Feeling lost at times.

God is good777 · Jan 27, 2021

I've struggled with doubting my Salvation on and off in my life sometimes it lasts only a few moments other times it will be days in a row even weeks, even in those doubts I just want to live a life for God, I know Jesus loves me and died for me and my sins and rose from the dead and only by faith in Him am I saved, and to believe what the biblical account is of his life death and resurrection and his shed blood on the cross for a sinner like me and all of us. Even when I feel helpess and look at my life and see all the bad things I've done I just want to live more for Jesus.

I wonder sometimes what if Im trusting my works and not trusting Jesus or what if I didn't accept right ? I've asked so many times for Jesus to save me to give me the holy spirit to rid me of the voices that say im not saved at times in my life, I struggle from ocd and scrupulosity for those of you who know what that is and its a hard struggle, but even if im not saved I still want to live a life for Jesus even. Even if an angle told me I could not be saved id still want to live my life for God to read the bible pray daily and try to win souls to Jesus. I just wish I could beat this feeling of me being lost and hopeless at times, maby God is teaching me a lesson in all of this tho.

I want His will in my life not my own, I struggled with inappropriate content for 2 years and have been freed from that sin for a good year now and I can't thank God enough for that, I did things my way and it was awful and im so concerned one day the doubts will bring me back to that.
Im not sure what advice im looking for in this and im not sure if this is the right place to post it, but I ask for prayers for me to beat this battle if fought most of my life. And that one day I'll be free of it so I can accomplish God's will for me better than ever. Thank you all God bless.

mlepfitjw · Jan 27, 2021

Hello, God is good777, would you care if I share some scripture with you?

God is good777 · Jan 27, 2021

Agallagher said:
Hello, God is good777, would you care if I share some scripture with you?

No problem at all my friend.

mlepfitjw · Jan 27, 2021

Awesome God is good777, you should know that believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are first of all loved and forgiven. You are an important person in this life, and that you matter, never let yourself forget this because your mind powerful and it will tempt you from time to time to say you are not worthy of anything.

God loved you so much, that the Lord Jesus Christ made the choice to die for all of mankind so all of mistakes can be forgiven. God raised him from the dead, and we too are raised from the 'dead' being made spiritually alive.

God give us a spiritual body that is inside, the holy spirit, and we receive the Lord Jesus Christ's spirit who live with-in us as we live in this life. Here are some scripture for you dear friend.

1 Thess 5:
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Ephesians 3: 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Galatians 2: 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Remember to not let your mind control you, live by the spirit friend)

Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Romans 8: 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Have read a lot of the bible, hope some of these scripture help you, maybe you are spiritually weak at times. We can gain strength from the scriptures that feed the spirit that lives inside of us. God bless friend, take care!~

Thank you for letting me share some with you.

xaris · Jan 27, 2021

God is good777 said:
I've struggled with doubting my Salvation on and off in my life sometimes it lasts only a few moments other times it will be days in a row even weeks, even in those doubts I just want to live a life for God, I know Jesus loves me and died for me and my sins and rose from the dead and only by faith in Him am I saved, and to believe what the biblical account is of his life death and resurrection and his shed blood on the cross for a sinner like me and all of us. Even when I feel helpess and look at my life and see all the bad things I've done I just want to live more for Jesus.

I wonder sometimes what if Im trusting my works and not trusting Jesus or what if I didn't accept right ? I've asked so many times for Jesus to save me to give me the holy spirit to rid me of the voices that say im not saved at times in my life, I struggle from ocd and scrupulosity for those of you who know what that is and its a hard struggle, but even if im not saved I still want to live a life for Jesus even. Even if an angle told me I could not be saved id still want to live my life for God to read the bible pray daily and try to win souls to Jesus. I just wish I could beat this feeling of me being lost and hopeless at times, maby God is teaching me a lesson in all of this tho.

