Vivid Christianity
Teaching Christians how to live a "vivid" Christian life.

 


Vivid [viv-id] adjective

Definitions: strikingly intense or vibrant; powerful; full of life; strongly or clearly perceptible.
Synonyms: active, dramatic, dynamic, expressive, meaningful, rich, spirited, stirring, strong, vigorous.

A vivid life involves:
  • Having a personal relationship with Jesus.
  • Discerning God's guidance throughout the day, every day.
  • Following His individual plan for your life.
  • Demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit.

You'll learn how to do the first three in some of the articles here (see the Recommended Reading Order section below), and you can learn how to do the fourth in my book called Divine Healing Absolutely Is for Today.
 
 
Contact Me
 
Dave Root: dave@vividchristianity.com
 
Given the number of emails I receive, please forgive me if I'm not able to reply back to each one.
 
 
God Will Confirm These Teachings by Doing a Miracle
 
As my article called Cheat Sheet #16 describes, God will do miracles to confirm someone's message, but only if the message is what He wants to be taught and if we have faith for miracles.

If everything at my website (VividChristianity.com) says what God wants it to say then He will confirm that for you by doing a miracle (if you're a Christian). When He tells me to make changes to an article, then once again it says what He wants it to say. When you see the miracle, it means that He wants you to believe everything in all of the articles at my website and in my book.

In the age of deepfakes Offsite Link and AI-generated content Offsite Link, it's almost impossible to know if any photos, videos, audios, or reports about me are authentic or fake. However, there are only two things you need to know about me: Am I teaching what God wants me to teach, and am I obeying God's plan for me? Keep in mind that every Christian (including you) makes mistakes and always has more growing, learning, and maturing to do.

My article called Cheat Sheet #16 shows that Jesus did (or spoke about) a teleportation miracle a number of times in the New Testament, and God will do that miracle for any Christian to confirm everything in my articles and my book. Miracles require faith, but you might not have faith that a miracle will happen right in front of you. Jesus sometimes healed people by using someone else's faith (Mark 7:24-30, Luke 7:1-10), and in a similar way, God will do the miracle below for any Christian by using my faith.

Many Christians believe that God stopped doing miracles during or shortly after the first century, so they have a tendency to reject a modern-day miracle as being demonic. To prevent dishonoring God by wrongly accusing His miracle of being demonic, make sure to say the following prayer in such a way that you have no doubt it was God who did the miracle:
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This prayer leaves no doubt that the miracle was done by God, but feel free to say it in any way that makes you certain that God did the miracle. After you've seen this miracle once or twice, you won't need to say the whole prayer and you won't need to use my faith. You can also ask God to levitate an object instead of teleporting it.

There are several ways in which this miracle will be useful:
  • It verifies that God wants you to believe everything in all of the articles at my website and in my book. This does not imply that my articles and book are complete and accurate (because God teaches us a little at a time), and it does not imply that they are Scripture (see my article called All Gifts of the Spirit Are Available Today). It simply means that they always say exactly what God wants them to say (the words, titles, formatting, etc.).

    To paraphrase W. Edwards Deming Offsite Link, "If you do not have data, you're just another person with an opinion." As my article called Cheat Sheet #16 shows, the Christian version of this statement is that if our message is not confirmed by miracles from God, we might be just another Christian with an opinion.

  • It verifies that I am obeying God's plan for me, no matter what you might hear about me. Remember, everyone (including me) has said or done things that they regret or should regret, but God knows our hearts and He is the One who determines whether or not someone is qualified for ministry. Pray something like this:

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    Christians in public ministry tend to become a target for people who have opposing beliefs, and we're told to expect to be persecuted and falsely accused: Matthew 5:10-12, 44, 10:16-23, 34-36, Mark 10:29-30, John 15:19-20, Romans 12:14, 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5, 2 Timothy 3:12, 1 Peter 3:14-18, 4:14.

    Therefore, if you hear any accusations against me, simply pray the above prayer so that God can confirm these things for you and show you that the accusations are false.

  • It verifies that you're a Christian, meaning that you've received salvation (forgiveness of your sins) and you'll go to heaven.

    If the miracle doesn't happen instantly for you then find some Christians in other denominations and ask if it happens instantly for them. If the miracle happens for other Christians but not for you then you're not actually a Christian. For example, if you're relying on something or someone other than proper faith in Jesus for salvation, such as your water baptism, the Virgin Mary, prayers to saints, going to confession, doing penance, or anything else, then you might not actually be saved and going to heaven. My article called How to Receive Salvation thoroughly explains what the New Testament says about how to receive salvation and describes exactly how to have the assurance of your salvation.

  • It enables you to show non-Christians that the Christian God is real, that the Bible is true, that the God of the Bible is the only true God, that Jesus is God and He is the Messiah, and that the only way to be allowed into heaven is through proper faith in Jesus. My article called Why (and How To) Become a Christian explains the essential facts to non-Christians.

  • It enables you to demonstrate a miracle to increase people's faith for their physical healing (see my book called Divine Healing Absolutely Is for Today). Pray something like this:

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    Point out to the sick or injured person that God is right here with us, and if His power can do a miracle right here and now, then His power can certainly heal them right here and now.

