I am still dealing with some things but I have finally heard and listened to The Lord about what I need to do. I'm not saying I have all the answers or know what I'm doing yet but I am starting to move forward. I have struggled with alcohol and mental issues for the past 2 years. I am finally getting clarity. So if anyone has any advise, verses, or is going thru the same please talk to me any time.
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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
Join For His Glory for a discussion on how
https://christianforums.net/threads/a-vessel-of-honor.110278/
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Taking the time to pray? Christ is the answer in times of need
https://christianforums.net/threads/psalm-70-1-save-me-o-god-lord-help-me-now.108509/
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Been a widow since 2020
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9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
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The loss of a spouse is one of the hardest things to work through. Take some time to get your feet back on the ground so to speak. Take some time to let emotional sadness and wounds, regrets, second guessing, all pass and then to heal. Seek God and be content in your own life, moving forward.
in the church others have moved through this same thing. Every one is different, so no two situations are identical, but you might find some truth and direction that way.
The church is to function that way. Scripture indicates that you are to move forward.
Alcohol and such things will not provide a long term solution only trouble.
You must seek God on His terms and repent of wrong ungodly thoughts or past conduct and follow after holiness of life, if you would like God to provide for you.
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Invest yourself increasingly in the Lord, and set your mind on the things of God. Relationships past and present can have a way of consuming the mind, and you don't want that. Even when they are good they are not supposed to dominate our thinking, for we are to love the Lord our God with or whole heart, mind, soul and strength. We love humanity as well, but they should take second place in our hearts and minds, not the primary place. Most of our time and energy should be spent focusing upon and serving Him. It is the only way to true joy.
God bless,
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None of us have all the answers and just take it all a step at a time moving forward with your relationship with Christ. Just remember, you are a new creation in Christ and all old things have passed away.
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Please read all of Colossians chapter 3.
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Colossians 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
Please read all of Colossians chapter 3.
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Death Is Nothing At All
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
No one is judging you or criticizing you. Before I converted to being Christian about 22 years ago. I had much anger and hatred. I did gossip and slander. I even set up couple non Christian to just have fun. I also know of neighbor who died of drug overdose 3 years ago. I didn't know her personally. What's sad is, she left God out of her life. Romans 6:5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness His resurrection. Christian people are of body of christ. Faith and obedience and repentance. God can't use someone who has heroin addiction, or is a habitual liar. They can't be counted on or trusted. Clean and sober. 6:6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence forth we should not serve sin. The old nature is slave of sin. Before I converted to christianity. I enjoyed hurting people, lying, and much anger and hate. After my conversion. I saw my old sinful nature. I was depraved and sick person. Jesus had mercy, and showed me the light. Am I judging anyone, absolutely not. The neighbor who did drugs and alcohol made her decision. She refused to repent sins to God and rejected Jesus salvation. She had dead works. Thiers two sides of the gulf, paradise and Hades. The spiritually dead go to sheol, called hell or Hades. Habitual lifestyles are bad news. I wont water down God's word for anyone. Tell the truth. 6:12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 6:13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; The person is either servant of righteousness or servant of sin. Your to walk in the spirit. Not the flesh. Those who walk in the flesh is demonic. The habitual lifestyles of sin must cease. The flesh is in opposition to the spirit. Ask Jesus for help.