nothing fails overnight
If you keep up with me on Instagram, you may have seen me posting about the revelation I received in Mark 1 recently. It’s as if God used TWO WORDS in Mark to captivate all of my attention for the sake of diving deep into a place of study and prayer.
As a result of more time in prayer, I have been dwelling on this one simple but weighy truth: nothing fails over night.
We like to believe that things just took a dramatic turn and everything failed suddenly. Marriages don’t fail suddenly, it happened gradually over time. Your physical health and mental health don’t disintegrate suddenly; it happened over time. Your money doesn’t just start acting funny suddenly, it gradually went unchecked and dried up. Your kids don’t suddenly rebel; it went unaddressed gradually.
If we’re honest, it’s rarely sudden. Things fail over time. Gradually. Unaddressed. Little cracks that grow bigger until we finally see the collapse.
I have been sitting with this during my prayer time and I began to think of the walls of Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah. The walls of Jerusalem weren’t destroyed in one dramatic moment; they had been chipped away at, neglected, and left vulnerable until one day—nothing was left standing.
And here’s the part that gets me fired up: the opposite is true too.
Success doesn’t show up overnight. It’s built the same way collapse is: choice by choice, brick by brick.
A strong marriage = daily forgiveness and intentional love.
Financial peace = discipline in the small things.
Mental health = renewing your mind day after day, not giving up when the process feels slow.
These aren’t formulas or quick fixes to ‘success’ but moreso a glimpse of how every area of our lives requires discipline, intentionality, and prayer in order to not fall into a passive state; where we become loosey goosey and lack longevity of wellness + abundance in all areas of our lives.
Nehemiah didn’t rebuild those walls overnight either. It took faithfulness.
So here’s what I want to leave you with today—what’s the one area in your life that needs rebuilding? Don’t look at the whole wall. Just name the next brick. And then, with God, lay it. Consistency is where the breakthrough lives.
One small step. One shift. One prayer.
Because nothing fails overnight. And nothing is rebuilt overnight. But with God, what you build will stand.
Don’t just nod along—decide. What brick are you laying today? Speak it out. Write it down. Partner with God and build it brick by brick.
