You cannot accomplish anything in the spiritual world without God’s help and saving someone’s soul is a spiritual transformation. We can share the gospel message of Jesus Christ with the nonbeliever but the rest is up to God. God’s participation is essential. God isn’t going to help you much if you’re not in fellowship with the Lord. You are only in fellowship with God when you obey his commandments. I’m not talking about one or two commandments once in a while. I’m talking about making a personal decision to obey God all the time and then making a good faith effort to obey every commandment of God. You can be saved unto heaven through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior alone and then never obey another commandment of God. It won’t keep you out of heaven because once saved always saved. But it will keep you out of fellowship with God.
Being saved doesn’t mean you’re automatically in fellowship with God. Far from it. Fellowship with God has to be earned through obedience and the “work” we do here on earth. Did you know over 95% of the saints in heaven were never in fellowship with the Lord because they never “worked” for the Lord, never having saved even one other person to the kingdom of God through a personal witness for Christ? They never obeyed the one commandment dearest to God’s heart so how could they be in fellowship with the Most High? Salvation is easy because it’s a one time thing based of faith alone that’ll last for all eternity whereas fellowship with God requires constant work on our part by living our lives in obedience to God and our fellowship with God can be easily lost if we’re not careful.
Praying and reading the Bible every day helps the believer stay in fellowship with the Lord because believers are more likely to obey God’s commandments when they abide in God’s word. When you align your will with God’s will and speak Bible affirmations before the Lord you’re praying to God. Bible affirmations are prayers on steroids and they honor and glorify God. My focus is on God’s main thing, which is witnessing for Christ in order to save lost souls for the kingdom of God. This is where God’s treasure will be found; stored up for those of us who save many for heaven. We still need to obey all the other commandments of God. If they weren’t important and for our benefit they wouldn’t be in the Bible. One third of my Bible affirmations pertain to witnessing for Christ and I covered them in the previous blog. I try to speak some or all of my witness affirmations before God every day in prayer. The other two thirds of my Bible affirmations, my “other category”, I pray less often. You can use any of my affirmations during your worship of God or you can create your own. Rest assured God is listening and he’s pleased when you affirm you will walk in obedience to the word. God will answer your prayers when you are in fellowship with him and God will reward you on the last day with treasures if you witness for Christ and save one more for Jesus. The following is a list of my “other” Bible affirmations:
1 Corinthians 1:30 – But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God – and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
AFFIRMATION:
Jesus is made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Therefore, I confess I have the wisdom of God, and I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus,
Romans 12:2 – And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
AFFIRMATION:
I am not conformed to this world but I am transformed by the renewing of my mind. My mind is renewed by the word of God.
Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
AFFIRMATION:
I will do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Romans 8:11 – But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Matthew 16: 19 – (Jesus) – And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Galatians 3:13 – Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”).
AFFIRMATION:
Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore, I forbid any sickness or disease to come upon this body. Every disease germ and every virus that touches this body dies instantly in the name of Jesus. Every organ and every tissue of this body functions in the perfection to which God created it to function, and I forbid any malfunction in this body, in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 91:10-11 – No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling place, for He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
Proverbs 12:28 – In the way of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.
Luke 4:10 – For it is written: “He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you.”
AFFIRMATION:
No evil will befall me neither shall any plague come nigh my dwelling. For you have given your angels charge over me and they keep me in all my ways, and in my pathway is life and there is no death.
Ephesians 4:29-30 – Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearer. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
AFFIRMATION:
I will not let corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearer. I will not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by evil speech, thoughts or actions. I am indwelt by the Holy Spirit, which is God’s seal that I am his possession to be redeemed on the last day. This is my testimony.
2 Corinthians 8:9 – For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
John 10:10 – (Jesus) – I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
John 5:24 – (Jesus) – Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
AFFIRMATION:
I bless the Lord my God who has met all my needs. For poverty he has given me wealth, for sickness he has given me health, for death he has given me eternal life. My cup runs over. Praise the Lord for his mercy and generosity toward his servant.
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.
1 Corinthians 2:16 – For “who has known the mind of the Lord, that we may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Ephesians 2:10 – For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
AFFIRMATION:
I am complete in Jesus who is the head of all principality and power. For I am his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before ordained that I should walk therein. I am a new creation in Christ and the old creation has passed away. As a believer I have the mind of Christ.
Joshua 24:15 – And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
AFFIRMATION:
I will serve only the Lord my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Daily will I worship my God, giving his the praise of my lips. I will offer up honor and glory to Almighty God who sits on the throne of grace in heaven. Forever I will sing hymns of worship to the Lord in heaven because he is worthy. God is good and God is great and this my spirit knows very well.
Romans 8:31 – What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Peter 1:3-4 – As His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us to glory and virtue, by which has been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
AFFIRMATION:
God is on my side. God is in me now, Who can be against me? No one. God has given unto me all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Therefore I am a partaker of his divine nature. I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises from God, who is generous with his servant.
Galatians 3:26-29 – For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abrahams’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
I am a son of the Most High through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant, and Abraham’s blessings are mine. The Lord will prosper that which concerns me.