GROWING FAITH: MAKING A DECISION THEN MOVING ON

March 31, 2026

3/31/26 GROWING FAITH: MAKING A DECISION THEN MOVING ON

There is something very precious the Lord has revealed to me about my journey in Him. It is a part of how I grow in faith. This month He revealed to me how important it was to make decisions about what He says. At the end of building a month’s rhema I ask myself:

Do I believe what I heard was God?
Do I understand the message?
Do I believe the message is true?

If so, then the message has found a place to settle in my faith: I believe.

If I believe, then I am able to move on because what He has spoken has found its place. My faith is more solid and He is able to build on that message. And just like going to school, after time passes I might take a test based on what He taught me. That test is a way to assess whether I had personally applied what He first said where I grew and changed as a result. He had equipped me and I was able pass the test and move on to higher learning about God and His ways.

However if I waver whether something was God, whether I really understand it, and whether it is accurate, then I am unable to move on until what He says has resolution inside of me. Notice I am not asking myself whether what He said came to pass. Rather I am asking whether I believe it was God’s message and whether I believe what He said.

This month (3/18/26) I had a dream that clearly taught me an object lesson. In the dream I saw that my friend and I were in college. We had enrolled in a math class that was just beginning. We realized the class was moving so fast we were not able to catch onto the concepts. She was in the process of deciding whether she should tell the teacher that she had to stop and reset. I was busy shuffling my papers and getting them in order and considered whether I should even take the class at all.

I also noticed others were taking other classes in that school. I saw someone learning how to take off and fly with a parachute. He was only 1 inch above the ground and didn’t have enough lift to take off. And in another class, I saw a semi trailer full of snow and people were in there taking survival classes in how to live in cold and dark times.

In my spiritual dream language:

College is a school of advanced learning, past the fundamentals of our walk in Him.
Math class represents “putting two and two together.” In other words, putting what He says together and coming up with understanding for a foundation He wants to build upon.
Flying lessons is learning how to soar in faith where we don’t have anything tangible to hold onto regarding our circumstances. It is a time of letting His wind carry us.
Snow represents a winter season that is colder, darker with special equipping needs in order to stay warm and fed.

When I came out of the dream I heard: To process. Putting two and two together. To make it meaningful. Putting two and two together and coming up with a conclusion. It does make sense, but how do I apply it to my life in a meaningful way? Coming up with a conclusion. Seeing the truth and making adjustments.

When it comes to our hunger for God, our tendency it is to seek Him and listen. But do we take the extra step to apply what He says to our personal life? Applying what He says to us first requires us to put two and two together so that we understand. But then we need to come to a conclusion about that He said. We need to believe it, see the truth of what He is revealing and make personal adjustments so that our life lines up with that truth. That line up might be our attitude, our thought life, our behavior, our words, etc.

Scripture says that He speaks in parts and pieces and we only know in part, not the whole. (I Cor 13:9) But as we grow in seeking the Lord over what He is saying, He pulls those pieces together and gives us greater understanding. When I process my monthly rhema, it is a journey towards a goal. I first record what He says to me in chronological order with dates. Then 3-4 times a month when I see things from other days that connect with the same theme, buzz word, or message, I cut and paste those parts with dates to fit as an insert underneath where the message was first introduced for that month. That brings me more understanding when I see the parts connect together.

One of the things I do at the end of the month is to re-read all of that month’s rhema. I do this as a goal towards a specific purpose: I am asking myself, “Do I believe this?” At the end of each month I fill out a Highlights of the Month page. It contains confirmation stats, buzz words, themes, lessons I learned, lists of what I overcame, answered prayer, and etc! Filling out my highlights page is to solidify my faith in what He is saying.

If I believe the messages were from the Lord to my personal life, there is a satisfaction and level of peace that settles me. It is like eating a meal and feeling full and satisfied. Each time I am able to believe, my faith has grown and I am able to advance and move on.

If I don’t believe, if I am left questioning and unsettled, then it is a topic that needs more time to process. I pray over that need and commit it to the Lord to answer in His time. If over time He has not confirmed it, added to it, brought increasing revelation… something is wrong. It doesn’t fit. I remember years ago, I heard the Lord say, If it doesn’t make sense, throw it out!

In a deeper level of application, in this process of weighing the pros and cons, the negative and positive things, the misc themes etc, I realize that I am also walking out how to discern. (Heb 5:14) I am chewing a message and sorting it through misc filters to receive the good and spit out the bones. Sometimes I realize something negative was from the Lord but allowed only so that I would PRAY and cast my vote against the enemy plan.

God has many purposes for speaking His Words to us (in the manifold ways He speaks!) It is impossible for Him to move on with any other purpose unless we first BELIEVE that He is speaking, we understand what He is saying and we make a decision: We CHOOSE to believe Him.

Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.