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You want me to read all your posts then come,back and answer you? If so ill do that now.
How you 'feel' at any point in time, does in no way define who God is.My friend snapping did it for me. Its like God never wants to see me happy, I've been lonely all my life...I'm just like if you can't find it in your heart to give me a friend to keep me company ...could you yourself at least talk to me.
I've asked for years to hear God speak to me or feel his presence...something! And I got nothing...
Nothing. I asked , I tried..and still nothing.
I try to do the right thing, with my aunt at her church...but I just got treated badly for it... Even when we moved out of the hotels my mom got in a freaking car accident...
And my only friend who I loved so much descended into madness, 3 years...gone just like that. ( Why let my friend descend into madness? Why couldn't he be blessed with a sound mind like alot of people? Why? I tried to make friends with a girl at work and she hasn't t3xted back,...so its like I can't have anything )
Why does God just pick on some people?
Why is God so jealous he can't stand to see me genuinely happy..with or without him... I tried to get close but he does nothing...so its like I can't have anything... Not HIM, not friends, not a job...nothing...
What's the point? And I hear about my other f4lends and how well they're doing ..one is going to make 1000 a week.. And she's younger than me... ..
And I'm just like am I just here as Gods special punching bag? When he gets mad...its time to mess with me?
I'm over it....
I don't think I can love a god like this.
I'm so close to telling God go f**** yourself.,.
Bc I never did anything to Him except try to be close and I won't try anymore...I'm not ...I'm done.
I mean what's the point so I can reach out and God can be silent some more? I think I've learned my lesson.
God speaks to people who fully surrender their will to His.
What this means is that if you really want to hear Him, you have to be willing to hear Him. You have to be ready for Him to direct you in ways you might not expect. You have to accept that His will is higher, better and wiser than your own.
What this does not mean is that you tell God to give you what you want. You can ask, certainly, and you should. But when you do, it must be in submission to His will. Jesus Himself said, "Not my will, but yours" when He asked that the cup of suffering be removed from Him. Jesus submitted to God, even though they are one, as an example of how we are to respond in our darkest moments.
It's no wonder that you have come to this forum numerous times saying that you are giving up on God. Then you come back. Then you leave again. The reason is because He is not responding in the way that will satisfy you. And the reason you are not satisfied is because you are holding on to specific requirements that you put on God. When He doesn't respond to that, your response is to say that God is laughing at you, doesn't like you and is enjoying your misery. If you have read even the smallest bits of the Bible, you know what a lie that is. So when you say it, you are pouting because you are not getting your way.
Your choice is to move in faith and submission, or continue to insist upon your way. And, if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Then you start the cycle again of proclaiming that you'll walk away from God, and then return again in the same hope that you'll get your way. Which makes more sense to you?
God allows us to go through dry, difficult phases of life not because He delights in our suffering, but in order to teach us faith and to grow in the maturity of that faith. As we yield our will to His, He gives us our next step. If we don't, we get stuck exactly in the same place, as you are.
Finally, the responsibility to choose faith and submission is ours alone. God does not insist. That's why we have free will. When we choose to turn our backs on Him, the results are always dire. But when we submit our will to Him and approach Him humbly, acknowledging that we can do nothing of value on our own, and ask Him for direction and guidance, then He does. If you've said you've tried this and it "didn't work", then you didn't really do it, because it's not a one time thing to magically produce the result you want. Instead, it is repentance -- changing our ways to accept His -- which is ongoing, and becomes a lifestyle. Once you walk closely with the Lord, relying on Him for every choice you make and every thing you do, you will begin to have ears to hear His direction.
I have done it both ways. I learned that my sin separated me from God, and it was a terrible place to be, much as what you are experiencing now. If you want your life to improve, you have to take responsibility for your choice. Jesus said "Come to me, you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest". But you must come to Him on His terms, not yours. That is submission. When you can truly say "Your will be done", then you will come to understanding. Sometimes we have to be miserable enough to come to the end of ourselves to finally throw up our hands and give up doing it our own way (doing it our own was is, by definition, sin) and come to Him, willing to receive what ever it is that He has for us. I found that when I did that, my entire life changed in ways I could not imagine. God has blessed me beyond my expectations a hundred fold, but it was only when I laid my will down at the foot of the cross that the changes started. He will do this for you too if you will only lay down the requirements you give Him as a condition of following Him. Because He never responds to that.
It's up to you. You can make choices to get out of this cycle of misery, or you can submit to God. Those of us who have chosen God over ourselves have lived it, experienced it, and love God deeply for the amazing grace He gives to His children. I hope you'll join us.
if you walk in love you will surly find something
That can only happen by the willful withdrawing of submission to God, and the turning of the back to the Holy Spirit.I'm sure there have been many who've "fully surrendered their will to his", found nothing, and became atheist or agnostic.
It appears that because you are a now doubter, you are now encouraging others to doubt as well. May I suggest that it might be better to refrain from posting unbiblical advice on a Christian Advice forum, where people are seeking biblical advice.That part right there that I bolded is precisely one of the reasons why I've begun to doubt Christianity more (another major point being the Bible itself). Such thinking is nothing but detrimental and harmful at best and insensitive and hateful at worst.
I'm sure there have been many who've "fully surrendered their will to his", found nothing, and became atheist or agnostic.
are you saved?
Then you must know this verse very well:I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic elementary and high school, know more about the Bible than probably most of my family members, and was an altar server when I was a kid.
I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic elementary and high school, know more about the Bible than probably most of my family members, and was an altar server when I was a kid.
Why is it that as soon as someone earnestly doubts (whether due to inconsistencies they find in the Bible regarding doctrine, or God's character, or suffering, experiences of others, similarities with other cultures, etc.) they're suspected of being "not saved"?
Then you must know this verse very well:
Eph 2:8-9: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so no one can boast.
What you have described are works - it's what you've done. Perhaps the reason you are a doubter is because you have never met Jesus personally, through grace, by faith. God calls you to faith, and I hope you answer the call.
Because when you Doubt all of your prayers go unanswered. It's not just the ten commandments, everything God says to do is a command. "Trust in the Lord." is a command. If you doubt, you are definitely not trusting in God, If you were, you wouldn't Doubt. Disobedience is a Sin, and Sin separates us from God. Thus making all your prayers Go Unanswered.
Actually, according to my family, I had a vision of Jesus when I was around 3 years old. Unfirtunately I myself remember absolutely none of it. When people talk of "meeting someone personally" they mean face-to-face (or at least direct vocal) communication, where they can explicitly talk to one another without vagueness and not wondering if what you really heard was the other person or just their own thoughts. "Meeting Jesus personally" how most people use it never seems to require any of that, and the one personal experience I apparently did have is one I have no memory of.
I'm pretty sure there's people who have prayed, and only doubted after their prayers went completely unanswered.
I was raised Catholic, went to Catholic elementary and high school, know more about the Bible than probably most of my family members, and was an altar server when I was a kid.
Why is it that as soon as someone earnestly doubts (whether due to inconsistencies they find in the Bible regarding doctrine, or God's character, or suffering, experiences of others, similarities with other cultures, etc.) they're suspected of being "not saved"?
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