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How to Be Sure You Are Going to Heaven

To prepare to meet God and be absolutely sure that you are going to heaven ...

All you need to do is admit that you are a sinner, believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died in your place to pay the penalty for all your sins, and ask God for his forgiveness and accept his gift of eternal life. The following prayer will help you do this.

"Dear God, I confess that I am a sinner and am sorry for all the wrongs/sins I have committed. I believe that your Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross in my place to pay the penalty for all my sins. Please forgive me. I invite you, Jesus, to come into my heart and life to be my Lord and Savior. I commit and trust my life to you. Please give me the desire to be what you want me to be and to do what you want me to do. Thank you for dying for my sins, for your free pardon, for your gift of eternal life, and for hearing and answering my prayer. Amen."

Your Response:
"YES, I prayed and invited Jesus Christ to come into my life to be my Savior. I want to learn more about the Christian life." To do so, CLICK HERE or on the PASSPORT link below, fill in the form and we will send you the web address for your copy of the e-article, How to Grow, to help you in your new Christian life and the web address for the "Living, Loving and Learning: Steps for Spiritual Growth" web articles—all without charge.

Note: If you have already accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior and would like to recommit your life to him, please click HERE to see the prayer below.

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Inviting Jesus into your heart and life as your personal Savior is your Passport into Heaven. Whatever you do, don't leave earth without it!


Here's Great Assurance

If you genuinely prayed the prayer to invite Jesus Christ into your life and truly meant it, you are now a true Christian and have the gift of a new spiritual life as well as eternal life. You are also a child of God and a member of his family.6 God promised this. Choose to accept it. Take it by faith and not feelings. Feelings change but God's Word never does.

God's Word says, "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."7

When you pray to receive Christ into your life, you have a brand new spiritual life and this life needs care and nurturing just as your physical life does. Again, if you prayed to invite Christ into your life, be sure to CLICK HERE or on the PASSPORT link above, fill in and submit the form and we will be send you the web address for helpful articles—all without charge.


A prayer to recommit your life to Jesus Christ:

"Dear God, I confess that I have strayed from my first love for you and want to recommit my life and way to you. Please help me to become the man/woman/teen you want me to be and always live a life that will please you and be a witness to others of your saving grace and power. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus' name, amen.

If you genuinely prayed this prayer, be sure to CLICK HERE or on the PASSPORT link above, fill in and submit the form and we will be send you the web address for helpful articles—also without charge.

Time ...
We enter it at birth,
We pass through it in life,
We exit it at death.
It is our preparation ...
for eternity.

Footnotes:
1. Amos 4:12. 
2. Hebrews 9:27 (NKJV).
3. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV).
4. Romans 6:23 (NIV).
5. John 14:5-6 (NKJV).
6. See 2 Corinthians and John 1:12.
7. 1 John 5:11-13.

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