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I am having yet another day where i feel apart from god but it fels different this time. I feel like here is no where around but yet my spirit is still in love with him. I remember the very night i accepted god and i think for everyone that moment is the most fondest. For anyone who is in dispair Here is a promise the lord has given us:The lord hears good people when they cry out to him, and he saves them from their trouble-Psalms34:17 and yet another when you feel deppresed or troubles in life:My friends do not be surprised at the terrible troubles that now come to test you.do not think that something strange is happening, but be happy that you are sharing in christ's sufferings so that you will be happy and full of joy when christ comes again in glory- Peter 4:12-13
I also must add i have a book completley full of god's promises and encouragement and will love to post them, these have helped me in my faith and i know they will helpin all trials. The book is called god's promises for everday here are the sections it has in it
Be warned this will be kind of long LOL:Jesus is your- savior, Lord,Love,Peace, forgiveness, rightiousness,deliverer, fellowship,example,friend,brother,protecter,security,answer,satisfaction,everything. There are so many promises from the bible for each one of these words of what Jesus is but don't get comfy we are far from done. What to do when you feel: discouraged, worried,lonely,deppressed,dissaitisfied,guilty, confused, tempted,angry,rebellious,and rejected. What to do when you are: afraid,in doubt of yourself,franic and stressed,unhappy,walking far from god,uncertain about god. What to do when: you don't feel imortant,troubles hit your life,you have physical sickness, you need money, someone close to you dies, are you deserted,you don't understand god's ways,nothing seems to be going right.THe bible is your: dependable authority, way to succeed,guid for life,solid rock,source of strength. Folowing next post...
Be warned this will be kind of long LOL:Jesus is your- savior, Lord,Love,Peace, forgiveness, rightiousness,deliverer, fellowship,example,friend,brother,protecter,security,answer,satisfaction,everything. There are so many promises from the bible for each one of these words of what Jesus is but don't get comfy we are far from done. What to do when you feel: discouraged, worried,lonely,deppressed,dissaitisfied,guilty, confused, tempted,angry,rebellious,and rejected. What to do when you are: afraid,in doubt of yourself,franic and stressed,unhappy,walking far from god,uncertain about god. What to do when: you don't feel imortant,troubles hit your life,you have physical sickness, you need money, someone close to you dies, are you deserted,you don't understand god's ways,nothing seems to be going right.THe bible is your: dependable authority, way to succeed,guid for life,solid rock,source of strength. Folowing next post...
I also must add i have a book completley full of god's promises and encouragement and will love to post them, these have helped me in my faith and i know they will helpin all trials. The book is called god's promises for everday here are the sections it has in it Be warned this will be kind of long LOL:Jesus is your- savior, Lord,Love,Peace, forgiveness, rightiousness,deliverer, fellowship,example,friend,brother,protecter,security,answer,satisfaction,everything. There are so many promises from the bible for each one of these words of what Jesus is but don't get comfy we are far from done. What to do when you feel: discouraged, worried,lonely,deppressed,dissaitisfied,guilty, confused, tempted,angry,rebellious,and rejected. What to do when you are: afraid,in doubt of yourself,franic and stressed,unhappy,walking far from god,uncertain about god. What to do when: you don't feel imortant,troubles hit your life,you have physical sickness, you need money, someone close to you dies, are you deserted,you don't understand god's ways,nothing seems to be going right.THe bible is your: dependable authority, way to succeed,guid for life,solid rock,source of strength. Folowing next post...
Be warned this will be kind of long LOL:Jesus is your- savior, Lord,Love,Peace, forgiveness, rightiousness,deliverer, fellowship,example,friend,brother,protecter,security,answer,satisfaction,everything. There are so many promises from the bible for each one of these words of what Jesus is but don't get comfy we are far from done. What to do when you feel: discouraged, worried,lonely,deppressed,dissaitisfied,guilty, confused, tempted,angry,rebellious,and rejected. What to do when you are: afraid,in doubt of yourself,franic and stressed,unhappy,walking far from god,uncertain about god. What to do when: you don't feel imortant,troubles hit your life,you have physical sickness, you need money, someone close to you dies, are you deserted,you don't understand god's ways,nothing seems to be going right.THe bible is your: dependable authority, way to succeed,guid for life,solid rock,source of strength. Folowing next post...
