How I came to give God my full self and how I believe you can!

[Guest Derek T. Freds]

To all who find this helpful,

Just a few months ago I read through the left behind series and felt an urge to start a bible study with a few of my close friends. My friends where Christian but they only went through the motions (which was good) but i wanted to have the ability to press upon them the joy and satisfaction I had gained in coming closwer to God everyday. With a few eerie events that happend in my life that I felt where a sign for me to reach my friends I started up the bible study that consisted of 7 people and over the weeks I have watched them come closer to God, to ask more questions, and its been an amazing feeling to watch and see this occur!

This post is to do nothing but confront the facts that it takes to have God placed in your heart. Through my bible studies and studying myself I have came across some facts and opinions and wish to share what I feel and the steps of how i came to God. God is loving of all his children, just not those who have come to believe in him and accepted his ways. However, it is through him and in the belief that he sent his one and only Son to die for our sins that we will one day find ourselves worshiping at His feet in heaven. I calim to be no scholar on this subject and know very little, but what i do know i wish to pass on to those who are interested and want to know more!

I wish to explain what steps I took to allow for God to enter your heart so that you may one day be with him in heaven. First and most important you I accept that Jesus Christ was the son of God and that God sent him, Jesus, his one and only Son to die for our sins. In the old testament it was necessary for people to offer animal sacrafices to repent for their sins. God sent Jesus so that this would no longer be needed but that Jesus was a one time offering for all of man kind. Through him we can confess our sins in our prayers and be forgiven even though we are so unworthy of his forgiveness and love! His love and compassion for his children give us the ability to be forgiven when we are not deserving and we are so lucky to have such a privilage. After I accept that Christ was the Messiah I then, with my mouth in prayer, confess to God that I realized that I am a sinner and are unworthy but that I ask for his forgiveness and understand that Christ's sacrafice of pain and suffering upon the cross is all I needed to become one with God. Once I asked God for forgivness of the sins I have comitted I then asked him to lead me, to work through me in any way he saw fit, and that this life I understand that this life is merely a testing point and that if you wish to live a good life so that you may forever bask in His Glory in heaven forever.

This is just a simple and quick way of explaining this. I hope that if you are interested you will explore the bible and come upong your own opinions. If anyone wishes for more information please message me and i will be glad to try and help but the bible knows so much more than i and i claim to know very little but do wish to pass on what i do know! I hope this has been helpful for anyone who is Christian and has wondered how to become one with God or just for anyone interested in such a topic. I thank you for taking time to read this!

In the name of God - the True loving Father,

[kittylover0991]

Hey! Amazing post!!!

When did accept Christ if you don't mind me asking? This is a huge blessing

Except, one questions comes to mind.. many people claim to pray to God every night, but they have to pray through Jesus CHrist to get saved... so if one asks forgivesness through Jesus Christ, are they saved? Or does one have to ask Christ to come into his or her heart?

Crystal

[Guest Derek T. Freds]

I accepted Christ first as a 6 year old, at this age it was more so a going through the motion type of thing. However, at the age of 13, when i believe i was capable to grasp and understand what i was doing is when i feel i truly let God into my life. You do not have to pray through Jesus Christ to be saved. You must pray to God and confess with your mouth that you understand that God sent his one and only Son to die on the cross, so that we may have the ability to have our sins forgiven, and that it is through Jesus' pain that we are allowed to confess to God that we have sinned and wish to be forgiven. In order for me and God to become one i prayed to Him telling Him that i knew i was a sinner and that he sent Jesus to die for all of man's sins and that I wished for him to work through me, I gave him my heart. I told Him that I loved Him, my Father, for being so compasionate and forgiving since i know i do not deserve it. And at times i go away from that, its a fight to give him your heart everyday but it is the way he intends us to live our life, through him and with bible standards.

Edited January 28, 2007 by Derek T. Freds

[felix]

Thanks for the post. Keep sharing in your spirit! I grew up in a christian home but it was not until much later that I had a true turning of my heart to the Lord. I have to do this everyday still. I am reminded to die to myself and have the Christ in me live instead.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me