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We received the following question:
"Will God still restore my marriage if I voiced and believe that the Lord is the son of God and believe that He died for me even if I have not been immersed in a water baptism? Is the Holy Spirit still with me, am I still saved? It’s hard for me to obey sometimes and submit I wonder if this is why.
Dear Bride, I would like to encourage you to Seek God about this (https://hopeatlast.com/c1/d16-chapter-12-seeking-god/). Only He has the answers you need. Seek Him and wait for His answer, if you ask He will show you what His will is for you regarding this.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8
Let me share my own testimony with you; it happened years ago, just after I found out about my fh adultery the first time. The Lord started to allure me during that time, and still being in the church, it felt like He wanted me to get baptized. But I did not do it immediately, I kept asking Him about it, struggling with lots of questions, like whether I am saved or not if I do not get baptized.
Then one day, as I was sitting at my friend’s hair salon, they were talking about baptism, and when I mentioned that it’s something I am praying about, the one lady, who was in another church in town, said it’s her mission to get as many people baptized as possible, she has a room at her house that she dedicated to it and she and a pastor facilitates the baptisms. You bring your family and friends as witnesses.
Before I knew it, it was arranged, and I was baptized. For me that was an answer to my prayer, not because I was told to do so by the church or anybody else, but in the way it happened after I seeked Him for a long time.
So go to Him, take your questions to Him, and let Him give you the answers.
I would like to encourage you with something from my own experience. When I fell on my knees in front of God and asked if He was real when my marriage fell apart, I did not know much about the bible or any of the principles written in it. When I later heard people say “You have to be baptized” I was not sure what it meant but instead of asking others I asked Him. He led me to the verses I needed and then when I was not sure if this was needed for my salvation, I asked Him again and then I felt peace that I needed to have myself baptized. To be honest with you, I still don’t have the answer, but what I do know is that I did it as a symbol of my love for Him. I got baptized, because I wanted something special between us, to show that I was changed from a woman that was contentious and full of anger to a bride who now belongs to Him. There was not a change in me after I was baptized, the change happened before that and is still continually happening in me every day. Spending lots of time with my Heavenly Husband is what is changing my life, not the fact that I got baptized, although I still believe that is what He wanted for me.
Dear precious bride, I want to encourage you like Adina and Yvonne did to ask our Loving Lord to lead you, which He will, just like He led us https://loveatlast.org/living-lessons/week-3-he-leads-me/
I too got baptized years ago after my Darling Lord led me, but the real change came when He became my first Love and to have an intimate relationship with Him, all His grace, nothing that I did right or that I am doing right, because it is all about Him and I want to encourage you to take His hand and to experience His everlasting Love https://loveatlast.org/ He will lead you.