Do Not Be Weary in Well Doing

 

God tells us through the Apostle Paul in Galatians 6:9(NKJV), “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” This verse of scripture is extremely essential in the Christian life. The first indication that it’s packing a mighty wallop of necessary spiritual information is in what it warns us not to do. God tells us that we shouldn’t let ourselves grow weary while we’re doing good. To grow tired of something implies we’ve put forth persistent effort. There’s some sowing going on. It means we’re positively investing in people and situations, and truly this is what Christian living is all about. However, God did not keep it a secret that it’s possible to get weary from doing good. It’s also not a secret that bad people doing wrong things outnumber good people that are doing good things. God says that we must continue doing good consistently and patiently, even though the evildoers try their best to get us down. The question we must ask is if the reaping season is worth our battle to never let weariness stop our grind for good.

One of the reasons we grow weary in doing good is because we often expect to see the harvest sooner than God intends. We live in a culture that values quick results, immediate gratification, and visible progress. When those things don’t happen, it’s easy to become discouraged and wonder whether our faithfulness is making any difference.

Yet God’s Kingdom doesn’t operate according to the world’s timetable. His law of sowing and reaping requires patience as well as perseverance. Every seed needs time to take root before it can produce a harvest. The same is true in our spiritual lives. Acts of obedience, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, and faithful service are all seeds we sow in faith, trusting that God is at work even when we cannot yet see the results.

We naturally look forward to the harvest, but we sometimes forget that every harvest begins with faithful sowing. God’s blessings are not based on hurried expectations but on His perfect timing. When we continue to do good without losing heart, we demonstrate that our confidence is in Him rather than in immediate results.

Good Works Are Part of Our Calling

Doing good is a choice, but for those who follow Jesus Christ, it’s a choice that flows from who we are. Good works are more than a Christian lifestyle—they are part of our God-given purpose. As believers, we are Christ’s ambassadors, representing Him in the earth (2 Corinthians 5:20). His Spirit lives within us, enabling us to reflect His love, His character, and His compassion. Jesus declared in John 14:12 that those who believe in Him would continue His works, not because of their own ability, but because of what He accomplished through His death and resurrection. Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) reminds us, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

Living out that purpose requires intentional choices every day. Romans 12:2 urges us not to conform to the patterns of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds so that we can discern and demonstrate God’s good, acceptable, and perfect Will. Every decision we make either reflects the new identity we have in Christ or pulls us away from it. Our thoughts, words, attitudes, and actions should increasingly resemble His character. This is the lifelong work of spiritual maturity, and according to Ephesians 4:13, it is God’s desire that we grow into the full stature of Christ. Because His Spirit is at work within us, we can live out the purpose He has placed on our lives.

Your Faithfulness Will Be Tested

If we’re honest, doing good isn’t always easy. There will be times when our faith is tested, our motives are challenged, and our patience wears thin. Jesus warned us in John 10:10 that the enemy comes “to steal and kill and destroy.” One of his greatest tactics is discouragement. If he can convince us that our obedience isn’t making a difference, he’ll tempt us to stop sowing before the harvest arrives. That’s why Galatians 6:9 is so important. God already knows the journey will require perseverance, and He promises that those who refuse to lose heart will reap in His appointed season.

God’s promises are certain because His justice is perfect. Galatians 6:7 (NLT) reminds us, “Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.” Our heavenly Father is a righteous Judge who faithfully honors every act of obedience offered from a sincere heart. We may not always see immediate results, but no seed planted in faith is ever wasted. Every act of kindness, every sacrifice, every prayer, and every step of obedience matters to Him. So don’t allow disappointment or delayed results to keep you from doing good. Keep sowing, keep trusting God’s timing, and rest in the confidence that He will bring forth the harvest He has promised.■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

“Do Not Be Weary in Well Doing”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2026. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

The Sound of A Gentle Whisper

 

1 Kings 19:9–13 (NLT) shows Elijah in a moment a lot of us can relate to more than we want to admit. He’s overwhelmed, frustrated, and convinced that everything around him is falling apart. He ends up in a cave, and God asks him a simple question, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” Elijah answers out of his pain and frustration, listing everything that looks wrong, everything that feels unfinished, everything that feels like it’s gone too far. And honestly, it sounds like many of our own conversations with God when life feels heavy and unanswered.

