I hit rock bottom, I'm back but scarred

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I became a Christian about 5 years ago, went to church heavily and all that jazz, stayed out of the world, it was good for the most part, kept me out of trouble, met other Christians, was in music ministry. Definitely knew the biblical God was the correct perspective. But, I was still a baby and was headed for disaster.

When I moved out with a friend we somehow came to the conclusion that we didnt need church or christians anymore and we would be fine with just Jesus and live in sin. I think mainly because we were so hurt and fed up with the hypocrisy it was a great excuse. Anyway I was unable to handle both full time work and school much less one of them and eventually they both cracked. I ended back at my moms in for a world of hurt.

I started hanging out with the world and smoking weed 24/7 which was making me even more vulnerable then I was. I tried to help this kid by letting live at my moms but her ended up robbing us. I was at the weedman's house all the time hanging out with him and his girlfriend. She started to take a "liking' towards me, I tried to avoid it but I was ready to crack. Up until I left the church I was very disciplined in this area, never even kissed a girl, would avoid dates for fear of falling into fornication, was almost there waiting till marriage saving myself.

I allowed myself to be seduced and a pawn in this chicks game, i thought we sincerely liked each other, and her abusive boyfriend was the only one to blame. She started coming to my house all the time, with his car and everything, we were having sex doing drugs and everything. Im lucky her boyfriend didnt hurt me. I really didn't care at time, I recalled a story a friend told me about two christian virgins getting married, and then the girl leaving him shortly after for a football player getting the house and everything. I was like its all a joke, but the joke was on me.

When her boyfriend finally changed the locks on her, she jumped from his house to mine. Later on she told me she was saving up her share of the weed money to eventually leave. Well I was her easy way out. I looked past all of this at the time, I became very emotionally attached to her, but she wasn't who I thought she was. She said she really liked me and I felt bad for her and wanted to help her at the expense of myself. She had borderline personality disorder and alot of baggage but I was so smitten. A half a year later she calls the cops on my brother for something stupid and my moms orders her to leave, ofcourse she can legally stay for a month. My brother was like shes just using you, she doesn't care about you, shes a good actor, but I didn't listen. I started looking for a place to move out with her because I didn't want to loose her. We started going to a home church too and hanging out with my old Christian friend who was concerned , she just played games though, didn't want to be a Christian, I wanted too become one again though. I finally came to my senses and didn't move out with her. She was very upset but still kept me around after that while living with her male roommates cause she didn't have a car and stuff to get to work. I finally just stopped messing with her but some how she kept reeling me back in to the point of telling me she wants to talk to my christian friends and be a christian! I had a hard time letting go and just kept getting hurt more and more. Once she got a car she then left me for her roommate.

Oh I am so glad its over and I am glad to be a Christian again, its tragic I had to learn the hard way but o well. Maybe I'm to sensitive but I am deeply scarred from this crazy girl, I am so hurt. I spent alot of time with her and I can't get her out of my mind, she was so manipulative and I gave her my long kept virginity. I started drinking heavily but now I stopped and take meds now but its not a quick fix. This is the biggest regret ever, I feel so used and I talk to people about it but I don't think the understand the pain I am feeling, it is unbearable. I was not thinking clearly, so dumb, just a tool. It amazing me how she has no remorse. On top of that, I am burdened with all the sexual memories, what a soul tie. I guess in time it will get better.
 
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Lots to work through, but you have the capacity and opportunity to live your life well in relationship with Jesus. Accept God's forgiveness, begin to live out your faith and experience the 'all things new' that Jesus has accomplished for you.

