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Mar 31, 2010
I have this overwhelming feeling i am lost please pray the Lord will have mercy on me. I just know i really don't know him, please pray for me.
I have this overwhelming feeling i am lost please pray the Lord will have mercy on me. I just know i really don't know him, please pray for me.
Don't you listen to that slippery serpent!
The Lord has promised to keep you, and keep you He will, for our Lord always keeps His promises.
Read John 17.
but heartsong i have fell so far away from him living for him and i have lost my faith in Christ, i know that i believed strongly at one time but now i don't but i want to, i really don't know if i ever had saving faith and true repentance, i know i experienced him at one time in my life and even walked with him but now i aint. This past year is the first time i have seen my lostness i really think God might be showing that i was never truly saved but i did come to a knowledge of the truth i know that otherwise i would not being worried about it and my soul, i am as confused as anyone but i truly think i am not saved i don't know that i have been forgiven , no spirit bearing witness, that was not even the basis for my original faith in Jesus was his death for my sins, i never even understood what the purpose of his death until this year, that makes 5 years i really didn't know the true gospel, yes i listened to the Carter Conlon sermon but the whole time i felt myself saying i don't even think i am saved to begin with, i heard a brother tell me the fact that i am seeking after Christ proves i am saved but i disagree look at John Wesley and others who have sought after Christ i might be seeking him for the wrong reasons not because i offended him by my sin a holy God, i just don't know.
Maybe you need to stop listening to all those sermons and just stick to the Word.
Some people are too easily influenced by what preachers say, and if youre already a believer, you just want to believe everything every single preacher says, and it can lead to confusion, cause often times, contradictions come up.
Please just stick to the bible as your only source for a bit, and get a grip.
Mean this in the nicest way possible
Maybe you need to stop listening to all those sermons and just stick to the Word.
So true. Other people's writings, sermons cannot bring life to a starving soul: you need the genuine, word of God - the real thing. Only the Real Thing has the power to nourish a starving soul. And that includes you and everyone else.
Personally, I read few sermons, books dealing with theological subjects because they have such little nourishing power compared to the Word of God. The time you spend in the WORD is by far richer then the time spent in reading/listening to other folks.
Hope this helps...
ginnyrose
please could everyone who reads my prayer request pray for me that God would save my soul and have mercy on me thats what i need, please i beg of you i want Christ but my heart is doubting and so hard, please i am going to be crying to God and begging him for mercy and forgiveness, i really need those who will cry out with me, i really don't know what it will take because i have tried to have faith and repent and just nothing. I will get in the word, but oh i just want to be saved.
I will be praying for you.
My heart is deeply stirred for you. I have been through a very similar experience. I want you to know that Jesus brought me through this. He will bring you through this as well. He will not fail you. My personal walk with Christ has been far from perfect or even good. In my early days as a Believer, I was so blessed to play a role in a true youth revival that impacted many lives for Christ. I was most zealous and loved God. After much personal rejection, I became very bitter. I had moral failings as well. Over a period of many years, I retained the bitterness and cynical outlook. I pursued money, the pride of life, and the junk of this world. Jesus convicted me and I began to pursue Him again. After much pursuit, I almost came to the conclusion that I was eternally lost and past the point of God's mercy. This was a tactic of Hell that nearly worked. On day in the spring of 2008, I simply asked Jesus to give me one more chance. I was desperate. Later that evening, the blessed Holy Spirit began to touch me. He convicted me deeply of many things. I was a mixture of sorrow for my sin, and incredible joy over His love and forgiveness. I now have been truly restored to my first love. All because of Jesus. He will not fail you. Please do not give up. You are a Luke chapter 15 miracle that is waiting to happen. You are a testimony about to be written. The Good Shepard of Luke 15 is coming to rescue you. The Father of Luke 15 is waiting to kiss you and welcome you to His family. Heaven is about to throw a party over you. Dear friend, my Christ was savaged beyond all recognition on the cross. He paid for your salvation. The Holy Spirit will help you just like he helped me.
I actually have not heard a testimony like yours before that you had walked with God and then he still was merciful to you after that. Thank you so much i really needed to hear that, i do feel like their is no hope for me but after reading that i am strongly encouraged.Thank you so much, i will seek after him.
b4l
Seek and ye shall find. The Lord is true and faithful when we are not - I backslid for years and the reason was I had become bitter and disillusioned as the Christian life seemed so hard for me - impossible - and I slowly built up resentment towards God and disappointment and failure in myself. I had to learn that it has to be all by grace in order to fulfill God's commands and if it is in the flesh it will fail.
