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God Isn't Finished With You Yet
- Mar 17
- 19 min read
Updated: Mar 21
1 John 3:9 Living Bible
9 The person who has been born into God’s family does not make a practice of sinning because now God’s life is in him; so he can’t keep on sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him—he has been born again.
Some people believe that because the Bible says “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), that if they sin after they’re saved, God will leave them and they’ll end up in hell. But as I understand Scripture, no matter how badly a Christian stumbles, God does not abandon them or cast them into hell the moment they sin.
People often ask, “How can a good God send us to hell?” The truth is, once a person is saved, God doesn’t. When sin entered human nature through Adam and Eve, humanity turned away from God’s goodness. But God, in His mercy, made a way to bring us back to Himself through faith in Jesus. God doesn’t send the saved to hell—He saves them. Only those who, through faith in Jesus, have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:38–39) can truly say God is good and does not send people to hell.
When we backslide, God corrects and trains us (Hebrews 12/ Romans 8). Our sins and failures are lessons that teach us obedience—showing us what to turn from and helping us not to repeat the same mistakes. God isn’t finished with you yet.
The New Birth
(John 3:1-8/ Titus 3:4-7/ Ezekiel 36:25-27)
Some people think they’ll lose the Holy Spirit because they keep sinning. But that often comes from not really knowing the Lord yet. Some are genuine, Spirit-filled Christians—but still spiritual babies who don’t understand much yet.
At the same time, it’s also possible that some are false conversions: people who believe in Jesus in a mental way, but haven’t truly been born again, so they don’t actually know the Lord.
Whatever the reason, some believe the Holy Spirit will depart from a backslidden Christian. A person who has truly been born again has a new desire to please God (see Ezekiel 36:25-27), and even when they fall into sin—no matter how or how often—God does not abandon them. God is still working in them, and He is not finished with them yet (Philippians 1:6; 2:13).
They need to understand that salvation is about God staying with us—even through our worst seasons—so that His work in us is completed in the end. When someone has truly been born again and has a God-given desire to please Him, He does not depart from them when they stumble. The final separation comes after this life, at judgment (Matthew 25), if God is going to depart from someone over this life.
It’s also the Holy Spirit’s work to produce obedience and love within us (Romans 8). So, when a Christian backslides—yet still has a real desire to please God but feels unable to obey—it isn’t because the Holy Spirit has departed the way He did with Samson or Saul (see Judges 16:20 & 1 Samuel 16:20). It’s because they are under God’s correction for sin.
Under the New Covenant, God’s correction isn’t Him abandoning us like in certain Old Testament judgments. Rather, He may withdraw the sense of anointing and strength that was helping us walk in obedience. In that season, the Spirit’s empowering feels restrained, and the believer is left with a heavy, guilty conscience—because they’ve been born again with a need to please God, yet they can’t seem to do what they know is right (Romans 7:7-25).
A key sign isn’t the loss of feelings, but the loss of desire. If someone still needs to please God, even while backslidden, that desire shows God is still dealing with them. That guilty conscience is evidence of conviction, not abandonment (see John 16:7-15). If God truly left, the person would lose the need to please Him and would have no conviction of sin at all.
When people say the Holy Spirit departs from believers today, it may be because they’re false teachers—or because they’re baby Christians, still new and inexperienced. I’ve learned differently by living with the Holy Spirit since 1991, the year I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. The Lord told me, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). He has taught me through real life lessons—through His love and grace—not only through Bible study. Walk the walk, talk the talk.
This is what real Christianity looks like: you learn to listen to God within you, not simply to people in church leadership. God’s children recognize the truth through the indwelling Holy Spirit, and that helps them discern what to believe—both in the church and in the world.
When you’re asking, “Who’s telling the truth? How do I know who to believe?” you listen to those who line up with what God has already taught you. Many Christians receive understanding through their own Bible study, and that becomes the foundation for what they accept as truth. If you don’t study the Bible for yourself, it’s easy to become confused about who and what to believe.
I’m not talking about Bible study here. I’m talking about God working in my life and showing me what Scripture means when He says He will never leave us or forsake us. Many believers don’t have the Holy Spirit and don’t understand what I’m describing—they only have the Bible.
I know what I’m saying in this post is truth from the Holy Spirit about salvation because God has worked in my life this way. He has shown me that no matter what I do—no matter what any of us born-again Christians do when we sin—He will keep working within us until His will is accomplished in the end, and He will never leave us.