I want His will in my life not my own, I struggled with inappropriate content for 2 years and have been freed from that sin for a good year now and I can't thank God enough for that, I did things my way and it was awful and im so concerned one day the doubts will bring me back to that.
Im not sure what advice im looking for in this and im not sure if this is the right place to post it, but I ask for prayers for me to beat this battle if fought most of my life. And that one day I'll be free of it so I can accomplish God's will for me better than ever. Thank you all God bless.

Here are my go-to verses when doubts of my salvation arise...

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (Joh 5:24)

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. (Rom 5:10)

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Php 1:6)

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. (1Jn 5:12-13)

They have served me well as anchors for the last 47 years as a BAC.

AvgJoe · Jan 27, 2021

God is good777 said:
I've struggled with doubting my Salvation on and off in my life sometimes it lasts only a few moments other times it will be days in a row even weeks, even in those doubts I just want to live a life for God, I know Jesus loves me and died for me and my sins and rose from the dead and only by faith in Him am I saved, and to believe what the biblical account is of his life death and resurrection and his shed blood on the cross for a sinner like me and all of us. Even when I feel helpess and look at my life and see all the bad things I've done I just want to live more for Jesus.

I wonder sometimes what if Im trusting my works and not trusting Jesus or what if I didn't accept right ? I've asked so many times for Jesus to save me to give me the holy spirit to rid me of the voices that say im not saved at times in my life, I struggle from ocd and scrupulosity for those of you who know what that is and its a hard struggle, but even if im not saved I still want to live a life for Jesus even. Even if an angle told me I could not be saved id still want to live my life for God to read the bible pray daily and try to win souls to Jesus. I just wish I could beat this feeling of me being lost and hopeless at times, maby God is teaching me a lesson in all of this tho.

I want His will in my life not my own, I struggled with inappropriate content for 2 years and have been freed from that sin for a good year now and I can't thank God enough for that, I did things my way and it was awful and im so concerned one day the doubts will bring me back to that.
Im not sure what advice im looking for in this and im not sure if this is the right place to post it, but I ask for prayers for me to beat this battle if fought most of my life. And that one day I'll be free of it so I can accomplish God's will for me better than ever. Thank you all God bless.

I've been where you are now. After I was saved I spent years doubting my salvation, praying (over & over/again & again) for God to save me, never knowing, for sure, if I was. Then one Sunday morning the Pastor's sermon was about this very issue, how he had, for years, had these same doubts and had prayed for salvation, again and again, as well.

His father, also a Pastor, told him that he only had half of the equation. Faith = belief + trust. His father told him that he was exercising the belief part of faith but he was not exercising the trust part of faith, that he was believing in Jesus and the Gospel but he was not trusting Jesus to do His part, to save him, just like He said He will. He said that ever since he started trusting Jesus to do what He said He will do, he knows that he's saved and has never had any doubts about it since then. That very day I started trusting Jesus to do what He said He will do and I've never had a doubt since then. That was around 15 years ago.

longwait · Jan 28, 2021

Its a struggle we all face.

God is good777 · Jan 28, 2021

xaris said:
Here are my go-to verses when doubts of my salvation arise...

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (Joh 5:24)

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. (Rom 5:10)

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Php 1:6)

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. (1Jn 5:12-13)

They have served me well as anchors for the last 47 years as a BAC.

Thank you friend appreciate it so much.

God is good777 · Jan 28, 2021

So true, I want to live for God but then I fall back and commit a sin or go i should be doing something else like read my Bible right now, always reminded im not good enough but thats okay none of us are only Jesus was good enough, and He died for our sins and for us wretched sinners so we might come to Him. What a wonderful God we have just hope these doubts I have go away I want to live for God not be in a state of uncertainty.

longwait said:
Its a struggle we all face.

God is good777 · Jan 28, 2021

So

AvgJoe said:
I've been where you are now. After I was saved I spent years doubting my salvation, praying (over & over/again & again) for God to save me, never knowing, for sure, if I was. Then one Sunday morning the Pastor's sermon was about this very issue, how he had, for years, had these same doubts and had prayed for salvation, again and again, as well.

