serious question about salvation for Christians:?

Question

how do you put your faith in Jesus Christ?? i mean, i've heard the good news and it is good news but how exactly do you put your COMPLETE faith and trust in Jesus Christ? please just answer as honestly and sincerely as you can because honestly, i dont even think i can put my question/problem into words, but God knows... so please pray for me too

im having a really hard time just trusting COMPLETELY in God and in God alone... please pray for me

im having a really hard time just trusting COMPLETELY in God and in God alone... please pray for me

Answer 1

To me personally, putting my faith in Jesus Christ means that I trust his word in the decisions of my life. I recognize that he desires the best for me and I open my heart to seek and do his truth.

This isn't easy - we have become accustomed to the ways of the world and they continue to hold great interest for us. Paul talks of this struggle in Romans 8.

But to put my complete faith and trust in Jesus means that he becomes a partner in my life and that he holds the final decision. As an example, I would not think of buying a car without consulting with my wife. An important decision like that needs her input. In the day by day decisions of life, I need Christ's input. I ask in prayer how he feels about the choices I face or the use of my time. Then I make his answer my priority.

It also means making him a priority in my life. So I take time each day to read and study the scripture, to pray and to follow other means of grace.

As I said earlier, this isn't easy. At times, I find myself struggling with doing this. That is the weakness of the flesh at work. So I constantly have to remind myself to put Christ where he belongs in my life.

Pastor John

Addendum: I understand and I will pray for you tonight.

Answer 2

Faith and Trust come naturally when you pray and read the Bible. You also need fellowship with other believers and get into a study group so you can ask questions. When you start reading the Bible start with the New Testament. I like Matthew and John. Romans is a good place to start too. God knows your heart, even better than you do. Pray, be honest, and don't worry about saying the wrong thing.

Answer 3

You have to try and let your worries slip away, relax, and trust in God. As long as you do your best to praise Him in everything you do, He will take care of you. Putting your complete faith in Jesus is a faith thing. It's not something you can just do. It might be easier if you try to pray and go to church for a while. This will strengthen you and then maybe you can see the light. God Bless and good luck on your journey!

Answer 4

Before you can grasp the GOOD news, perhaps you need to understand the BAD news first.

Here are several questions for you to ask yourself:
1. Have you ever told a lie? If you have to say "yes", that makes you a liar.
2. Have you ever taken anything that wasn't rightfully yours? If so, that makes you a thief.
3. Have you ever looked at another person with sexual desires? Jesus, looking at the heart of the matter, said that even if you just LOOK at a woman with lust, you are already guilty of adultery in your heart.
4. Have you ever been so angry with someone you wished ill will towards that other person? Again, Jesus said that if you even hate another person, you are already guilty of murder in your heart.

If you had to answer "yes" to these 4 questions, even though you see yourself as a "good" person, by your own confession, you are a lying, thieving, adulterous murderer.

If God were to judge you on the 10 commandments alone, would you be able to plead "Not guilty" ?

God MUST judge sin. He can NOT allow sin to go unpunished, for He is holy and righteous. But the penalty for sin is hell. Jesus described it as "a place of outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, where the fire is never quenched, and the worm (the people there) never die."

Hell is the one and only place where God is NOT. But since "All good things come from God," then with God's withdrawal, all good things are gone as well.

That would include love, joy, freedom, peace, hope, friends, etc, etc. If you consider it good, it won't be there.

That's a place I don't want to be. How about you?

Well, the thing is, God doesn't want you to go there, either.

But God is the judge.

So, what did God do about it? He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for OUR crimes against God (sins).

When you read about how He received the 39 stripes across His back, how He shed His blood when He was nailed to the cross, and He died a horrible death, and then you realize that He took your place - that it should have been YOU on that cross - and that not only did He die, but rose again the third day, then it's not hard to fall in love with a God who loved enough to die in your place.

