Making a Successful Journey as a Christian

By Elder William D. Holmes

This book discusses the everyday living as a Christian in this present world. Explains the different forms of Satan. How he was thrown out of Heaven by God along with other fallen angels. Goes into the fall of man unto Jesus coming into this world to save us from our sins. It talks about the power of the blood of Christ to cleanse your conscious free of sin and the real Baptism of the Holy Ghost & Fire to help you live a life pleasing unto God in Holiness. It discusses how to resist the many temptations of Satan. Talks about the evils of Slavery in the United States and Civil Rights issue. Honors great men and women who paved the way to end the evils Slavery and give equal rights unto the African-American. Settles the racist debate over Jesus not to argue over His complexion, but accept him who He is the spotless Lamb of God. We need to love one another regardless to the color of our skin. Encourages Christians to get in the place so God can use you as an instrument to demonstrate His marvelous power to Heal all sickness and work miracles. This a very powerful book to make a person a real strong Christian serving God in true Holiness to make Heaven their home!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664145962

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1    The Different Forms of Satan

Chapter 2    Jesus Brought Salvation to Man

Chapter 3    Maturity in Christ

Chapter 4    Living as a Christian

Chapter 5    God’s Full Plan for a True Saint of God

Chapter 6    Spiritual Warfare

Chapter 7    The Truth of the Matter

Chapter 8    Building the Kingdom of God

Chapter 9    How to Defeat the Devil

Chapter 10    Rewards for a True Saint of God

Chapter 11    Don’t be Confused

Chapter 12    Sickness and a Child of God

Chapter 13    What Are You Going to Do?

Chapter 14    Word of Advice

Summary

Author

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my wonderful companion Velvet M Holmes who

helps me in my ministry. My wonderful brother in the Lord Bishop

Ralph Gorham of the Apostolic Faith Churches of Giving Grace!

Introduction

As we progress in society, our lives are constantly changing. Knowledge is constantly increasing; new inventions are coming out to make our lives easier. We are living more in a computer age. All of this knowledge may seem wonderful, but Satan has stepped in, using it to compete with the Holy Ghost in the church of God. Instead of Christians being more spiritually in touch with God through fasting and prayer, allowing the Holy Ghost to work in the services to heal the sick of deadly diseases, getting people out of wheel chairs, crutches, blind eyes pop opened to 20/20 vision, hearing restored, and the dumb talk. They are focusing on material things, such as education, money, houses, land, sex, husbands, and wives. Therefore, they are blessed with the natural, but the soul is lean of the Spirit. Education has driven the power of the Holy Ghost out the church. Now in order to treat the drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill you give them therapy sessions and drug treatment programs.

God is not pleased when we focus more on the natural than the spiritual. For the natural is only for a season, but the spiritual is for eternity. It is Satan’s job to keep us focused more on this natural world, so their soul will be lean. More and more Christians are big on becoming millionaires and winning big on the lottery. They say heaven in the world to come can wait. Some don’t even believe in heaven! My heaven is now, here on Earth! He wants them to be too weak to resist his many temptations to sin. He wants Christians to have a wreck on their Christian journey, so they can go with him home in the fires of hell for eternity. You cannot love God and have the world at the same time!

In this book, we are going to take a deeper look at how a believer in Christ can make a successful journey to heaven. We will explain the origin of Satan and how he was cast out of Heaven. Briefly explain how he tricked Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We will share the many schemes of our enemy, Satan, who so desires to destroy every believer’s chance of entering into the kingdom of heaven. Explain how Satan uses racism, slavery and civil unrest to stir up hatred and violence among people. Discuss the mistreatment of the African-American race and Indians by the Caucasians. We will talk about how God used famous men and women to put an end to these evils. We will explain the different methods Satan uses to appear to man and how a believer can grow stronger in God that Satan and all of his demons cannot conquer them. Instead, they will be afraid of you. We will talk about some of the weapons a true believer has to combat against the powers of darkness and explain how confessing Christ will cause Satan and all his demons to wage war against you. Living as a true saint of God will bring battles, more than you can imagine. Things may not be going your way. Trouble is at every corner! Your back is against the wall!

In all your suffering, you may wonder, Where is God? You pray, and it appears your prayers go unanswered. Satan shows you other people who do not confess to Jesus or Christians who are not under the same teachings as you being blessed so abundantly with career promotions, cars, houses, a husband, a wife, and a college education. Look at you, saying you are so sanctified, living holy and stuck in the same position without any promotion. It seems so backward and makes you feel so discouraged. We are going to address those issues and tell you how to get the power of God to work a miracle for you.

