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To: ealgeone

A few suggestions and words of encouragement:

1. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

2. Realize you are a new creation in Christ. The old man has passed away, the new man has come. He has given you everything you need to live a new life from the moment you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. You now have God’s Holy Spirit living in you and He has brought with Him His fruit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Learn to choose the appropriate response (one of these fruits) rather than anger, resentment, jealousy, pride and all the other “fleshly human” responses. You are now a saint learning to live like one!!!

3. Realize that God never promised us this life following Jesus will be easy - in fact He has told us it will be hard. But . . . God IS faithful. He is always with you and will never leave you.

4. Find some true, fellow believers and pursue Jesus together. One person can easily be overcome by another person, two can withstand him, and a group of three believers will not be easily broken.

Welcome to the family!!


40 posted on 08/09/2017 6:51:22 PM PDT by Conservinator (It's okay to be close-minded IF you are right!)
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To: Conservinator
All very good points!

For clarity though...I've been saved since I was 11.

I posted this for those who may have recently been saved.

42 posted on 08/09/2017 7:07:29 PM PDT by ealgeone
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