Prayer Request

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
S

StrivingtoChrist

New member
#1
Jan 8, 2023
3
1
3
#1
I need your prayers. I have been struggling recently with my own thoughts, my own carnal mind. I’ve been trying to figure things out in my own strength, my own mind and heart. I’ve been relying on my flesh instead of God’s Spirit.
Satan has been getting me to question certain things I believe, the way I practice my faith, questioning God and His word. I’ve been having anxiety, stressing over things instead of walking one day at a time, trusting Jesus. I’ve been living in fear of being wrong about what I believe, what I do, instead of walking in the freedom of Christ and delighting in Him.
I want to delight to do His will, be conformed to His will, His thinking, His heart. I want to delight in His Law. I want to do things for Him and live for Him out of love and love my brothers and sisters out of pure, genuine love and love the lost with a godly love.
I want to have more godly intentions, not just towards man, but towards God. I want to have more respect for Him, focus on His character and pleasing Him rather than trying to get a blessing out of something I do for Him. I don’t want to focus on blessings, I want to focus more on Him.
I want a godly zeal for Him, not the things of God alone, to seek His face and His ways. I don’t want to put too much on myself than what God expects me to do. I don’t want to live in my own will and strength, but trust God to live through me and think in me; not to worry about what other people do or what people say, but what I do before the Lord.
 
Bingo

Bingo

Well-known member
#2
Feb 9, 2019
8,443
4,437
113
#2
#ICAMETOSHARE

"I hope and pray you come to learn what is needed in your life for a closer relationship
with our Lord, and it is not meant to be easy.
'I learned long ago in private, to come before God and confess my shortcomings and to ask for forgiveness
of wrong doings. And with tears I made a decision to put my life in God's care, and to earnestly strive
to be a better person and to act upon the 'principles of life' that the teachings of Christ so inspired.

'And I hope you too may come to learn of this, willing to change and be done with selfishness and
self-centeredness. I learned these two things shall forever hinder a closeness of God in one's life."
'Amen'
 

Attachments

S

Sheariah07

Member
#3
Feb 4, 2023
38
19
8
#3
StrivingtoChrist said:
I need your prayers. I have been struggling recently with my own thoughts, my own carnal mind. I’ve been trying to figure things out in my own strength, my own mind and heart. I’ve been relying on my flesh instead of God’s Spirit.
Satan has been getting me to question certain things I believe, the way I practice my faith, questioning God and His word. I’ve been having anxiety, stressing over things instead of walking one day at a time, trusting Jesus. I’ve been living in fear of being wrong about what I believe, what I do, instead of walking in the freedom of Christ and delighting in Him.
I want to delight to do His will, be conformed to His will, His thinking, His heart. I want to delight in His Law. I want to do things for Him and live for Him out of love and love my brothers and sisters out of pure, genuine love and love the lost with a godly love.
I want to have more godly intentions, not just towards man, but towards God. I want to have more respect for Him, focus on His character and pleasing Him rather than trying to get a blessing out of something I do for Him. I don’t want to focus on blessings, I want to focus more on Him.
I want a godly zeal for Him, not the things of God alone, to seek His face and His ways. I don’t want to put too much on myself than what God expects me to do. I don’t want to live in my own will and strength, but trust God to live through me and think in me; not to worry about what other people do or what people say, but what I do before the Lord.
Click to expand...
I just prayed for you. I went through the same that I questioned everything and even if I was really saved. It is the right path. We are commanded to test ourselves whether we be of the faith. That means God is telling you to seek him more diligently, he said if we continue in his word, we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free. We should not remain carnal but become fully Spiritual. All your longings will be fulfilled when you become a fully spiritual person.

Jesus said, Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God. Blessed are those who thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled. You are this person, and God is close to a contrite spirit, he is drawing you closer to him. The more you draw closer to him, the more you see the evil that's in you, the more we need to seek God to be set free.

If you'd like to talk, just let me know, it would be my pleasure!
 
SteveEpperson

SteveEpperson

Junior Member
#4
May 12, 2018
416
177
43
#4
StrivingtoChrist said:
I have been struggling recently with my own thoughts
Click to expand...
Yep, I can relate.

StrivingtoChrist said:
Satan has been getting me to question certain things I believe
Click to expand...
He'll do that

StrivingtoChrist said:
I want to delight to do His will, be conformed to His will, His thinking, His heart. I want to delight in His Law. I want to do things for Him and live for Him out of love and love my brothers and sisters out of pure, genuine love and love the lost with a godly love.
I want to have more godly intentions, not just towards man, but towards God. I want to have more respect for Him, focus on His character and pleasing Him rather than trying to get a blessing out of something I do for Him. I don’t want to focus on blessings, I want to focus more on Him.
I want a godly zeal for Him, not the things of God alone, to seek His face and His ways. I don’t want to put too much on myself than what God expects me to do. I don’t want to live in my own will and strength, but trust God to live through me and think in me; not to worry about what other people do or what people say, but what I do before the Lord.
Click to expand...
Thank you for schooling me on what I need to do. Your spiritual fight has helped me greatly today. Blessings to you, and I will be praying unceasingly for your victory in this struggle.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.