His father, also a Pastor, told him that he only had half of the equation. Faith = belief + trust. His father told him that he was exercising the belief part of faith but he was not exercising the trust part of faith, that he was believing in Jesus and the Gospel but he was not trusting Jesus to do His part, to save him, just like He said He will. He said that ever since he started trusting Jesus to do what He said He will do, he knows that he's saved and has never had any doubts about it since then. That very day I started trusting Jesus to do what He said He will do and I've never had a doubt since then. That was around 15 years ago.

So I simply have not fully trusted Jesus to complete His promise ? Must be the battle of letting go we all have, the prideful side not wanting to give, your right i gotta trust Jesus 100% He will keep His promise as he Always does thank you for saying this.

God is good777 · Jan 28, 2021

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Agallagher said:
Awesome God is good777, you should know that believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are first of all loved and forgiven. You are an important person in this life, and that you matter, never let yourself forget this because your mind powerful and it will tempt you from time to time to say you are not worthy of anything.

God loved you so much, that the Lord Jesus Christ made the choice to die for all of mankind so all of mistakes can be forgiven. God raised him from the dead, and we too are raised from the 'dead' being made spiritually alive.

God give us a spiritual body that is inside, the holy spirit, and we receive the Lord Jesus Christ's spirit who live with-in us as we live in this life. Here are some scripture for you dear friend.

1 Thess 5:
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Ephesians 3: 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

Galatians 2: 20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Remember to not let your mind control you, live by the spirit friend)

Galatians 5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Romans 8: 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Have read a lot of the bible, hope some of these scripture help you, maybe you are spiritually weak at times. We can gain strength from the scriptures that feed the spirit that lives inside of us. God bless friend, take care!~

Thank you for letting me share some with you.

Thank you for those wonderful verses you shared I appreciate it alot, and you taking the time to share them.

mlepfitjw · Jan 28, 2021

You are so welcome, friend! Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ and God for their great help that we can find in scriptures to encourage one another in this life while we can. Godisgood777 keep them close by in a notepad or something so you can always remind yourself in times of need. Take care.

God is good777 · Jan 28, 2021

Agallagher said:
You are so welcome, friend! Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ and God for their great help that we can find in scriptures to encourage one another in this life while we can. Godisgood777 keep them close by in a notepad or something so you can always remind yourself in times of need. Take care.

Thank you again and what a good idea ! I shall do that I look forward to the day I meet you in heaven friend God bless you and agreed, encourage one another while we still can I pray the Holy spirit guides you in this life and your journey with Christ have a blessed day.

AvgJoe · Jan 30, 2021

God is good777 said:
So

So I simply have not fully trusted Jesus to complete His promise ? Must be the battle of letting go we all have, the prideful side not wanting to give, your right i gotta trust Jesus 100% He will keep His promise as he Always does thank you for saying this.

You're welcome brother and God bless.

Steve Husting · Jan 30, 2021

I read a book dealing with this issue. He says to make a difference between what we feel and what we think, or believe. One is of the feelings and emotions--they can go up and down and don't define our status with God or our salvation. Just look at the many Psalms where David's emotional roller-coaster is well attested to. But God was still with him and blessed and guided him.

The other is of the mind. You know you are saved. You know you want to follow God. You know you were a slave to sins and Jesus delivered you. You know and act and think about these things. These are the things that propel you onward and upward in your Christian life, not your feelings. The Bible does not tell you to advance according to your feelings or trust your feeling. We live by faith in God's Word. "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17).

You will continue to have feelings that get you down. Due to our new life with Christ (Romans 6), you can just say, "OK, Mr. Feeling, that's your opinion. Thanks. But I have an opinion too (my mind, holding onto the promises of God), and I choose to follow that instead. Good bye." Let your mind prevail, for when you decide according to the Scriptures, you do so according to the mind of Christ.

The greatest commandment has nothing to do with your feelings, but the mind: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27).

We grow more when our minds are set on Scripture: "Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2). It says nothing about renewing our feelings.

"Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth" (Colossians 3:2. We are to direct our minds, not our feelings. And where do we direct it? To the Savior, who saves us day by day.

I hope this small answer will give you a measure of peace and confidence.

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