I realize this is a lot to read for everyone but I will try to find a more organized why for the sections of the book. But please never hesitate to request some helpful word after all this is all from the bible. You may contact me any way you want,wiether on this thead or pm it will give me increadable joy to post some scripture for the sake of others and i will learn as well from it. I felt god wanted to use me in order to help others because i know that there are many of you who need advice for certain issues or maybe even just questions, i though this thread would help ppl but i had no clue how much it would until god told me to use this amazing book he gave me in it. I am so glad to finally be used by god to help others, if i don't reply right away i will do my best to answer as soon as possible
I prayed to god to bless this thread and for everyword he tells me to post for it to be like a prisoner finally free from prison and rejoycing in being a free man and thanking god for the miracle of finally seeing his family. I hope this thread will be used very often for wisdom and advice, i do not take any credit for any scripture or words of encouragement because it was god who wanted these thingg to be said. Even when there are no requests i will post word's of hope and wisdom for anyone who is searching but do not know what for, for anyone who has lost all hope and for all of us to finally see all people the way god does. First i feel we must reflect what Jesus is to us HE is first our LORDhilipians2:9-11-So god raised him to the highest place. God made his name greater than every other name so that every knee will bow to the name of Jesus everyone in heaven earth and under the earth, and everyone will confess that Jesus christ is lord and bring glory to god the father.He is our savior: 1st John 4:14- We have seen and can testify that the father sent his son to be the savior of the world I could actually wright an entire book the size of the dictionary about what and who Jesus is from these words of the bible. But now i want to connect who and what Jesus is with something that is whole reason we are alive and free, why we can have a wonderful relationship with him and also what his entire being is LOVE.John 16:27 The father himself loves you, he loves you because you loved me and beleived that i came from god. Romans 5:8 But god shows his great love for us in this way: christ died for us while we were still sinners. So let me ask you this we cannot see god, and yet we have faith in him, even someone like me with just a morsal of faith knows why we choose to beleive in him and try to trust him in all things. It is not because we want something from him even though we sometimes pray for selfish things. It is because we love him, sometimes we cannot feel our love and sometime question if we really love him at all, But if you look deep down you will see the love. our love for him is not a feeling or emotion it is constant and does not budge. If you have accepted christ then youhave this love,
hilipians2:9-11-So god raised him to the highest place. God made his name greater than every other name so that every knee will bow to the name of Jesus everyone in heaven earth and under the earth, and everyone will confess that Jesus christ is lord and bring glory to god the father.He is our savior: 1st John 4:14- We have seen and can testify that the father sent his son to be the savior of the world I could actually wright an entire book the size of the dictionary about what and who Jesus is from these words of the bible. But now i want to connect who and what Jesus is with something that is whole reason we are alive and free, why we can have a wonderful relationship with him and also what his entire being is LOVE.John 16:27 The father himself loves you, he loves you because you loved me and beleived that i came from god. Romans 5:8 But god shows his great love for us in this way: christ died for us while we were still sinners. So let me ask you this we cannot see god, and yet we have faith in him, even someone like me with just a morsal of faith knows why we choose to beleive in him and try to trust him in all things. It is not because we want something from him even though we sometimes pray for selfish things. It is because we love him, sometimes we cannot feel our love and sometime question if we really love him at all, But if you look deep down you will see the love. our love for him is not a feeling or emotion it is constant and does not budge. If you have accepted christ then youhave this love,I also read this and i think it is a perfect example of a faithful christian and whom god will be proud to say(This is my child and I t was for great beauty and glory to have made such a faithful child) The example is an ant. Have you ever sat down and watched ants? They have no one to tell them what to do and how good to do it and yet they give all hard work the very best they can. They could easily slack off and get away with it and yet even when no one is watching they do everything they can to collect food no matter how far away it is or how heavy or even how much it is. This is a beautiful thing to do as children of god, If we did this at our jobs such as if the printer is almost out of paper, or at home if we see a mess that no one wants to clean and we do it not for them or ourselves but tell god i will clean this the best i can for you lord. If you think about it we face these kinds of opertunities everday all day, there are billions of ways to be an ant even when we are alone or helping someone who calls and asked you to do a favor because no one else will.ants also will go out of their way to help a fellow ant they even risk their very lives to protect another. This is not an easy task for us to always try to live like an ant in everything we do and we may never acheive it because hey sometimes we just want to relax. The funny thing is god even tells us to live like an ant in the bible : to do everything you do for the glory of the lord. that means to give our best for him in everything we do. This will be hard for me to do but i will at least try but i know the more we do this the easier it will be and we will love doing it
