Why God does not bless

[Strider1002]

We have addressed your concerns, "hopeless," and you ignore our answers. As long as you do that, this thread will be hopeless.

 

[Willie T]

Hummmmm........................ That sounds like a few more people saying that if you insist on thinking like a Betta, you will always be a Betta.

 

[briareos]

Hopeless,

I love arguing! I thrive on it and I could even help you get better at it if you'd like me too, you're dramatic but not very skilled at it... just be honest about what you want mayne.

 

[TheyCallMeDave]

Why is it that God chooses some to bless and others not to? Is there any rhyme or reason to it or is it just luck of the draw?

God blesses all Christ Followers different ways. Some monetarily to be used to further his Kingdom on earth, others with spiritual gifts, ALL with going to heaven, some with being an ambassador to others, and the list is endless. He gives us blessings according to his good will for us and its up to us to recognize them, appreciate them, and use them. The biggest blessing he gives to all Followers of his Son, is eternal life which entails so much its unfathomable . 1 Cor. 2:9 is something you should read.

I find in life , that God tends to bless Followers who are available to be used of him, are selfless, surrender in full to his leading, and have made for themselves good spiritual disciplines. These are people who have a mission and love it. , because its reflecting Christ and his person.

 

[Aijalon]

God blesses all his followers will spiritual gifts of some sort. (Generosity is a spiritual gift, as well as faith and helping others) This is shown in the illustration of the "body" of Christ. All parts of the body are spiritual gifts, and all of them are necessary for a healthy body.

God's kingdom is not of the world, it is a spiritual kingdom, money does not further his kingdom at all, and that includes church money. Money is only coincidentally connected to the kingdom, because money is necessary for day to day business. One day, when Christ returns, and reclaims his kingdom materially, that might change. Money is a material blessing and nothing more. With that said, riches and wealth are more likely a test sent from God than a blessing. The stronger your faith, the more likely you are to be poor, and the reason is because God knows how far you can be tempted. A man of little faith may, if he is poor, fall into coveteousness, or steal, for instance. If he does not lack, this temptation might be less, therefore the grace of God for him, is the blessing of enough wealth that he does not commit these sins. Never assume that material blessing is from the Lord, it may be from the Devil as well.

 

[hopeless99]

In order to have a friend you need to be a friend.
It is human nature to want those things that are hard to obtain and to despise those things that are easy to get.

You have to ask yourself are you looking for those things or those people that are good for you or do you only want those things or people in your life that are not good for you.

I had a friend back in the 1980's that thought Tom Selleck was the best looking man in the world and would not have a man who was not as good looking as Tom Selleck. The problem was that she was not a great beauty, was not outgoing and would not get involved in her community or even in her Church. Her hobby was watching movies at home on her VCR or DVD player and playing with her dog in her back yard.

Any Attempt to get her out of the house was met with resistance. I tried to date her but was refused because I was slightly overweight and not as good looking as Tom Selleck. I met and married a wonderful lady and have three beautiful daughters and am happy. I recently friend-ed her on facebook and from what I can see she is still watching movies at home, still single and although she has a new dog she is posting wonderful pictures of her dog in her back yard. I assume she is still waiting for Tom Selleck to come to her door and sweep her off her feet.

Sometimes we are focused so much on what is missing from our life that we can not see what we have. And sometimes unanswered prayers are a blessing in disguise.

What I want to know is what are you doing to make yourself interesting enough to attract a relationship. Are you someone involved in your community? Do you have hobbies or interests that put you out in the world of possible companions? Why would someone want to become your companion? Are you kind? Are you interesting? Are you helpful, do you share the blessings of a life for Christ. Often times a person is most desirable as a mate or companion when he is out doing the work of Christ. How are you spreading the Gospel? How are you working on Christ behalf.

God wants us to be active in our pursuit of him. He has a beauty to unveil he has a mystery that you need to seek, capture his heart and he will know you are ready to captivate another.


Or you could just post reply's to helpful Christians bemoaning your lack of blessings on a Christian Forum. Your Choice.

Ronel

Why bother? None of that will do anything.

