By Ray E. Leonard
We all need help from someone else, sometime in some way.
(Galatians 6:2) “Bear (carry) one another’s burdens and thereby fulfill the law of Christ”.
When we are first saved and ask Jesus into our hearts and lives, it is important that we have a spiritual mentor who will stand along side us, help us, teach us, encourage us, and love us.
The Devil wants you isolated from the beginning. He doesn’t want anyone to help you, to show you how to study your Bible, how to pray, and how to touch God.
READ: THE PATH
When you grow and mature substantially, you need to understand that God wants you to help someone else, perhaps like someone helped you.
But, today, let me help you.
FIRST: DO YOU KNOW JESUS?
Do you understand that He is Savior of the whole world? If so, good. But even more important for you is, do you know that you need to make Him your personal Savior?
(Acts 4:12) “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no other name given under heaven among men, whereby we ‘MUST’ be saved, (but by the name of Jesus).
If you have never given your heart and life to Jesus, let me pray with you. You can receive Him, right now, while you’re reading this article, and become a Child of God. You can become a part of God’s family.
PRAY WITH ME RIGHT NOW, WITH A WILLING HEART.
Dear God, I desire to be saved. Come into my heart, dear Jesus. Be my Lord and Savior. I confess all my sins to you. Forgive me for offending you with my wrong doings.
I renounce Satan, his works, and his power over me, in Jesus name. I will live for you, Lord Jesus, all the days of my life.
I will get into the Word of God, and I will obey and follow Jesus according to His precious Word.
Fill me God, with your Holy Spirit. I will tell others also, to come to You, Lord. Thank You God, for hearing my prayer. Thank You Father for saving my soul.
Once you come to Jesus, Satan and his demons lose control over you, because you now have a new Master, ‘THE LORD JESUS CHRIST‘, and He’s a kind and loving Master.
You’re now following Jesus and not the Devil and your own selfish and destructive desires.
READ: THE ENEMY HAS BOW IN HAND. HE HAS TARGETED YOU. WHAT WILL YOU DO?
You will get the Victory over all resistance of the Devil. BECAUSE GREATER IS HE (JESUS) WHO’S IN YOU THAN ALL THE WICKED SPIRITS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. YOU WILL GET SAVED. PRAISE THE LORD!
(Col. 1:13) “For the Father has delivered and rescued us from the power and domain of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved; beloved Son”.
IF YOU’VE GOTTEN SAVED, BUT THE VOICE OF DOUBT IS TORMENTING YOU, ‘TELLING YOU, THAT YOU’RE NOT SAVED’.
READ: WRONG THOUGHTS PULL IN DARKNESS
HERE’S WHAT YOU DO.
Find Scriptures that speak positively and definitely concerning what happened to you.
(John 1:12) “But as many as received Him (Jesus), to them He gave power to become the sons/daughters of God, as many as believed on His name”.
Did you ask Jesus to come into your heart?
You say, “Yes, I did”.
Well, did you believe on His name, and believe He heard your prayer?
Again, you say, “Yes, I did”.
Then be assured that God saved you. When you asked Him to save you and you believed on His name, He came into your heart. NOW, THANK HIM FOR HEARING AND ANSWERING YOUR PRAYER.
Your salvation has nothing to do with how you feel. You may or not ‘feel saved’, but if you believed and acted on His Word, the work was done, God saved you and received you into His Family. GIVE GOD THE PRAISE.
(I John 1:9) “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.
When you asked Jesus to come into your heart, did you also ask Him to forgive you all your sins?
If you did, then He forgave you. At the moment you asked His forgiveness and you meant it in your heart, ‘HE FORGAVE YOU’, He really did.
CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT JESUS IS LORD. WITH YOUR HEART YOU BELIEVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT WITH YOUR MOUTH YOU MAKE CONFESSION UNTO SALVATION: THAT CLINCHES IT
(Romans 10:9-10) “If you shall confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved, for with the heart man believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”.
Now, live for Him, and follow Him all the days of your life. Live according to His holy Word. God will be with you and watch over you night and day. His love and favor will be over you and upon you.
He said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Heb. 13:5) GOD IS FAITHFUL, HE WILL KEEP HIS WORD. HE ALWAYS DOES.
NEED PRAYER? I NEED HELP. WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS, NOW
Love God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. Love all men (your neighbor as yourself.
(Matthew 22:37-40) Jesus said, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind….This is the first and great commandment….And the Second is like unto it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”.
Always forgive everyone. Jesus said, in the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ Forgive those who sin against you, so that your heavenly Father will forgive you.
If we don’t forgive others, GOD WON’T FORGIVE US. Know this, those who are not forgiven by God can’t enter the kingdom of God. SO FORGIVE.
