Hey All

[Glorified]

I feel like I'm slipping away again. I don't feel as excited as I have in past weeks. I feel like I'm getting back into a groove again, spinning my wheels. Why can't I just feel his glory all the time? What can I do to make God a total part of my life? Why do I keep falling back? When I pray for God to make satan stop controlling the way I think and the things I do I just feel worse.

I hate this. I want to always be in his love and glory but sometimes I feel I'm getting selfish or something. Not putting God first. I dont' know what I'm really saying here. I'm just so confused. After Church or my Life Group I feel as if I'm on top of the world, then a couple of days pass and I'm right back where I started from.

Yes, I pray about it but I feel wierd about it. Like what am I praying for?

This is dumb, I really dont' want to send this but I am anyway. Maybe this is what God wants me to do. Ask you guys for guidance.

Oh well, thanks for listening anyway.

 

[GreenEyedLady]

My husband has the same problem.
Some days he is on top of the moutain with the Lord like moses, then he says its like the spirit leaves him.
I think one thing to remember is that you cannot stay on top of that moutain all your life or even every day. You must remember that the moutain connects with the world and you are still on the earth. We still are fleshy beings that have to deal with the spiritual warefare of this world. Any time you try to get close with the Lord, the devil is going to do anything he can to break your fellowship with the Lord.
Do you read God's Word daily?
GEL

Ps. My husband asks the Lord daily to fill him with the Holy Spirit. I don't think your selfish for asking for the Lord to be closer with you.

 

[daveleau]

Sometimes when we pray for things, God answers our prayers by giving us trials to overcome. For instance, if you pray for patience, you often get put into a situation where you have to exhibit patience. This could be said about your situation.

Also, Christianity isn't all about emotion. It is mind, spirit and will. The emotion falls under spirit, where as the will is the devotion to God outside of our emotional desire to praise Him. If we continue to praise Him and worship while we don't exactly want to do this at a given moment, God will bless us more for doing so than if we praise Him when it suits our emotional state.

I know it can be hard to deal with a let-down of emotions because we all go through them at some point. The Devil attacks those who are on fire for God, not those that already ignore God's Will. Keep strong and keep going. Discipline yourself and set up habit patterns of prayer and reading of Scripture. You will find that this is a huge blessing that will sustain you during the emotional lulls.

God bless you,
Dave

 

[SumTinWong]

I feel like I'm slipping away again. I don't feel as excited as I have in past weeks. I feel like I'm getting back into a groove again, spinning my wheels. Why can't I just feel his glory all the time? What can I do to make God a total part of my life? Why do I keep falling back? When I pray for God to make satan stop controlling the way I think and the things I do I just feel worse.

I hate this. I want to always be in his love and glory but sometimes I feel I'm getting selfish or something. Not putting God first. I dont' know what I'm really saying here. I'm just so confused. After Church or my Life Group I feel as if I'm on top of the world, then a couple of days pass and I'm right back where I started from.

Yes, I pray about it but I feel wierd about it. Like what am I praying for?

This is dumb, I really dont' want to send this but I am anyway. Maybe this is what God wants me to do. Ask you guys for guidance.

Oh well, thanks for listening anyway.

Glorified,
I've always wondered the same thing, but people have pointed out to me that no one who has become a Christian has had it easy or has been bathed in the glory of God at all times, so why should I be any different. I remember crying on my knees asking God to make me Holy, and asking God to take these feelings and thoughts away from me. There is a lyric in an Andre Crouch song that says it all: "If I never had any problems, how would I know God could solve them...Through it all...I I've learned to trust in Jesus, I 've learned to trust in God..."

Anyway, I have been where you have been and all I can say is to grow you are going to need to be pruned, and the pruning hurts. I don't understand it either all the time. Somedays my brain feels like it did when I was unsaved, and the next day I am back where I was before.

I will not even try and belittle your pain and fancy catch phrases will not help you in any way at this point. Trust in the love of your Father, to bring through whatever this is. Perhaps, He is bringing you through this so you can talk to someone else in the same postition.

Hang tough.

 

[Lynn73]

I feel the same way, Glorified, so I don't know what to tell you. I pray, I ask people to pray, and I keep plugging along. I've been a Christian for about 30 years and I feel like I'm still very immature and self centered. I can't seem to get the victory over certain things. But if you give up, who else is there to go to? I say to both of us, keep going and trusting no matter how low you feel or how much you fail.

 

[RED that's ME]

The reason why is... we are in a spiritual warfare. Satan wants to take us down. It's a constant battle to keep our focus right where it should be. We need to daily work on our relationship with God putting on the whole armor of God.

[bible]Ephesians 6:10-18[/bible]