Brother this video will help.. I watched it this morning.. I was up through the night with my husband over one of our children.. troubles are always around us brother.. I know it is horrible... horrible.. horrible.. but light belongs in the darkness..
This encouraged my heart.. this is love.. Gods love.. shown through people just like you and me.. to people who need to know love..
Be encouraged brother.. my son wants the computer back.. I had to ask him to get off so I can post this and something to a forum I meet and fellowship with.. I did wrong to ask him to leave.. it was his turn.. but I need to post and he will get it back.. I need the support and when I saw this I thought of you too .. I still have to sit and talk with my daughter about last night.. I need to seek God.. I need to care for my children.. my husband is gone all day.. But God is with me.. He is love.. and I am not afraid.. GOD IS GOOD!! Please pray for me brother today.. and my family.. thank you.. I will pray for you too.. We will get through.. God is greater then the one who comes against us..
Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
Not everyone who is christian can give it all to Jesus..even if they tried as hard as they wanted too...I have tried as hard as I can to give it all to Jesus...yet I know..in my heart..it not as easy as it sounds..its not a one minute thing..or just saying it.
if it were that easy..I would of..but time as told..and i know in my heart..i cant at this moment..I can only give a small amount to Him..that is all some people can do..and I am told so much..that is not enough..that Jesus cannot help me..if I cannot give all to Him..so I guess I am screwed..because there are so many hurting people out there...who want to come to Jesus..yet are told they cannot be helped...or overcome unless they give it all..they try..I have tried..they give as much as they can..peopel keep bringing them down...all these formulas...some PEOPLE CANNOT give it all up at once..if it truly a relationship..wouldnt it be over time.as they got to KNOW GOD.and thus over time..got to TRUST HIM MORE..that then they are able to give more and more each day
yet there people who teach what I said..and there are who dont...there are such different teachings in the body of Christ....its hard for people hurting no where to stand..which ground do they stand on? which teacher is right..because in many peoples eyes what they teach is right..though there are 10 different teachings...
that is why it is hard for me...to stand on any ground..though I read the bible for myself..I do not now where to stand..people keep telling me different things..I am told to read the bible for myself..to ask God to teach me..I have over and over..yet here I am
I am going to stand around and let people beriddle me..even though they may have the best interests at heart you have to know..I am not going to let people tear me down anymore..if it offends them..so be it.I am going to be real..no more cushions..I am tired of people telling me to straigthen up..tried of hearing grace and love..yet underneath peoples comments..its written: "straighten up..stop sinning" do this..formulas
people teach grace and love..no rules and relationships..yet its proven..thats not what they really teach..or else it would be different
its still rules..regulations..or maybe I am not getting it
yet that is the taste I get...I told this..yet I get that
sorry to say this.I am being real..if it gets me banned in trouble..so be it
how do you think people feel..who are so broken and confused..who look for help and healing..come to us..christians..only to be so called loved and accepted...yet put into boot came..there are so many fallen christians..due to us christians..how do you think God feels
THERE IS SUCH A CONDEMNING SPIRIT in the church!! people may not want to see it..but non believers see it..they talk about it so much...i hear it for myself
I know I am not better by any standard..i sin so much.i know
BUT it hurts to look for help..when you are spiritually being stripped away only to recieve death in the light of life
and I wonder way I am angry so much?
dont get me wrong..there is such great help...but i just see something else
Brother that spirit of condemnation you see.. hear.. and experience is not of God.. but we if want to show what God is really like.. we cannot be like that too.. Oh brother don't you see.. of course that spirit is in the church when you see attitudes like that.. But brother by being the same back.. you are only allowing satan.. who is behind it.. to work more.. but this time it is coming through you!!
I understand you are angry with that spirit.. but don't take it out on the people through which it is coming at you and at others.. see that it is satan who is really responsible.. and love them back..
God says bless those who curse you..
Do good to those who despitefully use you..
Why?
Because He knows the spirit behind the hurt.. and he knows what satan is hurting people for.. to get a reaction!! But a gentle answer turns away anger.. and a sharp word causes anger..
YES it is hurtful that this spirit and many others are in the church.. but to use anything but love and blessing and prayer and kindness is only going to multiply that evil more.. not get rid of it..
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
Not everyone who is christian can give it all to Jesus..even if they tried as hard as they wanted too...I have tried as hard as I can to give it all to Jesus...yet I know..in my heart..it not as easy as it sounds..its not a one minute thing..or just saying it.
if it were that easy..I would of..but time as told..and i know in my heart..i cant at this moment..I can only give a small amount to Him..that is all some people can do..and I am told so much..that is not enough..that Jesus cannot help me..if I cannot give all to Him..so I guess I am screwed..because there are so many hurting people out there...who want to come to Jesus..yet are told they cannot be helped...or overcome unless they give it all..they try..I have tried..they give as much as they can..peopel keep bringing them down...all these formulas...some PEOPLE CANNOT give it all up at once..if it truly a relationship..wouldnt it be over time.as they got to KNOW GOD.and thus over time..got to TRUST HIM MORE..that then they are able to give more and more each day
yet there people who teach what I said..and there are who dont...there are such different teachings in the body of Christ....its hard for people hurting no where to stand..which ground do they stand on? which teacher is right..because in many peoples eyes what they teach is right..though there are 10 different teachings...
