If the answer is yes, then claim God’s promises.Repent of your sins, choose to follow Christ, confess that Jesus is Lord and that you need His salvation, and He will save you. You simply need to acknowledge that you are a sinner and deserve death but that Christ died to take your penalty and that He rose again and offers salvation as a gift. You don’t need incredible faith or to know the answers to every doctrinal question. Romans 10:9 makes it simple: “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.” Don’t overcomplicate salvation. If the answer is no or I’m not sure, then don’t mess around.So if you’re counseling someone struggling with doubts over their salvation (or if you need help in this area yourself), here’s the key:Īsk this question: “Have you repented, believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and asked Him to save you?” Don’t make it more complicated than it is. We need to help each other work through our doubts and find peace in God’s promises. When I was struggling with my doubts I felt so alone, but since then I have realized that many Christians experience similar challenges. I can’t pinpoint a specific time when I stopped doubting, but I praise the Lord that I haven’t doubted His saving work in my life for years. Soon I was going days without doubts then weeks and finally months. The doubts did not go away overnight, but they started to become fewer and farther between. ![]() As I read and claimed these verses, I would find peace. I would read Acts 16:31 and remind myself that God does not lie, so if I believe on Jesus I am saved. ![]() I would read Romans 10:13 and remind myself that I had called up the name of the Lord so I was saved. ![]() Whenever doubts would assail me, I would get out my list and start reading. I started writing down verses that discussed salvation – verses such as Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” and Acts 16:31 “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” I created an ever-growing list of verses such as these and started to claim God’s promises. And his attack was working because, although I was beginning to believe these doubts were unfounded, I still couldn’t banish them. I was really struggling, and I eventually started to sense that these doubts were an attack by Satan, meant to cripple my faith. The talk with my mom encouraged me for one day but left me questioning again the next. Our Bible lessons on how to know you’re saved left me with more questions than I started with. I asked counsel and listened to sermons and lessons, but it just wasn’t helping. What if I didn’t have enough faith? If I have doubts doesn’t that mean I don’t have enough faith? Will I ever be sure? I must’ve prayed just-in-case prayers (where you ask God to save you again just in case you hadn’t really meant it the last time) about a hundred times – and I sincerely meant them each time. Pastors would ask if I “knew that I knew that I knew I was saved” and I would just think, no, I don’t. I wasn’t sure If I had meant it, wasn’t sure if I had enough faith, wasn’t sure if I could be sure. I had prayed and asked Christ to save me in sixth grade, but in high school I was still tortured by doubts. For over a year I was plagued by this question, wrestled with it daily, and could find no peace. Actually, struggled would be an understatement. When I was a teen I struggled with doubts over my salvation.
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