CHECKING YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH

MONDAY, 14TH AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  CHECKING YOUR SPIRITUAL HEALTH

MEMORIZE: “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless indeed you are disqualified.”  1 Corinthians 13:5

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Peter 2:1-3.

“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”

EXPOSITION:

In this world, checking our health status regularly is a sure way to prevent health deterioration. It helps in discovering in time if there is any challenge coming up. Likewise in the realm of faith, the word of God commands us to examine ourself to know if we are still in faith. As it is written in 2 Corinthians 10:12, "“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” 

In order to check one’s spiritual health, here are some of the most important vital signs of a true Christian: 

1. Christian fruit (John 15:8) 

2. Love for God’s people (John 13:35) 

3. Concern for personal holiness (1 Pet. 1:13–21) 

4. Love for God’s Word (1 Peter 2:2–3) 

5. A desire to obey (John 14:15, 21, 23) 

6. A sense of intimacy with God (Rom. 8:14–17) 

7. Perseverance (Phil. 1:27–28) 

8. Fellowship with God’s people (Heb. 10:24–25) 

9. A desire to glorify God (Matt. 5:13–16) 

10. Witness to Christ’s personal reality (1 Pet. 3:15)

As a result of testing their spiritual vital signs, Christians are not to linger or remain at the childhood level but are to grow up in all things. As this individual maturity or growth occurs, it extends to the building up and growth of the corporate body of Christ (Eph. 4:14–16). Spirituality involves God’s Spirit taking God’s Word and maturing God’s people through the ministry of God’s servants for the spiritual growth of individual believers, which results in the growth of Christ’s body. This is the ultimate goal of systematic theology—to increasingly think and then act in accord with God’s will as one matures in the Christian faith. 

ACTION POINT:  Examine your spiritual life if you are growing or not. It is a growing life that bears fruits.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Jeremiah 23 – 26.

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