Tips to Help You Grow as a Christian

1. When we surrender to Jesus Christ, He gives us eternal life.
Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned: he has crossed over from death to life." (John 5:24)

2. Did you surrender to Jesus Christ in prayer be faith? If you did, where are you now according to the Lord's promise? (in eternal life)

3. On what do you base your confidence? (In God's promise in the Bible)

4. Would God deceive you? Can God lie to you? (of course not)
"This is the testimony: God has give us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life: he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." (1 John 5:11-13)

5. Give thanks to God because you have now eternal life.

6. What happened when you surrendered to Christ Jesus? At the moment you surrendered to Christ Jesus by faith, big things happened to you:
a. You went from death to life. (John 5:24)
b. Your sins were forgiven. (Colossians 1:14)
c. You were made a child of God. (John 1:12)
d. You are free from fear. (John 8:36)
e. You are a new creation in Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

7. Can you imagine anything more glorious than this happening to you? Give thanks to God now for what He has done for you through Christ.

8. Read the Bible everyday.
"Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God." (Matthew 4:4)

9. Pray to God always.
"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

10. Confess to God every sin.
"If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)

11. Tell others of your experience.
Jesus said, "Return home and tell how much God has done for you." (Luke 8:39)

12. Meet with other believers.
"Let us not give up meeting together... but let us encourage one another." (Hebrews 10:25)