The 1 abt ……….acting the part

Hi Guys and Girls

How often do we pray and ask God for spiritual growth, deliverance, peace and much more. We have all read the scripture “My brothers and sisters, what good is it if people claim they have faith but don't act like it? Can that kind of faith save them?” [James 2:14]. How often do we tell people the same scripture? How often do we say “Faith without action is dead?”

In the past year I have been seeking God for certain things and one of them is spiritual growth. Well the things is, when we pray we hope that things will happen magically, the sad part I had to face is that things do not happen like that. I watched the movie Ivan Almighty, one of the powerful lines that struck me was when Morgan Freeman (“god”) says: “When someone prays for patience do you think God gives them patience? No but he places them in a position where they are required to be patient”. Powerful Quote (paraphrase)! This applies to each and every one of us. So there are a few things we need to do before we have that ideal spiritual growth, peace, more love, and patience it’s a learning process. These are not step by step of getting what ever it is that you want it but are what God pointed out to me and I would like to share them with you all and pray they’ll make a difference in each and every one of you. There are a few things we need look at and they:

1) Our attitude

The best thing in life that I have discovered is that our attitudes play an important role in doing anything. You can cook the same meal a hundred times but if your attitude is bad towards preparing that meal do not expect it to be the best meal you have ever cooked, unless we change our attitude towards preparing that meal, then you will see( or more or less taste) the difference

We need to change our attitude towards certain things, for instance if you hate standing in a line at a shop and praying for patience. How about stop hating, and learn to use the time you are standing in line more efficiently like go through your emails in your phone ,speak to the person in front of you or something . The aim is to change the attitude about it.

If you are trusting for an academic breakthrough, how about you shift your mentality from failing but to achieving your goal. Remove the attitude you have with the subject at hand and you would be amazed at how you will see things differently. If you want to excel in your books, and the second best thing is to have a positive attitude towards your studies.

When we change our attitude towards anything (from bad to Good), we actually see the learning curve in it and how can actually excel in it.



2) Step out in faith

When we have fixed the attitude we need to deal with the reality of it all. One Pastor shared about the time after we say amen and the time God provides you with what you have prayed for , he mentions something worth sharing. He said we need to step out in faith. If you are praying for a house you need to look for furniture for that specific house. If you are trusting for a car, how about you start looking for insurance for that car. As ridiculous it may sound, this just means you are trusting God that he will pull through for you. In Hebrews 11:1, states that : “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen: it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”[NLT] We need to step out and believe that God has already granted what we have requested.



3) Start acting the part

I was praying for spiritual growth, but I just prayed, that is one of our problems we only just pray, sometimes we need to start acting the part. I think I am not clear , to start acting the part means , that when you pray for spiritual growth for example , you need needed to spend more time reading the word of God and pray and seek Gods guidance . if you want God to deliver you from any sinful desire, start to act the part, and stop the habit, you need to reach a point where you will hate the sin, If you want to stop lying you need to start acting the part by replacing lies with the truth, but if you still tell lies and pray to God that he deliver you from you lies and you still like them and still tell them, you are not acting the part.

If you want academic or career breakthrough you need to act the part, you need to show your desire for the breakthrough and you need to put in the hours in planning, studying, and executing plans, because you are acting the part.

We need to act the part ……………… Pray, change the attitude, step out in faith and start to act the part.

I pray to God that you have been blessed with this thought as much I have been blessed. You are welcomed to share how it impacts your life. Email me on usp.onge14@gmail.com

Keep well and God Bless