Exodus 16:16 (NIV)
16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer [a] for each person you have in your tent.’ “
God’s people collect mannah at the correct time and only collect just enough.
Colossians 1:9-11 (NIV)
9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully
The verses above speak of how to grow strong spiritually.
Criteria to know you are Growing:
- Know His will
- Walk in His ways
- Strong in trying times
Colossians 1:9 - Knowing God more, is NOT knowing more of God.
Colossians 1:10 – Walk in God’s way and you shall not be shaken.
Colossian 1:11 – Be strong when faced with opposition – powerful to stand for God.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20 (NIV)
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
From believers to followers,
From followers to disciples,
From disciples to ambassadors.
“When you understand what God has made you to be, you will be concerned about whether your behavior reflects His beauty and what others will make of your God.”
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