Trusting in a Prayer?

Many people today have been “saved” by saying a  prayer. They are told that if they simply pray and ask Jesus into their heart,  then they can rest assured that
they are indeed saved. They are often also told  that if they ever doubt their
salvation, they can look back to the day they said  that prayer and know that
they are saved.

I have to say that if you have to look back at a  prayer for assurance, it can
only mean that nothing else has changed enough to  convince you. There must be no change of life or change of mind- no fruit or  other evidence of the
indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ. It must mean that you  have not become a
creature, brought to newness of  life.

If a prayer  is all you have to hold onto then what an empty, meaningless salvation you must  have. Where is the abundant life? Or fullness of joy? 
Where is the peace of God which passeth all  understanding?  

If the only thing you have to show for it is a  prayer from a desperately wicked
heart that is deceitful beyond measure no  wonder so many doubt their salvation in Christ- they should. Obviously they have  only been “saved” by a prayer; because if they had been saved by Christ, they  would know it.

How sad that so many have been deceived. Don’t  trust in a prayer.

2 Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye  be in the faith; prove
your own selves.

Philippians 2:12   work out your own salvation with  fear and trembling.

Matthew 7:22  Many will say to me in that day,  Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out  devils? and in thy name done manywonderful works? 23  And then will I profess  unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.