Tips for Walking Out Believing

I have to be walking out believing if I’m going to see it produce fruit. It’s more than knowing the Word or knowing the Way. It’s taking a step each and every day. When I am walking out believing then I will find peace no matter how rough the waters.

#QuoteoftheDay

If there is no peace,
it is because
God has been left out
of the equation.
– Kathryn Lang

“I believe. Help my unbelief.” I feel this declaration to my core most days even more so the higher the waves get (and lately the waves have been tidal wave high). I do believe, but it is a challenge to walk out that believing with all the noise and distractions around me.

Help My Unbelief

And it’s not often comfortable in the believe zone. People look at me like I’ve lost my mind (and then I wonder if I have). Circumstances do not align with what I’m believing (and then I wonder if I’ve missed the mark).

All the pressure, all the roadblocks, all of the inconsistent circumstances and I struggle to believe what I know is true.

Build up reminders

I need to be reminded of what I truly believe. I write out the beliefs and tap them around the house so the words are constantly in my eyes.

Gather a support system

Find people who are walking out believing in their lives. It’s easier to walk out something you have watched others walk out. You learn from observing.

Keep speaking it

Faith it until you make it. I will only be positioned for walking out believing when I say it so much that it’s my default. I don’t have to be all there to begin moving to all there, but I do have to start moving to get there.

Believing is simple, just know it. Walking out believing requires that you know it in your knower so firmly that there is no other option. You have to move past the flesh efforts and stand boldly and firmly in Faith.

Faith or Flesh

It’s a hard row to hoe, when you are trying to do it in the flesh, mainly because walking out believing is a Faith walk. You won’t get there walking it out in the flesh. You’ll exhaust yourself trying to do it that way.

When I prepared my show garden for the big tour, I ordered a truckload of mulch – and I mean an 18-wheeler truckload. . . which is a LOT of mulch.

I started the process of spreading all of that mulch using a garden wagon. I’d shovel the mulch into the wagon, drag the wagon to the flowers, and then spread it out one shovel full at a time. I set aside a little bit of time every day, several times a day, to get it done before the big day.

Did I mention it was a LOT of mulch?

My neighbor heard I was working in the garden and came over with his front-end loader. In one hour, he helped me spread the same amount of mulch I had managed to put down in the week prior. He had the tools to get it done. I was doing it with sheer determination.

When we try to walk out believing in the flesh, it’s by sheer determination. When we walk out believing anchored in Faith and leaning all in with God, then He provides the tools AND He does all of the real work as well. He finishes what He starts, we are just called to be obedient and follow Him.

See, it’s simple. So why do I always find myself out in the yard with a garden wagon?

A Foundation for Believing

Walking out believing takes a continual feeding of Faith and Truth because the world is full of doubt and lies.

I do believe. I believe that there is no other way. Going back is not an option because I know that this is the right path. Changing directions, just because the wind has shifted, is not a better choice. I have to keep going – further in and further up – until I get there because I know this is it.

You build a foundation of believing by knowing, repeating, and pursuing until it happens. And without a firm foundation, you will never be able to get there.

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What steps do you take when you are walking out believing?

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