Do you make the Lord your Lord and Saviour?

[WomanLovesTX]

The best news I read is you cannot make the Lord your Lord because He was always Lord. Before I was born He was Lord of my life. Through all my trials and tribulations He was Lord of my life. Through the good choices and bad choices I have made, He was Lord of my life. How can I say this? Because every step of the way He was guiding me to His Purpose. Romans 8:28 "AND WE KNOW, that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purposes." It wasn't until I "understood" God's love that I "understood" He had Called me for His purposes. Can anyone really understand the full extent of God's love until they have understood the only way is God's way?

 

[songster]

The best news I read is you cannot make the Lord your Lord because He was always Lord. Before I was born He was Lord of my life. Through all my trials and tribulations He was Lord of my life. Through the good choices and bad choices I have made, He was Lord of my life. How can I say this? Because every step of the way He was guiding me to His Purpose. Romans 8:28 "AND WE KNOW, that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purposes." It wasn't until I "understood" God's love that I "understood" He had Called me for His purposes. Can anyone really understand the full extent of God's love until they have understood the only way is God's way?

The decision to make Jesus the Lord of your life, as I understand it, when it is translated into an actual prayer, is not a prayer which necessarily appoints him as Lord, but is rather, an acknowledgment of that Lordship through communicating it, in some verbal, or gestural form.

I do agree with the remaining portion of your post, but in all fairness to those who have made Jesus the Lord of their lives, I have never heard a single prayer uttered from a new believer, which said " I now appoint you Lord ".

Until someone actually acknowledges his Lordship, he is not the Lord of their lives, while he is still Lord of heaven and earth. I am most referring to the portion of your statement, which says " Before I was born, He was Lord of my life". This infers that Jesus, without an acknowledgment of His Lordship, is somehow automatically the Lord of our lives, even at birth. Even when realizing that we were chosen according to the foreknowledge of God, we must still express an acknowledgment at some point.

If your claim of 'automatic Lordship' were in fact true, no one would be in danger of suffering eternal punishment, because he would not be able to cast away those who are His. John 6:39

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that He has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

A belief in 'automatic Lordship' is also contrary to every scripture which distinguishes, between the children of the wicked one and the children of God, as in Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

Jesus himself acknowledged that not every individual is under his Lordship or authority, as in John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

For this reason, each person must acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ in accordance with Romans 10:9

... if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved...

 

[WomanLovesTX]

I agree we must acknowledge and confess He is Lord in some kind of utterance. Even Satan and the demons acknowledge He is Lord. And every knee shall bow and confess Him as Lord. We cannot "make" Him our Saviour and Lord when He is and has always been the Saviour and the Lord.

Job 1:6-8
6Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?


Mark 1:23-25


23And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
24Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
25And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

1. Isaiah 45:23
   I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
   
2. Romans 14:11
   For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
   
3. Philippians 2:10
   That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

1. Matthew 10:32
   Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
   
2. Luke 12:8
   Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
   
   
3. John 12:42
   Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
   
4. Romans 10:9
   That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
   
   
5. Romans 14:11
   For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
   
6. Philippians 2:11
   And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
   
7. James 5:16
   Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
   
   
8. 1 John 1:9
   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
   
   
9. 1 John 4:15
   Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

Exodus 9:12
And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh

Proverbs 16:4
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Isaiah 43:11
I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

 

[songster]

I agree we must acknowledge and confess He is Lord in some kind of utterance. Even Satan and the demons acknowledge He is Lord. And every knee shall bow and confess Him as Lord. We cannot "make" Him our Saviour and Lord when He is and has always been the Saviour and the Lord.

Let me try to clarify the point I'm trying to make. You have taken issue with the idea of making Jesus Lord. I completely accept that He is, was and always will be Lord of all.

However, I believe that those who have prayed this at some point in their lives, would also admit that He has always been Lord. What was lacking in their lives, was the realization and the acknowledgment of that Lordship.

I maintain, that every prayer that has been prayed which involved making Jesus Lord, was prayed as an acknowledgment, not as though He was newly appointed as Lord, and for this reason, I don't believe it is incorrect to do so. When I made Jesus the Lord of my life, I did it as an acknowledgment of his Lordship, and authority and in submission or surrender to that authority. I believe others who have done this, would agree.