SALVATION PRAYER

Salvation Prayer

The Gospel is the power of God (Romans 1:16). It can save even the worst of sinners. Paul, who persecuted the church, was saved by Grace. 

1 Timothy 1:15 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

What is the Salvation Prayer? 

"That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9) .

"Jesus answered and said to him, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God'" (John 3:3).

Salvation Prayer - The Simple Steps:

1. Acknowledge in your heart that Jesus is Lord.

2. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

3. Believe that Jesus died for your sins and was raised three days later.

4. Repent of your sins and get baptized in the name of Jesus.

"God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus' precious and holy name. Amen."

If you said that prayer, congratulations, you are welcome to God's family, the household of the saints. What next? 

• Get baptized as commanded by Christ.
• Tell someone else about your new faith in Christ.
• Spend time with God each day. It does not have to be a long period of time. Just develop the daily habit of praying to Him and reading His Word. Ask God to increase your faith and your understanding of the Bible.
• Seek fellowship with other followers of Jesus. Develop a group of believing friends to answer your questions and support you.
• Find a local church where you can worship God. 

However, if you would prefer a direct fellowship with someone, you can send an email to Zoetestimony@yahoo.com, and we will be glad to help you through. 

GOD BLESS YOU. 

GRACE - 3 (RECEIVE THE GIFT)

Hello Dear Believers, 

So Far, we have discussed Grace 1 (In need of a Saviour) and Grace 2 (Welcomed back into the family). 

Still on the series #Grace, 

{Romans 6:23 } - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

The first thing we should know when dealing with Grace is that it is a GIFT and not a REWARD. You didn't deserve it, you don't deserve it, and you will never deserve it. You were completely dirty, out in the dark, beaten, sick, dead, and JESUS came to the rescue. He came to give a gift, and not a reward. That is what a friend does, and not a taskmaster, or an employer. A friend appreciates you by getting you a gift, while a taskmaster waits for you to work and deserve the gift before giving it to you. You know that there is no way in the world that you would ever have done anything to deserve Grace.

Just like you are paid salaries at the end of the month, you receive the salary with joy because you know that you worked a whole month for the pay. The salary is the reward for your stress, work and effort. If you don't do the work, you know that you shouldn't expect anything. If Jesus were to wait for us to work and deserve the gift, He would be waiting for all eternity because we will never be able to. The gift is only a gift because you don't deserve it. So what do we do with it?

When someone comes to your house and gives you a gift on any day outside a celebration, maybe on a random day, what would be your first reaction to the gift? The truth is that your mind begins to wander and to think of what you did to warrant and deserve that gift. We begin to think that maybe the giver is trying to repay us for something we did. This way, we never treat a gift as a gift, instead, we see the gift as a reward. We either think that the giver shouldn't have gone through so much stress just to get us a gift, or we think that we do not deserve such expensive gift and then we see it as a waste.

In the same way, many of us see ourselves in such a way that we think that Jesus shouldn't have gone through the stress of giving His life, or we think the gift of His life is so expensive that we think He just wasted His life, and could have done something better with it. Jesus is at the door of our lives with the gift of Grace and Righteousness (Rev. 3:20). He wants to give us that gift. He knows we don't deserve it, and that we didn't work for it, but He wants to give us all the same. It only describes how special we are to Him. All we need to do is open the door for Him to come in, receive the gift, say thank you and enjoy the gift.

GRACE - 2 (WELCOMED BACK INTO THE FAMILY)

{Ephesians 2:19 } - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.

One of the worst things that can happen to anyone is to be willfully lost, to walk out of your own home with the desire never to come back again. It always appears cool at the beginning until the person begins to wake up to reality, that there is really no place like home. There is nothing the devil has to offer that is worth leaving the kingdom of God for. Whatever the devil has to offer is always short-lived (2 Cor. 4:18). The devil only uses sugar-coated poisons to lure us out of the presence of God, and then he takes the suger-coating away from the poison. That is when we wake up to reality.

The parable of the lost son in Luke 15:11-32 is about the best illustration to explain the topic. I believe the devil made him think that it was better to live alone than stay with his Father (just as the case is today). The part the devil didn't say was that the son would become his slave. The son left and wasted all, and then after that, the famine started. The suger-coating was gone. The devil helped him to come to reality very quickly. The agenda of the devil was now revealed. The son would resume work in a field, feeding swines and eating the food of the swines.

The glorious part began when he thought to himself that even the servants in his father's house were better than his current situation, which is always the case. God's "worst" will always be better than the devil's best. So he left and went back home. The moment he got back home, there was joy in the house. No scolding whatsoever, no abuses whatsoever from the Father. His Father threw a party to celebrate his return home. He was lost, but now found, he was blind but now could see, wounded but now healed, dead but now alive.

This is the true state of every Believer that is welcomed back into the family of Christ. Your past is completely past. Jesus has forgiven you and forgotten it (Heb. 8:12, Col. 2:15). He has given you a new name, He calls you Righteous (2 Cor. 5:21). He rejoices that you are back (Lk. 15:10). You know what? He didn't replace you in that family. He kept your seat and position waiting for the day you would come back. All you need to do is to thank Him, return to your position as a Son and not a slave, and enjoy your life back into GRACE, welcomed back into the family.

If this is the case, then don't put yourself in the position of a slave when God has made you a Son. Come boldly to the throne of Grace and receive mercy and Grace to help. Understand that Christ has welcomed you back with open arms, your past, completely forgiven and forgotten. Act like the Son that you are.

