Saturday, 5 September 2020

Spiritual Maturity Through Intimacy With God


The course is designed in such a way that in the process of attaining spiritual abilities you will find yourself developing patient, faith, love, discipline, faithfulness, self-control, and other qualities which are all part of the fruits of the Spirit and the nature of God.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Gal 5:22-23).

There are two ways to acquire spiritual abilities, there is the hack mentor which involves applying some principles to manipulate God or manipulate the spirit and acquire these abilities. When God created the natural world He made principles of nature that constitute the laws of physics, and if you understand these principles and know how to manipulate them you can use it to get what you want. So also when the spiritual world was made there exist principles that if manipulated correctly you can get the things of the spirit. However, God wants relationship and He has promised to give us His fullness by the virtual of the relationship of sonship that has been given to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Rather than having us storm the realm of the spirit and be so occupied studying principles and manipulating them, God wants to have relationship with us, and He only wants us to explore the things of the spirit (the things in Christ) in relationship with Him. There is nothing wrong with exploring the spirit (the reality in Christ) but it must be done in relationship with God otherwise it is hacking. When it is done through relationship it would lead to spiritual maturity and the development of the fruits of the spirit, but when it is done through hack you will get these abilities but it would not affect you character, you will still remain spiritually immature. This is why this course emphasizes spiritual maturity through intimacy with God.

To attain the fullness of God we must have both the fruits of the Spirit and the gift of the Spirit. Fruit takes time to develop, so the course would take a lot of time. But at the end you’ll gain things that you would have spent the rest of your life as a Christian and not even attain half of it, things beyond your imagination, things you never thought you will be able to attain.

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