Warm Fuzzy Feeling....

I didn't really understand fully what being saved meant, at first, but when I said the sinner's prayer for the first time, I honestly meant it. The main thing I noticed was that entire following week, I could not stop thinking about Jesus.

I did feel some feeling when I was first converted.
But now, I don't go for feeling, anymore.

For some it is an emotional experience and others not, but that does not mean anything either way. It is what is in your heart. If you were sincere and you felt a warm fuzzy feeling, or you felt nothing much at all, you are born again, We are born again when we believe and not because we feel something. I personally felt joy, but more than that, I felt clean, new, and driven to share Jesus with everyone.

I felt joy and relief and excitement.

But I don't think that stu could expect to feel anything from his experience. He didn't ask God to save him, he demanded that God pick him. There's a big differnence between humbly asking God to make you one of His own, and demanding to be selected by God. The first acknowledges that God is Master, and the second assumes that you are good enough to pass the grade.

Stu might feel something if he would humbly ask God to forgive his sins through the name of Christ!

How did it feel when I got saved?

I just remember crying a lot. I felt so inadequate and unworthy of His Grace and Mercy. Then I felt a yearning for Him, that did not cease. Kinda like when you fall in love, but more pure. Then I felt a peacefulness that nothing else gives me.

I still cry in church when the Spirit convicts me.

There are also times now and then, when I feel a physical and emotional joy, when the Spirit hits me. My head tingles and I do indeed feel warm inside. It is a rush. It is wonderful! I have felt it when a song hits home, or I see a beautiful sunset or rainbow or a particularly blue sky.

I have felt it in church as well. It is a feeling of peace, and all is well...

I don't feel it all the time or as often as I'd like, but just enough to glimpse what it will feel like to be with the Lord in eternity!

My fiance got saved almost a year ago, and when I asked him the next day (he got saved at 1:30 AM!) if he really was sure he understood and accepted Christ, he said, "Yes. I feel different." I had never told him anything about being a new person in Christ or feeling different or anything, so I knew that what had gone on between him and God was real.

I posted my story in another thread in this forum...it's been a gradual process for me. I didn't think it should be that way, since I always heard stories of people who had dramatic moments in which they were saved. I was worried because it didn't happen to me that way. It's different for everybody, though. You can't just judge be feelings.

Originally posted by fieldmouse3
I posted my story in another thread in this forum...it's been a gradual process for me. I didn't think it should be that way, since I always heard stories of people who had dramatic moments in which they were saved. I was worried because it didn't happen to me that way. It's different for everybody, though. You can't just judge be feelings.

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I agree, I am MUCH more emotional than anybody I know. That is probably why my experience was so intense. I am super-sensitive. Get it?

I agree. I think people who are more emotional tend to have a more emotional experience than those who tend to be less emotional. But whatever the case may be, we are saved by grace through faith, not by how we feel or don't feel.

Good way of explaining it, Mandy. I took me awhile, quite honestly, to get the idea that I didn't have to FEEL God there with me for Him to still be around.

I was the same way, for a long time actually. I often thought that I was beyond hope, especially after I had sinned, because I didn't feel Him. As the Bible says though, If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Emotions can be useful, they are a part of us, but they are not something on which we should base our standing with God.

I agree!

One thing that I do to "feel" God's presence is, I ask Him to fill me with the Holy Spirit when I pray. I don't always "feel" it, but when I do! Whew! It blows me away, such a peace and joy.

Not to say that you have to have this feeling to be saved or to have an excellent relationship with God, you don't. It is just something that I experienced and wanted to share.

Thanks!

I agree. I think people who are more emotional tend to have a more emotional experience than those who tend to be less emotional. But whatever the case may be, we are saved by grace through faith, not by how we feel or don't feel.

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It doesn't actually work that way. My fiance is not at all an emotional person, nor am I, but we both "felt" something when we got saved. I don't know that you have to feel anything, but if you don't feel different, you should pay attention to that.

My good friends, who were known to be very emotional, told me that they didn't feel anything when they got saved, it was just another day for them. They couldn't say that they were changed in anyway by it. When I asked them to describe how they got saved, they both said they acknowledged that they were sinners during an altar call, and they went down the aisle. The pastor asked them if they knew they were sinners and wanted to get saved, and that was it. He didn't lead them through any kind of prayer, he didn't have them talk to God about it at all. They didn't do anything except walk down an aisle.

A few years later, it all came out that this couple was involved in extremely immoral sexual behavior, and that they were completely unrepentent and even proud of what they were doing. They even found a way to justify it to themselves as being part of a healthy spirituality! Their hearts had not been changed by what they had done in church that one day. They had simply acknowledged that they sin and God forgives. That is different from seeking a relationship with God through repentence and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

They felt nothing because they had not become new creatures. They hadn't gotten saved, they had just taken a walk.

I'll bet that happens a lot. It is a shame. Do you think that God sees that and will have mercy on them because they "thought" they were saved, because the preacher told them so... and he didn't follow up on it? I think he would be the one that God would hold responsible. Unless the couple knew better. See the verse below.

Luke 12:47,48(KJV)

47 "That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked."

I don't know. I know he said that in the last days there would be a lot of grief when people hear him say that he never knew them, despite all the things that made them think they did.

>>>>>they "thought" they were saved, because the preacher told them so... and he didn't follow up on it?<<<<<

They continued in various churches for years, and even taught in the church school. (But they never used the Bible as their textbook). That church thought that admitting being a sinner was enough.

I was only speaking generally. I agree we all feel something, whether it be some emotion or change. It's just that some have a greater emotional experience than others and the degree of emotion is not the evidence of salvation.

Agreed. But to feel nothing, no change of heart or beginnings of the renewal, no repulsion to sin, no nothing, one probably ought to wonder if he/she had a real salvation experience.

But that's just it, stogus, we DO seem to think that a person does and should feel something, some sort of dawning, some inkling of regeneration. Anyone who is a believer in Christ is a new person. Old things pass away, a whole new life is begun. I can't imagine how a person who experiences the power of fellowship with God for the first time would feel nothing at all. Not even gratitude?

But you are right, it is the long-term results that matter most. If you cannot see regeneration and renewal in your life over time, you may need to examine your salvation experience for validity. If you can't see yourself wanting to become more Christ-like and more obedient, that is a much better indicator of the state of your soul and heart than all the lightening and thunder in the world!