words of encouragement on how to grow Spiritually after you repent!
Here are words of encouragement on how to grow Spiritually after you have repented and been Baptized!
Now You Have Repented What Do You Do Next?
Written by Bishop Jimmie W. Warren
Dear brothers and sisters in the faith, how many of you have gone down the aisle of a church, gotten down on your knees, then cried out to our Lord to come into your life and to forgive you of your sin-filled life?
Then you only go home afterward and feel totally empty and still guilty of your sins because No One told you what you are supposed to do afterward? Many of you are feeling more lost right now than you ever did, Right? So what can you do to learn more about salvation and God, well first pick up your bibles to see what Jesus told people to do,next try doing it his way instead of your way of doing things? Are you ready to grow closer to your Father in Heaven, again pick up your bible to read what the word of God says, then learn for your self! Amen!
{Don't even take what I say as the right gospel without checking with your own bibles to make sure it is in there! Now hurry, Go find your bibles and let's see what I have put in this article. I am only trying to reach out for people with open minds and hearts to learn more of God's Holy Word as they read and study! Always ask God for understanding the Bible and to give you the understanding from the Holy Ghost to see the real truth of the bible, forget what you were taught before because it might have been wrong?}
You see most churches never teach what people should do after they have repentance? Yes, most of our churches never teach anyone what to do after they pour-out their hearts to God! The church just tells the people to come back each week to learn more and to give more money to the church! Yet, these same churches leave you feeling like an oddball at the altar and still unsaved, right? Mostly these churches do not know what to teach you when you get up off your knees expecting something new in your life?
This is why many and I mean many people, leave their own churches right after they repent, and they go back to their old life not knowing what else to do? So many just falls back to what they were doing before they heard the gospel of GRACE!
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU BEFORE YOU RECEIVED THE Holy Spirit?
Maybe some of you still have not received the Holy Spirit or maybe you received him but never listen to the calling he is telling your spirit? Our Father Yahweh gives his Holy Spirit to those who truly give their hearts and want to be with him in his kingdom forever. Amen and Amen!
“ Paul asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?" "John's baptism," they replied. Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus." On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied."
Normal Christianity is this: When walking before God with a truly clean conscience have a pure heart - have your minds made up as your 'normal' state before Him.
BEING Utterly Clean as you come before God and BY STRIVING or "TRYING REALLY HARD to be good". This is clearly NOT what the New Testament describes as normal, YET THIS IS WHAT MOST CHURCHES TODAY PREACH TO YOU?
Literally, when you are walking before God, with "no consciousness of present sin or of not feeling guilty after giving your heart to HIM is exactly what REPENTANCE is. It is as basic as that. -THIS IS Elemental Christianity.
Yes, YOU my friend can do it just by asking and you shall receive what you ask for in the one and only name of Jesus the Christ, also knock and the door will open, seek and you will find, ask and it will be given, “ remember those words!”
Let me be very clear in opening this topic: We are talking about the "inner spirit of man" here. That is the secret to this whole thing once you truly repent of your old ways and pray to know what God wants from you. Hallelujah (also alleluia) >exclamation God be praised. >noun an utterance of the word hallelujah. -ORIGIN Hebrew, 'praise ye the Lord'...Amen!
Now read it from your own bibles John 1:12- “ Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-- children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. We are all children of God, but most haven’t been living like it! For those ready to live according to the spirit and not the flesh, you are given the right to be called “children of God.” God chose you before you chose Him. God gave you. His life before you give Him yours. God is in control of your salvation. So as Jesus taught, the wind blows as it wills, so it is with everyone born of the spirit. You see God called us before any of us were born on this earth, he decided those who would believe in his only begotten son should be made to know of his plan for his creation, those with faith and who wish to have faith that never fails are given the Holy Spirit after being Baptized and are given to understand as Paul calls it, the secret plan of God, –
“ For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love, he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
"Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory. Thanksgiving and Prayer " (Ephesians 1:4-14)
Then Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye, not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? ( 2 Corinthians 13:5)
Beloved we are dead to sin if we are in Christ Jesus and have a new life in the spirit of our Father Yahweh, Amen! (Romans 6:2-14;Romans 7:6;Romans 8:1-4 ;(Galatians 3:7-12,13-15)
The Lord gives you faith and love (1 Timothy:14)
I think that what a lot of people misunderstand is that it is the 'INNER LIFE' that we are talking about here. Yes, we are still attached to a "fallen" body - which sometimes stumbles - much as we hate it. Paul says, "Oh wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the BODY of this death?" (Romans 7:24).
