Understanding Spiritual Growth
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A follower of Christ can grow spiritually by following the example set in the Lord's Prayer. The prayer teaches us how to relate to God, how He changes us and how our spiritual formation affects our lives. It provides a model for praying as well as for growing spiritually each day. By living with faith and expectation, one is able to avoid being taken down by evil forces.
Preview - Understanding Spiritual Growth
1. Our Father
2. Who Art in Heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name
3. Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
4. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread and Forgive Us Our Debts
5. As We Forgive Our Debtors. Lead Us Not Into a Time of Trial
6. Deliver Us From the Evil One
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A follower of Christ can grow spiritually by following the example set in the Lord's Prayer. The prayer teaches us how to relate to God, how He changes us and how our spiritual formation affects our lives. It provides a model for praying as well as for growing spiritually each day. By living with faith and expectation, one is able to avoid being taken down by evil forces.
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Our heavenly father is a good and loving father. He is calling you to experience your spiritual formation in the community of the trinity and also fellow believers.
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When you experience the realities of heaven breaking into your life, you will begin to realize that heaven is a different dimension but not a different location. Your spiritual formation begins now and will be complete when Jesus comes again to establish his new creation.
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As we ask for the Lord's powerful directing influence to appear, God's reign will be effective in our hearts. As the process of spiritual formation changes you, you will know God's will and see his kingdom revealed in your acts of love toward others.
0% Complete By cultivating an awareness of God in your life, he gives you an assurance that he knows what you need. In the process of spiritual formation, we realize that we find our ultimate meaning in living in communion with God. We have all violated God's laws and Jesus provides the way to be reconciled to him.
0% CompleteBecause we receive mercy and forgiveness from God, we are called to extend mercy and forgivness to others. The process of spiritual formation involves trials. As we depend on God for the power to overcome them, the hold of Satan over the earth is broken!
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You pray that you will be snatched from the clutching clench of the evil one so you will not be overwhelmed and done into nothingness. In the process of spiritual formation, you realize how aggressive and determined Satan is to destroy you. He oftern uses strategies of disbelief and despair to try to make you hopeless and discourage your faith in God.
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How do you begin to grow spiritually? How do you continue to become more like Jesus? What does the Lord's Prayer teach us about how we should relate to God, how God changes us in the process and how our spiritual formation changes the way we live? How do you as a fully devoted follower of Christ live your life in an attitude of faith and expectation and avoid being crushed and devoured by the Evil One? The Lord's Prayer gives you a model, not only for praying, but also for growing spiritually each day as a follower of Jesus.
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Understanding Spiritual Growth - Student Guide
This Student's Guide was created by BiblicalTraining.org to be used in conjunction with BiblicalTraining.org's free online class, The Basics of Spiritual Growth...
