Is There A Difference Between Being Saved And Born Again?

This is a transcription of an excerpt of the Life in the Faith Lane broadcast on November 15, 2023, where Annamarie Strawhand answered questions from viewers. A viewer asked the following question: “Coach Annamarie, when it comes to being on social media and someone is down and depressed, and we are trying to encourage her but she keeps saying, ‘Yes, but I understand, but…,’ what do I say to her?”

Watch the video and read the transcript below for her response.

 

ANNAMARIE: You stop, and you go into your prayer closet, and you ask the Holy Spirit to go to her. You see, you can sit there and tell somebody and tell somebody and tell somebody and tell somebody till you’re blue in the face, right? You keep speaking it. You keep speaking it, right, but if they’re not receiving it, then you go into your prayer closet and you ask the Holy Spirit to go to them and reveal it to them, lift the veils, drop the scales, and the Holy Spirit revealed to them. You pray for them to have an encounter with Christ.

Now, you can keep encouraging them in the process, right? You can keep loving them and encouraging them in the process, right, asking the Lord to take those little seeds that you’ve sown into them, ask the Holy Spirit to water them, right? But just, right now, all right, don’t frustrate yourself because you’re not their Savior, Jesus is. You’re there to sew the little seeds, right, okay, and intercede for them.

So, sew the seeds of encouragement. Sew a little seed, ask the Holy Spirit what to say to them. Sew that little seed, ask him to water it. Then, go in your prayer closet and stand in the gap for them. Intercede for them. Invite the Holy Spirit to go to them and speak to them because the Holy Spirit could do more with them in one day that would take you a year. He’s got to be the one to re make them realize it. He’s got to be the one to take the scales off their eyes and lift the veils, so just keep sewing those little seeds of kindness and love and encouragement, all right?

Ask the Holy Spirit to water those seeds. You’re doing your part, okay? Continue to speak and prophesy over them and pray for them and intercede for them, okay, and then ask the Holy Spirit to go to them.

What does the Holy Spirit do? His job is to point them to Jesus and give them an encounter with Jesus to, so they realize their true identity in Christ, okay? We have a lot of Christians a lot of people that say they’re Christians and received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are saved, right? They’re saved. They’ve got salvation. They’re going to heaven. They’re saved from hell, but they were never truly born again. They never received of what? The spirit of the Living God. They never received of what? That born again, uh, spirit into their spirit, okay?

So, a lot of people say to me is it, what’s the difference between being born again and salvation? There’s actually is a difference. Jesus was very clear. Jesus was very clear that being born again is, is different than salvation. Um, let me pull this up real quick.

So, there are people that are Christians, but they’re, they’re miserable. Why? Because they can’t see the kingdom. They can’t see their purpose for the kingdom. That means they’re not really born again. The difference between saved and born again – you can accept Jesus and go to church as a child, but that does not mean you have to, you have been born again. You are saved from hell, and you will go to heaven, but if you are not showing signs in your life that you are born again in Christ, in your spirit, your spirit must be born again. When your spirit is born again, your, your life shows direct signs of this. You have a hope of living for Christ and fulfilling all things through Christ.

So if a person is a Christian, they say they’re a Christian but they’re miserable, they’re dealing with depression, and they can’t see it. They can’t, they can’t see the hope of their glory. They can’t see the kingdom. They can’t, right, they, that means their Spirit man is not operating in the born again of the kingdom. You must ask to be born again in Christ. It’s a simple prayer. It’s a confirmation of asking to be born again of the spirit in Christ Jesus.

You must desire to be new and transformed, so what you, how you pray for this girl is you say, “Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, go to her and encounter her, and put the desire in her heart to be transformed.”

You see, if the desire in their heart to be transformed, and the desire in their heart to be a new creation in Christ isn’t there, they’re not really born again. They’ve received Jesus Christ. They’re saved. They’re going to heaven, but their spirit is lacking, right, and they must desire to be transformed, okay?

So, Jesus explains this in John 3:21, 3:1- 21. Three is the complete Father, Son, Holy Spirit. One is the one true God. Twenty-one is the Manifest presence of God, the Living God that lives within us. Jesus says in John 3:1-21 you must be born again.

