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Wikipedia has listed the following as ways to progress in and develop faith:
The Bahá'í Faith also references the idea that like many other things, the
appreciation of truth, one's belief, and one's degree of faithfulness, is
progressive. Major works of the Bahá'í Faith are renderings of the overall
progress of the individual: Seven Valleys, Four Valleys, Gems of Divine
Mysteries, The Book of Certitude all reference stages of coming to know God and
one's self. There are also significant references in various places in Bahá'í
literature with respect to the goal or importance of a praiseworthy character.
For example a major initiative first mentioned in the first half of the
twentieth century was to engage in the Double Crusade. Speaking to the United
States Bahá'í community Shoghi Effendi said[1]:
(A) rectitude of conduct, which in all its manifestations offers a striking
contrast to the deceitfulness and corruption that characterize the political
life of the nation and of the partisan factions that compose it, a holiness and
chastity that are diametrically opposed to the moral laxity and licentiousness
which defile the character of a not inconsiderable proportion of its citizens,
an interracial fellowship completely purged from the curse of racial prejudice
which stigmatizes the vast majority of its people, these are the weapons which
the American believers can and must wield in their Double Crusade. First, to
regenerate the inward life of their own community, and next to assail the
longstanding evils that have entrenched themselves in the life of their nation.
Thus half of the Double Crusade is about individual character and its issues
within the religious community.
Various disciplines are mandated or suggested in the Bahá'í Faith as ways to
grow, and protect, one's faith:
* Read the words of Bahá'u'lláh twice a day
> Yes, I do that already, usually the Hidden Words, Seven Valleys, or Four
> Valleys, but I have been diversifying my readings recently.
* Read the daily obligatory prayers
> Yes, I do that too, and the Tablet of Ahmad, Fire Tablet, Tablet of the Holy
> Mariner, Tablets of Visitation, etc.
* Teaching or promulgating one's belief (not proselytizing)
> Have n't done much of thise yet.
* Performing pure and goodly deeds
> Yes, but this is a little vague. I donate blood regularly and give to the
> Fund every so often.
* Being obedient to the laws and teachings of Bahá'u'lláh
> Yes, I have a copy of a list of Baha'i laws and a printed copy of the
> Kitab-i-Aqdas from the Baha'i reference libray.
* Being detached from ego and worldly matters (not disengagement from)
> I pray devotional prayers, among them ones on detatchment.
* Eschewing gossip and backbiting
> I do not either backbite nor gossip.
* Meditating on spiritual matters
> Yes, I meditate, do dhikr, read the Prayers & Meditation of Baha'u'llah, etc.
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