He took me to a new land where I was held by power and truly saved, that is, saved from sin although I had known Him before it was not a true knowing of Him and His ways and I had been listening to the teaching of the church which is in a bad way when I should have been listening to Him. He saved my soul from sin and He will do this for anyone who comes to Him. Paying.
Brenda
Brother,
Here is a quote from Thomas Brooks:
"It is not the bee's touching of the flowers that gathers honey, but her abiding for atime upon them and drawying out the sweet. [b]It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.
Whatever you're doing is definitely NOT working and it hasn't worked.
I say this with love, brother, but you are looking for help in all these other books and articles of other people's testimonies on how they found God when it's YOU who needs to find God. (You do know that you seem to have an addiction to to reading everything BUT the Word of God?)
When you (figuratively speaking) stop running to and fro all over the Internet trying to find Christ and face HIM with who you really are: with your failures, your sins and your faults, I promise you , you will find HIM and you will know that HE loves you. It's like you are trying to find another way in except directly through Christ because you don't want to face HIM with who you are.
Brother, until you STOP and lay down all "your" tools (computer, books, etc) and when you [b]start reading ONLY your Bible
John, the time for all your "if's, and's or but's" are gone, buddy! Either you will let God be God or 10 years from now, you will still be on sermonindex posting these same messages. What will you do, John? Is up to you.
HE'S waiting on you alone to face HIM alone.
Love in Christ,
Hey Lysa
You said:
I say this with love, brother, but you are looking for help in all these other books and articles of other people's testimonies on how they found God when it's YOU who needs to find God. (You do know that you seem to have an addiction to to reading everything BUT the Word of God?) When you (figuratively speaking) stop running to and fro all over the Internet trying to find Christ and face HIM with who you really are: with your failures, your sins and your faults, I promise you , you will find HIM and you will know that HE loves you. It's like you are trying to find another way in except directly through Christ because you don't want to face HIM with who you are. Brother, until you STOP and lay down all "your" tools (computer, books, etc) and when you start reading ONLY your Bible... and look nowhere else and take only God's word for your help, you will find HIM and everything you have need of. Read it slowly and let the Word get into you! John, the time for all your "if's, and's or but's" are gone, buddy! Either you will let God be God or 10 years from now, you will still be on sermonindex posting these same messages. What will you do, John? Is up to you. HE'S waiting on you alone to face HIM alone.
Tuff words but they needed to be said. I agree completely John you have to let go of all this focus of self and seek the Lord only. Be in the Bible, pray, and seek to know Him only. Forget all this other stuff and just seek to know Jesus the person!! So many brothers and sister here on SI have shared this with you, the only answer you need is in Christ the person, and you will not find it until you seek to know HIM personally. That means simply spend time with Him, pray and read your BIBLE. Do nothing else. Just get to know Jesus the person through HIS word!!
We are all praying for you John!! Be encouraged and get in the Bible and keep your eyes on Jesus...
in Him
ellie
The Gulf that seperated me frome Christ my Lord.
Was so Vast the Crossing I could never go.
From where I was, to His Domain, It seemed so far,
I cried, Dear Lord, I cannot come to where you are.
He came to me.
He came to me.
When I could not go to where He was, He came to me.
That's why He died on Calvary.
When I could not go to where He was, He came to me.
No matter what the circumstances, Ho loves you.
For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Phil.2:13
May you be lifted up Spiritually not only this Easter Season,but lifted up Spiritually always.
God Bless you,
Nellie
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." - John 27-30
May I suggest listening to some godly songs first before/after reading the bible. Listening/Singing godly songs is 1 way to glorify God and get one closer to God and I find that it helps a lot in my walk with God.
Greetings bible4life. I have a testimony somewhat similar to p42, so take courage. The message of Ten Shekels and a Shirt was very helpful to me. I decided that I was going to come to God and serve God no matter what. It didn't really matter what happened in the end.
In any case, God is more merciful than man. If we return to God with a double heart and secret sin, we never get assurance of a walk with God because God will never come near to us. However, if we come with repentance and sincerity and pleadings, I find that God is a merciful father. Cry out to him now and tell your need. But don't stop tonight. Keep crying day by day, even if in silent cryings, and God will communicate with you.
All the best to you in your searchings.
Bible4life,
I've read many of your posts especially those asking for prayers whether it be for yourself or for others and from my experience with God, I think God wants me to say this to you because somehow I cannot seem to escape not writing this post even though I admit I rather not write it.
