Five Important Steps After Giving Your Life To Christ
Congratulations on giving your life to Christ and welcome to the Kingdom of God! You, beloved, are the newest citizen of THE MOST powerful and loving family in the heavens! God just went from being your creator to being your dad! Isn’t that awesome? I recognize it was scary giving your life over to someone you don’t know, but trust me, you just made the best decision you are ever going to make in your life.
God is so patient, merciful, loving, and graceful. He will help you make the best decisions for you and your family. He will guide, comfort, and protect you in ways you have never experienced before.
I cannot wait for you to experience it. You are going to love every part of your journey. So come on in, as I show you the ropes of being one of God’s babies, known as a Christian.
Seek God
The initial thing you have to do after giving your life to Christ is get to know the man you just gave your entire life to. Seek first the Kingdom of God, and everything you need shall be added unto you!
Establish a relationship with God. You can start by reading the gospels about Jesus. Get to know the personality, purpose, and the works of Jesus. Then, develop a prayer life, which will be the most important asset to your journey because this is how you communicate with God.
Prayer will also be the way you defeat the enemy. Do not go a day without praying or reading the bible. Treat your new journey like it’s a new romantic relationship. If you would check in with your new lover throughout the day, do the same with Jesus.
You can start by praying as soon as you get up, throughout the day, and before you go to bed. Never go to sleep without praying. When you go to sleep, you step into the spirit world and occasionally, you can recall what you saw there. We humans like to call it a dream.
Read my article Why Dreams Are Vital To Your Christian Walk for more information on dreams! Your dreams are IMPORTANT, so get into the habit of writing every one of them down because they mean something. Journal your dreams, even if you don’t understand it, it seemed crazy, or even disgusting. God communicates through dreams, and so does the devil. Write the dream down, pray about it, then ask God to give you the interpretation.
This opens the door for you to initiate a conversation with God. Remember, this is a relationship. It’s good that you also go on a fast and ask Him to speak to you, so you can learn His voice. This is tricky because you have to discern His voice from the enemies’ voice and your voice. Once you do those things, make it a routine, and you will get closer to Jesus in no time.
Forgive
“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14. You have to sit down with yourself and forgive every single person who has ever wronged you in any way.
This part is HARD because God may lay it on your heart to have a conversation with them! Do it because if you don’t, our Father will not forgive you, and you deserve to be forgiven and so do the people who wronged you.
Forgiveness will free you in ways that you cannot imagine. It’s like a burden is lifted off your shoulders.
Just like unforgiveness, any sin can cause an open door. If your spiritual door is open, the devil can walk right into your life. He can cause sickness, havoc in your finances, and so many other chaotic situations in your life. If sin is present, he has a legal right to do it. Any time that sin is present, the devil is present. So forgive any and everybody who’s wronged you. If you’ve wronged someone, consider calling them and asking for forgiveness. Remember, this is for you, not them.
I have more information about forgiveness here! Why Its Vital For Christians to Forgive!
Break Evil Covenants
THIS IS MAJOR and this section is going to make a few people upset!!!
Here are a few evil covenants you have to break and stop practicing after you get saved.
- Witchcraft
- New age
- Practicing yoga (which is a form of hindu worship, google it)
- Playing the ouija board for fun
- Getting readings by psychics
- Reading their horoscopes
- Tarots cards
- Traditional practices from their culture
- Sorority and Fraternity and some many more
Continuing to practice evil activity after getting saved, will cause you to struggle BIG TIME!
Reject, revoke, and renounce those evil covenants you, knowingly or unknowingly, made with the devil. When you partake in these practices, you join forces with demons, and you invite them into your life. Their motive is to persuade you to sin so you can miss heaven. The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Any god you serve outside the one and true living God is an idol, and God will not have any idols before Him.
Any object used to give you supernatural results outside of Jesus Christ is witchcraft. Crystals, statues, and rocks cannot heal or protect you! That’s what we have God for.
Renounce the fraternity (Greek gods), masons, eastern star and any other occults you were a part of. Throw away the crystals. Jesus Christ is now your healer. Dispose of the idol statues in your house. The Holy Spirit now lives in your temple, and He will bless you. He and His angels are all the protection you will need.
Throw away the dream catcher. One way God communicates with you is by dreams. What sense does it make to have a “dream catcher”? Dispose of the sage unless you are making cooking with it. The blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse your atmosphere. Think about it: people use this herb to eliminate evil spirits when all they need is Jesus Christ. Eliminate all new age items in your home. If you are not sure about an item, God will tell what to do. He never leaves us hanging.
Seek Deliverance
Every Christian should strive to be delivered on their journey! Deliverance was one third of Jesus’ ministry. You must ask God to lead you on the correct path to receive deliverance. Why is it essential to expel demons as you start your journey with Christ? A demon’s job is to persuade you to sin, so they can bring you to your demise. Satan’s motive is to get as many people to go to hell with him as he can. When you are free of demons, you have more freedom you have in your mind, thoughts, and emotions. Then it won’t be a struggle to serve Christ.
Demons do not leave because you gave your life to Christ. The Holy Spirit lives in your spirit man when you get saved, and the demons live in your soul. Your soul is your will, thoughts, feelings, and emotional intellect. Therefore demons work to persuade your thoughts and emotions.
Think about it, Jesus cast out demons from the children of Israel. They already believed! Their God was the God that we serve right now! You remember in Matthew 15:22-28 the Canaanite lady came to Jesus to heal her daughter?
Jesus replied to her, the bread is for the children of Israel, and not the dogs. The lady responded, Lord, even the dogs eat the crumbs from the Master’s table. Jesus was impressed with the lady’s faith and healed the lady’s daughter. The children He was talking about were already believers! The bread was the miracle, signs, and wonders!
Begin looking for a church that casts out demons, heals the sick and teaches spiritual warfare. This will be tough because most churches don’t! Churches that have deliverance ministries are far, few, and in between. Which brings me to my next point.
Build your spiritual authority so you can be a deliverance ministry! You may have to be the one that God uses to set yourself free. There’s been a few times when I’ve been praying spiritual warfare prayers, and demons manifest and come out of me. God delivered me in prayer, in my home. When I got saved, I went on a fast for nine months and God used me to cast out demons from a little boy. He had 23 demons in him, and they all came out. That boy’s life completely changed from that day to this one.
The power of God is REAL! I’ve experienced it first hand, and I’m NEVER going back to the world, now that I’ve experienced the miracles, signs, and wonders!
Learn Spiritual Warfare
Father, teach my hands to war and my fingers to fight. Now, after you’ve cleaned house and gotten a fresh start, it’s time to make you a soldier. A warrior! If you didn’t have to develop into a soldier to get your deliverance, this is the time when you would turn into one! A warrior that the devil hates to see coming to the prayer room. A champion that kicks down the devil’s door and takes back what he stole from you!
Where do we Christians do our fighting? IN PRAYER!! We don’t fight against flesh and blood, but against evil spirits. This means, DO NOT ask God to do something bad to another human being. I promise you, you will not get that prayer answered.
Learn the Bible like the back of your hand. When you pray about something, you have to remind God of His word. When it’s time to attack the devil, gather all the spiritual warfare scriptures you can. Psalms are full of them!
Remember, Jesus said whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatsoever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Start studying what authority you have in Christ. Then grow your faith to believe that you too can and will shut the devil down.
You just don’t know how excited I am for you! If you apply this article to your life; you will be a powerhouse!
Remember, God requires discipline and consistency. With those two, you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you! I hope this blesses you the way it blessed me!
With Love,
Your Sister Tiffani!
