Sermon On “Your Growth On New Year Day” By Sister Anne On 9th January, 2026 Part 1

Описание: Sermon On “Your Growth On New Year Day” By Sister Anne On 9th January, 2026 (Part 1)

INTRODUCTION
We have come to the final moments of 2025 and we have just began 2026.
An eventful year has just left.
The year has been a challenging year for most of us, especially in Kenya.
Some of us are dealing with the pain and loss of 2025.
We have seen God’s blessings as well as tough times this year.
HOWEVER, WE ARE CALLED TO GIVE THANKS AND GROW IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.
Can we all lift up our hands and thank God for 2025?
Thank God for the mountains and the valleys, thank God for the good and bad experiences, and thank God for the loss and gain of 2025.
A new year has just jetted in.
I have been praying that God gives me a hint as to what we shall face this year and He gracefully did.
The theme the Lord laid in my heart is the theme – “GROW.”

GROW
GOD WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO PROGRESS IN THE YEAR 2026 REGARDLESS OF THE HUMAN PLANNED DRAWBACKS.
Will this year be a year of your Spiritual Growth?
2 Peter 3:18
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
1 Timothy 4:7-8
“7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”
How was your spiritual condition in 2025?
ARE YOU A GROWING CHRISTIAN?
What’s the current state of your spirit?
Excellent (you’re doing great)
Good (you’re doing well)
Fair (you’re doing okay)
Poor (you’re in a slump and need some awakening)

We Are Going To Look At The Four Spiritual Disciplines of Christian Growth:

ILLUSTRATION
I think of the mother who was driving her four year old daughter to preschool one morning.
She also happened to be a medical doctor and had left her stethoscope on the front seat.
Driving along the street, she noticed her four year old was quite interested in the stethoscope and was playing with it.
This mother and doctor began to think to herself, “Could it be that my daughter will grow up to follow in my footsteps? It would be wonderful if she would be like me.”
Just then her thoughts were interrupted as her daughter spoke into the stethoscope as if on a phone and said, “Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order please.”
GOD: THE SCRIPTURE TALKS ABOUT GOD AS UNCHANGING.
God remains stable.
We can be sure of that.
He is a rock, unchanging and unchangeable.
GOD DOES NOT GROW NOR DOES GOD DECREASE IN HIS POWER OR CAPACITY.
He in His person never changes.
God does not grow or does not change but when God sent His son, Jesus as a human being, in His capacity as a human Jesus too grew.
Luke 2:52
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.”
The author of Hebrews tells us that Jesus was made perfect.
Hebrews 5:8-9
“8Son though He was, He learned obedience from what He suffered 9and, once made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him.”
The Lord Jesus took on our humanity and in our humanity, He did change.
Like us He changed on earth.
He matured.
He grew in wisdom and stature.
Jesus is not growing in stature and wisdom as God but He is growing in wisdom and stature as a man.
Throughout His life He grew.
He learned obedience.
Like Jesus, when it comes to our Christian life, God expects continued growth.
This is a lifelong pursuit of a child of God, TO BE CHRISTLIKE.
I am sure that we are all going to make good progress in the Lord in 2026.
Have you thought about growth?
I’m not talking about physical growth now,
I’m talking about spiritual growth.
We hear a lot of talk today about church growth, building bigger and bigger churches with more and more people.
BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHURCH GROWTH IS INDIVIDUAL GROWTH, PERSONAL, SPIRITUAL GROWTH.
This is a good time, at the beginning of a new church year with classes and studies and prayer groups beginning again, it is a good time to focus on spiritual growth.
Most of the people want to grow in the Lord.
BUT MOSTLY AS THE TIME GOES ON, THE ENTHUSIASM TO GROW WANES OUT.
Many people get into a spiritual routine and get lethargic.
If you are stuck spiritually GOD WANTS YOU TO GROW.
GOD IS NOT SATISFIED WITH A LIFE OF MEDIOCRACY.
God wants you to grow.
Even if you are a Christian for many years, every new year must be a challenge to grow further.
You will not grow without deliberate effort.

No matter what you’ve done or where you’ve been . . .
You have a place in God’s forever family.
The invitation is wide open.
Just believe and receive.
How do you get there?
TRUST IN GOD’S CHARACTER AND THE GRACE HE EXTENDS.
God proved his goodness through His Son, Jesus Christ.
The Bible says;
“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 CSB).........