If God is going to magically do His mysterious will no matter what, I cannot thwart His plan against me. He has decreed, so shall it be. He wants me alone and miserable, who am I to challenge God? Thus, I am hopeless. Doomed, if you will.

It's good God blessed you. He clearly favors you over me. Kudos.

I agree that spreading the gospel is critical. How do you suggest I do that better? Standing on a street corner yelling at sinners to repent? Will that make me more attractive to normal, sane women? I don't know.

The one thing I do know from this forum is this, prayer doesn't do anything. And my life is proof of that. So I'll just lie down and die to self and let God run my life. Much easier.

 

[hopeless99]

Mods can go through and close this.

 

[motherprayer]

Hopeless, I'm praying for you!

 

[hopeless99]

Can you pray that God will kill me? I haven't slept in 2 days straight or eaten anything. I'm slowly on my way out anyway. I'm not even tired or feel weak, it's weird.

 

[motherprayer]

We have addressed your concerns, "hopeless," and you ignore our answers. As long as you do that, this thread will be hopeless.

You never know what someone might process and later accept. Don't give up so easily on someone who is hurting.

Imagine what would happen if God gave up as easily as His children. If He just said, you know what, forget you all, you never listen anyway. I'm sure you, Strider, have been in a position of not listening to God at least once in your life. Please have some compassion.

 

[hopeless99]

You never know what someone might process and later accept. Don't give up so easily on someone who is hurting.

Imagine what would happen if God gave up as easily as His children. If He just said, you know what, forget you all, you never listen anyway. I'm sure you, Strider, have been in a position of not listening to God at least once in your life. Please have some compassion.

That's more or less how I feel God is with me anyway. I guess it's like a Saul thing, where God rejected him and basically said, "screw you". That explains why God blesses most people and not me. Well, at least I know why now that I think of it.

 

[Strider1002]

I'm simply saying that if he doesn't consider what we're saying, this thread will be pointless.

You have asked for help, "hopeless," now don't let your pride prevent you from accepting it. We are saved through faith. That means we believe, without evidence, that God will help us. Right now you don't seem to believe that. The Bible makes it pretty clear that God values our faith above all.

 

[Willie T]

Can you answer a simple question, Helpless?

Do you have any idea how to make a statement of who you are in Christ?

Start off with "I am"...... and end with....... "in Christ". (This is actually in the Bible.)

 

[Eloy]

There are many types of blessings. People are peculiar creatures, curly haired people want straight hair, and straight haired perople want curly hair. Each person wrongly thinking that the "other" person is better off than "me". But it is not true. Those whom seem to be mpre blessed than we are really are not, they may have a blessing that you do not have, but you also have a different blessing that they do not have. If each person had the exact same blessings, then how boring would the world be. If every person was an exact carbon copy of you, or of that person which you think is more blessed than you, how boring. He made each person to be different and not the same, some have specific talents and abilities that others do not. Should all members be equal, if all members of the body were a foot, then where the hands? If all are doctors, then where the doctors, each individual member is blessed in their blessing. And each different member is needed in order to make up the whole one body. You are blessed, you have intelligence and can post here, that is a blessing. Count your blessings, and thank the Lord for your blessings. Amen? Amen.

 

[tbogunro]

Why bother? None of that will do anything.

If God is going to magically do His mysterious will no matter what, I cannot thwart His plan against me. He has decreed, so shall it be. He wants me alone and miserable, who am I to challenge God? Thus, I am hopeless. Doomed, if you will.

It's good God blessed you. He clearly favors you over me. Kudos.

I agree that spreading the gospel is critical. How do you suggest I do that better? Standing on a street corner yelling at sinners to repent? Will that make me more attractive to normal, sane women? I don't know.

The one thing I do know from this forum is this, prayer doesn't do anything. And my life is proof of that. So I'll just lie down and die to self and let God run my life. Much easier.

