We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and that God rescues, delivers, works in us and through us, and also empowers us to live out the faith we have. “Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.” Ephesians 2:8-9 (The Message)

Our journey continues with the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, with the initial evidence of speaking with other tongues.

• “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4 (NKJV)
• The Baptism is an important part of the believers experience with God. It brings a deepened more consecrated relationship with the Father and empowers the believer to witness more effectively. “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (KJV)
• God delights in giving His Holy Spirit to those who ask and obey, but this is a gift and there is nothing man can do to earn it.  “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:13 (NKJV)

Our journey is to be shared with others as we use our God-given gifts. They are earnestly to be desired and expected.

• “There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.  There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.  And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.” 1 Cor 12:4-7 (NKJV)

In the rapture (the catching away) of the church and that our journey on this earth will one day end and we will see Jesus, the One who gave His life for us, face to face.

• “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:1-3 (NKJV)