I need prayer for clarity, truth, help, where I’m really at with God. I sincerely believe the Holy Spirit left me years ago, I truly believe I am not right with God and I never feel like things are ok anymore, no matter what I do. This is how I have felt for something like eight or nine years now. It doesn’t matter if I pray, give, serve, fast, share my faith, repent, worship, read and study, or do nothing at all I’m still left feeling separated from God. I don’t even know why I bothered going to church today honestly, I left today with the thought that I’m probably heading towards a judgement with a bad ending. I honestly don’t even know why I’m asking for prayer, I’ve had hundreds of people pray for me over the years and yet here I am still stuck in desperation.
Hello brother Curtis. Praise be to God he is calling you back to him through his Spirit!
All God's promises are conditional on BELIEVING and FOLLOWING God's WORD in the "PRESENT TENSE" and is why we are WARNED about falling away and ENDURING to the end, BELIEVING and FOLLOWING God's WORD.
It is only those who ENDURE TEMPTATION to the END that RECEIVE EVERLATING LIFE *
JAMES 1:12. Those who fall away from God's WORD back into a life of sin and are no longer BELIEVERS and FOLLOWERS of GOD'S WORD and in the "PRESENT TENSE" are UNBELIEVERS and as such God's promises do not apply to them *
HEBREWS 6:4-8;
HEBREWS 10:26-27.
God's SALVATION is conditional on...
REPENTANCE *
MATTHEW 3:2;
MATTHEW 4:17;
LUKE 13:3-5; ACTS 2:38; ACTS 3:19; ACTS 8:32;
PROVERBS 28:9-13,
CONFESSION *
1 JOHN 1:9;
PROVERBS 28:13 OF SIN *
JAMES 2:10-11;
1 JOHN 3:4 and
FAITH *
JOHN 3:14-21 in God's promises *
2 PETER 1:4 in the NEW COVENANT are all requirement for salvation.
Those who follow God do not practice KNOWN SIN and those who continue in SIN do not know God *
1 JOHN 3:9;
1 JOHN 2:1-4 and need to be BORN AGAIN. If the HOLY SPIRIT cannot come and go why are we warned to not GRIEVE the HOLY SPIRIT *
EPHESIANS 4:30;
PSALMS 51:10-13.
We GRIEVE God's SPIRIT by SIN *
GENESIS 6:5-6;
PSALMS 119:158 and not BELIEVING and FOLLOWING God's WORD *
PSALMS 95:10-11;
HEBREWS 3:10-11;
HEBREWS 3:17-19.
It is ONLY those who BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD to the END that will be saved *
JOHN 8:31-36;
MATTHEW 24:13;
MARK 13:13;
HEBREWS 3:13-14;
HEBREWS 3:6;
COLOSSIANS 1:12-14; 23;
HEBREWS 10:26-27;
HEBREWS 6:4-8;
MATTHEW 13:18-23.
According to the scriptures if we are not CONTINUING to BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD to the END we can GREIVE God's Spirit and depart from the faith *
2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-3;
1 TIMOTHY 4:1.
According to God's WORD in the NEW COVENANT, SIN is the transgression of God's ETERNAL LAW (10 commandments) and through the LAW we have the KNOWLEDGE of what SIN is when broken *
1 JOHN 3:4;
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
JAMES 2:10-11.
No one is "UNDER THE LAW" if they have by God's GRACE, repented of their SINS and CONFESSED them and by FAITH Accepted the FREE GIFT of God's SALVATION *ACTS 2:38; 3:19; 8:22;
1 JOHN 1:9;
EPHESIANS 2:13.
According to God's WORD it is only those who are CONINUING in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN that are "UNDER THE LAW" because they stand guilty before God of breaking it *
ROMANS 3:19 and do not know God and need to be BORN AGAIN *
1 JOHN 2;1-4;
1 JOHN 3:3-10.
According to God's WORD all those who CONTINUE in KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will not enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN *
HEBREWS 10:26-27 because they reject the gift of God's dear son *
ROMANS 6:23.
We are saved by GRACE through faith and not of ourselves it is a gift of God *
EPHESIANS 2:8. OBEDIENCE to God's LAW is not how we are saved it is the FRUIT of God's work in us as we BELIEVE and FOLLOW his WORD through love. If our faith has no fruit it is dead *
JAMES 2:18-20; 26 and our tree will be cast down and thrown into the fire *
MATTHEW 3:10; 7:19-20; 13:49-50.
NOW PAY CLOSE ATTENTION brother Curtis. God's WORD says...
1 JOHN 2:1 [1], My little children
, these things write I to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:[2], And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 JOHN 1:9 [9],
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Dear brother, GOd's WORD is the POWER of GOD unto salvation to everyone who BELIEVES. Resist the devil's temptation not to BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD. If you BELIEVE God's promises today BELIEVE you are made right with GOD Now! Not because you are worthy because you are not (we all are not) BELIEVE GOd's WORD now! If you have repented and confessed your sins to GOD, BELIEVE GOd's promises NOW. It is so because God says so now. You have salvation NOW when you BELIEVE God's promise to you. This is GOd's free gift to you when you BELIEVE and continue in God's Word
JOHN 8:31-36
[31], Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him,
If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
[32],
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
[33], They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say you, You shall be made free?
[34], Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you,
Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
[35], And the servant stays not in the house for ever: but the Son stays ever.
[36],
If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
It does not matter brother what you have done. Go to JESUS now give up your sins, confess them and BELIEVE his promises of FORGIVENESS to you now. You have God's promise of salvation NOW this very moment as soon as you BELIEVE God's WORD! Thank him
God bless
