2. If you're not Arnold, don't try to lift like Arnold...yet.
Many of us have done it. We have decided that we were going to get fit, so we went to the Gym and found the biggest weighs we could to start out on. Either two things happened after that. First, we woke up the next morning totally sore and unable to work out for a week...or we utterly collapsed under the weigh right there at the Gym! What was the problem?!
As most who have spent anytime at the Gym know, strength does not come in one or two sessions at the Gym. Really, it does not come in a week or two, but after months of disciplined visit to the Gym building up our strength. You start out small, lifting low weigh and over a period of time increase the weigh. By the end of a month or two, you are lift more than when you started and your body can routinely handle it without you becoming incredibility sore.
The same is true for Faith. So many people decided, "Hey, I am going to try this faith stuff" and believe for something that is outside of their "lifting ability". Then after a week or two of believing and seeing no results, they quit and say faith doesn't work. It was not that faith didn't work, but rather that they tried to go Arnold in a week when they should have started out believing for something they truly could envision. Faith just like strength comes after repeated victories. You start out believing for money to pay the week's bills and after it comes to past, you have the confidence to step out even further to paid for the bills and believe for car to replace your junker. Strength takes time and Faith takes time, but who knows, if you work out your faith you could go from believing for the salvation of your friend to the salvation of hundreds of millions like Billy Graham. God has given every believer the measure of faith (Romans 12:3), but it is up to you and I to decided how much it will be developed.
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