The passage goes on to show something deeper about how God moves. A strong wind comes through, then an earthquake, then fire—but none of those are where God chooses to reveal Himself. And then Scripture says, “after the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper” (1 Kings 19:12 NLT). That alone challenges how we think God is supposed to show up. Because most of us expect God to answer in something dramatic, something undeniable, something that matches the urgency we feel. But God is not predictable, and He is not moved by panic. He is intentional, and He speaks in ways that require us to be attentive.

Elijah’s reaction makes sense though. He wasn’t wrong about what he was seeing around him. He was watching real disobedience, real rebellion, real consequences unfolding in front of him. But where he got off track was assuming that God’s response would match human emotion. We do that too. We start trying to predict how God should handle things, how He should respond, how He should move, and when He doesn’t move the way we expect, we start questioning what He’s doing. But God is not limited to our expectations, and His purposes are never up for negotiation.

There’s a part of this that hits closer to home when we look at how easily life fills up. Schedules, responsibilities, conversations, distractions, and even good things can take up so much space that we don’t realize how hard it becomes to really be present with God. It’s not always rebellion—it’s often just overflow. But overflow still has consequences, because what fills our attention eventually shapes our sensitivity to God’s voice.

A real shift happens when we start recognizing that hearing from God is not only about Him speaking—it’s also about us positioning ourselves to listen. The whisper was always there, but Elijah had to step out and respond to it. That’s still true for us. God has not stopped speaking, but we can become so filled with everything else that we miss the very thing that gives direction, peace, and correction all at once.

And maybe that’s the invitation in this passage—not to chase louder experiences with God, but to make space again for Him to be heard clearly in our lives. Because He is still God, still speaking, still leading, and still steady. And when we actually slow our lives enough to recognize His voice, we realize He was never absent… we were just learning how to hear Him again. ■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

“The Sound of a Gentle Whisper”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2026. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

Turning to God in Total Surrender

 

God Delights in Surrendered Hearts

From the very beginning, God has desired wholehearted surrender from His people. That hasn't changed. In Deuteronomy 30:10(NLT), Moses told the people of God living in Old Testament times, “The LORD your God will delight in you if you obey his voice and keep the commands and decrees written in this Book of Instruction, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.”

God’s call to turn to Him with our whole heart is still relevant today. The difference is, we now have His Spirit living within us—and with that gift comes a greater responsibility. It isn't enough to turn to God only when life falls apart. Even people who don't know Him will cry out for mercy when they are overwhelmed by trouble. But when the crisis passes, many return to the very things that pulled them away from Him in the first place.

God wasn't asking His people for a temporary response. He was calling them to turn to Him with all their heart and soul. That kind of turning is total surrender. It means letting go of everything that competes for our trust and depending on God through Jesus Christ with everything we are. This is what our Heavenly Father has always desired.

Disappointments That Redirect Us

We are often surprised when we can't make something work, or when we put our whole heart into something and it turns out to be far from what we expected. In reality, disappointment has a way of revealing where our trust has been. Heartache, loss, and unanswered prayers often become invitations to put God back in His rightful place and seek Him more deeply than we did before. God is faithful, and He can be trusted with our hearts because they belonged to Him before they ever belonged to us.

Before King David died, he gave his son Solomon the most important advice a father could give. In 1 Kings 2:2–4 (NLT), David said, “I am going where everyone on earth must someday go. Take courage and be a man. Observe the requirements of the LORD your God, and follow all his ways. Keep the decrees, commands, regulations, and laws written in the Law of Moses so that you will be successful in all you do and wherever you go. If you do this, then the LORD will keep the promise he made to me. He told me, ‘If your descendants live as they should and follow me faithfully with all their heart and soul, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’”

Any loving father passes down what matters most. David knew his success hadn't come from his own strength. It came from the Lord, who had been faithful to him again and again. David wanted Solomon to understand that real success begins with obeying God. The same is true for us. Through Jesus Christ, God has made a way for us to walk with Him, and wholehearted surrender is still the path that leads to the life He desires for us. ■

Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

“Turning to God in Total Surrender”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2026. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

What Will You Do with the Key?

 

Have you ever looked in a person’s face and thought about what they could have been if they had chosen another path? It happened to me not long ago, and I felt it was truly a supernatural experience. Sometimes we’re so engaged with the daily grind, that we forget to take notice of those around us. I endeavor to get better at this day by day, by listening more attentively for the Spirit’s direction. If I see someone in passing, even without knowing them personally or speaking to them directly, sometimes the Spirit will move me to pray for them. We must be so careful to listen for this kind of direction from him. Well, on this particular day while waiting in a lobby with others, a man I didn’t know singled me out before I had a chance to take notice of him. He is a Christian brother, although I didn’t know it at the time, and he was clearly in pain, both physically and emotionally.

