Knowing your exact date of salvation?

[zecha51]

Some people are big on the exact date of salvation. Like at my Church, the two new ministers have

the exact date of their salvation written in the bulliten for the week. satan uses doubting of salvation (dont get me wrong - its important to make sure you are saved by grace through faith in Christ), to bother Christians alot.

Any thoughts on having to know the exact date of salvation? Any advice to someone who is bugged by not knowing the exact date?

BTW Ruth Graham is quoted by Billy Graham as saying she has always known the Lord as far back as she can remember.

("Answers to Life's Problems" - Billy Graham)

It is important to take God in His Word through faith, this is the only personal advice I can give. Thoughts?

[Scarletprayers]

I don't think its that important.............I just know that I am!

[Giaour]

I was saved from before I was in the womb.

I just didnt know it yet.

[ayin jade]

Show me where in the bible it says "thou art not saved unless thou knowest thy date of salvation".

Some folks remember, some dont. Some claim you need to know the exact day. Well if that is the case, then I wouldnt be saved since I dont know the exact date I was saved, only that it was a sunday in september 1989, at night, in my home.

Dont be bugged if you dont know the exact date. What is important is who you are in Christ, not when you were first in Christ.

[dugmando]

Hi zecha51,

I think that the reason some encourage such things as remembering the date of your salvation is the same reason that through time people have placed markers at great events and places, first and foremost to remind themselves and secondly to mark history for others to see and learn.

Now spiritually speaking the date of salvation and any other time that you can with out a doubt know and positively remember where God has done something like heal or bring victory or deliver or meet your or others needs, can become a landmark, an marker a place where in the future when we are down and low.

We can go back to that place and remind ourselves and others and even the devil.

This is where God did this for me and if He did it then, He will do it again and we gain strength to fight on!

To withstand and to walk!

Silentprayer said so beautifully: I don't think its that important.............I just know that I am!

Well sometimes the devil will say how do you know that you are, you can reply because I can go to a time or I can go to a place or I can go to a day and testify to you see right here right there that is what God done for me!

No doubt, no question, no denying it!

But if you can't remember the day, just remember the Way!

Doug

[zecha51]

Hi zecha51,

I think that the reason some encourage such things as remembering the date of your salvation is the same reason that through time people have placed markers at great events and places, first and foremost to remind themselves and secondly to mark history for others to see and learn.

Now spiritually speaking the date of salvation and any other time that you can with out a doubt know and positively remember where God has done something like heal or bring victory or deliver or meet your or others needs, can become a landmark, an marker a place where in the future when we are down and low.

We can go back to that place and remind ourselves and others and even the devil.

This is where God did this for me and if He did it then, He will do it again and we gain strength to fight on!

To withstand and to walk!

Silentprayer said so beautifully: I don't think its that important.............I just know that I am!

Well sometimes the devil will say how do you know that you are, you can reply because I can go to a time or I can go to a place or I can go to a day and testify to you see right here right there that is what God done for me!

No doubt, no question, no denying it!

But if you can't remember the day, just remember the Way!

Doug

Dougm - Thank you and thanks for the other replies.

[Marnie]

I don't think knowing the date is important in the least. I do, just because it happened at a pivotal point in my life, plus I am "OCD" about these things. I know the date, hour and location, even what I was wearing. lol

[larryt]

Some people are big on the exact date of salvation. Like at my Church, the two new ministers have

the exact date of their salvation written in the bulliten for the week. satan uses doubting of salvation (dont get me wrong - its important to make sure you are saved by grace through faith in Christ), to bother Christians alot.

Any thoughts on having to know the exact date of salvation? Any advice to someone who is bugged by not knowing the exact date?

BTW Ruth Graham is quoted by Billy Graham as saying she has always known the Lord as far back as she can remember.

("Answers to Life's Problems" - Billy Graham)

It is important to take God in His Word through faith, this is the only personal advice I can give. Thoughts?

I can concur with what has been said already about the exact date being important. Knowing the exact date is not what is important. This is not the same as knowing that at a point in time there was in fact a change. I cannot state the exact date of my conversion. But I do know that it was an exact date that the Spirit of God came in and sealed me.

LT

Eph 2:11

[senerhu]

I think there may be a difference between knowing the day you publicly proclaimed Christ as you Savior and the day you knew Christ was Lord or that you loved Jesus.

I basically remember the day I publicly proclaimed Christ as my Savior, but I have loved Jesus for as long as I can remember...

[His light]

I wrote the date in the back of my Bible. It's important to me-- more important than my birthday, or the date I graduated high school, college, grad school etc. The dates I adopted my children are important to me too. They are reminders of the most important events in my human life.