57 | Stop Waiting to Grow, Why Your Spiritual Maturity Is Your Responsibility

Do you ever feel stuck in your faith?  Do you wonder if you are supposed to feel more mature, more grounded by now?  Or maybe you feel the tension of knowing you are called to more, but you’re not sure what moving forward actually looks like. In this episode, we talk about what it means to actively grow in your faith instead of staying stagnant.  Scripture calls you to run your race with endurance, to fight the good fight, and to keep building a life rooted in Christ.  Growth does not happen by accident.  It takes intention, discipline, and a willingness to be stretched.  Choosing obedience and staying consistent over time are what actually produce maturity. This conversation will help you shift out of autopilot and into a faith that is alive, active, and moving forward. You are not called to stay where you are.  You are called to grow and to become someone who not only hears the Word but lives it. Stay Rooted!   Bible Verses to journal through: 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 1 Corinthians 9:25–27 “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.” 2 Peter 3:18 “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.” Ephesians 4:13–15 “Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,” Colossians 1:10 “So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.” Hebrews 5:12–14 “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.