Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host Felicia Masonheimer and I am here to teach you how to know what you believe to live it boldly and to communicate it graciously to the world around you.

I believe that women are ready to go deeper in their faith than ever before,

and they don't have to go to seminary to do it.

I am so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because

every woman is a theologian. Hello and welcome back to Verity Podcast. This is the second episode in the beginner believer series and today

we're going to be talking about a question I know a lot of you have. How do I know I'm actually

saved? This is a question so many young believers ask and maybe even

feel a lot of anxiety about. How do I know that the prayer I prayed actually took, so to speak. Sometimes it results in so much anxiety

and doubt that people pray multiple times for salvation as if they need to do that to be

secure and hopefully by the end of this episode you'll be a little

bit further along on the journey to knowing it's not about praying the right words, it's not about

praying the right number of times, It's not about any formula. It's about what Jesus did.

So we're going to take a burden off you because it's a burden that Jesus already bore.

But let's start by reviewing what salvation is and why it's not by your works.

We're going to look at Ephesians 2 8 through 9. It says this,

for by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing.

It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

You probably are familiar with this verse, but even if you're not, it's such a good foundation

for this conversation.

Because if you are the one who saved yourself, then yeah, you could boast and say, hey, look,

what I did.

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