The Right Church, Baptism, and Staying in the Word

When we repent and renounce, we close those doors that the enemy has used in the past to walk about reeking havoc in our lives. Now we are in a place of surrender, of relationship, and of reconciliation to God’s will in and on our lives.

If you don’t belong to a church that teaches the entire word of God, it is vital to your continued relationship with God that you find one immediately. Ask God in prayer where He wants you to go to church. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you to a place where your relationship with God can grow.

When you go to the church, or if you already belong to a church, the next step is being baptized.

Romans 6:1-6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

Being baptized is so important! When we go into the water in the name of Jesus, we are nailing our old sinful self to the cross and breaking all ties with who we used to be. As we come up from the water, we are resurrected with Jesus, no longer slaves to our sin nature, free to walk in the newness of life.

There are no rules saying you can only be baptized once. If you have renounced how you have been living and you feel God telling you to get baptized again, that’s ok. This isn’t about traditions or religion, it’s about being free and saying ‘God, I give it all to you. I only want what you have for me from now through eternity. Im done walking in my own ways, I dedicate my new self to serving You.”

Walking with God is a commitment. It’s a choice every day, often times even every minute. The question is always “am I going to do the thing God wants me to do, or am I going to go my own way?” God will never force you to do things His way. Even when sometimes we wish He would for our own sakes. Free will, the act of us choosing to come to Him on our own, is so so important to God. He will guide us, and He will correct us, but He never forces us to do anything.

This is why it’s important to both attend a church that teaches the Word of God, and also for you yourself to read the Bible every day. God uses the Bible to teach us, to speak to us, and to help us understand who we are as Christians. The bible is a book of instruction, and it’s a book of the promises  of God.

For example, did you know God has a plan for your life?

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

And did you know He even tells you how to walk in that plan?

Joshua 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

There is nothing in your life that God can’t handle, hasn’t already handled, or will leave you on your own to handle If you ask Him for help And you are willing to listen to Him. All you have to do is keep reading His word every day, and He is going to change the way you think and the way you see the world.