- Nov 26, 2021
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Hello everyone, I'm Nate, and I am devastated to put it very lightly. I deduced through reading many posts on here that this would be the best forum to post this.
My story is sort of long, but I'll try to condense it down to a manageable size and make small paragraphs because I know too much info can be exhausting to a reader.
If someone would be as lovingly kind to offer me help, I, Nate, will be so kind as too make this story/nightmare/predicament as easy to read as I can. I'd like to thank anyone in advance who offers any response whether it helps the situation I'm in or not because it truly is the thought and willingness to offer that counts, so my foregraritude is extended unto you.
So where do I begin? I guess from the beginning would be best because it all starts there.
My mother was not a Christian and neither was my father, though they had belief in God. My mother sent me to Sunday School with my Grandfather who was a humble Christian that I was very close to and loved dearly. I didn't really understand what I was taught in Sunday school and it had no impact on me that I could tell. At home I would ask my mom about God, and she would speak from the book of Revelation a lot and somehow I grasped that more than the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, etc..
I grapsed it probably from the sheer terror it caused me, a feeling of doom would settle in on me and I would imagine seeing these events in the clouds but would shake it off but I would always surface in my life from time to time for years to come. I continued Sunday school but couldn't grasp the lessons taught as I had no interest as my young my mind wasn't geared for Holy thinking, to my utter detriment.
At around Maybe age 12 a family member who read tarot cards did a reading on a friend of theirs and I was present. I saw the card which had the devil on it and was fascinated by it. I snuck in one night and snatched the card and did a self thought of ritual to this card, afterward, I felt odd and didn't know what came over me to do that.
By the time I reached age 14 my cousin told me one day that a person we knew, that I'll call Steve, was saved. I had no clue what that even meant despite years of Sunday School, and inquisitive, I asked him "what does that mean?" His Reply shocked me as he said "that's how you avoid going to Hell!" Fear came over me as I stated to him that I thought Hell was only for the devil, and maybe for some super evil dictator.. I was floored and terrified!
After weeks of research I had dug myself into a hole of paralysis of being convinced that I had commited the unpardonable sin, which in retrospect, I had not! Nights of being unable to move in the floor from fear got old and after some weeks I learned that even though I wasn't saved, I had NOT commited it and I recovered promptly.
I kept all this in my mind the next few years but lived like a normal teen until around 17 years old I became interested in Church because my best friend would talk to me about God. Eventually I went to the alter after a call and asked God to forgive me and save me from Hell; I actually made a prayer of attrition, not contrition, snd didn't fully repent in hindsight and struggled for a year or two keeping my eyes to the floor at school so I wouldn't lust. It was torture and I couldn't take it anymore, I broke down and masturbated one day and slowly fell away from church. In hindsight, this happened because my repentance wasn't genuine and the Holy Spirit wasn't present to assist me. I still wanted to sin, but I knew it was wrong and feared judgement.
I eventually began to disdain Christianity and wrongly viewed it as a control tactic and abhorred the idea of Hell and became a militant atheist and probably one of the worst that's ever been. I couldn't stand the thought of loved ones being tortured for eternity and could not grasp it. I spent years tearing down Christianity logically but erroneously and said, and thought the most vile and evil things a human being could ever say. Somewhere along the line, in retrospect I'm nearly positive that I commited Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (I'm an idiot to Nth degree, all my fault) but at the time I chauked it all up to control tactic fantasy.
Years went on by and I was hardened into this view against Christianity because of Hell, no other factor put me off from it jn a disdainful manner but Hell only. Eventually I logically concluded there must must be a creator of the universe after studying astronomy and physics, but I clung to Deist, and other new age ideas of God because I could not accept one who would torture me or my loved ones, or anyone for that matter (this was my thinking at the time) and I was unable to believe in what I now now know to be the true and only God. So now I will begin to wind down my story to the present, self induced nightmare I live in and this is where things may bet hard to belive for some as I have been told by some, blatantly that they did not belive my testimony, and that's okay because it is something that was personal and I'm not offended when I'm met with disbelief, I guess I deserve it for not believing in God for a chunk of my life. But if one of you belive me and can help put a hault to this madness, I'll be forever grateful.
