When cultivating the ground the apostle most times starts with 'dry land'. Like God told Abraham, 'move from your kinfolk' and go to a place I will show you. But what happens when the land God shows you is dry, parched, and lifeless? Does it mean go back to your kinfolk? Absolutely not. Why? Because this is God's story...not theirs nor yours. If Abraham would've went back he never would've became the father of our faith. He never would've created God's future. Why is this you ask? Because he was too busy looking back and listening to his past instead of moving into God's future. If you are in a land and it looks something like this photo... just remember the author and finisher of your faith is The Lord. Or better yet, ask yourself who is the author and finisher of your faith? Is it you? Is it other people? Or is the Lord...the one who mapped out all of your days. Plow and finish strong. Trust what The Lord told you at the very beginning when you were alone with Him. Part of the test is 'other voices' coming to talk you out of what God initially said. God always tells you the ending because He knows as you travel you will be vetted by many voices trying to pull you into something else. So He gives you everything you need before you navigate through your Apostolic journey. If you stick with what and who He told you from the beginning success will never miss you. But when you start substituting and adding what heaven never assigned you find yourself off course. Will you go off course when the land looks lifeless? Or will you go with who God assigned to you and let God author your faith and not your 'trusted' voices. Remember God authored your faith. Go with God and watch your apostolic work begin to emerge. You must remember the Apostolic work birthed through intercession and not a board of advisors. And then what's birthed is written down so YOU can run with it. No one can run with a vision YOU have not run with FIRST. Your first RUN is intercession as you MUST clear the way. Your second RUN is implementing what God told YOU. If you missed these steps you've gone off track. If you have a counsel of what YOU have not run with FIRST you have too many voices, opinions, and perspectives. Get back to God's strategy. Start there. You and God. Run well my fellow Apostles. Let God author and finish your faith.
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