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Dating a lukewarm Christian

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I love God soo much and i am always striving to get closer to him..i was dating this guy for nine months. He was sweet caring always there for me when I needed him.my friends loved him too. He also goes to church sometimes. But the problem was his relationship with God was not good. At the beginning of our relationship, he told me he wanted me to change him. We would do bible studies and talk about God. I would preach to him daily and we would do discussion on verses. But after a while it stopped. He didn't want to pray with me ,go to church with me or do bible studies.i knew from the begining that he was lukewarm but my friends encourage me to give him a chance because with time he might change. But he never did. I once asked him if he why he goes to church and he doesn't know. After months of feeling uneasy about this relationship I ended it . My question is did I do the right thing? I know He loved me with all his heart, he treated me well and we got along really well but was it right for me to end it because we were unequally yoked.

P.s. I prayed for months that God will help me change him. I kept the relationship going because I felt that maybe God will use me to change him and maybe he is "the one" and I shouldn't focus on his flaws pls help
 

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You have to have that spark in a relationship that they are the one and that they are your soul mate from God. Pray to God for your other half to come to you in the Lord's timing. I prayed for several years before God answered my prayer. The key is to seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you. Wait upon the Lord and you will be renewed in the proper time. Keep the faith. Believe God has somebody out there for you. I believed even before I met my other half that the angels would sing to the glory of God (in answer to my prayer) on the day we would meet.
 
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Hi there; well exactly. Amos 3.3: "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"

Keep "looking unto Jesus" (Hebrews 12.2) and you may find that the Lord guides you more clearly in the days ahead.
 
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It was a wise move. But consider what you can learn from this, and how it reflects on your walk with Christ. As much as we wish for others to be spiritually mature, sometimes we get so focus and worried about others, that we neglect the condition of our hearts. Everyone's journey with God is different, but the most important thing is to lift him up in prayer, that even if you don't know where he's at in life, that God is guiding him.

And put that same prayer on yourself, and take time to examine yourself and where your focus is at. If it's not on God and it's on a guy or the need for relationships, take the time to refocus it back on God. Obtaining a loving godly relationship is contingent upon you putting God first, just as much as our desire to have our partner put God first.

Stay encouraged
 
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What did he need to "change"...? Why did he feel he needed you to change it/him/that...?
 
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What did he need to "change"...? Why did he feel he needed you to change it/him/that...?


He wanted me to help him get closer to God. He said this during the first few weeks of the relationship . And this is because he said he was very "spiritual and focused on Christ" so i could help him get closer to God. But months later he is saying am too spiritual
 
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Dating someone to change that person isn't a good idea.

That wasn't my intention. At I kept praying that God will let me know that if he was the one I am meant to be with I will. And then one day he messaged me saying that he loves me and want me to change him as In get him closer to God. But I told him only God can change him . So I thought that was the sign that we were meant to be so I stayed with him but nothing changed
 
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It is best to move on and pray for your soul mate from the Lord in His timing. Follow after Jesus and His good ways and the Lord will provide for you. Have faith. Never stop believing that God has somebody out there who is even more wonderful. Marriage is a life time committment. It is one thing we do not want to mess up on. For we are to dedicate our lives in loving them. if they are the wrong person for us, then things will be very difficult. I would PM the poster named "1stcenturylady." She had married the wrong guy who she thought was Christian but who had warnings from God not to marry him. She ignored those warnings and things were really, really hard for her.
 
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he treated me well and we got along really well but was it right for me to end it because we were unequally yoked.
Of course, there is the question of why you find you were unequally yoked. Because - - - your own character can have a lot to do with who you can connect with. So, if he has not been right, but you were able to connect with him, it is possible you also have issues to deal with. And even if you are somehow deeply alike, this does not automatically mean you belong with each other.

Treating each other well can mean you are helping one another to get what you want. You could be only using each other, and Jesus says,

"if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" in Matthew 5:46.

And I offer how God's love does not have us only or mainly using any person. But we care tenderly for each and every person . . . more and more as we grow in Jesus.

So, if you get pretty much isolated with only one person, this is not growing and developing as family with Jesus Christ's different people whom we need to help us. So, you both need to be more concerned about having people who help you get more real with God. And this includes how we need to share with our mature senior examples who have been in the faith for much longer than we have.

There are what I call love idols > ones we make too much of a deal out of. We need to humble ourselves and humble those who are closely involved with us.

I prayed for months that God will help me change him.
If you were supposing you your own self could have so much to do with helping him, possibly you got fooled; he said what he said but did he do what he should have meant?

If he is not interested in sharing with mature senior examples of Jesus, he is not likely really concerned about real change, I consider. And his actions seem to show there was something else going on.

I kept the relationship going because I felt that maybe God will use me to change him and maybe he is "the one" and I shouldn't focus on his flaws pls help
If he is not sharing as family with various good Christian example people, possibly he has more of a problem than a few flaws.
But months later he is saying am too spiritual
And what might he be wanting to use you to get? What is your being spiritual keeping him from getting? Love does not have us only using people for what we want.

