There are 4 levels of spiritual maturity for believers in Christ. I have created the names of each phase to add to this great quote from John Maxwell:
#1 - REBELLION: I'm going to do what I want regardless of what God says.
#2 - CONDITIONAL LOVE: If God gives me what I want, I will give Him
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(Joshua 1, I Corinth. 2:13-3:3)
EGYPT (NATURAL) - unbelievers who are in bondage to sin. Christ is on the outside of their life. Those in Egypt were freed from their slavery by the blood of a sacrificial Lamb, a picture of Christ on the Cross, who sets us free from sin.
WILDERNESS (CARNAL) –
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In the Australian bush country grows a little plant called the "sundew." It has a slender stem and tiny, round leaves fringed with hairs that glisten with bright drops of liquid as delicate as fine dew.
Woe to the insect, however, that dares to dance on it. Although its attractive
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Jul 9, 2024
Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:26: “I do not fight like a man beating the air (NIV).The NLT says, “I am not like a boxer who misses his punches.” A boxer can throw a lot of punches, but if none of them hit the opponent, he will lose the fight. This is one reason a boxer trains so that he punches with
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Contributed by David Owens on Mar 14, 2011
ENGAGING GOD'S POWER
Spiritual growth and success is a partnership with God.
Paul captured this idea in Philippians 2:12-13, where he wrote: "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." We work
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Last winter while visiting a natural history museum in Colorado, I learned some remarkable facts about the aspen tree. An entire grove of slender, white-trunked aspens can grow from a single seed and share the same root system. These root systems can exist for thousands of years whether or not
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever
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"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's
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"Power in the hand of lack of knowledge, inexperience and ego is
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"Power depends on good connections. The train with the locomotive, machinery with the engine; the electrical mechanism with the powerhouse. And in the
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