My Assurance

My area of expertise seems to be the assurance of salvation since I have backslid so many times and have had to repent and do the first things over and go back to square one so to speak. Sometimes I have compared myself to other Christians and have been discouraged, e.g., when they say they hear God's voice audibly and I don't, I think something is wrong. The existence of the written Word of God doesn't preclude audible revelations or voices today.   But I have learned to believe in the Word of God itself.   The Bible doesn't preclude the possibility of God's audible voice today.   My favorite slogan vis-a-vis assurance:  God said it in His Word, I believe it in my heart, that settles it in my mind.  Soli Deo Gloria!