Welcome. You are listening to the website with the message: All You Need to Do To Be Saved is Believe in Jesus Christ as Your Savior. This and the following pages were laid out for visitors using screen reeders. If you reached this page in error. use the back arrow to return to the page you came from. On this website we state on every page the message of how to become saved. It is not possible to work your way to heaven, no matter how good you try to be, But Jesus has already done all the work to earn your entrance into heaven by dying on the cross. Let's start with an excerpt from our home page. If you understand what I mean when I say 'Believe in Jesus Christ as your Savior', you can make that happen right now. One way to do so, is by saying a simple prayer such as I believe in You Jesus. I welcome You as my Savior. Please come into my life and make yourself real to me, If you don't understand what I mean above or you are not sure, the con tent below will help: This topic should take 4 to 6 minutes and the full page should take 11 to 13 minutes, when played without stopping depending on the speed you set your screen reader to play. First Topic: What Does it Mean to Get Saved. Short Answer Version: The term 'Get Saved' is a common phrase. It means a number of very positive things. Perhaps the most common feature is the right to continue living on after physical death, in a much better state of mind, in a much better place, and with a much clearer understanding and appreciation of our loving God. The better place is often called 'Heaven'. It is also known by other names such as 'Paradise' or 'God's Kingdom'. But becoming saved is much more than that, starting immediately upon believing in Jesus Christ. Long Answer Version: Heaven is widely thought of as a place of inexpressible beauty. peace. love. purpose. and meaning. It reflects the glory of God. His loving presence fills heaven in a way that is very tangible and enjoyable, or so I am told by Scripture, which by the way I have found to be reliable in hundreds of other respects, so why not this? Getting saved also means being set free in this life from many of the burdens that we humans experience. God can set us free from guilt, shame, loneliness, and hopelessness, to name just a few. He saves us from ourselves and many of the unwise choices we would make without Him. He saves us from behaviors that hurt us, and bring negativity into our lives. Not only does Jesus save us FROM many unwanted circumstances, but He saves us TO, a better life with Him in the picture during this lifetime. We experience many blessings after He saves us. Maybe not all at once, but just wait. You will see when you get to know Jesus a little better that new clarity is blooming about a lot of things. Getting saved means being adopted by God spiritually as a son or daughter. He is generous and loving to His children. As we give Him that place of loving Father in our lives, it is amazing what good it produces in our hearts, and experiences. Getting saved means being infused with life of a godly nature that grows within you and makes you a better person progressively through your stay here on earth. Getting saved is starting a new relationship with Jesus. Receiving salvation means you receive forgiveness for sins. Being saved leads to many other new rights and benefits that come with the salvation 'package'. As you can see, the promise of heaven is only one part of being saved. In some ways, we can start our experience of heaven here on earth, at least in part. Heaven is a kingdom. 'Kingdom' means the rule and reign of a king. When the king is good and loving to His people, the word 'Kingdom' also means the wonderful experiences and benefits that the King brings upon those who live under His reign. Jesus is the highest King of all. He brings His kingdom to us here, on earth, in our lives and hearts when we are saved and afterward. The brilliance of His kingdom that we experience later, will far exceed the glimpses in our earthly lives, but these glimpses are nonetheless breathtakingly beautiful to our souls here in this life. They are foretastes of a future that believers will experience in His kingdom someday. Believers are said to be "partakers of the good things of the age to come". These glimpses might not come to us all the time, but even when they are infrequent, they are blessings nonetheless. The apostle Peter stated something as one of the central reasons to believe in Jesus. He addressed the crowd after healing a lame man in Solomon's porch of the Temple. He proclaimed the message of the good news of Jesus. Shouting so the crowd could hear, he said, "turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord." In a sense these times of refreshing are God’s kingdom love, presence, and power appearing for us to experience. My prayer is that you will receive and enjoy periods of refreshing from Jesus for years to come in this lifetime. I have found that refreshing comes more often and tangibly to my heart the more I spend time with God in prayer, praise, and worship. Refreshing can also come when we serve others and God. These activities deepen my love and trust for Him. The more we deeply express our love to Jesus, the more our emotions will follow suit. We will find ourselves loving Him more. The more we love Him, the more we will recognize the many blessings He puts into our lives.The benefits and experiences I am describing can come either with, or without special feelings from God. If it seems you are not feeling anything blatantly spiritual yet, please keep in mind that faith is more important than feelings. God has His ways and timing for each of us. He made us all to be different, and knows where, when, and how to work in us. He will customize our faith to our personal make-up, so we do not base the truth of our salvation primarily on feelings. He is near to us no matter what we are going through. We will feel His presence when, and to the extent, He wants us to. When we believe in Jesus as your Savior, the truth of our salvation always supercedes our feelings. We receive salvation merely by our faith. That is cause for rejoicing. Now that we have straightened that out, know that once you believe in Jesus as your Savior, you can be encouraged. You may confidently reach out to Him with your best feelings of love, thanksgiving, and joy. Also, it is OK to bring to Him all your sorrow, pain, loneliness, depression, and neediness, when those feelings arise. Try to let yourself feel toward Him when you pray; don't just talk. Receive the truth of His love for you, and let yourself feel warmed by it. You don't need to be a super spiritual believer to do any of this. Just be real with Him, and you might find that He will be even more real with you.

