THE PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH

Have you ever seen a plant that grows without water?. And do you see a farmer who is all interested in the harvest, but does nothing about the growth of his crops? Çertainly, none of both exists. A plant needs water to grow, and so the Bible says you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, bearing fruits in it's season. "bearing fruits in it's season is GROWTH which comes before HARVEST. In real sense, The Growth qualifies the plant for Harvest. In other words, without Growth there is no Harvest. And what brings growth is the water.
If that is the case, i guess a farmer cares more about growth than harvest, because harvest will definitely come when the crop grows. Your heaven(the harvest) is sure when your growth is intact. So, the major task you have now is to work on your growth. And that's where the devil battles you. How he does this is to take away the activity of water. Water in the Bible stands for God's word and His Spirit. You need to know the word of God, do the word and be baptized in the Holy Spirit to grow. The Spirit gives you power to do God's word. But how pitiful that many don't even have good knowledge of God's word. I had a recent conversation with a young believer and I began to see several things that he didn't know they are sins. There are things many christians don't even know that they are sins. Two reasons account for this: It's either they have never had an encounter with rain or they don't have manual wetter. A plant has water to grow either by rain or by manual wetting. It's either these Christians don't have personal encounter with God's word and the Holy Spirit or they go to churches that do not preach holiness messages and lacks the move of the Holy Spirit. Their lives are not planted by the rivers of water and they are not bearing fruits in their season. They hope about heaven(harvest), but they do not grow. That's the most funniest dream a plant can have.
And what is growth? Growth is progressive separation from sin and closeness to God. This cannot happen without you having a personal encounter with God's word and the Holy Spirit, even if you go to a Bible believing church. Any plant still needs a personal encounter with rain from heaven to have good growth, even if there are people to wet it manually.
DARE TO GROW, HARVEST IS SURE.