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
( Jeremiah 29:11-13)
There is only one God and our one true God his holy name is “YAHWEH” (ELOHIM) who gave us his only begotten son YESHUA THE MESSIAH or as we say JESUS THE CHRIST. (John 3:16; Galatians 1:3-5); Colossians 1:26-28)
We should be thinking of being born of the spirit like a free-flowing process of The Holy Spirit that is the inevitable result of our divine maturing inter-spirit that we all have waiting for the calling from GOD THE FATHER and becoming a "new creature" and walking in His Only Begotten son Yeshua / Jesus.
What about the fact that Jesus came to 'TAKE AWAY' our sins, ALL OUR SINS? What about a 'new birth' that utterly transforms us from the inside out?
“ Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
In reply, Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. " "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'
-That actually MAKES us clean and KEEPS us clean? Where is this basic stuff in our preaching? Where do we actually describe what happens inside a "truly saved" person? (John 3:1-7)
John wrote about it “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him, nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)
I have written now for many years that Grace is free and Salvation is given to anyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ and that he came to take all sins to himself so you and I may be raised up on the day he returns to claim though who believed. Jesus Christ is "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 8:8), and that God's people are chosen in him "before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20);
We know that Redemption is Creation, for "if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new Creature" (2 Corinthians. 5:17) and this new Creation is the original completion of the old, according to God's order, first the natural, afterward that which is spiritual. (1 Corinthians 15:46.)
I felt myself justified by this faith It is Jesus who gives us robes of righteousness to WALK IN - in the "Spiritual Man, you know those who have the Holy Spirit living in them". That is what Romans chapters 5 - 8 is all about. This is what 'justification by faith' is all about: WALKING with a "clean heart" inside. this is what will grant us the Pure white robes - given to us by God - for us to walk in and keep "unspotted".
Romans 8: “ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
This is what true Christianity is: To walk before God with a totally clean conscience and a pure heart before Him. -with No known sin. Anything less is not Christianity at all. It simply cannot be found in the New Testament. You are either a "new creation" and WALKING as a 'new creation' - or you are not.
There is no room for a "halfway" doer! . “ Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly--mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? (1 Corinthians 3:1-3)
Most Christians are still “babes in the Lord just needing the beginnings of the Gospel (milk), or are you the one who is growing up in the word of the bible by studying God's word closely?
If you are spiritual and growing in the word read (1 Corinthians:14; 23) Being in the spirit (1Cor.5:3-4) and becoming spiritual in Christ Jesus (1 Cor:6:17)
Use your body for God’s glory (1 Cor. 6:20)
You can do this by praying for knowledge as you study your bibles and by praying every day for understanding as you read God’s Holy Word – the Bible. Don’t just go to church put in your donation sing a few songs and think you are saved, you must grow in truth and knowledge and strive to become like our older brother Yeshua Messiah or Jesus the Christ , after all, you or should I say WE ALL, need to be as Jesus was, even to our death, giving or laying your own life down for your brother, this is what our Heavenly Father DEMANDS!
We need to serve in the spirit of Christ? “ Again Being a “True Christian” is to be like Jesus Christ himself otherwise you're just a churchgoer .” Ask Our Father Yahweh to help be like his son YESHUA MESSIAH who was willing to lay down his own life so we could be saved and live forever and ever with him in the Kingdom of God!
It was YAHWEH himself who SAID “ For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father " Or again," I will be his Father, and he will be my Son"? And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him." In speaking of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, his servants' flames of fire." But about the Son, he says, "Your throne, O God, will last forever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy."
