But I'll continue praying to Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. I'll continue invoking the precious blood and praying for the Angels to help, praying the Lord's prayer, and most of all praying for God's will to be done. At this time God wills there to be much darkness and suffering, so I'll pray for the grace to love that part of God's will as well.
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[__ Prayer __] I hate God
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Edward
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What makes you think that He's not doing His will ln your life?! You prayed for it!
God doesn't promise a good life on earth. He promises suffering, just like Jesus suffered. You got exactly what asked for.
Looky here brother, tribulations and hard times on earth build character, endurance, patience and faith. James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-4 so this is obviously, essentially a training exercise here on earth for us. To prepare us with the temperament that we will need when in heaven for our job serving Him.
Think of it as special forces training or AIT like in the military. Some don't finish, others are stoic, grit their teeth, one day at a time and overcome the frustrations, to go on to become decorated and get good positions in the outfit.
In Luke 16:19-31 is the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Lazarus was a broken down beggar and had a hard life, so he went to peace, rest, joy and comfort. The rich man had a cushy soft life, so went to torment...
If you speak truth about how bad it is for you...then you have a lot to look forward to!
Hardly anyone meets the Lord on the mountain of prosperity, it's usually down in the valley of the shadow of death, like where you are.
You're prime for visitation or blessings from God in your position...if you were to stop murmuring. The Lord doesn't like murmuring. Recall the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years? Why did God do that to them? Murmuring. Complaining...I kid you not.
Remember, life is 10% what it throws at you...and 90% how you react to it.
Edward
2024 Supporter
Yes the anti Christ could take over without God. Mankind is remedial stupid, all of us.
Don't beat up on the Bible. He wrote it that way on purpose, so that it can't be understood (without revelation from the Holy Spirit) so the enemy can't figure out his plans.
Try this brother, try praising God instead of complaining about Him. Things could be worse you know.
So you were born into a war, behind enemy lines, with nothing but a manual and a radio (Bible and prayer)...(yes God has a sense of humor)
Can you complete your mission? Do you even know your mission? It's in the Bible, God's will...?
Whenever I'm at a bad point in life, faith waning...I wind up thinking, if Jesus would just manifest in front of me, answer couple questions, give me instruction...then I'd be good. I could be a super Christian!
But then I think, what if He told me to take my present position in life and keep on with the mental exercise...? Just like it is now.
Could I be a super Christian then? (Well yeah, Jesus told me Himself!)
So why do I need the visitation and personal instruction? I have the book.
Eh? :wink
God can help me. That book cannot. It is a book that tells me I can pick up poisoness serpents, drink poison and it won't harm me...that book tells me I can heal the sick, make the lame walk, make the blind see and deaf hear, walk on water, move mountains, prophecy, and receive everything I ask for in Jesus name. Until I see any evidence that that is true, I have no reason to trust that book.
Just because a book says something doesn't mean God is telling me to do it or that I have the correct interpretation. God needs to give me discernment or the book is useless. I need God, not a book. Besides, the God I see in much of that book is cruel, legalistic, irrational, unjust, and simply not the God I understand God to be.
Edward
2024 Supporter
You said "...Until I see any evidence that that is true, I have no reason to trust that book..." (correct me if I'm wrong) you're refusing to have faith in God unless you see proof of the signs and wonders?
Thats not how it works. It's all about having faith. That's the way that God wants it to be. to choose to trust Him, read scripture daily, and pray without ceasing.
Reading scripture brings the Holy Spirit to you, you may as well say. When you read it, and meditate on it, it plants a seed within your heart and stirs your spirit...then the Holy Spirit waters the seed with revelation and understanding.
Reading the Bible is food for your spirit. The Lord expects us to read it too. Search the scriptures daily, study to show thyself approved...thats what it says.
There's plenty of proof on YouTube ya know. Video testimonies. But if you won't believe scripture then I doubt you'd believe them either. ?
Scripture says if you draw closer to God that He'll draw closer to you. But you can't tell Him which hoops to jump through...He's GOD!
gerbilwoman
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Hi Matt,
A little short on words but I'll be thinking of you. I have mental illness too.
A little short on words but I'll be thinking of you. I have mental illness too.
I receive inner visions and inspirations. I just need to know which are from God.
