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I think I’m in hell. Please help me get to the bottom of this.

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I don't think you've committed the unpardonable sin, judging by your testimony, you clearly do desire God and He would never turn a child like you down. Remember Jesus told Peter to forgive 70 x 7 in a single day. Jesus holds this same attitude towards us when we sin against Him. So dont be afraid. I know it's hard when schizophrenia is involved because it's so unpredictable the trains of thought it leads us into. But trust God is good and will deliver you of you hold on to the cross with all your mind heart strength and soul.
 
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meggy said:
People prayed for deliverance for me in the past and not a thing happens, makes me think I did the unforgivable sin because the power of God can’t come on me and cast demons out.
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Sweet Meggy,

The Power of God cant come on you? Thats not what Gods word says! I am glad you are getting help. You know God is sooooo so good. He doesnt scare you making you think you are in hell. He doesnt lie to you. He does not torment, making your legs burn etc. Those thoughts are not from Him at all. When those things happen, KNOW its not coming from Him. Stand your ground, you KNOW the truth.

If you call on the Name of Jesus, there is POWER and SALVATION in his name. If all you can get out is....Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Say it! You know he died for your sins, so you can have eternal life. He assured you and promised whoever believed in Him would have LIFE. HE FORGAVE YOUR SINS AT THE CROSS. Past tense, he already did it! KNOW IT, dont budge from it, no matter what comes at you. Ask God to FILL you with the Holy Spirit, and then thank him whether you feel it or not. The Holy Spirit IS the power of God, and he will come into your heart and NEVER LEAVE YOU.

i went through years and years of awful hurt and pain. I too, had kept “begging and praying” God to deliver me. Over and over, there was no answer until a few months ago, i saw the scripture in Colossians 1.....HE HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE “POWER” OF DARKNESS AND TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS SON. Yet i kept praying for him to do it.....like it was something he would do in the future. According to that scripture, he ALREADY delivered us when he died and rose! It was SO powerful what he did at the cross, it included our deliverance. He has already done it!

THEN, he showed me 2 Timothy 1.7.....
God has NOT given us a spirit of fear, but he HAS GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF POWER, of love, and a SOUND MIND. I said WHOA. I HAVE A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRRRR! Right now! When i realized that it was I that had the power.....what was hurting me could no longer function, because i realized GOD HAS GIVEN MEEEEEE A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRR.

When you believe and KNOW you have the Holy Spirit, you have POWER....and that power trumps ALL OTHER POWER! The moment i believed i had a Spirit of Power is when the pain and fear completely stopped once and for all.

You have eternal life in Jesus,,,,believe it, know it, praise God for it. I dont care if all hell breaks loose. Do not listen to those fearful thoughts. They lie. Gods word says, he has not given you a spirit of fear,,,,,he is saying its not coming from him. Speak the TRUTH and PRAISE the Name of Jesus.....THANK him he has GIVEN YOU a SPIRIT OF POWER! Of love and a SOUND MIND! The Holy Spirit will manifest in power!
 
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You are suffering from a form of OCD called "scrupulosity" -- look it up. It will give you some insight into what is going on with you.
 
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Hi meggy,

Still praying for you as others are here too I'm sure. Hope you're feeling better and hang in there as things will get better. Christ will return and the sufferings of this world will be a distant memory.
 
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For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;

And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,
Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.

How my heart yearns within me!

(Job 19:25-27, NKJV)
 
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First of all those who have committed the unforgivable sin are not worried about it, they have rejected God.
You are worried about it so have not done it.

May I suggest that rather than pray to God about something to have not done.
Thank him and praise him for what he has done.
He has forgiven you, he has adopted you into his family and you are an heir with Christ, a royal priest, precious to God.
 
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Hi meggy,

Whilst praying for you these Scriptures came to mind. Hope they are of value to you.

Present Suffering and Future Glory
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed…

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved…

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:18-29 (NIV)
 
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Dear sister, I know it's hard, very hard for anyone with mental illnesses and very hard for young people, but please don't look to your feelings and fears for any kind of confirmation. They come and go, they're like the wind, and for mentally ill people feelings and fears, even their minds are so often against them. The kind of fears you're feeling, they are not to be trusted.

