Please pray for me. I was born again in 2002 and managed to get myself (huge backslide) in an unGodly relationship about this time last year. Believe I have lost my salvation. Could you please pray for me? I am not sleeping at night and no longer have God's grace or the power of the Holy Spirit convicting me. I do not log into this site very often. Please email or PM me [email address edited by Deamiter]. I pray (try to anyway) and still read scripture (feel rather condemned as I read). My pastor knows, as well as a few other close Christian friends. I do not know what else to do. If anyone is struggling with this particular temptation, please save yourself and your relationship with God and do not give in. I may no longer be making it to heaven based on a few compromising decisions, allowing temptation to enter my house, thinking it was ok, but knowing deep inside that it was not.
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Very bad situation!
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You haven't lost your salvation. You need to begin to relate to God again as you can. God won't put His whole relationship with you on hold over this one issue, but He will bring it up sometime once you are communicating again. Then you can work through what you shoudl do with your pastor and church friends.
I have maintained a friendship with a young girl in this situation for several years. I am the only Christian freindship she has, and we often talk about God. I will be at her wedding soon. God is still at work in her life, quietly, but there.
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I have maintained a friendship with a young girl in this situation for several years. I am the only Christian freindship she has, and we often talk about God. I will be at her wedding soon. God is still at work in her life, quietly, but there.
John
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u cant lose your salvation, but you can lose the joy of it. get back to where you first found the love of God and repent. you will be fine. let God heal you.
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It is never too late...
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore no condemnation unto them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ hath made me from from the law of sin and death.
You cannot lose salvation. If you have accepted Christ, God has made your heart good. Even after the bad relationship. You must believe that He has made your heart good! Don't believe the devil's lies that you are unsaved, which will only lead you even farther from God. (i.e. who will want to aim towards a goal that is impossible? if you believe this, you are only on your way down...)
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore no condemnation unto them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ hath made me from from the law of sin and death.
You cannot lose salvation. If you have accepted Christ, God has made your heart good. Even after the bad relationship. You must believe that He has made your heart good! Don't believe the devil's lies that you are unsaved, which will only lead you even farther from God. (i.e. who will want to aim towards a goal that is impossible? if you believe this, you are only on your way down...)
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Bobbo2 said:
Don't let Satan get into your head and discourage you and make you forever feel guilty. Your past, present and future sins were paid IN FULL, ONCE AND FOR ALL by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus! NOTHING can take his children from his hand, NOTHING. Since there is nothing we can do to merit salvation, there is nothing we can do either to lose it (barring blasphemy against the Holy Spirit). Please do not carry this guilt with you. You have been forgiven, ALREADY, just repent and ask Jesus to cleanse your sin. If you've already done that, you need to MOVE ON or else Satan will continue to discourage you and make you ineffective in your work for Christ. Don't let anyone tell you you can lose your salvation, because if it were up to us, we'd screw it up anyway. It's in the hands of God and he is in control and loves you no matter what. So rejoice. God love you and wants you to feel his grace and mercy. Remember David was an adulterer AND a murderer, but God still called him a man after his own heart! Moses killed a man and God chose him to lead his people out of Egypt. If God wanted to only use perfect people, there would be nothing accomplished. Please PM me if you want to talk! God bless
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Hi! You're born again?If you are born again... You cannot lose your salvation period.
If the Holy Spirit is not convicting you my guess is you are not born again.
Believers backslide and sin,but they are still believers!The fact that you are reaching out for help shows me that you are under conviction from the Holy Spirit and you are in fact saved.Don't let anyone including yourself condemn you.I ask Father to renew his/her mind with the washing of the word and give him/her assurance of salvation and I plead your blood over their situation In Jesus Name. Hang tough!!
If the Holy Spirit is not convicting you my guess is you are not born again.
Believers backslide and sin,but they are still believers!The fact that you are reaching out for help shows me that you are under conviction from the Holy Spirit and you are in fact saved.Don't let anyone including yourself condemn you.I ask Father to renew his/her mind with the washing of the word and give him/her assurance of salvation and I plead your blood over their situation In Jesus Name. Hang tough!!
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Make peace with the judge while you are still on the road! Got to set things straight somehow if you really try you can, God bless.
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I once thought as you do that I was condemned because I had done some stuff that I was not proud of in my past but I spoke to my pastor about this and he told me something that may me feel a whole lot better.
God's love is unconditional and no matter what you do He will not turn away from you no matter what you do if you ask for his help and forgiveness. He will love you no matter what you do. Believe that.
God's love is unconditional and no matter what you do He will not turn away from you no matter what you do if you ask for his help and forgiveness. He will love you no matter what you do. Believe that.
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Yes. I was born again. God was really convicting me, but thought it was my own personal discomfort and not the Lord. Silly me. Now I have no convictions at all, which makes me very nervous.