I'm willing to have faith , if God is willing to speak up now and then and let me know what He wants me to do. I can't do anything with my life if God doesn't provide healing and guidance. Reading the Bible does nothing for me. I don't see how it can be true. I've tested it and it just makes me angry , confused, and frustrated. It's out to my control
Not_Now.Soon
Member
When you say you tested it... What do you mean? Be specific, if you can. Is it that you read it and didn't like what it says? Or didn't like how it says it? (Personally, I first read the bible in an easy to read translation, the NLV. Some are hard fasted to say you must read the King James Version, but I disagree. Read so you can understand and put into practice. If it is an accurate translation then it won't matter what translation you read). Is it that you tested a promise given and didn't recieve it and got angry? If so what promise did you want, and how long did you wait. If it's some other way you tested the bible, please explain it. Right now your statement sounds very emotional in sups trance, but other wise unknown if it's a misunderstanding or if it is as real as you give it credit.
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Brother Mike
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Matt, I have the Anointing and ability to help. I know how you feel, God just seems to not even care your alive. No matter the begging, nothing seems to change. I got it, I fully understand and your not alone. Many feel stuck in the same boat. However, God's not to blame, and you just need truth on the situation and that truth will make you free. Sorry for the Christian World, no power, no faith, but the Lord is fixing that as we approach the time of the end.
God bless.
Mike.
Yes I tested it. These Scriptures are false. I have prayed without cease and asked the Holy Spirit into my heart and claimed these Scriptures. They and much of the promises in the Bible are simply falsehood. 2 billion Christians in the world and I don't know of a single Christian who is doing what Jesus said Christians would do. :
Mark 16:17-18King James Version (KJV)
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
John 14:13►
And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Matthew 7:7►
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 17:20►
Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
John 14:12
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Yes I tested it. It is falsehood! I have asked and did not receive, I seek and do not find, I have knocked and knocked and knocked and nothing is opened for me. Not one Christian can show me these Scriptures are true. I know of not a single Christian doing the works of Christ! NOT ONE!
On judgement day I guess I'll go to hell. I don't want to spend an eternity worshiping a God who hid himself from everyone, refused to be faithful to his word, then burned people in hell for not believing the right Dogma. I find such a God too disgusting that even Heaven would be hell for me.
Well, I hope you have the anointing. It is disgusting that so few Christians are given that anointing but if you have it, well you are the first I've met, congratulations!
There was once a lady I knew who received visions that seemed to have merit. They were vague messages, and I'm frustrated with vague, but at least she seemed to hear from the holy spirit and some of her visions were right on. I always wanted to pray with her and call her when I was feeling suicidal. Unlike other Christians, she seemed to actually have something. It wasn't much and usually nothing profound, but at least she had something other than reciting verses she read in some book.
Christ_empowered
Member
I think that if you start by reading The Gospels (pick one...I prefer The Gospel of John, personally), you'll have a different (and more positive) view of God and what Christianity (ideally) is all about.
I used to think that God was what my mother once termed a "pagan monster," a tyrant armed with thunder bolts and such whose mission was to punish and keep us humans in line. Clearly, I was wrong. The Gospels focus on Christ, who is The Way to God the Father. I think once you read about the miracles, the direct teachings from Jesus Himself, the horror of The Crucifixion, followed by the joy of The Resurrection--you'll see that The Bible is not a useless book of myths.
I used to think that God was what my mother once termed a "pagan monster," a tyrant armed with thunder bolts and such whose mission was to punish and keep us humans in line. Clearly, I was wrong. The Gospels focus on Christ, who is The Way to God the Father. I think once you read about the miracles, the direct teachings from Jesus Himself, the horror of The Crucifixion, followed by the joy of The Resurrection--you'll see that The Bible is not a useless book of myths.
The Bible is filled with stories of people who can prophecy, heal, raise the dead, read hearts, call down fire from heaven, and other signs and wonders, and it just makes me sick. The Bible says we can do that if we believe in Christ, yet not a single Christian I know of out of 2 billion is doing that.
I've read the Gospels many times. God is unwilling to guide or annoint me so they are no longer worthwhile. Jesus is unfaithful to What He promised, so it is useless. I hope you are reading this God.
Christ_empowered
Member
A lot of Christians can let you down. We're all only human, after all, and we're all at different points in our Walk with The Lord. Plus, some people claim Christ who aren't Christian. Happens.
I had a "friend" from church who changed her number to avoid taking my calls. I didn't call often, and it was definitely not a romantic thing (I'm queer), but..yeah. Boom! Done.
