Keep on Growing!

You have heard of that phrase," When the going gets tough try ,try again!"
How about instead thank of this "When the growing gets hard,continue to rely on Christ! He will never let you down!"
Keep on keeping on!
Continue to grow spiritually!
Amen!

Spiritual Growth: Is it still possible?

Spiritual Growth may...
1. Seem like a thing of the past.
2. Good news: It is not!
a. It is possible even in today's worldly society.
b. how?
c. By reading the Bible
d. Memorizing Scripture
e. Praying to God
f. Listening to his answers.
g. Telling others about Jesus!
h. Continuing to tithe,and attend a local Bible teaching church!
i. Listening to psalms, hymns and spiritual songs
1. on the radio- k-love station
2. online at www. klove.com
j. Singing to God,about him
k. Applying things you learn to your life!
l. Resisting the devils temptations
m. Keep on keeping on serving God each and every day and night!

Spiritual Growth Still Important Now!

Spiritual growth is still as important now as it was in January of this year!

• Now that it is February, Satan will try to tempt you to slack off.
• Do not listen to the devil!
• Keep reading the Bible!
• Keep praying!
• Keeping memorizing Scripture!
• Keeping being a good example!
• Keeping witnessing to the lost!
• Keep attending a Bible believing church!
• Keep singing psalms,hymns and spiritual songs!
  
• Keep tithing!
• Keep supporting missionaries!
• Keep on applying God's Word to your life!
• Keep on serving God!
• Do not give up.
  
  
  
  
  

Spiritual growth is important :When? Now!

Spiritual growth is just as important now as it was yesterday, and all the days, nights, weeks, months, and years before this one!
So grow spiritually again this year, here in 2009!

Why is spiritual growth so important?

1. Because you love God!
   
2. To help one draw closer in his relationship to God as a believer.
3. To be able to be a good example to other believers.
4. To be able to be a good example to lost relatives, friends,neighbors, acquaintances, co workers,church visitors,and other lost people in general.
5. To be prepared to be on the look out for false teachings out there that Satan might try to use to lead you astray from the LORD.
6. To help you resist the devil (Satan) temptations to do wrong.
7. To help you warn others about Satan's lies.
8. To help you to encourage other believers to keep serving God.
9. To help you to teach the lost about God!
10. Because Satan and his demons (devils,the fallen angels) are still at large.
11. To help you to be a the kind of wife, mother, sister, daughter, friend, neighbor,employer, boss,co worker, acquaintance, husband,father,brother,son,cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, teacher,preacher,etc. that God wants you to be.
12. So you can be a light to a world that is in darkness.

God wants you to Spend Time with Him!

For those of you out there who say "I am a Christian" and do not serve God. Tell God you are sorry, and prove it. Spend time with God! Any true friend of God should spend time with him and want too.
What kind of person is a friend when they do not spend time with you? Either they are no friend at all, or a very bad friend. Real friends spend time with each other.
So, make sure to spend some time with God!
How?

1. Pray
2. Listen to God's answer to prayer (yes, no, or wait)
3. Read the Bible
4. Memorize Bible verses
5. Share Christ with others/evangelize
6. Apply the Bible to your life
7. Attend a Bible believing Church
8. Sing songs of praise, glory, and honor to him
9. Sing songs about God
10. Watch out/be on your guard for false teachings,beliefs, and ideas about God
11. Listen to Bible based radio programs -Adventures In Odyssey, Turning Point, A New Beginning,Walk in the Word,etc
12. Tithe-give 10% of your income to God
13. Give money to help support missionaries that tell others about Jesus and his death on the cross,burial and resurrection from the dead
14. Give money to the Birthday offering for Christ-a special offering around Christmas to help needy families in the community around Christmas time
15. Thank him for saving you! Thank him for everything else too!
    

More Spiritual Truth from the Bible

• There is only 1 God!
• He is Alive! Amen!
• There are many names for God mentioned in the Bible.
• Here are some of the names for God as portrayed in the Bible!
• God
• LORD
• Lord
• Spirit of the LORD
• Spirit of God
• Holy Spirit
• Holy Ghost
• Holy One
• LORD God
• Jesus Christ
• Jesus
• Immanuel ("God with us")
• Prince of Peace
• Master
• Son of man
• Son of God
• Christ Jesus
• Father
• Lord God
• I AM
• I am the bread of life.
• I am the living bread
• I am the light of the world
• ...Before Abraham was I am...
• ....I am the light of the world...
• ....I am the door...
• I am the good shepherd...
• ...I am the resurrection and the life...
• ....I am the way, the truth and the life...
• I am in the Father, and the Father in me...
• I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end...
• ...I am the first and the last.
• Creator
• Messiah
• Maker
• Lion of the Tribe of Judah
• the Lamb
• Lamb of God
• Lord Jesus Christ
• Christ
• Comforter (''Helper")
• Savior
• LORD of LORD's
• King of King's
  
• the angel of the LORD
• Wonderful Counselor
  

Trials: What Is the Reason ?

One of the reasons for Trials/Hard times or hard ship in the Christian Life is mentioned in James Chapter 1:1-12.

• "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers tempations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. " -James 1:1-3
• "divers temptations"- means "various trials"
• "trying of your faith"-testing
  
• "worketh patience" -produces,brings patience
• "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord. "- James 1:4-7
• "perfect"-mature
• "entire"-complete
• "wanting nothing"-lacking nothing
• "upbraideth not"-without reproach
• "nothing wavering"-not doubting
• "wavereth"-doubts
• " A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. "-James 1:8
  
• "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted."-James 1:9
• "brother of low degree"-lowly brother
• "in that he is exalted"- in his exaltation
• "But the rich in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away."-James 1:10
  
• "that he is made low"-his humilation
• "For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass,and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth:so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. "-James 1:11
• "grace of the fashion of it perisheth"-beautiful appearance dies
• "ways"-pursuits
• "Blessed is the man that endureth tempation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crowm of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him." -James 1:12
• "Blessed"-happy,joyful
• "is tried"-has been proved
  
• One Reason for a Christian to have trials in his/her life is to help draw them closer to God.
• Another Reason is to bring them back to him when they have gone astray.
• Two Responses that Christians give to Trials are... 1. Discouragement, disappointment,and/or bitterness, 2.Driven -continues to serve God and give him the glory
• Reward for enduring trials is... "the crown of life!"