i cant feel the love of Jesus

[Lily76_]

edit ...sorry

 

[paul1149]

i cant feel it i think am unable to feel it

Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?

No, you would need a more accurate way to tell direction. So you look to the sky instead, and read the position of the sun, moon and stars, because you know that doesn't change. This way, you find your way into port, and there you can have your equipment repaired.

It's the same with us sometimes, with feelings. We get damaged for one reason or another in life, and our feelings become warped. We interpret things inaccurately, because that's the way it feels, and if we go by those feelings, we end up way off course - just as the enemy who sabotaged us wants.

Instead, when our feelings are messed up, we need to turn to the unchanging Word of God. It never fails. God has exalted His Word above even His Name, and He has declared that His Word will stand forever.

That Word says you are loved. It says that if you place your trust in the Name of Jesus, you will be saved. It says He will never leave nor forsake you, and that is true no matter how it feels, for indeed, it also says that in the world we will have tribulation.

The sooner you can stop chasing feelings, and start standing on the Word of God, the sooner you will start gaining the power to walk right out of the bondage this world put you in, and onto higher ground. There is no limit to how high we can go in the Lord, but it all rests on faith.

Hold fast to the Lord Jesus. Trust in His love no matter what. It will be a protection for your soul.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

With pretty much no doubt about this, Corrie ten Boom's LIFE in JESUS, her testimony ,
is the best ever that may encourage anyone seeking Yahweh's (God's) Kingdom.

Also, though much much more difficult for someone not ready, Foxes Book of Martyrs -

all to see how Yahweh's Love, Tender Mercies, Forgiveness and Plan is all accomplished by Yahweh through horrible pains, suffering and tragedies,
and all LEARNED experientially only by going through those sufferings and trusting Him, leaning on Him, even with full thankfulness of heart and rejoicing at His Great Victory over the enemy, all aspects of the wicked world that we live in, and Total freedom in Jesus who Himself Bore (took away) all of our guilt and shame and sin.

 

[frienden thalord]

Sin will choke the word right out of you.
my advice is if you have any unforgivness towards any who has wronged you.
FIND THEM and forgive them.

 

[frienden thalord]

Sin will choke the word right out of you.
my advice is if you have any unforgivness towards any who has wronged you.
FIND THEM and forgive them.

PS. no they don't deserve it, but neither did I deserve Gods grace and forgivness either.
it was freely given . You find you forgive and cry out to God for a new heart.

 

[Victor E.]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1825213974173649

 

[W2L]

Perhaps you have a little growing to do.

Romans 5:3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.


Acts 14:21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”

2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
For they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
For they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
For they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
For they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
For they shall be called sons of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

 

[Anguspure]

Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?

No, you would need a more accurate way to tell direction. So you look to the sky instead, and read the position of the sun, moon and stars, because you know that doesn't change. This way, you find your way into port, and there you can have your equipment repaired.

It's the same with us sometimes, with feelings. We get damaged for one reason or another in life, and our feelings become warped. We interpret things inaccurately, because that's the way it feels, and if we go by those feelings, we end up way off course - just as the enemy who sabotaged us wants.

Instead, when our feelings are messed up, we need to turn to the unchanging Word of God. It never fails. God has exalted His Word above even His Name, and He has declared that His Word will stand forever.

That Word says you are loved. It says that if you place your trust in the Name of Jesus, you will be saved. It says He will never leave nor forsake you, and that is true no matter how it feels, for indeed, it also says that in the world we will have tribulation.

The sooner you can stop chasing feelings, and start standing on the Word of God, the sooner you will start gaining the power to walk right out of the bondage this world put you in, and onto higher ground. There is no limit to how high we can go in the Lord, but it all rests on faith.

Hold fast to the Lord Jesus. Trust in His love no matter what. It will be a protection for your soul.

The way we are at sea now days, if the GPS failed then we would all be lost. I wonder how much this is a picture of the state of our Church as well.

 

[Willing-heart]

What is Love?

Perhaps there is no word in the English language that has been more tortured, twisted, misunderstood and even perverted than the word “love”. Love is more than just a feeling and not something you keep falling into or out of from time to time. Even Christians are not immune to this kind of confusion & distortion of the real meaning of Love.

When Jesus said I love you, He did not say, I love you only when you’re good or when you love me back or when you’re spiritual or when you’re strong or victorious in life. No, not at all. He said I love you, and I love you all the time and all the way to eternity. This is love.

 

[paul1149]

edit ...sorry

Don't be sorry. This is a problem every sincere disciple has at one time or another. Indeed, it's baked right into God's program of discipleship. He intends to mature us, to wean us off being spoon-fed, and that means that every time we are ready to take a step higher, we must leave our comfort zones and rely only on faith in His Word as our guide. In time, the feelings will come into line. They have to, because Jesus is Lord of them as well, but there is an initial period where they may seem askew. If this isn't happening regularly in any Christian's life, he simply is not growing.

 

[Anguspure]

Imagine you were the pilot of a ship out on the ocean. Someone got to your navigational equipment and sabotaged it, so it kept giving false readings. Knowing that, would you follow what it says?

