If you go to the gym and you work out and you come back and you look in the mirror you will see
nothing and if you go to the gym the next day and you come back and you look in the mirror you will
see nothing so clearly there's no results can't be measured it must not be effective so we quit right
or if you fundamentally believe that this is the right course of action and you stick with it
you commit yourself to the regime the exercise you can screw it up you can eat chocolate cake
one day you can skip a skip a day or two you know it allows for that but if you stick with
it consistently I'm not exactly sure what day but I know you'll start getting into shape I know it
it's not about intensity it's about consistency right you go to the dentist twice a year your
teeth will fall out you have to brush your teeth every day for two minutes what is brushing your
day twice a day for two minutes do nothing unless you do it every day twice a day for two minutes
right it's the consistency going to the gym for nine hours does not get you into shape
working out every day for 20 minutes gets you into shape but it's the daily practice of all
the monotonous little boring things like brushing your teeth that matter the most
if I were to be interviewed by somebody about my success I think my answer would surprise them
the key to success in my life is consistency
I know that is a very boring word
same thing in day in day out day in day out day in day out
there's nothing jazzy about it just I do it all the time consistency
and how you need to prove is that you need to start very simple
and you need to do it daily don't start on a grand scale don't make the mistake that people who start
their garden for the first year make and that is they plant way too many seeds and have way too
big of a garden and about a month later they curse what they've done just just start small the law of
consistency the law of consistency says motivation gets you going discipline keeps you growing
growth in life requires consistency it's underrated
it's not celebrated a lifestyle of consistency may not get Instagram popularity but you best believe
that consistency has an immense amount of power ask any professional ask any CEO ask anyone who
has done anything with their life and with what God has given them and they will say
it wasn't just their gift it was a lot of hard work it was days where they wanted to quit and
they kept pressing through it's the power of consistency it can shape your career it
can shape your marriage it can bring you into financial success in a place of flourishing
when people are really successful at least in some area of their life they're not just lucky
but they're consistent they're consistent over time and I tell our team all the time
that successful people do consistently what other people do occasionally let me say that again in
in some area of life there's consistency there's persistence there's patience because successful
people tend to do consistently what other people do occasionally I just want to say humbly that
the life that you want whatever it is in your finances in your friendships in your ministry
with your children with business whatever it is is never the result of a few lucky decisions
but is always a result of countless consistent seemingly small decisions done over time
I always tell myself it's the small things that no one sees that lead to the big results
everyone wants it's consistency and faithfulness in the small things over time because for one
look at the culture are in our society celebrates overnight success and not the process that it took
we don't celebrate the fact that it took someone 20 years to become an overnight success but we
celebrate the moment of wow where did they come from look at that they went viral and now we build
our whole lives on going viral that's not how it works consistency there was consistent effort
that you see consistency the fruit of consistency is not immediate it's not the moment you become
consistent it's like you know after seven days or seven months you may not see results
it's not immediate and oftentimes we are pulling strength from results
and it's normal right when you have results you find yourself motivated when you see the
results of your hard work you're like oh God this was awesome you know let's keep going
but when you're in the stage where no one sees the work you're doing
when it's almost like writing a script we are excited about the movie when we watch it but we
don't understand what it took to actually put the script together and so when we don't see results
we sometimes find ourselves losing courage we find ourselves in this place of being discouraged
we've been plagued by this idea of overnight success it's not real family it takes hard
work it takes effort it takes consistency we have to get to the place that we are lovers of process
and not moments because moments come and moments go you have to be a lover of process
and not just waiting for a moment and that is why the scripture tells us in Galatians it says
in due season you would reap if you do not lose heart because the end of faith is manifestation
and so get consistent family it is the place of your power it is the thing that will lead you to
what you actually desire but you need to start getting you need to have accountability in your
life the problem and you know this at some level you feel it that when you do the small
right things or don't do the small wrong things a lot of times you don't see very fast results
you're trying but you don't see a lot of immediate life change so if you're like me
or a lot of people you tend to get frustrated you get discouraged and you often feel like quitting
don't give up and here is probably the most important thing we'll say all day
the big principle if you don't like what you're reaping change what you're sewing
if you don't like the harvest
change the seed if you don't like what you're reaping change what you're sewing
it's not what we do occasionally that makes the difference it's what we do consistently if you
don't like what you're reaping change what you're sewing but you will reap a harvest
if you do not give up I see so many people that quit and I I don't look down on them but
they allow discouragement to rule them instead of letting God rule them much much much much blessing
comes to people who simply refuse to quit oh those people see blessing that other people don't see
and this is what God is saying to us he wants us to be consistent he wants us to experience the
benefits of consistency the benefits of diligence let's get the Godly routines in our lives and then
let's stick with them there's a little thing that I like to say just keep on keeping on
when you feel like you can't take one more step just go ahead and take one more step and then
one more step after that and I can promise you that no matter what kind of a problem you have
if you will make that decision I'm never going to give up many people they face a day or a bad
season or a setback or they're not seeing things that they hope to see when they hope to see them
and so they give up and you began to be inconsistent you didn't remain steadfast remain consistent
but there's not a lot of things that grow on the hilltop but there is a lot of things that grow in
the valleys and in your life you might be in a valley tonight and I just want to encourage you
to be consistent with your faith be a person that chooses in these moments
to step back pull back and see the big picture
to see that this is just one thing in a long journey and when I stay steadfast over the long
haul I'm gonna see God's goodness I can trust him to get me to my destiny at the right time
the bible says the righteous fall seven times but they what church they get back up reaching
your destiny is going to require you consistently getting back up getting back up from the critics
getting back up from gossip getting back up from a setback getting back up from a closed door
getting back up from striking out getting back up from a whole lot of stuff get up
believe trust God and watch him take you places in this next chapter of your life