that is why it is hard for me...to stand on any ground..though I read the bible for myself..I do not now where to stand..people keep telling me different things..I am told to read the bible for myself..to ask God to teach me..I have over and over..yet here I am
I am going to stand around and let people beriddle me..even though they may have the best interests at heart you have to know..I am not going to let people tear me down anymore..if it offends them..so be it.I am going to be real..no more cushions..I am tired of people telling me to straigthen up..tried of hearing grace and love..yet underneath peoples comments..its written: "straighten up..stop sinning" do this..formulas
people teach grace and love..no rules and relationships..yet its proven..thats not what they really teach..or else it would be different
its still rules..regulations..or maybe I am not getting it
yet that is the taste I get...I told this..yet I get that
sorry to say this.I am being real..if it gets me banned in trouble..so be it
how do you think people feel..who are so broken and confused..who look for help and healing..come to us..christians..only to be so called loved and accepted...yet put into boot came..there are so many fallen christians..due to us christians..how do you think God feels
THERE IS SUCH A CONDEMNING SPIRIT in the church!! people may not want to see it..but non believers see it..they talk about it so much...i hear it for myself
I know I am not better by any standard..i sin so much.i know
BUT it hurts to look for help..when you are spiritually being stripped away only to recieve death in the light of life
and I wonder way I am angry so much?
dont get me wrong..there is such great help...but i just see something else
Yes, I agree that it is tough. You can't give it all to him on your own. You need the power of the Holy Spirit to help you to trust God enough to heal you of this spiritual sickness. Stop believe the lies of the enemy. He is trying to make you think that it is not possible so that your faith is being dragged down. Ask God for the power of the Holy Spirit to free you of the spiritual bondage that Satan is trying to put you in. With the power of the Holy Spirit restoring your faith and making it stronger, there are wings. You don't have to stay at the point that you are now at. Just believe that God can do anything and HE will. If you don't believe that, ask him to help you. It is not a natural thought process. It requires the Holy Spirit at work in you giving you strong faith. Anything is possible with God!
That is the tough part, Christsdaughter...wanting it..its hard to want Gods help when you do not know Him..and with such fear...and I dont know what I will get...
This is a part I do not understand...you see I have OCD..this disorder causes me to feel and think that I want different things than I actually do..for instance..it makes me have such evil desires and things to do certain things..it always seem to give me desires and wants to what I do not want..though it feels so true
I hope you understand..it is painful not to know yourself..in such a way..you do not know what you want..this is me.. I feel like i do not know what i want..i feel like i want always evil..though I dont...this causes such a division
and it brings me back to this..how hard to have to want it...is there a measure line..does it mean i have to work that much harder to really want Gods help in order to get it?
because if thats the case..God will not be helping me anytime soon
all i have is such a small seed of desire for God...thats all..the rest is muck...desires for this or that...
I cannot explain it.OCD and the trauma over the years has really reigned havor with my desires and who I am..
not knowing what you want..your wants in desires..hurts so deep..not knowing what makes Dustin tick hurts..God desires things..very person does...this for me has been destroyed...
i know I dont have the perfect desire for Gods help..that is because of the trauma and pain..i just have a small seed.if that is not enough..then i am truly lost..then why ask God for help at all
I would not ask God for help.if I did not mean it..sure i dont know what to do or expect..but that is because i have such a screwed up image of Him..and dont even now where to start
i hate having to have everything in line and perfect desire in order for God to help me..i would never get there
there are times at work were i almost collapse because of exhaustion and pain inside
sigh maybe i dont want Gods help..but thats because i dont know what to expect and because of aspect of my personality that i know is hindering me.but i still ask..i hope that is enough for God to help me
how long will I have to wait for help..when every second of the cloak just makes me angrier and hurt even more
Brother.. by doing what God desires.. going His way.. He will show and reveal Himself to you because that is what HE says.. I promise that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.. But it takes everything we have.. A comittment to God to say.. Here I am LORD.. weak and weary.. scared.. and not sure about YOU or who YOU are..... But I will do what YOU have said.. I will go YOUR way.. I will do things YOUR way.. Please reveal YOURSELF to me.. for I want to know YOU.. Here I tell you my failures.. please help me..
God won't fail you..
See in doing this very thing.. in taking HIS way with all we are.. we find out GOD is who HE says HE is.. We find HIS peace.. and strength.. and comfort.. His way is peace.. Yes troubles are still there.. everywhere.. but we take His way of doing things.. and trade it for our own way.. He will help you with everything..
Our way doesn't work.. I know I have tried it..
Gods way does work.. Blessed be HIS name!
I continue to pray.. you are not alone in this.. He is with you always.. and He loves you so much..
