10 Steps for New and Growing Christians

Over the next couple of days I will be posting 10 steps for new and growing christians from the living waters website. My prayer is that as I examine my walk with Christ using these 10 steps you will do the same.

The first step is "Daily Bible Reading." This is something that the Lord has weighed heavy on my heart over the last few weeks about feeding on His word daily. A couple of steps I recommend about reading God's word daily are - First make sure to have a couple of different Bibles, so you can have one where you do quiet time and maybe another next to your bed. Second buy a small New Testament Bible to keep in your car. Make sure to keep the Bible out in the open so you can see it in plain view. The reason I recommend these two steps is that Satan will attack you for trying to commit to reading God's word daily, so having multiple Bibles around will help remind us to read it. The time invested or amount of scripture reading is not really that important. The important thing is being faithful to feed on His word ever day without fail, seeking God and truth.

One last thing before I post the article. Pray. Pray that God would put a desire in your heart to want to feed on His word daily without fail. We should seek God with mind, heart, soul and strength, and I believe a great place to start is in His Word.

Daily Bible Reading

A healthy baby has a healthy appetite. If you have truly been "born" of the Spirit of God, you will have a healthy appetite. The Bible says, "As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby," (1 Peter 2:2). Feed yourself every day without fail. Job said, "I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food," (Job 23:12). The more you eat, the quicker you will grow, and the less bruising you will have. Speed up the process and save yourself some pain -- vow to read God's Word every day, without fail. Say to yourself, "No Bible, no breakfast. No read, no feed." Be like Job, and put your Bible before your belly. If you do that, God promises that you will be like a fruitful, strong and healthy tree (see Psalm 1). Each day, find somewhere quiet, and thoroughly soak your soul in the Word of God.

There may be times when you read through its pages with great enthusiasm, and there may be other times when it seems dry and even boring. But food profits your body whether you enjoy it or not. As a child, you no doubt ate desserts with great enthusiasm. Perhaps vegetables weren't so exciting. If you were a normal child, you probably had to be encouraged to eat them at first. Then, as you matured in life you were taught to discipline yourself to eat vegetables. This is because they would physically benefit you, even though they may not have at the time, brought pleasure to your taste buds.