GRACE - 1 (IN NEED OF A SAVIOUR)

Good morning Dear Believers,

Today, we begin a short series on #Grace and it will get built and progressive. To help us understand what Grace is, what Grace has done, what Grace is doing, and what Grace will do.

{Romans 5:8}-  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

In the beginning, God Almighty created the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1:1). After He created heaven and earth, He began to fill it with all kinds of things like the firmament, animals, plants, fishes, and the likes; He made sure that there was order. However, in all of this, God knew that creation was not complete. One more thing was left. He had created a home, He was left with the occupant. So He made man. Out of His bountiful love and desire for fellowship, He made Man in His image and after His likeness (Gen. 1:26-27).

Earth was beautiful. It was perfect. Divinity and Humanity on the same frequency. Man was clothed With glory and honor. Man wore God's uniform. The glory of God is the reason why the 24 elders and 4 beasts in heaven are always on their face to the ground always worshipping (Rev. 4:10) but God clothed man with glory so that man did not need to fall face down, and could fellowship with God face to face, heart to heart. No heavenly being gave Him fellowship like Man. He was happy because He wanted it and He got in Man.

Then the devil stepped in to cut and destroy the fellowship between man and God, and he succeeded. Man fell. He lost that glory and received shame in return. He lost that life and received death (Rom. 5:17). He couldn't fellowship with God anymore. The devil began to have a nice time with man. Oppression, shame, sickness, poverty and death began to reign among Man. The devil began to have a legal authority over Man, God's greatest creation. We were deep in sin, very unworthy.

However, in all of this, God still came for the rescue. Like a Master coming to buy a slave from his master, He paid the prize completely. Just imagine a negotiation between the intending buyer and the owner. Jesus asked for our price to be bought, and the highest price to have been paid was His life, yet He gave it. What love! While we were yet sinners, unworthy of such love, Christ died for us. Grace came to the rescue. Please understand that Christ has paid the whole price for your redemption. We needed a Saviour and we got the best of all - GOD Himself. Grace has saved you.

However, it's possible for someone to buy you a gift and you refuse to accept it. It's possible for God to have paid your price and yet you refuse to move out of the house of your former owner. Please walk out of the devil's domain and come into God's life. You must accept the sacrifice of Jesus and change sides. Allow Him be the Lord of your life, then you become His child.

DAILY CONFESSION: I have been saved, delivered, made free, restored, redeemed and translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. I accept the sacrifice of Christ. I am born of God. His seed dwells in me. I am now a member of the household of God and my citizenship is of Heaven. Glory!

YOU POSSESS POWER #ByDefault

Good Day Believers, 

Still on the series #ByDefault 

YOU POSSESS POWER. 

Just as a way of recap, when we say #ByDefault, we mean that it's in you. It's been given to you. You don't look for it. You don't ask for it. You don't pray for it. As a Believer, it's just part of the salvation package. It comes with the life of Christ #ZOE. 

So far, we have discussed:

You carry glory #ByDefault 

You are victorious #ByDefault

Heaven is your home #ByDefault 

Discharged and acquitted #ByDefault

You receive answers #ByDefault

We are discussing these things because in the Spiritual, there is no manifestation without the knowledge or revelation of what you already have and how to use it. These other parts of the series can be accessed from zoescripts.blogspot.com.ng. 

Another thing that the Believer must know that he/she carries is power. 

John 1:12

But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name (AMP). 

This is one of the Scriptures that tells you that you carry power by default. The Word "authority" there is in the Greek transliterated "Exousia" and it means "delegated power and the liberty and right to use power". And this is given to every Believer. We have power. We do not only have it, we also have the right to use it. 

By default, the Believer is not weak. There is nothing powerless about the Believer. That Scripture above implies that power has been delegated to the Believer. To better understand that delegated power, we should take a quick look at the one with the power, who has delegated it. 

Matthew 28:18

Jesus approached and, breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Philipians 2:9

Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name.. 

That name is of the highest authority in heaven, on earth and underneath the earth. And He has delegated that authority to every Believer. You can open your mouth, use the name of Jesus and the whole universe listens to you. That's the delegated power. Another Scripture that explains this delegated power is... 

Luke 10:19

Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you.

Dear Sir and Ma, salvation is a complete package. God has not given us the Spirit of fear, but of POWER (2 Tim. 1:7), but whoever does not know this will keep living in hurt and molestation. It doesn't matter how much you have in your bank account, if you don't know how to withdraw that money, you will continue to remain in want. 

Dear Believer, please know and keep knowing, you carry power. Power to be healed. Power to be rich. Power to molest darkness. You don't need to pray for these things again. It's written plainly in Scriptures. Just confess them and use the power delegated to you. We are seated with Christ in heavenly places (Eph. 2:6). God is all-powerful, and you are His child, does that make you any less powerful? NO. Even if at all, you should use the power even more. You have the liberty and right to use it.

John 14:12

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.

God doesn't need that power in heaven, as much as you and I need it here on earth to subdue the kingdom of darkness. That's God's will for you and I. You should begin to walk in complete victory.

With the delegated power to every Believer, 

You are unkillable

You are unmolestable

You are powerful

You are undefeatable

You are safe and secured

YOU ARE A GOD. Use that power. You have the right and liberty to use it. Look that situation, examination or demon in the face and speak with authority. 

The child of the Lion, is not less of a lion. The Child of God, is not less of God.

You carry power #ByDefault.