Good morning beloved
Let us face this truth - we need to be growing in God every day ie. Moving forward in Christ. If not we will be either stagnating ie is not moving from our current position or backslidden ie. Stuck in the past.
Here are just a few steps of how can grow in God please share more if you would like:
1 Our daily living is considered to be a faith walk. God's will is to move us from faith to faith and from glory to glory. If we are faithful in small things, he will definitely move us into greater. Another point about faith is it continues in spite off (challenges, trials, troubles, trauma). Faith continues with the by products too of hope, trust and expectancy
2 The study of the word is absolutely necessary to grow in God. We hear God's voice and his instructions when we read the word. It is alive. It transforms minds and hearts. I usually like to pray before and study God's first thing in the days. After we study the word, it is necessary to meditate on the word (Psalm 1)
3 Prayer is key, we will have as much power as we will pray. Prayer keeps us connected to the vine (God). In your praying, please remember it is a love relationship so listen to God much more than talking to him
4 Surrender ALL
5 Worship is also a valuable key. Worship is a commited life unto glorifying God....it is connected to abiding and all the above mentioned topics
6 Be doers of the word that is walk in obedience
James 1
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and [d]overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
7 Finally for today
Press towards the mark
Phillipians 3
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I pray this message will bless and encourage you
Walk good in Christ
Till we meet again
Pastor J
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