Sacrifices

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EverlastingChange

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Hey everyone! As Christians we all make sacrifices, there expected of us. Christ never died so that we may live an easy life. He died so that we may die also, to the flesh and be resurrected spiritually to live for him and like him. At the end of the day the bible tells us it's a ''Narrow way'', against the world, against our culture, against everything we've ever been taught outside of scripture. So just cause I think it could conjure up some interesting and maybe even inspiring stories what have you given up for God to walk with him? Whether you may be just beginning your walk with Our Lord, or it's been most of your life. What have you counted as loss, to gain the one you found :)?
 
Liamson

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Well as a single person....

hmm....

Perhaps its too early for the blue on blue font background combination.
 
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EverlastingChange

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Sorry, what?
 
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I think the opposite is true in my life.

It is difficult to count something as a loss when it has been done for Christ. So to tally up such things in the negative to me is rather inconceivable.
 
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Jullianna

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I've been following the Lord for over half of my life now and He's never called me to surrender anything to Him that He didn't replace with something wonderful. So, I would have to agree with Liamson. Those things weren't really sacrifices. Truth is, they were probably baggage.

I know He isn't finished though. There's a lot more chiseling He needs to do on me. :)
 
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EverlastingChange

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I never meant it as in let's sit around and count up our negatives. I wanted to hear the struggles, the sacrifices and how you went on through it despite what everyone else said. Despite what the world told you wasn't necessary. I wanted to hear the rawness of it. Not the candy-coated "oh it's a delight to give everything over to God." Of course it is, I know that, I gave up almost everything I ever considered of worth to know him, but it wasn't always easy at the time. I just wanted to hear others stories, I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear in the first post.
 
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AnandaHya

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we are all cruxifed with christ

YouTube - Philips, Craig & Dean-Crucified with Christ

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me . . ." (Galatians 2:20 NET).

“When Christ bids us come and follow, He bids us come and die,” said Bonhoeffer.

The victory in the Christian's life comes as we die to selfishness and follow Him.

The apostle Paul wrote, “To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:20). Again he wrote, “The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Gal. 2:20). Paul can write this because he has been crucified with Christ.

Crucified with Christ

YouTube - Newsboys Shine

Let your light SHINE!
 
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NodMyHeadLikeYeah

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maybe you both have never struggled to sacrifice anything and it was all very easy. Perhaps this will show my lack of spirituality then, but I tell you i have dug my heels in and firmly said NO GOD i will NOT sacrifice this or that and you cant make me! So childish i know, but i didnt realize God was trying to do what was best for me. One thing was smoking. I thought come on now God, cant i still be a christian while huffing and puffing down two packs of cigerattes a day! It took me years and with lots of his help i finally laid that down and said ok ok i give up. No more. I realize this is coming in between us, and your plan for me is not to die from a self induced cancer that could have been stopped.

Another thing was pride. I have huge pride issues, im the i can do it all by myself i dont need anybody for anything type. God really laid me out in that area and continued to put me in situations where i had to ask people for help cause i couldnt do it on my own. It was soooooooo painful!! Like it made me cringe just to do it! I slowly but surely sacrificed my pride, and i stil struggle now with it sometimes.

anyways i hope this was the kind of answer you were looking for.
 
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AnandaHya

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NodMyHeadLikeYeah said:
maybe you both have never struggled to sacrifice anything and it was all very easy. Perhaps this will show my lack of spirituality then, but I tell you i have dug my heels in and firmly said NO GOD i will NOT sacrifice this or that and you cant make me! So childish i know, but i didnt realize God was trying to do what was best for me. One thing was smoking. I thought come on now God, cant i still be a christian while huffing and puffing down two packs of cigerattes a day! It took me years and with lots of his help i finally laid that down and said ok ok i give up. No more. I realize this is coming in between us, and your plan for me is not to die from a self induced cancer that could have been stopped.

Another thing was pride. I have huge pride issues, im the i can do it all by myself i dont need anybody for anything type. God really laid me out in that area and continued to put me in situations where i had to ask people for help cause i couldnt do it on my own. It was soooooooo painful!! Like it made me cringe just to do it! I slowly but surely sacrificed my pride, and i stil struggle now with it sometimes.

anyways i hope this was the kind of answer you were looking for.
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remember Jacob wrestled with God all night and it was a TIE.until God did something divine and took a hip muscle. still Jacob didn't give up until he got a blessing and was blessed with the name Isarel. Jacob meant deceiver, Isareal i think means promised of God or something like that.
 
Liamson

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I guess I wasn't thinking of it like that.

For as long as I can remember growing up there was a girl that I wanted to be with. I wanted to be the best and most interesting person in the world for her. I could never get it through my head that she didn't like ME. I always thought that if I could become someone more, eventually I would be worth her time. The scary part was even as a little girl her dreams of becoming a missionary painted my whole world. I wanted to save the world with someone like her, to the point of it becoming a pride issue. When I finally let her go, I let go of God too. I was smoking drinking and living as if there was no God.

Eventually God reached me, dropped me on my head and now slowly but surely I'm becoming the person He requires me to be.
 
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AnandaHya

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Liamson said:
I guess I wasn't thinking of it like that.

For as long as I can remember growing up there was a girl that I wanted to be with. I wanted to be the best and most interesting person in the world for her. I could never get it through my head that she didn't like ME. I always thought that if I could become someone more, eventually I would be worth her time. The scary part was even as a little girl her dreams of becoming a missionary painted my whole world. I wanted to save the world with someone like her, to the point of it becoming a pride issue. When I finally let her go, I let go of God too. I was smoking drinking and living as if there was no God.

Eventually God reached me, dropped me on my head and now slowly but surely I'm becoming the person He requires me to be.
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You were worshiping the girl, the creation and not the creator. but God's grace reached into your heart and brought you home. here is a song that might help. You have been made a new creation and are set as far from your past sin as the east is from the west. May God protect and guide you as your walk and abide in His teachings.


YouTube - Casting Crowns - East to West

remember worship GOD not anything man makes or can see with physical eyes. only what God reveals to us and our heart.
 
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Jullianna

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I surrendered a career that I loved because God showed me that my son was afraid for me to go to work everyday because he'd just lost his father. When I finally surrendered, he gave me a new career with better hours, a far better salary, and fewer people call me awful names or shoot at me. :)

I walked away from a man I loved, who was a christian, because God showed me he simply wasn't the one, and that the relationship was holding me back. In return, God has given me more of Himself.

It definitely was not easy...but it was worth it. To die to self is gain.
 
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