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Oh I am so glad its over and I am glad to be a Christian again, its tragic I had to learn the hard way but o well. Maybe I'm to sensitive but I am deeply scarred from this crazy girl, I am so hurt. I spent alot of time with her and I can't get her out of my mind, she was so manipulative and I gave her my long kept virginity. I started drinking heavily but now I stopped and take meds now but its not a quick fix. This is the biggest regret ever, I feel so used and I talk to people about it but I don't think the understand the pain I am feeling, it is unbearable. I was not thinking clearly, so dumb, just a tool. It amazing me how she has no remorse. On top of that, I am burdened with all the sexual memories, what a soul tie. I guess in time it will get better.
You have joined yourself to this woman in a way that was only meant
to be in a marriage (the two shall become one)

I could give you all kind of advice but what you really need is to
decide once and for all to follow Christ.

Your life will alway be filled with confusion and unnecessary troubles
until you make the decision to get off the fence and to go God's
way and invite Christ to be more than your savior but
to ask Him to be the Lord of your life.

As far as the woman you had joined yourself to, you need to repent
and ask God to forgive you and to ask God to break the tie that
binds you to her.
You don't need to understand it all now but trust
me it will help you to go forward with the Lord.

You then need to forgive this woman and pray for her.
Ask God to come into her life and reveal Himself to her.

Stop blaming anyone else and see that you alone are responsible.

You have allowed the enemy to come into your life because
of your own desires to sin, so you can blame no one but yourself.

God will forgive you but you must forgive others...

How does the Lords prayer go?

Father forgive me as I forgive others...

God has a wonderful plan for your life but you at some point
took your eyes off Him and began to look at the flaws of others who
come in His name.

No one is like Jesus.
All will disappoint and fail.
Only Jesus is the true lover of your soul.
Only Jesus will never leave or forsake you.

You may leave Him but He will never turn His back on you no
matter how you ignore Him or take Him for granted, He is
always there desiring that you would let Him in and
allow Him to show you the way.

Who better to show us the way?

Trust me...if you choose to go God's way and tell
Him that you don't ever want to go back, God will open
up a whole new life to you and bring you to a place you
could never have imagined.

I am not talking easy...
I am saying you will be blessed in the relationship
that you will have with the one who loves you and has your name written on His palm...

This relationship is worth giving up everything for...

Go for it...:thumbsup:
 
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There is a difference between wounds and scars. Scars are healed wounds. Christ chose to retain his scars, as an eternal sign of the love He has for us.

Now you revel in that love. He accepts you back with open arms, without reproaching (James 1.5). Let His love heal you, completely independently of what mistakes you have made and your current situation. He is greater than all that, greater than your ability to sin. Trust in His love and you will be healed, and you will see how He can save you from your past and give you your hind's feet and lead you to your high pastures. Your wounds will become painless scars, signs of God's healing power and love that you will not be ashamed of, and you will be able to minister to others who are hurting.
 
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There is a difference between wounds and scars. Scars are healed wounds. Christ chose to retain his scars, as an eternal sign of the love He has for us.

Now you revel in that love. He accepts you back with open arms, without reproaching (James 1.5). Let His love heal you, completely independently of what mistakes you have made and your current situation. He is greater than all that, greater than your ability to sin. Trust in His love and you will be healed, and you will see how He can save you from your past and give you your hind's feet and lead you to your high pastures. Your wounds will become painless scars, signs of God's healing power and love that you will not be ashamed of, and you will be able to minister to others who are hurting.


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Intimacy is emotional super-glue, and when had in a way which is destined to fail, the tearing apart is bound to hurt the least calloused the most. But this "hard to shake" pain serves to drive the message home, that the temptation of being unfitly joined unto another is like a sugary treat resting atop a skillfully camouflaged bear trap, (reach for the snack and end up with the "whack"), yet if one survives those potentially deadly jaws, through being rescued by The Lord, they can then have even more reason to abide the strait and narrow with Christ's peace and joy !

Which inspires such words as -

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
<-----> Psalm 73:25+26

Also one of the best ways to heal/be helped is to be positively involved in others receiving the help/healing they need.

Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
<-----> Psalm 41:1+2

May The Lord Be Magnified !

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I became a Christian about 5 years ago, went to church heavily and all that jazz, stayed out of the world, it was good for the most part, kept me out of trouble, met other Christians, was in music ministry. Definitely knew the biblical God was the correct perspective. But, I was still a baby and was headed for disaster.

