Signs of Christian Maturity
09/22/2013
George Poulo


  1. The flesh is tame.  Where struggle and temptation were strong, now they are no longer a battle.
  2. You are led by the Spirit and not by logic and rationality.
  3. Freedom to give means God can be generous first with others but also with yourself.
  4. There are days where you wake up with joy for no apparent reason and it lasts all day.
  5. You are blessed without any effort on your part.  It just happens.
  6. Knowledge of scripture and understanding is rooted in the Spirit not in the mind.
  7. Being alone is solitude not loneliness.
  8. When you receive the Father, when that which is perfect has come, you rarely pray in tongues.
  9. There is no one method to prayer.  Prayer becomes silence which leads to inspiration which leads to utterance, or action, or stillness, or presence, or answer, or song, or relaxation.
  10. Not only do you have favor with God, you have favor with men. 
  11. Evangelization is a door God opens which you walk through rather than being indiscriminate.
  12. Fear gives way to hope and confidence.
  13. Preaching becomes grounded in the Spirit and all the years of preparation gives way to spontaneity and grace.
  14. Teaching of scripture is rooted in experience not doctrine, rules, and ritual.
  15. You become aware of which gifts the Spirit is operating in you.
  16. You can be under the anointing for hours at a time and you need not be doing anything “religious”.
  17. The Spirit directs you not only to do spiritual things but when to just relax and do nothing special.
  18. You do not have to be continually reading the bible, the word of God just comes to you.
  19. People see the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
  20. There is no rush or worry.  It all remains in the hands of God.
  21. God can move you at will like the wind.
  22. Your physical health improves and as you get older you remain young.
  23. You have little but no lack.
  24. You have learned to keep yourself from idols: money, power, fame, self.
  25. You become a spiritual father to the body of Christ.


   

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