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Sometimes I feel like God is saying yes and no to the same thing. What does that mean?

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It looks like you are depending on to much feelings and not enough on solid Bible study, that develops proper knowledge of God.

You want to know God and how He is and what He expects of believers. Study The Bible and depend less on trying to hear God and deciphering if this is God or not. If you study The Bible you can be sure that is God speaking.
 
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"casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7)

He knows what He is going to do with you. Don't get isolated with being concerned only about your own self. In prayer we can get more into relating with others and caring for others.
 
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You need to make sure you have the Holy Spirit first so that you are not deceived by your own sin nature or your natural man. If so, then what you feel is true. I think if such a thing that you described means that it is an ok thing with God but that this path contains snares or troubles, so a great caution must be exercised or a readiness must be had for this path. To make sure you have the Holy Spirit, you need to mend your heart from holes of sins that you have been convicted of earlier -- if you haven't yet (you need repentance and faith that you receive / thanking faith about the work of Christ, though sometimes; repentance can come after though, if you feel you're unable to, like the short man repenting after our Salvation Jesus came to him first, this is because we love Him because He loved us first and to whom much is forgiven, will love much -- God so loved the world that He sent His only Son...), and if you have received the Holy Spirit by faith with thanks (thank that you receive until you feel you feel trembling in your body or when you know you received Him), then your heart is one with God and you are saved.
 
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Our desires cloud of judgement so that we can't be sure on our own if something is truly good or if we just think that it is good because we desire it, and it can be hard to distinguish between our desires and what God is leading us to do, so seek to lean on God's word to correctly divide between right and wrong rather than lean on your own understanding, and seek the counsel of Christian that you trust who is independent of the issue.
 
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