How Do I Grow As A Christian?

Summary:

Are we living a Christian life?

What should I expect?

How do I hear the voice of the Lord, the Holy Spirit?

How did Jesus know to speak only what the Father told Him?

What does hunger have to do with it?

Show Notes:

• What does it mean to be in motion?

• A small child first learns to crawl, then to walk

• Honest faith is putting into action what the Lord shows

you or tells you

• Learn to expect the Holy Spirit to speak to you.

• All of us need an experience with the Lord

• There is nothing in the world worth anything

• God knows the Heart of a man

References:

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the

kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who

is in heaven will enter.”

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but

the will of Him who sent Me.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by

the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will

of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 15:10, 15

10. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love;

just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His

love

15. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know

what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all

things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to

you.

James 2:18, 26

18. But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have

works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show

you my faith by my works.”

26. For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith

without works is dead.

Matthew 25:34-40

“I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink”

Matthew 7:7

“Ask, and keep asking and it will be given to you; seek, and

keep seeking and you will find; knock, and keep knocking and it

will be opened to you.”

1 Samuel 3:1-14

God speaks to Samuel

1 Kings 8:39

Then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act

and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You

know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or

at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for

God sees not as a man sees, for man looks at the outward

appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Luke 2:41-52

Jesus as a youth in the temple.

49. And He said to them, “Why is it that you were looking for

Me? Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

Quotes:

• The principle of being in motion is a huge principle.

• That is the only time I get revelation and I get

understanding is when I am moving

• Just ask the Lord to show you Himself

• It was just the fact of relating to somebody in their need

• Read with an anticipation and an expectation that the Holy

Spirit is going to speak to you

• Pester Him, whatever it takes, till He speaks to you

Take Away:

Jesus said that He only did what He saw the Father doing, only

spoke what He heard the Father speaking. If we are to be like

Him, then we probably should seek to hear what He is saying.