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Today’s message from God Calling – A.J. Russell, reminds us that the law of the Kingdom of Heaven is progress. We are to strive to be better today than we were yesterday, to step up to the next level, to always reach a little higher.

As I read the message, I think back to school days. Clerical training, then on to Office Management training, on to Accounting, and so on, and so on. David, in Psalm 31:8, says, “You have not given me into the hands of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a spacious place.” I also think of Psalm 107:35 – “He turns a desert into pools of water, and a dry land into flowing springs.” When we don’t look forward, reach higher, strive for progress, for the next level, things can begin to get dry. They can become like a well that’s dried up. We can become like a dried up well. That’s not what God wants for us. “I came that they might have life, and have it abundantly,” said Jesus.

Progress isn’t as much about material wealth, as it is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional health. That is true wealth. When we have those things within us, we can manifest them outwardly in the form of effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and yes, material wealth as well. We are always to look to the horizon. After all, we are just passing through. As we reach higher, we elevate, not only our own lives, but the lives of others.

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Today’s message from God Calling – A.J. Russell, reminds us that faith is, indeed, rewarded. Abraham, by faith, believed God, and did become a father. Moses’ faith is also cited. Their faith was the reward, or at least, part of it, because it is what kept them going. It is what strengthened them and their resolve. And, in turn, those (strength and resolve, determination) strengthened their faith. I want to go with Abraham’s faith.

Abraham’s faith was counted unto him, by God, as righteousness. Quoting from Dictionary, here are some of the definitions I found: goodness, virtue, uprightness, decency, integrity, worthiness, high-mindedness, nobility, noble mindedness. Yes, there are also those like: sinless, innocence, piety, and morality.

The ones I want to focus on are the ones in Italics. They are the ones that strengthen and empower faith. They make faith it’s own reward. They have to do with so much more than piety, being sinless, with innocence and morality. Piety, innocence, and morality are seeds sown to Heaven and to our own spirits.

The list in italics are seeds that empower faith, not only in our own lives, but the lives of those with whom we have contact. They can influence and change lives. They are sown to Heaven through our doing and giving involving other lives. They are also sown to our own spirits, as well; empowering our own faith and spiritual growth and maturity. It’s a little like the feeding of the thousands by Jesus. You put it in His hands, believing Him, and thousands are fed…with plenty left over. Faith multiplied and magnified is the reward of faith. We have then, not only more seed to sow, but much stronger crop, and better fruit…greater harvests.

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