I have been thinking of this lately.  What sustains my faith?  I can think of many things from music to prayer, but what really does?  I am not a Bible expert or read it enough but there are scriptures that help me.  I am not a big prayer like I should be, but I know I always can.  I guess the thing that I do most is listen to music and read faith based books.

I want though a faith like those of the Bible.  I want the strong relationship with God that surpasses all understanding.  I want God to be the first that I go to with things both good and bad.  I want my faith to withstand any trial.  I want to gleam of His love.  So what is stopping all this?  Well, frankly me.

I don't do what I know to do to get all that.  I wake up and rush into the day instead of starting with prayer.  I don't listen to music that reflects Him. Even now as I write this I realized I was listening to contemporary music and changed it to worship music.  I don't read the Bible cause I say there is no time for it and I get to know it through sermons on Sunday or through the books I read.  How crazy, I will stay up reading a book about the Bible, but I won't open it up and read it!

I have faith daily that God will provide, but I don't try to grow that faith.  It is like I got to have a relationship but don't give to it.  I speak of His love and faithfulness to me, but I don't give God the same back.

I don't know what happened.  I can not give a just reason.  All I know is that I can acknowledge it, work on it, and grow my faith.  I am willing, but the flesh is weak.  It is time for no more excuses and just put things into practice.

So, soon I will be doing reviews on different books of the Bible.  Starting with Genisis and working my way through it.  I know that I will use the Message as my translation.  I will start each day in prayer and end it that way.  I know that I will for 30 days listen to Christian music.  And after all this, I know my faith will grow as I make the effort to do so.

What will you do to grow yours?