Spiritual strength, as opposed to physical strength, is the extraordinary ability to engage yourself in spiritual things. It is also the ability which enables you to withstand spiritual difficulties.

Generally speaking, without spiritual strength, spiritual things cannot be handled. Hence, it becomes mandatory to “build spiritual strength”.

In this context, ‘building’ means ‘enhancing’ while ‘strength’ means ‘capacity’. By rephrase, it means enhancing our spiritual capacity.

Therefore, building spiritual capacity is the work of engaging in spiritual workouts to generate the required ability to function adequately. It is a deliberate effort to gain spiritual fitness or stamina.

For example, we build our mortal body and gain fitness by doing physical exercise. This can be similarly considered with spiritual exercise, we engage in spiritual things to strengthen our faith and enhance our capacity at different levels.

On the other hand, we eat foods which builds our body cells and supplies energy from the organelle called mitochondrion.
Under some situations, protein can serve as a valuable energy source.

A class of proteins known as fibrous proteins provide various parts of your body with structure, ‘strength’ and elasticity. They provide nutrients which transport throughout your entire body, and stored for usage.

In addition, carbohydrates are body’s main source of energy. They provide energy, store energy, build macromolecules, and spare protein and fat for other uses.

In that comparative case, the word of God is the spiritual food that provide wholesome nutrients, those nutrients are the living particles of the Spirit. He transport the energy that enables us to be builded on daily basis.

“LET the word of Christ dwell in you RICHLY in all wisdom….” Colossians 3:16

You will be builded and enriched by the word of Christ ‘if’ you unreservedly and consistently behold it.

Paul said LET, which means PERMIT or ALLOW. Until then will Christ’s word be able to dwell RICHLY in you.
This imply that the degree to which He’ll dwell in you, is proportional to the degree of your allowance.

If your degree of allowance is little, then His word is dwelling poorly in you. This shows you are responsible for your spiritual capacity, you are accountable in building it while the Holy Spirit is responsible for supplying help which facilitates you to build it.

The Holy Spirit provides spiritual strength but it is the duty of believers to initiate and intensify the strategy, which must be in place for spiritual capacity building.

Therefore, what is the strategy to building spiritual strength? This and more will be revealed in the next part of this series.

David Chikwado Caleb