What are you mad at God over
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Wait, you are actually seeking complaints?
I have too many people complaining from too many sides. Every day at my job I hear people complaining about politics, relationships, customers, fellow employees... And yes, complaints about the church and God too... Anything they even mildly dislike or find the least bit distasteful... And they can't do one thing about all these things they are complaining about, and certainly I am not in any position to do anything about them. But they complain about all these things anyway.
Shoot, sometimes I actively avoid talking to some people because I know they will turn any conversation, any topic into yet another recitation of their same old complaints.
And you are out here actually looking for complaints? Like, not even just entertaining complaints and enjoying them, you are actively SEEKING them?
And not only that, but you came online looking for them. You couldn't get enough complaining in your personal life, so you came to an internet forum to solicit complaints from people around the world!
There is only one thing I know that can start to rationalize such an incomprehensible issue. There's an old saying: one man's trash is another man's treasure. Maybe this is like how some people enjoy smoked oysters while other people find them repugnant. Of course I can't imagine why you would enjoy people's complaints, although I have seen other people enjoy it when they listen to people complaining. But then again, some other people can't imagine why I enjoy smoked oysters.
I have too many people complaining from too many sides. Every day at my job I hear people complaining about politics, relationships, customers, fellow employees... And yes, complaints about the church and God too... Anything they even mildly dislike or find the least bit distasteful... And they can't do one thing about all these things they are complaining about, and certainly I am not in any position to do anything about them. But they complain about all these things anyway.
Shoot, sometimes I actively avoid talking to some people because I know they will turn any conversation, any topic into yet another recitation of their same old complaints.
And you are out here actually looking for complaints? Like, not even just entertaining complaints and enjoying them, you are actively SEEKING them?
And not only that, but you came online looking for them. You couldn't get enough complaining in your personal life, so you came to an internet forum to solicit complaints from people around the world!
There is only one thing I know that can start to rationalize such an incomprehensible issue. There's an old saying: one man's trash is another man's treasure. Maybe this is like how some people enjoy smoked oysters while other people find them repugnant. Of course I can't imagine why you would enjoy people's complaints, although I have seen other people enjoy it when they listen to people complaining. But then again, some other people can't imagine why I enjoy smoked oysters.
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I hope we'll see you again in 6 months or so? 
Last time I was on though, there was one guy who had stated that he and others had fasted and sought God and nothing happened. I didn’t think much about it until I went through a similar situation. So I thought I would state a thread about something similar. But you know how CC is and what kind of answers I would’ve received it I started a thread “Did you seek God and He didn’t answer…” or something to that effect?
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Well, not sure who told you that God is supposed to answer you directly in the form of a miracle, because nobody in my church told me this.
So when i thought that i was dying and stuck in bed for 1 year without moving, i thought that it's time for me to go.
But, God showed me a Miracle and healed me.
Don't know why i got this and why doesn't a child who's dying from cancer is not getting this, but i was at peace either way.
He is in control and i was already grateful and satisfied from hearing others getting Miracles and i didn't expect one but when i got one, my spiritual tank is filled to the maximum now and i honestly can't wait for God to come over to all of us and begin His Second Return.
So when i thought that i was dying and stuck in bed for 1 year without moving, i thought that it's time for me to go.
But, God showed me a Miracle and healed me.
Don't know why i got this and why doesn't a child who's dying from cancer is not getting this, but i was at peace either way.
He is in control and i was already grateful and satisfied from hearing others getting Miracles and i didn't expect one but when i got one, my spiritual tank is filled to the maximum now and i honestly can't wait for God to come over to all of us and begin His Second Return.
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What, so you jumped through the requisite hoops and God didn't perform the expected magic trick? You rubbed the lamp and the genie did not appear to grant your wish?
If I wanted power that I could control, I would have taken up voodoo or something. Yes, voodoo is real. It even has a limited amount of power. And it is completely at the beck and call of the practitioner.
But it's not better than what I have. Maybe more predictable, but definitely not as good.
If I wanted power that I could control, I would have taken up voodoo or something. Yes, voodoo is real. It even has a limited amount of power. And it is completely at the beck and call of the practitioner.
But it's not better than what I have. Maybe more predictable, but definitely not as good.
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Did you ever hear the song "I'm not in love" by 10cc? You know that part in the interlude where the lady keeps on repeating "Big boys don't cry?" Yea, that's a lie. Some pretty big boys cried or wept in scripture, and among them are Jesus, David, Jeremiah, Paul, and Peter.
You have no idea (or maybe you do) how many days I have been like a dead man (on the inside) walking. At least hundreds of them, if not thousands of them. It's all part of the process of dying to ourselves, so that we might live for Christ. Is it painful? Yes, but new life only truly comes after an old death.
You have no idea (or maybe you do) how many days I have been like a dead man (on the inside) walking. At least hundreds of them, if not thousands of them. It's all part of the process of dying to ourselves, so that we might live for Christ. Is it painful? Yes, but new life only truly comes after an old death.
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"Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise" . We don't twist His arm to get Him to respond especially get Him to respond as we believe He should respond.
