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Building every area of your life, except....?

Our generation is so good at building. 
Building a career.
Building a business.
Building a reputation steered in a certain direction.
Building relationships.
Engineers and architects would know better what it means to build. The details that go into the design stage, the effort that goes into the planning and the energy that goes into execution; each stage is a project on its own.

So many people, especially millennials are excellent at building something. Motivational speakers will literally compel you to start something in your 20s. Society itself will make you innovative by force. Everything around you speaks to development. Start-ups are springing up everywhere. Students are pursuing additional degrees and certifications at a higher rate than during the days of our parents. Vocational/Non-academic occupations are equally scaling their models to embrace more professional and internationally acceptable standards. Innovation is at an all-time high! Robots are replacing people in certain professions in some parts of the world. AI (artificial intelligence) is unbelievably accurate. Businesses are embracing automation to cut overhead cost. No time!

Even the people you seemingly look up to for some inspiration will tell you, "there's more to achieve." No one seems to be stopping! Everyone's on the fast lane. I am pretty sure that out of 10 people reading this, 6 are entrepreneurs. 

In all this building, scaling, moving, growing, are you building your spirit? Is your spirit equally receiving as much attention as every other aspect of your life? Are you spending time with God? Are you praying? Are you fasting? Are you studying the word of God? Are you speaking the word over your life and all that concerns you? Are you resisting the devil? Are you a source of faith and joy to all those around you? What is your relationship with God like? What is your walk of faith life? Do you encounter a challenge and shudder in fear or rise in faith? Do you speak fear when the doctor gives his report or do you speak faith? Do your friends and family know you as a Faith Giant, just as much as they know you as an M. Sc or a Ph. D holder in Robotics and Extraterrestrial Intelligence from Yale or Oxford? Do they know the evangelist in you? Do they know the healer in you? Do they know the teacher of God's word in you? Do they know you as a demon-slaying, tongues-speaking, principality from Zion?

What are you known for in your circle of friends? What is your reputation amongst them? Rich? Friendly? Nice? Beautiful? Handsome? Generous? Is that it? Is that all there is to you?

What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? (Mark 8:36) 

Again I ask, are you building your spirit? Are you building your faith? (Jude 20)
Do me a favour. Take a self-audit. Read those questions listed above again. I'm going to do the exact same. 

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