Be Not Weary!

Keep Abiding. Keep Believing. Keep Bearing Fruit.

“Be not weary.” - August 31, 2026

That was the message.

Not because the battle isn’t real.

Not because the road is always easy.

Not because there won’t be resistance.

But because weariness cannot become our excuse to stop obeying God.

There comes a time when we have to turn it up another notch.

Pray a little longer.

Praise a little louder.

Study the Word a little deeper.

Stay in the presence of God.

And keep going.

Because the enemy would love nothing more than to convince us that we have done enough, waited long enough, prayed long enough, or fought long enough.

But Galatians 6:9 reminds us:

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

DON’T LET WEARINESS WRITE YOUR STORY

Spiritual weariness can be subtle.

Sometimes it doesn’t look like rebellion.

It looks like exhaustion.

Disappointment.

Frustration.

Silence.

A loss of expectation.

We can still attend church.

Still quote Scripture.

Still say the right things.

And yet, inwardly, we can become tired of believing.

That’s why we have to recognize weariness before it becomes agreement.

The answer isn’t pretending we’re never tired.

The answer is learning where to go when we are.

Back to Jesus.

Back to the Word.

Back to prayer.

Back to worship.

Back to the place where our strength comes from Him.

TURN IT UP A NOTCH

There are seasons when God calls us to increase our pursuit.

Not because we are trying to earn His love.

We already have His love.

But because there are things that require perseverance.

Sometimes you have to pray again.

Praise again.

Study again.

Believe again.

Stand again.

And sometimes you simply have to say:

“I’m not quitting.”

That doesn’t mean forcing something God hasn’t said.

It means refusing to abandon what He has said simply because circumstances became difficult.

THE FRUIT TELLS THE STORY

One of the strongest portions of this livestream centered on the idea of the so-called “carnal Christian.”

This is an area where Christians have different theological interpretations, and I wanted to approach the subject through the Scriptures that shaped the teaching.

Jesus said in John 15 that He is the Vine and we are the branches.

And His message is unmistakable:

Remain in Me.

The branch doesn’t manufacture fruit by itself.

It receives life from the Vine.

Jesus said:

“For without me ye can do nothing.”

That means fruit is not something we manufacture to prove ourselves to God.

Fruit is the evidence of connection to the Vine.

If we abide in Christ, something should be happening in us.

Something should be changing.

Something should be growing.

WHAT KIND OF SEED ARE WE?

Luke 8:11 says:

“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.”

That brought us to the picture of the seed.

A seed can look perfectly intact from the outside.

But life is determined by what is happening within it.

I used the illustration of a mustard seed that may appear whole externally but is actually damaged or blighted internally.

The point wasn’t simply about appearances.

It was about life.

What happens when the Word enters us?

Does it take root?

Does it produce something?

Does it change us?

Does it bear fruit?

Jesus’ parable of the sower forces us to examine the condition of the soil.

The issue isn’t whether the seed is good.

The seed is the Word of God.

The question is what kind of ground receives it.

JESUS IS SAVIOR AND LORD

Another major point of the teaching was surrender.

We often love the idea of Jesus as Savior.

But Jesus is also Lord.

That means salvation isn’t simply receiving something from Him while continuing to insist on ruling ourselves.

Surrender means allowing Him to have authority.

It means obedience.

It means yielding.

It means allowing the Word to confront us when we’re wrong.

It means saying:

“Not my will, but Yours.”

We cannot manipulate God.

We cannot bargain our way around obedience.

And we cannot use religious language to disguise a heart that has deliberately chosen independence from Him.

The invitation of Jesus is much deeper.

Come follow Me.

“WHY DO YOU CALL ME LORD?”

Luke 6:46 asks a piercing question:

“And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

That question cuts through appearances.

Calling Jesus “Lord” is easy.

Allowing Him to actually be Lord is another matter.

Jesus immediately follows that question with the picture of someone who comes to Him, hears His words, and does them.

That person is like someone building a house on a foundation.

The foundation matters when the storm comes.

And storms will come.

