Unanswered Questions: A Young Christian Seeking Answers - PART 1

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Kye_Conner

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What are the toughest challenges in your life?
How do you face them?
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My story: My first challenge was waiting; I had been unemployed for many months and had no money to live on. During the time I was unemployed, I felt immense pressure from feeling useless, and that thought was killing my mind every day to the point of suffocation. At that time, I could only cry and pray; I had no one beside me to share with, and I saw my family struggling too much, so I chose to hide it inside. I went through that period with tears and prayers.

I wonder what everyone’s situation is like?
 
Lynx

Lynx

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My biggest challenge is probably something I am not aware of.

Most of the people I know have blind spots where their biggest weaknesses are. So my biggest weakness is something I probably don't know about.
 
Blain

Blain

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I am in a nursing home because I had nowhere else to go, for the past two years I struggled just to be able to afford to eat I was sick all the time on top of demonic attacks

Now I am in a nursing home and not a good one at that they barely feed us and I get no money to afford eye drops as I have what is called chronic eye dryness and have scared pupils from it I need money to afforf them or my eyes will go completely blind but sadly I have no one and no way to make money I wight 1qo punds have little energy and my eyes are in danger so I also am waiting but the joy of the Lord keeps me going
 
keepingthingsreal

keepingthingsreal

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My toughest challenge should be (but somehow isn't) that I am basically alone. I have a large family, but we haven't spoken in years. Simply put, they have utter contempt for Christ/Christianity, and, therefore, they cannot stand me. Their contempt for Christ and me is so great that I honestly believe that they would be happy if I was dead, and I am not exaggerating.

I have about 4 friends on the planet, but they all have their own lives. The nearest one to me is about 1 1/2 hours away. I only see any of them about 2 times a year, but I do talk to one of them on the phone more times than that.

I have no church. Not only does my job require me to work on Sundays, but the churches near me are all terrible. Actually, beyond terrible.

I really don't like my job, and I applied for 3 other jobs about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and they all offered me positions. I turned them all down because the one thing that I do have at work is a lot of people who like me. In fact, I spent Thanksgiving with two of them, and another co-worker just invited me over to spend Christmas with him and his fiancé. Seeing how some of my co-workers are the closest thing that I have to family, I have chosen to stay at my current job, at least for the time being, because to lose them would basically leave me without any sort of fellowship whatsoever, and that is not something that I desire at the moment.

Having said all that, I TRULY am fine about 99% of the time. In fact, I often wonder why I'm not a wreck. My best guess is that God's grace truly is sufficient for me.

My real challenge is in figuring out what God wants me to do with the remainder of my life. I know that I will only get the answer to that question through prayer, but I have been so busy (and tired) lately because work is insane during this time of the year, so I have kind of put getting that answer on hold for a short season. When things calm down at work in a couple of weeks, then I really need to seek God's face.

I am not sure that I will stay on this forum too much longer. Quite frankly, with pretty much only one exception, I have yet to see the "chat" part of ChristianChat. In other words, only one person here has really been friendly towards me. One is better than none, and I guess that I'm just not people's cup of tea. It is what it is. God loves me, so I'm good.
 
Mem

Mem

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God created me on purpose so, I'm going to live on purpose. That's challenging, though. I mean, all you have to do is keep remembering that God ... what is it that I'm supposed to be remembering about God...:unsure:
You know.
 
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jacko

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Kye_Conner said:
What are the toughest challenges in your life?
How do you face them?
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My story: My first challenge was waiting; I had been unemployed for many months and had no money to live on. During the time I was unemployed, I felt immense pressure from feeling useless, and that thought was killing my mind every day to the point of suffocation. At that time, I could only cry and pray; I had no one beside me to share with, and I saw my family struggling too much, so I chose to hide it inside. I went through that period with tears and prayers.

I wonder what everyone’s situation is like?
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God is faithful. Keep praying and he will deliver you from whatever you are going through although his timing may not be your timing.
 
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