When I moved out with a friend we somehow came to the conclusion that we didnt need church or christians anymore and we would be fine with just Jesus and live in sin. I think mainly because we were so hurt and fed up with the hypocrisy it was a great excuse. Anyway I was unable to handle both full time work and school much less one of them and eventually they both cracked. I ended back at my moms in for a world of hurt.

I started hanging out with the world and smoking weed 24/7 which was making me even more vulnerable then I was. I tried to help this kid by letting live at my moms but her ended up robbing us. I was at the weedman's house all the time hanging out with him and his girlfriend. She started to take a "liking' towards me, I tried to avoid it but I was ready to crack. Up until I left the church I was very disciplined in this area, never even kissed a girl, would avoid dates for fear of falling into fornication, was almost there waiting till marriage saving myself.

I allowed myself to be seduced and a pawn in this chicks game, i thought we sincerely liked each other, and her abusive boyfriend was the only one to blame. She started coming to my house all the time, with his car and everything, we were having sex doing drugs and everything. Im lucky her boyfriend didnt hurt me. I really didn't care at time, I recalled a story a friend told me about two christian virgins getting married, and then the girl leaving him shortly after for a football player getting the house and everything. I was like its all a joke, but the joke was on me.

When her boyfriend finally changed the locks on her, she jumped from his house to mine. Later on she told me she was saving up her share of the weed money to eventually leave. Well I was her easy way out. I looked past all of this at the time, I became very emotionally attached to her, but she wasn't who I thought she was. She said she really liked me and I felt bad for her and wanted to help her at the expense of myself. She had borderline personality disorder and alot of baggage but I was so smitten. A half a year later she calls the cops on my brother for something stupid and my moms orders her to leave, ofcourse she can legally stay for a month. My brother was like shes just using you, she doesn't care about you, shes a good actor, but I didn't listen. I started looking for a place to move out with her because I didn't want to loose her. We started going to a home church too and hanging out with my old Christian friend who was concerned , she just played games though, didn't want to be a Christian, I wanted too become one again though. I finally came to my senses and didn't move out with her. She was very upset but still kept me around after that while living with her male roommates cause she didn't have a car and stuff to get to work. I finally just stopped messing with her but some how she kept reeling me back in to the point of telling me she wants to talk to my christian friends and be a christian! I had a hard time letting go and just kept getting hurt more and more. Once she got a car she then left me for her roommate.

Oh I am so glad its over and I am glad to be a Christian again, its tragic I had to learn the hard way but o well. Maybe I'm to sensitive but I am deeply scarred from this crazy girl, I am so hurt. I spent alot of time with her and I can't get her out of my mind, she was so manipulative and I gave her my long kept virginity. I started drinking heavily but now I stopped and take meds now but its not a quick fix. This is the biggest regret ever, I feel so used and I talk to people about it but I don't think the understand the pain I am feeling, it is unbearable. I was not thinking clearly, so dumb, just a tool. It amazing me how she has no remorse. On top of that, I am burdened with all the sexual memories, what a soul tie. I guess in time it will get better.


Welcome back, brother.
 
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its tragic I had to learn the hard way

You can learn from your own experiences or the experiences of others. It is this sort of pain that brings us so willingly to the Lord for His instruction.

A person raised to walk in truth by the power of the Holy Spirit is not so easily misled. However, Satan runs this world (insofar as he is allowed by God). It is the desire of Satan for people to be led by their emotions and desires rather than a discerning understanding of truth.

Most people are not looking for casual fornication but jump into "relationships" thinking (mostly hoping) that somehow it will somehow lead to a blissful union and happy future. Psychologists call this "magical thinking".

The courtship model of looking to the future from a perspective of marriage and family sounds old fashioned, but there is a reason for the "old fashioned" way.

