Are you sure that you are saved?

  

  
    Are you saved? Whenever you asked Jesus into your heart did you do it because He was calling you? or did you do it just because a friend was doing it? or you felt it was just the right thing to do? When you got saved did anything in your life change? If the answer to the last question is no... You more than likely aren't saved. Yes, once Jesus comes into your heart he will be there forever, but only once he was actually really there. When you get saved you have to REPENT. Repentance means a sincere turning away, in both the mind and heart, from self to God. Each person who turns to God in genuine repentance and faith will be saved. When you are saved you have the need to want to do better. Your body will crave the knowledge of how Jesus was, so you can be like him too. You will be so addicted to trying to please God that you feel like you will never do enough, but in reality God is always pleased by us. We all fall short of the glory of God. But if you genuinely loved Jesus Christ, and you knew the pain he went through on that cross for you, you would strive every single day to show your love for him! I'm sorry but you ARE NOT a Christian if you are not living your life everyday to glorify God in some way. If you go to church every Sunday that's great... But if that is the ONLY day you worship him... That's not great. When you are saved you become one with Jesus Christ EVERY SINGLE DAY. Your main goal in your life is to know what God has made you for, and do it. God isn't going to let you in heaven if he doesn't know you. I mean really KNOW you. If you aren't righteous and full of Jesus, why would he let you in the most pure amazing place ever?? Matthew 7:21-23 says, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
    
   People have come to think "Ok, I've prayed this prayer for Jesus to come into my heart. I'm saved, and I'm going to heaven." Then NOTHING in their lives change. They continue to live their lives for them, and not for God. Well I'm sorry to tell you... But just praying a prayer doesn't get you into heaven. You have to mean that prayer, and you have to apply it to your life every single day after you say it. If people cannot tell you are a Christian unless you say it from your mouth... You are not acting like a Christian. I'm not judging, I'm simply speaking the truth. God has put this topic on my heart to get it out into the world. Time is running out people. Jesus will be coming back. Now, let me ask this question again. Are you saved? Maybe you have been saved but just need to rededicate your life to Jesus and start over all new. Give him your heart! Surrender your life to him now! What are you waiting for? Do you not know that Jesus loves you more than anybody on this earth ever could imagine loving you? With God's help he can make you be the person he has made you to be. Jeremiah 1:5 says  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Ask God to help you know why you were born. Ask him to help you understand the bible. Ask him to help lead you in the right direction. But when you ask him, mean it with all of your heart. Proverbs 3:5-6 says "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

   He knows your heart, and He knows if you are worthy enough for heaven. When you are a born again Christian it won't feel like work, or it won't be a pain to try to live out the life the bible says to live. It will be a complete Joy to please The Lord. Luke 16:15 says Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God. (NLT)

   Everybody will always sin, including myself. Romans 3:23 says "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" but if you try with all your heart not to sin it's making progress, and God will know your heart. Ephesians 2:8-10 says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." You have to let God control your life. Let Go, and Let God. If you have the need to want to do right, do it! That's God speaking to you. Don't ignore him. Ask him to forgive you, and ask him to please help you live for him. You can't do it alone, you have to have God's help.

   I'm aware that this will step on a lot of people's toes. This is a HUGE problem is today's society. I'm not trying to judge anyone. Whether you are saved or not is between you and God. Only he knows who and who won't make it into Heaven. All I'm trying to do is share the truth that God has laid on my heart to share. If you don't believe it, that's fine, that's between you and the Almighty. I have been battling with this subject for 3 months now, and I know in my heart that I'm supposed to share it. I'm sorry if I have offended you in any way, but if you are offended maybe it is you who God made me write this for. This is nothing but me loving you and trying to get you to see that there is more to this life! You have a purpose, and when you find that purpose through God, great and unimaginable things will unfold in your life. If you feel guilty or anxious, you are under conviction. Don't fight it, just let go of it by asking for forgiveness of your wrong doings, and read your bible and do what it says the best way you know how to. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, and God will show his self to you more and you will be amazed. I'm not making this stuff up, read your bible and learn it for yourself. Experience all of this yourself. Have a very close and personal relationship with Jesus Christ every day, every night, and every second of the day. Let him fill your body with his presence and do what he is telling you to do.

*2 Corinthians 7:8-11
⁸ Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— ⁹ yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. ¹⁰ Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. ¹¹ See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.