7 laws of growth

Introduction


Growth was in the plan
of God at the beginning

Growth means fulfilling
your full potential.

Living things should
grow.

God has encoded the
law of growth in nature
(Genesis 1:11-13).


Introduction

Growth is the divine
essence packed in man,
fulfilled in marriage
(Genesis 1:26-28), and
in the mandate of man
on the earth.
Genesis 2:15- man was
to enhance growth and
prevent hindrances to it
in the garden of Eden.


Introduction

Growth is smooth in
obedience and hard in
disobedience (Genesis
3:17-19).
Growth is designed to
give satisfaction, lack of
growth breeds
frustration.
God is interested in
growth (John 15:1-6). It
is the principle of the
kingdom (Matthew
13:3, 11, 24, 31-33).

1.Growth cannot be forced
(1Corinthians 3:6-15)

2.Growth is about process not
outcome (Ephesians 4:11-16)

3. Growth is about investment
It is not firstly about getting
(2Timothy 2:5-6)
It is about service, commitment, satisfaction of
customer in business (expanding your service, not
increase demand for money), (what kind of emotion do
customers leave with?)
it is about meeting the spiritual needs of
people in ministry and your sacrifice for
them (John 3:16, 12:32-33)
It is about consistency (repetition to
the point of boredom)

4.Growth is about focus (not being
distracted) (1Kings 20:38-42,
Philippians 3:12-14)

... focus is a test of love. What you
love, what you are passionate about,
you tend focus on and therefore grow
in. (Revelation 2:4-5)
5. Growth is about doing your best and leaving
the rest (e.g. to God in the place of prayer)
Paul - Galatians 4:19, Acts 20:17-36;
Jesus- Mark 1:30-38, Matthew 9:35-38.

The question is: have you done or
are you doing your best?
(1Cor9:24-27)
6. Growth is about quality
(1Corinthians 3:6-15)

Quality is about what is unique
(not making a copy).

I am not obliged to do what you are
doing but what God is showing me.

There is a race set before you which
defines the quality you are supposed to
deliver.

There are probably temples in Egypt,
but God wanted something else from
Moses (Exodus 25:9)

7. Growth is about quantity (Matthew
28:19, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:47, 6:1-7)

How God
modelled the 7
laws of growth

He set up order and
structure on the earth, so
that growth becomes the
inevitable outcome (law
2).

He did his best and left
the rest in the creation of
man and his subsequent
disobedience (law 5)

How God
modelled the 7
laws of
growth

When he created the
earth, he said it was
good (quality) (law 6)
He invested Jesus- (John
12:24) (laws 3 and 7)
Jesus sent men to the
ends of the earth to
make disciples (quantity
and quality) Matthew
28:18-20 (6, 7)

How God
modelled the 7
laws of
growth

He is focused on his
agenda, cannot be
distracted - (Isaiah 63:1-
5, 46:10-11) (law 4)

God does not force
growth (birth of Isaac
and Jesus has to go
through full nine
months. (law 1)


Conclusion

Blessing can be commanded;
healing can be commanded but
not growth.

Growth cannot be a miracle; it
has to be a process.

The process may be enhanced
(Leviticus 25:21), hence the
need to know the laws of
growth, the second law building
on the first, the third on the
second etc.



KAYODE CROWN

CROWN TEACHING MINISTRY

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