I understand that I can't do it myself, but I don't feel like I can pray to God. I don't feel worthy to pray to God. The times when I have prayed to God, it's just seems like the words don't come out right, because when I speak to him, I feel unworthily selfish. I don't feel like I can express the childlike me out to God. What I mean by this is, lets say you're a child and there's someone you really look up to... like a hero. Compared to this hero that you really look up to, you feel like you're just a dull child. And this makes you just want to run up to your hero and and put your arms around him and have him hold you and really want to know that he loves you and that he'll never be your enemy. And this is a hero that is important to the point to where, if you're not clinging to him, it makes you mentally unstable and troubled. In the same way, that's how I feel about God, and that's the way I'd like to express myself to God and it seems like the feelings are there to do it, but I just don't have the energy to let those feelings out to God. When I do try to let them out, my voice is empty and it seems like it's very hard for me to overcome my lower nature that is holding the child in me hostage. I feel like I am unable to truly repent because of all this.
First off, you say here that you understand that you cannot do this yourself..
And then you go on to say that your having trouble with praying?!?
It's Jesus who will pray through you with the Holy Spirit as you yield to Him for His Life!
You know, that Life that Lives to please the Father!
This is so true, the fact that you want to seek God's love makes satan want to try to take that feeling away from you, I feel that way some times (I myself have problems similar to this), but remember God loves you, and God understands struggles in everyone. Because lets face it, we are all human.Lots and lots of prayers!
Satan is trying to destroy things cause you are so close to God and Satan HATES that! He doesn't want God to win.
Even christians are tested and go thru bad times. That doesn't mean God has left us. Give it all to God, don't worry about it, life will get better. Then when there is a fork in the road, know God will lead you down the right path.
Have you honestly accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour? Have you accepted the fact that He died for YOUR sin?Sometimes, I've tried just laying on my bed... hoping that God would fill the void in my life and give me true repentence, which I believe is the kind of repentence that you don't have to strain to do. But eventually, when that doesn't happen, that's when the anger ensues. Maybe it's just not the right time?
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Faith is the key!Colossians 2:20-23
20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22Which all are to perish with the using; after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Colossians 3:3
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Galatians 2:20
20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
2 Corinthians 13:5-7
5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Have you honestly accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour? Have you accepted the fact that He died for YOUR sin?
Zeena said:Don't you know you DIED with Christ?
It's no longer YOU who Live but Christ Jesus in you!
Zeena said:Do you believe?
What sin are you talking about?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are saying or asking here.
When and how did I die with Christ?
If God says I believe... I believe.
that is a touching prayer request Space. I hope as you continue to seek God, you will also let Him work on you and letting go of bad habits (and bad friends) and replacing with good things. He can help you do that, one day at a time.I'm having a bit of a problem, here. I'm wanting so badly to get along with God and when I try to do this... it just seems like Satan is there trying to destroy my love for not only other people but God. The worst part of this is, I'm having urges to speak against God and fight with God. I've felt extremely lost and I guess Satan is trying to make me feel like he abandoned me, which is causing me to want to get into an arguement with God. I also feel like there's something really big missing, and not having it is literally causing me to be inhuman and to not be able to move on with my life (I'm kinda stalled in life right now). Things have been pretty rough and all this has literally caused me mental illness. I don't feel like I can pray to God because everytime I do, the hope in my voice drops... I guess Satan is doing a good job of convincing me that God doesn't care about me, because that's how I feel almost all the time. I hope am not being too selfish here but can you please pray for me... that God will remove Satan from my life for good... and I'd really like to be closer to God and to get along with him. But most of all I want him in my life and I want to know that he's there and that he cares for me.
Thank you!
I'm having a bit of a problem, here. I'm wanting so badly to get along with God and when I try to do this... it just seems like Satan is there trying to destroy my love for not only other people but God. The worst part of this is, I'm having urges to speak against God and fight with God. I've felt extremely lost and I guess Satan is trying to make me feel like he abandoned me, which is causing me to want to get into an arguement with God. I also feel like there's something really big missing, and not having it is literally causing me to be inhuman and to not be able to move on with my life (I'm kinda stalled in life right now). Things have been pretty rough and all this has literally caused me mental illness. I don't feel like I can pray to God because everytime I do, the hope in my voice drops... I guess Satan is doing a good job of convincing me that God doesn't care about me, because that's how I feel almost all the time. I hope am not being too selfish here but can you please pray for me... that God will remove Satan from my life for good... and I'd really like to be closer to God and to get along with him. But most of all I want him in my life and I want to know that he's there and that he cares for me.
Thank you!
Christians are ones who have died with Christ. I believe Baptism is an outward sign of that teaching. So, a nonchristian is not died with Christ. I think she is mistaken.
praying for you though. The best way to fight satan is do the right thing by your conscience. even if it hurts your pride sometimes, better to be humble and doing right
2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead
ASV
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
AMP
14For the love of Christ controls and urges and impels us, because we are of the opinion and conviction that [if] One died for all, then all died;