Pray for me please

[loveisallyouneed]

Excerpt from my journal.

"It's been months since I've been to the messageboards. Truth is I'm in the same spiritual crisis now, that I've been in, for the past few years of my life. It's unfortunate to say but, I'm just not really believing in anything very strongly right now. My spirituality is very much up in the air, as it has been. I pray everyday, to feel a connection, to something greater than myself, and there is nothing there. Granted, I don't go to church, but I don't know if that would neccesarily solve all my problems either.

I just don't feel I belong anywhere, and I really don't have the guts to go church shopping. It just seems too intimidating at this time in my life. I feel as if, were I to venture into that endeavour, I'd be easily influenced to latch onto anything, just because I'm so desperate to belong to something."

Please pray for me, I don't really know what to do with myself. Lately I feel that maybe believing in nothing is better than feeling so lost. I feel like I shift from day to night sometimes.

Thanks.

 

[Iggster]

I pray that you seek not to belong to something. But to seek who you belong to. The Lord loves you and has a great purpose for you. You have a part to play in His Kingdom. I pray that you seek Him first in your heart. As for the rest, I pray that He'll be your guiding light.

In Chirst name I pray, Amen....... Praise God.

 

[caitlincares]

Praying

 

[Cat59]

HI loveisallyouneed
Praying for you!
Cat

 

[Live4God]

Now! L4G!
Seek Professional Counseling!

 

[lwarren75]

I will be praying for u!

 

[strengthinweakness]

loveisallyouneed,

I am praying for you. In your post, you write that you pray to "feel a connection to something greater" but that "there is nothing there." Just a thought that I had-- long-lasting, clinical depression can often make one feel as if God is very distant or not even there at all. The feeling can be so strong that it almost seems like reality. I speak from personal experience. Don't get me wrong-- my feelings fluctuate, but I still believe in God, regardless of what I feel at times. Do you think that you might be suffering from clinical depression?

Ultimately, either God is truly there, or He is truly not there, but either way, His existence doesn't change based on our feelings. Over the years, I have encountered so much evidence for the existence of God (learning about the intricacies of creation, discovering Biblical prophecies that were fulfilled, reading about archeaological discoveries that verify events described in the Bible, etc.) that I am convinced that the God of the Bible does objectively exist. Faith isn't always easy for me (or anyone, probably), but it would take more faith for me not to believe than to believe. I didn't always see things that way (I was an agnostic for many years), but the more that I learn, the more that I am pointed towards the existence of God and the authenticity of the book that claims (and proves) to be His word. PM me if you would like to talk about any struggles you are having. I will keep praying.

In Christ's love,
Chris

 

[silentpoet]

Have you read "Surprised by Joy" By CS Lewis? It talks of his loss of and his finding of God. I am only partly through it, but it talks about some of the things you may be struggling with.

 

[devoted daughter]

Joining in prayer for you, LOVE

 

[promise]

Praying for you and sending you a big .