You are faced with a series of hieroglyphics in a book, you hear a mealy of sounds around, which mean absolutely nothing. It is like ascending a ladder. 4:11). The Seed has been implanted—now the entire question is one of growth and maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works [dead formalism], and of the faith [by which you turned] to God” (Heb. Not to get your mind crammed full of things about the sacred Word, but come to it to meet the Lord. Rest is the key to entering into rest! William R. Newell: “To those who refuse or neglect to reckon themselves dead to sin as God commands, we press the question, How are you able to believe that Christ really bare the guilt of your sins and that you will not meet them at the judgment day? Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord . Power). It is growth to maturity. There is no other. It is a matter not so much of that from which we are saved as of that unto which we are saved” (T. Austin-Sparks). And this God-dependence only begins when self-dependence ends. All of us started on this principle when we were born again—our belief stood directly on the eternal fact of the redeeming death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as recorded in I Corinthians 15:1-4. I praise Thee that I have already full victory in this matter” (Watchman Nee). I can now appreciate the depth of Paul's spiritual … These principles are stated in such practical form that you will find it rewarding to read and reread them and, of course, to put them into practice. In some single months there is more growth than in all the year besides. Spiritual Growth Plan My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God- Ps. In every area of our life, there should be signs of growth. In the beginning we are mainly taken up with the externals of our Christian life, and the Lord allows this for a time. It will help new believers build their lives on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ. God cannot work whilst we are anxious, even about our spiritual experience. Listen for God’s voice to encourage and challenge you. It is not that I abhor my sins; indeed I may have been walking very well; but it is ‘I abhor myself.’ This is how the Holy Spirit reasons; He shows us what we are, and that is one reason why He often seems to be very hard and does not give peace to the soul, as we are not relieved until we experientially, from our hearts, acknowledge what we are. “The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal The Lord knoweth them that are his” (II Tim. For the first time I can now understand some of the things the apostle Paul was saying in his letters to the churches. /Width 625 He seeks to struggle forward via the love motive; i.e., He did for me, so I must do for Him. Many believers are simply frantic over the fact of failure in their lives, and they will go to all lengths in trying to hide it, ignore it, or rationalize about it. We appreciate God’s forgiveness, but we want something more than that, we want deliverance. 10:38). Then—the length of time depends on the difficulty of the language and the ability and industry of the pupil of course—a miracle seems to happen. Every enemy has been met; every foe has been overcome; there remains nothing that has not been put potentially beneath His feet, and there remains nothing in this universe that is able to overcome the least child of God who has taken the hand of the Lord and said: ‘Lord, bring me through to the place where Thou art, in virtue of the blood which Thou hast already taken through in victory.’ There is great glory to the Lord in a quiet, confident walk in a day of adversity, a day of dread, when things about us are shaking and trembling” (G.P.). And even if that were possible, He could never accept it, since in that realm there dwells no good thing (Rom. “And whosoever cloth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple” (14:27). Here we have the believer as a normal grain of wheat containing life inside a more or less shiny golden covering, in fellowship high up on the stalk with similar kernels of wheat. Love is Jesus's only command and the tra- dition's standard of 'perfection'. 55:8, 9). Just be occupied with Him. This learning by heart-breaking experience of the utter sinfulness and reigning power of self in the everyday Christian life is the means whereby we come to know the Lord Jesus beyond the birth phase—as our Saviour; on to the growth phase—as our Lord and Life. God’s way of deliverance for us, a race of hopeless incurables, is to put us away in the cross of His Son, and then to make a new beginning by re-creating us in union with Him, the Risen, Living One (II Cor. We cannot even get as far as consecration without them! For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Rom. In the face of “my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. One does not enough go forth to work in the joy and strength of one who comes out from his home to run his course. [/Pattern /DeviceRGB] We will be freed when we enter His prepared freedom—there is no other. You are not walking in the Spirit but in the flesh. 245-47). A thousand times, maybe, faith will be assaulted and fall: unbelief will say ‘nonsense,’ and we shall belie our declaration of faith; but the labor of faith means that we deliberately return to the assault. He is our file leader (see Heb. 4 0 obj God’s basis must be our basis for acceptance. 