You need rest, you need care. You need to give yourself time and allow yourself to recover and hope. You don't need to raise your fears and thoughts of hell on a pedestal to terrify you even more. You are not in hell nor are you going to be. Christ died for you too.

People who feel terrifying fear about these things, often want to have the reassuring faith of a 100-year old right now, or even better, they want perfect faith. I understand, who wouldn't want that, and who wouldn't want to feel at peace after so much fear? But we all grow, we all learn, our faith is molded and strengthened, and we all fail too. We fail often. We sin, we err, we stumble, we go astray. But we shouldn't despair. It's what we are, very imperfect. We can think of God as a loving father who knows all of this, and has prepared a way through His means. He will get you home, all of us. Many of us pray for you here. Didn't Jesus Christ promise to be there wherever two, three or more come together in His name, and didn't He promise that everybody who knocks will be opened, and didn't He promise that whatever good we ask in His name will be done, and didn't He promise that He would be with us until the end? I know your feelings would suggest that this isn't the case, but we don't believe in our feelings. Some of us have no hope in our feelings, and we have to trust our worries to God instead, through it all, like children, like everyone else, and carry on.

I pray and hope you get the best care, and that you would have more peace and healing, and for the people around you to be compassionate and encouraging. Just hang on, try not to believe your fears, and allow the thought "God loves even me, and no matter what happens, I don't have to live in fear" to sow its seeds. When fear rules over us, it's the hardest thing to believe: "God loves even me". One day at a time. No rush sister. Hang on in there sister, and in time you will see things so much better. But now is the time to heal, to step back, to stop worshiping your fears, to allow yourself to be as you are, to allow yourself to be a child. No matter how ill you are. God doesn't use people's illnesses against them.

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I don't wish to burden you with anything, and it could be good for you to step out of theological labyrinths for a while to allow yourself to recover better, but I'll include a few Martin Luther quotes here, he had a way of comforting people who suffered from fear and terrified conscience. In case you find some comfort from these. Here:

“It is enough to have sinned; let the sin now vanish, and let sadness, which is a much greater sin, depart. Consequently one ought to be disposed to say, ‘It is true. I have sinned. But I will not despair on this account.’

“Labor diligently when your conscience is thoroughly afraid with the remembrance of your sins past, and the devil assails you with great violence, going about to overwhelm you with heaps, floods, and whole seas of sins, to terrify you and to drive you to despair; that then I say, you may be able to say with sure confidence: Christ the Son of God was given, not for the righteous and holy, but for the unrighteous and sinners.”

“You say that the sins which we commit every day offend God, and therefore we are not saints. To this I reply: Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us. Accordingly, although we are sinners, we do not lose our filial relation on account of our filthiness, nor do we fall from grace on account of our sin.”

“The conscience, spurred by the devil, the flesh, and the fallen world; says, ‘God is your enemy. Give up in despair.’ God, in His own Fatherly love and through His Son’s grace and through His Word and through the witness of His people; says, ‘I have no wrath. You are accepted in the beloved. I am not angry with you. We are reconciled!’”

Praying for you with all these people. Christ is with you, even if you couldn't feel any of it. No fear, hang on, one day at a time.
 
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meggy said:
I think I'm in hell. please help me get to the bottom of this.
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Meggy, IT'S A LIE. Those thoughts you get in your mind ARE LIES, AND ARE A LIE. They are lying to you.

Firstly, you MUST understand that WE ALL deserve hell (that's what the Bible says: We ALL deserve hell). It's not you, and you only:

Rom 3:23-25 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,

Then you MUST understand the rest of the verse AND BELIEVE IT - BECAUSE IT IS TRUE:

being justified freely by His grace (GRACE = UNEARNED, UNDESERVED, UNMERITED FAVOR) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;

What does this mean? It means Jesus was cursed for you and for us all when HE took ALL our sin upon Himself. HE was cursed on your behalf:

2 Cor 5:21 For He has made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin, to be (our) sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Pet 2:14 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

Meggy, because of Jesus becoming YOUR representative before God, YOU are PERMITTED by God to be present with Love and Peace and Joy in Jesus. You are PERMITTED by God to be present in your heart and mind with Love and Peace and Joy. The devil is lying to you when you believe otherwise - IT'S A LIE - just like he lied to Eve in the Garden of Eden. The devil is a LIAR and the father of lies (Jesus said so). REMEMBER this every single time you start feeling like you are cursed and are in hell - you are being LIED TO. GOD is 10,0000 x 10,000 to the power of infinity more powerful than HELL, and GOD PERMITS YOU, MEGGY to be in His presence if you come to Jesus and acknowledge to Him you are a sinner and ask HIM to become your Lord.

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

It's according to God's MERCY - NOT according to anything right or wrong you have done:

2 Cor 5:21 For He has made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin, to be (our) sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jesus was cursed. HE was cursed on your behalf:

2 Pet 2:14 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

REMEMBER when you get those thoughts again that they are A LIE. REMEMBER that because of Jesus, God PERMITS you to be in the presence of God where there is love, and peace, and joy - IN CHRIST.

Get on your knees again and speak to Jesus. All you have to say is, "Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. THANK YOU for taking ALL my sin from me when ALL my sin was credited to your account in the day you bore ALL of it IN YOUR OWN BODY WHEN YOU DIED ON THE CROSS. THANK you that you died in my place. Jesus I give myself TO YOU. Keep me.

Then every time you get those LIES coming back into your mind LYING to you, REMEMBER that they are LIES and that God PERMITS you to be in his presence in Jesus, and you are PERMITTED by God through believing in Jesus to be with Him in Love, and Peace, and Joy.

Call out to Him: JESUS, JESUS, JESUS every single time those thoughts come into your mind - then pick up your Bible.

Start memorizing the scripture references of ALL the verses that tell you that you are forgiven like all of us NOT because of anything right or wrong you or we have done, but because JESUS is 100% righteous and HE represents YOU before God and HE paid the price for ALL your sins. Memorize those verses in the Bible and read them over and over and over again. Then REMEMBER them every time those feelings of being in hell and those thoughts come back into your mind and REMEMBER that GOD is not lying to you about the fact that your sins were taken away from you and put onto Jesus when He died - but those thoughts you get, and the sense you get of being in hell ARE LIES and are LYING to you.

JESUS is 10,0000 x 10,000 to the power of infinity more powerful than HELL, and He has DELIVERED YOU FROM IT.

God bless you Meggy
 
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I replied to your post already but I just want you to understand something about Hebrews 10:26: It's talking about those who continue to sin willfully and never repent. Elsewhere Hebrews also talks about those who turn away completely from following Jesus and from faith in Him.

ALWAYS balance scripture with scripture:

1 John 1:8-10 "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."

All you have done in your post is to tell us that you have sinned.

Now look at what else John says to you about this:

1 John 2:1-2 "My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world."

John is telling us that we don't have "a license" to continually sin (willfully), but if we slip up through our own human frailty, and we confess our sins to God, then we should remember that Jesus is our representative (advocate) before God - and HE is our righteousness, because He represents us.

In my last post I said to you you should memorize all the places in the Bible (scripture references) that tell you about salvation through YOUR BELIEVING IN JESUS. HE is your Savior - you are just like us and we (you and we) cannot save ourselves. Only Jesus saves us - and He has ALREADY paid the penalty for ALL your sins.

Trust in Jesus, and ask God continuously, on a daily basis, to keep you from falling into temptation when you are tempted. We are all tempted, not only from time to time, but often - and the world we live in is not conducive to encouraging a good life - but the Bible is conducive, and the Spirit of Jesus in you, is condicive.

God bless you Meggy
 
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First Todd White is a fraud and a scammer.

You are not in hell but you do need to consult a professional.
 
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Go to visit Israel. Yoshua Hamassiah will heal your heart.
 
