The Keys of Growth in Faith! Inspired by Bishop Bronner

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The keys of Faith 

persistent - get it
consistent - keep it
grateful- get more of it (God will bless you with more)
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faithful people
love, serve, and give

Don't pray selfish prayers. We are in a community. Twelve is the number of order. The woman who had the issue of blood for 12 years. She was bleeding in a place of intimate relationships. God is shifting when the house comes to order everything in the house gets blessed. Structure has to come. God has been building the people before the building.  God is stopping the bleeding through the pressure. God is not so interested in your comfort He is more interested in your development. It's not trying to make you bitter; it's making you better. Pressure is a gift from God that will stop us from bleeding out. Set your focus! The areas of your focus will be the area of your rewards. The area of your neglect will be the area of your pain.

Whatever you take for granted will be taken away. The reason the dead receive more flowers than the people who are alive is because regret is stronger than gratitude. - Dr. Bronner

God gave us gifts in our Pastor. There is going to be a handwriting on the wall in the next 12 months. 
1.   Keep God first Matthew 6:33
2.  You can do Great things in someone's (God) hand!
3. You will make mistakes, but that is why we have an eraser on top. "Failure is written in pencil."
4. You must endure painful sharpening if you want your life to make a point. Until you have gone through painful sharpening there is no point to your life. And with an Unsharpened pencil no mark can be made. A circumcise where you are removing a part of your flesh. What's inside is lead. He led me! God led me. 

Pruning

5. It's what's inside that's most important. 
6. On every surface that you touch leave a mark that can never be erased. Write something worth or do something worth writing about. It does matter whose hands you are in. 

As we grow in Christ our lives should be a reflection of what we are being exposed to. We are not going to change overnight, but we should be the first one that notices a change no matter how small the change is. Please remember there is only one person who can desire change and one being to help you to complete your desire to change. That person is you and that being is the Father. 

I hope this blesses you.

Ashley Christina


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