{"id":16024,"date":"2017-03-20T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16024"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:31:06","slug":"saved-but-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/saved-but-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved, but Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16025\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16025\" src=\"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274-700x875.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/averie-woodard-122274.jpg 1825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m saved but feel lost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I grew up in a small town.\u00a0 I am so thankful for my childhood.\u00a0 It was safe and I was blessed to be born into such a family and environment.\u00a0 I was a \u201cgood kid.\u201d\u00a0 I never got involved in alcohol, drugs, or the sex scene.\u00a0 On the outside everything was great.\u00a0 However, on the inside I was instinctively seeking to be right with God.\u00a0 I was superstitious and slept with a small Bible under my pillow thinking that would make God happy and protect me.\u00a0\u00a0 On June 17, 1973, I went to a revival meeting in a small church and there I received Jesus as my Savior.\u00a0 That was the day my life changed forever.\u00a0 I got \u201csaved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be some 35 years later that I would discover that I was saved, but lost.\u00a0 I had Jesus living in me, but my life did not exhibit His power.\u00a0 I was saved, loved the Lord, and served Him, but I was lost regarding understanding the full potential of God\u2019s life within me. I realized that I had the form, but not the power.\u00a0 I was like a person who inherited a trillion dollars, but never knew it.\u00a0 I was rich, but lived as though I was dead broke.\u00a0 I lacked the truth and knowledge of what I had in Christ.\u00a0 I already possessed everything I could ever need or want as a child of God.\u00a0 I just had to learn how to access it.<\/p>\n<p>If someone gave you a check for $1000.00 you wouldn\u2019t just put it in your pocket and continue to suffer lack.\u00a0 You would go to the bank and cash it!\u00a0 You would cash it based upon the faith you had in the person who signed the check and his or her ability to honor it.\u00a0 We do this all the time in the natural realm.<\/p>\n<p>God wrote a check we call the Bible.\u00a0 It is filled with thousands of promises.\u00a0 Promises He made and vowed to fulfill and then signed this \u201ccheck\u201d with the blood of Jesus His Son.\u00a0 Therefore, why wouldn\u2019t we \u201ccash in\u201d on all these promises?\u00a0 I have discovered that there are several reasons why, but here are three:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ignorance of the truth<\/li>\n<li>Unbelief in what God says applies to us<\/li>\n<li>We don\u2019t trust the \u201ccheck writer\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For me, I didn\u2019t believe all the promises applied to me and I didn\u2019t trust God.\u00a0 I was lead to believe that many promises, such as healing were for the coming age and did not apply TODAY.\u00a0 On top of that I had a trust issue with God.\u00a0 A trust issue so deep, I didn\u2019t even know it.\u00a0 I had God\u2019s promises in my hand, but they never got into my heart.\u00a0 I was saved, but lost when it came to enjoying the life God paid for me to enjoy through the blood of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually through a hunger God placed in me I began to seek Him and the truth of His Word.\u00a0 As a result, today my life is different.\u00a0 I am a recovering unbelieving-believer.\u00a0 As I learn the truth of God\u2019s Word I am living the high-life.\u00a0 I have and am experiencing what God\u2019s Word says.\u00a0 I am seeing on Earth as in Heaven being played out in my life.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things that are very dear to every person on the planet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health<\/li>\n<li>Provision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All people want to be healthy and have enough provision to obtain the desires of their heart.\u00a0 Most people want more than enough and that is healthy.\u00a0 God made us that way and provided a system for that to be our reality.\u00a0 This \u201csystem\u201d I will share at another time and it will be covered in a book I am in the process of writing.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Word is LOADED with promises that cover these two desires or longings that people have.\u00a0 Are you sick?\u00a0 Are you broke?\u00a0 Do you have a report from a doctor that says you are terminal?\u00a0 Do you suffer from something the professionals can\u2019t pinpoint?\u00a0 Are you living paycheck to paycheck and worried about how the next bill will be paid?\u00a0 Your solution is on your shelf somewhere in your home.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the Bible.\u00a0 When I really began to dig into the Word for myself and seek specific answers to the needs I had, God began to reveal that ALL THINGS are ALREADY mine in Christ.\u00a0 All I had to do is simply receive them by faith.\u00a0 I just had to trust God enough to \u2018cash the check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today I drive a new car I didn\u2019t pay for.\u00a0 My wife and I live in a home we never thought we could afford.\u00a0 We have all new furniture we paid for with cash.\u00a0 We have a savings account with money in it.\u00a0 We have been healed of several sicknesses and diseases, and I have witnessed the healing of many others.\u00a0 What changed?\u00a0 This saved, but lost soul began to take God at his Word.\u00a0 I began wearing out the pages of my Bible discovering and applying God\u2019s Word by faith and I haven\u2019t even scratch the surface.\u00a0 We\u2019ve only just begun and it\u2019s awesome!<\/p>\n<p>No matter how old you are.\u00a0 No matter how long you have been a Christian. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are sick and broke and lost all hope.\u00a0 Even if you are not a Christian right now, there is hope for you.\u00a0 You can become saved and keep getting saved by the power of His Word.\u00a0 You can be healed!\u00a0 You can be get rich and keep getting richer until you are very wealthy (Gen. 26.12).\u00a0 You can overcome all things by the power of His Word activated by faith.\u00a0 There is nothing for you to do, but simply receive.\u00a0 God did it all in Christ.\u00a0 Just believe my friend, just believe.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I was saved, but lost.\u00a0 I had Christ in me and the Bible in my hand, but didn\u2019t \u201ccash the check\u201d regarding all the promises of God that were freely given to ME through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 I had to come to a place, a seeking place.\u00a0 I had to humble myself under God\u2019s mighty had so He could life me up, and lift me up He did.<\/p>\n<p>What God did for me He will do for you.\u00a0 He will save you and keep saving you until you experience His full salvation.\u00a0 God wants you to live long and prosper.\u00a0 I invite you to open your Bible and start seeking God.\u00a0 Let the Holy Spirit guide you and reveal to you all the riches you have in Christ.\u00a0 Then you will know true salvation and become a living testimony of the goodness of God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God wrote a check we call the Bible.  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