I am a big fan of helping people become all that God wants them to be. One of those ways is to help people grow their relationship with God in a deeper way.

Over the last several years I have been exposed to different ways of helping with my own personal spiritual growth. I feel that having a plan in life is key; if you don’t know where you are going (plan), you won’t know when you get there (goal). That is why I see the benefit of having some sort of spiritual growth plan. Now, I have to say that everyone is different, so you may not like the ideas that I have and that is OK. The reality is that you and I need to have a plan of how we are going to be different and how our relationship with God will be better a year from now.

Since we are coming to an end of a year and many people take on some new year resolutions, I think that developing a plan of how you will grow yourself spiritually should be one of them. Below are 2 ways that I have developed my plans over the years. Feel free to adapt or borrow any of them. None of them are my original ideas.

#1. Develop a Spiritual Growth Plan – This plan is a written (a must for any plan) that encompasses the following categories:

• Spiritual
• Relational
• Physical
• Personal

Each one of these areas are written down and then a plan on how you would like to grow in the next year. For example: Relational – I want to get to know my wife on a deeper level this year. (This is your goal) – To do this I want to set aside 1 day each week to spend as date night with her (This is your plan). You would do this for each of the areas.

#2.  Develop 3 Goal Words – This is a smaller task, but effective as well. Here is a link to last years blog post on my 3 goal words. This is simply boiling down what you would like to see happen this year into a small concise manner.

Whatever your plan works out to be, I would encourage you to have a plan. You will have something that you can look back on and to benchmark your growth.