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|  Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer  Thu 10 Jan 2008, 1:17 pm | |
| | skinflint wrote: | | kim wrote: | | First of all...are you saved? For the Lord to hear our supplications we must get saved... |
I have to admit, this has confused me. Saved as in baptized? |
Jesus died for your sins, and that is His free gift to you. But for you to be saved, you have to accept or receive the gift. The way to do this is to pray like this: "Dear Jesus, I know that I am a sinner. I want to receive the gift You offer--that You will erase my sins so that I can be acceptable to God. I may not even totally understand this yet, but I know in my heart that I have done or thought bad things, and I don't want to be apart from God. I want to have eternal life with You and I want You to live in me and help me to learn about You and Your plans for my life. I now turn away from my sins and will try, with Your help, to keep from sinning again. Thank You, Jesus, for saving me." If you prayed this and meant it, CONGRATULATIONS!!! You are now saved.
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| | Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer Thu 10 Jan 2008, 6:57 pm | |
| Thanks Vicki.
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| | Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer Thu 10 Jan 2008, 9:17 pm | |
| I am reading the Bible this year too Vicki I started reading In Gensis and I am so amazing at the beauty in the beginning . I am reading the odl testament with a very open heart .. God has been so amazing in our life .I look at my Family how in the world did we do it. The New testament the brith and life of Jesus is amazing to think he left his home in heaven to come to earth - how can we not be grateful ...
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| | Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer Thu 10 Jan 2008, 9:20 pm | |
| I know Gayla. I am using a reading plan that has me reading from 4 different books a day and I am learning so much.
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| | Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer Fri 11 Jan 2008, 5:39 am | |
| Well, about the Salvation...you can't just "say" the prayer...this is a heart issue...yes, you have to ask God to forgive you of past sins and believe that He sent His Son to die on the cross and His bloodshed was an acceptable sacrafice for all the sin of the world...BUT...you CAN go through the actions and NOT be saved! Being saved will change your life! You are inviting the Holy Spirit to enter your life and change you...by doing this your heart will change. You will be walking with Jesus, He will hear your supplications, He will giude you, speak to your heart.
Ok..all who are in need of Salvation...grab your Bible's cuase here we go. Now remeber if your heart is not in this,, it's no different than saying an empty prayer.
Turn to Romans 3:23..this is explaining that ALL have sinned...we will never measure up to God!...next turn to
Romans 6:23...this says our penalty for our sins is DEATH...which menas our spirit dies..we go to hell...this happened b/c of adam and Eve's sin in the Garden..before the serpant got them to eat the fruit there was NO sin and man walked with God....the second half of the verse says the only way to eternal life is through God......next turn to
Romans 5:12...still explaining that AlL men have sinned and our penalty is DEATH...nest turn to...
Revelation 21:8....This is explaing what spiritual death is...we will all be judged by God...weather you are in Hell or not...so, those that are in Hell...will be judged and then God will tell them to depart from Him and He will cast them into the Lake of Fire to spend eternity...this WILL BE YOU...if your not saved...please keep reading....next turn to...
Romans 5:8....This verse tells that God does love us! He sent Jesus to pay the price for all that we do!...next turn to
Romans 6:23....This verse tells about the fact that we get our eternal life (Heaven)..through believeing in Christ Jesus...turn to
Romans 10:13....This verse tells us that if we believe in Christ... and call upon the name of Christ shall be SAVED!!!
This is where the salvation prayer comes in...we MUST understnad all that before we can get saved..if we don't understand the full amount of what God did for us by sending His Son to die for our sins...we couldn't be saved b/c we wouldn't have the right realazation of what's going on and what a gift this is...and Vicki's right...it's free!! ACCEPT him today! any further info needed? PM me or one of our other Saved ladies!! But you WILL spend eternity in hell if you don't get saved! Look ladies...we could walk out the door and get hit by a car today...do we really want to risk out eternity?!?!!? BE SURE...TRUST CHRIST!! I feel so passionate about this skin, and I'm SO GLAD you asked. I willl be in constant prayer for you, my friend!! |
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| | Subject: Re: General question regarding Prayer Fri 11 Jan 2008, 6:24 pm | |
| Thanks kim, I probably need the prayers. I don't think I'm as religious as many of you but I do pray.
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