“Now, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.’”

So he believed in Jesus Christ as a man of God. He was a Believer.

“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

What?! What?! Listen to me, unless Nicodemus believed in Jesus, he was a believer, got a lot of believers out there, right? They believe – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be what? Saved. You’re saved from hell. You’re going to heaven, but are you born again? Did you receive the power of the Living God, Jesus Christ, into your spirit man to make you completely new, to desire that transformation?

So, unless that person is truly born again, they cannot see the Kingdom, right? Their spirit is not transformed. It’s not there yet, or it, it never was, so they have no hope. They can’t see the kingdom. They can’t see the kingdom of God. They can’t see the hope of the glory of the kingdom of God in the earth. They believe Jesus is the Son of God. They believe in him. They’re, they’re saved. They’re not going to hell.

You see, the kingdom of God is for us in the earth, unless where our spirit man is born again and there is actual evidence and signs of our spirit desiring the things of the Kingdom, we’re not really totally born again.

So, somebody that you’re, she’s a Christian, you’re encouraging her, you’re encouraging, you’re encouraging her.She’s not seeing it. She’s still depressed. She’s, she like, she still has no hope. She cannot see the hope of the glory. She cannot see the kingdom. She believes in Jesus. She knows, but her spirit man is not connecting because she’s not truly born again. Pray for her to have that desire to be transformed, okay?

“Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

She can’t see it, just can’t see it because her spirit man is not capable. It’s not born again.

“How can a man be born when he is old?” This is what Nicodemus is saying. “How could he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered again, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and what is born of the spirit is spirit.”

So, people that are not, they could get baptized – born of the water. See, people, the church misses this. They miss it.They go, “Oh, you’re saved.” See, churches are all about salvation, salvation, salvation, salvation, don’t go to hell; don’t go to hell; salvation.”

But they’re, they’re, they’re forgetting about the born again. They’re forgetting about the kingdom part where people actually have evidence of complete transformation in their lives, and they want to be transformed, and they want the kingdom, and they desire the kingdom, and they operate in the Kingdom.  Or they’re like, “Oh, I got baptized, so I’m born again.”

That’s, that’s just half of it, right? The big part is that your spirit receives of it, and if your spirit is closed off, it doesn’t receive it, and there’s no desire there for the kingdom, there’s no desire to be transformed, there’s no desire – you can’t what? See the Kingdom.

So, you’re not really born again, and you need to lead that person again through repentance, right, and that they say with their mouth, “Lord Jesus, I desire my spirit to be born again and be transformed so I can see the kingdom.”

Listen to me, “That is of the flesh, is the flesh, which is born of the spirit, is the spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and what you hear is sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone that is born of the spirit.”

In other words, they’re people that really hear from the Holy Spirit. They’re born again. They’re born of the spirit.They’re receiving. They’re desiring. They’re desiring to be transformed. They’re desiring to be of the Kingdom, okay? There’s evidence of that in their life, but if they can’t see the kingdom, it means their spirit man has not been fully reborn.

Jesus is very clear here. They’re still operating from the flesh, not the spirit, okay? They’re saved. They’re going to heaven. They’ve been saved from hell. And see, this is why the kingdom age is coming. We’re coming out of this church age where churches and the religious establishments has all been about about salvation, salvation, salvation – make sure you don’t go hell – but they’re not teaching anybody the kingdom. They’re not teaching anybody to be of the kingdom, to do all the things that Jesus did, to do, desire to be that, to be transformed into full kingdom with Jesus Christ. This is all shifting. This is all changing, okay? You understand?

So huge difference, and if this person, as a Christian, she knows it, but she can’t see it she’s not truly born again. And you can pray this prayer over her. I’m getting ready to put this up on my website. Saved and born again are two different completely [Sic] things. Jesus is clear, right, call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

Well, you’re saved from the fires of hell, right? You’re, you’re, you will go to heaven, but to be born again, you, to be able to see the kingdom in the earth operate in the kingdom, be completely and fully transformed in Christ here on the earth, Jesus has got to overtake your spirit. And you’ve got to want that, and you’ve got to want to be, right, you’ve got to completely submit your spirit to Christ and not operate out of the flesh.

