Your faith is like a muscle.

If you don’t regularly work your body muscles, they will eventually atrophy and be worthless.

So it is with faith. If your faith is not stretched, tested and strained, then it will not grow.

Matthew 5:11-12 - “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”

If you want to be more Christ-like, you’re going to have to go through the things that Jesus did. Did you know that while Jesus lived on earth, He experienced stress, loneliness, discouragement and temptation?

If you don’t have opposition in your life, your faith is not growing. God will bless anyone who is persecuted in His name.

Share your faith. Tell others the great things God has brought you through. Put a ‘faith’ workout in your daily routine. Stretch beyond what you think you’re capable of.

Ask God to help you maintain your faith muscles!