- Increase
Psalm 115:14
The Lord shall increase you more and more,
You and your children.
The Lord promises to increase you, not just the things you own or control, but you yourself; the Bible has promises of growth in wisdom and understanding, in inner stability and strength, in goodness and righteousness. Once the Holy Spirit creates faith and enters into our spirits to live there He begins working in us to increase our faith, strength, hope, love, knowledge, and understanding.
The Holy Spirit will definitely continue to increase throughout our spiritual life as long as we are receiving the Word of the Gospel by going to church to hear the Gospel, participate in Communion and remember our Baptism, by going to the quiet place and time of our choice to read the Bible and spend time with God in prayer, by maintaining faithfulness in group Bible study and fellowship with believers. When we know that this “increase” promise is true we will be more inclined to put more time into church and Bible study.
The intriguing addition is that this promise of increase extends to our children. The more we share the Word of God with our children and grandchildren the more we all will increase and grow in all that is godly and good. This kind of promise for children prompts us to pray for succeeding generations.
When Christ comes to us He gives us all things, but it still takes time to grow into more and more of what God has planned for us. God grows us bit by bit, day by day, as we come into more and more of His fullness, which we have already received, grace upon grace.