ABIDE in My heart of love for you.”

Diana Larkin 

A Watchman’s Journal