We’re all showing up somewhere each day for the fulfillment of our dreams, our passions, our gifting, our destinies, our hopes, our callings…to bring God glory for His Kingdom success…
Showing up…To hit a home-run with our dreams…
Showing up…To aim into the hoops of our passions…
Showing up…To master the moves of our gifting…
Showing up…To soar into our destinies…
Showing up…To scale the pyramids of our hopes…
Showing up…To take up our towel and serve…
Showing up…To conquer what stands in the way of our calling…
Showing up…to ride the waves towards a Kingdom success…
Showing up requires and demands of us years of faithfulness to steward the gift God has given to bring Him glory.
Showing up faithfully when the spotlight on your years of dedication takes place when no one is sitting in the stands to applaud your efforts.
Showing up faithfully even when the confidence of others looks the other way from the inexperience they see in you.
Showing up faithfully and facing fearlessly into the waves of a dream bigger than first imagined.
Showing up faithfully as a child in their lack of training, but willing to grow and glean the excellence from their Master.
Showing up faithfully when you wonder if this is your dream after all, but showing up anyways, confident in the steps God directs; trusting that one dream might give birth to another.
Showing up faithfully year after year, fainting not in the wins, the losses, the strikeouts and home-runs of your spirit.
Showing up faithfully in the risk and dangers of those falls and failures; turning a deaf ear to the voice of quitting.
Showing up faithfully and celebrating the small wins and successes of a bigger dream.
Showing up remembering it’s never been about our gifts after all, but about the giver who bestows to us our gift.
Because there will be those days and seasons of drought when you inspect and question the fruits of your labors, the yields of your harvest, the strength of your spirit to continue sowing into the dry fields of these dreams.
But we are reminded to call on Him and be encouraged in these thirsty seasons…
And let us not grow weary while doing good,
For in due season we shall reap
If we do not lose heart.
Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)
As we show ourselves faithful, God will kiss back and show off even more faithful.
To the faithful, you show yourself faithful…
Psalm 18:25 (NIV)
Just this past Sunday, our Pastor had a prophetic word of encouragement for those faithful laborers who show up…
SUCCESS IN THE KINGDOM
By Pastor Ron Johnson
Success in the Kingdom is about our faithfulness, it’s about showing up, it’s about making good choices, God honoring choices and repeating that over and over again…
You just keep showing up, keep being faithful, and keep improving every year.
Then you’ll step into a season of exceptional favor from the Lord.
Yes, God really rewards and hands out medals to those found faithful…
If we faint not;
If we do not lose heart.
Until our race is over…
We must remember…
Continue to show up at the plate…
Show up at the free throw line.
Show up the mat…
The park…
The gym…
The stove…
Show up…to ride the waves towards a Kingdom success…
Wherever God has called you to show up at, show up and jump as a fearless child into your calling.
Though much is required and demanded of us during these faithful years of showing up.
We joyfully steward the gift God has given us to bring Him much deserved glory.
Apples of Gold Encouragement 
Beautiful, Lori! Thanks for “showing up” at the gym and the walking track! Without you, my incentive to exercise would dwindle. Because you show up, it makes me show up. When we both show up, much is accomplished including an investment into our friendship. God definitely gets the Glory for this one!
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You are so sweet. I sure love our time together. I love 💕 our friendship.
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