When You are calling on all others O Savior, do not pass me by Pt. 2.
Channel: Theophilus Lambo
Date: 2013-06-08

While Bartimaeus physical eyes were blind to the vanities of this world and their negative distraction, during his days in total darkness, his heart was after the mysteries of the kingdom of God and by the time he had his personal encounter with Christ Jesus, he had found the truth. 

Since we are not blind and still exposed to all the attractions and vanities of this sinful world, how then can we be saved so that we too may know the truth and the truth to set us free? I thank God for this church, as our name implies, we are truly God's people, in that God wants us to know how we can prepare ourselves or sanctify ourselves in order to be able to approach Him, like the blind Bartimaeus did with firm belief that he would receive his sight. If you remember, from our last message, which we explained  the foundation and our first step in building  strong relationship with Christ Jesus so that we can grow spiritually and build a stronger faith into our live. 
The summary of these six principles are:
• You have to admit you need God's help and mercy.
• Approach the Throne of Grace with a spirit of humility and not a spirit of self-righteousness.
• Always remember to ask God for forgiveness of your sins.
• Surrender yourself completely to God.
• Wait patiently in the Lord.
• Walk righteously before God and man.
This last basic principle is the key of our message for this morning; how do we develop our Personal Growth spiritually to be able to have boldness to approach Christ's throne of Grace for help. In as long as we are still holding on to our old garment of fear, lack of faith, unbelief, greed, indecision and lack of self-esteem, it will be difficult to move to the next level. We worship and are serving a God of order, God of righteousness, God of purity and God of mercy, Who will not dwell in a body that is tinted with corruption and unbelief; hence it becomes necessary for us to purify ourselves. It is an absolute condition; there is no compromise as stipulated in the Holy Bible: Let us read from the following scriptures: Exodus 32:29; Leviticus 8:33; 2 Chronicles 29:31.
Now that majority of us have taken that bold decision last Sunday to establish our individual personal relationship with God, which I pray none of us will back slide so far we have set our hands on the plough and there is no turning back, we shall start this morning to step into our next level of developing our personal growth.
i. Our first step is, How can we have personal growth using goals? Setting of goals is not often easy. Many at times we have set goals for our self only to find out, we often went off tracks and always struggling to come back on tracks. You have to remember that goals are an important part of personal growth. We must make goals for our self so that we can improve our life and stay on the right tract. There are many things that can kick us off track for our personal growth and goals. We may find that some influences in our personal life and other people we associate with, can harm us to the point where we start thinking that our goals are not as important as we think they are. We must never allow the 'vision killers' in our life, in our church, in our homes and in our community, the agents, Satan has planted into our midst to derail us from accomplishing our goals. The Bible says in Matthew 6:33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
 If you get off course, you have to find a way to put yourself back on the right path. This will give you the ability to get back to where you ought to be. It is a good feeling when you have the goals set so that you are making something of your life. You need to set at least three primary goals in your life time. Those are the goals that you want to have done before you die. They are very important so that you are able to make your dreams come true and get more in personal growth. Philippians 3:14-19