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Feed the people around you with your smiles, and your face will become like Christ's inexhaustible basket of bread that fed thousands of people. Your face can feed people hungry for love in their life or at that very moment. "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa ♥
because in all honestly...for some reason I dont want God in my life..not one bit..I cannot tell you why
I know its because whts happened in the past..i know God very wrongly..to me He justs wants to take fun out of life..no matter how you say it..even if you say He wants you to have fun.. I just dont believe it or understand it..I just see God as someone who wants to control me in every way..even though He offers freedom..from what i know and experienced and was tought.I was so controlled i thought by God..and looking back on it..though I loved The Lord..I hated what I felt..though now i think i was controlled by a demonic spirit..yes i know I was..but I cant say for sure.i know I was though
..guys I cant come to God and say YOUR WAY..because I hate His way..I hated being controlled.i hated what peopel tought me..how God operates and talks to me..
I FELT CONTROLLED AND MANPULATED
Peacechild and others..please dont think I am going around and around..I would not be saying these things if it not meant something..I cant seem to explain whats really hurting me.and it hurts me not being able to tell people how i feel...or be able to explain what i feel
I have tried to do what you ask..and my heart is not in it..it is..but its fear.and a huge wall of letting The Holy Spirit work in my life
I cannot tell you how much I was traumatized with the unpardonable sin issue..that I went through..It has closed my heart off to Him and letting Him work in my life.because what has happened..I cant explain it..its so demonic.and sick..it just hurts so much..having a fear that peirces your soul..being affraid of God..of The Holy Spirit.and you dont understand why
please dont think I am beating a bush...i am not looking for pity party.
I really dont know what is hurting me so much..I have prayed about it..I cannot seem to see the truth..though I have searched for it
I have tried all that you ask..though I am told i am lazy and have not tried hard enough
That is the tough part, Christsdaughter...wanting it..its hard to want Gods help when you do not know Him..and with such fear...and I dont know what I will get...
This is a part I do not understand...you see I have OCD..this disorder causes me to feel and think that I want different things than I actually do..for instance..it makes me have such evil desires and things to do certain things..it always seem to give me desires and wants to what I do not want..though it feels so true
I hope you understand..it is painful not to know yourself..in such a way..you do not know what you want..this is me.. I feel like i do not know what i want..i feel like i want always evil..though I dont...this causes such a division
and it brings me back to this..how hard to have to want it...is there a measure line..does it mean i have to work that much harder to really want Gods help in order to get it?
because if thats the case..God will not be helping me anytime soon
all i have is such a small seed of desire for God...thats all..the rest is muck...desires for this or that...
I cannot explain it.OCD and the trauma over the years has really reigned havor with my desires and who I am..
not knowing what you want..your wants in desires..hurts so deep..not knowing what makes Dustin tick hurts..God desires things..very person does...this for me has been destroyed...
i know I dont have the perfect desire for Gods help..that is because of the trauma and pain..i just have a small seed.if that is not enough..then i am truly lost..then why ask God for help at all
I would not ask God for help.if I did not mean it..sure i dont know what to do or expect..but that is because i have such a screwed up image of Him..and dont even now where to start
i hate having to have everything in line and perfect desire in order for God to help me..i would never get there
there are times at work were i almost collapse because of exhaustion and pain inside
sigh maybe i dont want Gods help..but thats because i dont know what to expect and because of aspect of my personality that i know is hindering me.but i still ask..i hope that is enough for God to help me
how long will I have to wait for help..when every second of the cloak just makes me angrier and hurt even more
Sometimes God lets us exhaust all of our other choices so that we are put at the end of our rope holding on and realize that he is the ONLY way to TRUE freedom and joy. Everything that the world has to offer fails to make us happy. Giving into these evil desires that you have is not leading you to freedom. It is leaving you in bondage to sin. If you are giving into these evil desires, then they are controlling you. The difference between being controlled by sin (or maybe an evil spirit) and being controlled by the HOLY Spirit, is that the Holy Spirit leads you to peace and joy and of course eternity in heaven. Read Romans 8...you will find it very encouraging! Actually, the whole book of Romans seems to be the book you may want to look into reading right now, but read chapter 8 first and see if it helps! It will help you to understand what life through the Holy Spirit is TRULY about.
And, God can heal you of the wounds of your past if you let Him. HE is the only one who CAN. Just choose to obey HIM and NOT the sinful nature that you were born with.
You may not have a lot of faith right now, but take the little that you do have and give it ALL to Him. Giving it all to Him means to give all that YOU have to Him, not all of what you think that you ought to have. I little faith goes a long way. Most people's faith starts out small, but you have to water it and then God will make it grow!
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,£2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature,£ God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.£ And so he condemned sin in sinful man,£4in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.6The mind of sinful man£ is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind£ is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.£ And by him we cry, “Abba,£ Father.” 16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co–heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Future Glory
18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that£ the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
More Than Conquerors
28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,£ who£ have been called according to his purpose.29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,£ neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus ourLord.
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