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Melchizedek School of Priesthood | Jun 26, 2025
Every culture and civilization operates under spiritual governance designed to keep you bound to earthly patterns and identities. From birth, you've been programmed to identify primarily by your nationality, profession, family background, or social status. These are not your true identity. You are a child of God first, and everything else flows from that reality.

When you continue to identify by worldly categories, you unknowingly submit to the spiritual systems that govern this age. You must repent—which means to change your mind—about who you truly are. Stop allowing cultural expectations and worldly wisdom to define your life's direction.

Your spiritual development follows a clear progression, much like physical growth. Just as a baby requires milk before transitioning to solid food, your spiritual journey has distinct phases:

**The Milk Stage**: You begin with the basic truths of God's word—simple, easily digestible spiritual nourishment that establishes your foundation as a believer.

**The Transition Phase**: As you mature, you graduate from milk alone to a mixture of milk and solid food, building strength and understanding.

**The Meat Stage**: Eventually, you reach a place where you can handle the deeper, more substantial truths of God's word that bring complete transformation.

Most believers remain stuck in the milk stage throughout their entire Christian experience because they don't understand this progression or actively pursue spiritual maturity.

## Understanding Your Divine Inheritance

You carry within you an inheritance that far exceeds anything this world offers. However, like the servant in Christ's parable who buried his talent, many believers leave this inheritance wrapped and unused. You're searching externally for things that are already within you in seed form.

Your inheritance isn't primarily about material blessings—houses, cars, or financial prosperity. It's about the very life of God manifesting through your spirit, soul, and body. This life has the power to transform you completely, even to the point of physical glorification.

## The Process of Spiritual Maturity

Your growth requires the Holy Spirit's guidance at every stage, but as you mature, you need deeper revelation and understanding. The Spirit of wisdom and revelation must illuminate:

- The hope of your calling (why God called you specifically)
- The riches of His inheritance in you (what you actually carry)
- The exceeding greatness of His power toward you (what's available to you)

Without understanding these three elements, you'll remain spiritually immature regardless of how long you've been a believer.

Give yourself completely to God's word. Reduce time spent on worldly entertainment and pursuits that feed the old nature. Allow the Spirit to lead you step by step from your current level of maturity to the fullness of what God has prepared for you.

**The Milk Stage**: You begin with the basic truths of God's word—simple, easily digestible spiritual nourishment that establishes your foundation as a believer.

**The Transition Phase**: As you mature, you graduate from milk alone to a mixture of milk and solid food, building strength and understanding.

**The Meat Stage**: Eventually, you reach a place where you can handle the deeper, more substantial truths of God's word that bring complete transformation.

Most believers remain stuck in the milk stage throughout their entire Christian experience because they don't understand this progression or actively pursue spiritual maturity.

## The Role of God's Word in Your Transformation

God's word isn't just information to be learned; it's the genetic material of your new creation. When you engage with Scripture, you're not merely gaining knowledge—you're feeding the incorruptible seed within you. This is why passionate desire for God's word is essential.

The Book of Proverbs specifically contains wisdom codes designed for spiritual sons and daughters. These aren't just nice sayings or moral guidelines; they're divine instructions for navigating life as a heavenly being operating in an earthly realm.

This is why you must allow God's word to be "bound around your neck"—meaning it directs every decision and movement of your life. When truth and mercy govern your choices, you find yourself naturally aligned with God's will rather than constantly fighting against it.

## The Process of Spiritual Maturity

Your growth requires the Holy Spirit's guidance at every stage, but as you mature, you need deeper revelation and understanding. The Spirit of wisdom and revelation must illuminate: