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The Importance of Your Spiritual Life

We learn in Genesis 1:27 we are made in the image and likeness of God. The Scripture says, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”  Man is a tri-part being made up of a body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23). This image was marred as a result of man’s disobedience and sin.  Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”  We learn in our study of Romans 5:12 that death resulted from sin. 

The most important decision an individual can make is to pray to receive salvation.  How do we ask Jesus to become our Savior?  The Apostle writes in Romans 10:9-10, “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” He continues in verse 13, “For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

We must make our spiritual life a priority.  Jesus instructs us in Matthew 6:33 to “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.”  What does it mean to make our spiritual life a priority? We must make time for spiritual matters.  We must make reading, meditating, and study of the Bible a priority. We must spend time praying and communicating with God.  Our worship life is important.  We need to get involved in church and connect in fellowship with other believers. 

Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit your works to the Lord, And your thoughts will be established.”  The word salvation is translated from the Greek word, soteria, The Spirit-Filled Life Bible Word Wealth reads, “It is an all-inclusive word signifying forgiveness healing, prosperity, deliverance, safety, rescue, liberation, and restoration.”[i] God desires to bring us into a place of wholeness Body, Soul, and Spirit. 

Becoming a believer will not always shield us from trouble, but we have a source of hope, help, and comfort.  We have help from a Father who loves us.  I love the words the Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8:37, “If God be for us, who can be against us?”  It is possible for everyone to have a relationship with the Lord.  2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

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[i] Hayford, Jack, Editor, The New Spirit Filled Life Study Bible, Word Wealth, Salvation, Kindle Edition, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN, Location 209239, 2002.

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