Why You Need to Hear the Voice of God- Salvation as the starting point

The word “salvation” embraces all the acts whereby God intervenes to rescue mankind from spiritual and any other physical or psychological destruction. Salvation comprises of deliverance, safety, preservation, healing, and soundness. It also includes whatever it takes to get us free and liberated from any kind of bondage. So you can note that if the above elements can be realized in our lives, salvation can be a practical reality in our lives. That was God’s intention from the beginning of creation. After the fall, God introduced a plan to restore human beings into their original position.

So in order to be led by the Holy Spirit, there must be a born-again experience. Experiencing the life God intended for us on earth starts with accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life. The Bible says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.”(John 3:16).

Originally, God created perfect human beings. Those were Adam and Eve. He put His nature in man. God wanted man to resemble Him. This is revealed in the book of Genesis.

Gen 1:27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

You were created to act like God, to rule the earth and have dominion. However, man was tempted by the devil. He yielded to Satan and thus lost the image of God. He lost authority to rule the earth. By so doing, Man handed his rule over the earth over to Satan when he yielded to sin.

The good news? God made a great plan to redeem man. That is why Jesus Christ came to the earth. He defeated Satan by dying on the Cross and resurrecting on the third day. By so doing, He restored man to his original position. But for that to happen, you have to first confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead.

You can initiate your salvation according to Romans 10:8-10.

Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Rom 10:9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

Rom 10:10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.With this experience, one is eligible to be baptized and led by the Holy Spirit.