If the sinner’s prayer worked I would have been saved between the age of 10-12 (I can’t remember exactly how old I was when I said it). But I wasn’t. I wasn’t changed. I wasn’t transformed. I didn’t commit to Jesus. I believed in Jesus, but I know I was not yet saved. He didn’t fully have my heart yet.
It wasn’t until 9/21/2021 when I was 42 years old that I was saved. What I was reading in the Gospels was Jesus said if we don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will His heavenly Father forgive us our trespasses cut me deeply in my heart and convicted me. I had a lot of people that I needed to forgive.
So I worked on trying to forgive all the people who have hurt me. I spent several consecutive days trying to let go of the unforgiveness in my heart, and on the third day I was still unable to let go. On the third day, 9/21/2021, I was sitting on my couch with my eyes closed and struggling. I said “Come on, let it go!” All of a sudden I felt a hand reach into my heart and pull the unforgiveness out, and in the same instant I was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.
It wasn’t until I received the baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit that I was changed, transformed, made into a new creature in Christ, and saved. That is when I finally gave Jesus my heart and decided to do my best to follow His teachings. That is my testimony.
Acts 5:32 KJV
32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
If you are struggling with carnal matters: lying, addictions, lust, etc. I encourage you to ask for the baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit. If you have never been changed, transformed, and/or made into a new creature in Christ I encourage you to ask for the baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit. Jesus indicated we should ask! I assure you, it makes a complete difference in your walk with Jesus.
Luke 11:13 KJV
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
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