Growth

The Christian Growth Cycle:
"For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience, joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light."

It begins with you and I praying for growth in the lives of those we love. Our prayer? That they become filled--completely satisfied with and completely saturated with a knowledge--understanding, discernment, comprehension--of His will--in all spiritual wisdom and understanding--in the ability to see everything in their lives as He sees it. Evidenced by a walk in which everything they know they put into practice in their lives; a pleasing walk--the walk of faith, which allows them to bear fruit--to become more and more like Him, doing the good things that He would do if He were "in their shoes." And such a walk saturates them with an even fuller understanding of the character and nature of the God they serve. And what does growth produce in their lives? An increase in God's power to enable them to be faithful; the might of His glory, His abiding presence in their lives as they make His grace and truth visible to those around them; an enduring steadfastness in every situation; a patience characterized by joy and a thankful heart toward the Father; and a deep life affirming confidence in the sure hope that as He promised He is coming again for us that we might spend forever in the eternal room He Himself has personally prepared for us in His Father's House.

Remember where it all begins! For whom are you faithfully interceding that God might continue His work of spiritual growth and maturity in their lives?