No, you would need a more accurate way to tell direction. So you look to the sky instead, and read the position of the sun, moon and stars, because you know that doesn't change. This way, you find your way into port, and there you can have your equipment repaired.

It's the same with us sometimes, with feelings. We get damaged for one reason or another in life, and our feelings become warped. We interpret things inaccurately, because that's the way it feels, and if we go by those feelings, we end up way off course - just as the enemy who sabotaged us wants.

Instead, when our feelings are messed up, we need to turn to the unchanging Word of God. It never fails. God has exalted His Word above even His Name, and He has declared that His Word will stand forever.

That Word says you are loved. It says that if you place your trust in the Name of Jesus, you will be saved. It says He will never leave nor forsake you, and that is true no matter how it feels, for indeed, it also says that in the world we will have tribulation.

The sooner you can stop chasing feelings, and start standing on the Word of God, the sooner you will start gaining the power to walk right out of the bondage this world put you in, and onto higher ground. There is no limit to how high we can go in the Lord, but it all rests on faith.

Hold fast to the Lord Jesus. Trust in His love no matter what. It will be a protection for your soul.

On reflection it occurs to me that this analogy is also flawed in a way that also reflects a failure in the culture we live.

We are not supposed to be lonely ships on an empty sea, as is the case for ships that navigate the ocean.

Rather we are supposed to be part of a flock of His sheep, where those who have lost sight of our Shepherd can also follow the way of the one in front and those who feel vulnerable and unloved can brought safely, as they need it, into the middle of the flock.

Jesus talked about the good shepherd leaving His flock to find the one lost sheep, to being it back into the fold.
Unfortunately it is all to common, and in fact the norm' I would suggest, for those who have lost their way to be left to their own devices, as prey to the wolves, many are killed and destroyed, and then those who survive the attacks are shunned and maligned for being to ugly for the flock.

 

[Dave G.]

True love from God is not so much what we feel but knowing his promise and believing it. Nothing describes Gods love like 1 Corinthians 13. It is that He is there when we are not, He is there when we are weak etc etc. I suggest a regular reading of this as a reminder.. There are times we feel God's love as we witness something in our lives but God's love is not as the world knows love, it is Agape Love. Lilly, maybe in time and through scripture you can see God loves you, meanwhile I would just ask that you trust that He does even though you can't feel anything.

 

[Anguspure]

True love from God is not so much what we feel but knowing his promise and believing it. Nothing describes Gods love like 1 Corinthians 13. It is that He is there when we are not, He is there when we are weak etc etc. I suggest a regular reading of this as a reminder.. There are times we feel God's love as we witness something in our lives but God's love is not as the world knows love, it is Agape Love. Lilly, maybe in time and through scripture you can see God loves you, meanwhile I would just ask that you trust that He does even though you can't feel anything.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13)

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. (1 Peter 1)

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. (1 John 4)

We often guide a person in the way that you have above when they claim that they cannot feel the Love. Yet I have never heard this complaint from a person that is being Loved by the hands and feet of Christ, who is being held in the arms of one who is truly loving from the Spirit.

All to often we use words as an excuse for a failed community, that is not following the way of the Lord.

If one of you tells him, "Go in peace; stay warm and well fed," but does not provide ... If you don't provide for that person's physical needs, what good does it do? (James 2)

 

[Lily76_]

thank you all for replying sorry i deleted most of what i said am scared right now i have a lot of fear as my life has been all about fear if i tell you all something i hope you will able to forgive me and understand that what i have is a sickness mentally where i can do things in my own way and not mean it badly
my family where neglectful my mother drank because of pain of losing her babies that she lost she drank and and drank and never really cared for me and my sister thought that time looked after me and when i was 13 she was 16 she went to live with an older man and abandoned me my bio father abandoned me also and my mum and step dad where too lost in there grief for the little ones lost i was abandoned by everyone i know i started make self injuring and make up stories about how i had cuts on my hand says i was in hospital etc as the years went on lies apon lies stories on stories lies where a comfort i got so use to doing it it has become my trick i could play on people and stop them abandoning me but then people would go and leave me even as an adults lies made things better lies made thing easyer i was interesting and poor me people felt sorry for me and the more i told the more people where there for me
i then met a man who i care about a lot told him lies too to keep him here been lieing everyday of my life its seems then thiings came from my sister that we had been abused as children this i have no memory off but one of my lies was that i was abused so i guess am deserving what i got my step dad killed himself 6 years ago and he abandoned me my mum and sister and her children all love him and cant get over his death i cant get over his death years before my step dad death i was given the diagnosed of Borderline personality Disorder and i was also diagnosed with Ocd etc i cant go out the house without my husband because am a danger to myself and others i take panic attacks and i am suicidal most of the time or other times i self injure i am covered in scars and marks from hurting myself
i have gone from one faith to another trying to find the truth i have told myself that am going to hell no one else i keep thinking am going there for lying to everyone for most of my life i feel i lie all the time and i cant seem to stop you might all hate me i hate me so much its one of the reasons why i self injure or OD for punishment i am sorry i lie i know that its hard to forgive me am evil and should go to hell but now that i have told you all the truth i hope i can be forgiven i am been lying for so long i dont know where i can get help or what to do to be honest i feel like hurting myself right now but i want to feel the love of God of the holy spirit and of Jesus and love of others
i keep thinking i'll be abandoned again so scared to be on my own i hide this from everyone including my husband in the past i have tried to tell him but he says its just my mental health and that there is no forgiving needed
i feel bad and upset at myself please help me