In this world, the truth can feel obscure—known by only a few believers scattered here and there, like seeds the Lord plants across the earth. Most mainstream churches will disagree with this message—that the Holy Spirit does not depart from the Church until the day of judgment—because they don’t truly know the Lord. They learn only from the Bible, not from living with the Holy Spirit. And the reason is simple: He does not know them yet, because they have not been born again by Him through faith in Jesus (John 3:1–21).
But this is how it works. When the Holy Spirit comes upon you and lives within you, from that day forward you are born again with a need to please God—along with other holy desires. Then the Holy Spirit begins to deal with you, help you, and work in your life in ways that testify to the truth of what the Bible says.
Only after He deals with you will you truly understand what the Bible is talking about. Mainstream churches often try to tell you what God is saying in Scripture, but to understand the Bible you need the Holy Spirit Himself to teach you and guide you to heaven—through personal experiences that come through the baptism in the Holy Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 2).
What I’m talking about is knowing the Lord—or rather, Him knowing us (Galatians 4:9)—through the baptism in the Holy Spirit. This isn’t mainly about going to church or even just knowing the Bible. Many people believe in Jesus, attend church, read the Bible, and pray, yet the Holy Spirit is not living inside them (see Matthew 7:13–27).
Acts 19:1-6 Living Bible
1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through Turkey and arrived in Ephesus, where he found several disciples.
2 “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” he asked them.
“No,” they replied, “we don’t know what you mean. What is the Holy Spirit?”
3 “Then what beliefs did you acknowledge at your baptism?” he asked.
And they replied, “What John the Baptist taught.”
4 Then Paul pointed out to them that John’s baptism was to demonstrate a desire to turn from sin to God and that those receiving his baptism must then go on to believe in Jesus, the one John said would come later.
5 As soon as they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 Then, when Paul laid his hands upon their heads, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in other languages and prophesied.
Here’s what that means to me today:
Many believers still haven’t been born again. They know what the Bible says, but they don’t know the Holy Spirit by experience. So if you ask them—like Paul did—whether they’ve received the Holy Spirit or been baptized in the Holy Spirit, they don’t know what you’re talking about. They can quote verses, but they have no testimony of God living inside them.
That’s why Acts 19:2 matters. Those disciples weren’t rejecting God—they simply hadn’t experienced what Paul was talking about. And it’s the same now: ask people if they’ve ever had an encounter with the Holy Spirit living within them, and many have nothing personal to share.
But those who have been born again can’t stop talking about it. We remember the day we met the Holy Spirit and Jesus (because Jesus is the one who meets you and baptizes you into the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33)—when spiritual gifts became real, when God’s presence came upon us, when the Holy Spirit came to live inside us. For many of us, that included speaking in an unknown language and experiencing God’s power in a way others could see and feel (see 1 Corinthians 12:1-11).
Romans 8:9 says that if you don’t have the Spirit of Christ, you don’t belong to Him. You may believe in Jesus, but you must be born again by the Holy Spirit—baptized in the Holy Spirit—to see and enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:1–8). That’s how you can tell something is missing.
When people believe in Jesus but don’t know the Holy Spirit, they may be false converts—or they may be new believers who still need to receive the Holy Spirit to be truly saved. Salvation is the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:4–7).
An Example of Knowing the Holy Spirit
A Personal Testimony
In 1 Corinthians 12:11, Scripture says it’s the Holy Spirit who decides which gifts a person receives—and how many—so they can serve God in the church and in everyday life. The Holy Spirit taught me this personally and showed me that you have to know the Lord to truly understand the Bible. He made that real to me through the gifts He gave me when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit.
In 1991, I was baptized in the Holy Spirit while I was alone in a church. I saw Jesus, and I received the gift of healing. When I walked out, I felt like I was floating. I could feel two round spheres of power and energy swirling around my hands, about the size of basketballs. Later, as I read what the Bible says about the baptism in the Holy Spirit—and that tongues is a gift believers receive first—I asked God for tongues. It took about a week. First, I heard the words in my mind, and then I began to speak them.
The Lord told me He chose to give me healing before tongues—just as 1 Corinthians 12:11 says: the Holy Spirit decides which gifts He gives, and to whom, when He comes upon us through faith in Jesus. This is what many call the baptism in the Holy Spirit—being born again.