New Topic: What Does It Mean to Believe. This topic should take 4 to 6 minutes. Short Answer Version: ''Believe'' is the action word for ''faith''. In the original New Testament language, the word for ''believe'' was the verb form of the noun for ''faith''. You ''believe'' simply by putting faith into action. What is faith, and how do we put it into action? Faith is, by definition, a hopeful acknowledgement that something is true without anyone proving it to our satisfaction first. When we hope for something with conviction and have an assurance that our unseen hope will be realized, that is faith. Faith in something untrue will not make it true. But faith in something true, that you are not able to prove, can result in the experience of its certainty, that your heart truly needs. Long Answer Version: To use faith in asking Jesus to be our Savior, is to believe with saving faith. The same is true when we believe that Jesus died for our sins and will come into our lives to have relationship with us. It is a one time decision. We don’t have to exercise saving faith over and over to get to Heaven. However, during our whole lives we can believe as a result of our decision. In fact, faith perpetuates more faith. Faith is something everybody knows how to do. For example, if you sit in a chair, you are having faith that it will hold you up. We all use faith many times a day, often without noticeably thinking about it. When we become saved, faith is something that gets stronger the more we exercise it. We learn gradually how best to apply it in an effective way, and we develop it like a skill. We would be wise to remember, the power initiated by our faith is the power of Almighty God, not that of ourselves. Faith takes risk. But life is full of risks. For example, if we waited for proof before following our dreams or aspirations, we would never take any risks at all, and none of us would be a success at anything. Take the risk of believing in Jesus and you will be saved even though you had to risk that it was true. Believing in Jesus is a risk worth taking. Choose the kind of risk that initiates your salvation rather than prevents it. It takes risk to reject Jesus too. That is not a risk worth taking. To believe in Jesus as your Savior also means to believe in truths associated with Him as Savior. For example, if you don't believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead, you do not believe in Jesus. If you don't believe Jesus is the ''King of Kings'', you do not believe in Jesus. As much as people try, they cannot change Jesus by making up their own ideas of what He is or isn't. To be saved, we believe in the real risen Jesus and let Him be Himself. Believe in Jesus as He is. As much as people try, they cannot change Jesus by making up their own ideas of what He is or isn't. To be saved, we believe in the real risen Jesus and let Him be Himself. To believe in Jesus as your Savior also means to believe in truths associated with Him as Savior. For example, if you don't believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead, you do not believe in Jesus. If you don't believe Jesus is the ''King of Kings'', you do not believe in Jesus. Here is another way of looking at the meaning of ''believe''. In today’s world, if you have a friend who is going for a job interview, you might encourage the person by saying ''You’ll do great. I BELIEVE in you.'' You do not mean ''I believe you exist''. You are expressing a positive, considerate thought about who your friend is. That is also true about believing in Jesus. By believing in Jesus, you are expressing your support personally to Him for who He truly is. Believing in Him is as easy as being a friend. In our culture we like the saying, ''I love you just the way you are.'' That phrase is a way of saying, ''I believe in you.'' God loves us just the way we are, so why not decide to love Him just the way He is, by faith? A believer is called a believer because they believe. Believing produces righteousness and peace in us. ''By faith we have been made righteous. Therefore, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ''. Believing is an ongoing practice of the believer. ''The righteous shall live by faith''. We ''walk by faith, not by sight.'' There are many other words or phrases that basically mean the same thing as believing in Jesus with saving faith. For example, ''receiving Jesus'' means the same thing and depicts an openness of heart to let Him be in your life and even into your being as ''a friend who sticks closer than a brother'' as it says in Proverbs. ''Accepting Jesus'' is another term people use that is synonymous for believing in Jesus. Some people say, ''Trust in Jesus for your salvation''. It all means the same thing. Receive Him, accept Him, trust Him, believe in Him, it’s all good. Can a person lose their faith? We sometimes see this phrase in movies, books, or TV when a person is very downhearted about a tragedy, presumably because they expected God to prevent the disaster. In my opinion, a true believer will never lose their faith. They might get dragged through the meat grinder of life and lose their excitement about God for a while, but real faith is something that cannot be lost. It can only be ignored by a person based on a personal choice to do so. If you are ever so down that you want to do that, please remember that God has compassion on you. He will welcome you back and help you heal. Don't let pride or arrogance stop you from experiencing the blessings God still has for you. Your faith can always be reclaimed. I've been through many meat grinders in life, and my faith did dwindle at times, but it was never lost. I predict that yours will never be lost either, as long as you say ''I believe in You Jesus, as my Savior''. Say it out loud, or quietly in your heart alone. Saying it will prevent you from losing your faith. Believe. Exercise Faith. Rejoice in the Lord and His promises of abundant life. He has good plans for you, to bless you, and to give you a future and a hope. End of Topic What Does it Mean to Believe. To go to the next topic "Who is Jesus Christ" please click the link below.