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Kenneth
Copeland
“Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and
whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the
fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.” – Luke 13:18-19
If you’re going to grow in the kingdom of God, you’re going to
do it just like a seed that’s been planted in the ground.
How does a seed grow?
All at once?
No, it grows constantly — 24 hours a day — a little all the time
until it accomplishes what it was created to do.
Most of us don’t operate that way spiritually. We study and pray
very hard for a few days and then quit.
Then, when some disaster comes, we make a mad attempt to pray
and stand on the Word, all the while realizing that, for some reason, we’re
just not as strong as we ought to be.
There’s no such thing as an overnight success in the kingdom of
God!
Real strength, real growth comes as you consistently and
constantly keep the Word before your eyes, in your ears, and in the midst of
your heart.
Not just when you want to or when you feel like it, but
constantly, like the seed, a little all the time.
A man came up to me once and said, “Man,
your ministry just took off overnight, didn’t it?”
“If it did,” I answered, “it was certainly the longest night I ever spent
in my life!”
From his perspective my success did seem to spring up quickly.
That’s because he didn’t see me during all those hours and weeks and months and
years I spent in the Word of God. He didn’t see the daily process that lay
behind that success. He just saw the results.
Make up your mind to begin that daily process of constant growth
today. Determine to start putting the Word in your heart consistently.
Every day a line here, a line there — a tape here, a tape there.
Begin to act as though that Word is true every hour of the day
regardless of what comes or how you feel.
Keep adding to your faith — meditating on it, confessing it,
seven days a week.
Eventually, your faith will be bigger than you ever dreamed it
could be.
Scripture Reading: Luke 13:18-21
Kenneth Copeland
Ministries' mission is to minister the
Word of Faith, by teaching believers who they are in Christ Jesus; taking them
from the milk of the Word to the meat, and from religion to reality.
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