Trouble comprehending God

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selenah

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Please pray that I would be able to comprehend and know God better. I feel like I don't know how to understand who He really is. No matter how much I pray, listen to sermons, and stuff I still feel an incredibly painful deep loneliness. I don't want to be the horrible person that I am but it's so difficult to have the motivation to do what's right because God seems so un-understandable.
 

damombomb

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Selenah read James1verse 5,If anyone lacks wisdom,let him ask of God, that giveth to all man liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.Lord reveal yourself to her mightily. in Jesus name amen
Also talk to him like he is your best friend.
 
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NMsmile

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selenah the wonderful thing about God is that he longs for you to call out to him because he is willing and able to fill the incredible deep loneliness. Motivation is another story. The prayer I pray for myself (it's ok to pray for yourself) is that I continue to long for Jesus. There is a scripture in Psalms that talks about a deer thirsting for water. Thirst is a powerful motivator. Just ask God to make you thirsty for him. Ask God to make himself real to you and as he does you will begin to understand his ways are not our ways. Just never forget that God wants to know you... the real you.
 

pickles

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Selenah, what you are feeling is sometimes the Holy Spirit bringing in you a closer relationship with God , in Jesus.
Its about the leaving behind flesh, and filling of Jesus.
You are in my prayers for this in Jesus. :)

Hugs and God bless.
pickles
 

shemaiah

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Selenah, God wants nothing more than to be with you, He has exalted us far beyond all creation so that He may be near us. You do not need to know many verses of the bible in order to have a relationship with Him, but in order to supplement your relationship with Him.
If you want to develop a good relationship with Him, simply ask Him to talk to you and to be with you at all times, also spend time praying and listening to good music, it will lift you up! God bless you! :)
 
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selenah

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But God hasn't answered . I've prayed for years that he would get me out of everything I'm in, but it never happens. I feel like I'm in a prison. I want so much to tell someone the real reason why everything is the way it is with me, but I can't because it hurts so I just end up lying or whatever to try to hide my life. I don't know if anyone has ever lived the life I have-I know what it sounds like....and it's not that. The only one I can talk to is God, but He doesn't seem to be there. I have no one to feel accountable to or to try to do anything for. Like I've cheated in school on and off since eight grade because there's no reason to try. I don't even want to go to bed at night because if I do I'll wake up the next morning and start all over again. It's like torture because I know what's wrong but I can't get out of it. It's like my life is a knot that every time I try to untie it I get it more messed up. I've been waiting for God for years but He doesn't seem to be there. I hate saying this because I know it sounds like all the other ranty complaining threads I've posted but it hurts like the weight of the world and I'm so tired of hiding my life and lies.
 
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I'd read the new testiment. Thats where you will learn about "who" God is :) God bless you
 

damombomb

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But God hasn't answered . I've prayed for years that he would get me out of everything I'm in, but it never happens. I feel like I'm in a prison. I want so much to tell someone the real reason why everything is the way it is with me, but I can't because it hurts so I just end up lying or whatever to try to hide my life. I don't know if anyone has ever lived the life I have-I know what it sounds like....and it's not that. The only one I can talk to is God, but He doesn't seem to be there. I have no one to feel accountable to or to try to do anything for. Like I've cheated in school on and off since eight grade because there's no reason to try. I don't even want to go to bed at night because if I do I'll wake up the next morning and start all over again. It's like torture because I know what's wrong but I can't get out of it. It's like my life is a knot that every time I try to untie it I get it more messed up. I've been waiting for God for years but He doesn't seem to be there. I hate saying this because I know it sounds like all the other ranty complaining threads I've posted but it hurts like the weight of the world and I'm so tired of hiding my life and lies.


Selena it sounds like you are feeling guilty,you should talk to someone or tell the Lord and forget the past,repent if you feel guilty.Don,t keep secrects,tell someone and you can be set free from all the mess.
Love ya! Talk to someone you can trust and let it all out! Be free!
 
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shekaniah

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Lord if there is anything that is blinding Selenah from understanding the truth in your words. I ask you to remove it In Jesus Name. Open the eyes of her heart Lord. You say if we keep on seeking you, we will find you.

Matt 7: 7, 8 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.


Before you read the Bible, ask Jesus to send you the Holy Spirit to give you discernment and that your spiritual eyes be opened.


John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

John 15:26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.

