What's Growing in Your Fields?

The Word at the Table

I'm Neal Reyes, The Entrepreneurs' Pastor, and I'm glad you're at the table. This week I want to do something a little different. I want to sit across from you like we are in a coaching session together. Just you and me. One on one. No audience. Just an honest conversation about what you are actually building and whether the vision you have for your life is getting the attention it deserves. Pull up a chair. Let's get into it.

This Week's Word: What's Growing in Your Fields?

When I work with coaching clients, there is an exercise I take them through that consistently stops people in their tracks. And I want to take you through it right now.

I want you to close your eyes for a moment and picture yourself living out in the countryside. Next, I want you to picture yourself walking out to your back porch. As you step outside and turn around, you see three fields stretched out in front of you. One on the left. One in the middle. One on the right.

Now I want you to picture each field growing a crop that represents something you are currently working on or believing for in your life. Maybe your career or your job is one field. Your business or a side project is another. And maybe there is something else. A book you have been meaning to write. A goal you set at the beginning of the year. A dream you have been carrying but have not fully acted on yet.

Now here is the question I want you to sit with honestly. What is actually growing in each of those fields right now?

Because here is what I find almost every single time I walk a client through this exercise. The field they spend the most time thinking about and working in is usually growing well. But when I ask them about the other fields, the ones they are not focused on right now, the answers get quiet. Sometimes the field has a little something growing but not much. And sometimes they tell me the field is completely dry. Nothing planted. Nothing growing. Just bare ground.

And when I ask them what happened, they almost always say the same thing. I took my eyes off of it.

That right there is one of the most powerful principles I can teach you about vision. Vision is not a set it and forget it thing. It requires your consistent attention. Because here is what happens when you take your eyes off of something you are believing for. It does not just pause. It begins to wither. And a withered field that goes unattended long enough becomes a barren one.

Now I want to take you somewhere in God's Word because this is not just a coaching principle. This is a biblical one. And I want you to see it straight from Scripture.

In Genesis chapter 30, there is a story about Jacob that most people have never heard taught this way. Jacob had been working for his uncle Laban and Laban had been tricking him for years. But Jacob was a man of vision and faith, and he understood something about how God's spiritual laws work. When it came time to negotiate his wages, Jacob made a deal. He would take as his own any livestock that was spotted, striped, or discolored from Laban's flocks. Laban agreed and then immediately had all the spotted and striped animals removed and sent three days away so Jacob could not use them.

But Jacob did not panic. Instead, he took rods from poplar, almond, and chestnut trees and peeled white stripes into them. And then he placed those rods at the water troughs where the livestock came to drink. Every day, as those animals came to the water, they were staring at spotted and striped patterns. And what happened? They conceived and gave birth to spotted, striped, and speckled offspring. Exactly what Jacob had agreed to receive as his wages.

Now this is not a farming technique. This is a demonstration of a spiritual law written directly into God's Word. What those animals consistently kept in front of their eyes shaped what they conceived and ultimately what they produced.

Genesis 31:10-12 NKJV confirms it. God Himself appeared to Jacob in a dream and said, lift your eyes now and see. He was affirming what Jacob was doing. He was saying, I have seen it. I have seen what Laban has done to you. And I have honored your vision and your faith.

Here is what I want you to carry from that. What you consistently keep in front of your eyes shapes what you consistently believe. What you consistently believe is what you will consistently speak. And what you consistently speak is what you will call into existence.

That is not the world's version of manifestation. That is Romans 4:17b in action. God giving Abraham, the father of faith, the spiritual law of calling things not as they were but as they are meant to be.

Here are five practical steps to apply this to your life right now.

1. Write the vision down.
2. Find the scripture that aligns with what you are believing for and stand on it.
3. Keep it where you can see it daily. Whether that is a vision board, a note on your mirror, or something you carry with you.
4. Speak it over your life consistently.
5. Be diligent. Make time for it because anything worth believing for is worth tending to.

Now here is where this connects directly to how you lead and how you pursue your goals.

The same principle that causes a field to wither when you take your eyes off it is the same principle that causes goals to stall when there is no intentional momentum behind them. I call it the Law of Lift.

Think about an airplane sitting at the end of a runway. That plane is capable of extraordinary things. It is built to go places most people will never reach on the ground. But sitting still on that runway it goes nowhere. It has to generate intentional, aggressive thrust to overcome gravity and get off the ground. And here is what most people do not know. The plane burns the majority of its fuel in the takeoff, not in the flight. Because creating lift requires the most energy. Once momentum is behind it, the pilot actually pulls back the throttle because the plane requires less power to go faster in the air than it did to get off the ground.

Your goals work the same way.

Big goals will always require intentional lift. You cannot ease into them. You cannot coast toward them. You have to push with enough force to create movement. And if your goal sounds like I want to lose weight or I want to save money, I want to tell you in love that vague goals produce vague results. And vague goals do not fly. Name the number. Name the date. Name exactly what success looks like. Because precision is what separates the goals that take off from the ones that never leave the ground.

And here is the question that I want to leave sitting right in front of you like those rods Jacob placed at the water troughs. Is your goal in your line of sight every single day? Or have you taken your eyes off your field?

Small steps do not create big lift. Bold moves do. Success does not ask for aggressive intentionality. It demands it.

Here is your ignition sequence: I am intentional. I am aggressive. I create my own lift.

Say it like you mean it. Because you do.

Take This With You

This week go back to your three fields. Write them down. Be honest about what is actually growing in each one. Then identify the one field you have been neglecting and make one bold, specific move toward it this week. Not a small step. A bold move. Write down what you are believing for, find the scripture to stand on, and keep it in your line of sight every single day. That is where vision becomes reality.

From the Table Last Week

On Champion's Walk, my faith show that teaches Real Help For Real Hope, I brought you Manifestation Through Vision: What You See Is What You Will Receive. We continued our series on biblical manifestation and I took you straight into the story of Jacob and Laban from Genesis 30, one of the most powerful and rarely taught demonstrations of how vision shapes what you conceive and ultimately what you produce. We also dug into the three faith anchors that build on each other, what you consistently see shapes what you consistently believe, what you consistently believe is what you will consistently speak, and what you consistently speak is what you will call into existence. If you are believing God for something right now, this episode is going to show you exactly how to keep that vision alive. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY-2RYWbbT8&list=PLMPDSgKkGZNvHLzeBuhqHvZhuCSMEQEgV

On The Executive Perspective, my leadership and business show that delivers Real Help For Real Success, I brought you The Law of Lift: How to Create the Momentum Your Big Goals Actually Require. I walked you through six coaching questions I use in one on one sessions to help leaders and entrepreneurs create real intentional lift in their goals and their lives. We covered everything from defining success precisely, to identifying fear and avoidance, to understanding why small steps do not create big lift but bold moves do. If you have big goals and you have been struggling to get off the ground, this episode is your ignition sequence. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqwHXasQ94&list=PLMPDSgKkGZNuJ-dNFVFCWc3lb7BmJ07mM

Until Next Time

Keep your vision in front of you. Tend your fields. Create your lift. And remember, the law of lift is real but it is also waiting on you. Do not let gravity win this week. You are a Champion who is designed to move forward and upward.

This Wednesday on Champion's Walk, I'm bringing you a fresh word that I believe is going to meet you exactly where you are. Don't miss it.

Then Saturday on The Executive Perspective, I'm dropping something for the leaders and entrepreneurs who are ready to operate at their next level. This one is going to challenge you to think bigger, lead better, and push past where you are right now. Be there.

I'll see you at the table next Tuesday.

Neal Reyes, The Entrepreneurs' Pastor