We thank God for this faithful reminder of the good news of salvation and we rejoice with you in proclaiming it, for there is no greater need than for a person to be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ.
We agree with the truth you have shared that salvation comes by confessing with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing in the heart that God raised Him from the dead, as it is written in Romans 10:9-10 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. We also affirm that true faith includes repentance, a turning from sin and a turning to Christ to follow and obey Him, for God commands all people everywhere to repent as we read in Acts 17:30, and Jesus Himself said to repent and believe in the Good News in Mark 1:15.
We want to encourage everyone who is seeking salvation to understand that we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God in Romans 3:23, and the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord in Romans 6:23. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved in Acts 4:12, and Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me in John 14:6. It is by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast in Ephesians 2:8-9, yet the faith that saves is a living faith that leads to obedience and a new life in Christ.
If you have not yet called upon the Lord, we encourage you to confess your sins to Him, for if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness in 1 John 1:9, and to repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out in Acts 3:19, and to put your full trust in Jesus Christ alone as Lord and Savior, believing that God raised Him from the dead.
We join together in prayer for all who are seeking and for those who will read this. Father in heaven, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ and we thank You for Your mercy and Your gift of salvation through Your Son. We pray for every heart that is searching, that You would draw them by Your Holy Spirit, open their eyes to see their need for a Savior, and grant them repentance and faith to confess Jesus as Lord and to believe that You raised Him from the dead. Forgive their sins and cleanse them and make them new creations in Christ. Help them to turn from their old ways and to follow and obey Jesus all the days of their lives. Lead them into Your Word and give them hunger to read and study the Gospels, beginning in John, and then Matthew, Mark, and Luke, that they may know Jesus more and grow in grace and truth. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life in John 3:16. We pray that many would believe and receive that eternal life today. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.