Prayer of Salvation
If you have considered and counted the cost of following Jesus Christ and are willing to forsake all you have and are to follow Him then proceed to read on.
The Word of God declares in Romans 10:8-13, “But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.” If you make the confession with your mouth and believe with all your heart that the Lord Jesus Christ died and shed His blood on a cross for your sins and the God raised Him from the dead you too can obtain salvation.
Right now, read the prayer and with words similar to mine call upon the Lord with all your heart with your own words. Please feel free to use the words I have written if you need to. Just be sure you agree with the intent and mean them with all your heart as you repeat them.
Father God, I confess that I am a sinner deserving of death and Hell, and being eternally separated from You (Rom.3:9-20; 2 Pet. 2:1-11; Rev.20:11-15; 21:27). I believe You sent your Son Jesus Christ to die on a cross and that He shed His blood for my sins and that He was raised from the dead for my justification and restored my fellowship with You (Luke 22:19-20; John 6:40; Rom.4:23-25; 5:17-19; Gal.4:4-7; 1 John 4:7-10). I repent and turn from my sin, selfishness, self centered pride, and arrogance. I have counted the cost and have determined to submit myself to You and live my life surrendered in obedience to You for the rest of my life (Mark 1:15; Luke 14:33; Acts 3:19; 17:30-31; 26:20; Rom.2:5-11; 16:25-26; Rev.2:5; 3:3, 19). I ask You Lord Jesus to come into my heart and save me. I confess you as the Lord of my life and I ask You Lord Jesus Christ to take my life and make me into what You want me to be. Deliver me and set me free from all sin, so that I may serve and obey You as the Lord of my life. Thank you for Your free gift of eternal life so that I may spend all eternity with You (Rom. 6:23). In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
If you cried out to the Lord with all your heart you can be sure He heard your cry.
You must learn to seek the Lord with all your heart on a daily basis and develop an intimate relationship with Him (Jer.29:13-14). You must seek to keep your heart right with the Lord by confessing the sins you have committed to Him daily (1 John 1:9). By doing so you will learn to keep your list of sins short and learn to live free from the guilt and condemnation of sin (Rom.8:1-17). Keeping your heart free from willful sin will enable you to receive His grace (His divine influence upon your heart) that transforms you heart and empowers you to obey Him (Rom.6:14). Those who take hold of His precious promises may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (2 Peter 1:4). The Word of God declares in 1 John 2:6, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” Those who hold to the hope of salvation and to His return the Word of God in 1 John 3:3 says, “And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” I want to encourage you to walk as close as you can to the Lord and experience the abundant life in Christ (John 10:10). Many who fail to walk closely with the Lord and fallen into the trap of going through the motions of dead, lifeless and cold religion, or they return to a life style of sin and eventually completely fall away (Mark 4:13-20).
In the book of John 14:21 Jesus said, “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” 1 John 3:9 says, “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” Those who truly love the Lord will walk in habitual obedience instead of continuing to walk in habitual disobedience since they have the Holy Spirit indwelling them (Rom. 8:1-11; 1 Cor. 6:12-20; 2 Cor. 6:11-7:1). In other words, true faith results in obedience to the Lord, otherwise we are endanger of deceiving ourselves according to James 1:22 that says, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” I encourage you to learn to walk in obedience to the Lord by learning to live a surrendered life to the Holy Spirit. In Romans 8:14 the Word of God says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God
It is my desire to persuade and convince you of only one God, who you can only come to know through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ said, in the book of John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus made it absolutely clear He alone, is the only way to the God the Father, there is no other way to God accept through Jesus Christ. The Word of God is very clear that there is only one way to come to God the Father and to know God personally. The Scriptures reveal there is one way and that is through Jesus Christ His Son. The apostle John in 1 John 2:23 wrote, “Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” The Word of God is explicitly clear that whoever does not accept Jesus Christ as Lord of his or her life does not have God the Father. Those who accept Jesus Christ as Lord of his or her life will have God the Father also. In 2 Cor. 5:18-19, the apostle Paul says, “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”
Peter spoke to the rulers and elders of the people concerning Jesus Christ of Nazareth in the Book of Acts 4:12 saying, “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” The Scriptures make it clear that there is no salvation in any other name. There is no other way to come to know God the Father and there is no other name by which we must be saved, but the name of Jesus Christ. My desire for you is to realize your sinful condition before God and repent of your sins, which means to turn away from all sin. You must accept by faith the sacrificial death of Christ on the cross, the shedding of His blood for your sins in order to receive His forgiveness and eternal salvation. There are many false religions in the world today that lead people astray, the Scriptures clearly state that Jesus Christ is the only way to God the Father. Jesus also said in the book of John 6:44-45, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.” The Word of God makes it clear that all who have truly heard and learned from God the Father will come to Jesus Christ for salvation. We must come to Him in faith in order to receive salvation because He is the only way to receive salvation and there is no other name given by which we must be saved.
We must respond to the call of the Lord Jesus Christ by coming to Him in faith and accepting His sacrifice for our sins to receive eternal salvation. We must come to God according to the way He purposed before time began which is through His Son Jesus Christ the only way to know God (2 Tim.1:8-10; 1 John 2:20-23). We must learn to worship the Lord the way He desires us to worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24). We must learn to surrender our self centred ways and learn to yield ourselves as His disciples in obedience to His will and follow Him as He directs us to follow Him. We must give up our self willed ways of thinking that we know best, or how we ought, or should worship Him apart from the Word of God. Many do not understand what, who, or why they worship the way they do. According to the Word of God in the book of John 4:4 Jesus says, “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The truth the word of God is speaking of is not according to what we think may be the truth, but is what the Word of God reveals to be truth.