And those people that are not fully, truly born again, they can’t see kingdom, they can’t see any hope. They can’t see … You see, it’s completely different, and the church has got to start teaching people kingdom and getting people to desire the kingdom. It’s more than just dunking in the water, right? It doesn’t automatically hit you. You’ve gotta desire it. You’ve gotta want it. You’ve gotta receive of it. See? All right?

And, um, you know, you see Christians walking around; they’re Christians; they’re believers; they’re saved; they’re going to heaven, but they have no hope. They’re walking around like, “Oh, just so terrible,” and you’re like, “But we have Jesus, but we have the kingdom but, we have God, but we have the Holy Spirit.” They’re like, “I know, I know.” But they can’t see it, and the fruit of their life doesn’t show anything of that.

It’s because they’re not taught this. It’s all about this religious stuff of the church. They’re all about, “Oh, we had a thousand salvations.” We had, then there, then, now what? “We had a thousand salvations. We had a thousand baptisms,” but is anybody helping them be fully born again and they’re transformed in the spirit and desire, and teaching them kingdom and how to walk in the spirit, how to operate in the spirit? No, what  do they do? They, they go to dusty churches after that, that just sits there and teaches rapture doctrine every weekend, doesn’t teach them how to operate in the kingdom. Doesn’t teach them how to walk around and do the things of Christ. That’s the difference.

So, if you’re trying to lead somebody out of depression that’s a Christian, that says they know, lead them into this born again prayer, or pray for them, right, for the Holy Spirit to go to them and start to work on their spirit and King Jesus to work on their spirit to bring that desire in them to want to see the kingdom because you can’t see it unless you’re born again. You just can’t. Jesus said it. You’re still operating out of the flesh, and you’re going to still be walking around depressed and miserable.

Okay, so, um, “In this, the born again, because they’re born of God, the children of God are manifest and the ch, and the children of the devil; whoever shall do the righteousness is not, not righteousness is not of God, neither that he loveth his brother.”

So, what happens in this is those who truly carry Christ in his righteousness and the kingdom of God is within them, they see it; they realize it; they know the hope and glory. Why do you think the Pharisees could not see it, other than Nicodemus? Nicodemus desired it. The Pharisees didn’t.

You see, the religious spirit doesn’t desire the born again. Oh well, you’re saved; you’re going to heaven. That’s great, well, but you’re still walking around miserable depressed because nobody’s teaching kingdom.

Now, here’s a prayer; I’m going to put this on my website because the Lord just revealed this to me last, over the last couple of days. Here you go. A lot of people think being saved and being born again are the same thing.

Saved means you’re not going to hell. You’re redeemed. You, right, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. You’re, you’re safe from the fires of hell.

Being born again is being able to see the kingdom while you’re alive on earth and operating in the kingdom and desiring it and the kingdom of God working within you in your spirit, okay?

Do you know, don’t you know a lot of people that are believers in Jesus Christ, they’re saved, even been baptized in water, but they’re walking around miserable with no hope? Because they can’t see the kingdom. They’re not really born again all the way. They have to have that desire.

And, right now, Jesus, I believe right now in the Holy Spirit because we’re coming into a transformative time in the, in the world, okay, is shaking people awake and up out of this religious blindness and awakening the spirits of the people to desire this fully because we’re coming into a time very swiftly where we are going to be walking around doing all the things of Jesus Christ – full kingdom, fully born again. Jesus was the first of the born again, understand?

Um, the Church is focused more on getting saved and thinking it was the same thing as born again. Born again is really when you see and realize the kingdom of God within you.

Many Christians are not operating as born again, which is full kingdom. And, oh, her eyes can only be opened if you ask the Holy Spirit and King Jesus to go to her, encounter her, um, and awaken her spirit to desire this fully.

You can lead her through this prayer or you can, you can speak this prayer over her. Um, your spirit must be born again. When your spirit is born again, your life shows direct signs of this, of hope in living it for Christ and fulfilling all things through Christ.

You must ask to be born again in Christ. This is more than just the salvation. It’s a simple prayer. It’s a confirmation to be born again of the spirit in Christ Jesus. You must desire to be new and transformed. If you are still living from the flesh and you have no hope and purpose for the kingdom, you are still operating from the flesh and not the spirit because you can’t see the kingdom, according to John 3.

