I need help believing

Praise God! Our Father works in wonderful ways Sweetheart! He led you here to us so that we can hold you in our arms on earth and console you. He places each one of us on earth for a special reason.
You are here for a special reason. But, Father saw your fears, and led you here so that we can assure you that you are indeed well and truly saved! That Jesus died in your place so that you will NOT go to hell.
Any question, anything at all you want to ask, or if at any time you feel afraid, please do not hesitate for one second to ask. This is your personal thread to do that, and we cherish you just as God does. Just as Jesus does. Just as the Holy Spirit does.

If there is anything in the Bible you need explaining. Just ask. There will be help available to you at any time! :hugs::hugs:

There is no need to doubt honey. You ARE saved. Once you believe Jesus is the Son of God, come in the flesh on earth, who was crucified and buried, and who rose to life on the 3rd day according to the scriptures. You are saved. This is the Gospel of Salvation.
And, the very fact that you are even praying to Jesus verifies that you are indeed saved!!

You accept the same way as we do. By faith. By belief that Jesus IS there. That God IS there. By faith alone you believe. And, you believe that, so you are well and truly saved my Darling! Have you bought your bible yet?
If you have...or you can go to the online NIV Bible, you can read Hebrews. Chapter 11.
This tells you about faith.
You see, you have been saved by the GRACE of God, because you believe in His Son.
And, He is your salvation.
If you believe in Jesus. You are saved. Have no fear. You cannot offend God. He hears your prayers and smiles upon many who have this problem. His Holy Spirit then leads them to the right place for help just as He led you here.
And, His Grace is sufficient for you.
Ephesians 2:8 tells us" For by Grace you are saved through faith. It is the gift of God."

If you like...you can read that here on CF. C
clik on Bible at the top of the page.
type in Eph ....2....8 and this verse will come up for you!
You are well and truly saved. And, I believe the Lord has something very special for you to do in life and that's why you are having a hard time trying to grasp the fact that you are saved.

God, I have a bit of the same problem as PHM. Please give us both a huge love for You, help us know what is right, and please help us stay true to You and give You our all. Let us know whatever we need to. In the mighty name of Jesus. Amen

Karen

PleaseHelpMe said:

I've got another question.

Try as I might to be sure that I am saved, and no matter how often I come back to this thread, theres still some doubt. So I keep on asking Jesus to save me, praying the prayers over and over again. Am I offending God by doing this, becuase your supposed to believe, and my continus prayer could be unbelief. Also, if your saved, and then you sin, do you have to be saved again? Or is repenting and being truly sorry enough?

edit: also, I read somewhere, that when you die, you will be judged, and sent to Heaven or Hell based on your deeds. Does being saved exempt you from this judgement?

also: "if you do not love God more then anything, if the love you have for your parents doesn't seem like loathing in comparison to your love for the Lord, you are not worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven."

This is just stuff I picked up from this site, the bible, etc. I love my Mom and Dad...and becuase of that I'm not worth of Heaven? If I'm not worthy, will I not go?


Sorry if its all scattered about

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1. You will be forgiven every time if you repent with true heart to Our Father for whatever you do. All sins will be forgiven you. But, if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit, that will not be forgiven. Mark3: 28-29

2.Deuteronomy 5: 16

You are to honour your father and mother honey. And, that means to show them love and respect. We love our Father in Heaven and do as Jesus commanded us. Love is the chief gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus gave us this new Commandment. John 13:34-35

You are doing very well!!! Good girl!!

