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I guess I feel selfish but I want more prayers for my daughter as I posted earlier (post copied below)

I guess for my doubt as well. My unbelief. Where is God? Why isn't he reaching her? I don't even care about me, just her? How am I supposed to praise his name when I can't believe? I feel bad for posting this. I don't want to ruin anyone's faith. But help me please.

""Please help me. My faith has faultered over the years but I need help for my daughter , Camryn. She just turned 17, and is spiraling out of control with drugs and possibly mental illness. It has become more that I can bare because of my lack of strength and faith. God has done wonders in my life but I have let him down. But now this is for my first born. I'm trying to get her into treatment but her heart is closed and she says she doesn't believe in God. Please pray for her! I need a miracle.""

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:heart: It's not selfish at all, Brandon. It is a GOOD thing to take everything to God. Of COURSE you are worried and heartbroken about your daughter Camryn. It IS discouraging and confusing that God may seem absent or not hear prayers. His timing can leave us stymied. May He intervene and minister to you, and mooooove as only He can in your daughter's heart, mind, and soul, and defend and protect her from all that would do her harm. Father may it be so, in Jesus name, amen (((hug)))
 
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It says to ask and you shall receive. It says faith as tiny as a mustard seed will move mountains. Is my faith really that small? I'm afraid of my own wrath if God doesn't open her heart? I would never hurt anyone despite what happens but I fear my anger towards God will be permanent... more likely my belief in general will be gone and my intellect will take me to the place of rational unbelievers.
I'm not Job. I could never handle a tragedy like him.
Anyway, again I'm sorry for all this. I've been daily in prayer. Daily listening to sermons. Daily talking to others I know of greater strength than me.
At times I feel warm and with joy after I pray. I feel at peace.. but my daughters pain is my pain. Her torment is my torment. I cannot separate her soul from mine. She was my first born child.
 
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Brandon, God is the refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. May HIS will be done for you and your family. In Jesus' name. Amen.


Psalms 46 (NASB)

God the Refuge of His People and Conqueror of the Nations

46 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.​
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;​
3 Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.​

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.​
5 God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.​
6 The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.​
7 The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.​

8 Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.​
9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.​
10 “Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”​
11 The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.​
 
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It says faith as tiny as a mustard seed will move mountains. Is my faith really that small?
I guess for my doubt as well. My unbelief.

Faith and unbelief can coexist in a person, one taking precedence over the other in turns. This is why the father of the demonized boy replied, "I believe; help Thou my unbelief". We often believe, but imperfectly. This is why Mark 11 goes on to say after the mustard seed part, "and does not doubt in his heart".

The unbelief is an attack on our faith, as you have written yourself. Treat it as such and raise your shield of faith (eph 6.12-ff). Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2cor 12). This is a battle fought in real time, often over what seem to be small patches of turf, but which add up to great significance.

You might want to give the simple book, Prison to Praise, by Corothers, a read or reread. Very powerful. Php 4 tells us to rejoice always, as it is a protection for us.

Anyway, I pray the Lord will protect and perfect your faith, and at the same time give you wisdom in dealing with your daughter. And that He would intervene mightily in her life, to His glory.
 
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