“ Believing and Declaring”

 “Believing and Declaring”

 

For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.  Romans 10:10

BELIEVING is not just a “mind-set”, but it goes MUCH farther and deeper, because it is a HEART THING.  You see, the Word of God tells us that we MUST BELIEVE in our HEART, and not just the MIND, but MORE SO in the HEART.  BELIEVING in our HEARTS that JESUS IS LORD, and that GOD RAISED Him from the DEAD, brings us a RIGHT RELATIONSHIP with the ALMIGHTY GOD and our SALVATION.

Some will MISS HEAVEN by the DISTANCE between the MIND and the HEART.  BELIEVING with JUST the MIND, alone, will NOT CHANGE a person’s lifestyle.  Knowing WHO JESUS IS and WHAT He HAS DONE, will make the way for BELIEVING in your HEART, and you then will be made RIGHT with ALMIGHTY GOD.

Our Scripture takes BELIEVING to another part of being made RIGHT with God, and that is by OPENLY DECLARING your FAITH and SALVATION.  To OPENLY DECLARE is to TELL EVERYONE you MEET what JESUS has done for YOU and CAN DO for them too.  We are to be OPEN and UNASHAMED to SHARE the GOOD NEWS, and our TESTIMONY with this LOST and DYING world. 

If you have NOT GIVEN your HEART and LIFE to JESUS, then you CAN’T SHARE what you DON’T HAVE. You MUST ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, who GAVE His LIFE to SAVE your SOUL from an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  You MUST BELIEVE with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU and that HE IS ALIVE, in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS, You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and be made RIGHT with HIM.  Then BELIEVE and DECLARE OPENLY and UNASHAMEDLY your FAITH.  And be able to spend your ETERNITY in HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!

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