New Here, Seeking to Grow Closer to God

[beccaa]

Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m seeking to grow closer to God and learn how to walk faithfully in a world that feels confusing at times. I enjoy reading the Bible, learning from other believers, and finding quiet moments to pray.

Looking forward to meeting others here who are also growing in faith. Feel free to share your favorite Bible verse or something God has been teaching you lately!

 

[hawkman]

Welcome to the forum beccaa !

 

[Hidden In Him]

Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m seeking to grow closer to God and learn how to walk faithfully in a world that feels confusing at times. I enjoy reading the Bible, learning from other believers, and finding quiet moments to pray.

Looking forward to meeting others here who are also growing in faith. Feel free to share your favorite Bible verse or something God has been teaching you lately!

Blessings in Christ, Becca, and welcome to the forum.

Not sure I have a favorite verse, but my favorite book has always been Jude strangely enough.

What’s your favorite?

Welcome once again!
Hidden

 

[Manasseh]

Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m seeking to grow closer to God and learn how to walk faithfully in a world that feels confusing at times. I enjoy reading the Bible, learning from other believers, and finding quiet moments to pray.

Looking forward to meeting others here who are also growing in faith. Feel free to share your favorite Bible verse or something God has been teaching you lately!

Hello Becca, I'm new here as well.

I love it when I hear that someone is desiring to draw closer to Christ.

From my own personal experience with Christ, having known Him now for many years. If you want to walk closely with God and live a life that is pleasing in His sight, you must pray. Really pray.

"Those who come to God must believe that He is..."
You've clearly checked this box.
Hallelujah!
...and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

You can study the word. If you do not pray it won't do you much good.

You can preach the Gospel.
If you're not breaking up the hardened ground of men's hearts through prayer, you won't see much fruit.

You can be the smartest kid on the block.
If you don't pray, you will never be wise.

You can love your family and friends and even the lost.
But if you don't pray, you will never find Gods heart for your enemies.

No disciple of Christ will ever advance beyond the limits of their prayer life.

Prayer is communion with God.
When you love someone, truly love them, you want to be with them all the time, you can't wait to hear their voice, to feel their touch, to see their face.

If our relationship to Christ is as a bride to her husband. Then prayer is the marriage bed.

Faith and obedience are required to have a genuine relationship with God.

It is prayer which makes both of these possible. No one ever got saved without some kind of prayer, spoken or hidden in the heart. God does indeed hear our unspoken prayers. But He loves the sound of your voice, speak to Him often, wait for Him patiently, and listen. He has much to say to you, and its all love.

I pray that you find this encouraging.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Prayer is communion with God.
When you love someone, truly love them, you want to be with them all the time, you can't wait to hear their voice, to feel their touch, to see their face.

Wonderful post, and welcome to the forum, Manasseh.

The above quotes are excellent, and so is this.

If our relationship to Christ is as a bride to her husband. Then prayer is the marriage bed.

Faith and obedience are required to have a genuine relationship with God.

If I may, how long have you known Him and walked with Him? You post like it's been quite a while.

 

[Manasseh]

Wonderful post, and welcome to the forum, Manasseh.

The above quotes are excellent, and so is this.


If I may, how long have you known Him and walked with Him? You post like it's been quite a while.

Thank you for the kind words.

I was quite radically converted in 1990. A drunken, adulterous, narcissistic liar and thief went down upon his knees one evening, and woke up a completely new man the next morning.

I walked very closely with Christ for a few years, did street ministry and door to door on occasion. I taught Sunday School and even did a little bit of preaching. I devoured the word of God, walked obediently before Him, and was taught many deep truths by the Spirit.

I wont bore you with the details, but after some church abuse and a really painful divorce, I slowly drifted back into the world.

I never lost my faith, just the ability to live it. God never abandoned me during this time, and occasionally He would still make use of me and the gifts He had given to me, they are without repentance. This went on quite a long time. I guess you could say I took the wide road all the way here.

But God is patient, merciful, longsuffering, and oh so very kind.
When the time was right, He left the 99 and came seeking for this lost sheep. He delivered me from the net of the fowler, and here I am. That would have been around December of 22'.

So you are correct, I have known Him for quite some time. But I did not always walk with Him. Most of my life He carried me in His arms, and my shame, became His great glory.

 

[Hidden In Him]

Thank you for the kind words.

