1. To Grow Up

5. Top Ten Reasons Christians Do Not Mature

6. 10. It’s a Relationship, not a religion. 9. Whatever happened to rebuke?

7. Top Ten Reasons Christians Do Not Mature 8. You must remove the masks to truly grow and mature! 7. We all need inner Healing! 6. If love is not growing then I am not growing!

8. Top Ten Reasons Christians Do Not Mature 5. Apathy is hindering your growth! 4. Discipleship requires discipline!

9. 3. Your faith must be growing! Romans 1:16 (KJV) 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

10. Your faith must be growing ! Matthew 17:19-21 (NKJV) 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

11. Your faith must be growing! Matthew 17:19-21 (NKJV) 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

12. Your faith must be growing! Matthew 17:19-21 (NKJV) 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. *A growing faith

13. How does my faith grow? 1. My faith grows when I fast, pray, and worship! (Matt17:21)

14. How does my faith grow? 2. My faith grows when I am in the Word of God! Romans 10:17 (NAS) So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. My faith grow when I am in the word of God!

15. How does my faith grow? 3. My faith grows when I respond correctly during trails!

16. How does my faith grow? James 1:3-4 (NAS) 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

17. How does my faith grow? 1 Peter 1:17 (KJV) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

18. PRAYER: Lord help my unbelief

19. 2. I must be able to let it go! Philippians 3:12-14 (KJV) 12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

20. 2. I must be able to let it go! Philippians 3:12-14 (KJV) 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

21. Letting Go of what? The past The pain The offense The unforgiveness The bitterness

22. Prayer: Help me to Let it go!

23. 1. I can’t grow without the power of the Holy Spirit! John16:13 (NAS) "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

24. Holy Spirit Communicates with us Leads and guides Intercedes for us Comforts us Corrects us Supernaturally Empowers us

25. Prayer: Holy Spirit Empower Me!