Christian Growth

BELIEVE! Seed of Faith

• Accept God’s love• Believe Jesus died for you• Confess Sin• Begin to grow• (Matthew 13)

WORSHIP! Follow the light …Seek God in every situation

Matthew 6:33 Do not worry about what to eat, drink or wear, God knows we need them, but “Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.”

• Phototropism in tomatoes• Phototropism in tomato seedlings

PRAY: Be “thirsty” to spend time with God.

• Psalm 42:1,2 “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you O God. My soul thirsts for God…When can I go and meet with God?”

READ THE BIBLE! Be hungry to read God’s Word

• Deuteronomy 8:3 Manna in the wilderness was given to God’s people so they would learn that “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

PROTECT YOUR ‘SEEDLING’ HEART! Kill Weeds and Insects

• I Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be misled. Bad company corrupts good character.”

GROW DEEP ROOTS!Persevere. Don’t give up.

• I Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore my brothers stand firm. Let nothing move you.”

• Radish seeds growing roots

BEAR FRUIT! Do Good. Remember your purpose.

Galations 5:22 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”

CHOOSETO GROW!

Jeremiah 17: 5-8 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Cursed is the man

who trusts in man… and whose heart turns away from the Lord.. He will be like a bush in the wasteland; He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt man where no one lives.

• “But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.. he will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream... It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

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