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I feel I'm missing out even though I read the scriptures everyday and I'm praying three four five times a day I still feel depressed and oppressedeven though I believe I still feel lostpray for me my fellow Christians I need help
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Permalink Reply by Mary O on
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Hi Matthew, God bless you,
I am praying. This is from the Introduction to the book I'm reading "Romancing the Throne" by Larry A. Trammel. It's about praise and worship for starters. A few people are going to chuckle because they know I'm still pouring over the intro when I should be reading ch. 2 or 3 by now, but this part is awesome.
"...What an honor and privilege it is that we can actually minister to the Lord and bless Him! As we do so with all sincerity, honesty, purity, and openness of heart, we find that they who give the most to Him receive the most from Him. The way to be most blessed is to set our hearts' focus on Him instead of ourselves and be more eager to give blessings to Him than merely receive blessings from Him. As we pour out our love on Jesus, our characters become more like His, our ability to perceive Him and His invisible kingdom is enhanced, and we become spiritual soldiers who enforce Christ's victory over the devil and his angels.
For us to have a healthy, spiritual life, it is imperative that we maintain thankful hearts and minds full of praise to God. Praise and worship draws our hearts and minds full of praise to God. Praise and worship draws our hearts and minds off ourselves and the temporal--temporary--circumstances of this present life onto the Lord and the unseen things of His eternal kingdom..."
Brother, do you ever read the scriptures because they give you joy or because you love to do it? Do you let them burn in your heart?
They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us? (Luke 24:32 NIV)
It was never how much you know. It's the belief you have in the scriptures you know. Do you let the message of Christ dwell in you richly? Our Lord knows we all have to learn and that we are not walking and talking Bibles. I have been on the other side of the teeter totter. You must kneel at the proper time and say your amens at the right time and you have to study your Bible verses. I mean you have to! I have been there. Brother, let this sink into your heart all God ever wanted from you is your love. I am praying that what I am saying will set you free and help you see Christ has set you free.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1 KJV)
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. (Colossians 3:16 NIV)
Colossians 3:16 is a verse that should grab our attention. This is a great verse to focus on and think about for a few days. Let God's Word dwell inside of you richly. The rest of the verse sounds a lot like praise, worship and being thankful. I can't tell you what to do. We don't wait for a change of heart. We yield and let it change our hearts. Is He Lord? Do we approach Him with thanksgiving and asking what it is that He wants?
Love,
Mary
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on
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Michael,
I thought this article might help:
Question: "What if I don't feel saved?"
Answer: This is an all-too-common question among Christians. Many people doubt their salvation because of feelings or the lack of them. The Bible has much to say about salvation, but nothing to say about “feeling saved.” Salvation is a process by which the sinner is delivered from “wrath,” that is, from God’s judgment against sin (Romans 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9). Specifically, it was Jesus’ death on the cross and subsequent resurrection that achieved our salvation (Romans 5:10; Ephesians 1:7).
Our part in the salvation process is that we are saved by faith. First, we must hear the gospel—the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection (Ephesians 1:13). Then, we must believe—fully trust the Lord Jesus (Romans 1:16) and His sacrifice alone. We have no confidence in works of the flesh to achieve salvation. This faith—which is a gift from God, not something we produce on our own (Ephesians 2:8-9)—involves repentance, a changing of mind about sin and Christ (Acts 3:19), and calling on the name of the Lord (Romans 10:9-10, 13). Salvation results in a changed life as we begin to live as the new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
We live in a feeling-oriented society and, sadly, that has spilled over into the church. But feelings are unreliable. Emotions are untrustworthy. They ebb and flow like the tides of the sea that bring in all kinds of seaweed and debris and deposit them on the shore, then go back out, eroding the ground we stand on and washing it out to sea. Such is the state of those whose emotions rule their lives. The simplest circumstances—a headache, a cloudy day, a word thoughtlessly spoken by a friend—can erode our confidence and send us “out to sea” in a fit of despair. Doubt and discouragement, particularly about the Christian life, are the inevitable result of trying to interpret our feelings as though they were truth. They are not.
But the Christian who is forewarned and well armed is a person not governed by feelings but by the truth he knows. He does not rely on his feelings to prove anything to him. Relying on feelings is precisely the error most people make in life. They are so introspective that they become preoccupied with themselves, constantly analyzing their own feelings. They will continually question their relationship with God. “Do I really love God?” “Does He really love me?” “Am I good enough?” What we need to do is stop thinking about ourselves and focusing on our feelings and instead redirect our focus to God and the truth we know about Him from His Word.
