Testify of something God has done for you this week! I was blessed with $100 for my trip to Africa later this year! HALLELUJAH!

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I am currently taking a course, and wanted to share a point that I thought was so good! The amount that you "do for God" can only be sustained by the amount of "being with God"... So good, right?! Most of us don’t burn out from sin, we burn out from service. We burn out from giving, carrying, building, showing up, loving hard, and saying yes long after our souls have started to ache. We assume we’re strong because we’re busy, but busyness isn’t strength. More often, it becomes a way to stay in motion so we don’t have to slow down enough to notice what’s actually happening inside of us. We usually start by doing for God for the right reasons. We love Him, we’re grateful for what He’s done, we feel the weight of the call on our lives, and we see real needs all around us that stir our hearts to respond. But somewhere along the way, doing quietly begins to replace being. Serving slowly takes the place of sitting. Activity starts crowding out intimacy. Without even realizing it, we learn how to function spiritually without actually remaining connected. We become skilled at ministry, leadership, and responsibility, yet uncomfortable with stillness, silence, and simple presence before the Lord. For a while, everything still looks fine. Fruit is visible. Doors stay open. People are helped. So we assume we’re healthy, confusing momentum with life and productivity with depth. Eventually, though, the cost shows up. Joy begins to thin. Peace becomes harder to access. Compassion feels heavy instead of natural. Our prayers shift from honest conversation into functional updates, where we talk to God more about tasks than about hearts. We begin pulling from emotional and mental reserves instead of spiritual ones, and what once flowed easily from intimacy now requires discipline, grit, and sheer determination. That kind of strength can carry you for a season, but it was never meant to carry you for a lifetime. Jesus lived from a completely different rhythm. He healed, taught, delivered, fed crowds, and discipled twelve men who would change the world, yet He continually withdrew to be alone with the Father. His power flowed out of union, not urgency. He did not move simply because there was demand. He moved when He saw what the Father was doing. Everything in His life was anchored in relationship, which is why nothing in His life was fueled by striving. “Apart from Me you can do nothing,” He said, and then He modeled exactly what that looked like. His life shows us that real authority grows out of surrender, real fruit is born in stillness, and real endurance is shaped in hidden communion.

I don't remember if I have formaly introduced myself but I have been following the Lord onnand off for about 30 years. I was baptized at 32 and about 2 years before that my husband and I joined a church so our kids would also grow in the Lord. We had adopted a boy and girl, already siblings. I worked really hard to develop that relationship with Jesus, or so I thought, but when I prayed I always told God what I wanted for others and never asked for anything for myself. That felt wrong. And I newer asked what He wanted from me. As time went by I realized I had not been asking or doing this in a Godly way, especially when it came to our finances. Then when I real crisis hit me and I asked, begged and pleaded for help, He did not provide fast enough and I got angry and turned away. Then shame kept me away for a long time until I started watching posts from preachers on social media. Now I am trying to exxpand my horizons and see what I can learn and how I can grow.

What does personal revival look like to you?