Kenneth Copeland Devotional 19 October 2024 – Don’t Let Division Stunt Your Growth
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Topic: Don’t Let Division Stunt Your Growth
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions…. – 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
Envying, strife, and divisions had reduced the early Corinthian Christians to their natural, or carnal, state before they were born again. This stunted their spiritual growth, so they couldn’t understand what the Apostle Paul wanted to teach them.
Satan has sent the same spirit of division among us today. He knows that a house divided against itself will fall. He also knows if we all come together in the unity of our faith, we’ll arrive at the full stature of Christ Jesus (Ephesians 4:13). So he has assigned a spirit of division to operate in our personal lives, our church lives, our social lives, and our family lives. His goal is the same as in Corinth: to bring envying strife and division and stunt our spiritual growth.
But we don’t have to yield to that spirit. Instead, Paul says, “[by] speaking the truth in love, [we] may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
Compare “speaking the truth in love” to “envying, strife, and divisions.” They are Diametrical opposites, aren’t they? You can’t do both of them at the same time. As you speak the truth in love, you grow up. As you envy, fuss, and separate from one another, you go back to babyhood.
Don’t let Satan stop your spiritual growth by giving in to the spirit of division, but speak the truth in love and “grow up into Him in all things!”
Scripture Reading: James 4:1-11
This message was written by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, the leader of Kenneth Copeland Ministries (www.KCM.org), which specializes in teaching biblical principles, such as prayer, healing, salvation, and other topics.
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