The issue isn’t whether we will encounter storms.

The issue is:

What have we built upon?

THE WATCHMAN

Then the teaching moved into Ezekiel 33.

The watchman.

The responsibility to warn.

The responsibility to speak.

The responsibility to tell the truth.

That passage carries tremendous weight.

A watchman cannot simply see danger and remain silent.

The assignment is to sound the warning.

That doesn’t mean condemning people.

It means loving people enough to tell the truth.

We are called to be ministers of reconciliation.

That means our message ultimately isn’t:

“Look how bad you are.”

It is:

“Come back to God.”

There is a difference.

The purpose of the warning is restoration.

The purpose of the truth is freedom.

The purpose of reconciliation is relationship.

MINISTRY IS NOT ALWAYS COMFORTABLE

One of the things I’ve learned through this livestream assignment is that ministry doesn’t always happen under ideal circumstances.

Sometimes there is resistance.

Sometimes there are interruptions.

Sometimes technology doesn’t cooperate.

Sometimes access is blocked.

Sometimes things happen that make you wonder:

“Why now?”

But those moments can become opportunities to practice what we preach.

If I teach perseverance, I have to persevere.

If I teach faith, I have to walk by faith.

If I teach surrender, I have to surrender.

If I teach spiritual vigilance, I have to remain watchful.

The assignment doesn’t disappear simply because the atmosphere becomes inconvenient.

STAY CONNECTED TO THE VINE

John 15 brings us back to the center.

Abide.

That word may be one of the most important words in this entire message.

Abide when you understand.

Abide when you don’t understand.

Abide when the answer comes quickly.

Abide when you have been waiting.

Abide when ministry is flowing.

Abide when nothing seems to be happening.

Abide when people celebrate you.

Abide when people misunderstand you.

Abide.

Because the branch doesn’t survive by trying harder to become a vine.

The branch survives by remaining connected to the Vine.

And from that connection comes fruit.

DON’T CONFUSE ACTIVITY WITH FRUIT

This is another important distinction.

We can be incredibly busy and still not be spiritually fruitful.

We can produce content.

Attend meetings.

Quote Scriptures.

Lead prayers.

Build ministries.

And still need to ask:

Am I abiding?

Fruit isn’t simply activity.

Fruit is what the life of Christ produces in us and through us.

Love.

Joy.

Peace.

Patience.

Faithfulness.

Obedience.

Humility.

Self-control.

Compassion.

Truth.

And when Christ is truly being formed in us, other people eventually encounter Him through us.

THE ENEMY WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO GET TIRED

So perhaps this is the simplest message of the livestream:

Don’t quit because you’re tired.

Don’t abandon prayer because you’ve been praying.

Don’t stop studying because you’ve studied before.

Don’t stop praising because the answer hasn’t appeared.

Don’t stop obeying because obedience became inconvenient.

And don’t allow the enemy to convince you that your faithfulness is meaningless.

You don’t know what is happening beneath the surface.

Remember the seed.

Something can be happening underground long before you see anything above ground.

BE NOT WEARY

There is a harvest.

There is a season.

There is a purpose.

But our responsibility is not to control the harvest.

Our responsibility is to remain faithful.

Stay connected.

Keep your heart tender.

Keep the Word planted deeply.

Keep listening.

Keep obeying.

Keep warning when God tells you to warn.

Keep loving people.

Keep pointing them to Jesus.

Keep preaching reconciliation.

Keep bearing fruit.

And when you feel yourself becoming weary—

go back to the Vine.

Don’t manufacture strength.

Receive it.

Don’t pretend you’re never tired.

Bring your weariness to Jesus.

And then—

get up again.

Turn it up another notch.

Pray.

Praise.

Study.

Believe.

Obey.

Abide.

Because we are not called merely to begin well.

We are called to remain.

And in due season—

we shall reap, if we faint not.

BE NOT WEARY.

KEEP ABIDING.

KEEP BEARING FRUIT.

KEEP JESUS AT THE CENTER.

Charnette Kay ⚔️