I was quite radically converted in 1990. A drunken, adulterous, narcissistic liar and thief went down upon his knees one evening, and woke up a completely new man the next morning.

I walked very closely with Christ for a few years, did street ministry and door to door on occasion. I taught Sunday School and even did a little bit of preaching. I devoured the word of God, walked obediently before Him, and was taught many deep truths by the Spirit.

I wont bore you with the details, but after some church abuse and a really painful divorce, I slowly drifted back into the world.

I never lost my faith, just the ability to live it. God never abandoned me during this time, and occasionally He would still make use of me and the gifts He had given to me, they are without repentance. This went on quite a long time. I guess you could say I took the wide road all the way here.

But God is patient, merciful, longsuffering, and oh so very kind.
When the time was right, He left the 99 and came seeking for this lost sheep. He delivered me from the net of the fowler, and here I am. That would have been around December of 22'.

So you are correct, I have known Him for quite some time. But I did not always walk with Him. Most of my life He carried me in His arms, and my shame, became His great glory.

Blessings. I did something similar. I was on fire to the hilt early on, but as time wore on the enemy got to me, especially through relationships, and my witness became tarnished. Since then it's been a long hard fight to get back to my innocence in Christ, but He never gave up on me either. So we're kinda in the same boat.

Is this your first Christian forum? Just curious.

 

[Manasseh]

Blessings. I did something similar. I was on fire to the hilt early on, but as time wore on the enemy got to me, especially through relationships, and my witness became tarnished. Since then it's been a long hard fight to get back to my innocence in Christ, but He never gave up on me either. So we're kinda in the same boat.

Is this your first Christian forum? Just curious.

Yes sir, I know the story well. It can be very difficult to light that fire again, but the ember still burns.

"A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth."

No it is not my first forum, but it will be my last. I am here seeking to edify and be edified. I guess we'll see how it goes.

 

[Fish153]

Hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself here. I’m seeking to grow closer to God and learn how to walk faithfully in a world that feels confusing at times. I enjoy reading the Bible, learning from other believers, and finding quiet moments to pray.

Looking forward to meeting others here who are also growing in faith. Feel free to share your favorite Bible verse or something God has been teaching you lately!

Beccaa---- this is my favorite portion of Scripture (though there are many others also!):

"And you hath he quickened (made alive), who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and WERE BY NATURE THE CHILDREN OF WRATH, even as others.

BUT GOD, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened (made alive) us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS.

For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus UNTO good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them". (Eph. 2: 1-10)

Amazing! There I was running towards hell at a rapid pace. I was "a CHILD OF WRATH. even as others". Then---look at those two words--- "BUT GOD". He had other plans for me. It's like I was running down a hallway towards hell and God stepped out of a doorway in front of me and stopped me. Why? I was a child of wrath! But it says due to his GREAT LOVE, and the richness of his Mercy He came into my life. He took a sinner and raised me up to sit in heavenly places!!! Why? So "that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his Grace in his KINDNESS TOWARD ME through Christ Jesus".

Incredible!! I in no way deserve this! Neither does any other person! It is pure Grace and Mercy--and pure Love. I adore these verses. I thought I'd share them because they mean so much to me. God bless you Beccaa!!----The Lord loves you more than you could ever imagine!

 

[Hidden In Him]

No it is not my first forum, but it will be my last. I am here seeking to edify and be edified. I guess we'll see how it goes.

Well keep us informed. I still inhabit a few others, but I'm committed to helping make this one peaceable and edifying.

 

[Manasseh]

Well keep us informed. I still inhabit a few others, but I'm committed to helping make this one peaceable and edifying.

And you seem to be doing a good job. I'll do my best not to make that job anymore difficult than it already is. I think I might know your handle on the other forums, but I'll keep that to myself.

This is my final attempt at playing well with others.

Like I said will see how it goes.

 

[Hidden In Him]

And you seem to be doing a good job. I'll do my best not to make that job anymore difficult than it already is. I think I might know your handle on the other forums, but I'll keep that to myself.

This is my final attempt at playing well with others.

Like I said will see how it goes.

I'm the same everywhere. Except... I think it's Christian Chat, where somebody took my name before I got there.

Appreciate the compliment, and glad to have you on board.

 

[for_his_glory]

Hi beccaa and Manasseh and welcome to CF

My favorite Bible verse is Deuteronomy 28:13 as after reading this verse it helped me with the low self-esteem I use to have.

Deu 28:13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: