let’s pray…

some of you possibly have been struggling with doubts about whether you are a CHRISTian or not.  you say, “i don’t remember the time that i specifically asked the LORD to take over my life.  i’ve believed about CHRIST but maybe i’ve never really believed in HIM.  i want to settle it today.”

if you’re not sure, if you’ve got doubts, settle it right now.  just pray this, “LORD, i want to have real faith, not a phony faith.”

what does it mean to believe?  it means commitment.  would you say in your heart right now,

“JESUS CHRIST, i give every area of my life to as much of you as i understand and i want to learn more about you.  GOD, i give my past, all the things that have happened, the good and bad, achievements, the faults, the sins, the mistakes.  i ask you to take it all.  i admit that i’ve done my own way many times.  i haven’t consulted you.  i’ve made my own decisions without talking to you about them. i ask you to forgive me.  LORD, i not only give you my past, i want to give you my future.  i don’t know what it holds but i know you know it.  i want to follow you as best as i know how.  i want to be a real believer.  JESUS CHRIST, i give you my present, right now.  take my life and make me the person you want me to be.  help me to grow.  help me to know that i’m a CHRISTian and help me to show it in my life by obeying your word.  thank you for loving me.  thank you for dying for me on the cross.  help me to understand it more.  LORD, i want to get into the wheel barrow right now.  i want to commit all of it to you, the problems and the possibilities of my life.”

if you prayed that prayer in your heart and meant it i believe GOD heard you.  the bible says, whoever calls on the name of JESUS will be saved.  HE says, you do your part and I’ll do my part.

FATHER, i want to thank you for these who’ve made this decision in their heart and today they're settling it.  i pray that your HOLY SPIRIT will put a confirmation in their heart that today they’re giving themselves to you.  i know this isn’t a promise to be perfect but it is a promise to let you take control.  you said that you will come into our lives and make us new people.  thank you that it wipes out all the things we’ve done wrong in the past and gives us a new look on life.  thanks you for this word.  thank you that it’s so clear.  we can understand that real faith is not something we say or feel or believe but it is something we do.  we commit ourselves to you today.  in JESUS name, amen.

just a thought from the front porch…