Experiencing Greatest Growth

Have you taken a risk lately? For many of us this is not a thought we would even consider for we crave the familiar and the safe. It is what we were taught at a young age and the way we’ve been raised. But do you know that the unfamiliar and the ‘realm of risk’ is often where we experience our greatest growth. Letting go of our parent’s hand allowed us to walk, leaving home allowed us to be schooled, surrendering allowed us to be born again, and so many more risks have molded and enhanced our lives.

Do you know that our Heavenly Father placed many of His followers in a risk situation to cause them to grow—Abraham’s call to offer Isaac, Israel before the Red Sea, David before Goliath, Mary’s pregnancy, and many more. There is nothing like a calculated risk to deepen our dependency on God and to reenergize our outlook on life. Maybe it is time for you to ask God to take you through another journey in the realm of risk. Here are a few prayers that can begin that journey—“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts”—Psalm 139:23. “Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name”—Psalm 86:11

Father, I come taking you at your promise that if I would call on you, you would hear me and answer me and show me great and mighty things that would astonish me (Jeremiah 33:3). For this reason I come asking you to take me beyond my self sufficiency to the realm of your ability.