God doesn’t want you to share your struggles

I heard on youtube someone say that God does not want you to share your struggles outwardly. Also, they mentioned something about demons might pick up on this your feelings as it’s a public forum to attack you further.
I don’t know if there’s any biblical truth to this, but there could be, I just haven’t researched it. I know that God doesn’t want you to complain but since we are, we would be complaining to brothers and sisters in Christ. I don’t know if that’s OK or not OK any thoughts?

I don't see how anyone can be if help in someone's particular struggle if the cause of the struggle is not shared in some way.

When did sharing our struggles with our brothers and sisters become complaining?

Forgive me, but I think your first mistake was going to YouTube to find out what God wants or doesn't want. The best source for this information it The Holy Bible.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

I hope this helps

Please share the link.

I think sharing struggles is okay but complaining may not be.

You provided outstanding scripture regarding the sharing of struggle. The one of 1Peter 5:7 is exemplary. The casting of anxieties is definitely the sharing of a struggle.

I agree!


Proverbs 3:5-6

Matthew 11:28-30

Philippians 4:6, 7, & 19

Without having seen the video, all I can do is offer a guess: maybe he was talking about people who do nothing but complain?

There is a fine line between sharing problems and complaining though.

But the part about giving demons information is bull. One, they don't need information. Two, greater is he that is in me. The only information I need to give them is, in the name of Jesus Christ.

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Demons have been around for 1000s of years, influencing and affecting people. They know what they're doing and don't need us to tell them where or how we're struggling. They're aware of when you sin and which sin and how often. You verbalizing it doesn't mean anything.

Galatians 6
2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

I agree Subhumanoidal, we are children of the day (e.g. 1 Thessalonians 5:5) and we live our lives in the light, not in the shadows. And (as you mentioned) we are to share each other's burdens, confessing our sins to each other and praying for one another .. e.g. James 5:16.

As far as the demons go , living our lives like an open book could indeed be problematic for us, but like everything else, God (who will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we are able to handle) has that one covered for us, as well

God bless you!!

~Deuteronomy (David)

Ok thanks. How about complaining to other Christians?

thanks … ok this is solid….

Where do you draw the line between casting your anxieties on him versus just complaining?

Gal_6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Looking at when Job finally gets it right in Job 42 and "spoke about God accurately (v. 7)"
Job said,
“I know that You can do all things
and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted (v. 2)."
and
"Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know (v. 3)."
also
"My ears had heard of You,
but now my eyes have seen You (v.4)."
after which Job retracted his previous words (roughly 40 chapters complaining), repenting in dust and ashes.

What had Job's ears heard of God? and what now had his eyes seen of God?
Well, I suppose Job had heard the same as we have heard tell of God. For instance, Jeremiah 29:11 tells us God's "plans I have for you, ...plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope." And, knowing that, look back at Job 42:2b "and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted."

Then, let's look at Job 42:3 and ask if it is revealed to us what "things too wonderful for Job to know" are. Well, the book of Job allows us to see "behind the curtain" the things hidden to Job at the time of his ordeal. And, although Job wondered that he'd lost his future and hope, we know that what he had in his future.

I think that, when Job said, "but now my eyes have seen You," it was Job no longer wondering if God had forsaken him and actually realizing that God never had, as Job most likely have heard of Him, as we have, that "I will never leave you, nor forsake you."

"Even if I make my bed in Shaeol, You are there."

Seeking comfort from friends in your struggle is different from complaining of your struggles to your friends. Job's 3 friends didn't provide him with much encouragement though, they added to his suffering. But I think a deeper study into what Elijah told him might, reveal a true friend Jobe, and of God, that told him to "be still and know that He is God."

Subhumanoidal covered that one with Galatians 6:2.

The difference is the heart making the plea.

The extent to which we are anxious is the extent of our mistrust of God. We like to know the outcomes and the timing of things. We like to be in control. We believe this gives us security. But it is a false security. The only real security is found in simply trusting God. In this way, we can still have peace regardless of what we experience. If we believe that He is in control, that He loves us, that He is good, that He is working all things for good, and desires and works our highest good, we will simply rest in this reality. The truth is, we find that we don't actually trust God in all these ways. Our faith is weak and untested. So when a difficult time comes, we aren't actually in the habit of trusting God. We do not live as though all that is true of God is actually true of God for us.

Trials have a way of removing all the pretense and reveal who we really are. As we go through them, we actually find out who God really is in the process. And our faith grows as we find God to be even more spectacular than we ever imagined.

Waiting is the process by which God whittles away our fears. What seemed so dire in the moment, no longer appears so imminent. Jesus waited until Lazarus was dead before He went to see Martha and Mary. To them it first appeared He was too late, when, in fact, He was right on time. And so it is with us.

So relax. Make your requests known unto God. He already knows them; He is merely wanting you to draw near and know Him.