Spiritual Growth Is Not About Getting—It’s About Becoming

Spiritual growth is about becoming the person God intended us to be.

Join us for this episode as we talk about how God supports our growth. We share 10 important life skills from the Bible that help us face challenges with confidence and direction. As we learn to open ourselves up to the Holy Spirit, we can experience incredible growth, going from surviving to truly thriving. Listen in to find out how God’s strength, love, and guidance can help you reach your spiritual goals.

Discussion questions

1. What is the unique purpose God has you here to do?
2. Do you allow God to have free reign in your life?
3. Have you made your life about “surviving” as a Christian?

Scripture references

But as for you, be clear-headed in every situation [stay calm and cool and steady], endure every hardship [without flinching], do the work of an evangelist, fulfill [the duties of] your ministry.

2 Timothy 4:5 AMP

That is why I remind you to fan into flame the gracious gift of God, [that inner fire—the special endowment] which is in you through the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination]. [7] For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].

2 Timothy 1:6-7 AMP

Let me emphasize this: As you yield to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life.

Galatians 5:16 TPT

When your self-life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit you hinder him from living free within you! And the Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your self-life from dominating you! So then, the two incompatible and conflicting forces within you are your self-life of the flesh and the new creation life of the Spirit. [18] But when you yield to the life of the Spirit, you will no longer be living under the law, but soaring above it!

Galatians 5:17-18 TPT

But the fruit produced by the Holy Spirit within you is divine love in all its varied expressions: joy that overflows, peace that subdues, patience that endures, kindness in action, a life full of virtue, faith that prevails, gentleness of heart, and strength of spirit. Never set the law above these qualities, for they are meant to be limitless.

Galatians 5:22-23 TPT