What is the sinner's prayer to be saved?

Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior.
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What do you say to accept Jesus as your savior?

“Jesus, I believe that you are the Son of God and Savior of the world. I believe that you died for my sins and rose from the dead. I believe that through your sacrifice, I am a new person. Forgive me for my sin and fill me with your Spirit.
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How do I pray to accept Jesus?

I choose you. I give myself to you. I receive your forgiveness and ask you to take your rightful place in my life as my Savior and Lord. Come reign in my heart, fill me with your love and your life, and help me to become a person who is truly loving—a person like you.
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How can I be a born again prayer?

Here's an example prayer: "Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner, but you died for those sins. I welcome you into my heart as my personal savior. Thank you for dying for my sins so that I can be forgiven. In your name I pray, Amen."
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Does God answer a sinners prayer?

In John 9:31, the Bible says, “Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.” Many have latched onto this statement as though it was an absolute truth – i.e., that God will NEVER hear a sinner's prayer.
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Is Reciting "The Sinner's Prayer" Enough for a Person to be Saved?



How do you repent?

Principles of Repentance
  1. We Must Recognize Our Sins. To repent, we must admit to ourselves that we have sinned. ...
  2. We Must Feel Sorrow for Our Sins. ...
  3. We Must Forsake Our Sins. ...
  4. We Must Confess Our Sins. ...
  5. We Must Make Restitution. ...
  6. We Must Forgive Others. ...
  7. We Must Keep the Commandments of God.
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How do I turn away from sin?

Quote scripture, demand what you want to leave you, and use "In Jesus' Name" or "By the Blood of Christ Jesus." Say these words with conviction! Let your thoughts be of God. Be forgiving and have strong faith in God, the father. For he who sins shall not go unpunished, but he who asks for forgiveness will be forgiven.
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What is prayer of acceptance?

Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation—some fact of my life— unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
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Where in the Bible does it say ask Jesus into your heart?

Paul Chitwood notes that the concept "does not occur readily before the turn of the twentieth century," but had "become the common way of expressing conversion by the mid-part of the twentieth century." The phrase does not occur in the Bible, and it has frequently been criticized.
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What do we have to do to go to heaven?

You enter heaven by forgiveness and through the righteousness that Jesus gives you. You do not enter into heaven by the Christian life. It's always true that where faith is birthed, works will follow, but salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
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What happens if you get baptized twice?

Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated. The baptisms of those to be received into the Catholic Church from other Christian communities are held to be valid if administered using the Trinitarian formula. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: 1256.
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How do you repent and move on?

How to Move Forward After Messing Up
  1. Confess your sin to God. The first step to finding healing is confessing your sins to God. ...
  2. Confess your sin to the ones you have hurt. ...
  3. Accept consequences. ...
  4. Remind yourself of God's truth. ...
  5. Recognize our humanity.
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How do I stop temptation?

“How do I resist temptation?”
  1. Pray for Strength. To withstand temptation, we first need the will and the sincere desire to choose the right. ...
  2. Support Each Other. ...
  3. Share Your Beliefs. ...
  4. Listen to the Holy Ghost. ...
  5. Stand in Holy Places. ...
  6. We Can Decide to Do Right. ...
  7. Role-play Choosing the Right. ...
  8. Have Good Friends.
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What is true repentance?

“True repentance is not only sorrow for sins and humble penitence and contrition before God, but it involves the necessity of turning away from them, a discontinuance of all evil practices and deeds, a thorough reformation of life, a vital change from evil to good, from vice to virtue, from darkness to light.
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How do I confess my sins to God?

Here are a couple things to keep in mind:
  1. You can confess your sins directly to God. You do not need to confess to a pastor, priest, or spiritual leader to be forgiven. ...
  2. James tells us to confess our sins to one another. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
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What are the sins that God will not forgive you for?

Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."
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Where's the sinner's prayer in the Bible?

The Sinner's prayer is often employed in conjunction with Revelation 3:20 and Romans 10:9-10, 13. Revelation 3:20 is employed to teach that Christ is knocking at the door of one's heart, and when a lost person asks him to come inside, Jesus comes into the sinner's heart.
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How can I be saved Bible?

" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
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How do I pray to God?

What follows can help you learn how to pray.
  1. Prayer Has Four Simple Steps.
  2. Step 1: Address Heavenly Father.
  3. Step 2: Thank Heavenly Father.
  4. Step 3: Ask Heavenly Father.
  5. Step 4: Close in the Name of Jesus Christ.
  6. Praying in a Group.
  7. Pray Always, With Sincerity and With Faith in Christ.
  8. Prayers Will Always Be Answered.
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Will we work in heaven?

The Bible says, “They will rest from their labor” (Revelation 14:13). At the same time, the Bible also says that God will have work for us in heaven — and we ought to be glad for this.
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