Back then I was a brand-new Christian, only days old. I believed what many Christians still believe today—people who may be “years old” in Bible study, yet haven’t been born again, or are still baby Christians in experience—that the Holy Spirit will only speak and act in the exact order they think the Bible describes. So, when they hear that I received healing first, they say, “Tongues is what you get when you’re born again—so your testimony can’t be true.”
But for me, I know my faith is real. Others may not believe my testimony, but that means little to me, because I know I’m on my way to heaven—the Holy Spirit lives inside me. Do you have a personal testimony of God living in you?
What I’m saying is this: it’s about knowing the Holy Spirit through the baptism in the Holy Spirit, not just knowing the Bible. Knowing Scripture without knowing Him means nothing. And if a person’s religion is only outward—just “services” without a real relationship with Jesus—it won’t save them (Matthew 7:21–23).
This is the truth the Holy Spirit taught me through my baptism in the Holy Spirit: even though the Bible often shows tongues as a sign of Spirit baptism, that doesn’t mean the Holy Spirit will always give tongues first—or give it at all in that moment. It’s up to Him which gifts He chooses to give, and when. That’s what 1 Corinthians 12:11 is saying.
Do you see how my experience opened up the meaning of 1 Corinthians 12:11 for me? This is what it’s like to be a real Christian: God knows us, and He teaches us from the inside. That’s what I’m pointing to here—what Jesus is showing—that the Holy Spirit’s work isn’t a formula. Just as God’s final separation happens after this life at judgment, not the way it happened with Samson and Saul, the Holy Spirit also doesn’t always come upon a person with tongues exactly the way some people insist. He gives gifts as He wills (1 Corinthians 12:11). You have to know the Lord to understand the Bible.
I’m talking about the baptism in the Holy Spirit, not water baptism. And today the Lord Jesus wants to confirm—by prophecy—that back in 1991, after I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and carried healing virtue for a week, He gave me tongues when I asked Him.
The Lord Jesus says today,
"I touched your tongue and said 'speak' ... you understand that a lot are not coming" ...
Jesus is warning that many people today—just as He said in Matthew 7:13–27—are not going to be ready. Only a few will choose the narrow way.
And many still misunderstand the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18–20; Mark 16:15–20). Jesus isn’t calling everyone to build a huge worldwide ministry or a famous church. He’s calling us to listen to Him personally and obey what He tells us to do. He may not make you a great preacher, but what matters is daily obedience (Revelation 22:14).
And the Holy Spirit confirms this by bringing Scripture to remembrance, just as Jesus promised in John 14:26—because the Lord will never leave us.
Jesus, the Hound of Heaven
Psalm 139:7-12 Modern English Version
7 Where shall I go from Your spirit, or where shall I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell at the end of the sea,
10 even there Your hand shall guide me, and Your right hand shall take hold of me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light shall be as night about me,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines as the day, for the darkness is like light to You.
The Holy Spirit says,
"The veil is lifting. The veil is the reading of the Old Testament. It's about rituals. One man reading this can see".
This means that people that can see what I'm saying here have God lifting the veil off their minds—freeing them from thinking they’re saved by rituals, or that God must follow a fixed formula (like insisting tongues must come first when someone is baptized in the Holy Spirit).
Jesus said in John 3:7–8 that the Holy Spirit moves like the wind—sudden and spontaneous. You can’t see it to predict where it will go, and you can’t control it and tell it which way to go. You can only hear its sound.
This suddenness lifts the veil off your minds so that you don't put God the Holy Spirit in a religious box telling Him that tongues comes first because the Bible says that it does, because sudden spontaneity breaks the self-righteous and legalistic nomism off the minds so that they can see the truth that God is sudden and spontaneous because He's a person, not a law or a ritual.
Jesus told me that He wants to expound on something He said above, "a lot are not coming". Jesus is talking about Matthew 7:13 where He says that many are going to hell, and only a few are going to heaven. God says that He's telling you this in this post because He wants you to repent and get real with Him. But you get mad and fight when God and His church call you false prophets ... you're like the people who received the devil's mark in Revelation 16. They would fight instead of repent when God dealt with them. Will you repent so that you can make the rapture to heaven?
Revelation 16:8-11 Modern English Version
8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.
