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Spiritual Growth
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- 3. By this timeyou ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. HEBREWS 5:11-14
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- 6. Man shall notlive on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. MATHEW 4:4
- 7. Faith comes fromhearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. ROMANS 10:17
- 8. All Scripture isGod-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17
- 9. I have hiddenyour word in my heart that I might not sin against you. PSALMS 119:11
- 10. The fear ofthe Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. PROVERBS 1:7
- 11. Meditate On Theword • What Is Meditation? • Set aside a certain period of time of the day • Free From Distractions. • Don’t just read, have a plan. • Techniques – Pronounce it Method. – Picture It Method. – Personalize It Method.
- 12. Memorize The Word •It’s the number one tool for resisting temptation. • It helps you make wise decisions. • It strengthens you when you’re under stress. • It comforts you when you’re sad. • It helps you witness to unbelievers.
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- 15. Therefore everyone whohears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. MATHEW 7:24
- 16. Do not merelylisten to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. JAMES 1:22
- 17. Faith by itself,if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. JAMES 2:17
- 18. Faith by itself,if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. JAMES 2:17
- 19. Anyone who listensto the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. JAMES 1:23-24
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- 23. As iron sharpensiron, so one person sharpens another. PROVERBS 27:17
- 24. And let usconsider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. HEBREWS 10:21
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- 27. A new commandI give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. JOHN 13:34-35
- 28. Make every effortto do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ROMANS 14:19
- 29. Everyone should bequick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. JAMES 1:19
- 30. But if youshow favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. JAMES 2:8-10
- 31. Likewise, the tongueis a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. JAMES 3:5-6
- 32. RECAP • Word OfGOD – Meditate On The word. – Memorize The Word. • Faith Without Action. • Accountability – Parents, Friends, Community(Church) • Dealing With Others – Quick To Listen, Slow To Speak. – No Favoritism – Gossip