Years ago I realized I needed to stop playing games with God. The next logical step was to join the millions of people before me that came to that same conclusion. I was so confused on who God really was. I knew there was a God, but I just didn't know who He was. The most important step that takes us from living after this fallen world to becoming a child of God was to invite God into my life. We simply talk to God by telling him in a prayer that we have sinned, we need Him and we give our life to Him. We choose to accept Jesus Christ, God's Son as our personal Lord and Savior. Our prayer just needs to be from our heart. If we pray a sincere prayer like the following sample below, God accepts that and we are now a child of God. We need to learn how to have Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Once we have given our life to God, we are now accepted into the kingdom of God as a new child of God. The same God that created the entire universe. It is by God's grace that we are saved and not of our works. God will then start the work of making us a new creation in Him, as we trust His Word, the Bible.
Our commitment to God for salvation is like the lifetime commitment a husband or wife gives to the other at marriage. God is also fully committing to us.
Sinner's Prayer of Salvation
“Dear Lord Jesus, come into my heart. Please forgive me of my sin. Wash me and cleanse me. Set me free. Jesus, thank You that You died for me. I believe that You are risen from the dead and that You are the real Son of God. Fill me with the Holy Spirit. Give me an understanding of how to live the life that is had in Jesus Christ, and a passion for others who are lost, living in darkness. I hunger for the things of God and to see God move in my life.
Thank you for saving me; I am now born again, I am forgiven and I’m on my way to Heaven. I choose to have Jesus in my heart."
You are now a new creation in Christ.
You may look the same, but you are now in the kingdom of God and legally a child of God. You start all over as a baby and the Bible is your trustworthy manual, your guide. Read it, study it, and believe it, in context. Fellowship regularly with other believers, as it will help us to understand correct context and build meaningful relationships. As a believer, seek out and attend a Bible based, loving, and supportive church that you can attend regularly. Pray to God and discuss with Him what is on your heart. Know that He hears your prayers, even if you do not understand yet how everything works. God supplies us with abundant grace as He knows we will mess up over and over again. Each time you fall in sin, get back up, repent of what you did wrong, and continue on with God. Satan would love to use your mistakes to separate you from God. It is like a parent and their child. A parent doesn't disown their child when they mess up.
It is the most important decision you have ever made. The devil will try to make you doubt that you now are actually saved, but the devil is a liar. Choose to make your decisions based on what the Bible says, taking it in context, rather on your feelings, your natural beliefs, or what you want. Remember God makes everything beautiful in His time, yes His, time.
"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time" (Ecl 3:11)
The Bible Studies on this website are there so as to help you grow. What is preached by your Pastor should not conflict much as seasoned Christians should be preaching a similar message. Your pastor is not perfect and neither are we. The Bible is always your final authority on what is true.
"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son." ( 1st John 5:9)
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