When we are controlled by subjective feelings centered on ourselves rather than by objective truth centered on God, we live in a constant state of defeat. Objective truth centers on the great doctrines of the faith and their relevance to life: the sovereignty of God, the high priestly intercession of Christ, the promise of the Holy Spirit, and the hope of eternal glory. Understanding these great truths, centering our thoughts on them, and rehearsing them in our minds will enable us to reason from truth in all of life’s trials, and our faith will be strong and vital. Reasoning from what we feel about ourselves—rather than what we know about God—is the sure path to spiritual defeat. The Christian life is one of death to self and rising to “walk in the newness of life” (Romans 6:4), and that new life is characterized by thoughts about Him who saved us, not thoughts about the feelings of the dead flesh that has been crucified with Christ. When we are continually thinking about ourselves and our feelings, we are essentially obsessing about a corpse, full of rottenness and death.
God promised to save us if we come to Him in faith. He never promised that we would feelsaved.
Recommended Resources: Eternal Security by Charles Stanleyand Logos Bible Software.
Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/feel-saved.html#ixzz3gYP3ohR2
http://www.gotquestions.org/feel-saved.html
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Oops ... I apologize for calling you Michael. My head is in the clouds at times.
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Permalink Reply by Matthew on
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Ok i like that...heres another problem im having .... being yoked with an unbeliever....I've mentioned this before that while i was living a backslide life i met my wife so as im trying to teach her about faith and grace and a Christian lifestyle she wants no part of it (yet) so as im trying to love her still and be firm in my faith i feel like im still living in sin and by that i mean the tv shows we watch or parenting styles or how we try to be passionate with each other...some days i feel good and sometimes not so much. My pastor just preached about joy and not to get it confused with happiness and in the pm service he preached about rejoicing and praise so im trying to follow what god is giving me. My parents say because im a babe in christ to not dive in or run. I need to learn to walk first and get the sweet milk of the word before i get the meat and potatoes.... is any of this making sense to you? I love this site and all the people on it truly i do i feel like it helps. I can ask questions when i need some encouragement when my church friends and leaders and pastor or parents aren't around so with that being said can you guys and gals help me again
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Well, I can't tell you what I would do if I were you because I'm not you, but I can tell you what I did because I am me. Lol
I'll share a bit of my own experience with being married to someone who hasn't experienced new birth. When I married my husband in 1997, he wasn't saved but I had received Christ at a very young age in my childhood. I truly was in direct violation of the instructions found in 2 Corinthians 6. God is forgiving and although I was forgiven later for this sin, the consequences of sinning remained for me to face and endure.
God forgives us when we believe in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and ask Him to save us, and God will take us to be with Him when we leave this life, but there are natural consequences for sinning. God doesn't always choose to keep us from experiencing the natural consequences, and also there is divine discipline for sinning.
My husband received Christ in February 2000 and I re- committed my life to my Savior and Lord at that time, also. I didn't pressure my husband during the years between 1997-2000 about his spiritual condition. Yet, he noticed I was "different" in many ways. He noticed things like I didn't use profanity and that even though I wasn't attending church at the time, I read the bible and kept a journal of prayers and notes about what I was reading in the bible. Sometimes whenever we talked about problems such as our finances or dealing with job stress, etceteras, then I'd quote a verse here and there to him, not preaching at him, but just sharing with him what I remembered reading in the bible, such as 1 Peter 5:7 or the Beatitudes.
I think as time passed, it was true for our relationship what is found in 1 Corinthians 7:
12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let it be so. The brother or the sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. 16 How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
NIV
Although the meaning of this is debatable, I believe that it means the believing spouse has an effect upon the unbelieving one to bring him or her to conviction so far as Holy Spirit is working in and through the believer.