He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain, they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment, they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end." This was the son who became Jesus and decided to die on the cross so we, you and me, could live forever Oh! hallelujah and forever glory be to our Lord God! Amen!
To which of the angels did God ever say, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"? The New Testament teaches to love your brother as you love yourself, it is not by Laws of Old Testament but works done by the spirit is more glorious –Man declared “Innocent”(2 Cor. 2:3; 6; 9; 2 Cor. 3:11-18)
The Bible affirms that all whose faith remains in Yeshua Messiah-Jesus the Christ will be saved and that nothing "can snatch them out of his hand." The Bible emphasizes the infinite faithfulness of the Lord, the total sufficiency of Jesus Christ for our salvation, the dynamic love of YAHWEH for all peoples, and the gospel as the power of YAHWEH for the salvation of all who believe.
Having such assurance of salvation, believers are urged to remain firm in the faith and to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua Messiah.
Yeshua is the real name for Jesus, use it when you pray and you will see more power in your prayers. (John 10:27-29; “ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand”.
( Hebrews 6:4-6; ) “ Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And God permitting, we will do so.”
Freedom in Christ our spiritual being is renewed day by day we need to fix our attention on things unseen. We need to call on Jesus to be saved by our faith (Romans 10:9-13;18)
We all need to ask God for the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:28) and we all need to know whom to fear (Luke 12: 4-5)
Finally, we all need to see true Happiness (Luke 11:28)
“ The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:1-10)
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance (and for this, we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.
You who are in Christ--- everything is fulfilled by him, through him and by his Holy Name are we all saved! Get ready for the great wedding feast seen in(Rev.19:5-10; Rev.20:11-16)
Are you studying his word or just relying on some other guy who wears his collar backward is it by his word that you are saved? Claim your reward (Ephesians 1:3-12) this is your eternal life your betting on, don’t let some false doctrines or some church rob you of your rightful place in the soon-coming kingdom.
Universal Salvation, is taught in the Greek text of the New Testament and was taught to our forefather's church, during the 17 TH and 18 TH centuries then changed during the end of the 18 TH to early 19 TH centuries by who? Mostly the Catholic Church and her daughter churches of today still teaching false doctrines of men NOT OF GOD! All those who taught Hell - FIRE and burning forever, of course, are wrong? read my article “ you really Do Live Twice”?
See Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia online: "Universal reconciliation, also called universal salvation or sometimes simply universalism, is the doctrine or belief of some Christians that all will receive salvation due to the love of God.
Have you ever considered the possibility that God is saving some men and women now, and will reconcile all others later on in time? What does your Minister say, "only some will make it?"
Whom do you choose to believe, Your God and his word the Bible or your church Pastor and booklets telling you how to follow church doctrines?
MANY false churches and religious leaders have reduced the gospel today to make it more convenient that it is no longer the gospel as JESUS CHRIST PREACHED at all? And thus we have entire church-loads of people who are completely unsaved. They go down the front to say they are sorry, some even repent of their old life but, THEY SAY THEIR "little prayer", then they spend the rest of their lives paying their tithes and "trying to be good". this IS as far as they get ,SAD!
Are you blinded by your church doctrine or some smooth-talking minister who went to some church school to preach the same old same old doctrines not even in your Bible?
Better check it out?
That church you are going to, or the preacher your listening to, could be wrong?
The scriptures are plainly written and show that Redemption by Christ was no afterthought, but fully contemplated in the original plan, "before the foundation of the world." Most of our churches today do not follow up in teaching people to keep praying for the spiritual side, by asking God to help them understand how to grow in spirit! As hard as it is to say, I will say it out loud, “MOST preachers DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE ONE WHO LIVES IN Each believer of Yeshua Messiah Jesus the Christ, Amen!” -
This is what a lot of our Christianity amounts today, people putting their offering in a tray then singing some songs, then go have coffee and cookies talking about everything buy the message that was given to help build them up. You see our "Messiah" will "draw all people" to himself (John. 12:32) until "in Christ, all will be made alive" (1 Cor. 15:22).
