Dealing the doubt of salvation in my mind

[SailorWriter]

So, recently I have thoughts that keeps on making me doubt whether I am actually saved or not and whether if Jesus was actually the Messiah; probably caused by not reading the Bible daily (I do that nowadays, but not before), or maybe something else that is bothering me.

 

[Who Me]

So, recently I have thoughts that keeps on making me doubt whether I am actually saved or not and whether if Jesus was actually the Messiah; probably caused by not reading the Bible daily (I do that nowadays, but not before), or maybe something else that is bothering me.

Do you suffer from OCD or just from intrusive thoughts?

The Web site https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/25-tips-for-ocd-treatment/
Has free advice about dealing with OCD and with intrusive thoughts, see point 4.

Why do you doubt that you are saved?
What is in your church service that causes you problems with your faith?

Have you discussed these doubts with your pastor?

Do you know the verses that tell you that it is Jesus who is holding on to you, not you holding on to Jesus.
John 6:37-40
New International Version - UK
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.’

Do talk to someone about your doubts.

 

[for_his_glory]

The devil will always try and put doubt in our mind, but greater is He (Jesus) then he (Satan) that is in the world. If you are truly Spiritually born again from above and indwelled with the Holy Spirit then you never need to doubt your relationship with Christ, but build upon it as you draw closer to Him.

 

[SailorWriter]

Do you suffer from OCD or just from intrusive thoughts?

The Web site https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/25-tips-for-ocd-treatment/
Has free advice about dealing with OCD and with intrusive thoughts, see point 4.

Why do you doubt that you are saved?
What is in your church service that causes you problems with your faith?

Have you discussed these doubts with your pastor?

Do you know the verses that tell you that it is Jesus who is holding on to you, not you holding on to Jesus.
John 6:37-40
New International Version - UK
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.’

Do talk to someone about your doubts.

While I don't live in any country that have a church, I had talked about on Christian Discord servers and to brethrens about my issue.

Also about OCD... I guess you thought like that because of my previous threads talking about it.

 

[Who Me]

While I don't live in any country that have a church, I had talked about on Christian Discord servers and to brethrens about my issue.

Also about OCD... I guess you thought like that because of my previous threads talking about it.

Your account detail says you are in Mongolia.
There are churches there not many and probably not where you are.
There is also Eagle TV and family radio run by Christians.

They will be able to link you with Christians in your part of the country.


Why do you doubt that you are saved?

 

[Tenchi]

So, recently I have thoughts that keeps on making me doubt whether I am actually saved or not and whether if Jesus was actually the Messiah; probably caused by not reading the Bible daily (I do that nowadays, but not before), or maybe something else that is bothering me.

Knowing that you're actually a saved person, a person truly adopted by God into His family and kingdom, is not a matter of just believing really hard that you are. It certainly isn't about what you feel, either. The Bible says that "the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16). The Holy Spirit does this, he "bears witness with our spirit" by acting upon us as the Bible says he will. I don't mean speaking in tongues, or hysterical emotion, or electrical sensations, or convulsing on the floor, all of which are things pagans do in their demonic rituals. No, I mean things only the Holy Spirit does that have no warped parallels in any other religion. What are these things?

- conviction of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8).
- illumination of your mind and heart to God's Truth in His word, the Bible (John 14:26; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:10-16).
- strengthening you in times of temptation and testing (Philippians 2:13; Ephesians 3:16; Romans 8:13-14; Philippians 4:13).
- transformation of your desires, thinking and conduct (Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 5:10).
- comforting you in seasons of pain and sorrow (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

As the Holy Spirits acts in these ways upon you, a love of the brethren will develop in you (1 John 3:14), a hunger for God's word will grow in you (Jeremiah 15:16), a desire to know and glorify God with your life will take deep root within you (John 16:14) and you will want to clear out of your life anything that gets in the way of enjoying God (Philippians 3:7-14; 1 Peter 1:15-16; 1 Peter 3:12; Psalms 66:18).

You see, it's a daily, concrete, personal experience of God that is supposed to be the foundation and prime motivation for being a Christian.

2 Corinthians 13:14
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 John 1:3
3 ...our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Revelation 3:20
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

We have that experience of Him through an experience of the life and work of the Holy Spirit within us. When we do, we encounter all the good things that the Holy Spirit is and this is supposed to provoke the born-again person to greater and greater fellowship with God through the Spirit. Too many people, though, are just acting the part of a Christian, doing all the right things, obeying all the rules, trying hard to create their best version of a Christ-like life while having no experience of the life and work of the Holy Spirit in them at all! And because they are doing this, their minds and hearts are filled with doubt, frustration, confusion and disappointment and their lives harbor a lot of secret sin. Such living is not the normal Christian life thought it is the common Christian life.

 

[SailorWriter]

Your account detail says you are in Mongolia.

Well, I don't really live in Mongolia, I just chose it just for my privacy.

Why do you doubt that you are saved?

I don't know, just recently I started to have doubts; maybe because I used to not read the Bible daily or just feeling lukewarm.

 

[Who Me]

I don't live in any country that have a church

Sites like christianityexplored have lists of churches in just about every country, so please check this site out for churches.
Otherwise there are online church services, recordings of surmons and missionary agencies that will correspond with people in countries with few churches he's.

I started to have doubts

There is nothing wrong with having doubts or questions, so long as one searches for answers.
But do you have genuine questions about aspects of what you believe or just a ' feeling ' of unbelieve?
Questions can be answered, vague feelings need to be grounded in reality.
Are you a Christian? What makes you a Christian? How do vague feelings change these?

 

[Fastfredy0]

Assurance of Salvation.

Test For Salvation (Marks Of A Born Again Christian)
1. Believing in Christ (Faith)
2. Repentance - Who Loves God will Obey God.
3. The Believer’s Salvation from the Love of Sin.
4. No Habitual Sinning, Strive to enter through the narrow gate.
5. Material possessions have little value and human issues are not particularly upsetting.
6. Humility.
7. Lose our own life to follow Him...
8. Love of the Brethren.
9. Internal Testimony Of The Spirit Overcoming the World.
10. Spiritual Growth.
11. Peace.
12. Perseverance.
13. Persecution.
Assurance’s Maintenance.

 

[SailorWriter]

But do you have genuine questions about aspects of what you believe or just a ' feeling ' of unbelieve?
Questions can be answered, vague feelings need to be grounded in reality.
Are you a Christian? What makes you a Christian? How do vague feelings change these?

I believe it could be vague feelings.

 

[Who Me]

I believe it could be vague feelings.

May I suggest you memorise scripture that demonstrate the fallibility of vague feelings.
Try John 10:My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”


No one, certainly not some vague feeling will overpower Jesus's hold on you.

Trust Jesus.

 

[Tenchi]

I believe it could be vague feelings.

Do you experience the life and work of the Holy Spirit within you? There's no better remedy for vague feelings than concrete experience.