The world holds the Christian Community back in so many ways when it comes to faith. I challenge Christians all over including myself, to start doing one very specific thing differently this year: There are some ways in which Jesus wants us to live concerning our faith, that the world cannot receive and that the world would call laziness, complacency, irresponsible, weak. The world believes you have to work hard to get certain things, but the bible says that Jesus did the hard work for us and we just need to rest in that. The flesh likes hard work, because it gives the flesh something to glory in. Accomplishment through hard work feeds our pride. Accomplishment through the finished work of Christ feeds our faith. I challenge us as a Christian Community to start speaking in the name of Jesus to our sickness, injury, abuse, lust, addiction, laziness, chaos, bills, finances, bank accounts, spirits. I'm not saying don't do anything. I'm saying speak before you do, allow