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Hi everyone,

Glad I found this forum and I hope I get the help and answers I'm looking for in here.

Since I'm new here I don't want to bombard the forum with my personal dilemmas... Turned 22 this month (male). Around the end of last year I decided and knew I had to get away from my sinful ways, it was suffocating me and I needed to get out before I got trapped. Now I feel under some sort of heavy spiritual warfare...

I'm so confused and sometimes the devil gets inside my head and makes me think I'm dying...gets into people's head and they're a constant thorn in my flesh with all the negative things they say...

I need help! Redirect me to where on this forum I can write in details what's happening and get some answers.

Thanks, much love.
 

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Hi everyone,

Glad I found this forum and I hope I get the help and answers I'm looking for in here.

Since I'm new here I don't want to bombard the forum with my personal dilemmas... Turned 22 this month (male). Around the end of last year I decided and knew I had to get away from my sinful ways, it was suffocating me and I needed to get out before I got trapped. Now I feel under some sort of heavy spiritual warfare...

I'm so confused and sometimes the devil gets inside my head and makes me think I'm dying...gets into people's head and they're a constant thorn in my flesh with all the negative things they say...

I need help! Redirect me to where on this forum I can write in details what's happening and get some answers.

Thanks, much love.


Welcom to CF. First I direct you to the Lords answer book the BIBLE. Where have you read in the Bible for your issues?
 
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Welcome to CF, Rue Neuf. You may try the (1) Ask a Chaplain and (2) Christian Advice areas, or if you have a particular denominational or faith-group bent, well, (3) see the list, or (4) see the Mental Health heading and subcategories if applicable.

While you may find help in some area on CF, I also recommend finding (if you have not already found) a sound gospel preaching church within transportation range and developing face-to-face relationships with mature Christians there. And I agree with farout above in recommending that you immerse yourself in the Scriptures--such as in one of the four Gospels and Ephesians for starters.
 
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Welcom to CF. First I direct you to the Lords answer book the BIBLE. Where have you read in the Bible for your issues?

Thank you. I've been reading Ephesians, sometimes psalm, and a few chapters I happen to see somewhere, like from daily devotionals
 
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Welcome to CF, Rue Neuf. You may try the (1) Ask a Chaplain and (2) Christian Advice areas, or if you have a particular denominational or faith-group bent, well, (3) see the list, or (4) see the Mental Health heading and subcategories if applicable.

While you may find help in some area on CF, I also recommend finding (if you have not already found) a sound gospel preaching church within transportation range and developing face-to-face relationships with mature Christians there. And I agree with farout above in recommending that you immerse yourself in the Scriptures--such as in one of the four Gospels and Ephesians for starters.

Welcome to CF, Rue Neuf. You may try the (1) Ask a Chaplain and (2) Christian Advice areas, or if you have a particular denominational or faith-group bent, well, (3) see the list, or (4) see the Mental Health heading and subcategories if applicable.

While you may find help in some area on CF, I also recommend finding (if you have not already found) a sound gospel preaching church within transportation range and developing face-to-face relationships with mature Christians there. And I agree with farout above in recommending that you immerse yourself in the Scriptures--such as in one of the four Gospels and Ephesians for starters.

Thank you. I tried to post on the other groups but I'm still a newbie, this is what it says... "(You have insufficient privileges to post here.)"

I've found a church that's near my place, I will go there on Sunday.

Are all the answers really in the Bible? Because sometimes you just feel like giving up when you have no idea what's on inside your head (where are all those thoughts coming from, why am I hearing all these wacky things...)
 
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Hi everyone,

Glad I found this forum and I hope I get the help and answers I'm looking for in here.

Since I'm new here I don't want to bombard the forum with my personal dilemmas... Turned 22 this month (male). Around the end of last year I decided and knew I had to get away from my sinful ways, it was suffocating me and I needed to get out before I got trapped. Now I feel under some sort of heavy spiritual warfare...

I'm so confused and sometimes the devil gets inside my head and makes me think I'm dying...gets into people's head and they're a constant thorn in my flesh with all the negative things they say...

I need help! Redirect me to where on this forum I can write in details what's happening and get some answers.

Thanks, much love.


Welcome to CF.jpg

We have many members here that could help you in your journey.

We have a Singles Forum and a Roaring Twenties Forum where those of your age group gather.