So most of my adult life has been happy and fulfilling and I've been a strong self reliant and joyful man, always getting about anything I wanted. Selfish in some ways, arrogant to a high degree by denying the true God in retrospect, but didn't see myself that way at the time. But the point being I was happy, no mental illness or real fear of anything. Had many friends who loved being around me as I was super positive amd level headed and could help them find solutions to life's problems. I would give you the shirt off my back, I gave to the poor even as an atheist and would cry at the starving child, or animal commercials. I was sensitive to people who were bullied and cried if a teddy bear was left in the rain. I couldn't stand to see people hurt. I was macho in ways, rugged outdoorsman and attractive to women. Prideful in a lot of ways, and humble in other regards, like most of us are.
So my life was AMAZING and I had everything going for me but was never too stingy with anything, if someone wanted something of mine all they need was ask and I'd do my best, or offer any help I could. I was the happiest I'd ever been and then all Hell broke loose one day! And I had an event that nearly killed me, a heart attack. I was in my chair one night and it woke me up. I knew it was a heart attack cause I had had one prior. This time was different though.. I noticed my feet started to burn hot, like a stove and it began creeping up my legs; paralyzed with fear I couldn't move and I saw a lake of fire appear in front of my eyes, then I knew what was happening. I saw people bobbing up and down in it. I just knew I was about to experience the very thing they lead me to atheism; what an idiot I had been. What you must understand here is that I was not dead or in Hell like NDE's some have reported, but I was alive and getting the heat on my feet and legs and saw this appear in front of my eyes. Then something remarkable happened, and to this day it gives me chills, despite my crushing terror.
A cross decends from above and floats across my vision above this lake and I audibly hear a voice speak. Not in my head but I actually heard it and it was Jesus and he says calmly yet firmly "I died for you". Now immediately I felt a sense of my whole life and my state of heart toward God Almighty and felt like the lowest of the low and I was..
I was ambulated to the hospital right away and treated, had a stay there then was sent home. I was gripped in terror but thankful to be alive.
Now I've never had mental health issues but shortly after this event I started being tormented be something sinister that gives me no rest, no peace of any kind; and this is something I hear with no pause whatsover. It's not talking voices or anything but my hearing has been altered in such a way that almost every sound is crushing and dark, almost like druid chants but not that. It comes from outside me and has replaced normal sounds and is not in my head at all and there is no way I can explain it. I've begged God for repentance and relief and have seen and still see a pyschiatrist, Christain therapists and I attend church regularly but there is no peace or relief from this tormenting spirit which tangibly keeps me in agony 24/7. This has continued for the better part of year now.
At first I tried making deals with God which I learned was a no no after studying scripture. I tried all manner of prayer that lasted day and night and still does to the point of exhaustion. I've had churches pray, Christians in my family and others.
If anyone has commited blasphemy of the Holy Sprit, it's probably me.. and I was sooooo bad that my punishment has began on earth. One of my counselors who's is a Christian looked at me with a look of amazement and asked me frankly, "so what you're telling me is that you have sinned so grievously that God himself has targeted you personally with a spirit of torment, and you have sinned so much worse than anyone else!?" I responded "YES, I'm saying just that!".
So here is where I am today.. crawling on the floor slobbering in agony with my teeth rotting from lack of hygiene, and going for walks amd collapsing in the forest from mental and emotional exhaustion. Seeing physchiatrist and counselors and taking medication prescribed to me but no help.
God will not hear my cries for repentance even though in my flesh I have given up my sins the best I can do, but it's agonizing as I have no help from the Holy Spirit to maintain this. I have zero comfort day and Night and just looking at my pet cat being relaxed and calm puts me in a state of envy that physically hurts. I've never had an envious mind as I was always happy for other people in their successes, but now I'm completely in envy of even insects that scurry about with no eternal fate awaiting them. Cars go casually by and it physically hurts to watch. I don't want anyone to hurt or be like me, I just want to be like they are. Level headed again, with a chance at salvation.
I'm going to say out of what hope I can dig for deep down that I'm 99.99999999999 percent certain I'm unforgivable, and I will reference the Bible which states "With God all things are possible" and take some hope I can find someone that the Lord would consider a humble Saint who walks upright and knows him in fellowship. The prayer of a righteous man (one made righteous through Christ because that's the only way) availeth much. Ask that person to intercede on my behalf because the Bible speaks of people interceding for other people, and see if they can state my case before the Lord as he won't hear me. My case is this: I'm a terrible, horrible, wretched sinner who is sorrowful for what I've done.. I've done nothing good in my life by Holy standards, please have mercy on me. I have no legs to stand on my own.
Please pray for me, and anything you can say I will listen. Just to see someone communicate with me is like Gold to me.
