If you want the peace of knowing Jesus personally and the assurance that you are going to Heaven, you can have it.
You just need to believe that the blood of Jesus shed on the cross at Calvary was shed for your salvation, and that He rose from the tomb.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
[9] Not of works, lest any man should boast.
After suffering the loss of his children, Horatio Spafford wrote this beautiful hymn as a testament to the salvation he found in Jesus through the good and bad times in life.
“It is well with my soul”
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“When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, — When sorrows like sea billows roll; — Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, — It is well, it is well with my soul.
Chorus:
“It is well (it is well) — with my soul (with my soul), — It is well, it is well with my soul.
“Tho’ Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come, — Let this blest assurance control, — That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate, — And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
“My sin—O, the bliss of this glorious tho’t — My sin, not in part but the whole, — Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, — Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
“And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight, — The clouds be rolled back as a scroll; — The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend, — Even so, it is well with my soul.”
Horacio G. Spafford
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