Feeling Sad All The Time

Hi @EtainSkirata

It often helps to look back at the time when things started to become that way. Did you disobey Him in any way? Or walk contrary to a conviction?

Relationships can often start to go cold when an issue has been left unaddressed or one side feels unappreciated.

If you can't think of what it is after a thorough think, have it out with Him directly. Habbakuk, Jonah and Moses spoke frankly with the Father when they were confused or under pressure. You won't offend Him by being brutally honest and totally open with Him. In fact, there's more of a chance you'll offend Him if you not.

Therefore, forget the standard niceties in prayer, the "Christianese" language and any prayer requests for others. Instead, seek Him out passionately and openly. Explain to Him how you feel, rather than this forum, and give Him no rest until you hear back from Him in one way or another.

He might just want to see how much you will pursue Him if He seems distant. So show Him all you got and seek Him in truth with honest words filled with heart and not covered with a facade.

May He bring you peace soon

Hello Etainskirata, everyone goes through this at some point. GOD is always there and listening and he knows what you go through. He is there for you, do not abandon, persevere. You wrote, I pray my regular prayers, what are these? Are they learned repetitions? or do you expose your soul to GOD? When you pray, if you want to be heard, you must pray from the heart and be completely honest, the living GOD knows what you need so do not linger on your wants, just thank him and ask him to guide you in your life, most important when you pray, have faith!

Blessings,

JFF

Try bringing God into your life more. Consider how He would want you to approach any given situation at work, for instance.

"...the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;" Isa 613

"...in thy presence is fulness of joy..." Psa 16

praise then worship. Can be anytime we are able to focus on God - there will be joy.

Ask Him that you would feel these things you desire and ask that if there's anything in the way that He would discipline you and correct you where you need correcting. Also if you're starting to feel sad all the time for seemingly no reason you should go to the GP if you can. It might be a vitamin D deficiency or something else like depression. It could be hormonal changes as well. Nevertheless it's times like these when you can rely upon His word and what you know to be true and disregard your feelings that you know don't mesh with reality.

1 Peter 5:6-7
Proverbs 3:5
Isaiah 41:10
Isaiah 41:13

God bless

EtainSkirata said:

I've been feeling, essentially, dead spiritually. Like God is up there, but there's this wall of glass between me and Him. It feels like too much work to get back to God, and so I just haven't been reading my Bible. I don't know if I've ever felt some kind of deep connection with God but I've been a Christian for over 10 years. Currently I just want to be sad and cry all the time and it feels like too much work to fix it. I just pray my regular prayers before meals and will throw up a quick prayer if I see a prayer request, but I don't feel alive and I don't feel content and I don't feel much joy in the Lord at all.

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You aren't alone and I can attest to the challenge of keeping strong Faith. I've been kicked to the curb too many times to list, a story most wouldn't believe

All one can do it would seem is keep their Faith and work towards being a better Christian. Identify what is causing the sadness and try your best to alleviate it.

The forum is here for you. You aren't alone. We have all been there (some of us are there ourselves now).

Read Watchman Nee 'The Normal Christian Life'.

The power to be happy is within us. God might want us to learn to wish our own good. Too much religion can become depressive and boring, as well.

EtainSkirata said:

I've been feeling, essentially, dead spiritually. Like God is up there, but there's this wall of glass between me and Him. It feels like too much work to get back to God, and so I just haven't been reading my Bible. I don't know if I've ever felt some kind of deep connection with God but I've been a Christian for over 10 years. Currently I just want to be sad and cry all the time and it feels like too much work to fix it. I just pray my regular prayers before meals and will throw up a quick prayer if I see a prayer request, but I don't feel alive and I don't feel content and I don't feel much joy in the Lord at all.

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I feel the same way for many years now......I have a broken heart, I am full of sadness, full of despair, and depressed thoughts.....