Gills's Exposition of the Bible comments about it this way:
And as to another case of conscience which was moved unto him, whether a believer, having married an unbeliever, should live together; he answers, that if a Christian brother had married an unbelieving wife, and she thought fit to continue with him, he should not put her away, 1 Corinthians 7:12. And so a Christian woman that had married an unbelieving husband, if it was his pleasure to dwell with her, she ought not to forsake him, 1 Corinthians 7:13 giving this reason for it, because they were legally married to each other, or otherwise their children must be reckoned bastards; whereas by maintaining the validity of their marriage, and abiding by it, they would appear to be legitimate, 1 Corinthians 7:14 but if the unbeliever, whether man or woman, thinks fit to desert the believing wife or husband, so be it, the party deserted may make themselves easy, nor are they under obligation to remain unmarried: however, as they are called to peace they ought to seek it, and endeavour to live quietly together, 1 Corinthians 7:15 and that for this reason, because they may be the means of the conversion, and so of the salvation of the unbelieving party
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/1_corinthians/7.htm
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What about this...sometimes i think that i scared myself back into going to church and wanting to believe. Like i said i watch some videos on celebrities and the illuminati and the music industry and how it all ties into devil worshiping and i feel like the only reason i came back to the lord is because i dont wanna die and go to hell. But im supposed to be living by the bible and be christ like but I've become very impatient and hollow. I try to reconnect with my wife and all and be a good father to my child but its like all i do is yell and discipline her ...i never thought I'd become this kinda person. I smoke cigerettes still and i quit cussing but sometime one slips and i repent. I dont party or drink and i cant stand most of the things she talks about (tattoos and how she talks about people and parenting) or whatever ....most days i feel like a horrible person and i just wanna go back to who i was i felt like who i was, was a good person who loved life and god and jesus even tho i smoked weed everyday and cussed and all that....now i feel just plain crazy for saying all this but i want answers!
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Have you seen your sin? Do you hate your sin? Do you long for the day when you will be completely freed from it? Have you truly seen Who Jesus is?
When a person sees their sin and sees who Jesus is and understands the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, then their mind begins to change and repentance is more than just turning from sin and turning to God but is a change of mind and they begin to think about some bad things that they've done in their lives and then suddenly, like a light coming on, they see Jesus dying on the cross, and see that He was suffering for those sins, those bad things they've done, and they see that He was carrying the weight of their sin and experiencing the anger and the wrath of God for those sins.
There are many biblical doctrines but they all center around one plain and simple teaching. That teaching is found in 1 Cor. 15:3-4. It’s the gospel of Christ.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures (NIV).
As we look at those two verses we see:
First, Christ died. Who was he? It’s important what we believe about Jesus. He is truly God and truly man. The deity of Christ is clearly stated in the first verse of John 1:1. Jesus claimed His own deity when He said, “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). Jesus is also man. He was born of the virgin Mary. Philippians 2:5-8 puts it this way:
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Second, Christ died for our sins. People who are not saved are dead in their sins (see Ephesians 2:1). Romans 3:10 says, As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one” and Romans 3:23 says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
To be saved one must see their own sin and not try to justify it but confess it. The word confess means “to agree with” and when we confess our sin to God we are saying, "God, you are right. I’m wrong. I have broken Your holy commandments. I have sinned. I am lost in my sins.”
Third, Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. One must believe that the Scriptures are the inspired Word of God since Christ died according to the Scriptures. If we don’t believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, inerrant and infallible, then how could it be possible to believe that Christ died according to the Scriptures -- if some of them are in error or are fallible?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (NIV)
Romans 5:8
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8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Fourth, He was buried. Jesus died on the cross to pay the full penalty for our sins. Because of what He did by dying in our place, salvation is offered to us as a gift and is received by faith. Baptism, living a good, moral life, working for charity, or anything else can do nothing to save us from our sins. Jesus did it. He was our substitute. He was sinless and was a perfect sacrifice. He was our substitute in life, living completely sinless and keeping the whole law without erring, which is something that no person can do, and He was our substitute in death, where He suffered the wrath of God and took our Hell on the cross and died for us in our place. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and Jesus paid those wages for all who receive Him as Lord and Savior by faith.
Romans 3:28
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28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
Ephesians 2:8-10
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8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Last, He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. Once again, it is important to believe that the Bible is infallible and inerrant and is the Word of God. Without the resurrection all is vain.
Romans 6:23
New International Version (NIV)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Wow, brother, how did we get there? Why don't we leave the meat and potatoes for the meat and potatoes people?
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV)
You can actually overwhelm yourself with information and head knowledge. You can't help every thought that comes to you, but you can help it stays in your head. Say to yourself...Mind behave yourself. And think that verse. Or think...I and my Father are one. Find a verse to think and think it. This is how I do it. Don't you think I have icky thoughts too?
Love,
Mary
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