Haha...sorry I'm laughing but you do know that God doesn't reveal is FULL plan and purpose for each individual, bcuz pride will come! You know the scripture that says no eyes have seen, no hear have heard the plan I have for you...that sums it up. But it gets more and more revealed as he leads us. So if you already know that it's God's FULL plan for you to be alone then that's a 1st and props to you. But really your problem isn't about blessing, your problem is you DON'T know God and got some seeking to do lol. What gave it away was "alone" and "miserable", my pops definitely isn't about that life ....lol you do realize the fact that you even prayed or asked questions about blessings is bcuz God himself is calling you. Jesus said himself that NO ONE can even come to Him unless God calls them. So whether you feel your prayers are answered or not God has been calling you, so man up, STEP UP to the plate, set aside selfish prayers and just pick up the phone and see what HE HAS TO SAY.

Not here to judge and who am I to even consider that but we are here to help though if you want to KNOW more about Him.

 

[Aijalon]

That's more or less how I feel God is with me anyway. I guess it's like a Saul thing, where God rejected him and basically said, "screw you". That explains why God blesses most people and not me. Well, at least I know why now that I think of it.

So I guess you are like Pharoh then, God has hardened your heart and that is that.

Job's wife told him to curse God and die, will you? Job would not do it, instead he justified himslef in the face of ridecule by his friends. He also sort of accused God of being cruel. God chastized Job, but not as much as he chastized his friends!

 

[hopeless99]

Can you answer a simple question, Helpless?

Do you have any idea how to make a statement of who you are in Christ?

Start off with "I am"...... and end with....... "in Christ". (This is actually in the Bible.)

Of course.

I am... Redeemed... in Christ, from the curse of the law.

 

[hopeless99]

So I guess you are like Pharoh then, God has hardened your heart and that is that.

Job's wife told him to curse God and die, will you? Job would not do it, instead he justified himslef in the face of ridecule by his friends. He also sort of accused God of being cruel. God chastized Job, but not as much as he chastized his friends!

Some versions say she said, "Bless God and die." Depends on the translation.

And yeah, if God hardens your heart, there's nothing you can do about it. Romans 9 makes that clear.

 

[hopeless99]

Haha...sorry I'm laughing but you do know that God doesn't reveal is FULL plan and purpose for each individual, bcuz pride will come! You know the scripture that says no eyes have seen, no hear have heard the plan I have for you...that sums it up. But it gets more and more revealed as he leads us. So if you already know that it's God's FULL plan for you to be alone then that's a 1st and props to you. But really your problem isn't about blessing, your problem is you DON'T know God and got some seeking to do lol. What gave it away was "alone" and "miserable", my pops definitely isn't about that life ....lol you do realize the fact that you even prayed or asked questions about blessings is bcuz God himself is calling you. Jesus said himself that NO ONE can even come to Him unless God calls them. So whether you feel your prayers are answered or not God has been calling you, so man up, STEP UP to the plate, set aside selfish prayers and just pick up the phone and see what HE HAS TO SAY.

Not here to judge and who am I to even consider that but we are here to help though if you want to KNOW more about Him.

'But the spirit has revealed them to us through His Son...' as the verse continues.

If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives freely. James 1

If people are in the dark, it's their own fault, not God's. Ask and ye shall receive.

I definitely don't pray selfish prayers any more. What's the point in asking when you already know the answer is no?

 

[hopeless99]

There are many types of blessings. People are peculiar creatures, curly haired people want straight hair, and straight haired perople want curly hair. Each person wrongly thinking that the "other" person is better off than "me". But it is not true. Those whom seem to be mpre blessed than we are really are not, they may have a blessing that you do not have, but you also have a different blessing that they do not have. If each person had the exact same blessings, then how boring would the world be. If every person was an exact carbon copy of you, or of that person which you think is more blessed than you, how boring. He made each person to be different and not the same, some have specific talents and abilities that others do not. Should all members be equal, if all members of the body were a foot, then where the hands? If all are doctors, then where the doctors, each individual member is blessed in their blessing. And each different member is needed in order to make up the whole one body. You are blessed, you have intelligence and can post here, that is a blessing. Count your blessings, and thank the Lord for your blessings. Amen? Amen.

That's true, we must be thankful. And some are called to be "winners" others, "losers". Not all can win.

Didn't Paul say, "All run the race, but only ONE may claim the prize?"