Is this spiritual warfare?????? Whats happening???

[Wchristenfaith]

I think it was about a month ago I truly commited my life to Christ!!! My life was going very smooth until I devoted my life to Christ. Within the last month, my family considered taking me to the doctor because they think I suffer from depression, and temptations have grown times 100!!!!! But I have resisted! Also, one of my grandmothers was diagnosed with breast cancer and the other one had a stroke. Both were admitted to the hospital. Another thing that happened was I was babysiyting my little sister and her friends for a sleepover, and one of my little sisters friends got stung by a bee and we had to call an ambulance. My little sister has a milk allergy, so she has an epipen, but that was moved for some odd reason, and nobody would pick up our phone call for a long time, so it got to the point where the paramedics had to help her breathing because it was almost absent!!! That was chaotic! After all of that I still had faith in God! I didnt think it would get any worse, but it did!! My identical twin who I am closer to than anybody else in the world was diagnosed with a rare blood disease and she grew very ill!!! Idk how severe it is because I am far away from her and I cant see her until Sunday, but I know it was bad enough where my dad who was a doctor had to admit her to the hospital!! He NEVER has to take us to the doctor, and I know she is doing bad right now. I havent even been able to talk to her!!!! And the fact that the blood disease is so rare and it would make her thag sick isnt a good thing!! She is the only human I can trust everything with and this really devastated me!! The thoughts are eating me alive!!! Butb I am still trusting that God with help me and everything happens for a reason. And this all happened within the month I found my faith!!!!! What is happening in your opinion??? Thanks!

 

[Sparkey]

Greetings Wchristenfaith

There are several promises that belong to Christians. One of them is that God will not allow trials to continue beyond our endurance and that instead He will make a way for us so that we may escape. When we turn to the Scripture and read the promise there is also given an assurance: (1Cor 10:13) "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

The Assurance: "There is no temptation taken you but such as is common to man..." I don't speak this to imply that your faith is not under attack. You've asked if what was happening might be some form of Spiritual Warfare and to this I can not reply except that it does seem like somebody needs to throw a flag on what is happening. That's a football term - pardon me, but it seems like stuff is just piling on and that's where the 2nd part of that Scripture comes in. Your Father does know every single thing that happens in your life. Not only that but He cares (as you know). The promise of His making a way for you is valid and you should also know that prayers are being offered on your behalf so that the Holy Spirit has His say in your life.

He is our Comforter. See John 14:16. The word that Jesus used to describe the Holy Spirit is parákletos in in the Greek this is a compound word, being formed by two root words: pára, which means “along side of,” like two parallel lines, and kaléo, which means “to call.” We know that the Holy Spirit is our Counselor, a helper, an intercessor. He takes the role of an advocate as well as a strengthener; One who stands by us in time of trial.

So often, as we walk along the journey set before us, our only response is to turn our eyes to the Lord and rely on Him for our strength and vision. He is faithful. Utterly faithful. And simply will not allow the God-Trust that is being formed in you to be caused to fail.

~Sparrowhawke

 

[handy]

[MENTION=96740]Wchristenfaith[/MENTION] it's not unusual for new Christians to begin to face many trials and tribuations. Jesus said that in this world we would have tribulation. Some of this might just be the coincidences of life and some may very well be spiritual in nature.

I just am going to continue to exhort you to pray, be in God's word daily, and most of all put on the full armor of God. Are you familiar with the armor of God. Study Ephesians 6:10-18. It's interesting that the description of God's armor starts with "girding your loins with truth"... Elsewhere we are told, "the truth will set you free"... Truth is very powerfull. When we operate in truth, we are able to discern many things much clearer than otherwise.

Here is an informative article about this subject that you may find helpful.

 

[Pizzaguy]

I once was telling a friend of my similar situation, as I had some rough times in the late 1970's after finding the Lord. His response back then startled me, and it has stuck with me ever since:

Ah, Mark, did you think that your coming to a personal relationship with the Lord, creator of the universe and personification of all that is good, would have NO consequences? Did you think you were praying to some cosmic Cheshire cat that holds no significance in our world? Did you think the Lord's enemy(ies) would not react? Some say that all of hades shudders when one of us here, on this earth, finds the Lord. I don't know if that is true, but you might just mutter out loud, "You can go right back to hell where you came from" when thoughts come into your mind causing you to fear or doubt.

Fact is, the events in your life that have caught your attention are a testament that your prayer of accepting Christ's salvation was heard, and it was heard not just in Heaven!

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Butb I am still trusting that God with help me and everything happens for a reason. And this all happened within the month I found my faith!!!!! What is happening in your opinion??? Thanks!

Besides this being the testing of your faith, you are being disciplined to walk in your faith, not punished. God confines us into narrow places to teach us to respond in his godly, righteous ways, not in our old sinful, unrighteous ways.

<sup class="versenum">11 </sup>All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." (Hebrews 12:11 NASB)

The promise being that discipline, which is unpleasant while we're enduring it, is to teach us to be self-controlled, peaceful, righteous people--people who trust God instead of resorting to the sinful ways we used to deal with things. People who are trained by their trials enjoy the peaceful fruit of righteousness--the life Christ died to give us.

Take heart that you're hanging in there because Jesus talks about those who start out believeing but who don't make it through this sometimes necessary testing and refining of faith and who fall away back into unbelief.