What's the point?

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Why in the middle of everything, do I feel God taking everything away from me, I asked God to take away my fear of not being in a relationship,
and it's nearly all gone, I asked him because of inappropriate contentography,( in my life before being a christian) to lower my sex drive, for a while so I can be healed,
because I was looking at women and images from films and magazines kept popping into my head and was very disturbing when I looked at women and that's not the way I want to look at them.
He's taken it all my drive away, so hopefully I can heal and I'm hoping he will give me it back, things seem to be going the right way but tonight I woke up, prayed about this girl I really liked I felt such a love in my heart for her when I was praying then I felt God steal all I felt for her and now it's gone and I felt he said brother,
which I'm presuming he means be her brother, I want to be married and hopefully have children, God is doing amazing things in my life but he is letting me in on none of it.
I feel like I'm being used as a puppet, God does amazing things then tells me nothing, I have no idea what's going on in my life, I know nothing, this isn't a relationship it's him doing some great things for me, telling me nothing, I have always had a huge desire for a wife but I was thinking about it all the time so it was like idolatry,
it was getting obsessive. He helped me but I feel even the desires going, so why did I have such a huge desire in the first place didn't he give me it, and why take this girl away from me,
I felt a love for her that I've never felt before it wasn't a lust I wanted to sit with her and read the bible and talk, sure I liked her I thought she was attractive and I would want to kiss her, but I didn't want to sleep with her, I would have wanted to save that if we got married. I didn't really know if she liked me, but I could have found out,
I really feel like everything is being done behind my back and I'm being told nothing, so what's the point. What's the point in giving me thoughts and feelings if I'm not allowed to express them, why give me a heart for a wife, if it's pretty obvious he wants me single, of course I don't fully know as God never speaks, what's the point in all if this.
 
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Isaiah 45:9 "Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands '?

Maybe God was teaching you that sometimes what you pray for, and want, is not what you really need. When you pray for him to lower your sex drive, then ask for it back later because you are ready, it's like saying to God "Okay I'm in control, put the car back into 3rd gear again please". You are the one driving. You are the one who's in control. It may "seem" like you're asking. But are you really?

Don't get me wrong. I've done this before. I think everyone has. We tend to pray for the things -we- want and -need- and not the things God wants us to have. We want to do things -our- way, and not God's way. Sometimes we just need to sit back and let God have control of the wheel. He knows what He's doing. He wants the best for us, but we are going to have to trust him.

God doesn't always do exactly as we ask Him to, and it's a good thing He doesn't because what we think we need, is not always what we really need. I asked God for over 13 years to take away my depression. He never once did. I felt much the same way as you do, why God? Why toy with me? Why not just take it away?

But God's purpose and reasons are greater than our own. I don't think I would have the same relationship today with God that I have, had I not gone through severe depression. God can work miracles through bad things. A great example is Joseph. His brothers meant harm, but God used it for good.

God is not a switch, that we can pray for him to give us certain feelings when we feeling we are ready, and to take away certain feelings when we're not. If He truly allowed us to do that, and answered prayer that way, our lives would turn out miserably.

I know it's not easy. But sometimes we just have to remember that God loves us. He is the creator of the universe, He is loving, kind, and has the best for us in mind since we are children of God. We need to have faith that He knows a way that is better than ours.
 
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I hope you don't mind me sharing some of my thoughts. Your situation with regards to the girl could be due to a number of reasons. I will list a few reasons.

1) It could be the devil that is giving you the feelings/thoughts whether it be love towards her or the 'brother thought'. Pray to God for guidance on this. Beware, the devil do try to bring the wrong people together while God will bring the right people together.


2) This could also be a testing from God. I know of people where they desire something more than God and in a way it was like ultimately when they were willing to submit to God and give them that desire, then God gave/allowed them to have that thing/person. Look no further than Abraham having to sacrifice Isaac and at the last moment, God prevented him from doing so.

Hope this helps.
 
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I hope you don't mind me sharing some of my thoughts. Your situation with regards to the girl could be due to a number of reasons. I will list a few reasons.

1) It could be the devil that is giving you the feelings/thoughts whether it be love towards her or the 'brother thought'. Pray to God for guidance on this. Beware, the devil do try to bring the wrong people together while God will bring the right people together.


2) This could also be a testing from God. I know of people where they desire something more than God and in a way it was like ultimately when they were willing to submit to God and give them that desire, then God gave/allowed them to have that thing/person. Look no further than Abraham having to sacrifice Isaac and at the last moment, God prevented him from doing so.

Hope this helps.

Also agree with this.
 
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Thank you very much, it's so hard I felt so bound by the enemy this morning. I just wanted to die, I know I idolise I have begged God to help me, it's not my fault I don't know where it's come from, I don't want it, I want everything in balance, God first and a wife second if it's his will, like I said I felt so punished today, I've begged God to tell me what his plans are for my future, I can't demand anything, like it says in Job, who has given anything that I need to pay it back, everything under heaven and earth is mine. I can't demand, but I have pleaded with my father to tell me my fate, I can't stand it anymore, if it's not the enemy having a go, my mind does the same, I have dealt with this for about a year, just crying every day, I don't expect my father to answer but I can only hope he will hear my prayer. God bless you for helping me.
 
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Sorry to hear that it is a painful struggle for you. We may not always understand what God is doing. We might think he is just torturing us, or "toying" with us, but that's only because we have a misunderstanding about God and who He really is.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.

Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall seperate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Sometimes God doesn't always answer us right away. His timing is different than our own, and that often makes it really hard, because we are left "in the dark" so to speak. Whenever I used to feel that despair, it would often cripple me, and leave me feeling depressed for days. Now days if I feel something like that I try to listen to positive Christian music, read Scripture, post here, or something that encourages me. Renew your mind with truth. God loves you, and He has a plan for you. He's not giving up on you ever.

Hang in there. Will be praying for you.
 
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Thank you very much, it's so hard I felt so bound by the enemy this morning. I just wanted to die, I know I idolise I have begged God to help me, it's not my fault I don't know where it's come from, I don't want it, I want everything in balance, God first and a wife second if it's his will, like I said I felt so punished today, I've begged God to tell me what his plans are for my future, I can't demand anything, like it says in Job, who has given anything that I need to pay it back, everything under heaven and earth is mine. I can't demand, but I have pleaded with my father to tell me my fate, I can't stand it anymore, if it's not the enemy having a go, my mind does the same, I have dealt with this for about a year, just crying every day, I don't expect my father to answer but I can only hope he will hear my prayer. God bless you for helping me.

Something our Father will not do is encourage sinful behavior. If He were to reveal to you His plans to satisfy the impulses that are overcoming you, He would be resurrecting your old man and not building up your new one.

Look at what Jesus says here:

John 15:5

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

You can't do anything without Jesus, including resisting sin and obeying His commandments. God is just as sovereign over the sanctification process as He is over the salvation process. Look at what God promises to do:

Micah 7:19

You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

God Himself will subdue our sins under us. What we have to do is put no confidence in our flesh or our own strength. The first step is to realize that you are helpless to do any of this without the power of the Holy Spirit. The second step is unconditional surrender to the control of the Holy Spirit.

It seems like you understand this in some ways but you need to universally apply it to your whole struggle. It comes down to a control issue and you are not quite taking your hands off of the wheel yet. Job repented in dust and ashes and that's what we need to do..to humble ourselves before God and trust Him no matter what it looks like in the natural. It says this in Proverbs:

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

We must surrender our understanding to Him. That is loving Him with all of your mind. We must realize that as high as the Heavens are above the Earth, so are His ways above our ways.

Job 9:10

Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
 
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