Christian Advise should be available for you to post in. If you have trouble please let me know and I'll assist you.
 
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Thank you. I tried to post on the other groups but I'm still a newbie, this is what it says... "(You have insufficient privileges to post here.)"

I've found a church that's near my place, I will go there on Sunday.

Are all the answers really in the Bible? Because sometimes you just feel like giving up when you have no idea what's on inside your head (where are all those thoughts coming from, why am I hearing all these wacky things...)

I see. You may have to contribute responses before starting a thread on some (sub-)forums--I don't know for sure.

If you are in the US or English speaking west, there are churches and then there are churches. I have my own bias of course--being persuaded of Protestant and evangelical Reformed doctrine--so there are ecclesiastical groups with which I would have more and less agreement, depending on issue, but in my opinion some churches (whether endemic to their ecclesiastical umbrella or not) no longer believe the gospel or the deity of Christ, or hold moral doctrines incompatible with the teaching of the apostles; others are at root in effect non-Christian offshoots--cults. I say this not to scare you (you may not agree with me on various points of doctrine), but to warn you. Be careful. The tone of your response suggests you are new to Christianity or your experience with varied church groups is limited.

Of course this will take time and energy to sort out even if you have pressing immediate needs which may be addressed sooner.

I'm not sure what you mean by your last paragraph, so I can only respond by guessing at some of your concerns. And so please be patient with the flow of argument.

Jesus is the Messiah (or Christ) who fulfills Old Testament prophecy of the preceding many hundreds of years. He is both God (the Second Person of the Trinity) and man, and there is only one God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). He reveals what God is like more than any other revelation (like prophecies and event-pictures). He taught disciples how to live to please God, and prophesied that the Holy Spirit would come (which He did at Pentecost), remind them of what Jesus said and guide them into all truth (John 16). Jesus believed the Old Testament was the word of God and He essentially prophesied a "Jesus canon" (about Him and His disciple/apostles) which in hindsight we call the New Testament (not that this answers all questions about what the New Testament is).

Jesus also told His disciple/apostles to go into all the world and make disciples, teaching them to do what Jesus said. The disciple/apostles eventually died, but generation by generation, disciples of Jesus have taught their disciples to follow Jesus. This is the church (broadly speaking, regardless of groups).

But the church is not merely a human institution. God is really working in and through humans--in every generation. True disciples of Jesus do not follow Jesus by themselves, but God's Holy Spirit works in them to do what God says and to want to do it. After Jesus rose from the dead and then ascended into heaven, God did not leave His disciples alone, but sent His Holy Spirit to be with and in Jesus' disciples and to make them spiritually alive or born again--not that in this life disciples do not sin, but that they are in process of becoming like Jesus.

The Bible is the record of what God the Creator and King has done and what God is like and how God wants humans to live. The Holy Spirit uses the Bible to teach disciples of Jesus about these things. The Bible is the word of God and is centered in Jesus, the Word of God made flesh (John 1:14) who reveals God.

Being a disciple of Jesus is not easy. Part of this is because we are weak and ignorant, but part is because our nature is bent toward not pleasing God but ourselves or Satan. Thus the life of a disciple of Jesus is sometimes likened to warfare. Disciples fight their own evil inclinations and the spiritual evil of fallen angels. But disciples do not fight alone. There is the Holy Spirit in them and there is the church, the group of followers of Jesus who teach and encourage each other in the battle.

Does that help? Or address your concerns? If so, you may want to do a Google search for "The God Who Is There," a series of lectures (or book) by D.A. Carson (to express my bias and recommendation of a beginner's overview!). At least some of the lectures are available on Youtube or Vimeo.

And otherwise I commend to you the whole Bible, the whole counsel of God which is sufficient for Holy-Spirit-enlivened disciples of Jesus to be "equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:17), the "Jesus canon" for every generation in the church.
 
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Oh, and on CF, see the doctrinal statement here: http://www.christianforums.com/help/faith/ . And there is so much one could add. (1) I would beware of any church that does not conform to the Nicene Creed. (2) Yes, the disciple of Jesus does encounter non-disciples, those spiritually "dead in trespasses and sins" (cf. Ephesians 2:1), and the disciples' struggles can be with other people too (I suspect the "negative" people to which you refer).
 
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