Jason Helopoulos
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And while he's sleeping, what happens?
And when he raises in the morning, there is a bountiful harvest.
You and I are just planting seeds in our life as we're spending time with the Lord.
And over time, we expect there to be progress.
We expect to see it overnight.
That's a fool's errand.
We're sowing for the long run to be conformed more and more to his likeness, to look more like the one that we love.
The great joys and the great discouragements, it's the same thing of the Christian life, is that we just don't always know what actually is being accomplished.
I spend time with the Lord in prayer here, praying for these things, and I'm not quite sure, was there any effect from these prayers?
And that's both the discouragement and the joy of the Christian life.
It could be a discouragement because you go, did I just waste the last 20 minutes?
But it's also one of the great encouragements.
because I never quite know what he's doing.
And just a moment spent here can have eternal benefits here.
So what does it look like to spend time daily with the Lord?