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Dear Friend,
We so often have trouble seeing God as all-loving because of the failures we have seen here in this world. My advice to you is that you read the story of the lady caught in adultery to Jesus. When she was brought to Him there wasn't any condemnation but love for her. He told her to go and sin no more! If that is something you are willing to do then do it, don't hesitate. There was a time in my life where everything fell apart. I did not know what to do so I sunk into my old sins for a month. My life was trash and there was no joy except continual weeping. Jesus came to me and showed me the bondage I had allowed myself to enter into as I thought myself condemned. As others have said above you have not lost your salvation, we are all debtors to His grace. There is a song By switchfoot and the lyrics inspired me so much and I want to give you them
Hello good morning how you do
what makes your rising sun so new
I could use a fresh beginning too
all of my regrets are nothing new
So this is the way that I say I need you
this is the way, this is the way
That I'm learning to breathe,
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall
I'm living again awake and alive
dieing to breathe in these abundant skies
Hello good morning how you been
yesterday left my head kicked
I never never thought that I could fall like that
never knew that I could hurt this bad
These words have encouraged me so much. I hope they do you also. It is about each morning learning to live and learning to breathe with God. Get up in the morning and read some of the Bible and if you pray at all confess your sins and ask him to make you holy. But walking with God again will be like relearning how to breath. God is telling you today go and sin no more. He loves you so much that he died for you as you know so well. He did that while we were still sinners how much love is that. Just like the love of the father to the prodigal son, he received his long lost son and didn't condemn him because he was lost and now is found.
I'll be praying for you
We so often have trouble seeing God as all-loving because of the failures we have seen here in this world. My advice to you is that you read the story of the lady caught in adultery to Jesus. When she was brought to Him there wasn't any condemnation but love for her. He told her to go and sin no more! If that is something you are willing to do then do it, don't hesitate. There was a time in my life where everything fell apart. I did not know what to do so I sunk into my old sins for a month. My life was trash and there was no joy except continual weeping. Jesus came to me and showed me the bondage I had allowed myself to enter into as I thought myself condemned. As others have said above you have not lost your salvation, we are all debtors to His grace. There is a song By switchfoot and the lyrics inspired me so much and I want to give you them
Hello good morning how you do
what makes your rising sun so new
I could use a fresh beginning too
all of my regrets are nothing new
So this is the way that I say I need you
this is the way, this is the way
That I'm learning to breathe,
I'm learning to crawl
I'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall
I'm living again awake and alive
dieing to breathe in these abundant skies
Hello good morning how you been
yesterday left my head kicked
I never never thought that I could fall like that
never knew that I could hurt this bad
These words have encouraged me so much. I hope they do you also. It is about each morning learning to live and learning to breathe with God. Get up in the morning and read some of the Bible and if you pray at all confess your sins and ask him to make you holy. But walking with God again will be like relearning how to breath. God is telling you today go and sin no more. He loves you so much that he died for you as you know so well. He did that while we were still sinners how much love is that. Just like the love of the father to the prodigal son, he received his long lost son and didn't condemn him because he was lost and now is found.
I'll be praying for you
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Bayne
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Yeah I agree u can never ever lose your salvation
Pray to God Fervently and ask him to break your heart and ask for forgiveness
and turn around from this and remember that if you do your quiet times out of routine it becomes a religious act and not a conversation with God
and remember that God loves u no matter what u do (unconditionally)
and may find God again
God bless
Pray to God Fervently and ask him to break your heart and ask for forgiveness
and turn around from this and remember that if you do your quiet times out of routine it becomes a religious act and not a conversation with God
and remember that God loves u no matter what u do (unconditionally)
and may find God again
God bless
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I have been in a similar situation. God turned his face from me, He humbled me to the point where I could just barely afford to eat, I wasn't sleeping at night, etc. I could go on. I remember a vision where I was in a pit looking up at God. He had tears streaming down His cheeks and His face was anguished, but He was holding me in that pit. Yet, even though God had turned His face from me, He still had an ear open. Even though He humbled me as much as He did, He still provided for me as I was clothed, fed, and sheltered. I couldn't sleep at night from the inner turmoil I was experiencing. While I was in a pit spiritually, God was still my father. Through out the whole time God never left me. He was still there. "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
I think what is happeneing is that you are experiencing the Lord's discipline. It's an expression of His love for you. On the other side of the coin condemnation does not come from God. Conviction does. It might do to ask yourself which it is your feeling. Also, the thought that you have lost your salvation is a lie of the devil. This is exactly what the devil wants you to think. All you need to do is repent, and humble yourself before the Lord. I can tell you from personal experiance that He will accept you back with open arms. You can also rededicate your life to Christ. Either way, He's just waiting to give you a fresh start.
I think what is happeneing is that you are experiencing the Lord's discipline. It's an expression of His love for you. On the other side of the coin condemnation does not come from God. Conviction does. It might do to ask yourself which it is your feeling. Also, the thought that you have lost your salvation is a lie of the devil. This is exactly what the devil wants you to think. All you need to do is repent, and humble yourself before the Lord. I can tell you from personal experiance that He will accept you back with open arms. You can also rededicate your life to Christ. Either way, He's just waiting to give you a fresh start.
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