Look at how Pentecost can return back into the church, so miracles can be performed and bodies can be healed from sickness. People will be slain on the floor while speaking in unknown tongues as the spirit of God gives utterance.

The scriptures from the Holy Bible will be used to support my teaching, for I am writing by the guidance of the Holy Ghost. Take your time and read this book for spiritual growth to defeat Satan and to make heaven your eternal home. May God bless you.

Elder William Holmes

Chapter 1

The Different Forms of Satan

Living for Jesus is a beautiful life to live. Jesus will deliver you from the life of sin and cause you to live a brand-new life with victory over the devil. Jesus can set people free from depression feeling so unworthy with low self-esteem desiring to commit suicide. He can deliver you from drugs, smoking plants, drinking alcohol, common-law relationships, stealing, and telling lies. Jesus will set you free, taking away the very desire to sin and making you feel brand new. You feel so clean on the inside after being baptized with water, confessing to the world of your changed life. You are baptized in the Holy Ghost and the fire and on your way to see the soon coming king. Now if this were your testimony, it would appear fine! But that is not the whole story! As long as we live in this world, we are going to have trouble with our enemy, which is Satan.

Satan is an enemy to mankind because God created us in His own image. Satan who is mad at God for throwing him out of heaven and sentencing him to eternal judgment in hellfire said, "If I cannot get back into heaven neither will I let God’s creation of man go back to heaven. I am going into eternal punishment and then I am not going down by myself." Satan begins to carry out his scheme to trick man.

Now some people may say how Satan may appear, saying, "Satan is not that red dragon with the pitchfork on the lye bottle. He is working thru people." They are partly right, for Satan uses people that allow him to carry out his evil plans. Satan appears in other forms in order to deceive the people. Let me first say that Satan has his original form that is an ugly red dragon! (Rev. 12:3–4). At first, God created him as Lucifer, the most beautiful creation in heaven. His beauty was so outstanding that it went to Lucifer’s head. Lucifer looked around heaven and saw the almighty God sitting on His throne and all of his subjects worshiping Him. Lucifer said, "I will be like the Most High and exalt my throne above the Most High for I will be as the Most High" (Isa. 14:13–17). Therefore, iniquity was found in him! That is how sin was created. Lucifer went around heaven and gathered support for an overthrow of God’s throne. His beauty causes some of heaven’s angels to fall under his power and turn against the Almighty. Lucifer began to spread his deceit, and an Almighty, loving God knew it, and His anger kindled HOT! God called Lucifer into question and found him guilty of the sin of blasphemy against the Almighty God, which is the unpardonable sin! God banished him forever from His presence into outer darkness. God commanded him to be punished forever in the fires of hell. God stripped him of his beauty and turned him into an ugly red dragon. Satan’s wings were broken to never be healed by God. This is to fix it, so he can never fly into heaven again. All the other angels who supported Satan were also called into question by God. They were all found guilty of the sin of blasphemy against the Almighty, which is the unpardonable sin. God stripped them of their beauty, and they all became ugly demonic spirits. God broke their wings to never heal, so they could never fly back to heaven again.

God commanded Satan and those angels who supported him to GET OUT OF MY KINGDOM! The heavenly gates were open. Satan responded, "I am not going out without a fight!" Those who were on his side all agreed with Satan. All of those who remained faithful to the Almighty joined forces under the archangel Michael to fight against Satan and those angels who rebelled. War was going on in heaven! Satan and his angels fought hard, but Michael pushed them closer to the Gates of Heaven. They pushed until Satan could not hold on any longer. They cast the red dragon out of heaven, and he fell so fast down, it was like lightning. Jesus watched as Satan lost his footing and fell down that drop! Oh, what a drop it was! Falling, falling, falling through space. Could not fly much at all!

After Satan was gone. Michael and the archangels turn against all those who got on Satan’s side and threw all of them out! What a crowd it was, thousands of demonic spirits thrown out! They fell out, creating a long tail of the red dragon. The Almighty God hid His face so Satan and all the rebelling demons can no longer see Him because of sin! After all the rebelling demons were gone, joy returned to heaven! Heaven is again a perfect place! But when Satan and the angels fell, they went to Earth!

Woe be to the Earth because Satan has come down to you! (Rev. 12:12) Now God created Earth to be as perfect as heaven. It was God’s plan to have a world where there would be no sickness, death, sorrow, sin, or any evil. God created man in His own image, both male and female. He created them, performing the first marriage. They were naked and not ashamed because there was no such thing as sin. God told them to be fruitful and multiply. It was God’s plan for the children to be born knowing no evil. No pain at childbirth. All children will be perfectly made in great health. No such thing as stillbirth, handicapped, retardation, or birth defects.

