NOT AUTOMATIC

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  NOT AUTOMATIC Philippians.1:1-11 Devotional:- “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (V.6 NLT) Knowing fully well that spiritual growth is one of your purpose of been on the earth, then you also need to know that developing Christ-like character takes years, it is not automatic. We open to God bit by bit. Discipleship is the process of conforming to Christ (Romans 12:2, Ephesians 4:13). The truth is that the journey to Christ-likeness is a life time journey. Growth involves believing, belonging (through fellowship) and becoming (through discipleship). Every day God want you to become a little more like Him (Colossians 3:10) Today we are interested in speed but God is interested in strength and stability than swiftness (2 Corinthians 3:18). The reason it takes time to grow is because we are slow learner. We often have to relearn a lesson forth or fifty times to reall...

LIFE TIME

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LIFE TIME        

Ephesians 4: 10-13
Devotional:-“till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (v.13) NKJV


    For those who love to grow, it is important you know that growth is gradual and it is a life time adventure. We will only be perfect when we get to heaven. As long as we live in this world and in the flesh, we have to keep growing to overcome. 

That is why you must not be disturbed that you still make mistakes. The Bible says, to us that God gives us the ministry gift. These are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. These ministry gifts are offices God put people to function in, to equip the saints i.e., to raise believers to serve the Lord that the church of Jesus may keep growing. 

Then the Bible pointed us to the fact that we have to keep growing till we come to easily working together with the Holy Spirit. As the body of Christ, we become mature in the Spirit when we are able to keep working together as one. But this is not a product of a few years of learning. That is why all children of God must keep growing in the Lord. We are slow learners; we are all in the process of growing. We should not keep repeating the same mistakes of life. So, commit yourself to a life time journey with God (Gen. 17:1) Don’t graduate out of growth, else you start to go down. Don’t become too big to learn. Then you will become more and more mature in Christ. Peace. 

Prayer: Lord, help me to have a life time commitment of growing in you. 

"HE THAT STOP LEARNING, START DYING" 

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