 

[Anguspure]

thank you all for replying sorry i deleted most of what i said am scared right now i have a lot of fear as my life has been all about fear if i tell you all something i hope you will able to forgive me and understand that what i have is a sickness mentally where i can do things in my own way and not mean it badly
my family where neglectful my mother drank because of pain of losing her babies that she lost she drank and and drank and never really cared for me and my sister thought that time looked after me and when i was 13 she was 16 she went to live with an older man and abandoned me my bio father abandoned me also and my mum and step dad where too lost in there grief for the little ones lost i was abandoned by everyone i know i started make self injuring and make up stories about how i had cuts on my hand says i was in hospital etc as the years went on lies apon lies stories on stories lies where a comfort i got so use to doing it it has become my trick i could play on people and stop them abandoning me but then people would go and leave me even as an adults lies made things better lies made thing easyer i was interesting and poor me people felt sorry for me and the more i told the more people where there for me
i then met a man who i care about a lot told him lies too to keep him here been lieing everyday of my life its seems then thiings came from my sister that we had been abused as children this i have no memory off but one of my lies was that i was abused so i guess am deserving what i got my step dad killed himself 6 years ago and he abandoned me my mum and sister and her children all love him and cant get over his death i cant get over his death years before my step dad death i was given the diagnosed of Borderline personality Disorder and i was also diagnosed with Ocd etc i cant go out the house without my husband because am a danger to myself and others i take panic attacks and i am suicidal most of the time or other times i self injure i am covered in scars and marks from hurting myself
i have gone from one faith to another trying to find the truth i have told myself that am going to hell no one else i keep thinking am going there for lying to everyone for most of my life i feel i lie all the time and i cant seem to stop you might all hate me i hate me so much its one of the reasons why i self injure or OD for punishment i am sorry i lie i know that its hard to forgive me am evil and should go to hell but now that i have told you all the truth i hope i can be forgiven i am been lying for so long i dont know where i can get help or what to do to be honest i feel like hurting myself right now but i want to feel the love of God of the holy spirit and of Jesus and love of others
i keep thinking i'll be abandoned again so scared to be on my own i hide this from everyone including my husband in the past i have tried to tell him but he says its just my mental health and that there is no forgiving needed
i feel bad and upset at myself please help me

Agreeing with you in prayer before God at the moment my sister, just wish I wasn't on the other side of the planet at the moment.

 

[Dave G.]

Lilly turn to Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, tell him of your lies and ask His forgiveness. Then watch Him help you flood everyone with the truth instead. You will need that help and turn to the truth. It's easy, instead of telling a lie, tell the truth, assuming you have the mental stability to know the truth..

 

[disciple1]

edit ...sorry

Does Jesus feel your love.


Matthew chapter 25 verses 31-46
When the Son of Man comes" in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. he will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and got visit you? The King will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me. Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.They also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you? He will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

 

[paul1149]

i hope i can be forgiven

Piece of cake. Jesus loves you so much, and has already paid the price of forgiveness in full.

None of us deserve forgiveness. We all were on our way to hell. No matter how good we might seem on the outside, inside our righteousness is as "filthy rags."

What you're doing here - being honest with yourself - is the path back to wholeness. Because of the love of God in Christ Jesus, we now have the opportunity to be honest about ourselves, without fear of condemnation, because there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus (Rom 8.1). Jesus came into the world "not imputing their sins against them" (2Cor 5.19).

The devil is completely out-maneuvered. He had us trapped in condemnation, but now that our sin is paid for, he no longer has anything on us. Now, if we confess, God can forgive and cleanse, as 1John 1.9 says. It's a process, and it doesn't always feel good, but Jesus promises that if we remain in His Word, we will know the truth and it will set up free. (John 8.31-32)

So keep on being honest with the Lord. Hebrews 13 tells us to go boldly to the throne of grace, not when we're at the top of our game, but for help in time of need. Jesus is the good shepherd who leaves the 99 to find the 1 lost sheep, and He is not going to forsake you. You cannot surprise Him with anything. He already knows it all.

 

[Dave G.]

We do need to understand that Lilly has been here since 2007 and logged over 3000 posts. Love her as she is and lets pray for more.

And Lilly, truth is awesome !

 

[Lily76_]

thank you all i understand if you all hate me i understand if am now no longer welcome here
i keep wanting to be punished in some way for this told my husband again he says its part of my BPD ...i dont understand why he cant see it he loves me that much