All the animals were vegetarians! The lion, tiger, leopard, cougar, bobcat, bear, sharks, crocodiles, alligators, spiders, snakes, wolves, hawks were all gentle. The snake could walk upright! The plants on Earth were green and beautiful, for the weather was pleasant with no cold winters or bad weather such as rains, floods, snows, ice, tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes. The bees, wasps, and hornets will all be harmless to man and will not sting. Some may say, "I don’t believe that!" The reason is because, ever since they were born into the world, it has been evil versus good. That is all they know. I want you to know this was how the world was before Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden. The world was a perfect place. Imagine a world with no homicides, thefts, profanity, war, common-law marriage, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism, false religions. Would you love a world like that?

I understand some people are so evil, they want a world with the sins they like in it, such as same-sex marriages, witchcraft, adultery, fornication, false religions, homosexuality, and lesbianism. Worship any religion you like, seeking God your own way. Those sins they don’t like—such as homicides, stealing, war, rape—they put a stop on that. Do you believe God is going to allow a world where man does as he pleases, not recognizing God’s laws on holiness? That is a fantasy, because God is almighty; the Earth belongs to Him, so He wants man to worship Him only in true holiness.

Satan is an enemy to man, because he wants people to rebel against God, so they can go home with him in hellfire. We must beware of his tricks! Back in the Garden of Eden, it was a perfect place where the Spirit of God will walk in the garden to greet Adam and Eve. They would commune with God. So much joy it was! Satan saw this fellowship, and he envied it! Satan said, "I will see now who they will worship! God warned Adam and Eve, Every tree in the garden you may eat it for food, but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do not eat of it. The day you eat of it you shall die."

The Lord God warned them of how Satan and his angels were cast out of heaven down to Earth. Some may wonder, "Why did God allow a tree of knowledge of good and evil to be planted in a perfect place?" The reason is God does not want people to serve Him by force. God loves free-will service! He does not make robots! Every creature God makes has the right to choose! It pleases God for man to resist Satan and choose to follow Him. Each time man resists the temptation of Satan and follows God’s laws, He will laugh at Satan. Satan will walk away mad, cursing up a storm! So you see it is a game played by Satan trying to get souls away from God. We are to NOT allow him to win!

After communing with Adam and Eve, the Spirit of God will return back to heaven. Satan saw a perfect opportunity to trick Adam and Eve to sin. He got into the serpent to hide his identity.

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The serpent is one of the forms Satan hides his identity. He acts

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Even today, Satan uses people, animals, and items to make people sin before God. He will hide into alcohol, cigarettes, pipe smoking, marijuana, heroin, crack, dipping snuff/chewing tobacco, pornography, to seduce man to sin!

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Satan hides his identity in alcohol such as beer which destroys the

body and soul. https://www.freeimages.com/photo/beer-2-1325424

Since I got save, sanctified through the precious blood of Jesus young at the age of thirteen years old. God kept me clean from alcohol and smoking. My older brother before the Lord wonderfully saved him was drinking a bottle of Miller High Life beer and he offered me a sip and I said, No! I can truly say, "My lips NEVER tasted any alcoholic drink and NEVER smoked not one plant. I am so glad and give sweet Jesus the praise." Glory! Glory! Drinking alcohol and smoking plants are both bad habits for the health of your natural body!

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Satan hides his identity in smoking which is bad for the

body and soul. Photo by Fabio Pusterla from FreeImages

Satan will cause a man to not be satisfied with how God made them. He will give them a mind that wants to act like a female. To a woman, Satan will give them a mind to want to act masculine! Satan will confuse the genders, casting a snare over the world to accept this fantasy of homosexuality and lesbianism.

It is like the fairy tale of Hans Christian Anderson, "The Emperor’s New Clothes. In this story, the thieves convinced the emperor he had his new suit on, when in reality, he was naked, for they kept the expensive threads for themselves and wove the emperor an imaginary suit of clothes. The thieves said that if he could not see the new suit, he was unfit for his position. So the emperor went along with the thieves, saying, It is beautiful. The emperor walked out among the people, wearing the new suit. The people admired the new suit, not saying, They could not see anything! They did not want to be unfit for their position. It was an honest little child that woke the people up. The little child said, He is not wearing anything! He has nothing on at all! The crowd began to say, He has nothing on at all!" That