I want to be closer to GOD

[jessygirl623]

I have always been brought up in a chrisitian house hold. Through the years i've strayed away and come back. I always knew i belived in god and loved him but i know i need to have more FAITH. I feel like somtimes i doubt my faith in our lord because, we'll the fear of the "unknown" i feel like i have some many question about " life" and our world. Recently i've been going through a rough period in my life dealing with anxiety and panic attacks, i feel like i really need god to help get me through. I go to church somtimes and i try really hard to be a good person. But i feel like the lazy part in me makes me all gug-ho and then it fizzels out. I need god in my life more then ever. How do i develope a better relationship with him?

 

[bsd31]

I have always been brought up in a chrisitian house hold. Through the years i've strayed away and come back. I always knew i belived in god and loved him but i know i need to have more FAITH. I feel like somtimes i doubt my faith in our lord because, we'll the fear of the "unknown" i feel like i have some many question about " life" and our world. Recently i've been going through a rough period in my life dealing with anxiety and panic attacks, i feel like i really need god to help get me through. I go to church somtimes and i try really hard to be a good person. But i feel like the lazy part in me makes me all gug-ho and then it fizzels out. I need god in my life more then ever. How do i develope a better relationship with him?

Your Bible instructs you on how to get closer to God.

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations. - Psalm 100 (NIV)

and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. - Hebrews 10:21-23 (ESV)

 

[Ace99]

Hi Jessie girl 623, this is the same post I sent to someone else but I hope it helps, I do feel for you, I went through something similar god wouldn't answer me or acknowledge me, he felt a million miles away but in the midst of it he taught me about patience and endurance something that I have always struggled with, do you think he could be trying to teach you something? Please don't think for a minute god doesn't love you because he absolutely adores you, you are his precious child. Something that helped me to get closer to him though it took s bit was being real with him, he has big shoulders he can take what you have to say, it helped me to treat this relationship in the right way because I was honest, when I was angry, I told him, when I was upset I told him, and when I cried, I cried in front of him, he was the one I took everything to, I also found that although it was hard sometimes I would praise him, I put on my worship music and said thank you for saving me, there where times where it was hard to praise him but I did it anyway, I said I love you, I wish you would answer me but your will be done, it took a while for him to answer me but I learned a lot while waiting and when he did speak the words were so sweet, please don't give up, god will make his presence known to you and your heart will fill with love. Keep pressing into the lord. God bless you, I'm here if you ever want to talk more about this, my prayers are with you.

 

[LilLamb219]

I have always been brought up in a chrisitian house hold. Through the years i've strayed away and come back. I always knew i belived in god and loved him but i know i need to have more FAITH. I feel like somtimes i doubt my faith in our lord because, we'll the fear of the "unknown" i feel like i have some many question about " life" and our world. Recently i've been going through a rough period in my life dealing with anxiety and panic attacks, i feel like i really need god to help get me through. I go to church somtimes and i try really hard to be a good person. But i feel like the lazy part in me makes me all gug-ho and then it fizzels out. I need god in my life more then ever. How do i develope a better relationship with him?

You can pray for more faith

You can go to church and be given His word that strengthens your faith!

You can go to church and receive the Lord's body and blood that will also strengthen your faith!

Talk with your pastor and then look and see WHAT you have faith in. Faith grasps onto the Savior and the forgiveness of sins He won at the cross for us. Sometimes all those other questions we may have just don't compare to what we really need to know about our Savior.

 

[salida]

Do you have the holy spirit? He will give you the power to live a christian life. Human effort alone can't do this. Pray and you will get it. This will give you the inner strength to live the christian life.

Take one day at a time and get some inspirational friends that love God by their actions. Read the bible and pray daily. Get involved in a serious church. Its a life long lifestyle and you will know God more and more. True faith is demonstrated by actions than then the feelings will come. Feelings alone are like a roller coaster. Feel free to email me if have questions.

 

[timf]

James 4:6-10 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Drawing nearer to God seems to be a process that begins and ends with humility.

It can be useful to take God up on some of His promises in the Bible. Consider some of the "if then" promises in Proverbs. If we are passionate in our asking, God does answer.

Proverbs 2:1-11 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

This may also be of interest;

Christian Pioneer - How do you walk in the Spirit?

 

[Emmy]

Dear jessygirl623. Jesus gives us the perfect answer. In Matthew 22,
verses 35-40, Jesus tells a Lawyer: " The first and great Commandment is:
" Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
The second is: Love thy neighbour as thyself." Then Jesus gives us this great
truth: " On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
God wants our Love, freely given and no conditions tagged on. What do we do? We start by treating all we know and all we meet, as we would love to be treated: kindly and with friendly words, helping hands, if needed, and always be a good neighbour. God sees our sincere efforts, and God will approve and bless us. Love is a Christian`s great weapon, and Love will overcome all enmity and wilful behaviour. God is Love, and God wants loving children/sons and daughters.
Jesus will give us His Love and Joy, and the Holy Spirit will empower us with His Love, also. Then we thank God and share all Love and Joy with all around us: our neighbour. We might stumble and forget at times, but then we ask God to forgive us, and carry on asking and sharing all Love and Joy.
The Bible tells us to " Repent," to change from being selfish an unloving to being loving and caring. Love is very catching, jessygirl, and in time we will become the men and women which God wants us to be: Loving God with all our beings, and loving our neighbour as ourselves. God recognises our Love for God and for our neighbour, and with God by our side, Nothing will be against us, and God Himself will lead you on and on. " Love and Obey, still the very best way. I say this with love. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.
P.S. God will know that you love God, because you are following His Commandments to love and care.

 

[tturt]

You've gotten some good responses. Suggesting that some of the time in our prayer closet (Mat 6:6) includes getting our minds off ourselves and others and spend time deliberately focusing on Yahweh by thanksgiving, praising Him, playing some music ((like religious Christmas lyrics that are about Him), meditating (means to focus) on Scripture such as Psa 145, thinking about some of His titles, names, and attributes and singing a song about Him to an audience of One. Recommendations based on such Scriptures as I Thess 5:17; John 4:24; Psa 16:11; 46:10, 69:30; 71:23; and 100:4

 

[Harry3142]

Christianity can be compared to a river. God reveals himself to us, we accept what he has done for us through faith, and we feel the compassion which he has shown to us. But it doesn't stop there. Instead, the compassion which he has shown us is to flow through us to others via our interrelationships with them. Without this constant movement beyond ourselves the 'water' of faith and compassion soon becomes stagnant, just as water caught in a depression from which there is no exit also becomes stagnant.

St. Paul wrote a letter in which he named the underlying motivations which lead to the commission of sinful acts, and the underlying motivations which lead to the performance of righteous acts. In each case, those motivations dealt with our interrelationship with others around us:

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. (Galatians 5:16-26,NIV)

I call this passage 'The Christians Code of Conduct'. If we truly have faith, then we will demonstrate that faith through using 'the fruit of the Spirit' as our motivations when we are dealing with others. And a genuine acceptance of the gift of salvation which God offers to us will lead to our having these 'fruit'.

 

[morygonzals]

You can pray for more faith

You can go to church and be given His word that strengthens your faith!

You can go to church and receive the Lord's body and blood that will also strengthen your faith!

Talk with your pastor and then look and see WHAT you have faith in. Faith grasps onto the Savior and the forgiveness of sins He won at the cross for us. Sometimes all those other questions we may have just don't compare to what we really need to know about our Savior.

Luke 17-And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

 

[insurchoftruth]

The longer time you spend next to the fire, the wormer you become. In order to get you whole body warmed up, you need longer time next to the fire. Otherwise, if you spend short time warming, only your skin will get warm.

How much are we addicted to the Word of God?

Spiritual treasures are like a diamonds burried underground, and are found from those who seek them, and dig to find them. The deeper the diamond is burried, the more precious it is, and more digging is required.



1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Luke 8:11-15, Acts 20:32, Romans 8:5-8,29, 12:1, 2, Psalm 1:2, 3, Joshua 1:8, 1 Corinthians 14:4, 26-33, 1 Peter 2:2, Hebrews 5:11-14, 11:6, Matthew 4:4, 5:6, 7:24-27, 10:38,39, 13:11, 2 Corinthians 10:15, Colossians 1:9-12, 3:16, James 1:7-8, 4:8, John 7:37, Matthew 4:4, 22:29, Psalm 86:11, Psalm 63:1, Psalm 119:12,18, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, Psalm 119:97,98,99