TAKE NOTE: Know this, when you forgive others, it doesn’t get them off the hook with God if what they did was also a sin against Him. When you forgive others for some serious offence and perhaps a criminal act, they still must answer for, and are responsible for their crime against humanity, which in this case was you.
Here’s a further word, we all know we are living in troublesome times and political chaos. We all must stand for what’s right in that area, and we may strongly oppose evil and wrong doing in our politicians. If we are in politics we may even have to speak out with heat and passion against the wrongness of positions they have taken to their faces, but if we are Christians we must not, and can not hate, even our political enemies.
We may speak strongly against their evil doings and policies, but we cannot hate, even them, no matter how bad or evil they are. We can strongly condemn their political positions, and strongly oppose what they advocate, but again we cannot hate them.
We as Believers and loyal subjects of King Jesus, must even love our enemies, and my friend, that’s not an easy task, but before God you must find that balance.
WE CAN ONLY LOVE OUR ENEMIES IF WE TRULY LOVE OUR GOD WITH ALL OUR HEART, SOUL, STRENGTH, AND MIND. WE CAN ONLY LOVE OUR ENEMIES IF WE ARE IN CHRIST JESUS AND FOLLOWING HIM DAILY AND OBEYING HIS WORD.
WE CAN ONLY LOVE OUR ENEMIES IF WE ARE WALKING IN THE SPIRIT AND NOT IN THE FLESH (IN OUR OWN WAYS AND OPINIONS), AND WE CAN ONLY LOVE OUR ENEMIES IF WE TAKE THESE MATTERS TO GOD IN FERVENT PRAYER.
As Christians, or Christian politicians it is necessary that we pray for our President, even if we didn’t vote for him, or even think that he was legitimate. Pray that he will have a change of heart, and even a change in policy. And most certainly we can pray that he truly and genuinely comes to the Lord Jesus Christ. GOD LOVES ALL MEN AND WANTS ALL TO BE SAVED. HE HATES EVIL, AND HATES EVIL IN EVERY INDIVIDUAL, BUT WE SHOULD PRAY FOR THEIR SALVATION.
So remember, when you get saved immediately get into God’s Word and read at least one chapter a day. Start reading in the Gospel of John…..If you read two chapters a day, then begin reading the book of Proverbs as well. Of course, you are not limited to reading just one or two chapters in God’s Word per day, but if you are thirsting after God, you may read an unlimited amount of the Word of God and profit greatly from it.
The Word of God is very powerful. It will change your life. It has the very life of God in it. It will also produce faith in your heart.
(Hebrews 4:12) “For the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart
READ: MY FAITH MIXED WITH THE SOLID WORD OF GOD
(Romans 10:17) “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”.
MEMORIZE GOD’S WORD: You will find that you’ll need it when you don’t have your Bible in your hand.
(Matthew 4:4) “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every ‘word’ that proceeds out of the mouth of God’.
Every need of mankind, spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, is somehow connected to the Word of God, and is our answer to every problem.
WHEN DOUBT COMES, KNOW IT’S FROM THE DEVIL.
Find a Scripture that fits your need and counteracts the doubt that troubles you. Quote it to the devil. Quote it to yourself, and then quote it to the Lord your God.
Focus only on the scripture that counters the doubt. Don’t keep thinking the doubt while quoting the Scripture. Think deeply on the Scripture only. Control your mind. Control your thoughts.
Don’t permit your mind to think on the problem or on the doubt. Meditate deeply and continually on what the Scripture says, and get excited because you’re now seeing the answer, and only the answer. YES, PRAISE GOD.
(2 Corinthians 10:4-5) “For the weapons of our (spiritual) warfare are not carnal (devised by man) but mighty through God to the pulling down of (demonic) strongholds), casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and ‘BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST”.
BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
(Ephesians 5:18) “Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit”.
Once you are saved, you need to ask God to fill you with His Holy Spirit. Note that His Holy Spirit makes you holy.
So, cooperate with Him, and come into harmony and agreement with Him, by determining to obey God and His Word at all times.
READ: FAITHFULNESS, WHAT IS IT?
(John 7:37-39) “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believes on me as the scripture says, “Out of his belly (inner most being) shall flow rivers of living water.
But this spoke he of the ‘SPIRIT’, which they that believe on him should receive: For the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified”.
When you get ‘Baptized in the Holy Spirit, you will ‘SPEAK IN TONGUES’.
You will get what they got at Pentecost, and what the early church got. You will receive a holy boldness to be witnesses unto the Lord, and the unconverted will see you as a light in a dark world, a person who can bring to them salvation, healing, deliverance, through the authority and power that they have received through Christ and the ‘INFILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT’.
