Grow!

by Kofu

Phillippians 1:6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

God needs our partnership in our growth.
Why do we have to grow?
1. If we didn't grow, we won't bear fruits
2. Because growth is healthy
3. To be like Christ

Maybe we started up by following people to church but at the end we are hooked up and involved.

The first believers in the time of acts started by believing and following.
They believe and but they don't know anything what God wnats to do but they believe

Ephesians 4:23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds

Growth through Faith and Perseverence
Don't be a laggard because God has already spoken about what will happen, so don't be the one who is left behind.

There is no short cut to grow

1. God makes time so that we are able to grow stronger through the hurdles of problem that we are facing.

When we are concerned about how fast we grow,
God is concerned about how strong we grow

2. There's a lot of things that we have to learn
Because we are slow learners. Learning may hurt but growing does involves sacrifices and losses.

Practice to turn something into habit.
Growing = Increase
Recovering = standing up after a fall

Growing needs Caring. We have to grow. Don't keep recovering. Don't keep falling
Guard your heart. Be a person who is involved not someone who follows, So everyone can see your progress.

3.Sometimes growth is invisible
Sometimes we might be discourage because of our inability to see our growth. God may not let you see the apparent growth in you but there's some things in your ministry that God will use.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Habakuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

Not everything is visible. Everything that is planned by God won't be happening that soon. Slowly but surely it will happen.

When it seems slow, wait patiently because it will surely shows. There's never a delay in God's plan.