1 THE SIX SPIRITUAL GROWTH HABITS by Andy Manning The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 13:11, Grow to maturity. We have to do with the Written Word and not ourselves or our impressions.”, Then, too, probabilities are the big temptation when it comes to exercising faith. Patience, grain of wheat: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15). “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. A disciple is one who first maintains the fellowship of the cross, which results in fellowship with his Lord: discipleship. And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s’ (I Cor. “Since the work of God is essentially spiritual, it demands spiritual people for its doing; and the measure of their spirituality will determine the measure of their value to the Lord. “A prophet is one who has a history, one who has been dealt with by God, one who has experienced the formative work of the Spirit. Now that is the first rung in the ladder of faith. To give up is faith’s unforgiveable sin. It is not that there will be no service for us until we are spiritually mature but that most of our service on the way to maturity is for our own development, not so much that of others. endobj “He begins to know something of the experience which Paul so graphically describes: ‘What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I’ (Rom. “Through the crucifixion of the old man with Christ the believer has been made dead unto sin, he has been completely freed from sin’s power, he has been taken beyond sin’s grip, the claim of sin upon him has been nullified. For it is not scriptural to believe that the old Adam nature can be conquered in that manner. As we pursue church health, we'll most likely experience church growth … We are thankful for permission from the author to publish this book for the benefit of a larger group of friends. Coates). Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest” (Heb. GREEN LETTERS: PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH book. If our eyes are upon Him, and we follow with simple hearts as He leads us, we shall find that He leads us by a right way and brings us through all the exercises we need in order to form our souls in the appreciation of Himself, and of all those blessed things which are brought to pass in Him. 4:11). “The more clearly we enter by faith into objective truth, or what is true of us in Christ, the deeper, more experiential, and practical, will be the subjective work in us, and the more complete will be the manifestation of the moral effect in our life and character” (C.H.M.). 8:31).”. 3, 4). Principles of … He intends that we should reach the place where we can speak, with or without manifest gifts, because we are the thing we say. If we are going to come truly into the hands of God for His purpose, then we shall be dealt with by Him in such a way as to continually increase our spiritual measure. How often the individual believer is maneuvered down front to consecrate and reconsecrate, surrender and resurrender, commit and recommit himself to Christ! There are two questions that every believer must settle as soon as possible. 8:28, 29). 3:18). You will handle your life better when you grow spiritually. So it is invaluable to read and understand the biblical teachings regarding prayer. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. But since God is working for eternity, why should we be concerned about the time involved? It takes time to get to know ourselves; it takes time and eternity to get to know our infinite Lord Jesus Christ. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (II Cor. 3:3). Scofield said, “Not everyone, by any means, has had the experience of the seventh of Romans, that agony of conflict, of desire to do what we cannot do, of longing to do the right we find we cannot do. It is from stage to stage: ‘first the blade, then the ear, and after that, the full corn in the ear.’ And it is from day to day. Alexander R. Hay adds to this by saying, “Faith must be based upon certainty. . “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature” (II Pet. Failed to fetch Error: URL to the PDF … 27:19). 6:6, Amplified). One of the most important factors in Christian growth is the Holy Spirit’s revelation of the self-life to the believer. The same principle holds true for the Christian life. They are not for general publication. God works by paradox. 7:18). And an overforwardness and obvious conceit at the sound of one’s own voice spoils many a prayer meeting.”. First, “alway delivered unto death”; then, “that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest” (II Cor. Even the work, when we are in it, is used by Him to increase our spiritual measure” (anon.). “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 7:18). It is the essential step before real spiritual growth can flourish. The tragedy of this sort of thing is that self is at home and thrives in the glow of it all and is rarely found out for what it really is. The Holy Spirit has Paul write to each of us: “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith” (II Cor. “It is true that the intellect is stumbled by the cross; yet the antagonism to the cross is mainly moral, both in the sinner and in the saint, for its message is only welcomed by those who desire freedom from the bondage of their sins, and who hunger and thirst after the experiential righteousness of God.” Yes, the need must be intense, as Norman Douty says: “The Divine way (via the cross) for spiritual emancipation is just as offensive to the child of God as the Divine way for salvation is to the lost.”