1 Cor 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
 

pickles

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But God hasn't answered . I've prayed for years that he would get me out of everything I'm in, but it never happens. I feel like I'm in a prison. I want so much to tell someone the real reason why everything is the way it is with me, but I can't because it hurts so I just end up lying or whatever to try to hide my life. I don't know if anyone has ever lived the life I have-I know what it sounds like....and it's not that. The only one I can talk to is God, but He doesn't seem to be there. I have no one to feel accountable to or to try to do anything for. Like I've cheated in school on and off since eight grade because there's no reason to try. I don't even want to go to bed at night because if I do I'll wake up the next morning and start all over again. It's like torture because I know what's wrong but I can't get out of it. It's like my life is a knot that every time I try to untie it I get it more messed up. I've been waiting for God for years but He doesn't seem to be there. I hate saying this because I know it sounds like all the other ranty complaining threads I've posted but it hurts like the weight of the world and I'm so tired of hiding my life and lies.
Selenah, I do not know what it was that keeps you from receiving all that is God's gift to you in Jesus.
But nothing you do, can separate you from the love of Jesus.
Know this in faith!
I understand what you mean when you say you hate going to bed because you know tomorrow will be the same.
We all face something that wants to steal all that is Jesus from us.
I hate going to sleep, because I know there is no escape from the pain that assaults my body.
It is in my sleep, and the first thing that fills me when I wake.
Im telling you about this not for any sympathy, but to witness to you how Gods power gives one the streangth to awaken every day.
When I open my eyes, I know only this pain and weakness that tries to steal my life, I want nothing more than to go back to sleep and leave everything .
But instead, I call out in Jesus to God Our Father, asking Him to give me the streangth to open my eyes, and live another day.
I continue to pray again and again through out the day, then pray again before I sleep and to sleep.
Because it is the streangth and hope in Jesus , given by God Our Father that sustains me.
I have prayed for over twenty years for healing, but the answer is my grace is sufficient for you.
You know what, it is!
Everything I am is because of God's love, all that is done and is my ife is from Jesus!
Because God created you and I and every person out of His love and because of His love.
Then sent Jesus to bring the perfecting of His love in giving us eternal life.
Selenah, when God created you he knew all you would do, He created you because of His love for you.
Then gave you Jesus so for you to be Holy and pleasing in His sight!
Keep praying, keep holding on, know you were loved before you were created.
Call out to Jesus , in every moment and in every time of lonelyness.
Jesus is bringing in you His presance, the faith that opens the door to Him!:)
I know it seems so very bleak, but it is really the time of the perfecting love of Jesus!

Understand that my calling out to God for the streangth everyday is not about what I do, it is learning what God does in me through Jesus! :)

Nothing you can do can separate you from the love of God in Jesus for you! :)

I continue to pray for you in Jesus Christ is Lord come in the flesh.

Hugs and God bless.
pickles
 

SonOfAdam

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You have asked for prayer, and prayer you shall have. I shall pass this request to all the other sites and friends I pray with also.

Not only pray for you to understand God, but also prayer that you will receive blessings and deliverance in God's due time.
 
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holydaveholy

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God is unfathomably deep and ultimately unknowable. How can a finite subject know an infinite object?
 
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holydaveholy

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It's grounds for worship, isn't it?
 
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Ramon

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Please pray that I would be able to comprehend and know God better. I feel like I don't know how to understand who He really is. No matter how much I pray, listen to sermons, and stuff I still feel an incredibly painful deep loneliness. I don't want to be the horrible person that I am but it's so difficult to have the motivation to do what's right because God seems so un-understandable.
HAHA! MAY JESUS BLESS YOU!!

God is love.
Jesus is the example of it.
:):):)
 

pickles

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Selenah, how are you doing?
Still praying for you in Jesus.

Hugs and God bless.
pickles
 
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selenah

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Please pray that I would be able to comprehend and know God better. I feel like I don't know how to understand who He really is. No matter how much I pray, listen to sermons, and stuff I still feel an incredibly painful deep loneliness. I don't want to be the horrible person that I am but it's so difficult to have the motivation to do what's right because God seems so un-understandable.
I believe the Lord has feelings:

[35] And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
[36] "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?"
[37] And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
[38] This is the great and first commandment." Matt 22:35-38 RSV

One must strive to develop a relationship with the Lord. He is perfect. He only wants what is best for us. He disciplines us when we don’t love our neighbors as ourselves—it is for our own good.
 
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Ramon

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Selenah somebody figured that I was laughing at you, enough to send me a message about it. I don't know who it was, but obviously they felt it was necessary to assume I was.

I was laughing because I see the work of the Lord in you. I can see his work, and I am thankful for it. If you took it as I was laughing at you, then please don't.

May Jesus bless you.
 
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selenah

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Selenah somebody figured that I was laughing at you, enough to send me a message about it. I don't know who it was, but obviously they felt it was necessary to assume I was.

I was laughing because I see the work of the Lord in you. I can see his work, and I am thankful for it. If you took it as I was laughing at you, then please don't.

May Jesus bless you.
That's okay. No offence taken