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Virginia1981

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Hi I'm Virginia, I'm from New York. And for years I've been struggling to follow the Lord. I go to church as often as I can but with being in college it's less and less so. I even find when I don't have homework I don't go to church half the time any more. I used to go every Sunday without fail. I'm hoping to change that soon. I figured a great first step in getting back to God would be joining a forum like this. Hopefully with help from this place and my church family I'll be able to find my way back to God.

A little about myself, I'm 35 years old and I'm in my second year of college. I'm in a program called L.I.V.ES (Learning Independent Vocational Educations Skills) It's a way for people who have disabilities who normally would never be able to go to college to go. You don't get credit and you don't really get a diploma. But it gives you a chance to go to college for 4 years for free and take whatever classes you wan. I'm been struggling with stress, depression a lot lately and had a bit of a mental breakdown two nights ago. Thankfully a friend from college had helped me through it. But that wasn't my turning point, it should have but it wasn't. This morning I woke up with 3 strange scratches on my inner leg just above my knee. And I knew I didn't do it and I have no pets. I searched the internet. I'm not sure it's true but everything I read says it's demonic and that the only way to keep the demons away is to call out to Jesus for help. Well this is me calling out to Jesus for help. I prayed for about ten minutes and then found this site and joined it in my second step to start following the Lord.
 

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Welcome, @Virginia1981 ! I am new too, and this place is very friendly.

About the scratches, I can only say that I often have little injuries that I don't remember or only half-remember. I suggest you take it as a wake-up call but don't worry about demonic activity, or if you are really troubled by that thought, ask to speak to a clergyperson about it.

Edit: plus it's very easy to scratch yourself flailing around in your sleep.
 
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It became easy to follow the Lord when I actually started to fear Him and realize our eternal life is as stake. If we do not do His will in our life, His teachings, His commandments, we will not be saved. How can we say we love Jesus if we do not keep His commandments? We cant. If we don't keep His commandments and follow Him daily in all that we do and seek His will in our life. Judgement day will come and He will say I never knew you.

John 14:21(KJV)
" He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."

Proverbs 9:10King James Version (KJV)
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
 
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Hi I'm Virginia, I'm from New York. And for years I've been struggling to follow the Lord. I go to church as often as I can but with being in college it's less and less so. I even find when I don't have homework I don't go to church half the time any more. I used to go every Sunday without fail. I'm hoping to change that soon. I figured a great first step in getting back to God would be joining a forum like this. Hopefully with help from this place and my church family I'll be able to find my way back to God.

A little about myself, I'm 35 years old and I'm in my second year of college. I'm in a program called L.I.V.ES (Learning Independent Vocational Educations Skills) It's a way for people who have disabilities who normally would never be able to go to college to go. You don't get credit and you don't really get a diploma. But it gives you a chance to go to college for 4 years for free and take whatever classes you wan. I'm been struggling with stress, depression a lot lately and had a bit of a mental breakdown two nights ago. Thankfully a friend from college had helped me through it. But that wasn't my turning point, it should have but it wasn't. This morning I woke up with 3 strange scratches on my inner leg just above my knee. And I knew I didn't do it and I have no pets. I searched the internet. I'm not sure it's true but everything I read says it's demonic and that the only way to keep the demons away is to call out to Jesus for help. Well this is me calling out to Jesus for help. I prayed for about ten minutes and then found this site and joined it in my second step to start following the Lord.

Hello Virginia;

Have you trimmed your toe nails lately? I have scratched myself in my sleep; because I had long toes nails.

welcome to CF; May the Lord Jesus guide you here as well as in the world; and may you find friends and what ever you need from the Lord here. I do have a question for you; do you like music--Praise & Worship music? Well we have a new forum here at CF just for P&W music and at the top is a directory of other Christian music threads around CF; come and take a look!:wave:

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