Growing Your Faith

Picture your soul as a garden that must be tended and cultivated and watered. If your soul is healthy, then those who draw from it will receive true nurture and strength. All great women of faith are very intentional about cultivating and building themselves into godly people. They invested purposefully to become who they are.

What are some ways to fill your own soul, so that you may have strength and love to give?

1. Surround yourself with good and godly friends. Find those friends: challenge a friend or two to be a prayer partner, to study a book together, or to meet with you on a regular basis.
2. Spend time every day with the Lord. Find books, resources, people who can help you with this. Some simple ways to do this: go through Psalms and circle or underline every promise or character quality of God. Read one chapter of John or Matthew a day and write down one lesson you have learned. Read through Philippians and note all the ways Paul tells us to follow Jesus. You get the idea!
3. Clean out your soul on a regular basis. Get rid of rubbish that has kept you from experiencing God’s love. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9, NASB). Don’t hang on to bitterness or condemnation—it will poison you. We must rid our hearts from lies that would keep us from experiencing the generous love of God.

His Promises

You must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.

We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

Oh, the joys of those who do not

follow the advice of the wicked,

or stand around with sinners,

or join in with mockers.

But they delight in the law of the Lord,

meditating on it day and night.

They are like trees planted along the riverbank,

bearing fruit each season.

Their leaves never wither,

and they prosper in all they do.