Please pray for my salvation. I've asked Jesus to forgive me many times, but I still have a nagging sense that something is wrong and I haven't repented correctly. I worry about my soul every night and I can barely get any sleep. Please pray that God would give me the strength to do whatever I need to do for full repentance so I can know "the joy of salvation".
Hello, Amber, like you, I struggled with salvation. I didn't think I was worthy--and I wasn't, nor are you, but the blood self-sacrifice of Jesus Christ makes you and me worthy. I was saved in 1971. You can be saved today.
Being saved is simple:
CONFESS and BELIEVE - If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.- Romans 10:9-13.
His death pays the just penalty for all the seins of man. He took our punishment for us. The Father poured out His wrath for the sins of man onto Jesus on the cross so that all of them were paid in full by Jesus' sacrifice. Also, all of our sins were nailed to the cross, completely removed from us. His sacrifice ransomed us from hell (which we justly deserved) and redeemed us from the curse of being a "law-breaker"-which is death and eternal punishment. His sacrifice made atonement to God the Father for our sins-he opened the way for us to be reconciled to the Father.
His resurrection secures for us our justification before the Father in that we stand before Him with the righteousness of Christ imputed to us (made ours to keep) and all of our sins are remembered no more. His resurrection gives us life after death, too. So we will have eternal life from the time we are saved throughout eternity.
Our entire salvation is secured to us through these things that Jesus did for us once and for all. It is because of Jesus' death and resurrection that anyone can have salvation. All we need to be saved is what Jesus did for us.
The Holy Spirit does His effectual work in each person to bring them to believe this about Jesus' life, death and resurrection. He makes a change is us so that we can come to the Father through Jesus Christ, our Savior.
The Father accepts all who are given the salvation of Jesus by the working of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, our One True God does all the saving for us. We simply believe and receive what has been done for us by our Great God. The Holy Spirit dwells in every believer from the time He regenerates one and remains in believers for all eternity.
Amber, this is the truth of salvation. If you have faith to believe the Gospel and trust in Jesus, you can know for certain that you are indeed saved. It is a gift of God for us to receive. If you believe the Gospel and trust in Jesus, you have been reconciled to God.
Dear Amber, I am so sorry that you are feeling so unsure of your salvation. Here is what I know about being saved. Hope this reassures you.
Only those who are drawn to God by the Holy Spirit are saved. He calls and chooses us before we are able to believe in Him for salvation.
Every person is spiritually dead due to sin. So a spiritually dead person cannot seek God for salvation. Our sinfulness makes us enemies of God and His righteousness. We can never make ourselves good enough to earn or merit the salvation He offers. Nor can we repent enough to have our sins forgiven, that is trying to not sin so that we can be forgiven.
Our salvation comes to us because God wants us to be saved! How good is that! At the right time in our lives, the Holy Spirit makes us spiritually alive again by a sovereign, miraculous work of God. This is called regeneration. When this happens, the Holy Spirit then draws one to God. He births faith in a newly regenerated person so that this person can now believe what the Scriptures say is how one is saved.
The Holy Spirit also gives us repentance from our sinful lives and a desire to live God's way. All these things God does for and in us as a working of His mercy and grace. It all is a gift from God, not of our own effort. After we are given faith, The Holy Spirit then makes it so that we will either read or hear the Gospel message of Jesus-His Person, Life, and Work that brings us salvation. By God's decree, the Gospel message is empowered by the Holy Spirit to convince us that it is true and necessary for me to embrace. When this happens, we can say that we have been born again, or converted. We can say with confidence that we are now a believer in Jesus and are saved.
Our salvation was accomplished for us when Jesus, who is God who became man to live the perfect life no man could ever live and to suffer and die to take away all of our sins, was crucified, died and was buried. On the third day, he arose from the dead,
Being saved is simple:
CONFESS and BELIEVE - If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.- Romans 10:9-13.
God Bless and Save you
His death pays the just penalty for all the seins of man. He took our punishment for us. The Father poured out His wrath for the sins of man onto Jesus on the cross so that all of them were paid in full by Jesus' sacrifice. Also, all of our sins were nailed to the cross, completely removed from us. His sacrifice ransomed us from hell (which we justly deserved) and redeemed us from the curse of being a "law-breaker"-which is death and eternal punishment. His sacrifice made atonement to God the Father for our sins-he opened the way for us to be reconciled to the Father.
His resurrection secures for us our justification before the Father in that we stand before Him with the righteousness of Christ imputed to us (made ours to keep) and all of our sins are remembered no more. His resurrection gives us life after death, too. So we will have eternal life from the time we are saved throughout eternity.
Our entire salvation is secured to us through these things that Jesus did for us once and for all. It is because of Jesus' death and resurrection that anyone can have salvation. All we need to be saved is what Jesus did for us.
The Holy Spirit does His effectual work in each person to bring them to believe this about Jesus' life, death and resurrection. He makes a change is us so that we can come to the Father through Jesus Christ, our Savior.
The Father accepts all who are given the salvation of Jesus by the working of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, our One True God does all the saving for us. We simply believe and receive what has been done for us by our Great God. The Holy Spirit dwells in every believer from the time He regenerates one and remains in believers for all eternity.
Amber, this is the truth of salvation. If you have faith to believe the Gospel and trust in Jesus, you can know for certain that you are indeed saved. It is a gift of God for us to receive. If you believe the Gospel and trust in Jesus, you have been reconciled to God.
Only those who are drawn to God by the Holy Spirit are saved. He calls and chooses us before we are able to believe in Him for salvation.
Every person is spiritually dead due to sin. So a spiritually dead person cannot seek God for salvation. Our sinfulness makes us enemies of God and His righteousness. We can never make ourselves good enough to earn or merit the salvation He offers. Nor can we repent enough to have our sins forgiven, that is trying to not sin so that we can be forgiven.
Our salvation comes to us because God wants us to be saved! How good is that! At the right time in our lives, the Holy Spirit makes us spiritually alive again by a sovereign, miraculous work of God. This is called regeneration. When this happens, the Holy Spirit then draws one to God. He births faith in a newly regenerated person so that this person can now believe what the Scriptures say is how one is saved.
The Holy Spirit also gives us repentance from our sinful lives and a desire to live God's way. All these things God does for and in us as a working of His mercy and grace. It all is a gift from God, not of our own effort. After we are given faith, The Holy Spirit then makes it so that we will either read or hear the Gospel message of Jesus-His Person, Life, and Work that brings us salvation. By God's decree, the Gospel message is empowered by the Holy Spirit to convince us that it is true and necessary for me to embrace. When this happens, we can say that we have been born again, or converted. We can say with confidence that we are now a believer in Jesus and are saved.
Our salvation was accomplished for us when Jesus, who is God who became man to live the perfect life no man could ever live and to suffer and die to take away all of our sins, was crucified, died and was buried. On the third day, he arose from the dead,
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