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Prayers, Praying, and Salvation
We Are Not In This World Without A Savior
From the beginning of time, God has destined to raise up a symbol of strength and power in the house of David. It was the Apostle John, in First John 4:14, who testified that God Himself raised up this symbol of power and strength, Jesus Christ, and sent Him from Heaven into the earth for a particular reason; that He would be the Savior of the world.
Religion traditionally denotes Jesus’ coming into the world as a savior with respect to His coming to save mankind from sin, the resultant death from that sin, and the eternal damnation of hell. It is certainly the belief of this author that Jesus Christ came first and foremost for this very purpose; He came to save humankind from damnation. However, that is not the sole reason Jesus Christ was sent into the earth; hence, the multiplicity of salvation.
The Multiplicity of Salvation
The word Savior in 1 John 4:14 has multiple meanings. It comes from the Greek word sozo and means: to save, make whole, heal; keep safe and sound, and to rescue from danger or destruction.
God has a plan and a purpose for His children.
God fully expects His people to be victorious, overcoming Christians. It is His will to keep His children safe and sound, and to rescue them from all forms of danger when the enemy is at the gate; as a result of this desire toward His children, God sent His Son into the earth to manifest His will, and that will is manifested through the multiplicity of salvation wrought by Jesus Christ and the finished work of Calvary.
There Is Evil In The World
In 1 John 5:19 we are told that the whole world is under control of the evil one, but it also notes that we are children of God. Scripture also declares in 1 John 4:4 that inasmuch as we are from God, we have overcome the evil one: “because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” The implication of these verses of Scripture notes that while Satan is the god of this world, we don’t have to live in fear; every word out of our mouth, our prayers, should reflect such thinking.
God provides victory over evil.
Jesus came for the express purpose of helping us to be victorious over Satan and all the forces of hell. Romans 1:16 declares that through Christ's finished work of Calvary the multiplicity of salvation is available to every believer who will receive it. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth...."
The multitudinous aspects of salvation are revealed throughout the Bible.
God never said that there wouldn’t be famine in the life of a Christian; however, He did promise to send supplies during the famine. In 1 Kings 17:3-6 we see God coming to the aid of Elijah, “Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook."
God never promised there wouldn’t be trials in the life of a believer, He did promise to always be a companion during those trials and provide victory.
God never promised that the child of His would not face peril, yet He gave clear indication in 2 Kings 6 that there was nothing to fear: “‘Don’t be afraid’, the prophet answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’ And Elisha prayed, ‘O LORD, open his eyes so that he may see.’ Then the LORD opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all round Elisha” (vss 16,17).
One of the greatest failures in Christianity is the lack of knowledge regarding biblical salvation
Almost without exception, the Church’s explicit meaning of the term salvation deals with the univocal notion of gaining Heaven after life on this earth is completed; in other words, most of the talk surrounding salvation has to do with the saving of one’s soul. However, salvation is not unidimensional, but rather, multidimensional in that there are multiple connotations with regard to the idea of salvation, something the Church, as a whole, has not addressed.
The Church is living below the will of God for its life.
As a result of the Church’s failure to teach and encourage the whole council of God with respect to the multiplicity of salvation, many in the body of Christ are living below their biblical privileges as children of God, and they are being ravaged by the thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Nowhere is this more clearly realized than in Hosea 4:6. In his prophecy, the prophet Hosea said that God’s people would be destroyed for their lack of knowledge. Let's not be one of those people; let's get some knowledge that can aid us in our walk with God... let's look at the biblical word salvation discover the victorious lifestyle that God has for each of us.
The Hebrew word for salvation is yeshuwah and it means deliverance or aid. According to the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible it means deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity, health, and welfare.
In the New Testament, the Strong’s lists the Greek word for salvation in the same contextual fashion as the word is listed in the Old Testament; it comes from the Greek word soteria and it has to do with rescue, safety, deliverance, and health, as well as gaining entrance into Heaven.
The Revised Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon lists the word salvation to mean deliverance, preservation, safety, and salvation. The Thayer’s goes even further in its translation of the Greek word for salvation in listing the Greek word soteria as: deliverance from the molestation of enemies... in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the soul’s safety or salvation of...Messianic salvation... salvation as the present possession of all true Christians... as well as future salvation... the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from Heaven in the consummated and eternal Kingdom of God.
The biblical implication of salvation is that we should experience victory over the enemy as we walk through the shadow of the valley of death while here in the earth, and the translations which are given above for the word salvation certainly bear that out; our prayers should as well.
From the first page of the Book of Genesis to the last page of the Book of Revelation we see God working in the earth to provide salvation for His people. We look through the pages of the Bible and see time and time again where God rescued, or otherwise aided His people. We observe over and over in the Bible where God prospered His people and brought them safely though times of difficulty; where He healed them of sickness and disease. To look at the word salvation in it's contexual form is to observe the totality of Psalm Twenty-Three and Psalm Ninety-One; to see all the good that God desires for His people.
The Mission Statement of PrayerSpeak.com
PrayerSpeak.com is dedicated to teaching the practicality of prayer with respect to the varied aspects of salvation and God’s desire to provide more than just an avenue for obtaining Heaven when one’s life is completed here on earth. We will always attempt to show the multiplicity of salvation with respect to deliverance, healing, safety, and the prosperity that God wants to provide each of us while we are at home here in this present earth realm.
While the salvation of the soul is first and foremost God’s greatest miracle, the finished work of Calvary has provided a multiplicity of salvation that has to do with wholeness or soundness for every area of a believer’s life while in this present earth realm.
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