{"id":82,"date":"2014-08-23T01:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T01:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-05-07T01:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T01:35:42","slug":"im-saved-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Saved&#8230;&#8230;Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I have accepted God&#8217;s Son, Jesus Christ, as my own personal Saviour and my only hope of salvation,&#8230;&#8230;now what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Scripture says that &#8220;if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new&#8221;. \u00a0What does this mean? \u00a0It means that you&#8217;ve been born again. \u00a0It means that you who were dead in trespasses and sin, have been made alive unto God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As a child of God, you now have a heavenly Father who loves and cares for you and wants you to walk with Him. \u00a0You have more family; brothers and sisters in Christ, with whom you will share fellowship and the common bond of love for Jesus Christ and His Word. \u00a0As a child of God you have an inheritance of a home in heaven and eternal life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You have new appetites and desires that you have not experienced before. \u00a0You now have a gift or gifts for serving God which were bestowed on you by the Holy Spirit when He sealed your salvation. You have not only been delivered from the penalty of sin, but you now have the capacity to be delivered from the power of sin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You have the ability to grow spiritually through the meat, milk, bread and honey of God&#8217;s Word. You are a work in progress, created unto good works, and your life will be the workmanship of Christ Himself as you yield yourself to Him. \u00a0He will finish the work in you that He has begun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You are the child of a King and you have the privilege of coming boldly before His throne to obtain grace and mercy and to find help in the time of need. \u00a0You have been forgiven. \u00a0Your burden of sin and guilt has been removed as far as the east is from the west and it is being replaced with joy unspeakable and full of glory. \u00a0You now have the power to love the unlovable and to forgive the unforgivable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You will never again be alone because God has promised to never leave you or forsake you. \u00a0You have a reason to be thankful. You have purpose and peace. You now have a testimony of what Christ has done for you. \u00a0Go tell someone!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.\u00a0<\/em> Romans 1:16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Note: \u00a0As you read through the Bible, search for each of the above items. \u00a0Underline or otherwise mark the location of the specific promise or teaching stated above and memorize the promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have accepted God&#8217;s Son, Jesus Christ, as my own personal Saviour and my only hope of salvation,&#8230;&#8230;now what? The Scripture says that &#8220;if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new&#8221;. \u00a0What does this mean? \u00a0It means that you&#8217;ve been born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=82\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m Saved&#8230;&#8230;Now What?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}