You are nibbling around the edges of Christianity, doing 'right things' such as praying for others, listening to sermons etc but this will not bring you to a living relationship with God or to know whether you are saved. To know whether you are saved or not and to experience a relationship with God, you have to focus first and foremost on your walk with God and not doing works such as praying for others, asking people to pray for others etc. Praying for others are all good things but I am afraid that you are going about it in the wrong way.
(I know you like Paul Washer, so I will paraphrase what Paul Washer says here--Bringing others to Christ etc is not as important as my walk with God). I'm sorry, I cannot remember which sermon in which he spoke those words).
You cannot change your feelings eg: why don't you feel love for God etc or feel compassion for certain people--only God can change this in you. But what you can do is read the bible, search for God in the bible. Don't just spend 1 hour or more. Spend more time as far as possible with the word of God, seek God there (instead of all over the place), and as you keep reading His word, He will change you. You will begin to see God, understand Him and understand what path He has for you. When God starts changing you there, then you will know who to pray for, more assurance in your salvation, what you are supposed to do etc and it will be a lifelong process. Then the feeling of compassion, the fruits that people see in you will then spring forth naturally. Don't give up reading/read less the bible just because you can't feel God etc. PERSEVERE in reading the bible no matter how dry or not understanding it in the beginning.
Remember Isaiah 56:3-7
Let no foreigner who has bound himself to the Lord say "The Lord will surely exclude me from his people" And let not any eunuch complain, "I am only a dry tree." For this is what the Lord says: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant-to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off. And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve him, to love the name of the Lords, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant-these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Everyones responses i truly thank for them, I am in agreement i need to get in his word more no matter what and get alone with i have been trying to. I have been recognizing the idols in my heart whether they be my friends, internet, television etc. The past week i seemed to grow hard towards God and wondered why and all that came in my mind was that I was given the fruit of my own devices, i desired God above all things so i thought but i stayed on facebook and building my own blog, talking on the phone and watching sports and put God at the end, i have so many idols my heart its pathetic. I just ordered a new testament commentary by John Calvin actually it is a parallel commentary with Calvins commentary and other ones like john gill, martin luther and like 6 others so i am very excited to read the scripture and dig deep into it. And so i really get the message in deep i will read the scripture first then i will go back through the verses with the commentary. Brothers and sisters their is one last prayer request, i for the past 6 to 8 months i have been having doubts when i read the scriptures whether they are true and why the gospel writers are slightly different or say a different thing and i have really tried to not listen to the voice and my doubts but they are just are their and it makes me disbelieve. This never happened to me before, i don't want to doubt at all, while seek the Lord in the scripture please continue to pray that the Lord unhardens my heart. Learn thank you so much.
Are you not acquainted with Ephesians 6?
Verse 16 tells us of the shield of faith with which we are able to quench all the firey darts of the wicked one.
Take care.
I just ordered a new testament commentary by John Calvin actually it is a parallel commentary with Calvins commentary and other ones like john gill, martin luther and like 6 others so i am very excited to read the scripture and dig deep into it. And so i really get the message in deep i will read the scripture first then i will go back through the verses with the commentary.
I am exactly where you are (except a female and older), I'm telling you that you do NOT need a New Testament Commentary with Calvin, Gill, blah, blah, blah because you won't read it either. YOU NEED JESUS through ONE BIBLE and a NOTEBOOK and a PEN. THAT'S IT!!!
You are still looking at external THINGS to make you happy, to fulfill you spiritually and it's not going to happen until you KNOWINGLY turn off 1. your cell phone, turn off 2. the computer, turn off 3. the television.
I KNOW because I've bought all that stuff and didn't read it OR I read what I wanted to read out of it and I've downloaded sermons and listened to them but ran to the next sermon when I should have studied the one that about slayed me.
You need to quit lying to yourself and to God and just fall before HIM brother, just like I need to do and to keep on doing every single day. I'm to the place where I don't care what Calvin, Ravenhill, Prince, Poonen and others say....
I WANT TO HEAR WHAT JESUS HAS TO SAY TO ME THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST but you know what, no one is going to hear anything as long as we plant our behinds in front of a computer or in front of a TV. Our adversery, the enemy, the devil will always make sure the NEXT thing on TV or on the Internet is more interesting. How sad is that that the next tv show, the next internet search is MORE interesting than time spent with Jesus? Sad...so sad.
I'll be praying for you too brother,
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