PLEASE HELP

"The only advice that I see clearly is that you should dwell in love...."

a person sent me this in his reponce to a thread i posted. my question is how to i dwell in peace. i feel that when i try to live a sinless life that i am doing it in vain because it doesn not feel real, but when i continue doing what i am doing while having Christ on my heart i feel like i am worthless, as though i am letting God down. i don't like either one of these feelings. i want to strive to be more Godly like but i do not want to fake it. i want to feel like i am making genuine progress. i feel alone unless i am on here. ya'll are truly my only friend with whom i can be ,completly free and myself, flaws and all. thank you for that. and please help. God bless

Follower, brother, it's so easy for someone, anyone to say things like that to you while life's going great for them. However you let them get in a situation where they don't know what to do, they can't say the same thing for themself. I see from your post and all, you are genuine in your heart, and in your walk/relationship with Christ. I personally feel maybe you're feeling like your attempts to lead a sinless life, and be more Godly like and all is in vain is at least partly due to some of the responses you get on here. Also, I wish to note you are not worthless, in fact, you're so loved that God gave His only Son for ya brother! Where John 3:16 says "the world'' take that and say your name in its place. Personally to dwell in His love, peace, etc. I find myself so...hmm...what's the word I'm looking for here...conflicted and distraught that I have no choice but to go to God in prayer. I understand it feels like ''oh I can't face God, I can't go to Him in prayer, or attend church service'' and things like that. However the truth of the matter is this, that's when God has us right where we need to be, seeking Him. Go and pray, read in the Bible, even if you can't seem to fully focus, do it, because it subconciencly enters our mind, heart, soul, and spirit. We have to look at the good things in life, the blessings. We have to say ya know what, God's working, I may not know, see, or understand how or why at this time, but I KNOW he is and in the end, I KNOW that He will bring me through this. Just the other day, I was so just oh my, words can't explain it, I couldn't focus on anything, I said okay well I'll go read some in my Bible, I couldn't focus though, I said okay well I'll get a shower to help me wake up more or something, and pray at the same time, I couldn't find the words to say it was so bad! Yet somehow, God worked. I just told Him, God I don't have the words to say, I'm sorry, please, say them for me, You know my heart, help me. I'm sorry this post is so long, but maybe it'll help you, and remember, you are so loved by God and so many more. If you ever need to talk, find me, message me, whatever, I'll be here for you brother, don't give up! God bless!

thank you. i feel God uses you more than i think you know to speak to me. it seems everytime i get a reponce from its like it is just what i needed to hear. i am in my bible now tryin to see what God has to say about everything. i was wondering if you could help me wit another problem. i often fall back to some of my old ways quickly when i am comfronted by the world. for instance when i talk to people who are not true followers i will start to curse again. i feel embaressed to show God through me because i have gone through the whole "holy" phase so many times and have eventually ended right back where i was before. however this time i feel like God is here to stay. how do i get over this fear of what the world will say about me?

Ah brother, I can so relate, I've been there done that, actually, I'm in the exact same boat as you right now, same issue too. Well, one thing, we must remember what it says in Psalm 31:2 "Bow down thine me.to me; deliver me speedily; be thou my defence to save me" so we call on Him and He's there to save us from falling back into our old ways. Romans 1:16 says "For I am not ashamed of hte gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" we shouldn't be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, and by falling back into old ways around those that aren't Christians, or claim to be but don't produce fruit of one, and we give into their ways, we're pretty much saying we're ashamed, as we don't show them Christ. This is where ''be ye not unequally yolked with unbelivers'' comes into play, don't do the things they do, don't fall back into that old lifestyle. It's not saying don't be around them, cause if we're not around them, how will they ever hear God's word and see Christ in us?

2 Timothy 1:8 says "Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God." We have nothing to be ashamed of, we're told we will face afflictions, and to endure them proudly, for ours is the kingdom of God some day! You see, you're doing right, and satan's trying to get to you, don't let him win.

2 Timothy 2:15 says "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dicvding the word of truth.
You've shown yourself approved, you know God's word and all, now you gotta divide the word of truth, satan's on the prowl, trying to get ya, but you take and tell him what God's word truly says! You're not in vain at all, satan's trying to make you feel as if you are, rebuke him!

Hebrews 11:16 says "But now they desire a better county, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." God has already done all we need to be done, for He knows you and all of His children seek to be with Him, and in that place, known as His kingdom, you will never be ashamed to call Him your God.

Finally, 1 Peter 4:16 says :Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." See what I mean, glorify God that you are being afflicted, cause your'e doing something right, and God will never leave or forsake you. He will help you stand up again, it's okay, we all mess up, we all fall, we all sin, as I said on the other post, that doesn't justify our wrongs, but Jesus' blood does. I may not have said the right thing, but hopefully I did. Also, I'm going to send you something on here, to your mail, that I feel may help you. God bless!

quick note I forgot to mention earlier, 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall, there had 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 teh temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Doesn't matter what we're tempted with, even something such as falling back into our old ways, and the carnal desires and such things....when and where we're tempted to do so, God WILL provide a way out, sometimes, we just overlook that way. Sometimes we're too blinded by satan to see that way out, but we have to look for it, look for the light(Jesus) in all that darnkess(satan) and all that surrounds us. I have not the words to say all the time, in fact, I probably don't have the words to say more times than the amount of times I do have the words to say...at any rate, may the Lord bless you in ways and amounts that you can't even imagine! God bless you!