I know all this is my own fault and I take responsibility for my nightmare.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read my mess. You are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nate.
My story is sort of long, but I'll try to condense it down to a manageable size and make small paragraphs because I know too much info can be exhausting to a reader.
If someone would be as lovingly kind to offer me help, I, Nate, will be so kind as too make this story/nightmare/predicament as easy to read as I can. I'd like to thank anyone in advance who offers any response whether it helps the situation I'm in or not because it truly is the thought and willingness to offer that counts, so my foregraritude is extended unto you.
So where do I begin? I guess from the beginning would be best because it all starts there.
My mother was not a Christian and neither was my father, though they had belief in God. My mother sent me to Sunday School with my Grandfather who was a humble Christian that I was very close to and loved dearly. I didn't really understand what I was taught in Sunday school and it had no impact on me that I could tell. At home I would ask my mom about God, and she would speak from the book of Revelation a lot and somehow I grasped that more than the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, etc..
I grapsed it probably from the sheer terror it caused me, a feeling of doom would settle in on me and I would imagine seeing these events in the clouds but would shake it off but I would always surface in my life from time to time for years to come. I continued Sunday school but couldn't grasp the lessons taught as I had no interest as my young my mind wasn't geared for Holy thinking, to my utter detriment.
At around Maybe age 12 a family member who read tarot cards did a reading on a friend of theirs and I was present. I saw the card which had the devil on it and was fascinated by it. I snuck in one night and snatched the card and did a self thought of ritual to this card, afterward, I felt odd and didn't know what came over me to do that.
By the time I reached age 14 my cousin told me one day that a person we knew, that I'll call Steve, was saved. I had no clue what that even meant despite years of Sunday School, and inquisitive, I asked him "what does that mean?" His Reply shocked me as he said "that's how you avoid going to Hell!" Fear came over me as I stated to him that I thought Hell was only for the devil, and maybe for some super evil dictator.. I was floored and terrified!
After weeks of research I had dug myself into a hole of paralysis of being convinced that I had commited the unpardonable sin, which in retrospect, I had not! Nights of being unable to move in the floor from fear got old and after some weeks I learned that even though I wasn't saved, I had NOT commited it and I recovered promptly.
I kept all this in my mind the next few years but lived like a normal teen until around 17 years old I became interested in Church because my best friend would talk to me about God. Eventually I went to the alter after a call and asked God to forgive me and save me from Hell; I actually made a prayer of attrition, not contrition, snd didn't fully repent in hindsight and struggled for a year or two keeping my eyes to the floor at school so I wouldn't lust. It was torture and I couldn't take it anymore, I broke down and masturbated one day and slowly fell away from church. In hindsight, this happened because my repentance wasn't genuine and the Holy Spirit wasn't present to assist me. I still wanted to sin, but I knew it was wrong and feared judgement.
I eventually began to disdain Christianity and wrongly viewed it as a control tactic and abhorred the idea of Hell and became a militant atheist and probably one of the worst that's ever been. I couldn't stand the thought of loved ones being tortured for eternity and could not grasp it. I spent years tearing down Christianity logically but erroneously and said, and thought the most vile and evil things a human being could ever say. Somewhere along the line, in retrospect I'm nearly positive that I commited Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (I'm an idiot to Nth degree, all my fault) but at the time I chauked it all up to control tactic fantasy.
Years went on by and I was hardened into this view against Christianity because of Hell, no other factor put me off from it jn a disdainful manner but Hell only. Eventually I logically concluded there must must be a creator of the universe after studying astronomy and physics, but I clung to Deist, and other new age ideas of God because I could not accept one who would torture me or my loved ones, or anyone for that matter (this was my thinking at the time) and I was unable to believe in what I now now know to be the true and only God. So now I will begin to wind down my story to the present, self induced nightmare I live in and this is where things may bet hard to belive for some as I have been told by some, blatantly that they did not belive my testimony, and that's okay because it is something that was personal and I'm not offended when I'm met with disbelief, I guess I deserve it for not believing in God for a chunk of my life. But if one of you belive me and can help put a hault to this madness, I'll be forever grateful.
So most of my adult life has been happy and fulfilling and I've been a strong self reliant and joyful man, always getting about anything I wanted. Selfish in some ways, arrogant to a high degree by denying the true God in retrospect, but didn't see myself that way at the time. But the point being I was happy, no mental illness or real fear of anything. Had many friends who loved being around me as I was super positive amd level headed and could help them find solutions to life's problems. I would give you the shirt off my back, I gave to the poor even as an atheist and would cry at the starving child, or animal commercials. I was sensitive to people who were bullied and cried if a teddy bear was left in the rain. I couldn't stand to see people hurt. I was macho in ways, rugged outdoorsman and attractive to women. Prideful in a lot of ways, and humble in other regards, like most of us are.
