How did you get saved?

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I was saved while reading the bible during a crisis experience. It was over a few days, reading the bible because I felt lonely and bitter and needed to find something in life that was real and not hollow.

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I was saved while reading the bible during a crisis experience. It was over a few days, reading the bible because I felt lonely and bitter and needed to find something in life that was real and not hollow.
What section of scripture jumped out at you and opened your eyes to salvation?
How did you think you should respond?

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What section of scripture jumped out at you and opened your eyes to salvation?
How did you think you should respond?

I started by reading proverbs and psalms. Then I continued reading the New Testament, starting with the Gospel of Matthew. I just saw that the words I was reading had power in them, that they were real and not hollow. I think I responded by believing in the power of God to save and heal. And I kept wanting to read more and more and learn more of God and His word.

[KBKMNN]

I voted 'other'. Mine is not your typical 'I had a moment and I remember it specifically' salvation. I asked Jesus into my heart at age 5. Well, naturally I don't remember that time, but during my teenage years (and btw, I did grow up in church in a Christian home as well), I re-dedicated my life several times.
So I guess I don't have your 'average' experience. But I have struggled with, well am I saved or not since I don't remember the exact time. I fully believe though, that I am a sinner and that Jesus died on the Cross for me. I believe His death and shedding of His blood is what saves us. I have repented of my sins and I also believe that Jesus is the son of God and IS God too (the Trinity still confuses me a bit, but I believe in it). This past year my relationship with Him has grown tremendously. I feel more drawn to Him now and definately less to the world. I want to please Him and do His will. I look forward to being with Him one day and having Him tell me, well done thou good and faithful servant. I am so humbled and amazed at all that He's done for me, especially since none of us deserve His mercy and grace.
I am a quiet person in real life and in church, but I feel like I love Jesus just as much as the person who shouts AMEN, or raises their hands up. I can't imagine my life with Him. Anyway, that's my story. :hat

[Buzzardhut]

I voted 'other'. Mine is not your typical 'I had a moment and I remember it specifically' salvation. I asked Jesus into my heart at age 5. Well, naturally I don't remember that time, but during my teenage years (and btw, I did grow up in church in a Christian home as well), I re-dedicated my life several times.
So I guess I don't have your 'average' experience. But I have struggled with, well am I saved or not since I don't remember the exact time. I fully believe though, that I am a sinner and that Jesus died on the Cross for me. I believe His death and shedding of His blood is what saves us. I have repented of my sins and I also believe that Jesus is the son of God and IS God too (the Trinity still confuses me a bit, but I believe in it). This past year my relationship with Him has grown tremendously. I feel more drawn to Him now and definately less to the world. I want to please Him and do His will. I look forward to being with Him one day and having Him tell me, well done thou good and faithful servant. I am so humbled and amazed at all that He's done for me, especially since none of us deserve His mercy and grace.
I am a quiet person in real life and in church, but I feel like I love Jesus just as much as the person who shouts AMEN, or raises their hands up. I can't imagine my life with Him. Anyway, that's my story. :hat

The converting moment of salvation is hard to pinpoint at such an early age.

[heart_changed99]

You know what was really driving me to find the Lord? The book of Revelation. When I was just 7, one of my cousins told me the story of the AC, but it was really twisted compared to what prophecy says. She said that both the Lord and the AC is going to come back in the year 2000 and that no one will be able to tell which one is which. You just pick one and go with them. Yea, it was a strange interpretation of the book of Revelation, but being as young as I was, I really didn't understand. I just know it scared me. The thought of the world ending consumed my mind when I got in my pre-teens. Especially, since they had all those movies depicting the end of the world with a crazy twist. Gotta love Hollywood! :rolleyes

Annnnyway, all of this was leading up to my Salvation. I even had dreams about the end of the world, the tribulation, and just scary events that had me frozen in my bed when I would wake up at night. Actually, I still remember some dreams prior to getting saved, but I won't discuss that here.

So, it was 1999, and I was ripe and ready. I was searching, and trying to read the Word and could not understand it. Revelation was the first book in the Bible that I ever read to the finish. Needless to say, since I wasn't saved, it scared the living daylights out of me. I started becoming very depressed. There were times when I feared daylight!! I hated the daytime for some reason. I can't pinpoint why, but I am pretty sure those apocalyptic movies had something to do with it. Remember the 'Seven Signs' or something like that? Yea, I loved that movie, yet it really disturbed me. It had me looking for blood red rivers, blood red moons, and whatever other crazy signs there were in that movie. It was just to the point to where all I wanted to do was sleep and never wanted to leave the house for fear of God's wrath. I was only what? Twelve or 13!!

Thankfully, our God is a loving and merciful God and heard the cries of my heart. A dear friend invited me to her youth group and that is where a young man led me in the sinner's prayer. With tears streaming down my cheeks, I said that prayer with all of my heart. I felt so free and loved after that. I can't explain it, I just know that I was forgiven and that feeling was great!!

Praise the Lord! I had a hunger for the Word of God following my Salvation and I read every day for hours at a time. It took years upon years for me to really understand the Word as it is (was attending a WOF church), but God, in His goodness and mercy, guided me to the truth. Thank you Jesus!

[KaiafromBergen]

I was 8 years old and attending Daily Vacation Bible School at my church. My teacher, Mrs. Martin, after the mornings Bible story and craft time, just before recess, would ask if anyone wanted to ask Jesus into their heart.

Toward the end of the week, for some reason (I now know the reason I stayed, thank you Holy Spirit!!!!!), I stayed and prayed with her. Now, you have to understand, the big concern for me at the time was to get into the Kool-aid and cookie line as soon as possible so that I could get two of the "good cookies" (the chocolate ones), which always went first. But I stayed with her and prayed. I don't remember the prayer, but I knew something had changed.

When I left the classroom and ran toward the cookie line, I felt like I was running on air - as if I was a foot or two off the ground. All the chocolate cookies were gone, but the vanilla cookies tasted even better than the chocolate ones that day (and I don't care for the flavor of vanilla).

I know this may sound like a simplistic and "childish" response to becoming a new creation in Christ, but I still remember to this day - almost 40 years later - how I felt "lighter than air" when my sins were covered by the Blood of Christ!!!!!!

[readytogo_2]

I went to a missionary conference when I was 12 years old and accepted Him there. However, for the next 20 years or so, I didn't follow Him or grow. (To call it backsliding would be an understatement!) I kept thinking that once I got my ducks in a row, that I would return to Him. But the more I went, the more out of line my ducks got! Finally, I reached rock bottom and went to a conservative, Bible-believing church. My second or third week there, someone gave me a book called, "The Bible Has The Answers" (Henry Morris). While reading it, it struck me that the Bible was the TRULY the word of God and the enormity of what Jesus had done for me, a sinner. I was never the same ever again!! Some might say that I was "born-again" at that moment (and maybe I WAS). But looking back, I still see that night at the prophecy conference as my moment of salvation. Through the years, I see where even when I wasn't following Him, He was following me! :yeah