This is what you declare, “Lord Jesus Christ, I desire to to be born again in my spirit. I command my spirit to receive Jesus Christ and be completely new and transformed in Christ. I want all of you, Lord Jesus, to come inside my heart, mind, and spirit and be a new creation in Christ. Thank you, Jesus.” According to John 3:1-21

Now, the religious spirit isn’t going to like this. Too bad. Can you pray this over yourself? Can you pray this over other people? Absolutely. The Lord just gave me this revelation. And, uh, I’ll put this teaching up on my site this afternoon, and I will have, uh, my team send it out to you with this decree. Um, I have more notes to … I didn’t put it up the other, I didn’t put it up yesterday because I still have more notes, and, uh, with this, and, um, I encourage you all to really soak this in. Think about it. Jesus said you’ll know it by its fruit.

Why are the Christians that have salvation, they’re not going to hell, baptized in water, but they’re walking around miserable. And you sit there and tell them, “Be happy. It’s great.” Right? “Come on, let’s go on mission work together [Sound effects meaning, etc].” “[Moaning]” Why? Because they’re not truly born again. They’re operating from the flesh. They’re not operating from the spirit. They’re not really transformed of the spirit. They can’t see the kingdom. They can’t see it. They can’t see it. They can’t see it.

How do we get them to see? We ask the Holy Spirit to bring that desire in them, right, put a desire in them. Because they were taught the wrong doctrine. They’re like, “Oh, okay, I’m saved. I’m good. I’m good. I’m saved. I’m good. I’m not going to hell.”

What about the rest of it? Are you out doing the work of the kingdom? Are you really a transformed creation? Are you, if you’re not, then you’re not really born again. You’re saved. We want kingdom here! Jesus wants full kingdom. How about you?

Uh, Acts 6:29-31 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.”

So you can, you’ll have salvation. You’re not going to hell, and your household is saved when you’re a believer, but to be born again, to see the kingdom, to do the things of the kingdom, to come out of depression, you must be born again a – transformation into the image of Christ in your life and don’t want to desire it.

The Holy Spirit, when you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit begins to start a work in you, right, but you have to desire it. You have to want it, and when you’ve got people praying for you and saying, “Holy Spirit, bring them. Shake them. Bring them into the desire of being fully born again and coming out of the ways of the flesh.”

You see, that’s why it says that it’s a sharp sword that separates the soul from the spirit, because that person that’s still walking around in misery, “blah blah blah,” they’re Christian. They believe. They’re gonna get, they’re not going to hell, but they’re still operating from their flesh, from their soul, from their wounds, from their [Sound effect], right? They’re, they’re not operating from the spirit, and the Holy Spirit’s saying, “Come on, let’s get born again. You must desire this. I want you to see the Kingdom.”

So many people can’t see it, and it, it frustrates me, and I know It frustrated Jesus because He was like, “I’m right in front of you. Do you not see it?” The kingdom of God is within you, but the Pharisees, right, they couldn’t see. They couldn’t see, but Nicodemus desired it, so Jesus gave him this secret. He gave him. You desire, you have a desire, Nicodemus. You have a desire. You want it, right? You gotta desire to want to be like Jesus. You gotta desire to, to see the kingdom, want to operate in the kingdom.

It’s beautiful. That’s why people are just tired of the old dusty churches. They’re, they’re done with all that. People desire kingdom. We’re in that time. The earth is what? Birthing. The earth is shaking and birthing the sons of God, right, the ones who really desire that born-again-nature of the kingdom coming into this time, not walking around from sitting in our dusty pews waiting to be beamed out of here.

No, the Lord is, is, is awakening us to our born-again-nature to be doing the, the things of Christ and desiring it, and the earth is birthing us. Hallelujah! So, yes, there’s a difference.

“Coach,” she’s still walking around depressed, and she does want to be kingdom, and she have [Sic] asked so many times. Well, this prayer’s for you, and there could be things in your soul that are blocking it, right, wounds in your soul.