It was quite unusual, and normally, I would probably have been taken aback, but I had an inexplicable feeling of calmness as I listened to him first make small talk and then begin to pour his heart out to me. It was as if he’d been waiting a long time for an opportunity to get that pain out of him to a person that actually cared enough to listen. He told me that he was in need of prayer for his feet. His legs were fine, but the pain in his feet was so severe that he could scarcely stand on them, let alone walk. He said that he believed God was punishing him for the things he had done in his younger years. “God punishes us when we keep messing up.” He said. I was so saddened to hear him say those words, and then a most unusual thing began to happen. As he continued to talk, suddenly images flashed across my mind’s eye, almost to the point that I could barely focus on his words.

It isn’t wise for any of us to make assumptions about the kind of life a person has led, particularly when you don’t know much about their history or background, but I could tell from the countenance of his face that he had lived hard, and that what he had once considered a good time was far from it.

The indwelling Holy Spirit has helped me to pay attention to certain details about individuals that happen to be in my company, so that I can be of greater service to them in prayer. When we have a heart to be of service to others, through the Holy Spirit, we can sense when someone is really troubled and can almost feel the weight of burden that is on them. I sensed that the man was bound by something he was either too ashamed to mention or didn’t know how to express. He couldn’t or wouldn’t tell me, but the Spirit always knows and can give us information that helps us to pray fervently and directly for the person in need. This man believed that God was punishing him by making walking and standing very painful, and this wrong belief was firmly etched in his heart and mind. This is the way that He saw our Heavenly Father. He saw God as the punisher, and himself as a victim of not just chastisement, but crippling punishment. He was held prisoner by his own thoughts.

Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This is a piece of truth that so few of us want to confront because it forces us to deal with what we’re holding in our heads and hearts. When our thoughts are mixed with our believing and emotions, they create a reality. Jesus Christ said it this way in Matthew 16:19(NKJV), “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” This key that Christ has given us affirms the power of our thoughts and words. He put the key in our hands, and we get to use it in whatever way we choose. So, it not only works for unleashing the positive in our lives, if there is fear in our hearts it will unleash the power of that fear as well.

There are some thoughts and beliefs that you and I are holding this very moment that are blocking our faith and keeping us from moving forward in certain areas of our lives. We could have progressed and burst down doors of promotion and elevation long ago, but we didn’t. And one of the major reasons why we didn’t is because of limiting thoughts and beliefs. They’ve kept us from seeing God as the wonderful, loving, generous, happy, holy, all-powerful, all-knowing, and righteous Father that He wants to be to each of us. We have the wrong beliefs about the Father’s love; therefore, we have the wrong beliefs about our own capacity to triumph through it.

Even though I had never experienced a spiritual encounter quite like the one I had in the presence of the man I mentioned, I was exceedingly busy that day and didn’t make time to fully process what had happened. It didn’t dawn on me until much later that the Lord was building a greater level of spiritual understanding within me. We must consider the possibility that our blessings can be blocked by the thoughts and beliefs we hold. Once we are aware of this, we can begin to reorder the priorities in our prayer lives. We can pray that our eyes will be open to the things that have held us back, then we can repent for those things and surrender totally to God’s healing process.

1John 4:18(NLT) tells us, “Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.” Suffering and pain have their root in fear. They did not enter human existence until Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s Word. Fear comes from the evil one, and 1John 4:18 tells us that there is no fear in God’s love. Heavenly Father wants to do away with our suffering. He wants to comfort us and take away our pain. And when our faith is not quite where it needs to be, God will help us. However, we must know this one thing, Romans 10:17 tells us that faith comes by hearing the Word of God; therefore, faith cannot support believing the worse about who God is. If we have wrong believing like this, faith will not come.

We can’t have faith and fear at the same time. Instead of believing that God punishes, we must believe that His love does away with punishment. If we’re struggling to believe, we must be like the biological father in Mark 9:24 seeking the deliverance of Christ for his son. We must ask God to help our unbelief. We must use the key that Christ has given us to confess the truth of God’s Word continually. 1Peter 2:24 tells us that Jesus Christ personally carried our sins in his body to the cross. He took our place so that we could die to a life of sin and begin to live for what is right. He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our sins, beaten so we could be whole. He paid the highest price imaginable so we could be healed. The least that we can do is to believe in the price he paid, and be thankful for the healing he offers. ■

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

“What Will You Do with the Key?”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2026. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.