Salvation Is a Process

By Edwina Lewis

Where will you spend eternity? Are you sure of your answer? This book challenges you to reexamine your life to develop a more intimate relationship with God through Jesus as you prepare for your final destination. Life holds no promises for us, but our faith does. Perhaps you are confident about your salvation, but what about your friend, family member, or maybe even that coworker you have been trying to reach? Are they without question? Let this book speak for you. With a powerful testimony and thought-provoking revelation, Salvation Is a Process will walk you through the steps to transition into a life with Christ. This book can enrich the life of both the believer and nonbeliever if you have the heart to receive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512793758

Edwina Lewis

Edwina Lewis is a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who is a willing vessel serving that God may be glorified and souls won for the building of his kingdom. In the world, she has worked as a social worker, served in the military, and recently worked as a certified teacher. Edwina has two sons and resides in Louisiana.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-9376-5 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017910786

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/30/2017

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Disclaimer

Part 1

1. Heaven or Hell

2. A Time to Reflect

3. The Beginning

4. A New Home

5. My Life as a Child after Baptism

6. Reunited

7. Home Sweet Home

8. See How My Parents’ Mistakes Influenced My Sins

9. All Grown Up

10. What a Tangled Web I Weaved

11. A Trying Time

12. Enough Is Enough

13. My Road to Salvation

Part 2

14. Confess

15. Believe

16. Baptism

17. Born Again

18. You Decide

19. Evidence of a Believer

20. Understanding

21. The Heart’s Intent

22. The Struggle of Sin

23. Reality

Part 3

24. Holy Ghost Baptism

Final Words

Endnotes

This work is dedicated to the one and only true living God, my Father and Creator, Jesus, the Son, my Lord and Savior, and the Holy Ghost, my comforter and guide.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

—Ephesians 3:20–21

Preface

I was called by God on February 1, 2015, to speak his word. That day is one that is stamped into my memory. I was sitting in the choir stand when the voice of the Lord came to me and spoke. He said, I want you to speak my word. I asked, Me, Lord? Of course, the Lord knows what he’s doing; in essence, I was saying, I am not sure I can handle the position.

After I heard his call, he guided me through each step to make the transition into the ministerial/pastoral ministry. Shortly after, the Lord gave me what he wanted to speak about in my first message—salvation. The Lord commissioned me to speak this message, and on December 16, 2015, Check Yourself: Salvation Is a Process was delivered.

Out of that message came the book Salvation Is a Process. On the day the message was given, I was still in preparation prior to the service. There were some things in the message that the Lord told me to take out. I couldn’t understand at that moment, but there was no time to question God, so I began to take things out of the message as he instructed. After he gave the message—I had maybe a day or two to digest it—he spoke to me again. The Lord told me to expound on the message and write a book.

I’ve been trying to write a book for almost twenty years, but it never came to pass because it wasn’t what God wanted me to write. Then the Lord explained to me why he had me take a portion of the message out. The Lord revealed to me that if I had delivered the entire message, I would have felt as though I said all that needed to be said, but more than those who heard it that night need to hear this message.

Churches are filled Sunday after Sunday with individuals who say they are saved. Are they really? I ask that question because for many years, I thought I was saved and I wasn’t. I sat on the pew praising the Lord not knowing that I was on my way to hell. What a pity.

I had been in church for as long as I could remember, but it wasn’t until about a few years ago that I became saved. So, where did things go wrong? How did this happen?

Salvation is available to everyone. However, it is up to the individual to receive it. Salvation is a process, and it takes four steps to transition. These steps will be discussed in depth in efforts to help lost souls come to Christ and be converted.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth