Anybody Ever Want To Give Up On Something

[dcontroversal]

Jesus when he was in the garden and was praying and under the stress of what was coming that night with his arrest, false conviction, beating, mocking, rejection, crucifixion and brutal death which would lead to his Eternal Heavenly Father forsaking Him upon the cross said...

If it be possible let this cup pass from me.....Obviously, he then said, not what I will, but your will be done.

The humanity of Christ to me is seen in this statement as well as the Spirit filled actions of the Son of God.

Sometimes we have circumstances in our lives that push us to the very edge of difficulty and in those moments we almost feel like giving up because of current circumstances, problems and or not being able to see the end of the current trouble.....

Have you ever had one of these experiences and what verse, verses or circumstance encouraged you and helped you to deal with your (moment)?

 

[Kerry]

Thank You Dcon. I needed that. No matter what we are going through, can you imagine what He went through. His was so distraught that His sweat became blood. If we don't give up He won't give up and many have given their lives to not renounce Him.

It reminds me of a song, Didn't I put food on the table, showed up when the bills were due, provided healing for your body and peace when the stress was killing you. Didn't I walk on the water, did I not die for you. So believe me when I say, I love you.

Those lyrics may be totally right but close and I am in tears

 

[JesusLives]

Blond Coming in.....So what if you gave up on something and it took you out of the church from being discouraged? Does that count at all? My divorce took me out of the church as I was married to a preachers kid and thought I had done everything right. I wanted to go to marriage counseling but he refused. I gave up.... and since he went to the church that I liked in the area I didn't feel comfortable going there. I didn't feel like I could talk to any ministers because I didn't want the gossip to get back to the Roy family or possibly harm the Roy's in any way since my Father-in-Law was a minister.

I felt alone without any support from anyone. Was I wrong walking away from church? Probably, but then a minster came to my place of employment while I was working and asked if my ex-husband had any just cause to get remarried right away? I wanted to yell at him that it was none of his business and how dare he come to my place of work while I am working and ask me such a question. He could and should have made an appointment to see me at home or ask me to come and see him but he did not do this. I was offended as he was basically asking me if I had committed adultery. I had not ever cheated on my husband.

Because I was so angry but had been taught to respect God's anointed servants/ministers I said to him well lets just say we have both been on the wrong side of the fence. The minister left and later I found out that they were going to disfellowship my ex-husband from the church because he got remarried so quickly, but because of what I said they left him alone.

So I don't have any Bible verses that helped me at the time, I had no one to turn to and God knows that and He kept watch over me and my broken heart. And for a while I walked away from church broken and battered, lonely and hurting. God watched out for me and cared for me even though I walked away from Him for a while too as He knew what was in my heart and that I had given up.

My ex-husband died in March 2014 and all these years I never felt released to remarry because I didn't know if Mike had cheated on me or not. But God provided a wonderful new husband for me who loves Him and God wooed me back to Himself and I know that God took care of me all these years whether I was in church or not. God explained salvation to me at the age of 56 and I am so grateful to Him that I cry when I think of His love and mercy He has shown to me when I felt alone and no one to counsel with because I didn't want to harm the Roy family. So I don't have Bible verses to tell how they helped me I just have my testimony that God helped me all along these many years and He was my husband and took care and watched out for my daughter and myself.

I can never repay Him for the love and mercy and grace He has given and shown me. All I can do is say Yes Lord Jesus I accept You as my Lord and Savior. Thank You. Amen

 

[Jacob_Fitzgerald]

The whole suffering and death of Christ has seen me through some difficult times. I say to myself if Jesus had to suffer then I can suffer to.

 

[JesusMyOnly]

I think one thing I've struggled with since I was a younger kid is that I had a hard time thinking I could even be saved. Its a huge part of my testimony and because of some personal things I was dealing with that is where the fear of thinking I wasn't savable came from. I would think I things like "I've sinned too deep this time, God doesn't love me, I'm a lost cause, hopeless and worthless". So on so forth. I even for the most part of my teen years then started running from God cause I never wanted to get close if I " couldn't be saved ". I become angry with Him and a scoffer. But over the years there has always been not just a feeling but sense of hope and I don't know where else it could come from but God. Any and all the verses about being savable and salvation really brings that hope into me more and more.


I still have a habit with this, this horrible "what if" thinking process. But God is working on me I know. I've wanted to give up completely and walk away from God as far as I possibly could because I thought if I couldn't be saved what more could I do but be against Him?


Here are some bible vereses that really go straight to my heart/mind.


All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. John 6:37
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
And I don't know what it is, but any verses about the veil being torn in the temple really, really get to me. Its like God is standing there holding one side of the curtain open asking me if I will walk through it.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Hebrews 6:19

 

[kennethcadwell]

I have been up and down in life many of times, and almost living on the streets a number of times.
Lord Jesus helped me through all of that and kept pulling me back to two verses all my life;

[h=1]Joshua 1:9King James Version (KJV)[/h]9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.


[h=1]Philippians 4:13New King James Version (NKJV)[/h]13 I can do all things through Christ[a] who strengthens me.

 

[dcontroversal]

Thank You Dcon. I needed that. No matter what we are going through, can you imagine what He went through. His was so distraught that His sweat became blood. If we don't give up He won't give up and many have given their lives to not renounce Him.

It reminds me of a song, Didn't I put food on the table, showed up when the bills were due, provided healing for your body and peace when the stress was killing you. Didn't I walk on the water, did I not die for you. So believe me when I say, I love you.

Those lyrics may be totally right but close and I am in tears

Amen and so true....the song sounds good to me....!

 

[dcontroversal]

Blond Coming in.....So what if you gave up on something and it took you out of the church from being discouraged? Does that count at all? My divorce took me out of the church as I was married to a preachers kid and thought I had done everything right. I wanted to go to marriage counseling but he refused. I gave up.... and since he went to the church that I liked in the area I didn't feel comfortable going there. I didn't feel like I could talk to any ministers because I didn't want the gossip to get back to the Roy family or possibly harm the Roy's in any way since my Father-in-Law was a minister.

I felt alone without any support from anyone. Was I wrong walking away from church? Probably, but then a minster came to my place of employment while I was working and asked if my ex-husband had any just cause to get remarried right away? I wanted to yell at him that it was none of his business and how dare he come to my place of work while I am working and ask me such a question. He could and should have made an appointment to see me at home or ask me to come and see him but he did not do this. I was offended as he was basically asking me if I had committed adultery. I had not ever cheated on my husband.

Because I was so angry but had been taught to respect God's anointed servants/ministers I said to him well lets just say we have both been on the wrong side of the fence. The minister left and later I found out that they were going to disfellowship my ex-husband from the church because he got remarried so quickly, but because of what I said they left him alone.

So I don't have any Bible verses that helped me at the time, I had no one to turn to and God knows that and He kept watch over me and my broken heart. And for a while I walked away from church broken and battered, lonely and hurting. God watched out for me and cared for me even though I walked away from Him for a while too as He knew what was in my heart and that I had given up.

My ex-husband died in March 2014 and all these years I never felt released to remarry because I didn't know if Mike had cheated on me or not. But God provided a wonderful new husband for me who loves Him and God wooed me back to Himself and I know that God took care of me all these years whether I was in church or not. God explained salvation to me at the age of 56 and I am so grateful to Him that I cry when I think of His love and mercy He has shown to me when I felt alone and no one to counsel with because I didn't want to harm the Roy family. So I don't have Bible verses to tell how they helped me I just have my testimony that God helped me all along these many years and He was my husband and took care and watched out for my daughter and myself.

I can never repay Him for the love and mercy and grace He has given and shown me. All I can do is say Yes Lord Jesus I accept You as my Lord and Savior. Thank You. Amen

Sounds like a difficult situation for sure...praise God he got you through it and like he says...I will never leave thee nor forsake thee!<--Thanks God for this verse!

 

[dcontroversal]

The whole suffering and death of Christ has seen me through some difficult times. I say to myself if Jesus had to suffer then I can suffer to.

