Essential Practices For Spiritual Transformation

1. Work Out Your Salvation …For God Is Working In You: Cultivating ‘Response-abledness’

2. Sitting At The Feet Of Jesus: Cultivating The Ability To Be With Jesus And Listen To What He’s Saying!

3. .Jesus Habit of Withdrawing & Retreating: Cultivating The Ability To Stop What Were Doing; Get Away For A Period of Time To Be Alone With Jesus

Spiritual Regression: “…in Responding”

11About this we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, for you have become sluggish in hearing.

Prolonged exposure to God’s word without a prompt, consistent and concerted effort to obey and apply His word to our lives will result in an increasingly diminished capacity to hear Him and understand what He is saying.

Spiritual Regression: “…in Retaining…”

12 Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, [and] not solid foo

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you
(Matt.28:19)

Spiritual Regression: “…in Reasoning”

13 Everyone who lives on milk lacks experience of the word of righteousness, for he is a child.

Overcoming from Spiritual Regression: From The Condition To The Cure

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties are trained by practice to discern good and evil.

Conclusion: Spiritual Regression

1. We Can Be Listening To God Without Ever Really Hearing (Comprehending) What He Is Trying To Say To Us!

2. We Can Spend Allot Of Time Learning About God’s Word And Still Never Get Beyond The ABC’s Of Our Faith!

3. We Can Retain God’s Word With Out Ever Being Able To Relate It To Our Lives

Application: Overcoming Spiritual Regression

1. Pay Attention To God When You Sense Him Speaking To You

2. Make Every Effort To Apply What You Hear To Your Life… Now…Not Later!

3. Your Efforts Will Eventually Become Habitual !

4. Discernment Will Be Formed As A Result Of This Habit!