For Christians Only please...?

Question

How did asking Jesus into your heart mature you, and what WAS that maturing in you? What did Jesus do for you in becoming the man or lady you were supposed to be?

GUYS! LADIES! MOST OF YOU GET IT! I APPLAUD THOSE WHO DO! BUT FOR THOSE WHO DON'T? THIS IS FOR CHRISTIANS! CHRIST BELIEVERS! PEOPLE WHO LOVE JESUS CHRIST! GOD! AND THE HOLY GHOST ONLY!

When a pastor at a Revival told me that "If you want to be sure that you are going to Heaven tonight, if you get run over by a truck outside tonight, You have to ask God to firgive you of your sins (1John 1:9), Repent (Luke 13:3. Revelation 3:19), and ask Jesus into your heart (Revelation 3:20, 1John 5:11-12, John 1:12). When I heard that, I was in denial. I thought,"I CAN"T be saved, I'm too bad!" RIGHT THEN, I went into a cloud, and a voice said in THE most gentle DEEP voice,"You have a friend Jesus, you can be saved." WHEN THAT happened to me! I RAN to ask Jesus into my heart! After THAT, I heard people saying ALL OVER, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? So, I received an IMMEDIATE maturing, AND a PROCESS of maturing, that I am still going through, 30 years later. PTL! Jesus IS good!

Answer 1

Having Christ in my life is the single greatest thing to ever happen to me. For the Creator of the world to choose to give his very life for humankind is absolutely awesome. I would be a completely different person without Christ. Although I fail in things every day, I am constantly trying to be a better person, and to be a light to the world.

Answer 2

After I asked Jesus to come into my heart, I did not feel any different. I thought when I did a big gust of wind or something was going to rush over me, but it didn't. It wasn't until sometime later, I began to realize that I was thinking differently. I began to be compassionate and stopped being rude to other people for my enjoyment. I think about what I say and do now. I think about if I were to die today, would I be able to stand and face the Lord with my head held high, or hung in shame? Will the life I lived be found worthy in the eyes of the Lord? Maturity in the Lord has brought me to this - what can I do for the Lord today? He has done so much for me. I will do - not try to do. I am still not yet the person he wants me to be, but I am getting there.

Answer 3

I've been saved for over twenty years now. Funny thing is when I said the sinners prayers I didn't expect it to change my life in the least. I thought it was fake and I was out to prove that it was.
But within the first day I suddenly started to think differently about things. I stopped needing to have everyone's approval, I learned to say to people "You have the right to think what you, but so do I," and for the first time ever I started to believe that my past mistakes were behind me and I could have a good future after all. And that was pretty much all in one day! Now, it took quite a while for all these new ideas to take root, but I know beyond a shadow of doubt that it was the Holy Spirit wooing into a deeper relationship with God.
Since that day, I've prayed the sinner's prayer many times, for myself and with others who are accepting to Christ as their personal savior.
I am now a more confident wife, mother, and leader in the community. Before Christ, I was pretty much obsessed with just trying to keep everyone happy at the expense of my own happiness.

Answer 4

It made me feel loved by the utmost important person that ever existed --Jesus, It helped me to choose my friends more wisely as I went on,and that i didn't need to take grief off of people. And to recognize the blessing that he bestowed upon me. Also to be thankful for everything good or bad as comes for a reason.I know there will be a great afterlife for I have seen previews of it in dreams, and i have faith that i will see my loved ones that passed on in heaven. i realize my dignity and share it with others. Excellent question for witnessing what the Lord has done.

Answer 5

I can't say that it was an immediate maturing and I can't even say that I am completely mature in Christ even now. I believe that complete maturing will only happen once I am spending eternity with Christ. Of course, as soon as I ask God into my heart, I knew there was a difference in me. But, through reading the Bible, praying, and learning what the Lord is and what He wants from me, has matured my relationship with God.

Answer 6

It matured me by giving me a real spiritual life, one I didn't have before. Once I was saved, I became a baby in christ. Only through reading His word and life experiences that I grow. Nobody will ever be spiritually mature, there is always room to be better.

Answer 7

It matured me(actually it has been an almost life long process)because i could not any more make excuses for sin nor did i need to.

Answer 8

By asking Jesus into my heart, it tranformed me by his baptism of the Spirit.

We as Christians dont believe that people learn the Gospel and become slightly better people and thereby saved. We believe more the words of Jesus in John 3 when he talks about being reborn of the spirit.

BUT, it is important to know that the Gospel wasnt given to us to mature us, it was given to save us and save others whom we share it with. What you call maturity (sanctification) is a bi-product of faith.

Answer 9

Asking him into my heart matured me in my walk with him making me turn from those things that I used to do, drink, smoke, cuss, fornicate, and now, I am free of things that have entangled me, kept me bound up, angry, hurt, and depressed, I have an unspeakable joy, and I am walking in holiness and living for the Master. I am the wife and mother that I was called to be knowing that my husband is my first ministry and all that I do for Christ is not by works but by the leading and unctioning of the Holy Spirit and it feels me being able to witness and tell people about all that God has done for me and how he brougth me out and I have been set free.

Answer 10

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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian




10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."


3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.