As a believer why are you praying for the spirit of Elijah or Moses to “come down” on you?
What exactly do you want to use it for?
You already have the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead living in you. What’s missing that you think theirs would add?
I can only imagine how Paul must have felt as teachers and members from the Jerusalem church still insisting on law keeping and works as requirements for remaining saved infiltrated the churches and polluted the gospel he preached in Galatia.
In many ways, the same thing happens today. Mainstream religious systems often attack, demonize the very gospel of grace the apostles proclaimed. I'm sure Paul was called every name imaginable because he preached the liberty believers have in Christ instead of bondage to the law.
So I'll echo Paul's words:
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1)
Works are the fruit of a transformed life and a renewed understanding of who we are in Christ. They are the result of salvation not the condition for remaining saved.
The gospel is Christ's finished work, not an endless effort to keep yourself saved.
Do you know what a wrong knowledge does? It distorts the truth.
Many of you have given the devil far more credit than Scripture does because of what you've been taught and what you've permitted yourselves to believe.
Sex is not a spiritual act; it is a human act ordained by God. spirits do not have sex. The Bible calls it becoming one flesh, not one spirit. Let's be careful not to say what Scripture doesn't say.
Sex is not spiritual! There is nothing spiritual about sex!!
Nobody in scripture met Jesus and left more religious.
They left more free.
If an encounter with Him makes you more rigid instead of more alive, check what you actually encountered.
Your righteousness was never the goal you were working toward.
It was the gift you were given the moment you believed.
Stop chasing what you’re already carrying. (Romans 5:17)
Nobody graduates from grace into self-effort. If it took grace to save you, it takes grace to keep you, grow you, and use you. Start to finish. (Galatians 3:3)
Only Jesus can save you, no amount of good works or good morals can take you to the Father.
Jesus is THE way, truth and life.
If you believe and confess Him as your Lord, you will never perish neither condemned.
Stop praying to "make heaven" as a believer. It's an unbelieving prayer.
If you still think you must pray your way into heaven after believing in Christ, then you have not understood the gospel.
Heaven is not a prize for prayers well prayed or a reward for good behavior. It is the inheritance of everyone who is in Christ.
Jesus did not say, "Pray until you're sure." He finished the work. The believer already has eternal life not maybe, not someday, but now (John 5:24; 1 John 5:11–13).
Stop begging God for what Christ has already secured. Stop speaking as though the cross was not enough.
Pray to know Him more. Pray to grow in grace. Pray for boldness, wisdom, and the spread of the gospel. But stop praying to "make heaven" as though your destination is still uncertain.
Either Christ saved you completely, or He didn't. The gospel leaves no room for a believer living in constant fear of missing heaven.
The gospel of grace cannot die because it is the bedrock of our faith. It is God's eternal message, centered on the finished work of Christ. We don't outgrow it, replace it, or move beyond it, we are established in it, live by it, and stand firm on it.
A Ghanaian woman joined one of our online meetings after being referred by a brother. At the time, we were teaching on the Holy Spirit. Many believers were filled with the Spirit, and those who had never spoken in tongues began speaking in tongues.
After one of the meetings, we started chatting. She told me she was a Muslim but had fallen in love with the message. Then she asked me, "How can I receive the life of Christ?"
That day, she received the life of Christ.
A few days later, during another conversation, she told me about the health complications she had been battling since giving birth to her son. She had chronic asthma. I asked her why she hadn't mentioned it earlier and told her, "The good news is that the life you've received is enough to heal you."
I asked her to open to Romans 8:11. I first had her read it quietly to understand it. Then, while we were on the call, I asked her to read it in several translations. Afterward, I asked her to explain the verse in her own words. As she spoke, it was clear that her heart had received the truth.
Then I simply commanded the sickness to leave in the name of Jesus.
From that day, the asthma never returned.
That testimony wasn't about my faith, my effort, or my ability. It was about Christ in her. "If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you... He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you" (Romans 8:11).
I'm sharing this to encourage you. You seem to be counting what you have done, what you have surrendered, and your own efforts for your own testimony or miracle. That shows you have not yet grasped the beauty of grace.
Christ in us is the assurance not the believer's performance. Trust that the indwelling Spirit is enough. Let Christ be seen, not your efforts.
Rest in the Grace, this was why the elder brother to the prodigal son missed.
“If you don’t tithe, your life will be tight.”
That’s not the gospel
Giving in the Kingdom flows from hilarious generosity, not fear of a curse. (2 Corinthians 9:7)
It’s strange
We are commanded to preach salvation to everyone, yet some of the coldest reception a newly saved believer gets isn’t from unbelievers.
It’s from the church.
Heaven rejoices over one sinner who repents.
Shouldn’t we also rejoice? (Luke 15:7)
@MVENA9 John 3:16 leads with “For God so loved the world” not with the warning. Hell is what happens if you reject the gospel, not the reason to take it.
My point was never “hell isn’t real.” It’s that fear of it shouldn’t be the only thing keeping you obedient love should. 😊
If your gospel needs hell to keep people obedient, it’s not the gospel.
It’s crowd control
The real gospel produces love that obeys, not fear that complies. (1 John 4:18)
@MVENA9@Gloryneche1 John 3:16 leads with “For God so loved the world” not with the warning. Hell is what happens if you reject the gospel, not the reason to take it.
My point was never “hell isn’t real.” It’s that fear of it shouldn’t be the only thing keeping you obedient love should. 😊
Jesus already won the fight.
Already defeated sin, death, and the grave.
Already gave you the victory not as a future hope, but a finished reality.
So why are you still fighting a war that’s already over?
Stop striving for what’s already yours. Stand in it.