Category: Devotions

Colossians 1:10
10 Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

Matthew 5:48
48 But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect

1 Corinthians 3:6
6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.

Proverbs 11:28
28 Trust in your money and down you go! But the godly flourish like leaves in spring.

Psalm 92:13, 14
13 For they are transplanted to the Lord’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God. 14 Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green.

Colossians 1:6
6 This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is bearing fruit everywhere by changing lives, just as it changed your lives from the day you first heard and understood the truth about God’s wonderful grace.

Mark 4:8
8 Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

2 Corinthians 10:15
15 Nor do we boast and claim credit for the work someone else has done. Instead, we hope that your faith will grow so that the boundaries of our work among you will be extended.

Time to Grow Up!!

As I scrolled down looking at some of my friends’ FB statuses, one stuck out. My friend said she wondered why people say they want to change but aren’t willing to do what they need to do to change.. Then my devotion spoke of growing up spiritually.. And I said God I can’t ignore this! There are so many things I want to change and I know I haven’t done anything to put them into action! We have to grow up people! 1 Corinthians 13:11 says “When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” Growing in our faith and Godly love cannot be done if we are still living in our teenage years.

I read something that said that 95% of our Christian walk is maturing. Start maturing today! Start cleaning out closets! Start throwing out the old and filling that space with the new! Now you have a choice: to recognize areas in your life where you can grow up in every way imaginable or keep your Peter Pan complex and remain a child forever!

Here are more scriptures on growth: Colossians 1:10, Matthew 5:48, 1
Cor 3:6, Proverbs 11:28, Psalm 92:13-14, Colossians 1:6, Mark 4:8, 2
Cor 10:15.

Peace, God’s grace, and blessings!

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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10

Marquita B. Priester