SPIRITUAL MATURITY

SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL MATURITY

1. Having the Word in your heart and speaking it.

(Rom 10:6-8) But the righteousness of faith says this: "Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven?" that is, to bring Christ down; or "Who shall descend into the deep?"; that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. But what does it say? "The Word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart"; that is, the Word of Faith which we proclaim;

2 . Being a Doer of the Word

(Jas 1:23) For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.

3. Grown up, now taking the meat of the Word

(1Co 3:2-3) I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now. For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?

4. Coming into the unity of the faith and Not tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine

(Eph 4:13-14) And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

5. Being cleansed by the Word

(Eph 5:26) that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

6. Being transformed into the image of Christ

(Rom 12:2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

7. Knowing who you are in Christ and who He is in you.

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1 NIV).

8. Daily renewing the mind and being renewed in knowledge

"put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him" (Colossians 3:10).

9. Speaking the truth in love

10. Knowing you are becoming better

You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are becoming like the One who made you" (Colossians 3:10 NCV).

"He who has begun a good work in you will complete it" (Philippians 1:6).