If you use the Youversion Bible app, you're probably familiar with their streak system. This basically is an attendance book for any time you visit the app. So if you’ve been present on the app for the past 20 days, you’ll have a streak of 20. If you miss a day, you lose all your progress and have to start from 1 again.
Being able to do something consistently over a period is hard work. I admire professionals, creators, and businessmen who keep showing up even when the results are unattractive.
Spiritual discipline is hard work too especially if the results are not what you imagined. Every mature Christian is a product of pruning, study, prayer and fasting. A man of God once said, “We pray long so that we can pray short” which means when you see people who seem to walk in healing or the miraculous with little or no effort, it is because they have been cooked and trained by God for years. You should have consistently engaged your gifts for a long time to attain mastery.
Fam, there have been days when I couldn’t have my Bible study but I casually opened the app cos I did not want to lose my streak (don’t judge me).
Yes, the motives might be just to fulfil a religious obligation or to impress people but God will deal with that along the way. The motive must change from being another thing on your to-do list to being the very thread that holds your life. The goal is to understand the importance of communing with the Being you claim to love and the obvious danger of your neglect of that relationship.
You cannot afford to miss Bible study in a world that shoves its ideologies down everyone’s throat.
Prayer cannot be one of those things you forget in this age.
Maintain your streak, even if it’s 30 minutes of fellowship. Try your best to keep it. Set an alarm if you must, seek accountability partners, and create an environment around you that fosters godly consciousness.
Close your eyes and imagine yourself in heaven. You see these huge notebooks and on each of them is written one Christian habit. Every believer’s name is in each of these books and attendance is taken each day. What will your attendance streak look like?
The purpose of this post is not to shame anyone but get you crawling back to the feet of your Father. Some days, you can go for hours and on other days it's just some minutes but don't stop, seek to always do better. It’s not easy but it’s totally worth it. Take it one day at a time, until you find your rhythm.
The feeling that you are the only one struggling is not of God, the truth we all struggle at certain periods in our lives. It has taken grace to start over and maintain the streak.
I wish there was an easier route to spiritual maturity but it just doesn’t exist. It's prayer, Bible study, fasting, and righteous living all on repeat every single day of our lives. Your streak will have to attain longevity. Don't be a one-hit-wonder, don't be an "I used to be on fire for God" type of person. No matter how many days you may have missed, there is honour in retracing your steps back to your Father, His arms are always open.
Consistency is a superpower!
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