Also, I think that if you were really spiritual, you would be much more interested in sharing with mature Christian example people whom you would be seeking to help you your own self get more real with God and finding out how to relate as family of Jesus.

Possibly, you need to evaluate what made you able to get involved with him. It is possible, that you need to get wise to whatever an unspiritual person could use to get you interested in him. You need to become attracted by what godly and spiritual people offer.

And, of course, immorality is wrong. If you stayed out of this, good for you But there are men who say a woman is so good for them, but they are fishing to get immoral with them . . . while they might also be going after what they want, with other women.

If you get real with Jesus, yourself, you do not need to compromise in order to get companionship. Possibly, there are things you need to change so you can connect with a godly person You can do well to share, maybe in groups, with other younger people - - - ones who are spiritual and godly . . . and feed on what they have to say about what they value and how God is correcting them and teaching them and maturing them.

And you can discover how love is, in sharing with gentle and quiet and humble people. I am betting you will discover love which is much better for you > this is family love which makes us gentle and quiet in spirit, so also we are pleasing our Heavenly Father, in His love's "incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God." (in 1 Peter 3:4)
 
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Well, that is sad...
 
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Thank you all for this it has really helped. Part of the reason I ended it was that I wanted to grow spiritually and felt I was stuck. I felt I was changing but not for the better. To me he was a really good guy but we didn't have anything in common when it came to Christ. We were in a completely different levels. I am in my 20s and there were times we spoke about marriage. people who are on thier 30s and 40s and still be single and at that point they end up settling for anyone. And that made me worried that if we broke up and he was "the one"it might happen to me
from what the bible say we have to be patient and I was for those months.

But I realised that I shouldn't worry if it's God's plan for us to be together it will happen in the future when we are both spiritual nature. And if not he will find me someone better. All I need to do is work on my relationship with God.

Thank you all soo much. I now know I made the right decision and I should keep my focus on God.

God bless you all.
Xxxx
 
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Even when someone wants to change, if they are not willing to submit to Abba, and ask G-d to change them...it will not happen.

If you are willing, tell him this, and offer him the hope of your future relationship if he truly commits to G-d and you see the fruit of the change. Otherwise, it is only more heart ache when you find your spouse will no longer stay, or treats you badly because you are a Believer.

Your love is not enough...only G-d can change someone, and only if they want to be changed.
 
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So you dated him hoping that he would change into a more devoted Christian. Not "good enough" but hoping he would become "good enough." Is it fair to say that?
 
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So you dated him hoping that he would change into a more devoted Christian. Not "good enough" but hoping he would become "good enough." Is it fair to say that?

So you dated him hoping that he would change into a more devoted Christian. Not "good enough" but hoping he would become "good enough." Is it fair to say that?

Yeah and It wasn't a good descion.
 
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I do not think that testing a relationship by spending time with someone you are attracted to is a bad decision. How else are you to find out who that person is?

It is a matter of truthfulness...his to himself about where he stands with Yeshua, and his to you on what he wanted from the relationship. If you are frank about what you want in a relationship from the beginning, not hesitating to say what you want or don't want, and what you understand is right and what is not, it makes choosing a spouse easier. Dating is almost pointless if you are already not heading in the same direction with your lives at the time that you meet.

Most of us when we are young do not know what we want, nor how to get it...yet it is simply speaking truth that is necessary...to the extent that you know it, even if you have to begin by writing notes to each other about things you are too shy to speak about with someone you have just met.

A marital relationship stands and falls on what is agreed upon...who you are in relationship to Yeshua, and what that means in how to live, where to live, what friends and family mean, and how often you share time in fellowship with others...how to do anything together or apart; the levels of consideration and respect that are needed; how much physical affection and what kind is needed to make you feel close and intimate with your spouse; how much money you need to earn to live the life you choose together; how many children is best, and how soon. A marital relationship also continues to be re-negotiated all the time as you move on with your lives.

Basically, if you cannot talk to your future spouse about what you want, you will never get it.
 
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I now know I made the right decision and I should keep my focus on God.
I know you have moved on from this thread, but I have to say you are a wise, wise girl!!!! That uneasy feeling you had while you were dating could have been the Holy Spirit!

Part of the reason I ended it was that I wanted to grow spiritually and felt I was stuck.
If you felt "stuck" just dating, I wonder how you would feel after 10, 20, 30 years of marriage?? Don't settle for second best. Being single your entire life is infinitely better than being trapped in an unequally-yoked marriage. Please forgive me for being so passionate about this, but I once watched a vibrant, vibrant woman of God turn into hollow-eyed walking corpse after marrying a man whose first love was not Christ. Paul was so right- 2 Corinthians 6:14!

You can always get married, but once married, you can't take it back and get single again.

Grace and peace to you as you follow the LORD in love and obedience!
 
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