How can you tell if a man is on an Emotional Growth Mission? He keeps learning more and more about himself, wife, and his interactions with others.

How can you tell if a man is on a Spiritual Growth Mission? He keeps learning more and more about Abba, Jesus, Holy Spirit, the Bible and the Church.

Emotional Growth Questions

• Are you positive or negative?
• Are you happy and content or thrashing and restless?
• What triggers your anger?
• What is your emotional wound from childhood?
• Are you using a role to cope with life? (pleaser, fixer, controller, worrier) Or does the term Lost describe you?
• Do you use alcohol, drugs, food, or other people to escape (or for comfort)?
• Do you like yourself?
• And are you developing deepening, growing relationships?

Spiritual Growth Questions

• Do you have a growing love for the things of God?
• Are you a student of the teachings of Jesus?
• Are you learning to hear the nudge of the Holy Spirit?
• Do you enjoy worship?
• Do you talk to the Heavenly Father daily?
• Are you maturing spiritually?
• Do you read your Bible?
• Are you part of a religious community?

Prayer

Father, help me work on both emotional and spiritual growth. I want my emotions to work in harmony and submission to you. Please bless me with wisdom. Amen.

Bible Connection

If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand.
Mark 3:25 NIV