Dear Please Help Me:

Oh my GOODNESS, do you ever sound like I was at 13 years old. The fears, the terror of hellfire, the wondering if I am somehow just never going to "get it", the thoughts that would scare me, make me sure someone like me could never go to heaven. When I was in my early 20's, I did a complete changeabout and many of my beliefs on salvation and such changed entirely ( you can see a little bit about that on my web page at stienekel.tripod.com) . I am not going to write a dissertation on it here, but let me share this with you:

God is not waiting for you to say some prayer and "mean it enough" or to somehow be a "certain way" and that will mean that you're "saved". I can't tell you how many hundreds of times as a youngster I would ask and re-ask for "Jesus to come into my heart as Saviour and Lord", hoping desparately that maybe THIS time it would take. Would God accept THIS time as the one that would "take", that would be good enough, so I'd really be "saved"? But God doesn't work like that. When you stand in front of His throne on Judgment Day, He's not going to look at ONE single moment in your life and say, "Well, did you REALLY mean that prayer, and was your heart in EXACTLY the right condition for it to take?" What will He look at? See Matthew 25:31-46.

The Christian life is not about "one moment". Live justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God (I believe that's in Hebrews), and you will have all you need. Do you love God? You were afraid that maybe you didn't, maybe you were only scared of hell. But - do you love others? For each of us is stamped with the image of God, the Bible says. To love others is to love God (not that other people are "gods" - I hope you understand what I'm saying) - and to hate others is to hate God. Love God by loving and serving others. You already have faith that Christ is your Saviour. The Christian life is a journey, a pathway that never ends, a lifetime of struggling against sin in order to grow more and more into the image and likeness of Christ. It sounds to me like you are on the right track but are just worried that you don't feel like you think somebody who is "saved" should feel. To that, my friend, I say, cast your cares upon the One who loves you with a love that we cannot begin to understand. Don't worry about "one moment" of "correctly saying a prayer", for it is not one moment that saves us. He doesn't operate like that, looking at ONE thing, of "Oops! You did that wrong!" He knows you love Him, He knows that you have faith in Him (remember, even that tiny mustard seed will move mountains), and He knows you desparately want to follow Him
Friend, you are doing just fine.

About blasphemy - don't trouble yourself about it. Different people disagree as to what it means, but if you had done it, it would mean that you hated God and didn't care what He thought, that you mocked Him. Obviously this is not the case.

It sounds to me like you have a strong passion to serve the Lord. In time, it will stop manifesting itself as fear and turn into something that will be a great ministry tool.

Trust God! He knows your heart!

Love in Christ,

Katherine

Hey there!

I have to say you remind me a lot of me!! I had (and still have) many of the same things that you are struggling with. I came because I was afraid of hell, that was a big one for me too. You sound very genuine, and like you just want to get it right, and be pleasing to God. God sees that, and He knows your motivations are good. Your doing just what God wants, trying to learn more about Him, and how to live pleasing to Him. You are saved. I too went thro that doubt, wondering if i was sure that I really meant it. The things you have said on here show that you do indeed mean it. You are doing great!

PleaseHelpMe said:

I'm so confused about everything, I'm so scared. I'm 13 years old, and am desperately afraid of going to Hell. Even though its summer time I feel a bit depressed, and it hightens to the point of tears at night. I can barely sleep.

I came here to ask for help in how to be saved, and know that I am saved. I have prayed the prayers, confessed with my mouth that the Lord Jesus is my Lord and Saviour, and I was baptised when I was younger. It's just, I always have a feeling like I don't really believe, and when I think things like "there isn't really a God, its all fake", some of the stress is released.

I'm just having trouble believing and loving God. It's almost like I don't love God, I just fear the devil. Please help me.

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hey......it takes faith to say that little prayer and ask for forgiveness for your sins.

You wouldnt even care about your sins if God wasnt trying to get your attention

When you feel a burden over sin, its a VERY GOOD THING

It means that God loves you so much that His Spirit is working with you to bring you into agreement with God with your actions.

ALWAYS look at feeling bad over sin as a WONDERFUL thing.
Its just like having a loving parent pushing you out of harms way when something bad might happen to you.

Youre going to come to points in your life where you dont ''feel'' anything.
Just KNOW that God is right there with you.
You may not ''feel'' Him, but Hes there anyway.......watching over you.

We have an enemy who wants you to fail.
He wants you to feel like your better of without God .

That pressure you feel when your trying to be a good christian and be pleasing to God is partly our inherant sinful nature, its part of us all.....and partly that the enemy works on you to get you to try to give up.

