If you went to the gym every day for three hours for a full year you would expect to see some outcome. You’d expect to either be skinnier or more muscular or able to do daily tasks with greater ease. If you didn’t see that, you would know that their is something wrong in what you’re doing or what you’re eating or in how you are doing it.

Pastor John Barnett gives us, from God’s Word, the measuring tool that those who are in Christ can use to say that, “Yes, I am growing in my walk with God. Here is the evidence of that!”

https://youtu.be/-2xs4U5gXCQ
(From 2016SEP11 – SWS-32 – WHAT is the “Sword of the Spirit”, WHY Does God Call It “Armor”, & HOW Do We “Take” it Up)