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That OP reads like a Psalm. You'll be alright, brother. Keep your heart open and honest before the Lord and pray that His Holy Spirit would renew and build your faith and remove all doubt and unbelief that settles in. He loves you and is aware of everything.

Don't give up the struggle. I have faith that you will overcome. I was miserable, powerless and unable to get my life and my mind right by my own strength. For ten years I couldn't hear Him, I could barely speak to Him, but I could not deny Him in my heart. He brought me to the end of myself and...

If there is life, God created it and supported it, and it is a possibility that we are kept ignorant for our own protection, as there is Biblical precedence for that. I'm still trying to figure out why the Garden of Eden had a hedge around it.

I was under demonic attack a year and a half ago immediately after the Lord delivered me and called me from being backslid. I was sold out to the Lord overnight and they were not happy. I took authority in Jesus' name each time they manifested and they had to obey. It was super simple. I had to...

I want to clarify that I'm drawn here as a peeker, merely a Gentile discipled to Jesus Christ. I don't intend any disrespect or divisive argument, just expressing my understanding as I learn and grow. I was raised under a Pentecostal/Protestant line of teaching but claim no denomination.

I understand now where you're coming from. I think the old Protestant in me misunderstood your intent. I appreciate your patience, brother.

I believe in and encourage a physical water baptism in Jesus' name, but I believe it to be an expression of what has already taken place in the heart.

So your criticism is moreso towards the inferior outward framework of the Protestant denomination, which was essentially born of and built upon rebellion rather than submission? As even Christ taught, implied and demonstrated submission to authority, even if it was flawed authority like the...

Every denomination has it's flaws. I think it's better to look at the heart of the individual. All men are equally wretched and ugly without Christ. The only beauty in any denomination is from Jesus Christ. He looked over the whole earth and found every man from every denomination wanting. None...

Perhaps they have not yet tasted a delicious steak of their own yet. Many self-professed Christians have not yet experienced a revelation of Christ's love and so they remain insecure, feeling rejected, looking at what others are doing with envy and strife, like dogs fighting over the food bowl...

Protestants should not expect you to go against the beautiful way you know in your heart you are called to glorify God. They are in error. But you should also not condemn all Protestants who come to Christ like a child and seek to glorify Him in the way He has shown them. Not all Protestants do...

Jesus was rejected as Messiah by many involved in organized religion during that time. They could memorize the Torah but didn't know what to make of Him. His ways are very beautiful but many of the established religious folks didn't see the beauty then, they saw a threat to the outward comforts...

The ways of Jesus Christ looked pretty ugly and secular to the "tried and true" Pharisees and Saducees. How did the Jews and Gentiles of the early church, a "child on the world stage" then, choose their meat and unite in the body of Christ? Romans 14:3 Let not him that eateth despise him that...

Holy means set aside by God for His purpose, whatever that purpose may be. Holiness is defined by His terms, not man's.

How do we define belief in Jesus Christ? If we say we believe with all of our heart that Jesus Christ died for our atonement, but then add our own religious requirements, do we really believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ? If we say we believe in Jesus Christ who sent us His Holy Spirit...

Be careful when looking into the subject of demons and deliverance. Many deliverance ministries can stumble close to witchcraft and necromancy and offer dangerous teachings, without even realizing it. Remember the vagabond Jews in Acts 19. We are given authority over unclean spirits, but it has...

Adultery or death is the only permissable cause for divorce/remarriage, from my understanding of New Testament scripture, otherwise it is sin. I still believe God forgives and provides grace and mercy to our blunders, we shouldn't nit-pick and demonize what's already under the blood. Many...

He was just being careful.

I dealt with depression, anxiety disorder and combat PTSD for several years until the Lord delivered me of it a year and a half ago. I tried medication, I tried keeping busy, at one point I was working two jobs, but whenever I was alone the depression would set in immediately. I would bottle...

I have personally experienced/encountered demons, and personal deliverance from several demons. Two close family members were smothered and tormented by a demon while awake in bed. My two sons rebuke night terrors in Jesus' name, my oldest has seen angels twice. I've experienced enough to know...