I'm renewing my Christian walk...need prayer

[Matt37777]

I feel like my heart has been renewed over the last 24 hours. I realized there was a lot of areas I had backsliden. I want to clean up my life and just live a good life and I'm actively gonna live the life. I just find it odd as I've sorta gone threw this kind of thing before. So I don't want to end up backsliding again. Also my girlfriend of many years has been putting up with my issues for a long time now. I realize now that I should try and mend that relationship. Please pray for me that I can keep walking on the straight and narrow path and not go back to my old foolish ways. Thank you.

 

[rassteve]

well the hard part is done brother you turned it over to god we serve an awesome god he will give us the desires of our hearts as long as there in line with his will my prayers are with you

 

[loveme1]

May you be Blessed with the Holy Spirit that will guide and comfort you.

In the name of Yahshua the Messiah may our Heavenly Father strengthen you, may it be so for your Glory Abba.

 

[Indubitably]

Yes, I'll pray for you. This is a wonderful time in your life. It seems like a hard road with so much to look out for and finding ways to overcome the old ways that drew you from God. But, instead this is an exciting time where you can let God do the changing while you relax in Him and just watch all His work in you unfold. His ways are so glorious!

 

[psychomom]

Welcome, Matt!

Isn't the Lord so good, and so patient?
He just loved you till you couldn't stand to be away from Him.

You have my prayers, in Jesus' Name. ♥

-ellie

 

[faithandlove]

Bless you, dear brother!

 

[Tommy4Christ]

I feel like my heart has been renewed over the last 24 hours. I realized there was a lot of areas I had backsliden. I want to clean up my life and just live a good life and I'm actively gonna live the life. I just find it odd as I've sorta gone threw this kind of thing before. So I don't want to end up backsliding again. Also my girlfriend of many years has been putting up with my issues for a long time now. I realize now that I should try and mend that relationship. Please pray for me that I can keep walking on the straight and narrow path and not go back to my old foolish ways. Thank you.

I urge you to find repentance and brokeness before God! A backslidded Christian isnt saved, you must first repent, dont ask your pastor, he will tell you its just confess, and all is well.

CONFESS OR REPENT!​

Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;​

Quote from most ministries today:​

“When a person confesses the fact that he is a sinner and acknowledges Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, his spirit is reborn”.​

This seems to be the biggest obstacle to get over in the professing Christian world today. To them this confession is equivalent to repentance, and admitting you are a depraved sinner is more humbling than forsaking your evil ways, stop sinning then seek the mercy of God, such as the city of Nineveh did. This is a glaring example of what Christianity has become, where there is no clearing or accountability before God, you come to Him on your perceived notions of mere men, then receive the Holy Spirit of God through a confession over stopping and clearing of any wrong doing. Thus a still defiled and double minded convert receives the Holy Spirit! You had better be sure before you call those who teach otherwise heretics, false teachers and worse.
Jesus and His devout followers clearly preached repentance unto life, they preached the sin stops in repentance or the heart hardens, they preached go and sin no more, not go and sin some more, they preached depart from iniquity, pluck it out, cast it away, forsake it( kill it), cut it off at the root, cut it off and out, strive to bloodshed in STOPPING the sin if need be, he who sins is of the devil, crucify(kill)your flesh with Him, walk in newness of life, the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom, and many more powerful warnings that totally contradict this just confess, acknowledge, accept, then you are reborn and eternally saved.
Please note, that there are some verses that seem to imply that all’s a sinner needs to do is confess and accept Jesus to be saved, but you can also use scripture to try and prove murder is ok, or that the sky is pink etc., but this has no influence what so ever on the ones who dig deep, compare spiritual with spiritual, not a snippet here and a snippet there, to try and prove their doctrines are correct.
Here are just a few verses that clearly contradict the saved IN sin, confess and accept message, as all through scripture from Genesis to Revelation, the word is clear:
Jas 1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Isa 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
Isa 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Psa 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Psa 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Luk 13:23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Luk 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Isa 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Jer 26:13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luk 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Luk 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

There are many more powerful scriptures that go against this just confess and you are in formula to salvation, many will say to confess is all that is needed, as to them to confess means you make a mental commitment to stop the rebellion against God, which is a part of repentance, but they go no further.
But IF you compare word to word, and make sure the scriptures harmonize together, you can clearly see a huge contradiction in the confess and accept way to the cross verses the repent and obey way to the cross!
You cannot be wrong on this, either the word is in great compromise or you are!
Dig deep as Jesus warned, build your foundation on solid ground, not sinking sand as the modern teachers and ministries teach today.
The confess and accept way to the cross is why Christianity is in the state it’s in today, where its normal for professing Christians to be walking in the darkness and light at the same time, to be a vile sinner, then blame their sin nature on their folly, to blame God they were created evil, or even that His he created them to be a homosexual. This teaching is producing a world gone mad, a church that has become the laughing stock of the world, where few are coming to a saving faith because the preachers and ministers are teaching this confess and accept plan, instead of repent, obey, and follow Jesus plan, that saves you out of your sin, coming broken and useful to be used by the master, clear and free from all know vile and rebellious sins against God. That He commanded you in the first place to forsake, and stop, before He would relent and consider any forgiveness and pardon of wrong doing!
Now the word of God makes sense, the word comes alive as we become accountable to it, it becomes our bread of life, our anchor, and rock of salvation, as we strive to walk the pure and holy life God has granted to us, giving us all we need In His son, to walk a blameless live, overcoming the world, the lies coming out of the churches, and the snare of the devil, who boldly proclaims all you have to is just confess you sin, then accept Jesus, then you are saved and filled with the sprit! I wish it was this simple, but Jesus made it crystal clear, FEW of the FEW will be saved, so strive to enter, repent and forsake all known rebellious sin against God, and receive with meekness the implanted word that can save your soul!
Pro 28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
Tommy
PS. Being a true follower of Christ isn’t about joining a church to your liking, getting saved IN you sins through this confession formula, then spending the rest of your Christian life learning how the word of God doesn’t apply to you, no its about purity, sincerity and love,, obeying God from your heart, keeping His commands, and following Jesus example on the narrow road, you die to sin and rebellion once and for all in repentance!

 

[loveme1]

Matthew 10

7And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand

 

[pickles]

Praying in Jesus's name for you with praise and thanksgiving.

Welcome and God bless
pickles

 

[Matt37777]

I just can't believe how much temptation tends to come up out of no where. It's crazy. But I have somehow developed this weird feeling, it's something new. it's as if I don't want to have anything to do with that old stuff. I want to avoid all the old ways at all cost. Even just stuff like tv shows and movies make me nervious as I don't want to be exposed anymore too all that crap. I just hope that these types of things don't sneak there way in as they have in the past.

 

[psychomom]

Hi, Matt---

I find it really helpful to keep a journal.
I record the scripture the Lord is speaking to me through,
and I write down my thoughts, like the one you posted above.

Then I go back and read them, and I find things like that
just when I need them most!

I think if you stay close to the Lord,
with a humble heart, He will keep you safe. ♥

-ellie

 

[shekaniah]

Welcome Matt!
I'm glad you found CC!
I'm agreeing in prayer with you and the others
Come here anytime for prayer
Love in Jesus, Shekaniah

 

[cardsfan93]

I will pray for you brother, I am also renewing my relationship with God and trying to mend a relationship right now so I'm in pretty much the same boat. I pray God will give you strength and will help you grow closer to him.