Goals are pointless if you depend on yourself.
Trust me, I've tried. On multiple occasions. Right now, I know what to do. However, the follow-through is lacking. To a lot of people on here, this is old news, but you're doomed to fail if you're not relying on God to get you through - to stay focused on - your goals/convictions/internal battles/whatever they may be. And if you don't dig into the Word, how do you expect to get anywhere? You're not. That's the thing. The Bible has everything we need, everything God wants to tell us, and everything that can help others. His Words have power to change lives, to get us through with what we're going through, and to make us want Him more. But it all starts with reading our Bible. When Jesus was tempted in Matthew 4:4, he said that "man does not live by bread alone, but on every word that God speaks" or in Hebrews 4:12 where it says "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
We need to read the Bible through the good times AND bad. ESPECIALLY the bad. How else are we suppose to grow in our faith if we never care to learn more about Him, His kingdom, what He's like. Certainly not by reading God-based self-help books alone.
Trust me, I've tried. On multiple occasions. Right now, I know what to do. However, the follow-through is lacking. To a lot of people on here, this is old news, but you're doomed to fail if you're not relying on God to get you through - to stay focused on - your goals/convictions/internal battles/whatever they may be. And if you don't dig into the Word, how do you expect to get anywhere? You're not. That's the thing. The Bible has everything we need, everything God wants to tell us, and everything that can help others. His Words have power to change lives, to get us through with what we're going through, and to make us want Him more. But it all starts with reading our Bible. When Jesus was tempted in Matthew 4:4, he said that "man does not live by bread alone, but on every word that God speaks" or in Hebrews 4:12 where it says "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
We need to read the Bible through the good times AND bad. ESPECIALLY the bad. How else are we suppose to grow in our faith if we never care to learn more about Him, His kingdom, what He's like. Certainly not by reading God-based self-help books alone.
