Comments on: Saved by Grace http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Earl http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/saved-by-grace/#comment-1441 Earl Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:42:35 +0000 http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/?page_id=13#comment-1441 Amen and Amen! Will link your site on my blog roll. Keep on the firing line! Amen and Amen!

Will link your site on my blog roll.

Keep on the firing line!

]]> By: Merica http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/saved-by-grace/#comment-1362 Merica Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:48:32 +0000 http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/?page_id=13#comment-1362 Sara, I came across your blog for the first time today and was encouraged greatly by reading your testimony. You see, I have a similar one and it was a blessing to read and to be reminded of the wondeful grace and love of our Lord! I look forward to reading many more of your blogs.....and thank you for your testimony of your desire to to put the Lord first in all things! Blessings!! Sara, I came across your blog for the first time today and was encouraged greatly by reading your testimony. You see, I have a similar one and it was a blessing to read and to be reminded of the wondeful grace and love of our Lord! I look forward to reading many more of your blogs…..and thank you for your testimony of your desire to to put the Lord first in all things!
Blessings!!

]]> By: Jubilena http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/saved-by-grace/#comment-863 Jubilena Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:32 +0000 http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/?page_id=13#comment-863 For the first time I looked over this part of your blog (partly because my internet connection was good this time) I too was saved in 1993 only it was in August.... I too had made an early profession of faith and a few more after that...sometimes it was just the fear of spending eternity in the lake of fire that scared me and I didn't want to do that so I would pray....I was even baptized. However, there came an age where a really understood the whole thing...then I fought it. I didn't want God to have complete control in my heart and life... I wanted to have to right to rule my own life. For somewhere around a year, I feared and prayed but I was not willing to give my life to Christ. I wanted to rule! Then we had some special meetings at our church and my dad was preaching on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. He vividly told how Christ suffered in agony and I was picturing the whole thing as he preached. I am not sure how long he lingered on the death and all that Jesus went through but somewhere in that time this realization came over me...Jesus did all that for ME....yes, I knew that in my head...and I had heard it thousands of times...but I guess I never really knew that in my heart! It was then that I truly turned my eyes upon Jesus and as the song says "looked full in His wonderful face" and the things of earth DID grow strangely dim "in the light of HIS glory and grace"! Why was I wanting to control my little life when He did all that for me?! It was then that I became willing to give up my life to His and follow Christ... I couldn't wait for my dad to get to the end of the sermon in case I was tempted to change my mind! Everyone thought I was a Christian... I had even been baptized! I don't really remember what I prayed when I went forward to the alter but certainly I did surrender all! My life began to change right away...Jesus is the sweetest Name I know and He is precious to me. I long to become more like Him as the days go by! For the first time I looked over this part of your blog (partly because my internet connection was good this time)
I too was saved in 1993 only it was in August…. I too had made an early profession of faith and a few more after that…sometimes it was just the fear of spending eternity in the lake of fire that scared me and I didn’t want to do that so I would pray….I was even baptized.
However, there came an age where a really understood the whole thing…then I fought it. I didn’t want God to have complete control in my heart and life… I wanted to have to right to rule my own life. For somewhere around a year, I feared and prayed but I was not willing to give my life to Christ. I wanted to rule! Then we had some special meetings at our church and my dad was preaching on the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. He vividly told how Christ suffered in agony and I was picturing the whole thing as he preached. I am not sure how long he lingered on the death and all that Jesus went through but somewhere in that time this realization came over me…Jesus did all that for ME….yes, I knew that in my head…and I had heard it thousands of times…but I guess I never really knew that in my heart! It was then that I truly turned my eyes upon Jesus and as the song says “looked full in His wonderful face” and the things of earth DID grow strangely dim “in the light of HIS glory and grace”! Why was I wanting to control my little life when He did all that for me?! It was then that I became willing to give up my life to His and follow Christ…
I couldn’t wait for my dad to get to the end of the sermon in case I was tempted to change my mind! Everyone thought I was a Christian… I had even been baptized! I don’t really remember what I prayed when I went forward to the alter but certainly I did surrender all! My life began to change right away…Jesus is the sweetest Name I know and He is precious to me. I long to become more like Him as the days go by!

]]> By: Abby Martin http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/saved-by-grace/#comment-663 Abby Martin Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:26:00 +0000 http://simplysanctified.wordpress.com/?page_id=13#comment-663 Thanks for sharing that...I hadn't visited this "spot" right here. I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, my sister and I slept in the same bedroom and we were talking about being a Christian and all that. She was telling me that I needed to be older to ask Jesus in my heart. She was about 9 or 10. I didn't really like her telling me that, so I got out of my bed and told my dad and mom what she said, and that I wanted to become a Christian. Although I think what influenced me to be a Christian, was the fact that then I could have communion (which we have crackers and juice at communion) and that I wanted to be one because my sister was telling me I needed to be older. So, my parents asked me some questions, and then we knelt beside their bed, and my parents accompanied me in praying to ask Jesus into my heart. I was young, and I could only understand so much of what I was saying. But I did know that I wanted to be one. I did feel somewhat of a difference in my heart, and cried some after we were done praying. Years later I started having some doubt in my heart if I really was saved. Inside of my heart didn't feel right...so, I asked my dad and he and I prayed to the Lord and I asked Him in my life. After that I felt secure in knowing I was His. As I grow older I still learn new things and what it means being a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ. We serve a wonderful Savior and I’m glad that the God we serve is a merciful loving God. Thanks for sharing that…I hadn’t visited this “spot” right here. I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, my sister and I slept in the same bedroom and we were talking about being a Christian and all that. She was telling me that I needed to be older to ask Jesus in my heart. She was about 9 or 10. I didn’t really like her telling me that, so I got out of my bed and told my dad and mom what she said, and that I wanted to become a Christian. Although I think what influenced me to be a Christian, was the fact that then I could have communion (which we have crackers and juice at communion) and that I wanted to be one because my sister was telling me I needed to be older. So, my parents asked me some questions, and then we knelt beside their bed, and my parents accompanied me in praying to ask Jesus into my heart. I was young, and I could only understand so much of what I was saying. But I did know that I wanted to be one. I did feel somewhat of a difference in my heart, and cried some after we were done praying. Years later I started having some doubt in my heart if I really was saved. Inside of my heart didn’t feel right…so, I asked my dad and he and I prayed to the Lord and I asked Him in my life. After that I felt secure in knowing I was His. As I grow older I still learn new things and what it means being a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ. We serve a wonderful Savior and I’m glad that the God we serve is a merciful loving God.

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