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It happens when new people read back over a forumOh, dear! I didn't realize this thread was started 2 years ago.I wonder if a mod could lock the topic so more don't make my mistake. Sorry!
Of course I will pray logic. God wants you back, He is a jealous God. He loves you with an everlasting love, much more than any human could possibly. He knows you, better than you know yourself. Pray without ceasing. Read the Holy Scriptures. Come near to God and He will come near to you.I lost faith about 2 years ago, but I am desperately trying to come back to God and Christ. J an just deeply troubled and need all your prayers that I may find God once again. Please help.
LTS, I don't know what to tell you. I know I can pray for you in a very broad sense, but I believe it would help to know more about you and the troubles that haunt you.
I don't know. That is a phrase that I wish more people would use when they don't actually know. I think some people's perceived knowledge has led many people away from God. I don't know everything about the bible. There are some very learned people on this forum, and a lot of them know a lot. They can speak in multiple languages. They can quote parts of the bible I didn't know existed.
Believe it or not, my rambling has a point. I don't know everything, but I know it is easy to get sidetracked. When you look around this board and see all the dizzying intellectual conversations, remember you don't have to know everything. You start at the begining. Simple truths you can learn from simply reading the bible: God created everything. Jesus came to earth, died, was raised from the grave and is now in Heaven; all this was for you and me. The greatest gift is love. Start simple and build up.
Sometimes you have to forget things to begin again. I fell away for a long time. I came back and read the bible to learn, and guess what...without preconceived thoughts and notions of what I was trying to prove by the bible, I began to truly understand things and see them in ways I never had before.
I will pray for you as soon as I hit the reply button. I don't have all the answers, but I am here to talk with you as an equal. No brow beating. I have messed up too much to be high and mighty. But that's the awesome thing about Jesus's sacrifice. We don't have to be perfect. We don't have to know everything. We can disagree and try to figure things out as brothers and sisters. He knows we are imperfect and He has given us a way to survive eternally in spite of our shortcomings. So what shuould you do next?
I don't know.
Reply. Tell me and all the people reading this about yourself and the strugle that has you in it's grips. I still may not know after you tell us what is going on. But we can work on it together. Just you, me, and the internet.
I lost faith about 2 years ago, but I am desperately trying to come back to God and Christ. J an just deeply troubled and need all your prayers that I may find God once again. Please help.
Keep trusting him. Go to him and repent and tell him you will trust him and ask him to give you the strength and grace to live for him and He will. He loves you and so do I. God Bless You!
You have exercised faith in reaching out and asking for help and prayers. God sees that and will honor that desire and honesty. Do not despair. He will not and has not abandoned you. You may have moved away but as you try to experiment--pray, reach out again--you will feel Him near. Let your troubles be made known to Him in raw form. Don't hold back. Then wait on him and He will strengthen your heart and guide your steps. Keep us posted. Let us know how else we can help here. I did a podcast on Finding Stillness in Jesus Christ. You could probably look online for it if you think it would help you.I lost faith about 2 years ago, but I am desperately trying to come back to God and Christ. J an just deeply troubled and need all your prayers that I may find God once again. Please help.
I can't say I agree with you. I fell and lost faith for years and went through some terrible things. My life was in shambles and I wasn't even looking for God but was needing him desperately and through my own reasoning and searching for connections in anthropology I found That God truly existed and the Father in his grace redeemed me through Jesus Christ. My friend I pray that the father softens your heart and opens your eyes and in the name of Jesus Christ your struggles will end.I will pray for you, my friend. I wouldn't put all your hopes in your reasoning power though. We call our faith a "reasonable faith" because it leads you in his direction, but in the end, you will need to add that last bit of faith to make it. And frankly, I believe that's one of the things God is trying to do in our lives...to help us grow our faith. One of these days, you're going to be ripped out of this existence, and I believe God is trying to get us prepared for that day of destiny. My favorite verse..."Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him"...Job 13:15 (KJV). That's me in a nut shell.
But also know this...you say that you're trying to find God, but I assure you, he knows exactly where you are. My sincere prayers for you.
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