Then I have a genuine, kind Christian friend. She returns my calls and I return hers. She's taught me --so-- much about what it means to live out a Christian life, with the ups and downs and good times and bad times and (more often) in between, hum drum times.
I have mental problems, too, and I've found that the only reason I recovered from everything (I was subjected to hardcore, involuntary shock treatments) was because of Christ's love for me. He doesn't tell me what to do through dreams or anything, but He's changed me in ways that make me better able to apply His basic teachings.
God is no respector of persons. He loved and loves me--a "mental patient," according to the community (and that on a good day) with a shady, terrible past and lots of brain damage--as much as he loves high ranking people who turn it over to Christ, and He loves you the same, too.
I think perhaps you should find an older, wiser Christian who can help you accept God on His terms. He's not a tyrant, but He does have rules.
I had a "friend" from church who changed her number to avoid taking my calls. I didn't call often, and it was definitely not a romantic thing (I'm queer), but..yeah. Boom! Done.
Then I have a genuine, kind Christian friend. She returns my calls and I return hers. She's taught me --so-- much about what it means to live out a Christian life, with the ups and downs and good times and bad times and (more often) in between, hum drum times.
I have mental problems, too, and I've found that the only reason I recovered from everything (I was subjected to hardcore, involuntary shock treatments) was because of Christ's love for me. He doesn't tell me what to do through dreams or anything, but He's changed me in ways that make me better able to apply His basic teachings.
God is no respector of persons. He loved and loves me--a "mental patient," according to the community (and that on a good day) with a shady, terrible past and lots of brain damage--as much as he loves high ranking people who turn it over to Christ, and He loves you the same, too.
I think perhaps you should find an older, wiser Christian who can help you accept God on His terms. He's not a tyrant, but He does have rules.
Speaking of Shock treatments, that is what I'm trying to get...not sure if it will help but I've tried large amounts of medication and that doesn't work. Some people are just no good for society and God should remove such dead flesh and cancerous tumors from society, so I'm hoping he will just take my life and do everyone a favor. But in the meantime, it looks like I'll be costing taxpayers enormous amounts of money cuz I will live my life in mental institutions that cost a thousand dollars a day. Hopefully God will answer my prayer to die and do society a favor.
I'll have to go back to the hospital if I am honest with my counselor about how suicidal I am and I think I'm going to be honest with her today. But the hospital won't help me is the problem. It's just an extremely expensive place to vegetate really. I'll also have to go back to the hospital for the shock treatments.
I'll have to go back to the hospital if I am honest with my counselor about how suicidal I am and I think I'm going to be honest with her today. But the hospital won't help me is the problem. It's just an extremely expensive place to vegetate really. I'll also have to go back to the hospital for the shock treatments.
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Brother Mike
Guest
All Believers, "OUGHT" "SHOULD" BETTER BE" Anointed of God. If they are not, have no faith in Christ. (Christ is still Greek and means Anointed, or Jesus the Anointed (Christ)) Then they need to go back to School 101 and learn what being a believer is all about.
There should be the Ability to Hear the Holy Spirit, not give just PAT answers to someone, and hear specifically for that person a direction from God that will help them see things more clearly, understand, and most important, give hope.
Without Hope for the future, people perish inside who can't get a vision of better things. God did not make people to be in fear, doubt and uncertainly, concerning their future. In fact our bodies and well being can't even handle it for long without building walls, and things that hinder us greatly later. We were made to be at peace, to have our needs met, and live fear free. All the rest of the Satanic stuff is alien to how we are naturally made.
God bless Matt, I believe everyone can have victory. The hardest part helping people is trying to help people who won't listen. You will be surprised on how many call for help, bu won't take heed when Help is given.
I believe you will Matt. It's sad, but people must get "FED" up enough to get help. They tolerate way to much junk in their life before wanting things turned around. We should be a people that tolerates nothing that is contrary to what the Word of God said is ours. Not even for a second.
God bless Matt.
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Brother Mike
Guest
I really liked this post. There is wisdom here. But remember, say what the Scripture says about you. ........... "I have a sound mind, I am not mentally Ill. I am what God said I am, I accept nothing short of What God said about me."
Christ Does love us, has victory for us and is amazing. Your right. ................... God is no Respecter of any person, what He did for one, He will do for you and us. Without fail, God never failed anyone.
God bless Brother.
Mike.
Christ_empowered
Member
never mind, lol. Prayers continue. 
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