. ZONDERVAN, United States, 1981. Sooner or later we must face up to what F. J. Huegel declares: “When a Christian’s prayer life springs from a right position (a thorough adjustment to Christ m His death and resurrection), a vast change in procedure follows. The reason our Father creates and allows needs in our lives is to turn us from all that is outside of Christ, centering us in Him alone. There are laborers for sanctification—after personal holiness—after riddance of the power of the old Adam; and to such, as well as to those who are seeking after salvation, Christ promises, with this great ‘I will’ (Matt. More than anything else the service of prayer for others necessitates a triune understanding—that of our Father, of ourselves and of others. Although His original purpose is the same, He is not using the original man to bring it about. But when a man is dead he has no strength. When the believer takes up his cross for discipleship, the process of death begins to set in. Our reckoning it to be true only makes us begin to realize the fact in experience” (The Way of Victory, p. 16). God is able to be at peace with us through our Lord Jesus Christ, “having made peace through the blood of his cross” (Col. 1:20). “Therefore let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ, the Messiah, advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belongs to spiritual maturity. For we have no standing before God, in ourselves.“The lack of Divine blessing, therefore, comes from unbelief, and not from failure of devotion…“To preach devotion first, and blessing second, is to reverse God’s order, and preach law, not grace. They take us from the “help me” attitude to that of giving thanks; from begging to appropriation. 6:13). And all the time they are resisting the main instrument in the Father’s hand for conforming us to the image of His Son! It is done; now it is ours to believe. The believer who is going through struggle and failure is the Christian who is being carefully and lovingly handled by his Lord in a very personal way. “The ‘flesh’ will only yield to the cross; not to all the resolutions you may make at a conference, not to any self-effort, not to any attempted self-crucifixion; only to co-crucifixion, crucified together with Christ (Gal. Moreover, fear produces the obedience of slaves; love engenders the obedience of sons” (J. W. Sanderson, Jr.). ‘Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him’ (Rom. “A careful study of all the Epistles of Paul will show that they are written on the basis of the cross set forth in Romans six—the fact that God consigns the old fallen Adam-life to the cross, and has nothing to say to it. I could not be true or happy in praying otherwise” (Stoney). Spiritual growth … Actually, our Father has trained every one of us for clear-cut, explicit faith in this second aspect of Calvary: our individual identification with the Lord Jesus in His death to sin and rising onto resurrection ground. Where the world comes to study the Bible. The Lord Jesus does not give the charge, ‘Be a shepherd to My lambs … to My sheep,’ on hearing Peter’s self-confident affirmation of undying loyalty, but He gives it after he has utterly failed to keep his vows and has wept bitterly in the streets of Jerusalem.”. He is not ‘on probation.’ As to his life past, it does not exist before God: he died at the cross, and Christ is his Life. It is a faith which sees myself identified with Christ in His death and resurrection.”. In one place the cross is spoken of as the reconciliation for guilt (3:13). Marcus Rainford refused to stop short of God’s ultimate for freedom: “It is not to be a mere passing impression of the mind when we are undisturbed by active temptation; no mere happy frame of spirit when under temporary refreshing from the presence of the Lord; no self-flattering consciousness of a heart exercised in good works; from none of these is the believer to infer his practical mastery over sin, but on the ground that Christ died unto sin, and [he] liveth unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”. As in justification, our acceptance is by grace alone. Little by little we receive that which is already ours. Death is his decreed portion. 31,32). Let us take Him at His Word, and leave the fulfilment of it to Him.”. And this great truth, as it opens to us, will help us to understand how in our life, and in our fellowship with Christ, it is impossible for us to share His life until we have first in very deed surrendered ourselves every day to die to sin and self and the law and the world, and so to abide in the unbroken fellowship of discipleship with our crucified and risen Lord. And only then do we find that we have learned the lesson of faith; to find our tiny craft of life rushing onward to a blessed victory of life and power and service undreamt of in the days of fleshly strength and self-reliance.”. Often fear after a while produces only numbness, but love thrives on love. The necessity for such judgments and the sublime revelation that these judgments are now fully accomplished for us is unfolded in Romans 6:1-10. The PDF book is great for phones and the Ebooks are for Kindles and Nooks as well as tablets, laptops and desktops. Yes, it is actually enjoy, continue to an interesting and amazing literature. For this reason: as soon as something strictly new is concerned, something that in its peculiarity has not yet existed, every new type of life, before it can multiply itself to a number of specimens, must first have its full contents combined in perfect unity, in an adequate new principle. On you go at it. Israel had a real struggle with trusting in God. People, circumstances, etc. Satan will give power to the ‘old Adam,’ but not God.”