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Prayer To Receive Jesus Christ

Pray this prayer and mean it with all of your heart:

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In response to Your Word, I believe that Jesus Christ is God in human flesh.  I believe that He lived and died for the remission of my sin and on the third day He rose from the dead for my justification. I therefore declare, that Jesus Christ is Jehovah and Lord of my life from this very moment.  I receive eternal life into my spirit, into my soul and into my body, amen. (Romans 10:9 -10; 13)

Prayer To Receive The Infilling Of The Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your precious gift of the Holy Spirit.  I ask and receive, Your precious Holy Spirit to come and fill me now. Precious Holy Spirit fill me now, fill my spirit, fill my soul and fill my body. Thank you for the ability to speak in other tongues in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Congratulations, this is the greatest thing you will ever do for your life and eternal destiny. You are a child of God now. What an amazing day this is.

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God bless you.

Submit yourself to the righteousness of God

Romans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Now that you are a child of God, instead of “trying to become a better person,” which never works, what you need is to submit/surrender yourself to the person of Jesus Christ. This is submitting yourself to the righteousness of God by faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness of God is a righteousness that you have to submit to, as it expresses your new self in and through you and as you learn more about it in the word of God. Your responsibility is to continually submit to it.

Now, having come into Christ, don’t get stuck again in the religious race of “I’m trying to become a better Christian, or a better person,” it’s not going to work.  What you will need is the continuous revelation of Christ living in you and consciously responding by yielding to the expression of the revelation of Christ in you as revealed to you in Gods Word. This is the expression of righteousness of God in you.

Now how do you know that this is now a reality? See being a child of God is more than following a set of religious rules, it’s a life that has the righteous nature of Christ pulsating on the inside of you.  And because of this you’ll now discover that when you do something that is inconsistent with this new righteous nature that is now on the inside of you, deep inside your inner most core that righteous nature of Christ through the Holy Spirit will send you a signal, or a notification via an emotion or a thought message to your mind that what you just did was not right. The Lord Jesus Christ described it this way,

John 16:8;10
..and when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement: 10 of righteousness because I go to my Father and you see me no more;

For the born again child of God the Holy Spirit will reprove you of righteousness. Remember that it is “of righteousness” and not “of sin”. The Holy Spirit reproves “the world of sin” because they believe not on Jesus Christ; so that part is not for you as a child of God.  The Holy Spirit doesn’t need to reprove you of sin anymore because the righteous nature of Christ that is in you will alert you everytime you act against the new nature that is now in you. What the Holy Spirit now does is, He will direct you towards what the righteousness of God is in the matter, that is what the Lord Jesus was referring to in John 16:10.

So stop struggling and submit yourself to the righteousness of God that is in you.  This submission is continuous as you grow and learn about the life of righteousness that is at work in you through submitting to the promptings of your spirit towards righteousness and most importantly as you learn and imbibe more of God’s Word.

The Word of God is the absolute truth of your new identity in Christ Jesus. Dont be discouraged when you fall into some bad behaviours or habits. That discomfort you’re feeling is a sign that the righteousness of God is working in you. For someone who is not a child of God, they’ll do terrible things and not feel anything at all.

So cheer up, acknowledge and accept that you were crucified with Christ, yes, you are alive, but it is no longer you that lives but Christ now living in you.  (Galatians 2:20)

This RECREATED HUMAN spirit that has made you a new creation and a child of God has these righteous expressions and signals that you consciously have to yield yourself to every day as you grow.

Pay attention to them and yield to them and watch your life grow in the manifestations of righteousness.

God bless you.

What It Means To Be Born Again

John 3:3-7
Jesus answered and said to him, truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, …That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. 

When we talk about being born again, many people do not fully understand what it means. Some see being born again as a wonderful experience that happened when they got convicted and went to the front in church and the Pastor prayed for them for their sins.  Some others think it’s a phenomenon that describes a group of religious fanatics that believe in Jesus Christ. But being born again is way more than that. It is neither just a wonderful spiritual experience nor a religious terminology of a weird group of Christians.

Being born again is the greatest miracle of “Christianity”!  As shown in the above scripture, the term itself was taught by Jesus Christ Himself to refer to the miracle of the recreation of the human spirit.  The original Greek term that is translated to born again is anōthen which when correctly rendered would be “born from above”. What did Jesus mean by born from above? His reference to “above” referred to being born from heaven.  Now when someone says “I’m born again/born from above,” that doesn’t mean the person has made a mental or emotional decision to turn a new leaf.

It also doesn’t suggest that the person has now suddenly transformed his mind and changed his old way of living and now has this new way of living his or her life. The person who’s born again is not someone who has merely been reformed or has made new decisions and resolutions to be a good and nice person.  Thinking this way is minimizing the impact and power of the miracle of the new-birth in Christ.

When someone is born from above, actually what it means is that not only has God completely remitted the person’s sin, but also that the person is completely born anew by receiving a new spirit from God the Father.  Being born again means your human life is completely supplanted with the eternal, divine heavenly life of God. It makes you hundred percent divine, with the innate ability to manifest the life, nature, power and other divine attributes of God.  This new birth is what makes you a new creation (2Corinthians 5v17), with the same life and nature of God. (2 Peter 1v4).

1 John 5:11
And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.

When you get born again, it’s not a good experience that just happened to you, actually a spiritual birth that originated from heaven with God took place in your human spirit that gave you a new life and nature on the inside of you.
For example, when a baby is born, its not just a mere experience in that way, but actually a real person with a new life is born and comes on the scene.  And it’s the same when you’re born again, but this happens spiritually.  An actual spiritual birth takes place through the agency of God’s Word and His Spirit.  When this happens, God who is the Father of spirits becomes your Father, which is what makes you a child of God in reality.

Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had Father’s of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?. 

So being born again is much more than an experience or just something a certain group of Christians think has happened with their minds. It’s actually the beginning of the God-life in the human body.  And this eternal, divine life that you receive is what gives you the ability to have a personal relationship with God, “the creator and monarch of the universe,” without a condemnation, fear or guilt.

All this is because of God loves you, that He sent His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to be condemned and judged for your wrongs, and also for the wrongs of all humanity. And you, by believing in Jesus your sins will be completely blotted out, and you’d be able to receive Gods divine life, “eternal life” into your human spirit and be BORN AGAIN.

God bless you, and remember that this is your time!

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