Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 7)
DON’T LOOK BACK This aspect of looking forward to what may lie ahead and not focusing on the past is the key to enjoying success. It needs to become our goal and our aspiration. Something we strive for and towards. This needs to be a daily focal point so that we do not fall into…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 6)
THE THINGS THAT ARE AHEAD What exactly is lying ahead? The answer is we just never know. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Here are however three things: Open doors! Revelation 3:8 See! I have set before you a door wide open which no one is able to shut! Different things. Philippians 3:13 one thing I do,…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 5)
REACHING FORWARD We need to have a ‘reaching forward’ attitude. This attitude includes the ability to embrace the new and the things that lie before us. The Bible tells us that God has set before us an open door, but it is no good staring at the door or camping at the door. We have…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 4)
PRESS ON! Each day presents its own opportunities and options. Having a forward approach means we keep on pressing on. Hurdles and obstacles are part of life. We have to move through what we are facing and press on, knowing that God has got wonderful things in store for us. Philippians 3:14 I press on…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 3)
FORGET THE FORMER The Bible is pretty radical on the advice it gives us as to how much focus the past should receive. Isaiah 43:18 Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. It sounds a bit radical, but perhaps that is what God wants us to do. It is another way of…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 2)
THE REAR VIEW MIRROR Our past successes and our past failures can be our biggest hindrance. I once heard a story of an older accomplished motor racing driver who was busy training a new potential driver. As they got into the racing car, the older driver taught the younger man a valuable lesson. Before even…
Keys to spiritual maturity: A forward approach (Part 1)
One of the greatest keys to success in life is the ability to be able to go forward into what lies ahead and away from the past with its success or failure. How often we live in the past. It is a difficult concept because our only frame of reference is the past and yet…
Keys to spiritual maturity: Watch your thoughts (Part 8)
PREPARE YOUR MIND FOR ACTION This is how we can start. Let us begin to believe God and His word. If He says He has plans for our good and not for our evil, to give us a hope and a future, then let’s choose that as fact and what we will believe. Speak out…
Keys to spiritual maturity: Watch your thoughts (Part 7)
TRANSFORMATION God wants a transformation to take place in our lives. This begins with our thoughts and our minds. When we begin to realise that God’s ways and thoughts are not our thoughts and ways and that just perhaps God has got something wonderful planned – something begins to change on the inside! Isaiah 55:8-9…
Keys to spiritual maturity: Watch your thoughts (Part 6)
PASS THE TEST! I believe that each of us needs to pass the test that God has given for our thoughts. Did you know there was a test? God has given us a very clear guideline as to what we should focus our thoughts on if we want our minds to prosper. It is an…