that verse right there...its saying if you belive in your heart and confess with your mouth and all that...does that mean that you NEED that "prayer of salvation"??
Well, obviously you have to ask God to come in to your heart....
Here are a fex examples:
Imagine that we all have a throne on our hearts, we naturally put ourselves on that throne. We want to be the king, we want to rule and control our lives, but God calls us to step off of our thrones and put him on the thrown and make our lives Christ-centered and not self-centered.
Here is another cool example:
What if, one day, you were driving down the road and you saw Jesus hitchhiking...
So, you stop to pick him up. You pull up next to him, you lean over to open the door for him, you open the door, and he isn't there. You get confused for a second and then you hear a knock on your window. You look into your window and Jesus is standing there. Then he says, "I want to drive."
That is what Jesus wants, he wants to be the driver, he wants to be in control of our lives. So we have to basically tell God that we no longer want to be the ruler of our lives, but we want God to rule our lives. We want our lives to be centered around Him. Yes you do have to pray, but it is more about your actions, repentance. Does anyone know waht the word "repent" truly means?