06/02/2023
Conditioned for the vision
when you are in taking part in sports you have to go through conditioning
Conditioning is the process of training to become physically fit, a simple form of learning involving the formation , strengthening or weakening of an association between a stimulus and a response.
“Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.”
Romans 8:26-28 MSG
In our relationships with Christ we have to go through some conditioning to grow in our relationship with him . It’s not always easy and it’s not always comfortable, and it’s not always what we want to do. It will make you tired and achy but you have to do it if you are going to be able to reach the vision .
If you play sports you have to go to practice and you have to stretch and go through a series of conditionings in order to get to the level you are wanting to be in that sport . You cannot go out and participate in a game if you never showed up to a practice .
The same is in our relationships with God . We cannot show up and expect to see new levels In Christ if we have not found ourselves in the word and prayer . If we have not been preparing for the next thing .
A preacher cannot get up and preach a message without preparation unless prompted by the Holy Ghost to do so... but they still have to pray and seek Gods face before the service and trust in God to give them the words to say.
You have to pay the price for what ever it is you are going after . If you are wanting to play in the game you will have to get up early and work out and then go to practice ... sometimes you will get injured but you have got to get back up and shake it off and keep going or if your injuries are bad enough you have to take a moment or rest and watch the team do the playing but you cannot give up and throw in the towel just because you cannot play in a game or two . You have to go to the games and watch and cheer on your team you have to still show up to the practices it’s not your free ticket out you still have to show up and do your part.
The same is in our relationship with God. Sometimes we are going to get knocked down , sometimes it’s going to hurt and we will not understand the things that we are going through or why we are having to go through them . There will be times when you don’t think that you can make it anymore times when you have to push yourself to keep going but you must keep showing up . Even when it gets hard even when it seems like the situation is impossible. When it seems like you will never see the end in sight . You have to push through and pray and seek his face because sometimes you have to go through stuff to get to the next thing that the lord has for you . And you may not realize it right now but the thing you are going through is to prepare you for the future it’s to prepare you for what’s coming next . It’s to prepare you for things that you can’t imagine at this moment in your life. Sure it does not make sense and it hurts in this moment but what you can’t see what is beyond this moment in your life but don’t give up because it could be In Your next step that the breakthrough is there that the thing that you have been seeking God for is finally brought forth... that the vision or dream that you have is finally coming to pass . The thing that you have been praying and preparing for . The thing that you have put your time into . That even during the rough moments even in the moments when it seemed as if it would never happen and never come to fulfillment even in those times you were still working towards it even during the struggle . Because of the conditioning that you went through to get to the place that you are today and to get to the places that you will be in the future . It may not make sense at the moment but it’s all to prepare you for the situations that you will have to face when the vision comes to pass. When your aha moment is here .
When players go to play a game their vision is being fulfilled .. they have been preparing for this game for weeks or months . They have been preparing to face the team they are about to face they know all the plays and they know to watch the coach on when to make the plays . And when the game starts they do the very things that they have been preparing for .. it may have felt like forever getting to that point to where they would finally get to play but it’s in that moment they find their momentum and they see why all the practicing and showing up was necessary ... especially when they beat the team they realize that it was all worth it. It was all worth while . All the pain they went through they reached the victory .
That’s what we must keep our mind on ... the end outcome is the victory ! The victory is what everything in this moment is preparing you for .
So don’t give up when you are having to go through conditioning to get to the vision that has been placed within you!