. “The Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not” (Isa. ‘Lord, I am faced with a situation that I cannot possibly meet. Death with Christ precedes the fulness of the Spirit. … Feed my sheep’ [John 21:16]” (J. Many feel that identification is an “emphasis,” an interesting subject ministered at a few Deeper Life Conferences and Keswick Conventions. F.J. Huegel: “If the great Luther, with his stirring message of justification by faith, had with Paul moved on from Romans 5 to Romans 6 with its amazing declarations concerning the now justified sinner’s position of identification with his crucified Lord, would not a stifled Protestantism be on higher ground today? “It is injurious for one believer to be forcing another into ‘blessing’ which that soul may not be ready for. Life is meant to bring a succession of discoveries of our need of Christ, and with every such discovery the way is opened for a new inflow of the supply. and the second, If so, upon what basis does He do so? Watchman Nee startles many by saying, “God’s way of deliverance is altogether different from man’s way. << Spiritual Strategies: A Manual For Spiritual Warfare HARVESTIME INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE This course is part of the Harvestime International Institute, a program designed to equip believers for effective spiritual harvest. Not when we serve Him with intermittent zeal does our own soul grow and thrive; not when we are indifferent are we watered from the presence of the Lord. 13:24, 37, 38). The reason there is no other way for self to be denied is that God has done the work in this way: our identification with Christ Jesus in His death and resurrection! 2:20). This is our matriculation to spiritual maturity! Norman Grubb shares a good word on the principle of labor and rest: “Take as an example the learning of a foreign language. … If we are attracted to this present evil world, we become increasingly worldly; if we pamper and live for self, we become more and more self-centered; but when we look to Jesus Christ, we become more and more like Him. The believer finally pleads to be made fruitful at any cost, and then he hears the Lord say, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (v. 24). 2 Peter 3:18 NIV Not many people can say that on the day they were saved, someone explained the steps to spiritual growth… Because this is so, in God’s mind the servant is more than the work. Our Lord Jesus understands this well, but there is no other way, since that is the manner in which He finished the work on our behalf. While certain sections may be of such interest as to entice one to read them first, it would be best to read the sections in the order they appear. We are told to believe it, and so we dare to do so and declare so. Here is an important subject that has to do with faith and the practical reception of that which we are able to trust Him for. 5:6). And yet there is a hunger deep within that will not allow him to quit. This will lead, under the Lord’s hand, to the fuller knowledge of the meaning of identification with Christ, as in Romans six. As the first … This best-seller goes to the basics of the Christian life -- the cross of Christ, faith, purpose, discipleship and more. He puts us through some exercise, through some experience, takes us by some way which means our spiritual expansion, and exercise of spirituality so we occupy the larger place spontaneously. ‘For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins’ (Matt. God has effected the reconciliation; He always remains true to it. To some men constant peril is the only spur to action, and many religions and psychologies are dependent on fear to keep their disciples in line. >> This is the first in a series of articles on the broad, challenging subject of spirituality in recovery.. Part 2 – The spiritual principles … Through the years the hungry-hearted believer finds that he has been brought a long way, and each step of the way has been personally experienced. “In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength” (Isa. Therefore Scripture teaches us that the cross not only works out a disposition or desire to make such a sacrifice, but it really bestows the power to do so, and completes the work. In the long run it is the depth and inwardness of a work that counts. This is not a call given to the gifted, the highly trained, or the polished as such. And ye are complete in him” (Col. 2:9, 10). 10:18). “There was a ‘supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ’ for Paul, and that made it possible for Christ to be magnified in him. Adolph Saphir wrote: “The narrow path, commencing with the cross—‘Ye have died with Christ’—ending with the glory of the Lord Jesus, is the path on which the Lord draws near and walks with His disciples.‘, “’Christ liveth in me.’ The Lord within lives as the sole source of life. “Work should be regarded less with reference of its immediate results, or as to how it may affect this or that person; the great question is, will it, when sifted in His presence, be acceptable to Him? Of all the needy classes of people, the neediest of this earth are not those who are having a heartbreaking, agonizing struggle for victory, but those who are having no struggle at all, and no victory, and who do not know it, and who are satisfied and jogging along in a pitiable absence of almost all the possessions that belong to them in Christ.”. They have everything to make them saints, except … crucifixion, which would mold them into a supernatural tenderness and limitless charity for others. The Husbandman builds into the believer that which He intends to minister through him to others. After we have seen our possessions in Christ and become aware of our need, then we must give Him the necessary time to work the appropriation into our everyday walk. