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Choose from one of the subcategories below to delve into a specific area of spiritual growth.
Increase Understanding
One of the first stages of spiritual development is to gain deeper understanding of spiritual principles and truths. This isn't just an intellectual exercise. Rather, it's the process of opening up your heart and allowing God to reveal Himself to you. If the knowledge remains intellectual without bringing you into relationship and alignment with God, it can do more harm than good. So, the purpose of this understanding is to facilitate a personal experience with God. You'll find helpful resources to accommodate this process in this section.
Experience God
Once God reveals Himself to you, it opens the door for experiencing Him and allowing Him to transform you. This is the process of making yourself vulnerable and accessible to Him. As you do so, He will continue to reveal Himself to you in such a way that it draws you into a personal relationship with Him. If your goal is to allow God to become more real and facilitate a personal relationship with Him, you'll find valuable resources in this section.
Respond & Align
As God reveals Himself to you, your responsibility to respond positively to what He's doing and to align yourself with Him. This includes aligning your thinking, values, priorities, agendas and much more with His. This is a pivotal step in spiritual growth. If you fail to respond to God and align yourself with Him, you risk being left with a hardened heart that is unresponsive to newer revelation and experiences with Him. In this section, you will discover resources to help you respond and align with God.
Cleanse & Overcome
As you continue to respond to what He's doing and to align yourself to His ways, He will take you through stages and cycles of cleansing and healing from the effects of past sins. As the Great Physician, God's heart is to restore to you everything you've lost due to the effects of sin. He will empower you to overcome your struggles, fears and flaws through a process of redemptive restoration. The resources in this section are intended to help you facilitate this process.
Build Good Habits
The process of spiritual growth involves changing the way you think and behavior. As you come into more healing and freedom,you'll discover that the struggles of the past have less and less pull on your heart. As you align yourself with the truth, you are empowered to live in maturity and freedom. You can begin reshaping your habits to help ensure a balanced, mature walk with God. The resources in this section are intended to help you do so.
Develop Healthy Traits
Changing your habits is helpful in your spiritual journey. But, there's more. Transforming your character has more to do with reshaping your self-identity than it does your outward behavior. God wants to empower you to see yourself the way He does and for that revelation to change your identity. This is the process of coming into alignment with your purpose, calling, dignity, integrity and destiny. The resources in this section should be helpful in this aspect of your spiritual growth and journey.
Make Disciples
The next stage of your spiritual growth is all about giving away what God has done in you.This is the process of multiplying your faith in others. Just as others have invested themselves in your spiritual advancement, you can do the same in others. This has more to do than just evangelism. Rather, it is all about fathering, mentoring, coaching and just plain old loving other people into becoming who God created them to be. The resources in this section are intended to help in this process.
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