Believers, how do you relate your calling with this verse?

Seems like the more we are drawn to God, the more Satan tries to set us up for pitfalls. My situation can not be beaten on my own...it is by the Grace of God and with his infinite strength and mercy that I am alive today and still facing the legal issues that I am forced to endure.

That means to me that God sent his Son Jesus to Save us from our sins and to give us eternal life. And If we accept Jesus as God's holy Son and our Savior we will have eternal life when God returns to take his people home. But going through Jesus is the only way to heaven.

Yes, I remember the day I was saved. It was the last day of Bible School when I had just finished the third grade. I recall it very vividly and always will. However, I did rededicate my life as an adult even though I was sure I was saved. One of the man reasons I rededicated my life was because I was Baptized as a Methodist. As an adult I changed to become a Baptist and rededicated and was Baptized again.

I will never forget it when the Holy Spirit wooed me to Christ I was 34 and had believe in God and Jesus all my life, but I did my own will not Gods and lived a very wild and loose life. Anyway this is what happened. First I was feeling completely condemned (that came from Satan) I felt so guilty over just one particular sin (abortion) that I had about 18 years prior..I kept hearing in my mind that I was a murderer , I was depressed and ready to commit suicide..some how God worked it out that I would tell a friend who I had just met a few years earlier and when I did tell her I could hardly even talk about it, anyway she asked me did I believe in Jesus and I said yes she prayed for me and then prayed with me...I began going to church with her and that is when I felt his Spirit touching my heart all the time, kind of like goose-bumpy, I would wake up and feel his presence, and after a few weeks I had answered his call and went to the alter at church, that is when the real battle began, but God still has the victory. Yes I remember it well and I praise him for his mercy, love and sacrifice...there is no way to deserve what he has done for me..it is just like he said "It is by GRACE we are saved, by FAITH, not by WORKS so that no one can boast. God is truly AWESOME. Thanks for asking the question.

My take on this is that the Father has already a plan for which people will accept him and he will sent his son (Jesus) into their hearts inorder to be with the Father. But this is not a matter of God electing to save some of us and condemn others of us arbitrarily. God wants all to be saved, and the reason some are lost is not because God has unconditionally chosen them to be. But rather that he already knows which of us will accept him wholeheartedly and which wont.

*God draws people in to him by Jesus.

I was 4 years old when my parents accepted Jesus in their hearts.....and took me and my sister with them.....this is the only faith that I have ever known, and felt alive in me. I love my relationship with my Lord. I was filled with the Holy Spirit at the age of 10, baptized at 11.

That is when the Father drew me to Him. And I have loved Him ever since, and I know He will take care of me, until my last breath. What more can I ask for? Just to know Him and Feel His Presence in me.....draws me closer and closer to Him everyday.

Pst; John is a "verily verily" gospel account

Pst: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is DRAWN away of his own lust, and enticed. (James 1)

Believers should become knowers,

lest they be enticed by erroneous beliefs

Yes, when I was a kid.

Then went to the next leavel in my 20's

went away, and now coming back. with his grace.

Praise the lord. Praise god.

PRAYER LINK. Truthfuldi/letuspray

Not sure if there was any particular day. For me, it was an ongoing process. But there were a couple of 'red letter' days involved.

I was 12... "Peace!" Wow! Do I :)

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