You may be better served considering the difference between the worldly idea of "falling in love" (a combination of attraction, affection, anticipation, expectation, desire, and even lust) and Biblical love (1 Cor 13) which is essentially selflessness. For a Christian, a "relationship" is marriage between two people who are committed to live for Christ and selflessly serve each other.

For the people in the world, love is an elusive and ethereal state of feeling constantly sought. For the Christian, love is a choice to surrender self and selfishness. Christian love is chosen, built, lasting, and draws us closer to Christ and Christ-likeness.
 
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Thanks for the encouragement . It's hard forgiving someone who isn't even sorry, I know that doesn't matter though. My flesh wants revenge. I'm still giving them power if I don't forgive though. I'm amazed with all my knowledge and experience I was still so foolish. It's ironic though this has catapulted me back to God for good. I got baptized again, and am going through matthew with a friend, starting from scratch so to speak. I honestly think I'm better off just married to Jesus in this lifetime, but who knows maybe it will work out better than I think.
 
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I think part of your problem was that when you did things outside in the world but you felt that you were no longer christian. We all fail we all fall short of his glory, but as long as we remember to call on Jesus name in the end everything will be alright. Now no sin goes unpunished but don't say because you made a mistake you were a christian and you weren't. When people sin they make a mistake but it's a trick of the enemy to make you think that you weren't a Christian. Once you accept Christ no matter what as long as you believe in Him you are a Christian no matter how far you fall.
 
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Thanks for the encouragement . It's hard forgiving someone who isn't even sorry, I know that doesn't matter though. My flesh wants revenge. I'm still giving them power if I don't forgive though. I'm amazed with all my knowledge and experience I was still so foolish. It's ironic though this has catapulted me back to God for good. I got baptized again, and am going through matthew with a friend, starting from scratch so to speak. I honestly think I'm better off just married to Jesus in this lifetime, but who knows maybe it will work out better than I think.

Brother, sometimes find hard to forgive my oppressors, and even myself. I won't lie to you and tell you it is easy to just let go of everything, but I know just like you know it is necessary. timf said that perhaps this pain is bringing you closer to God for instructions, and I think that could be one of the reasons all of this happened. Another reason could be to get your attention - so that you would talk to God and ask/respectfully complain to Him. Pray to Him brother, and stay strong. Try to make friends with people that understand what you are going through.


Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
 
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Yea, dude. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for you. We are being tested EVERY moment, brother; everything is a test (job 7:8); chill and let god take away the pain, at his own pace, in his own time. god already has a moment designated for you, where you'll feel better. for now, it's your time to learn...let yourself be taught how to deal with the pain.

you WILL feel better.
 
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Thanks for the encouragement . It's hard forgiving someone who isn't even sorry, I know that doesn't matter though. My flesh wants revenge. I'm still giving them power if I don't forgive though. I'm amazed with all my knowledge and experience I was still so foolish. It's ironic though this has catapulted me back to God for good. I got baptized again, and am going through matthew with a friend, starting from scratch so to speak. I honestly think I'm better off just married to Jesus in this lifetime, but who knows maybe it will work out better than I think.
When you want revenge, think of Christ hanging on your
cross while you spit on Him and jeered and taunted Him
(which in a sense all men are guilty of before they accept Christ)
and think of Him looking you in the eyes and saying, Father forgive him,
he doesn't know what he is doing.

How can we hold anything against anyone in the face of such
overwhelming love that saved us from eternal damnation while
we seek our own petty revenge on those that Jesus came to seek and to save
just as He sought after you and saved you.

Yes petty because no one suffered like Jesus who was the eternal God who
can and humbled Himself as a man and spoke love and forgiveness
and He was rejected by the very men He had created in love.

All else pales in comparision to Jesus Christ and His forgiveness of our sin.
Christ died while you and I were yet His enemies.

All people are made in His image and likeness. Never forget what
Christ has saved you from and the tremendous gift He has given you.

Go and forgive others and extend His loving hand and gospel
to those who hate you as they hated Him and you will be like
your Father in heaven....
 
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