2. A heart abiding in God's word
God grows in us a heart of faith, we must nurture a root system! Roots make all the difference in the health of a plant, and their presence or absence ultimately becomes known to all. The plant, either flourishes or fails, thrives or dies, blossoms or withers. The health of anything, whether a garden plant or a heart devoted to God, reflects what it's going on (or not going on!) underground.
Talent develops itself in solitude, the talent of prayer, of faith, of meditation, of seeing the unseen. So that our roots grow deep into Him, God calls us away, from this world.
Roots are for taking in—what happens when you and I do slip away to be with God in study and prayer? We receive. We take in. We are nurtured and fed. We ensure our spiritual health and growth. When we spend time with Christ, He supplies us with strength encourages us in the pursuit of His ways. I call this time with God “the great exchange”. Away from the world and hidden from public view， I exchange my wariness for His strength, my weakness for His power, my darkness for His light, my problems for his solutions, my burdens for His freedom, my frustrations for His peace,my turmoil for His calm, my hopes for His promises, my afflictions for His balm of comfort, my questions for His answers, my confusion for His knowledge, my doubt for His assurance, my nothingness for His awesomeness, the temporal for the eternal and impossible for the possible.
You will need God to help you overcome areas of sin and grow spiritually. You'll need Him to help you be a wife or to be single or when you become a widow. You need God to help you be a mother no matter what the ages of your children. You need God if you are to be His kind of daughter，daughter-in-law or mother-in-law. You need God to help you successfully serve others, you need God as you care for aging parents, you will need God as you move into old age yourself as you will need God when you die.
God will take you as far as you want to go as fast as you want to go so how far and how fast do you want to move towards becoming a woman of your dreams？
