Your Spiritual Growth and Prosperity

This year should be an exciting one for us as we desire more and more to grow spiritually from one stage in our Christian life to the other. Author and Christian teacher, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in His Book "Don't Stop Here," says there are four stages in a Christian's journey through life just like that of Elijah and Elisha's journey to Jordan before Elijah was taken up to heaven amidst flames of fire.
We start from Gilgal where we receive Christ into our lives. Then we move on to Bethel where we make commitments to God. From Bethel the journey is towards Jericho where we become wariors and breakdown every barrier, hitches and stumbling blocs on our way. But Pastor Chris does not encourage us to stay on at Jericho, instead he encourages us to move on to Jordan where our spiritual maturity becomes complete and where the little foxes that disturb us cannot reach us anymore.
It is my hope that this year, you will move quickly from wherever you by spending less time watching soap operas, useless radio programmes and online photos and spend more time on the word, meditation and prayer so that you can head for Jordan and remove the little foxes from your life for good.

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