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    Getting into Ministry

    I have known since I was very young that I was called into the ministry. It has been reiterated again and again and at the same time, it has been put off again and again. Now I am at a crossroads. A few weeks ago I was terminated from the fourth job in as many years for the same old stuff. I...
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    Discussion Spirit of Discontent?

    It's a serious condition and we've all seen it in our own lives or know someone who lives with it every day. No matter how well off we are, no matter how blessed, how much money we have, how beautiful our family life, no matter. how. perfect. our lives are...it's never enough. Even though we are...
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    No More Complaining

    Hi everyone, I'm back. At least for now, anyway. It's been four years since I've posted here and I've stayed away for good reason. Got a sound and well-deserved tongue-lashing last time I posted here. But that is done now and I'm on a new mission. No. More. Complaining. Being a Christian is not...
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    How do I love myself when I don't even know who I am?

    This is a true "First World Problem" to me...but it is the defining struggle of my life. I can only remember a handful of times in my life when I felt that it was okay for me to just be myself. That all of my flaws, my quirks, my idiosyncrasies, and my weirdness would be accepted in spite of how...
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    Spirit of Rebellion

    What do you do when you know you're in rebellion against God, but you still don't want to submit to His plan or way or whatever? I've been "saved" and have followed God as best as I could for awhile now (most of my life and I'm nearly 30) but for about the last year or so I have just been burned...
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    Please pray for me...

    I am really, really, reeeeally depressed lately. I'm making my wife miserable. I'm snappy and irritable to the Nth degree...it's just a bad situation all around. Our six-week-old son is a lot of the problem. I never wanted to be chained down and now we have to schedule EEEVERYTHING around his...
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    A Topic for Review

    I know I've posted a thread about this before, and recently at that, but I really don't have anywhere else to turn on this one. In short, I fought for over seven years for a girl that God promised me would be my wife. He wouldn't let me leave and wouldn't give me anything else to do but "leave...
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    How do you recover from a failure of epic proportions?

    Just think of Abraham dying with no Isaac, David dying with no throne, and Joseph dying in that pit he was put into by his brothers. If you have seen a failure of that magnitude...how do you recover? It is unequivocally lost, the Promise unreachable...I failed. So how do you pick up the...
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    A Question For Those With Seer/Prophetic Giftings

    I have had this happen numerous times. God tells me something, or merely "intimates" (pronounced en-tuh-mayts) something to me where I just SEE it, ya know, but then nothing happens, it looks like it's over, and I move on...but it's not really over, it's just changed somehow. So then I start to...
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    What is marriage?

    This seems like a dumb question to me, but it's one that I feel necessary to put forth in this context (in this forum). I just got married in August to a girl who was my friend but in no way typified what I thought my wife would ever be like. Simply put, I think I was following the circumstances...
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    Recovering a pure faith

    How do you do it? After you have been steeped in sin, surrounded by darkness, awash with devastation and destruction and disappointment... I am not despondent or unhopeful, but I struggle to find what I feel is a proper expression of my faith in the Most High God and His Son. What is it to be...
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    Getting back to a pure faith.

    How do you do it? After you have been steeped in sin, surrounded by darkness, awash with devastation and destruction and disappointment... I am not despondent or unhopeful, but I struggle to find what I feel is a proper expression of my faith in the Most High God and His Son. What is it to be...
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    Futility (apathetic towards progress/success)

    Futility. That's the word for it. I find that I am horrifically undisciplined, captive to the lust of the flesh. Not sexually, but physically. I avoid all physical pain, overeat FAR too often, and just want to be "comfortable". Yet at the same time I am overweight, lethargic, moody, and...
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    Revitalizing Passion for Jesus...How do I do that?

    I've heard it said that, many times, God will surround you with people who treat you the way you treat Him, to show you yourself, to bring you into a deeper relationship. Is that what's happening here? Am I doing to God what she is doing to me? I WANT to "enter in" with Him!! I WANT the Bridal...
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    How do you overcome a relationship poverty mentality?

    So a lot of you know about "the girl" in my life, the one that has been a Battle Royale for nearly seven years now...but there's a bit more to it than meets the eye. I know that God brought us together, but I have what I've come to call a "relationship poverty mentality" towards her...and kinda...
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    Job Hunting Skills/Lessons Learned

    So I'm caught in between a rock and a hard place right now. I think that I qualify as being "psychologically unemployable"...meaning that I CAN just "go out and get a job" but that it is so distasteful to me that I would rather slit my wrists and bleed out than even consider going out to get a...
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    Sore

    I know this may be off topic, but I never get feedback on my blog. I'm not really looking for advice or what I should do. I'm just talking to the forum about my life right now, hoping someone will catch something or maybe respond with a bit of their own life. Mostly I'm just looking for a little...
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    Needing Perspective....

    I'm sorry to have such a one track mind when it comes to the threads that I start. Yes, this one, too, is about "the girl" but I'm needing a different perspective because I can't SEE what is going on here. I just stumbled upon something in my talking back and forth to God and her family and my...
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    The Five Love Languages???

    I have read most of the book, The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman and I'm kinda confused about something. The book's premise is that every person has a different way of receiving love emotionally so that what makes one person "feel" loved will not necessarily make another person "feel"...
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    Somebody Got Offended!!!

    I posted a thread about sexual frustration and temptation and feeling awkward because I'm a 26-year-old virgin and some poor sensitive soul went and got offended because I was trying to be descriptive (not VULGAR or SEXUALLY EXPLICIT) and used innuendo in a way that they didn't appreciate and I...