(Acts 1:8) Jesus said to them, “You shall receive power when the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and Samaria, and unto the ends of the earth”.
(Acts 2:1-4) “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all in one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire and it sat on each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance”.
You don’t need to fear that you will receive a ‘wrong spirit’ when you ask for the Holy Spirit, unless you’re heart’s not right with God.
NOW, if you are heavily involved in the Occult, or are a witch and want to come to Christ, you definitely need a Godly person to take you through deliverance that will free you from any demon infestation so you will be able to receive Christ as your Lord and Savior,
Of course, we understand that only the ‘WILLING’ can be saved. SO, we are talking about you if you aren’t already saved and born-again.
If you’ve been involved in the Occult, or were a witch you already have (evil spirits) that you need to be delivered from.
NOW, BACK TO TONGUES. THERE ARE TRUE TONGUES….BUT THERE ARE ALSO FALSE TONGUES. DEMONS INSIDE A PERSON CAN SPEAK IN ‘DEMONIC TONGUES’.
So, if you’ve been involved in witchcraft, with the help of some Godly, scripturally sound person, that’s credible with a good reputation, command those spirits to leave you in Jesus name, and ask God to fill you with His Holy Spirit, and if you will believe, you will receive.
READ: SHOULD I SPEAK IN TONGUES?
You ask, “HOW DO I KNOW I HAVE THE (GENUINE) HOLY SPIRIT?
Several ways:
First, you’ve truly Repented.
You’ve asked Jesus to come into your heart and life by faith.
(Ephesians 2:8-9) “For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast”.
You will love God with all your heart, and you will love your neighbor as your self.
You will begin to notice the growth and manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit.
(Gal 5:22) “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering (patience), gentleness, goodness, faith (faithfulness), meekness, temperance (self-control), against such there is no law”.
When you speak in tongues you will sense ‘PEACE‘, the peace of God, and not confusion and turmoil.
You will find that it helps you in your prayer life. It is supernatural praying that gets answers that no other form of prayer can equal.
If you have repented and asked Jesus to forgive you, and you are walking in obedience to God and in faith, you will not receive a wrong spirit (demon).
(Luke 11:11-13) Jesus said, “If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?…..or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?…..
or if he ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; How much more shall your heavenly Father give ‘THE HOLY SPIRIT’ TO THEM THAT ASK HIM”.
FEAR GOD:
There is a fear that torments, and it is not from God. But the fear of the Lord is a ‘fountain of life, that causes one to depart from the snares of death (depart from sin). (Proverbs 14:27)
LET ME PRAY WITH YOU. SEE WHAT GOD WILL DO?
HEALING:
Lord, your Word says in Isaiah 53:5 “But He (Jesus) was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, He was punished, for our sin, that we might have peace with God, and ‘WITH (BY) HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED.
READ: STOP YOUR DOUBTING THIS INSTANT: WARNING!
Lord, you already accomplished this for us. You said, that by your stripes, by being beaten with a whip, we are healed. That means we were healed 2,000 years ago, by the full work of Calvary.
Now, Lord, let this dear person pick up their package of healing, and open it now by faith, and receive their healing today, which was paid for 2,000 years ago, in Jesus name. Amen.
BELIEVE, AND RECEIVE.
Jesus said, “If you can believe all things are possible to him that believes” (Mark 9:23).
PRAYER FOR HOLY SPIRIT: (SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
Lord, I have received your Son, Jesus into my heart and life, and I have become a new creation in Christ Jesus, old things have passed away, and behold all things have become new (II Cor 5:17).
Lord, Jesus, baptize my friend in Your precious Holy Spirit, and seal them with Your Holy Spirit of Promise.
As they have yielded their whole life to you, (not that they have become passive, — but obedient unto you – following the Holy Scriptures, and yielding themselves to You, right now.
THIS WILL ENCOURAGE YOU: SPEAKING IN TONGUES
As this Dear Reader worships You in Spirit and in truth, let that moment come, where they give their whole being to you. Where they give their tongue to you.
Father, your Word tells us that no man can tame the tongue, but God, when we yield our tongue to you, you alone can tame it.
Now, Child of God by faith begin to speak out, the wonderful works of God (like in Acts 2), in TONGUES, in a language you have not learned, but a language that God gives to you. A language that He gives you to speak out to bring glory to His name. Perhaps at first just a few words will come to you, but speak them out. The language will grow and develop as you continue to pray, worship, and commune with Your heavenly Father in tongues. You will begin to see a significant difference in your prayer life, and in your walk with God. Praise the Lord.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW, WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU TODAY, IN JESUS WONDERFUL NAME. (post pg 6)
