But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,

— Ephesians 4:15

One way you can tell how much you are growing or have grown is by what you are speaking.  You can locate any Christian by listening to what they say, because when they believe, they will talk.  A baby in the natural causes much excitement when that first “da-da” or “ma-ma” comes forth out of his or her mouth.  A spiritual baby begins to grow when the Word of God starts to come out of their mouth.  Little by little they will begin to think and talk in line with God’s Word.  Their ideas of God and of themselves will start to change and they will begin to sound like the Bible.  Old phrases and words which are not godly will begin to leave their vocabulary and a whole new language will take over.  It will be a positive, edifying speech which will enable growth for themselves as well as for others around them.  Grumbling, complaining, and being critical are signs of childhood.  Praise and thanksgiving are signs of maturity!  Do you want to mature?  Work in the ministry?  Become a son rather than a child?  Be stable?  Then find and put the Truth in your mouth; weed out anything that is not in line with God’s Word, and watch yourself grow up into Him!

And what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

 — Ephesians 1:18

The day that you received Jesus as your Savior and became born again, you were born into a spiritual inheritance.  This verse states that there are riches in this inheritance.  As a believer, it is your responsibility to find out the riches that belong to you as a child of God and appropriate these spiritual realities in your daily life.  Through the Word of God, the Holy Spirit will reveal to you who you are and what belongs to you because of the cross of Calvary.  Most Christians stop at the “ticket to heaven” salvation and never step into the riches of their inheritance.  The Word of God is Jesus’ last will and testament to you.  The promises in the Word belong to you and have been paid for and given to you when Jesus died.  You must take time to get into the will and discover the riches that belong to you!  Those riches are what will separate you from being a normal Christian to living as a victor in every area and in every situation of your life.  You “have obtained an inheritance” (Ephesians 1:11).

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

— Ephesians 2:10

You were created in Christ Jesus.  You have been made a “new creation,” a new spiritual being (2 Cor. 5:17)!  You are God’s handiwork, you are God’s creation.  This new creation now has received an inheritance of many things in Christ Jesus.  These are benefits that are not earned, but given to you freely in your new birth.  In the natural, people will get into long, legal battles and fall out with each other over an inheritance that is left to them.  They want to get everything that belongs to them in the will.  Yet most Christians do not know or even care about the spiritual inheritance that belongs to them.  Many do not even take time to read the will to see what is theirs.  The Word of God is full of your spiritual inheritance, and awards you all you need to live a full and victorious life.  Take time starting today to get in the will!  See what God through Jesus’ blood has made you and given you.  Do not let the enemy steal what legally belongs to you through your own ignorance of the will!  You are God’s workmanship, created to receive the riches of that inheritance.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors...

— Read Romans 8:31-37

Due to your new birth, there was a position change in Christ.  You are no longer a victim, a weak human being, but you are now more than a conqueror!  You many not feel like a winner or look like a winner, but you have been made a conqueror in Christ.  Notice, you are not trying to become a conqueror, struggling to become a conqueror, you are more than a conqueror!  Where are you a conqueror?  In the midst of trials, tribulations, troubles, persecutions, attacks of the enemy–-you are still more than a conqueror.  This is your inheritance; this is your position because of Christ!  If I am a conqueror, then I’m going to think like a conqueror, talk like a conqueror, and live like a conqueror!  I am the head, not the tail, I'm above, not beneath, I rule and reign with Christ in victory.  I’ll not let the devil or my old thoughts bring me down from the victorious position given me by inheritance.  I am more than a conqueror in every situation!  It is my right!  It is my inheritance, and nothing will separate me from it!  I have it in the will and testament!  Troubles?  Attacks?  Situations?  Lack?  Symptoms?  Nay, in all these, you are more than a conqueror.