Introduction: Are you a healthy CHRISTian? Have you been growing in your faith in Jesus Christ? Do you feel stuck?
Are you taking in but not giving out? How can we measure our spiritual growth? Do you have a plan in place for spiritual growth? Are you resting on your feelings instead of faith? Are you responding to circumstances based on the flesh or the Spirit?

1. In order to be Spiritually Healthy, we must TAKE IN! 

” 2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” (1Pet 2:2)

“4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (Matt 4:4)

“7So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Rom 10:17)

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2Tim 2:15)

Be sure to “TAKE IN” the Word of God daily.

2. In order to be Spiritually Healthy we must GIVE OUT!

“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; 7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.” (Rom 12:4-12)

“GIVING OUT” by Serving Jesus through His Church is His plan.

3. In order to be Spiritually Healthy, we must be COME UNDER!

“7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

Unless we are willing to submit to God’s rule and reign in our life, we will never grow as a Christian.

4. In order to be Spiritually Healthy, we must be BE OVER!

“15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” (1John 2:15-17; 4:4)

“4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

Overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil by the power of the Holy Spirit is the key to growing spiritually.

5. In order to be Spiritually Healthy, we must WALK WITH!

“7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1John 1:7; Gal 5:16)

“16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

Our walk must match our talk.

6. In order to be Spiritually Healthy, we must SPEAK OUT!

“8And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matt 28:18-20)

This is the GOOD NEWS! Tell it!!

7. In order to be Spiritually Healthy we must be LOOK UP!

“11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” (Titus 2:11-14)

Remembering our accountability at the Judgement Seat of Christ will help keep us growing spiritually until we see Him face to face!