1. FOLLOW AFTER CHRIST.
You made the greatest decision of your life! You have put your faith in Jesus and invited Him into your life. It may not look like it on the outside, but on the inside a miracle has taken place and everything has changed! You have passed from death to life, darkness to light, out of the kingdom of this world and into the kingdom of God. Your spirit has come alive in God. You are now a child of God, born-again to live a new life, a great life in the hands of almighty God!
"If God is for us, who can be against us?” - ROMANS 8:31 (NIV)
God is for you and He has a great plan for your life! He knew you before you were even born and had already planned great things for you.
"For we are his work man ship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." -EPHESIANS 2:10 (ESV) says,
The good news is, your life is no longer your own, it belongs to Christ. And that is the best possible place you can ever be as a human being!
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
-GALATIANS 2:20 (ESV)
In the New Testament of the Bible, believers in Christ are called “disciples”. A disciple simply means a believer, a convert and a follower. When someone gives their life to the Lord Jesus they become His disciple to follow after Him. There is no such thing as believing in Jesus but not being His disciple. If we receive Him as Savior, we must also receive Him as Lord. By the same act of believing in Jesus you have also become His disciple. Therefore, as a new believer, you have now become a glorious disciple of Christ to live the life He wants you to live. You are no longer living for yourself. You have died to that old way of only living for yourself. Your new life is so much better because not only are you alive to Him, but He is alive in you and wants to live through you in all His glory and power.
“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. "And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,”
-EPHESIANS 2:4-6 (NIV)
"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, "rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.”
–COLOSSIANS 2:6- 7 (NIV)
Let Him take a hold of your life and live through you. The first act in making Christ king in your life is surrender. We are no longer the king or queen of our life – Jesus is the King and He gets to rule over us. The best thing about that is He is a good king that has good things for your life and He loves you so much. Learn how to let Christ be king in your life. Learn how to surrender to His will and be obedient to Him. Let Him teach you and guide you through life.
Sabrina Pen 