Muscle Memory

Hey Girl!

Welcome back to the Christian Girl Community Podcast!

Today's episode is about how your faith walk is much like the gym. 

Philippians 2:12 says to "work out your faith with fear and trembling"... And much like the gym, you wont see any results without consistency.  

Stay consistent in the word and watch your faith muscles grow!

Happy Listening, 

Myah R. XOXO 

Transcript

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Hey girl, welcome to or welcome back to the Christian Girl Community podcast. My name is Maya, and I am your host. And I'm so thankful and I'm so blessed that you have decided to tune in for today's podcast episode. So with that being said, please just make sure that you check out the Christian Girl Community Instagram page just so that you can stay up to date and you might even have a part in picking a future topic for a future podcast episode. Without further ado, let's just jump right into today's podcast episode. Hello, hello, hello, welcome back. Guys, just an FYI. I have a lot of noise going on around me, and I'm doing my very best to keep it as quiet as I can. So if you hear my dog snoring or my neighbor cutting the lawn right outside my window, that is why. But this is the raw, this is the real. So, with that being said, today's podcast episode is about muscle memory. And you might be saying, Maya, what on earth are you talking about? What does that have to do with my relationship with Jesus? What does that have to be? What does that have to do with being that Christian girl? Um, just let me explain. So the definition of muscle memory is the ability to perform a physical task automatically without conscious thought. In other words, you're doing this one thing so much, and it's a lot of times it pertains to physical things. So if you're doing this thing so much that it just becomes second nature to you, you don't have to really put in much effort. Um, you don't have to really think about what you're doing. And why is that important? Why are we talking about that today? Um, I wanted to talk about this because I've been kind of getting back into the gym and I'm being more consistent with it, and I'm I'm just trying to do my best to keep up with and to eventually see results. But if I don't stay consistent, if I don't make an effort in the beginning, I'm not gonna see any results in the end. So God really wanted me to share how that can relate to our spiritual walk. How um in Philippians 2 verse 12 it says to continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, and it says some very, very amazing things in there as well. But that is like the part that I really want to focus on today because your faith walk is like working out, it's like building muscle, it's like going to the gym. It's uh something that you have to build, it's something that you have to be very intentional with, it doesn't just like come overnight, and also it doesn't just um require one time and you'll be perfect at it. Doesn't require one time and you're gonna see immediate results, and that's the awesome part about God is that he's so patient and he's so loving, he's so caring, that he he knows that we we fall, that we struggle, that like in the gym, sometimes you miss a day, sometimes you miss two, and that could also like be prolonged time as well outside of the gym. But God is so gracious that he says it's okay, get up, get back in the gym, try again, get back in your word, get back into doing what you're supposed to do. And guys, I can really relate to this right now because I'm at a stage in my life where I just got married, I just bought a house, I'm working full time, I'm trying to figure out some things, and life is very, very busy, and I haven't had much time to pour in to the Christian girl community like I I used to do. And yes, I did have a lot of things going on, but I'm not trying to make an excuse as to why I I didn't do it anymore, you know. So God's been putting on my heart continually non-stop to keep posting, to keep showing up, even when I don't feel like it, even when you know the aesthetics aren't the same, because when you think about it, all the great people, all the amazing influencers, um, all even the celebrities that you see, they all started somewhere, and most of them did not have a um aesthetic beginning, if you know what I mean. Not everything was perfect, and that's the thing about your walk with Christ, it's never gonna be perfect. There's always gonna be something to learn, there's always gonna be something to improve in, and that's much like the gym as well. So, God really wanted me to touch on this, and um I entitled it muscle memory because I want to be at a place with God to where I don't have to fight to invite him into my life, I don't have to fight to read my Bible anymore because I'm doing it so much. You know what I mean? I want it to be like muscle memory. Oh, I just wake up in the morning, I start praying. Wake up in the morning and I read my Bible, and that takes work to get to that point. That's like if somebody goes to the gym and they lift 300 pounds. That did not come overnight. That comes with consistency, that comes with them training hard, that comes with them eating the right things. So when you think about that, when you relate that to your spiritual walk, it's like what are you doing that is going to benefit your walk with the Lord? What are you doing that is going to build those muscles, those spiritual muscles, that faith muscle, that trust muscle? What are you doing in your life that helps with that? And honestly, like this is something that I can relate to so much, like I said, and honestly, the thing is to have results in anything you you do, you have to show continuous effort, and you have to keep doing you have to keep doing it, basically. That's the thing, like you know the saying, practice makes perfect, it doesn't make perfect, but you just get better. So that's with anything if you're in a sport, um, like the FIFA World Cup is going on right now, um, you think those guys that are playing on the soccer field just woke up and said, I'm gonna play on FIFA World Cup, like no, they practice like crazy. That's probably all they did. They ate, they slept, they they drank soccer, and that's how they got to the point to where they are now. But in a spiritual sense, if you want to be that mighty woman of God, if you want to be powerful, if you want to make demons tremble, if you want to walk in your full calling with God, like I do, like I'm I'm trying my very, very best to get back up after falling down and after just like having a season of dryness where there was no fruit really producing, which I was trying my best, and and I just had no motivation, I had no um zeal within me. Um, you have to keep getting up, you have to keep doing it, you have to be consistent, and it's not gonna be easy, but you have to do it, you have to keep building, you have to keep striving, you have to keep going because it does get better. And we can look at the life of Jesus as an amazing example of even when your life is crazy, even when your ministry is taking off, that you can still prioritize God and that you can still make time for Him. You can wake up in the middle of the night to go and pray. Like this is what Jesus did, guys. And I know that for me, for myself, I tend to make excuses. Oh, I have to get up at 6 a.m. in the morning, I have to do this, I have to do that, but I don't have time to do what God's telling me to do. And honestly, that's a really sad excuse on my end. But I'm just on here to encourage you really that if you're in a season where you either fell, um, whether it was like spiritually, physically, like no matter what it is, just know that you can get back up, that you can run back to the arms of Jesus. He's just waiting there to accept you, to pick you up, to wipe the tears off your face, and to say, Let's try again. He's a god of second chances, and he'll never give up on you. So I just wanted to remind you girlies of that, and yeah, I thought it was just a cool correlation between like the gym and working out your muscles to see results because you feel so much better after you go to the gym and it boosts your mood and you feel good, and it just it burns all the fat and things in your body, and even like the things that shouldn't be in your body, like you sweat it out, like it honestly helps you so much, and I want to do that in my spiritual walk as well. I want to pray, I want to do things that will benefit my relationship with God. So I'm on here to encourage you girlies to do the same. But yeah, like I said before, just keep building, keep going, don't give up, keep striving, because it does get better and it will become more like muscle memory the more you do it. And I'm so excited to see where God takes you girlies and the testimonies that I'm about what you did on the other side of wanting to give up. Because I'm sure that most of us have felt that before, even in our Christian walk, maybe you came to a point where everything was just crashing down on you and you didn't know what to do, and you were just crying out to God, but it didn't seem like he was answering. But that's a time when you can truly surrender it to God, get back up again, and He will see you through. He always does, He's an on-time God. So that's it for today's podcast episode. It's short and sweet, but it's exactly what the Holy Spirit wanted me to say. And yeah, I hope that you guys enjoyed it, that you guys gleaned from it, and that it was a word that penetrated into your hearts. And yeah, just keep your eyes on Jesus. All right, love you girlies so much, and until next time, God bless you.