Just because He doesn't respond as you believe doesn't mean He isn't working on your behalf behind the scenes, His plan is always the best if we stay in Him.
Thank you Eli for sharing your experience. Your humility I believe may have been a key, not flipping out and going to anger. A few years ago He took me through a series of remembrances showing me how decisions and actions I made 30 and 40 years ago were bearing fruit for His kingdom now.
best wishes
Just because He doesn't respond as you believe doesn't mean He isn't working on your behalf behind the scenes, His plan is always the best if we stay in Him.
Thank you Eli for sharing your experience. Your humility I believe may have been a key, not flipping out and going to anger. A few years ago He took me through a series of remembrances showing me how decisions and actions I made 30 and 40 years ago were bearing fruit for His kingdom now.
best wishes
Brother, it's been a process and I'm still learning and growing. When I read Hebrews 12:6 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." the Holy Spirit let that verse sink into my heart, and I believe it, because God can not lie and then it then some of my pain, it kind of made sense...well somewhat, I had to look up scourgeth because it's not in the other translations, it means to discipline with a whip or flog.
How did I receive healing? Honestly only through God's grace, I was on my knees for weeks, crying out the PSALMS of David, and he answered one my prayers, which increased my faith to pray more, which lead to another answered prayer and changed my heart. I tell you this brother, nothing increases your faith like an answered prayer.
Honestly I pray for those so they don't lose their faith in prayer. It's really hard when God doesn't answer. But I learned that you can fast until you hear from God, like Daniel.
How did I receive healing? Honestly only through God's grace, I was on my knees for weeks, crying out the PSALMS of David, and he answered one my prayers, which increased my faith to pray more, which lead to another answered prayer and changed my heart. I tell you this brother, nothing increases your faith like an answered prayer.
Honestly I pray for those so they don't lose their faith in prayer. It's really hard when God doesn't answer. But I learned that you can fast until you hear from God, like Daniel.
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Thankfully, that is one lie that I never bought into.
Last night, I asked if anyone could recommend a movie to me because I am, and have been, pretty much bedridden with a severely sprained foot (which I needed like a hole in my head on top of the many other issues that I am currently dealing with). Nobody recommended anything, and I wound up watching a movie that I found online. I am pretty sure that it was called "Breakup season." Basically, it was a movie about a young guy who travels with his girlfriend from Los Angeles to Oregon in order for her to meet his parents for the first time during the Christmas holiday. On their first night there, the couple broke up, and the guy was devastated as he watched his now ex-girlfriend seemingly just flip a switch while no longer having any feelings at all for him. In other words, he was left to wonder/consider/question if their relationship had ever been real at all at her end. Of course, she wound up getting snowed in there for about a week, and I was pretty much hooked as I hoped beyond hope, even though it was just a movie, that they would be reconciled in the end, but they were not.
The movie momentarily devastated me (again) because it was basically the story of my life, and not just in regard to relationships with women, but in relationships with almost everybody that I know. Over the years, I have been repeatedly devastated as I have watched, in horror, as people who I loved deeply just discarded me like a piece of trash, and without any conscience whatsoever. After watching the movie, or after getting another painful reminder of what my entire life has been like, I truly considered that it might have been better for me if I had never been born.
One thing that I did not consider was to be angry at God.
God is perfect, and sinful men, women, and children who are being led by Satan and/or demons are the real problem.
As I said earlier, all that I am sure of in this vain life is this:
Jesus is Lord, and no hardship that I might ever face will change that reality.
Last night, I asked if anyone could recommend a movie to me because I am, and have been, pretty much bedridden with a severely sprained foot (which I needed like a hole in my head on top of the many other issues that I am currently dealing with). Nobody recommended anything, and I wound up watching a movie that I found online. I am pretty sure that it was called "Breakup season." Basically, it was a movie about a young guy who travels with his girlfriend from Los Angeles to Oregon in order for her to meet his parents for the first time during the Christmas holiday. On their first night there, the couple broke up, and the guy was devastated as he watched his now ex-girlfriend seemingly just flip a switch while no longer having any feelings at all for him. In other words, he was left to wonder/consider/question if their relationship had ever been real at all at her end. Of course, she wound up getting snowed in there for about a week, and I was pretty much hooked as I hoped beyond hope, even though it was just a movie, that they would be reconciled in the end, but they were not.
The movie momentarily devastated me (again) because it was basically the story of my life, and not just in regard to relationships with women, but in relationships with almost everybody that I know. Over the years, I have been repeatedly devastated as I have watched, in horror, as people who I loved deeply just discarded me like a piece of trash, and without any conscience whatsoever. After watching the movie, or after getting another painful reminder of what my entire life has been like, I truly considered that it might have been better for me if I had never been born.
One thing that I did not consider was to be angry at God.
God is perfect, and sinful men, women, and children who are being led by Satan and/or demons are the real problem.
As I said earlier, all that I am sure of in this vain life is this:
Jesus is Lord, and no hardship that I might ever face will change that reality.