If I asked Jesus into my life, how do I know that he is now really there?It's so great to hear that you asked Jesus to come into your life! When you made that decision and invited him into your life, it is important to know, did God hear you? Yes. First John 5:14 says, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." Jesus promised that He would enter our lives, if we ask him.
In Revelation 3:20 Jesus makes this offer, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me." Did you open the door of your heart to God? If so, what did he say he would do? Would God mislead you?
In John 6:37, Jesus said, "All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out." And in John 10:27-29 Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."
Jesus died on the cross for our sins, so that we could be in relationship with Him. He's not indifferent to the issue. He went to great lengths to bring us into relationship with him. Jesus took our sins on himself and covered us with his righteousness, making us fully forgiven and fully accepted by him. We don't have to first live good lives, or perform religious rituals, or spend years begging him. He is the one who made it possible for us to have a relationship with him. And we come to him based on what he did for us, rather than what we can do. He paid for our sins, in order to forgive us and come into our lives. First Peter 3:18 says, "For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God."
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When a person asks Jesus into their life, it's with an open hand: "God, I want a relationship with you, I want you to come into my life, and you may do in my life whatever you want." It is a decision to let him be God in our lives. If you have done this, it is exciting to know what God says is now true about your relationship with God:
You are at peace with God --"Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:1)
You became a child of God --"to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God." (John 1:12)
You are no longer living in darkness --"for once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8)
"He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." (Colossians 1:13,14)
, I've decided to add little mood icons. I'd actually already started with them on previous posts, but I've found some new ones 