When you see what God did for you, and it breaks you, to the point where you are ready to confess and forsake all known sins, and then ask Jesus to be the Lord (boss) of your life, then He forgives you, He cleanses you from ALL unrighteousness, He reconciles you back to the Father, He prepares a place in heaven for you, and then He says "Well done, thou good and faithful servant" as though you had earned it, even though it was all God's doing!!! What kind of Love is THAT!!!

When this takes place, and there is a transformation in your heart, and He sends His Holy Spirit to dwell within you, then you know beyond any shadow of a doubt that you are His (adopted) child, and part of His Forever Family.

At that point, you can't help but to put your complete trust in Him, because you know that on your own, all you can do is crucify Him, but with Him as your Lord and Savior, you have freedom and power over sin.

I pray that you find this freedom in Christ.

Answer 5

Your faith will never be complete. That's what Jesus' faith was and no matter how much we'd like to, we'll never measure up to Him. But we can GROW in faith. Praying, reading the Bible, studying, associating with other Christians, and doing what the Bible says (helping others, telling others about Jesus, etc.) are all ways God grows faith in us. Keep trying. It won't be easy but God will help you through.

Answer 6

Well, the way I do it when I am doing it right is I pick a promise out of the Bible where God talks about certain things.

Some of the promises are general, but don't think that means anything less!

But some promises are specific, like:
Galatians 1
3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

That's where we are promised to be rescued, according to God the Father.

But the point is that we are to trust God, right? And how are we going to trust Him if we don't know what He said. So searching the scriptures is important for many reasons, but one of those reasons is so that we can claim a promise that God made to us, who are living in His grace.

And then there is this:
Matthew 6
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

So worry is not faith. We are what the Bible calls 'dying to ourselves' , putting what we think is important in God's hands. In order to trust Him with it and not worry about it, we have to trust Him to see it through. And then we have to remind ourselves often that we did that. Because what our sin nature does is attempt to increase doubt and worry, while God's Spirit teaches us to be patient and trust God.

I hope this has been helpful to you. ( =

Prayer done.

Answer 7

It is as easy as you put your faith in the fact that when you get up in the morning and place your foot on the floor that the floor will be there. You never question that when you get up you just get up knowing that the floor is there and will sustain your weight when you step down. It is as simply as the very air you breathe you don't see it but you have so much faith that it is there that you don't have to convince yourself to breathe a substance that you cannot see. If you can put your faith in these things surely you can put you faith in God the father who is the author and finisher of your fate. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. To each of us he has given a measure of faith and the more you exercise that faith the bigger it gets. Its kind of like exercising when you first start like everyone else you have muscles but they are not visible but the more you exercise the bigger and more noticeable they become thats how faith works. Hope this helps be blessed!!

Answer 8

Belief alone,even convinced belief,is not enough. Faith has to be lived and united to hope and love to produce results. Faith always needs to grow ,as does our trust in God, with every new day and situation; in that sense it never can be completed but it can be full. When God has no real competition for our allegiance then our faith is full.

Answer 9

You have to try to believe and trust that it is Him and His sacrifice for sins that will cover your sins. Understand that you cannot do it yourself and there is no other Name or way under heaven in which to be saved. That is the Faith in Christ for salvation.... now Faith in Him for other things are sepperate "faith" issues alone. Me personally, I have an abundance of faith that it is Jesus that saves me, but the faith that He will heal me, give me certain things, and so on... the levels vary. But these are not the salvation "faiths" these are individual in themselves. I can still be saved by grace through faith, even if sometimes my faith falters because I have strong faith in Christ's sacrifice.

Answer 10

Putting your faith in Jesus entails many things to be sure. But there is a specific order Scripture teaches.

Repent
Confess
Be Baptized
Live faithfully

Where you need to start is by recognizing that you are a sinner and in need of salvation to begin with. Then you repent turning your back on sin and asking God for forgivness. You confess that Jesus is the son of God and confess him as your Lord and savior placing HIM in charge of your judgment knowing that he can save you.

Then you live faithfully for him, deny yourself, deny the world, embrace God, and live by his teachings.