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Hello Meggy. I can certainly appreciate what you are going through, and it may be a psychosis as the doctors have been saying, but God is greater than any disease. You spoke of praying and trying to worship and then don't sense God's presence. That may be the confusion in your mind; and know too that Satan is the enemy of our soul, and he may be tormenting you. Worship and praying by themselves is NOT the salvation and new life of God, and we all need a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, not just believing about God, for the Bible says that even Devils believe in God ---and there won't be any Devils in Heaven. God says: "he that has the Son (of God) has eternal life, and he that has not the Son has NOT that life" (see John 14 and note especially verse 6, and all such verses in the Gospel by John). The Word of God is the best remedy for our sick soul. Keep looking up, friend, and I will be praying for you.
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Proverbs 18:21 says "The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Songs and lyrics can invite evil spirits in your life. Please pray this prayer
JESUS, I KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD
JESUS, I KNOW THAT YOU DIED ON THE CROSS FOR ME
I KNOW THAT YOU CAME TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL
LORD JESUS I COME TO YOU AND
ASK YOU TO COME INTO MY HEART
AND SET ME FREE FROM SATANIC BONDAGE
FORGIVE ME LORD FOR ALL MY SINS
AND I FORGIVE EVERYONE WHO HAS WRONGED ME
I ASK FOR FREEDOM AND TAKE YOU AS MY LORD AND SAVIOUR AND FILL ME WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
AT THIS MOMENT I RENOUNCE EVERYTHING
THANK YOU GOD FOR HEARING MY PRAYER
AMEN

May God Bless You
 
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Hi, thank you. That’d be pretty cool if it’s true. what is the class?
 
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Meggy,

I have been SO SO blessed by this scripture in times of great need where the HOLY SPIRIT manifest and came in POWER. I would repeat it with all my heart over and over. One time, after speaking it aloud the third time, it was no longer just words coming out of my mouth, but the Word of God actually turned into the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, the Words I speak to you are SPIRIT and THEY ARE LIFE. This is the scripture;

2 Timothy 1.7 I have NOT given you a spirit of fear, but I have GIVEN YOU A SPIRIT OF POWER....OF LOVE.....AND A SOUND MIND. It says.....

I HAVE GIVEN YOU A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I HAVE GIVEN YOU A SPIRIT OF LOVE
I HAVE GIVEN YOU A SPIRIT OF A SOUNDDDDDDD MIND!

PAST TENSE,,,,,,,I HAVE GIVEN YOU..,,,,..!!! If you have repented of your sins and believed on Jesus Christ to save you and asked God to FILL you with His Holy Spirit......You HAVE what he says he has given you! BELIEVE IT!

Before, I had felt So hopeless, as I kept praying and praying and whining for God to help me and I wasn’t getting any answers. You see I kept begging Him to do something, NOT REALIZING HE ALREADY DID IT. He gave me everything I needed when he died on the cross and rose again in power. i think my biggest problem was not understanding what he had ALREADY done for me. So I kept begging him for it and wondering WHY I wasn’t getting it!
If you’re a Christian, the moment you believe the gospel, the book of Ephesians says YOU ARE SEATED IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST. He forgave us and seated us UP IN HEAVEN, not in hell. You can even repeat,,,,I am seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus! I even taped the scripture on my nightstand, and on bathrooms mirrors and when I need his power, I praise Him that he HAS given it to me, when he gave me the Holy Spirit!

I began to stand firm and say that verse with all my heart, and that’s when he has shown up in real power for me. I would say aloud......

GOD HAS GIVEN ME A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Over and over
GOD HAS GIVEN ME A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
GOD HAS GIVEN ME A SPIRIT OF POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

And guess what happened? The POWER OF GOD came to rescue me, the HOLY SPIRIT showed up in power. I’ve never experienced anything like that. I just loveeee it!
The God of Israel who SPLIT the Red Sea wants to do BIG and MIGHTY things for us.
It’s who He is!
 
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He already devoured me pretty much.
 
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