New Christian Guide 101
Updated: Sep 5
Hello New Christians! Congratulations on starting your relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! This guide is to help you learn and grow closer to God if you don't know what to do! Please reach out to us if you have questions and about anything at all! We will be adding on to this guide as much as God leads us to, so keep an eye out for many updates.
Acceptance of Christ Prayer
Step 1
Acceptance of Christ Prayer -
Prayer - "Lord Jesus, I realized that I am a sinner. I believe that you died on the cross of Calvary for me and my sins to give me the opportunity to not only be forgiven by you, but to also be with you and access your Holy presence peace, love and joy forever. I am asking you to please forgive me for all of my sins and to please come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. In, Jesus Mighty name, Amen."
Great! Now that you've done that. One thing that you have to understand is that choosing the Lord is a lifestyle not a "once saved always saved thing". If you truly want to serve Jesus Christ, grow your relationship with him, stay saved and be in Heaven with him one day; you have to persevere and choose him everyday.
Lean on his strength and not your own. It won't always be easy, sometimes demonic attacks will feel very hard. But just know that the enemy is attacking you because you love the Lord and he wants to stop your growth. Don't be alarmed because God has already overcome the world, so as long as you pray to the Lord and ask him to help you overcome your battles so that you can grow closer to him, and he can transform you into the best version of yourself, he will do it! No demon, no witchcraft and no curse is greater than the power of the Lord. And if the Lord is for you, than who shall stand against you?
Seeking the Lord (Bible Study)
Step 2
We recommend KJV, but for many new believers, it can be hard to understand. So before you try reading the KJV, unless you want to take a shot at it, we suggest you start of with a kids bible and/or teen bible, this way you will have context and relevant information summarized without feeling overwhelmed and confused of what you're reading.
We suggest staring off with a Kids bible, then go to a Teen bible, then Adult bible.
Kids bible = context and summarized information for foundation of understanding.
Teen bible = more important information and deeper analysis of bible stories/history for strong foundation of understanding for the Adult bible.
Adult bible = All information that wasn't shown in the kid/teen bibles - helps to build foundation for understanding to it's strongest form and helps you grow in your relationship with Christ even more than the kid and teen bibles sense you can now understand and access more of God's word.
You can always bounce back and forth between reading the Kid, Teen and Adult bibles. You will benefit from all of them, never feel like you have to stick to just one of them because you've graduated. Sometimes reading the teen bible if you are confused about something that confuses you in the Adult bible will help you get clarity and understanding, and it will help you better understand and progress with what you were reading in the Adult bible as you continue the Adult bible.
Pray to the Lord for wisdom and Understanding as you read and reach out to us at anytime if you need help!
Kids Bible - Read and Share Early Reader Bible Stories , The Action Bible
After you graduate from the Kids/teen bible we encourage you to eventually read the Adult bibles, they give more information that is important in which is left out in the Kids bibles. We read KJV (King James Version Recommended), because it's on another level and it just hit different, but if that is not a fit for you, or you want something easier before trying KJV.
We suggest looking for these in Super Giant Print (so that it is easy to see and read.)
Adult Bible - International Version Simplified, New King James Version, Simplified King James Version, New Matthew Bible, New International Readers Version, New English Translation and the New Living Translation.
If you don't have any funds to buy the Bible right now, until you can buy/get your Bible, you should be able to access most of these versions online through the web, and through google play store to download a virtual Bible app on your phone. When you can get your physical bible or bibles if you would like multiple which is fine as well, please do because we are in the Last days and don't know how long Bibles will be accessible physically and online. That way God forbid Bibles are not accessible on the web anymore, you will have your physical bible with you.
As you are reading if you are ever confused, have questions or need clarity please reach out as much as you need! We are here for you! When we say as much as you need, we mean it, even if it means lots of emails, we will respond, show care and do our best to be Good Christian Guides as followers of Jesus Christ for you because we care and love you! Explore our site for more information on the different ways of interaction that we offer.
What Stories To Start With?
Step 3
Get To Know Our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Starting with these will help you learn about the most important/one and only true King mentioned in the Bible. He is the Kings of Kings and Lord of Lords. His name is Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the I AM and The Word of God. if you start at the beginning of the Bible you are probably going to get confused and that creates room the Devil to try to posses you with demons that can feed off of your naiveness and confusion as new Child of God. So Learn about our Lord and Savior first through the suggested books of the Bible we will mention below, about how he wants us to live for him and what he expects of us as his children.
Learn about how he loves us and always fights for us through every situation. Fall in love with the Lord through these recordings of history and testimonies from his Apostles, prophets and other true believers etc.
Next after this, go to the beginning of the Bible and read about Adam and Eve and start your front to back reading Bible Journey. You should be able to understand more things that would've confused you before if you start with the books we will list under this. Remember to pray to God for wisdom and understanding of his word so that you can identify what is of him and what is not. Don't be down if you can't understand everything, that's just how it is because we are human.💖😁🙏
Skip the things you cannot understand or that is confusing, and hold onto to the things that God blesses you to understand. If its by God's, will you might understand things that you couldn't if/when you read it again later. Pray to God for guidance.
Matthew 6:33 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Start with the 4 Gospels and continue with the list below (if you feel lead to read/listen to these in a different order, please do so. Listen to God over anything and anyone when you know it's him speaking to you.) We put options with and without music for preference. You can read from the list of Bible versions above(NIV, SKJV etc.) that we listed in Step 2, and follow the order of methods that we explained above when it comes to starting your Bible journey, if the KJV is too complex as of right now, or too confusing to understand.
TO BE CONTINUED.....
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