9 Men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was filled with darkness. They gnawed their tongues because of the anguish,
11 and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.
An angel of the Lord comments on this passage. He says,
"God is saying that these people aren't Christian" ...
What people? Both the people in this passage and the people who read this and get mad and fight instead of repent when we tell them that they are false prophets ... this angel is saying that only Christians repent ... you won't repent because you're not Christian and are like the devil's people that took his mark ... they get mad at God and fight Him instead of repent when He points at and deals with them ...
Thus, God is saying that you are not real Christians ... most of you are not real. You're in church. You're preaching. You're holding services in Jesus' Name. You pray, but you have not been born again because the Holy Spirit is not inside you ... you have nothing to say about a personal encounter with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus, the Hound of Heaven, is on your trail today. But you have to acknowledge your sins, that you're not real Christians, to get saved ...
Psalm 32:5 Modern English Version
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not conceal. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Hearing the Voice of God
(John 10:26-30)
Paul wrote, “I will come to visions and revelations from the Lord” (2 Cor. 12:1–4). Today, the Lord told me that having visions alone does not prove a person is a true Christian. The Lord said that the unsaved will have visions in the last days yet not understand what they mean (Joel 2:28, 29). He says that when you're real, you'll know what the visions mean because He'll tell you.
He says, in fact, that you don't need visions when you're real, because the Lord will tell you what He wants to say. The Lord says that if you have only visions and can't explain them, that you're not a real Christian. Furthermore, He says that real Christians hear the voice of God talking inside them like He spoke to prophets in the Bible. You hear Him inside your spirit, not with your ears, because He's inside you.
The Holy Spirit wants to give you a scripture passage about His voice ...
John 10:26-30 Modern English Version
26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.
27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
28 I give them eternal life. They shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them from My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them from My Father’s hand.
30 My Father and I are one.”
Do You Believe in Jesus?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Modern English Version
{Paraphrased}
The Resurrection of Christ
1 Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand.
2 Through it you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 was buried, rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and was seen by Cephas {the apostle Peter}, and then by the twelve {all 12 apostles}.
6 Then He was seen by over five hundred {Christian} brothers at once, of whom the greater part remain to this present time, though some have passed away.
7 Then He was seen by James and then by all the apostles.
8 Last of all, He was seen by me also {the 13th apostle of Christ, the apostle Paul}, as by one born at the wrong time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. And His grace toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Do you believe in Jesus? According to 1 Cor. 15:1-11, do you believe that Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures - v. 3? ... do you believe that Jesus was buried and rose from the dead the third day according to the scriptures - v. 4? ... do you believe that Jesus was seen alive by the first church and all of its apostles - vv. 5-8? ... that's the gospel ...
Now that you've heard the gospel, I'm taking you to a page from my website for prayers for salvation and baptism into the Holy Spirit ... read and may the Holy Spirit come upon you today and give you Christ's victory over the flesh to obey God and go to heaven for it ...
John 11:25-26
Authorized (King James) Version
{Pegram Evangelistic Paraphrase}
25 Jesus {says to you},
"I Am
the resurrection,
and the life:
he that {believes} in Me,
though he were dead,
yet shall he live:
26 and whosoever {is alive} and {believes} in Me shall never die.
{Do you believe} this"?
"Lord, I believe ...
You Do the Loving
I Do the Dying ...
(Romans 6)
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ
Romans 10:6-17
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
God's Saving & Healing Power in the Bible
The Word of Faith & Salvation
6 But the {right standing with God} which {comes from biblically created faith}
speaks {in this way in the Bible about how to get saved through faith in Jesus from sin & death},
"Say not in {your} heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven'"? {Dt. 30:12}
(that is, to bring Jesus down from above).
7 or, "Who shall descend into the deep?" {Dt. 30:13} (that is, to bring up Jesus again from the dead).
8 But what {does} it {say}?
"The word is {near you}. {It is in your} mouth, and in {your} heart
{from hearing the scriptures - Pr. 4:20-27}.
That is, the word of faith {in Jesus}, which we preach.
9 That if you shall confess with {your} mouth the Lord Jesus
{to confess the Lord Jesus means to say that you believe that Jesus died for your sins}
and shall believe in {your} heart that God has raised Him from the dead,
you shall be saved {from sin & death}.