I thought this next one would be perfect for a lot of people here, one of god's promises of- WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU NEED MONEY. Proverbs14:23 Those who work hard make a profit,but those who only talk will be poor. I know this one is commom sense but still not any less valuable here is the next one. If you loook to god for all you need and wait with patience for his answer.....Then lord will make you rich: you will have many children your animals will have many young and your land will give good crops. It is the land the lord promised you ancesters he would give you( by the way this may have been written for the ppl back then but god was also looking at us even back then before we were created he meant for this to be given to us as well) The lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time(This is god saying he will bless us more than we could even want at the right time not ours) and he will bless everything you do. you will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them. The lord will make you like the head not the tail; you will be at the top not the bottom. but you must obey the commands of the lord your god that i am giving you today, be careful in keeping themDeuteronomy28:11-13. and also above all when the lord blesses you never forget to thank him and give him praise. and always give back to the community because all god gives you is never truly yours but god's so when you give back to the nation you are giving to god what is rightfully his.
you could call it words from god posted by blain seriously, this stuff needs its own thread. or u could call it inspirational words or something along those lines
seriously, this stuff needs its own thread. or u could call it inspirational words or something along those lines
I have seen alot of people here who are having hard problems in life and as a result are depressed and some losing their faith, so i am going to post some encouraging things and i can only pray and hope it will reach them and save them from their pit of dispair. I first want to say that these problems everyone has are not some random hurt. The devil loves it when we suffer and when we feel like giving up. But in the storm of the hurt and the confusion and broken hearted, the forgotten and the lonely god is whispering to us in the middle of the rain of misery (I am here) we are never alone we are loved by him even when it seems no one else does. He cares about us and our pain and is waiting for us to cry out for help. Because of free will he cannot save us unless we let him-Psalm46:1 God is our protection and our stength he always helps in times of troubles. Psalm 27:10 If my father and mother leave me, the lord will take me in. Psalm34:17 The lord hears good people when they cry out to him, and he saves them from all their troubles.
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From Mercy Me's "Move"
"when life wont play along/when right keeps going wrong/when i cant seem to find my way/ i know where i am found/ so i wont let it drag me down/ no I'll keep dancing anyway"
Psalm 138:7
"though i walk in the midst of trouble, u preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,"
hope this helps some of u who r going through some turmoil right now. dont let anyone knock u down, if they do just pick yrself up and dust yrself off and continue with life. remember that he will always have yr back.
"when life wont play along/when right keeps going wrong/when i cant seem to find my way/ i know where i am found/ so i wont let it drag me down/ no I'll keep dancing anyway"
Psalm 138:7
"though i walk in the midst of trouble, u preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,"
hope this helps some of u who r going through some turmoil right now. dont let anyone knock u down, if they do just pick yrself up and dust yrself off and continue with life. remember that he will always have yr back.
This post is for - what to do when you don't understand god's ways. The lord says,( my thoughts are not like your thoughts. your ways are not like my ways. just as the heavens are set higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts) so many times we do not trust god, so many times we lose hope, so many times we beg (why lord!?) I watched my favorite movie Joseph king of dreams it was meant for ten year olds but the graphics are great and i love it. There is a point where joseph gets very frustraited with god and falls from a ledge. he woke up and was calm singing ( you know better than I) this really spoke to me singing what god is always telling us, Joseph decided to let go the need to know why, and to take whatever answers god supplies. Imagine if we had that attitude in life's struggles or problems, Now i would be a hypocrite saying all this with out telling you i need to learn this lesson as well. but i am going to try, there is something bigger happening and god knows what he is doing. Who are we to question him? and yet regardless of the fact we want to know why these things happen we don't need to, But he shows us eventually.