In today's episode, we focus on the needs of a spiritual baby. Every spiritual babe needs to be born and planted into a church family. There, they must be fed a healthy diet of the sincere milk of the Word which would cause them to grow. Our takeaway from this episode would be this: get into a solid, Bible-based church and feed on the Word of God, especially on the foundational principles of our faith. It will cause your growth process to be steady, smooth and seamless.

In this episode, Toorera continues the discussion on the features of a babyhood stage of spiritual development. In the words of Kenneth E. Hagin, "Don't read everything you can get your hands on. Unless you are a fully mature Christian and able to rightly divide it, it would be best not to read such things". She tells some personal stories along this line that communicate the danger of feeding on materials that are harmful to our spiritual development.

I believe you will find this episode instructive and inspiring as well.

Everyone came into the kingdom of God as a spiritual baby. No one was born a mature Christian.

Babies cannot do anything for themselves. They need to be seen about. Spiritual babies are the responsibility of mature Christians. Even though spiritual babies have a mature physical stature, they do not know their way around the things of God and people who are already spiritually mature must take up the task of raising them.

In this episode, we finish up the points that show why every Christian should grow spiritually. As we read through the epistles, we can see that as we grow spiritually, we are also growing in our faith and walking in our redemptive rights and privileges As we feed on the Word of God for spiritual growth, our faith would be built up and we would be motivated to act on the Word. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the World.

See Ephesians 1:16; Acts 20:32

Today, we go further in examining why every believer must grow. Spiritual growth helps us to go further in our knowledge of God's Word as His Holy Spirit teaches us. When we are fed on the right diet, our spiritual tongues are trained to value sound doctrine we stir up a thirst to go after the Word some more. The more we grow or increase in our knowledge of the Word, the more we grow and the more insight and revelation knowledge is entrusted to us.

A spiritual baby is often unable to differentiate between sound doctrine and false doctrine because like in the natural, babies are ignorant, babies cannot look after themselves and are at the mercy of their caregivers. Not being able to do this could prove to be fatal as the spiritual diet a person consumes determines the direction and the quality of their lives. An age-old saying says “You are what you eat”. This is why the Word instructs us not to remain infants and teaches us to grow. Growing into maturity helps us differentiate between sound doctrine and false doctrine (Eph 4: 14).

What importance does spiritual growth have to the believer? Why should a believer look forward and walk towards spiritual growth? Well, the first reason is that God expects every one of His children to grow up spiritually. Right next to that is God's expectation that every believer walks in His plans and purposes for their lives. Spiritual maturity is keenly tied to finding and walking in God's plans and purposes for your life.

Join us today as Toorera goes further in the Word unpacking what Spiritual growth is and how to grow.

God's will is for us to grow up spiritually. Growth is an indicator of life. It is the design of God that anything that has life grows. There is a striking similarity between physical growth and spiritual growth. And just as the growth and development of earthly children delight their parents, Father God is pleased when we grow up and develop spiritually.

In this series we will be discussing in more detail what spiritual growth is and what it entails, we also be sharing practical tips and steps to attaining spiritual growth.

For the Word of God to benefit us, we must discipline ourselves to focus our attention on the Word of God. Proverbs 4: 20-22 gives us some steps to take; give attention to the Word, incline your ear to His sayings, do not let them depart from your eyes, and keep them in the midst of your heart. For the Word of God to get into our hearts, we must pay attention to it.