Why does Jesus clearly say you prosper in health as your soul prospereth? The, the, the scripture says that because if your soul is riddled with wounds still and offense and stuff like that, um, what happens is it’ll, it’ll block your spirit man even though you have that deep desire. That, those soul wounds can, can throw up blocks all the time. That’s why I tell you get your soul healed.

Can, you know, demonic, uh, spirits block this? Yeah, I mean, of course. You know, can Christians have demons? Sure, you know, but after you prayed for that person and they’ve gotten delivered and you rebuke the spirit of death, you rebuke the spirit of backwardness off them, you rebuke all those spirits, right, and they renounce all of them, they still have to have the desire to see the kingdom. There’s a lot of people that have been delivered by [Sic] evil spirits.

Listen to me. There’s a lot of people people that have been delivered by [Sic] evil spirits, but they still don’t see the kingdom, they’re still not fully operating in their kingdom purpose for Jesus. Delivering them of evil spirits, uh, delivering them from a spirit of death, delivering them of a spirit of backwardness, delivering them from all those things are, are important. Yes, okay? Helping them get their soul healed is important, but they also have to have a desire to want to be transformed to see the kingdom.

How many people do you know, “I’ve been delivered of this. I’ve been delivered of that. I’ve been delivered.” They’re going to deliverance ministries every week. They’re going to every conference on the East Coast to the West Coast to the North Coast to the South Coast for deliverance, deliverance, deliverance, deliverance.

They’ve been, they, they’re a Christian that’s been delivered of everything you can imagine, but are they operating in the kingdom? Are they fulfilling their ministry? Are they out sharing the hope and the glory? Can they see the kingdom, right? You could be delivered of every single demon, you could be delivered of everything. You get your soul healed, but you still have to what? Desire that full born again and, whooooo, want the kingdom, upgrade in the kingdom,  preach the Kingdom, operating in your kingdom purpose with boldness, fully alive in Christ.

So if you’re asking for this and you’re still not seeing it, it’s because there’s stuff in your soul blocking it, and you really got to want it. You got, there could be fear. A lot of people have fear, a spirit of fear. The spirit of fear blocks us.

The spirit of – listen, the two worst ones to block us from seeing full kingdom and operating in our full kingdom authority and going out and doing the works of Jesus Christ and being fully born again of the kingdom, the two things that block us the worst are fear and religion, fear of man. Because religion puts in the fear of man like, “Oh, if I start going out there being bold for Jesus and doing the things of Jesus full kingdom, people might think stuff of me, people might say stuff of me.”

So get that fear of man, rebuke the fear of man, renounce the fear of man, renounce all fear, and say, “I want full kingdom, and I will be fearless. I don’t care what man says.” Because the religious spirit says, “Oh, you better, oh, keep it down. Oh, you know, don’t be laying hands on people and healing them. Oh no.”

I don’t care, right, because I’ve been delivered of the fear of man. I don’t care what people say. I’m suited up every day. But you gotta desire to be more like Jesus even in public way more than what people would say. “Oh, I can’t do this unless my husband supports me. I can’t do this unless …” Right?

Who cares? You do what Jesus called you to do, right? You’re, you’re not of the fear of man whatsoever, and when you are full kingdom, you are an example to others and you start encouraging others to go that way.

So, fear will hold you back the worst. Religious beliefs will hold you back the worst. “Oh, women can’t preach. Women can’t … Oh, what?” That’s a religious lie. Why did Paul say that? It was those women specifically in that church because they were still doing idolatry, and he didn’t want their idolatry influencing the rest of the church.

Jesus wants women to preach. Women are going to be used greatly in the end days, so break off of those old religious beliefs. Break off all that fear. Rebuke it, and don’t be going to a hundred million deliverances, you know, like chasing down every deliverance conference, and look for the kingdom. Focus on kingdom. Who’s teaching kingdom? Who’s teaching how to lay hands on people and heal? Who’s teaching how to, people how to do the works of Jesus Christ?

You be the one doing deliverances. That’s when, “Oh, I desire that,” right? “I want to be in the image of Christ. I want to be of the Kingdom. I want to be the walking kingdom.” And then you’re fully born again.

You know, there’s gonna be people that say stuff to me. I don’t care anymore. I really don’t. I’m suited up. I’ve got the Lord. People gotta know this stuff.