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Steps For New Jesus Followers





Prayer of Salvation/Jesus Prayer

Lord Jesus,

forgive me for all my sins (wicked deeds).

I ask you into my heart,

I ask you to be my Savior

and to be the Lord of my life.

I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord.
I believe in my heart God raised Him from dead.
For by confessing with the mouth and believing in your heart one is saved. (Romans 10:9-10)
Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, you are Born Again (Jesus now dwells within you). The next step is to get Baptized in the Holy Spirit. You can do this in same manner, but it helps to have Spirit Filled believers assists in the baptism. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is asking the Holy Spirit Power to come upon as it did in ACTS 1 with the Apostles. You can recieve many gifts: The Gift of Foreign Tongues, The Gift of Healing, The Gift of Prophecy, The Gift of Discernment, and etc. Simply ask for the Holy Spirit to come upon you and ask for the gifts you desire (1 Corinthians 12). They may come immediatly, they may come in time or you may recieve a gift that God thinks you need more than another. The point is to be open the Holy Spirit.

While asking for Baptism of Spirit or before, pick up a Bible, preferrably one dating before 1977. But the new NIV, The New Living Bible (NLT), and The Living Bible (Paraphrase) are great Bibles.
Then you need to find some Christians believers to congregate with. This is tricky. Most would tell you to go to a Church, but frankly many mainstream churches are more like concert halls and they do not counsel people in discipleship or how to follow Jesus. I would seek out Christians in a house church, or go to an Assemblies of God Church to be around believers that are Spirit Filled. Remember this, just because Christians do no act like Christ does not mean Christ is like those believers. Churches are full of people and those people have many faults because of the flesh (sin/wicked nature that seeks to still have dominace over their lives).

Spend your time seeking the Lord in prayer (talking to Jesus) and read the Bible starting in the Book of John (The Gospel of John). I then recommend after John you read Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and the Book of ACTS.

Steps:

1. Accept Jesus Christ as Your personal Lord and Savior
2. Get Baptized in the Holy Spirit and Recieve the Gifts of the Spirit  (just pray, and ask the Lord)
3. Get a Bible, read The Gospel of John, Romans, ACTS, 1 and 2 Corinthians.

4. Find a church group, preferrably a home church and fellowship with other believers who Bible believing and test everything with the Bible, but are open to moving of Holy Spirit and Gifts. Calvary churches tend to be good balance of both.

5. Test everything you hear, and learn from even other believers with the Holy Bible (Holy Scriptures), "Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world," (1 John 4:1) and "From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 timothy 3:15-17).

After step 1 and 2, start sharing your testimony (how you became a follower of Jesus) and share the Gospel/Good News of Jesus (Pray with people to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior). You could begin sharing the message of Jesus after step 1, but if you read the Gospels you will have more information and terms to use when sharing the Gospel. St. Paul did not have the Gospels, he evanglized after his revelation (Jesus revealing himself to Paul on the Road to Damascus). Then Paul after three years of sharing the Good News of Jesus visited St. Peter in Jerusalem and verified that the message of Jesus he was sharing was the same that Jesus' Disciples were sharing. So there is no rule that you cannot begin evanglizing right after you are evangelized and saved, but it does help to have read at least John 3:16 and other passages in the Gospel of John.

Things to watch out for:

1. False christs, prophets, and teachers

"There will be false messiahs and false prophets who will preform great wonders and signs that could even decieve the elect followers of Me." - Words of Jesus Christ, The Gospel of Matthew 24:24
There will be false christs (Jesus imitators who pretend to be Jesus but arn't him), false prophets and false teachers who would like to lead you astray and make you follow the ideas of men over following Jesus Christ. This is where you will need to know the Bible, particularly Matthew 24, 2 Peter 2:4,  Luke 13 and 14, Romans, Ephesians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and the Book of Revelation (all these books are contained in the Bible).

2. Satan and the Fallen Spirits
We do have an enemy known as the devil, Lucifer, and Satan. Satan is a fallen angel (another race God created) who rebelled against God with 1/3 of the angels. The devil and his followers seek to decieve and destroy Jesus Followers. You have power over the devil through Jesus Christ. What you need to know is the following:

Bind Satan and his demonic armies with the Blood of Christ.

Speak the following Bible veres during a attack on your mind, when doubts come into your head or other stange supernatural experiances:
"I submit therefore to God, and resist the devil who shall flee!" -Book of James, Chapter 4, verse 7.

"Greather is He (Jesus) who is in me, then he who is in the world (devil, demons, and wicked people)." -1 John 4:4
"Satan shall be thrown into the Lake of Burning Sulfur and Fire. There he shall be tormented for eternity." -Revelation 10:20 (This one

3. Systems and Traditions of Men
Beware of getting indoctrinated or taught systems of men. Systems of men are methods, traditions, and ways in which men have decided you get to God. Examples of systems are the 10% Tithe, which is what some pastors and teachers say is what you must give back to God. The 10% tithe of your income is an Old Testament customn that involved giving a portion of your grain to the priests who then stored it in grainries that protected the grain for future famine. Another system or tradition of men that is not in the Bible is pennace or the belief that you can earn your salvation by doing works and deeds for Jesus. St. Paul says, "by grace alone we are we saved, through faith (in Jesus) which is a gift fron God and not of works unless anyone should boast." (Ephesians 2:8). We are saved by Jesus Christ alone and what he did. All we must do is believe in Him. Any idea that would have you do more than believe and follow Jesus is a system of men.

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