Amen to this as well...If we suffer with him we will also reign with him and Jesus learned to be obedient by the things which he suffered

 

[dcontroversal]

I think one thing I've struggled with since I was a younger kid is that I had a hard time thinking I could even be saved. Its a huge part of my testimony and because of some personal things I was dealing with that is where the fear of thinking I wasn't savable came from. I would think I things like "I've sinned too deep this time, God doesn't love me, I'm a lost cause, hopeless and worthless". So on so forth. I even for the most part of my teen years then started running from God cause I never wanted to get close if I " couldn't be saved ". I become angry with Him and a scoffer. But over the years there has always been not just a feeling but sense of hope and I don't know where else it could come from but God. Any and all the verses about being savable and salvation really brings that hope into me more and more.


I still have a habit with this, this horrible "what if" thinking process. But God is working on me I know. I've wanted to give up completely and walk away from God as far as I possibly could because I thought if I couldn't be saved what more could I do but be against Him?


Here are some bible vereses that really go straight to my heart/mind.


All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. John 6:37
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
And I don't know what it is, but any verses about the veil being torn in the temple really, really get to me. Its like God is standing there holding one side of the curtain open asking me if I will walk through it.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Hebrews 6:19

Amen to this one as well and I have been in the same circumstance....asking God how could he save someone so wicked and or someone who had done all of these horrible sins.......Praise the Lord for his mercy which endures for ever....!

 

[dcontroversal]

I have been up and down in life many of times, and almost living on the streets a number of times.
Lord Jesus helped me through all of that and kept pulling me back to two verses all my life;

Joshua 1:9King James Version (KJV)

9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.


Philippians 4:13New King James Version (NKJV)

13 I can do all things through Christ[a] who strengthens me.

Amen to these verses Kenneth...I too lived on the street for a bit in the 80's after the Marines and when I got off into drugs.....the Lord convicted me, saved me and has been with me since that time.......!

 

[psychomom]

having just come from praying for all the devastation one sees in the Family Forum,
this really hits home right now.

we've been through some trying times (won't bore you with all the deets),
but one such time that comes to mind was when our children were small (so small we 'only' had 4 then).
my husband had lost his job (the business went under) and we were struggling to feed our kiddos
while he began his own business.
the folks at our church were asking us what our sin was, to suffer so.
and i wondered the same thing.

'But God, being rich in mercy'...a close friend took me to task (kindly) and said we had enough
people close to us to be able to point out to us anything like that.
she said, sometimes God ordains suffering, but He never leaves you.

i kept hearing that old Twila Paris song, "Do I Trust You".
hmmm...

as Mark was faithfully working to find work...
(wait...just have to say...that wonderful man worked nights at a convenience store
so he could be home to put the kids to bed...he drove a school bus...he did all sorts
of things he didn't want to do........shout out to my hubby and our faithful God!)

'k, sorry...as Mark was building a client list, God showed me this:
Prov 21:1
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He will.

i began to pray, whenever Mark had a job interview, that God would move that 'king's' heart
wherever HE wanted to.
and, 25 years later, Mark's business is thriving, and i have learned more and more to trust God.
because GOD is faithful. ♥

 

[dcontroversal]

having just come from praying for all the devastation one sees in the Family Forum,
this really hits home right now.

we've been through some trying times (won't bore you with all the deets),
but one such time that comes to mind was when our children were small (so small we 'only' had 4 then).
my husband had lost his job (the business went under) and we were struggling to feed our kiddos
while he began his own business.
the folks at our church were asking us what our sin was, to suffer so.
and i wondered the same thing.

'But God, being rich in mercy'...a close friend took me to task (kindly) and said we had enough
people close to us to be able to point out to us anything like that.
she said, sometimes God ordains suffering, but He never leaves you.

i kept hearing that old Twila Paris song, "Do I Trust You".
hmmm...

as Mark was faithfully working to find work...
(wait...just have to say...that wonderful man worked nights at a convenience store
so he could be home to put the kids to bed...he drove a school bus...he did all sorts
of things he didn't want to do........shout out to my hubby and our faithful God!)

'k, sorry...as Mark was building a client list, God showed me this:
Prov 21:1
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He will.

i began to pray, whenever Mark had a job interview, that God would move that 'king's' heart
wherever HE wanted to.
and, 25 years later, Mark's business is thriving, and i have learned more and more to trust God.
because GOD is faithful. ♥

Amazing truth..as I read all of these posts it occurred to me that we as the children of God have all endured similar circumstances, difficulties, problems, trials while enduring some of the same failures and most trying times.....

