Miricles

[JRH]

I know this might sound sort of weird but bear with me.

I'm a Christian of course, and I have complete faith in my God. This faith has allowed me to pray for help and recieve it in the past. Last year God gave me many many of these miricles. It got to the point that people were asking me to help them. I told them every time that I wasn't doing anything and that it was God, but many of them didn't listen. People said I had amazing "luck" and it really got on my nerves. Things took a serious turn for the worse when I started to feel superior to everyone else. I became proud of my faith, and forgot that I was as much of a sinner as everyone else on the earth, and at that point God stopped helping me as much. I've realized the error of my ways and prayed for forgiveness. I know I cannot live a happy life without God's help, so what can I do to get back to where I was? I don't only need to pray for myself, but I felt like I could help others that way too. I know it's wrong for me to feel powerful in that way, and I know all of the positive actions were completely God's doing, but I REALLY want to "be able to help" again.

I also want to know if anyone else has had these experiences, because I have trouble finding people to relate to about this stuff.

 

[FatherApe]

I've been through a couple of years of real financial hardship, and I think a lot of it was God slapping me in the face trying to get my attention on some matters. I have an incredible Christian family, and we've seen some miraculous intervention in our lives. But God has no problem taking things away to refocus our attention.

The fact that you've recognized that, and have a good idea of the areas he would have you work on in your own life, gives me a good feeling about your turn around. What greater gift than to be able to help people and give God the glory. If all you want to do is help, get back out there and find a niche where it's needed. And prayerfully ask God to make you an instrument to help others in his name.

 

[IKTCA]

.

 

[Hands&Feet]

I sure can identify with your post, iktca. It is a lesson we will never learn fully in this life.
Sometimes we get too caught up with what we see as ministry and miss what God actually is giving us to do, too. I try to be caring, loving and compassionate to everyone. I have learned to listen to the silent cries of the desperate and have found that there are few people on this earth with whom God can't use you to help in some way or another in accordance with the gifts and resources He has given you. We are His hands and feet and the more we embrace this, the more our eyes are opened to the needs around us.
And, of course, there are simply those times when od is just plain quiet. I'm never quite sure at those time, whether He wants me to wait for Him or if He wants me to run after Him.

 

[IKTCA]

.