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Am I looking at the right picture? I see an animal and a pup with it.
At any rate: in reference to your profile statement: "I asked for Christ to be my personal Savior many times because I was unsure. In 2012 I prayed to be filled with The Holy Spirit and later baptised in the name of Jesus Christ.
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You can be sure that the first time you believed in Jesus Christ, you were saved by faith & not by sight then.
Ephesians 1:[SUP]
12 [/SUP]That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. [SUP]
13 [/SUP]In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, [SUP]
14 [/SUP]Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. [SUP]
15 [/SUP]Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Galatians 3:[SUP]
14 [/SUP]That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith....[SUP]
26 [/SUP]For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 1:[SUP]
17 [/SUP]For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.........[SUP]
21 [/SUP]For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]For by it the elders obtained a good report.......[SUP]
6 [/SUP]But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
John 3:[SUP]
14 [/SUP]And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: [SUP]
15 [/SUP]That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [SUP]
19 [/SUP]And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
The fact that you do believe is a work of God Himself because He has revealed His Son to you for you to believe in Him, thus you are saved the moment you first believed in Him, even in His name.
John 6:[SUP]
44 [/SUP]No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Matthew 11:[SUP]
25 [/SUP]At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
So rest in Him that you were saved the moment you had first believed and preach no other calling for others to be saved by a sign for we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ.
John 1:[SUP]
12 [/SUP]But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [SUP]
13 [/SUP]Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1 John 5:1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.....[SUP]
13 [/SUP]These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.