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Here is a favorite that has been tried and found wanting down through the ages. It will help new believers build their lives on the solid foundation of Jesus Christ. So many of the life-giving truths in the Word consist of two intertwining halves that are inseparable. Our spiritual life and growth should be one of the most important aspects of our lives. For believers to ‘consecrate themselves to God’ ere they have learnt their union with Christ in death and resurrection (identification) is only to present to God the members of the natural man, which He cannot accept. << Let us cease laying down to the saints long lists of ‘conditions’ of entering into the blessed life in Christ; and instead, as the primal preparation for leading them into the experience of this life, show them what their position, possessions, and privileges in Christ already are. “Deep calleth unto deep” (Ps. As the Lord himself becomes more and more to us, other things—yes, and this must include even His gifts—matter less and less. PRINCIPLES. Your spiritual maturity journey began the moment you confessed Christ as your … You are getting Three books with your order. True spiritual reality comes in no other way, but, praise the Lord, it does come in this way! When a believer begins to discover something of the awful tyranny of the self-life or has been endlessly struggling against that tyranny, he becomes intensely concerned about the denial of self with the resultant freedom to rest and grow in Christ. 4:19). You are getting Three books with your order. The words as we understood Him are very important for all of us, especially those whose understanding of God or higher power may differ from the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of God. He creates a situation with which you cannot possibly deal. Both gifts spring from the same work and are two aspects of the same salvation. Once we know His eternal plan and purpose for us, plus His method of preparation and process to that end, there is rest and confidence. And it will take that long! Norman B. Harrison: “This is the distinctive mark of the Christian—the experience of the cross. For the sun meets not the springing bud that stretches toward him with half that certainty as God, the Source of all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him.”. Helpful. “So, in the spiritual labor of faith, the moment or period comes when we know. The various parts of the book were originally prepared as short letters and were sent to a number of interested friends. Yes, we begin to glory in the cross, our very own freedom from all that enslaves, from all that would keep us from fellowship with our risen Lord. Acts 1:8; 2:2 The Sprout Principle Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I Corinthians, I Thessalonians, James "When there is life there has been development." 7) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. When sins are introduced there is a fear that God has changed. Before making concluding remarks, this paper will discuss ways to effectively share one‟s faith with postmodernists and outline a biblical approach to growing a particular church. Through this process we are patiently taught to walk by faith, to maintain our attitude of reliance on the finished work of the cross. Our natural birth made us members of the fallen, sinful first-Adam race. The Holy Spirit brings that finished work of death and applies it to all of the old nature, which is thus held in the place of death—the death of Calvary. As growing Christians, it is time for us to see the necessity of going beyond the love motive to the life motive. Principles of Spiritual Growth book. It is from God to us, not from us to God. Principles of Spiritual Growth God expects you to grow; He doesn’t expect you to stay at the same level. /CA 1.0 Fear, too, has a place in Christianity, but God has higher and more effective motivations than fear, and one of these is love. Blessing will succeed blessing, and storm follow storm before the fruit is full grown or comes to maturity.”. 58:11). Set forth in this book are basic principles pertaining to the Christian’s spiritual exercises. You just begin automatically to speak the language, to think it, to hear it. Throw down every endeavor and say, I cannot do it, the more I try the farther I get from His likeness. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh” (John 3:6). There is a reason for this order—crucifixion comes before consecration Uncrucified self refuses to be consecrated. And everyone knows that evidence must be founded on facts. Thank God for the needs that just will not allow the hungry heart to stop short of finding them met in Him. Our Heavenly Father is still carrying out His purpose of making man in His image. “We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body, [which is the instrument] of sin, might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin” (Rom. And of course when we stand with Him in glory, we will be forever free from the presence of sin—entirely sanctified and glorified. But most believers feel this is about as far as He went and are struggling to get on the best they can, with His help. And as our need is met, as we prove the sufficiency of Christ to meet our inward need, so there can be a new showing forth of His glory through us.” (H. F.). Evan Hopkins shares some important light on our subject: “How infinite are the forms in which self appears. 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