21 Days of Prayer - Day 11 - Wednesday January 17 - God’s Work in Us - Our Growth
Today we’ll talk about our Growth. Just look back and know.. I’m not where I want to be but I’m not where I once was.
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4:11-16 (NIV)
Today let’s ask God, “Lord, I want to grow in 2024.”
Perhaps start your year by reviewing your life in different areas - goals where you want to grow.
1. Growth requires vulnerability.
I’m going to let God or someone else point out to me an area where I can grow.
Mature people will ask others to look into their lives and give advice for growth.
Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)
The worst counsel comes from me, myself and I. It’s good to ask God and maybe ask some godly counselors into your life.
2. Growth requires change.
Some people don’t like change, but God wants us to change.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2 Cor. 5:17 (NKJV)
Just say, “Lord, there’s no area of my life that is off limits for change.”
We should have a willingness for God to bring change into your life. Ask the Holy Spirit to do a work of change on the inside of us.
3. Growth requires pliability.
We should be soft for God to work with. Like clay in the Potter’s Hand.
I don’t want to be hard and brittle because change can hurt. I want to be soft in His Hands.
6 “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.! Jeremiah 18:6 (NLT)
I want to be pliable and easy to change.
Maybe pray and ask God for His guidance to help us grow in these different areas.
