How to Grow In Christ and Measure Your Spiritual Growth: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Growth

By Emmanuel Allotey

Embark on a life-changing journey towards spiritual growth with this inspiring book on Christianity. Getting into the process of becoming more like Jesus Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit, the author stresses the importance of diligent pursuit of God through one's personal study and application of God's Word, and prayer.

In this book, you will learn about twenty-five reasons why you must grow spiritually, discover ten essential keys to spiritual growth, learn about eight areas of growth, and discover how to assess your own progress. The author also provides 101 Bible-based prayer points to aid in your spiritual growth journey. By prioritising spiritual growth, Christians can better reflect the nature of Jesus Christ and walk in their God-given authority. Whether you're a new believer or a seasoned Christian, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Aug 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781805146490

Emmanuel Allotey

Emmanuel A. Allotey is an author and serves as a Lay Pastor of the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC) with Bishop Dag Howard-Mills as the founder. He has been a pastor for over twenty-five years and is a minster with a passion to help believers develop a closer walk with Jesus Christ and to fulfil their purpose through the teaching of the Word of God.  

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Dedication

I dedicate this book to my wife Laureen Allotey.

Thank you for all the godly counsel you have given me

over the years.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1  Spirituality Quotes

Chapter 2  Why Spiritual Growth is Important

Chapter 3  How to Grow Spiritually

Chapter 4  Eight Areas of Growth

Chapter 5  Evidence of Spiritual Growth

Chapter 6  101 Prayer Points for Spiritual Growth

Conclusion

About the Author

Acknowledgements

I appreciate the following ministers of God for the knowledge and understanding that I have gained through them over the years; Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, Bishop E.A.T Sackey, Bishop Eddy Addy, Bishop Richard Aryee, Apostle Kingsley Gyasi, Episcopal Sister Phillippa-Marka Coker, Episcopal Sister Kathleen-Sarah Parker-Allotey, Reverend Paul Kobi-Fordah, Reverend John Frimpong, Reverend Alfred Gati (All of The United Denominations Originating from Lighthouse Group of Churches: UD-OLGC) and Reverend Eric Prempeh of Cathedral of Praise.

With special thanks and love to my father, Mr Emmanuel Moi Allotey, for buying me a Dakes’s Annotated Reference Bible that has been helpful in my journey of getting to know God.

Thanks to Lady Pastor Emefa Toppar of UD-OLGC for your guidance and encouragement to get this book published.

Many thanks to Lady Pastor Doris Frimpong of UD-OLGC and Mrs Anita Sarkodie for proofreading and editing this book.

My greatest gratitude goes to the Mighty Holy Spirit, for the help and guidance I received from Him in writing this book. I pray that He will use this book to glorify Jesus Christ.

Chapter 1

Spirituality Quotes

We grow in proportion as we know.

J. A. Motyer

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

The measure of our spirituality is the amount of praise and thanksgiving in our prayer.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.

Matt Chandler

The circumstances we ask God to change are often the circumstances God is using to change us.

Mark Batterson

Faith in Jesus leads to a life transformed by Jesus.

Melissa Kruger

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man.

R. A. Torrey

Christians cannot grow spiritually as they ought to in isolation from one another.

Gene Getz

There is something fundamentally wrong with claiming to love God without a passion to love people.

Wess Stafford

When you are spiritually mature you are dominated by the Spirit.

Dag Heward-Mills

Chapter 2

Why Spiritual Growth is Important

After salvation, one should have a strong quest to grow up spiritually. Spiritual growth is the process of becoming more and more like Jesus Christ. It is the will of God that we grow up spiritually to become more like Jesus Christ. God wants us to be conformed to the image of His Son. Simply put, we are to grow in our walk with God until we become like Christ through the help of the Holy Spirit. This is the ultimate goal of the salvation experience.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Romans 8:29

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Romans 8:29 (NLT)

Spiritual growth takes time, effort and the grace of God; but we must have a vision to grow up, otherwise we will remain baby Christians for