  • Many Protestant, Baptist, and other churches teach that miracles, healings, and the so-called miraculous gifts of the Spirit ceased or died out during or shortly after the first century, and this view is known as cessationism. When God confirms the teachings at this website by doing a miracle, it shows that cessationism is a lie from the devil and a form of last-days apostasy (a falling away from proper beliefs). It's thoroughly refuted in my article called All Gifts of the Spirit Are Available Today.

 
About This Ministry
 
In 1995 I started an online teaching ministry, and some time later the Lord told me to change the name to "Layhands.com."

After about 15 years He told me to shut down Layhands.com.

In late 2018 the Lord said to create a new website called "Vivid Christianity," which I thought had a nice ring to it. But after I looked up the full definition of "vivid" (see above), I realized how appropriate it is.

This is a family ministry, and we're not allowed to accept any partners or followers. Follow Jesus instead!

This is what the Lord has told me to expect when the time comes for Him to release us to go out into ministry:
  • We're Christian healers, not faith healers. Every Christian can heal the sick (see the free PDF of my book called Divine Healing Absolutely Is for Today), so essentially, all Christians are Christian healers, they just need to learn how it works. That's exactly what my book teaches.

  • We won't be charging money for anything (we'll be giving out copies of my book for free) and we won't be accepting any donations, offerings, or large gifts.

  • We'll be meeting with pastors and church leaders to show them how miracles and divine healing work.

  • We won't be teaching, preaching, or praying in public, such as in church services, conferences, or seminars. We'll be "training the trainers" informally behind the scenes.

  • We'll also show pastors and church leaders how to receive the gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit for their spiritual empowerment (see my series called How to Receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit).

  • We won't be opening or closing meetings with prayer. This has become such a habit or tradition throughout the church that it now feels improper not to open and close every meeting with prayer. Since the Lord is the One sending us out to these meetings, it's not necessary to pray before or after the meeting. When the Lord told me this, He said: "Legalism quenches miracles."

  • We'll sometimes heal people out in the streets, in shopping malls, in people's homes, etc. (but not through prayer - see the free PDF of my book called Divine Healing Absolutely Is for Today).

  • We won't be giving formal interviews or debating doctrines. The articles at this website usually go into great scriptural detail, and it would be impractical to go into that level of detail in a discussion or debate. But without going into that level of detail, we would only be discussing a small part of the full picture, which has very little value for either of us.

  • We'll be giving the church leaders a list of what the Lord wants them to do in order to participate in the great last-days (or "latter rain") revival.

 
 
Recommended Reading Order
 
I asked the Lord what's a good order for reading these articles. This is the recommended reading order that He gave me:
  1. This article explains why it's important to be thorough, objective, and unbiased when we study the Bible in order to see the full picture for each doctrine or topic. Otherwise, we don't know everything God is telling us about the different doctrines so we might be missing critical information, and we can't see the patterns that He has placed in Scripture concerning the different doctrines. When you read or listen to anything by Christian pastors or teachers, try to discern how thoroughly they've studied the subject:

  2. Learn the requirements for receiving salvation so you can be certain that you're saved and going to heaven, and understand why you need to be baptized by full immersion in water after you receive salvation:

  3. Learn how to discern the ways that the Lord guides us, and understand the seasons that He takes us through:

  4. Learn all about Jesus so that you know and understand your heavenly King:

  5. God commands us to pray in the Spirit (Ephesians 6:18, Jude 1:20). It's important to learn what this means and how to do it so that we can be obedient to Him:

  6. Many Christians believe that all spiritual gifts are still available today (including healings, miracles, prophecies, and speaking in tongues), and they're usually referred to as "charismatics." All other Christians are usually referred to as "cessationists" because they believe that some spiritual gifts ceased or died out during or shortly after the first century. This article shows that all gifts of the Spirit are available today and that cessationism is a lie from the devil and a form of last-days apostasy (a falling away from proper beliefs):

  7. A covenant is a contract or an agreement between two parties, such as between God and humans. Some of God's covenants are still in effect, so it's important to understand how they affect us today. For example, the Old Covenant and the Law of Moses were completely canceled when Jesus died on the cross. After the cross, no one is required to obey any of the 613 commands in the Old Covenant and the Law of Moses, and no one is able to sin by breaking or violating any of those 613 commands (such as the Ten Commandments, the tithing laws, the kosher dietary laws, or the Sabbath laws):

  8. This article explains numerous commands in the New Testament that God wants all Christians to obey:

  9. Everything that happens to you is because God wanted it to happen or allowed it to happen. Everything. God is aware of and involved in every aspect of your life, no matter how big or how small:

  10. Almost one-third of the Bible deals with prophecy. Prophecy is very important to God, so it should be very important to us as well. For example, certain prophecies tell us that all Christians will give an account of ourselves to the Lord, and we will be given rewards or suffer loss in heaven after Jesus returns for us (see point #8, above). We're told that Jesus will return in the end-times, and the end-times began with a specific event early in the 20th century (described in the second bullet point below). Bit by bit, step by step, the world is shaping itself into an exact picture of the end-times world described throughout the Bible, so Jesus could return at any moment. To get an idea of how close we might be to the Rapture, see the intended impact of my book:

 
 
For the glory of the Lord Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, who came in the flesh, was delivered over to death for our sins, and was raised to life for our justification.

Dave Root
 
 
"Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:3)

"Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist - denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." (1 John 2:22-23)

"If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God." (1 John 4:15)

"Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." (1 John 4:1-3)

"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist." (2 John 1:6-7)

"He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification." (Romans 4:25)