Does this leave anyone out, you think?
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect" (Heb. 12:22-23), "firstborn' is plural in the Greek text (implying that there will be later-born sons and daughters.)
The Church needs to examine most of the things they themselves have taught in the past and are still preaching with wrong church doctrines of men today!
What a person really needs is not someone trying to convince them that they need God; but, that the Word(the BIBLE) will speak to us and that our God hears us so that all people are SAVED by the blood of his only begotten son who gave his all for us all! YES, ALL WHO CALL ON HIS NAME SHALL BE SAVED!
Jesus -Yeshua Himself said, "if you have the faith of a grain of mustard seed, you can say to that mountain, "Be removed and it will move!" But because of the blindness that is on our own hearts, we are alienated from God. Most Churches teach the fear of HELL to keep you in your set. They want you to pay money so they can feel big and get rich off your fear of burning!
THIS IS THE GOSPEL OF SATAN HIMSELF TO USE FEAR AND LIES! AMEN AND AMEN!
Read our articles about “ HELL” ON OUR WEBSITE
I have written now for many years that Grace is free and Salvation is given to anyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ and that he came to take all sins to himself so you and I may be raised up on the day he returns to claim though who believed. Jesus Christ is "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 8:8), and that God's people are chosen in him "before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20);
"You have been chosen; you have been predestined; there is a predestinated seed in you that will come to maturity, but every man in his own order. You have been seated with Christ in heavenly places; you have been redeemed by the power and the blood of the Lamb. Therefore don't walk as an unbeliever, being alienated in your mind from the life of God, through the ignorance and the blindness of your heart."
YESHUA Messiah will draw you, find you, meet you. Love you and save all of you by His Blood! There is no human who will be strong enough, no carnal mind too dark, no soul too evil to be transformed by the power and grace of our Almighty Father in heaven through His Son, YESHUA Messiah.
Read it yourself in your own Bible, Christ is to reconcile and restore ALL OF THE CREATION so God may be all in all? Do you not think that "God does all that He desires or wishes?"
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star." The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.
My Beloved Brethren, Essentially Yeshua Messiah/Jesus said: " God can save EVERYONE - after all He is the One who created us all, right?"(Revaluation 22:16-18)
Keep the faith and pray every day and read your Bibles for your father in heaven wants all his children to make it, DON'T GIVE UP! In a loving way, I say to all ministers who preach a vengeful God filled with wrath is coming back to make people suffer and burn while the skin burns from the bodies as the scream I am sorry Daddy please forgive me.
Does God sound like an all-loving caring Father who watches out for the everlasting lifers?
Does your Bible talk about most of us going to HELL or NOT? Read my article called "You really do Only Live twice" under articles about the word Hell-this English word means buried in a hole in the ground, not a place where people burn all day n night!
See "God’s Salvation Gospel" was preached in the very beginning by the angels when our Messiah was born, When They all shouted out "Peace on earth, goodwill toward men".
Universal reconciliation (SALVATION FOR ALL) shows that our messiah Jesus' love for all mankind is NOT FOR A VERY FEW LIKE THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE SPECIAL YET THEY ARE LOST BECAUSE OF WRONG CHURCH DOCTRINES!
Have any of you ever read anywhere in the Old Testament of the Bible of people going to an "ever-burning Hell?" the answer is No!
Simply because it is not there!
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him, we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Future Glory (Romans 8 15-17)
YOUR ASSURANCE OF SALVATION, ALONG WITH YOUR JUSTIFICATION, AND ALL OUR SANCTIFICATION yes our time is running out, do not wait to be better, for NO MAN IS GOOD! The time to repent is Now not when you get better!
Read (Romans 5:9-10; ) “ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!” (Romans 3:21-31; Romans 4:1-8)
Live life more abundantly in Christ Jesus while serving your maker Father Yahweh.
I pray this opens your minds to see what you need after you have repented and decided to follow your God in the Name Yeshua our Lord and Master "JESUS" and in his love, Thank you!
Chaplain Jimmie
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