Like Paul and His list and he said...Yea and the Lord delivered me out of ALL of them......Jesus is the master Deliverer for sure!

 

[kennethcadwell]

Amen to these verses Kenneth...I too lived on the street for a bit in the 80's after the Marines and when I got off into drugs.....the Lord convicted me, saved me and has been with me since that time.......!

Yes if it wasn't for our Lord I wouldn't even have a roof over my head, food to eat, and a good supporting cast of people around me all pushing for me to go for my ministers degree. I was even offered to be ordained by another group, but I turned them down because they sided with gay marriage.

 

[breno785au]

I've wanted to give up on my walk with God many times. Reading the psalms and praying has always gotten me through.

 

[dcontroversal]

Yes if it wasn't for our Lord I wouldn't even have a roof over my head, food to eat, and a good supporting cast of people around me all pushing for me to go for my ministers degree. I was even offered to be ordained by another group, but I turned them down because they sided with gay marriage.

Well same here, I moved in 90 to get right with the Lord, went to the Missionary Baptist Seminary in Little Rock to (catch) up on the bible as they emphasized how to study the bible as opposed to making preachers,, went three years with like 16-18 semester hours per semester and have been preaching and teaching now for right at 25 years.....The Lord has truly blessed for sure.....!

 

[OnThisRock]

Blond Coming in.....So what if you gave up on something and it took you out of the church from being discouraged? Does that count at all? My divorce took me out of the church as I was married to a preachers kid and thought I had done everything right. I wanted to go to marriage counseling but he refused. I gave up.... and since he went to the church that I liked in the area I didn't feel comfortable going there. I didn't feel like I could talk to any ministers because I didn't want the gossip to get back to the Roy family or possibly harm the Roy's in any way since my Father-in-Law was a minister.

I felt alone without any support from anyone. Was I wrong walking away from church? Probably, but then a minster came to my place of employment while I was working and asked if my ex-husband had any just cause to get remarried right away? I wanted to yell at him that it was none of his business and how dare he come to my place of work while I am working and ask me such a question. He could and should have made an appointment to see me at home or ask me to come and see him but he did not do this. I was offended as he was basically asking me if I had committed adultery. I had not ever cheated on my husband.

Because I was so angry but had been taught to respect God's anointed servants/ministers I said to him well lets just say we have both been on the wrong side of the fence. The minister left and later I found out that they were going to disfellowship my ex-husband from the church because he got remarried so quickly, but because of what I said they left him alone.

So I don't have any Bible verses that helped me at the time, I had no one to turn to and God knows that and He kept watch over me and my broken heart. And for a while I walked away from church broken and battered, lonely and hurting. God watched out for me and cared for me even though I walked away from Him for a while too as He knew what was in my heart and that I had given up.

My ex-husband died in March 2014 and all these years I never felt released to remarry because I didn't know if Mike had cheated on me or not. But God provided a wonderful new husband for me who loves Him and God wooed me back to Himself and I know that God took care of me all these years whether I was in church or not. God explained salvation to me at the age of 56 and I am so grateful to Him that I cry when I think of His love and mercy He has shown to me when I felt alone and no one to counsel with because I didn't want to harm the Roy family. So I don't have Bible verses to tell how they helped me I just have my testimony that God helped me all along these many years and He was my husband and took care and watched out for my daughter and myself.

I can never repay Him for the love and mercy and grace He has given and shown me. All I can do is say Yes Lord Jesus I accept You as my Lord and Savior. Thank You. Amen

This is beautiful and pure. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[Brainfreeze]

12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.


3The eyes of YAH are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

 

[dcontroversal]

I've wanted to give up on my walk with God many times. Reading the psalms and praying has always gotten me through.

AMEN to that as well...the Psalms are excellent for sure and give plenty of encouragement!

 

[dcontroversal]

12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.


3The eyes of YAH are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

While I appreciate the scriptures...how does that answer and apply to the OP and the question concerning if YOU HAVE EVER WANTED to give up on something........!