#steps to salvation

[oriye]

STEPS TO SALVATION

OUR MISSION

1. To Preach The Gospel Of Salvation To Every Creature Of The World.

Mark 15:16

2. Preach The Message Of Repentance And Forgiveness Of Sins In All Nations In The Name Of Jesus Christ. Luke 24:47.

3. Teaching The Undiluted Word And Doctrines Of Jesus Christ To Every Creature. Matthew 28:20.

4.Raising Disciples Of Jesus Christ In All Nations.

OUR GOAL

Our goal is to rescue the corrupt and wicked world from the bondage and captivity of satan by opening their spiritual eyes to Salvation through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

STEPS TO SALVATION

When you become born again, you become a child of God. (John 1:12).

You name is written in Heaven and you have the hope of eternal life with God.

You are delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God’s dear Son. (Colossians 1:13).

You cross from death to life ( John 5:24). You are kept by God’s power ( I Peter 5:1), and preserved into His heavenly Kingdom. (II Timothy 4:18).

• This gift of the new birth is free and available to you. Why waste such a precious gift?

Come to Jesus right now and receive the gift of salvation, embrace the opportunity to be born anew. Are you ready?

If you are, take the following steps to become a child of God right now:

• Admit you are a sinner. ( Romans 3:23) “ For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” ( Romans 6:23) “ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”

• Repent now. ( Acts 3:19) “ Repent ye therefore; and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” (I John 1:9) “ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness'

• Believe that God loves you and that Jesus died for you. ( Romans 5:8). “ But God commended His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us’

• Invite Jesus into your life through the prayer of faith. ( Revelation 3:20). “ Behold I stand at the door, and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with Me”

• Go and sin no more. (John 8:11) “ She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

• Identify with a Bible believing Church and continue in fellowship with true believers.

Once you have done this, you are born into the family of God, you become a child of God!

You are a new creation in Christ and your name is written in Heaven!

Today, as you begin your new relationship with Christ, you will experience a new change in your life, and will be preserved

in Christ in Jesus name. Am

PRAYER OF FAITH

Lord Jesus, I come before you today to seek for your forgiveness. I admit that I have sinned against you in my words and actions.

Lord, have mercy upon me and forgive me my sins. Wash away my sins with your precious blood.

Give me the power and the grace to live above sin and temptation to sin. Write my name in the Lamb’s book of life.

Thank you Lord for answering my prayers.

RESOURCES FOR NEW CHRISTIAN CONVERTS

http://deeperlife.ca/resources/newconverts/

CONTACT US

Contact us for questions, prayers, and counseling at:

Africa For Christ Network

5, Bolaji Micheal Avenue,

Temidire Community,

Ibafo, Ogun State

Nigeria.

EMAIL US

bukolaaderiye1@gmail.com

africaforchrist1@gmail.com

[ave-immaculata]

fellas we're once again wrestling with imperfect vs. perfect contrition and why imperfect contrition with a firm resolution to not sin again and promptly receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation doesn't save

[schnuffel-danny]

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[faaun]

small prayer to the saint of the autoclave

[disneydatass]

Why are you so angry all the time? Why do you lock yourself away from the world? Why are you not living your life they ask?

I answer with my own set of questions. How can I live in a body that doesn’t work? In a house divided? In a mind that constantly races? How can I go out and try to make a living when I know off the back of my labor my money goes to funding genocide? How can I think positively and go out and have fun when children are being gun downed for going to school, the movies, the mall? Is this survivor’s guilt? It can’t be. I don’t feel guilty for surviving. I feel rage and sorrow that I have to survive. I should be living. We should be living. One shouldn’t have to struggle to eat, drink, and have basic healthcare and rights.

[theood]

Sorry to beat the dead horse I live in lately but I'm so tired. A break from social media probably could help. If I figure out how else to occupy my time doing absolutely nothing. It's what I say every fucking day. Just wish I had friends. People my age around here to talk too. Even younger. Anything. I'm so fucking lonely. I love everyone I talk to online, I have meaningful connections with so many of you but I also haven't had meaningful conversation IRL in idk. Years probably. I haven't seen any of my old friends because we moved and I had to isolate myself because no one really wanted to hang out with me or could get here. And I really don't do anything, I can't be stressed. I can't be depressed I can't. I can't. I can't. Just like every adult in my life says. I don't know. I just wish I could actually see it's going to get better. Be better for me

[akkivee]

zion was a walled city/fortress thing where, according to biblical mythos, god installed the king he saw fit to carry out his law and promised it would be a place of no conflict. it’s sometimes called a paradise, being the city of god, so chuuoku is totally ichijiku’s paradise lol

[nathan-r-dooley]

The Weight of Sin: A Biblical Framework

Sin is a weight we all bear, but God’s mercy provides a path to freedom. The Weight of Sin: A Biblical Framework explores sin’s consequences and God’s justice and grace. Begin a 7-day journey to renewal and restoration today. https://timeforprovidence.com

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two broken legs

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[furiousfinnstan]

URGENT!!!Help Abdul Salam Al-Anqar and his family get through this war in Gaza!!!

(URGENT) THEY ARE AT €3,445 OUT OF €50,000 GOAL

I was asked by @nader5555 to make this, if u cannot donate please please share this post. Copy pasted from a message i was sent:

"Only a Few Hours Left Before We Enter Our First Year of War, Genocide, Starvation, and Displacement A Final Plea from the Heart of Hell: Save Us Before Hope Dies 💔🔥 I am Abdel Salam, and I have nothing left but words written by a trembling hand ✍️. The war has not only destroyed our lives; it has taken everything from us. Our home, which was once our refuge, is now a pile of rubble 🏚️.

My car, my only source of livelihood, was destroyed in a sudden strike 🚗, and the work that sustained us is now a distant memory 💼. Today, I live in an endless nightmare. Under a sun that burns everything in its path 🌞🔥, my family and I sit in a worn-out tent, a tent that shields us neither from the summer heat nor the winter cold ❄️. Insects 🦟 invade the place, diseases consume our bodies 🩺, and my younger siblings cry from hunger and thirst 🍞💧. We have no clean water or a crumb of bread to ease our hunger. Each passing day deepens the weight of this hell we live in.

My Daughter Eman is Dying from Malnutrition ��� My daughter Eman suffers from malnutrition; I have nothing to feed or treat her with. The deterioration of her health is killing me slowly. Every glance in her eyes, every pain she endures, crushes my heart 💔. How can I explain to her that what was once our hope has now turned into nothing but a mirage? The Night Only Adds to Our Pain 🌙 The night does not bring us rest; it only adds to our pain. We sleep on hard ground, feeling the cold in every bone of our bodies 🥶, with nothing but pieces of cardboard 📦 to cover us. My wife Aya cries in silence 🥺 as she watches our daughter’s future fade before her eyes. My mother Eman suffers from illness and needs urgent medical care 🩺💊.

My Father Ahmed is Sick with Cancer and Needs Emergency Treatment My father Ahmed, who is sick with cancer, needs emergency treatment outside Gaza, and the cost of his treatment is at least $10,000, not including accommodation. As he suffers from severe pain, I cannot provide the treatment he needs due to our dire situation.

My Siblings Are in Constant Suffering ⚰️ My brother Omar was unable to continue his studies due to the situation. My brother Nader could not take his high school exams, and my younger brother Mohammad suffers from brittle bones and needs treatment we cannot afford. Every day we live brings us one step closer to the end. Death surrounds us from every side: if not from hunger 🍽️, then from illness 🦠. And if not from illness, then from the despair that devours our souls. Where is Humanity? Where is the World? 🌍💔 We want to leave the devastated Gaza Strip to escape the machinery of destruction and killing and the severity of hunger and poverty. The cost of travel for each person is $5,000, and we are a family of seven members, bringing the total cost to $35,000.

Where are the compassionate hearts? Are you waiting for us to disappear into the depths of this suffering? Are you waiting until death takes us before you act? We are drowning, and we don’t have enough strength to scream for help 🆘. Will you let this cry go unanswered? 😭 Your donation today is our last thread of hope. With the little support I received, I was able to buy a simple phone 📱 to reach out to you. But the bitter truth is that what I and my family need is much greater. We are not asking for much; just enough to save our lives from this hell 🔥. Every donation, no matter how small, could be the difference between life and death for us 👐. Don’t Let Us Disappear in the Darkness of Suffering 🌑 Don’t let our story end here. Be the light that guides us to salvation 🕯️✨.

With every tear, with every pain, I write this final plea to you, Abdel Salam."

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[sfadventist]

Repentance - Steps To Christ, Chapter 2

https://www.upliftingchrist.net/repentance-steps-to-christ

Genuine repentance include sorrow for sin, turning away from it in heart, and can be obtain only from Christ.

We must come to Christ just as we are and claim His blood which alone can cleanse us from the defilement of sin and renew our hearts in his own likeness?

[selfdiscoverymedia]

AK24-43. Lee Lindauer's Fiction & Facts.

An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy ad her guest Lee Lindauer, on air from October 22nd Colorado native and award-winning author Lee Lindauer is an active member of the International Thriller Writers, has participated on author panels at ThrillerFest, and served as co-editor for The Big Thrill magazine. In today’s discussion, we delve into his two other books, which, while fictional, are grounded in…

[creepyclothdoll]

The Devil's Wheel

The Devil’s Wheel

“If you say yes,” said the Devil, “a single man, somewhere in the world, will be killed on the spot. But three million dollars is nothing to sneeze at, missus.”

“What’s the catch?” You squint at him suspiciously over the red-and-black striped carnival booth. You’re smarter than he thinks you are– a devil deal always has a catch, and you’re determined to catch him before he catches you. 

“Well, the catch is that you’ll know you did it. And I’ll know, too. And the big man upstairs’ll know, I ‘spose. But what’s the chariot of salvation without a little sin to grease the wheels? You can repent from your mansion balcony, looking out at your waterfront views, sipping a bellini in your eighties. But hey, it’s up to you– take my deal or leave it.”

The Devil lights a cigar without a match, taking an inhale, and blowing out a cloud of deep, sweet-smelling tobacco laced faintly with something that reminds you of rotten eggs. If he does have horns, they’re hidden under his lemon yellow carnival barker hat. He wears a clean pinstripe suit and a red bowtie. No cloven hooves, no big pointy fork, but you know he’s the Devil without having to be told. Though he did introduce himself.

He’s been perfectly polite. 

You know you need the money. He knows it too, or he wouldn’t have brought you here, to this strange dark room, whisking you away from your new house in the suburbs as fast as a wish. Now you’re in some sort of warehouse, where all the windows seem to be blacked out– or, maybe, they simply look out into pitch darkness, though it is the middle of the day. A single white spotlight shines down on the two of you. 

“Wait a minute, wait a minute,” you say. “I bet the man is someone I know, right? My husband?”

“Could be,” the Devil says with a pointed grin. “That’s for the wheel to decide.”

He steps back and raises his black-gloved hand as the tarp flies off of the large veiled object behind him. The light of the carnival wheel nearly blinds you. Blinking lights line the sides. Jingling music blares over speakers you can’t see. The flickering sign above it reads:

THE DEVIL’S WHEEL

“Step right up and claim your fortune,” the Devil barks. “Spin the wheel and pay the price! Or leave now, and a man keeps his life.”

You examine the wheel. 

The gambling addict

The doting boyfriend

The escaped convict

The dog dad

The secretive sadist

“These are all the possible men I can kill?” You ask, thumbing the side of the wheel. It rolls smoothly in your hand. Then you quickly stop, realizing that this might constitute a spin under the Devil’s rules. He flashes a smile at you, watching you halt its motion. 

“Addicts, convicts, murderers– plenty of terrible options for you to land on, missus!”

“Serial wife murderer?”

“Now who would miss a fellow like that? I can guarantee that the whole world would be better off without him in it, and that’s a fact.”

The hard worker

The compulsive liar

The animal torturer

The widower

The desperate businessman

The failed musician

The beloved son

“My husband is on here too,” you say. 

“Your husband Dave, yes. The wheel has to be fair, otherwise there’s simply no stakes.”

“I know what’s gonna happen,” you say, crossing your arms. “This wheel is rigged. I’m gonna spin it around, and it’ll go through all the killers and stuff, and then it’s gonna land on my husband no matter what.”

“Why, I would never disgrace the wheel that way,” the Devil says, wounded. “I swear on my own mother’s grave– may she never escape it. In fact, take one free spin, just to test it out! This one’s on me, no death, no dollars.”

You cautiously reach up to the top of the wheel and feel its heaviness in your hand. The weight of hundreds of lives. But also, millions of dollars. You pull the wheel down and let it go.

Clackity-clackity-clackity-clackity

Round and round it goes. 

The college graduate

The hockey fan

The Eagle Scout

The cold older brother

The charming younger brother

The two-faced middle child

The perfectionist

The slob 

Your husband Dave

Clackity-clackity-clackity.

Finally, the wheel lands on a name. A title, really.

The photographer

“Hmm, tough, missus, but that’s the way of the wheel. But hey, look! Your husband is allllll the way over here,” he points with his cane to the very bottom of the wheel, all the way on the other side from where the arrow landed. “As you can see, it’s not rigged. The wheel truly is random.”

“So… there really isn’t another catch?” You ask. 

“Isn’t it enough for you to end a man’s life? You need a steeper price? If you’re really such a glutton for punishment, I’ll gladly re-negotiate the terms.”

“No, no… wait.” You examine the wheel, glancing between it and the Devil.

You really could use that three million dollars. Newly married, new house, you and your husband’s combined debt– those student loans really follow you around. He’s quite a bit older than you, and even he hasn’t paid them off yet, to the point where the whole time you were dating you watched him stress out about money. You had to have a small, budget wedding, and a small, budget honeymoon. Three million dollars could be big for the two of you. You could re-do your honeymoon and go somewhere nice, like Hawaii, instead of just taking two weeks in Atlantic City. You deserve it. 

Even so, do you really want to kill an innocent photographer? Or an innocent seasonal allergy sufferer? Or an innocent blogger? Just because you don’t know or love these people doesn’t mean that someone doesn’t. 

The cancer survivor

The bereaved

The applicant

Some of these were so vague. They could be anyone, honestly. Your neighbors, your father, your friends…

The newlywed

The ex-gifted kid

The uncle

The Badgers fan

“My husband is a Badgers fan,” you say.

“How lovely,” the Devil says. 

Then it hits you.

Of course.

The weightlifter.

The careful driver.

The manager.

The claustrophobe.

Your husband Dave lifts weights at the gym twice a month. You wouldn’t call him a pro, but he does it. He also drives like he’s got a bowl of hot soup in his lap all the time, because he’s afraid of being pulled over. He just got promoted to management at his company, and he takes the stairs to his seventh-story office because he hates how small and cramped the elevator is.

“I get your game,” you announce. “You thought you could get me, but I figured you out, jackass!” “Oh really? What is my game, pray tell?” The Devil responds, leaning against his cane.

“All these different titles– they’re all just different ways to describe the same guy. My husband isn’t one notch on the wheel, he’s every notch. No matter what I land on, Dave dies. I’m wise to your tricks!” 

The Devil cackles. 

“You’re a clever one, that’s for sure. I thought you’d never figure it out.”

“Thanks but no thanks, man,” you say with a triumphant smirk. “I’m no rube. No deal. Take me back home.”

“As you wish, missus,” the Devil says. He snaps his fingers, and you’re gone, back to your brand-new house with your new husband. “Don’t say I never tried to help anyone.”

[jupitermelichios]

It's also worth noting that a significant number of premillenial dispensationalists (aka people who believe in the rapture - actually a pretty small minority of christians found almost exclusively in the USA) not only think the end of the world is good, they think they can rules lawyer their way into making it happen.

when I was a little kid I used to build nests out of sticks and leave them in trees, because I thought we'd get more birds that way. If I created the conditions in which I knew birds to exist, that would cause birds to appear. That is how a lot of evangelicals think armageddon works.

they're surprisingly pro-israel, even by american standards in general, which seems off given how virulently anti-semitic they all are. until you remember that they think the twelve tribes gathering in israel is one of the conditions for triggering the end times. they don't just hate palestinians because they're islamophobic, they literally think them living in jerusalem is stopping jesus from coming back. (This is also how they justify the fact that most of them want all jews removed from america - they want to send them back to their ancestral homeland *cough*to be a human sacrifice for jesus*cough* so how could you ever think they're antisemitic?!)

this also creates their extremely weird attitudes to the UN, which most of them think will be responsible for the antichrist (the apocalype of john says he will unite all nations - and never mind that we know who he was and he's been dead nearly 2000 years now, and uniting all nations meant bringing them under the rule of the roman empire, which provably didn't happen), which they want to happen because it's a precursor to Jesus, but also don't want to happen because wanting it would mean supporting satan and if they do that then they won't be part of the group who get saved during the rapture.

(Also satan is definitely real guys, he's really really real and 100% in the bible and not primarily a product of medieval pop-culture at all!)

and hand in hand with the 'we can make the world end' thing comes the belief that this is going to happen soon, any day now, so why worry about stuff like depleting resources or climate change or loss of species, because it's all going to be destroyed within 1 generation maximum, probably next year, so who cares?

oh, and don't forget that america is overwhealmingly calvinist, voted mainstream protestant theology most likely to fuck up your brain 471 years running! Basically Calvinism is founded on the idea that God knows in advance who's going to be saved, and most people are actually on earth not to excercise their free will to attain grace, but just to suffer, because they were born inherently bad and god knows it and is basically fucking with them. You can never become one of God's elect, you can only prove that you already were. On an individual level this is bad, but not that much worse than other christian denominations, you prove you're one of gods elect by doing good christian things like prayer and charity, if you sin you might go to hell. It encourages more pettiness and rules-lawyering when considering sins, but overall, pretty standard stuff.

Where it gets really fucked, and the reason why John Calvin is number 2 on my list of Christian theologians to punch in the face if there turns out to be an afterlife (right after augustine of hippo), is that it encourages you to think of everyone who isn't you as either good or inherently evil without hope of redemption. and since everyone wants to think they're a good person, the criteria for inherently evil with no hope of redemption basically becomes 'not like me', or at least 'not like the ideal my religious community holds up as an example'.

I would posit this is also why they evangelise in the way they do - they're not actually trying to "save" anyone else, they're trying to prove to their community that they've already been saved

so yeah, they don't just look forward to death, they're literally trying to end the world, and fuck everyone else, because anyone who isn't exactly like them was born evil and can never actually be saved. and these people are in government in the most powerful nation on earth.

Horray!

[latkersonministries]

If God Directs My Steps, then Why…

The Bible says in, Psalm 37:23-24 (CSB) A person’s steps are established by the LORD, and he takes pleasure in his way. Psa 37:24 Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, because the LORD supports him with his hand. So then, God directs our steps, but He doesn’t force His will on us. Instead, He gently lifts us back up when we fall and tries to reestablish us in the right direction. From my…