The more you have to fight, the more you should know its worth fighting for.

You sound like a wonderful young person, and as I said in the other thread, please PM me if you ever have any questions or anything.

God loves you young one, Jesus died for YOU

PleaseHelpMe said:

But..wait.

So if you commit blashpemy, your definitely going to hell? could someone please define for me what blasphemy is?

edit: In the Hebrews it says "For if we sin deliberately after recieving the knowledge of truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect o judgement, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries."

does that mean that after you are saved and you sin, there is no sacrifice for you, and you are doomed?

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Sorry for not getting back to you sooner Sweetheart.

By sinning deliberately means that once we are a child of God, we know full well the difference between right and wrong. If we do wrong to a person deliberately, and know we are doing it deliberately, we are in the wrong. But, if we TRULY repent for that deed, repent in such a way that we can go to the person we have hurt and say "I did it, and I am soooo sorry." And, confess to our Father, that will be forgiven.

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit after we have received such a gift means we cannot, under any circumstances, try to harm the Holy Spirit with in us. We allow ourselves to be LED by the Holy Spirit into all truths concerning God, Jesus and He. But, you will not have to worry about that, and I would suggest you speak to a minister about that concern.

You see, once ALLOW ourselves to be LED by the Holy Spirit, and He is in FULL control of our life. HE WILL NOT lead us into sin.
We are to live one day, at a time. With God in our hearts and the Holy Spirit leading us.

The fury of fire will consume the adversaries...not you. The adversaries are satan and the demons. Jesus has already saved you. From this day forward, you walk hand in hand with Him.

The rest of the posts are absolutely beautiful!! to you all!

The good news, PHM, is that God is all loving and all-merciful. Some people like to think they know exactly who will be in heaven or hell, but only God knows the deepest heart of man. St. Seraphim of Sarov said, "Acquire the Spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved". IOW, live Christ the best you can and let Him work in others through you - but do not waste precious hours thinking about their eternal destination. That's God's job, and for us to do so slips perilously close to being judgmental, even if it started out as loving concern. I'm speaking about people in general here.

And in speaking about the devil - It's interesting - there were a number of people in the early Church who thought that perhaps one day the evil one would repent. The Bible doesn't say anything about it and I tend to doubt it. But you're not the first one to wish that the prince of the kingdom of darkness would turn from his evil. I think, however, that too much focus on him could distort one's mind, get one thinking too much about the dark side. Focus your mind on what is pure, what is lovely. If you want to pray for anyone whose destiny you fear, pray for those you love who have passed on. Judgment Day has not yet happened - it is not too late. In the Orthodox Church, we have a prayer that goes like this:

O God of spirits, and of all flesh, who hast trampled down Death, and overthrown the Devil, and given life unto thy world: Do thou, the same Lord, give rest to the soul of thy departed servant,_____________, in a place of brightness, a place of verdure, a place of repose, whence all sickness, sorrow and sighing have fled away. Pardon every transgression which he (she) hath committed, whether by word, or deed, or thought. For thou art a good God, and lovest mankind; because there is no man who liveth and sinneth not: for thou only art without sin, and thy righteousness is to all eternity, and thy word is true.

You certainly do a lot of thinking on all these theological matters! Which is a good thing. I think you worry yourself a bit more than is necessary, though.

Take care, friend,

Katherine

When we die, if we believe, and have faith in Jesus and trust that He has saved us, we go to heaven honey. Jesus said to the thief on the cross, " Verily verily, I tell you today you shall be in Paradise with Me." Jesus also refers to a poor man laying in the arms of Abraham in heaven. Abraham was dead.

You see, we have an all forgiving God. A God who is pure Love to His people. And, those people are the ones like you who are saved. God IS Love. The Bible tells us that.
For all those who believe in Jesus. He gives His Holy Spirit to lead and guide them through life.

You ARE doing well aren't you!! WOW!!! I'm proud of you!