So my life was AMAZING and I had everything going for me but was never too stingy with anything, if someone wanted something of mine all they need was ask and I'd do my best, or offer any help I could. I was the happiest I'd ever been and then all Hell broke loose one day! And I had an event that nearly killed me, a heart attack. I was in my chair one night and it woke me up. I knew it was a heart attack cause I had had one prior. This time was different though.. I noticed my feet started to burn hot, like a stove and it began creeping up my legs; paralyzed with fear I couldn't move and I saw a lake of fire appear in front of my eyes, then I knew what was happening. I saw people bobbing up and down in it. I just knew I was about to experience the very thing they lead me to atheism; what an idiot I had been. What you must understand here is that I was not dead or in Hell like NDE's some have reported, but I was alive and getting the heat on my feet and legs and saw this appear in front of my eyes. Then something remarkable happened, and to this day it gives me chills, despite my crushing terror.
A cross decends from above and floats across my vision above this lake and I audibly hear a voice speak. Not in my head but I actually heard it and it was Jesus and he says calmly yet firmly "I died for you". Now immediately I felt a sense of my whole life and my state of heart toward God Almighty and felt like the lowest of the low and I was..
I was ambulated to the hospital right away and treated, had a stay there then was sent home. I was gripped in terror but thankful to be alive.
Now I've never had mental health issues but shortly after this event I started being tormented be something sinister that gives me no rest, no peace of any kind; and this is something I hear with no pause whatsover. It's not talking voices or anything but my hearing has been altered in such a way that almost every sound is crushing and dark, almost like druid chants but not that. It comes from outside me and has replaced normal sounds and is not in my head at all and there is no way I can explain it. I've begged God for repentance and relief and have seen and still see a pyschiatrist, Christain therapists and I attend church regularly but there is no peace or relief from this tormenting spirit which tangibly keeps me in agony 24/7. This has continued for the better part of year now.
At first I tried making deals with God which I learned was a no no after studying scripture. I tried all manner of prayer that lasted day and night and still does to the point of exhaustion. I've had churches pray, Christians in my family and others.
If anyone has commited blasphemy of the Holy Sprit, it's probably me.. and I was sooooo bad that my punishment has began on earth. One of my counselors who's is a Christian looked at me with a look of amazement and asked me frankly, "so what you're telling me is that you have sinned so grievously that God himself has targeted you personally with a spirit of torment, and you have sinned so much worse than anyone else!?" I responded "YES, I'm saying just that!".
So here is where I am today.. crawling on the floor slobbering in agony with my teeth rotting from lack of hygiene, and going for walks amd collapsing in the forest from mental and emotional exhaustion. Seeing physchiatrist and counselors and taking medication prescribed to me but no help.
God will not hear my cries for repentance even though in my flesh I have given up my sins the best I can do, but it's agonizing as I have no help from the Holy Spirit to maintain this. I have zero comfort day and Night and just looking at my pet cat being relaxed and calm puts me in a state of envy that physically hurts. I've never had an envious mind as I was always happy for other people in their successes, but now I'm completely in envy of even insects that scurry about with no eternal fate awaiting them. Cars go casually by and it physically hurts to watch. I don't want anyone to hurt or be like me, I just want to be like they are. Level headed again, with a chance at salvation.
I'm going to say out of what hope I can dig for deep down that I'm 99.99999999999 percent certain I'm unforgivable, and I will reference the Bible which states "With God all things are possible" and take some hope I can find someone that the Lord would consider a humble Saint who walks upright and knows him in fellowship. The prayer of a righteous man (one made righteous through Christ because that's the only way) availeth much. Ask that person to intercede on my behalf because the Bible speaks of people interceding for other people, and see if they can state my case before the Lord as he won't hear me. My case is this: I'm a terrible, horrible, wretched sinner who is sorrowful for what I've done.. I've done nothing good in my life by Holy standards, please have mercy on me. I have no legs to stand on my own.
Please pray for me, and anything you can say I will listen. Just to see someone communicate with me is like Gold to me.
I know all this is my own fault and I take responsibility for my nightmare.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read my mess. You are greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Nate.
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