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Once you see their fire and passion, it becomes so contagious that you want what they have and you will fight to figure out how to get it for yourself. Get in the presence of people who will inspire you to get in God’s presence. One of the best ways I have done this is to surround myself with people who are getting it read books from fierce Christian women, listen to expository sermons, attend a women’s group at your church, pray that God would bring these kinds of women into your life. But for that to mean anything to us, we have to see how that applies to our own lives. It is on social media, in books and definitely gets talked about from the pulpit. The assumption of value of reading your Bible and learning to study it is all over the place. We see the outcome in that moment, not the struggle or the time it took to get there. This is why before and after fitness pictures are so motivational and why inspiring stories of miraculous outcomes move us so much. So, in order to make serious changes, we have to work to see the value. Something motivates us enough that we want the outcome more than we don’t want to do the task. Do You Really Want It?Įven when we do hard things we don’t want to do, like a boring 9-5 office job or a 2 mile run in the cold, there is a value in the outcome of that effort. Here is the real, honest truth: you are never going to do anything unless you want to do it. Either you see immense value in it and that makes it desirable enough for you to take action OR you reach a place of desperation and have no other choice but to meet that need. Want or desire for something stems from one of two places.

If there is a need in your life, it is unlikely you will take action steps to meet that need unless something makes you actually want to. The problem with this is that we rarely do something just because we need to. We say things like “I need to exercise more” or “I need to cook at home and not eat out so much” or “I need to spend more time in Bible study and in prayer.” We speak our needs out loud but nothing really changes. We even verbalize our “needs” to ourselves and to others but most of the time, we do nothing about them. Our wants and our needs drive our decisions and actions every single day whether we are conscious of them or not. When I read through this chapter, it all clicked: I wasn’t growing before because I didn’t want to grow. I was comfortable right where I was.

I have grown more in the last 2 years than I have my whole life and I often ponder why that is. A lot of things “clicked” for me after reading that chapter.īefore this study I had always wondered what had kept me from growing spiritually. I attend a Bible study once a week and this past semester we were reading through Beth Moore’s Book, Audacious. One chapter we read discussed the difference between our wants and our needs and it was incredibly insightful. This keeps the coffee brewing and the words flowing, so thank you for supporting Faithfully Planted! I only recommend companies and products that I love and trust. If you make a purchase using my link, I may receive a small commission. Facebook Instagram Pinterest Why You Struggle With Bible Study (& How to Fix it!)