A sample prayer a Spirit-filled man of God used to bring many to salvation. Though we must mean what we pray with all our hearts, these not magic words of lip service, this is a good place to start, for one who desires salvation and means it:
Dear God, I know that You love me, but I confess that I'm a sinner and my sin deserves judgement. I need and want mercy. Jesus, You died to save me, and You promised to save me if I would trust You. I do trust You, Jesus. I believe You are the son of God. I believe you paid for my sin with Your blood on the cross. I believe that God raised You from the dead and right now, yes right now, Jesus, I am trusting You to save me. Come into my life, forgive my sin, cleanse me, and begin now to make me the person You want me to be. And Lord Jesus, help me never to be ashamed of You, because You died for me. In Your name I pray, with all love and thankfulness. Amen.
I hope and pray these things help you. It is a serious matter, by far the most serious matter in anybody's life.
From my personal experience this is way to complicated. And before I was saved, the only thing that I understood(and Just basically) was God sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins.
I never went to church, my family never went to church. My Dad was saved(in his truck listening to the radio) after I left the house. He witnessed to me a few times, because I was running hard and didn't visit much.
I will try to make it as simple as possible.
One day, I was thinking I would beat up a few of my friends, because they never showed up to help me move. Steaming mad, I walked out my shop door and I stopped in my tracks and thought," this is YOUR fault, not your friends."
Coincidence? I went and talked to my dad. hadn't talked to him for a longtime and needed advice. His advice, "you need Jesus." Simple as that.
MY EXACT thought in my head," MAYBE this is true, MAYBE I do need Jesus."
And I got saved.
I didn't know about the love of God, a sinners prayer,the trinity,praying in His name,asking Jesus into my heart, that my sins NEEDED to be judged, Brutally honest here.....I wasn't even thinking about my sin, I didn't know about the blood, I didn't feel sorry,I didn't know he wanted to change me, I really didn't even know about salvation.
I was just at my wits end, and I said ,"MAYBE I do need Jesus."
“Whosoever believes in me will not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jn 3:15
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jn 3:16
“He that believes on him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has notbelieved in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Jn 3:18
“He that believes the Son has everlasting life, and he that believes not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” Jn 3:36
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one that which sees the Son, and believes on him, will have everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”Jn 6:40
“Truly I say unto you, he that believes on me, has everlasting life.” Jn 6:47
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