10 For with the heart man believes {the scriptures about Jesus giving him right standing before God}
and with the mouth confession {of these scriptures about Jesus}
is made giving him God's salvation from sin & death through faith in Jesus}.
11 For the scripture {says},
"Whoever believes on {Jesus the Son of God} shall not be ashamed" {Isa. 28:16}.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek {or any other Gentile nation}.
For the same Lord {Jesus} over all is rich {in faith & salvation} to all that call upon Him
{for salvation through the scriptures}.
13 "For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord {Jesus}
shall be saved {from sin & death - Joel 2:32}.
14 How then shall they call on {Jesus for salvation from sin & death} if {they do not believe in Him}?
And how shall they believe in {Jesus if} they have not {first} heard about Him?
And how shall they hear without a preacher {telling them what the scriptures say about Jesus}?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent {by God to do this}?
As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace
{with God through faith in His Son Jesus}
and bring glad tidings of good things"! {Isa. 52:7}
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.
For {Isaiah says in Isaiah 53:1}, "Lord, who has believed our report
{in the Old Testament prophecies that Your Son Jesus is the Messiah
and the long-awaited Savior from sin & death"?
17 So then faith {in Christ as the Lord & Savior from sin & death}
comes by hearing, and hearing by {what} the word of God {the Bible prophecies say about Him
{To get faith to call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation from sin & death,
listen to what God's preachers tell you about Jesus & read what the Bible says about Him}.
What the Holy Spirit is saying in this passage is that to get saved, you need to do verses 9 and 10 highlighted in bold case above. That is, confess with your mouth the scriptures about Jesus being the Lord of sin and death because you believe them, and you will be saved from sin and death by that faith in Jesus that came from your mouth from what the Bible says about Him dying and rising from the dead for our sins.
The Holy Spirit is telling us in this passage that if you want to believe in Jesus and be saved from sin and death, then read what the Bible says about Him, because faith in Jesus comes, or is created in your heart and mouth, when you read the Bible. Read what the Bible says about the Lord Jesus in the New Testament, and you will be saved when you tell God and this world that you believe what the Bible says about Jesus.
To do this is called the Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ, and the Sinner's Prayer. Let me lead you in the Sinner's Prayer.
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ the Lord
"Lord Jesus. I believe in You. I believe that you died for my sins and rose from the dead
and that you are alive today right here with me now as I tell you that I believe in You.
Please forgive me of my sins through my faith in your shed Blood on the Cross,
and please raise me from the dead by my faith in Your resurrection.
Thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving me from sin and death.
In Your Name, Jesus, I pray.
Amen".
Get your dusty Bible out and read John, Acts and Romans in the New Testament while you listen to the Playlist below...and know that the tears that flood your eyes when you pray the Sinner's Prayer are coming from the Presence of God. That's God the Holy Spirit you're sensing and that's why you're crying as you pray this prayer ... God is love (1 Jn. 4:7, 8) and when you meet Him, you can't but cry around Him. It's called "godly sorrow" (2 Cor. 7:9-11).
Now, I want to use my anointing & authority in Christ to baptize you into the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is Heaven's guarantee. There are believers, and there are born again believers (Acts 19:1-6).
Please pray this prayer below and you will meet God the Holy Spirit instantly, and get born-again ...
The Holy Spirit Is Heaven's Guarantee
Ephesians 1:13, 14
Living Bible
13 And because of what Christ did, all you others too, who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ, were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit, who long ago had been promised to all of us Christians.
14 His presence within us is God’s guarantee that he really will give us all that he promised; and the Spirit’s seal upon us means that God has already purchased us and that he guarantees to bring us to himself. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
My Prophetic Intercession for Your Baptism into the Holy Spirit
Since you are reading my Page and hearing Jesus call you to the Rapture here,
I will use my Prophetic Anointing and ask the Holy Spirit to give me a prayer for you
to be baptized into the Holy Spirit NOW.
Read the prayer and receive the Holy Spirit ...
"I am using my anointing and authority with Christ to pronounce you dead in Christ
And renewed to life by the Ever-Living Presence of God."
said the Holy Ghost ...
"NOW RETURN TO ME AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST!"
said the Lord Jesus ...
"Without Me You Can Do Nothing" - A Holy Ghost & Keith Green Playlist
(Created by Darrin Pegram - 2025)
Footprints in the Sand
World without end. Amen.
DP
3/19-2026
