How do you determine one of His promises? Scripture? Personal revelation? Prophetic words from others? If you receive promises personally or from others then your foundation may be false. If you base His promises from scripture then call them false then you are calling Jesus Christ of Nazareth a liar. Could it be that your heart is not in the right place? Let us reason. His promises are delivered to those who love Him. Be in peace with Him this is His promise.
I have read the Bible countless hours over the past years and tried to apply it to my life as sincerely as I could, but there is no fruit or reward at all, quite the opposite. And don't accuse me of being a liar ok? I'm just trying to understand, yes perhaps my heart is not in the right place, but when will it ever be enough for God?
here is an example of an opportunity to grow.
You are not the liar . You are expressing your disappointment in Jesus Christ of Nazareth thus calling Him one. Have you recieved His Holy Spirit? Ask Him to fill you. This is His promise to all who love Him. Blessings.
Yeah well then if you are so smart, tell me what I should say?? After all these years that I've gone from problem to problem, only to end up like this. You don't even know half of what I've been through, yet you judge me and call me a liar? What should I say then? "Thank you a God for giving me bodily and mental illness?" And for never having my prayers answered. Obviously I've asked for the Holy Spirit more times than I can count without ever getting a response back.
I repeat , you are not the liar nor am I judging. I will pray for you.
God isn't "santa clause".
I can certainly relate. I also have physical and mental issues, and sometimes I wonder the same things. The best thing to remember is that we also have an enemy who came to steal, kill, and destroy. That enemy, make no mistake, wants us miserable. He also wants it to look like God is attacking us Himself, so that we lose faith and turn away from Him. While it does seem that God is just allowing it, we need to trust (oh, do I have trouble with that myself!) that He is going to eventually take the enemy's tactics and turn them around, using them against him and to our benefit. By analogy, God is going to build us a beautiful mansion out of the very bricks Satan keeps throwing at us.
The primary Blessing that all Holy men and women of the Old Testament received was the Blessing of a Circumcised heart. This is the Blessing that we clearly see in Genesis 17, where physical circumcision is instituted. Some say that the Blessing and Promise made to Abraham and his descendants is the Land of Milk and Honey. Yet Abraham never got a single inch of it. Why? Abraham was looking forward to a Heavenly Kingdom, not an earthly kingdom.
Thanks for the most compassionate response in this entire thread...
