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In James 5:16, we are told to confess to each other our sins (specifically) to the body of Christians. And this is not meant for a chat site. There is wisdom in this.
You need to speak of them aloud and their part is to pray for your need to sin to be healed. Then they should speak the words of Christ to you "You are forgiven" so that you can HEAR this said to you. The sound of the spoken words by someone who has just heard your sins brings love into it. And Christ's love for you is the heart of forgiveness.
There is a lot of truth about faith coming from hearing the word of God. And all to often, we just internalize mentally our repentance and forgiveness, and it isn't felt. Let someone pray for you after they hear your confession, and that will declare your forgiveness in the name of Jesus to you.
Pray for the Lord to lead you to some loving, mature Christians and be totally honest with them. I think after you do this, you will feel forgiven.
Bless you.
Joi
You need to speak of them aloud and their part is to pray for your need to sin to be healed. Then they should speak the words of Christ to you "You are forgiven" so that you can HEAR this said to you. The sound of the spoken words by someone who has just heard your sins brings love into it. And Christ's love for you is the heart of forgiveness.
There is a lot of truth about faith coming from hearing the word of God. And all to often, we just internalize mentally our repentance and forgiveness, and it isn't felt. Let someone pray for you after they hear your confession, and that will declare your forgiveness in the name of Jesus to you.
Pray for the Lord to lead you to some loving, mature Christians and be totally honest with them. I think after you do this, you will feel forgiven.
Bless you.
Joi
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The spiritual life is a walk, you do not arrive. Like all things in life they either grow or shrink. What are you doing to strengthen and increase your faith and experience? Who are you reaching out to in love and sharing your life with?
Jesus flows through our activities, through our acts of love. If there are none, we are denying the very thing that has happened within, you cannot keep a lion caged up without it dying......
Jesus flows through our activities, through our acts of love. If there are none, we are denying the very thing that has happened within, you cannot keep a lion caged up without it dying......
G
I am going to confess who I have sinned against (last post) because God does want unity in His body. I read my word, pray, and serve and reach out to others who are in need of Jesus. I'm not depriving my Spirit of not being fed of God. I just need to allow it to be peaceful as I do what God commands no matter the consequences
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You have some choices in what you're going to trust. Your feelings, or God's words.
God's word says...
You ask..
When that happens, know that God is greater than your heart.
When your heart condemns you, know that God is a greater judge than your heart, and he knows that you're trusting in what Jesus did for you, and what Jesus did for you is much greater than any condemnation your heart can give.
God's word says...
You ask..
When that happens, know that God is greater than your heart.
When your heart condemns you, know that God is a greater judge than your heart, and he knows that you're trusting in what Jesus did for you, and what Jesus did for you is much greater than any condemnation your heart can give.
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I do what God commands? Is your view of God as a dictator commanding his followers to do things? Or is your view of God who loves his creation and all he does, and guides us to the best way to approach life.
It hurts you soul if you feel the Lord of love dictates you, rather than guides you. You are acceptable without doing anything. He wishes you to do things because you want to, because you know the benefits and the blessings that flow from them. You emotional energy will be lost if you do not catch his heart, because he blesses where there is no worthy people, he loves when all hate, be brings good things about when all others have lost hope.
Reaching out is loving people, not because they need Jesus but because they need human contact.
It hurts you soul if you feel the Lord of love dictates you, rather than guides you. You are acceptable without doing anything. He wishes you to do things because you want to, because you know the benefits and the blessings that flow from them. You emotional energy will be lost if you do not catch his heart, because he blesses where there is no worthy people, he loves when all hate, be brings good things about when all others have lost hope.
Reaching out is loving people, not because they need Jesus but because they need human contact.
Your peace can be disrupted by your own nature, as well by spiritual warfare.
G
You are twisting things around and not seeing my perspective. I fear God, meaning that I love him and trust in him and he delights in obedience. I know God isn't a dictator but rather is a compassionate father. Yes, people in need, need human contact, but what is the point of coming to contact with them if its not Jesus who I am showing them.
You have value too. Part of loving people is loving them for who they are, as individuals, irrespective of faith or Jesus.
Jesus opens up love in our hearts so we can love. It is our love as much as his. From the way you are speaking, it sounds like you do not like or value contact. Many years ago I would have said to talk about Jesus's love was everything. The trouble is that excludes normal life issues, my own emotional struggles, success, joy and sadness and others.
Jesus came to make us mature people who understand our emotions, relationships etc and can bring life into them.
It does take time, and lots of things in our experience and development limit us and our expression. But we can change, there are not limits, if you want to walk with the Lord, it is just one step at a time.
Jesus opens up love in our hearts so we can love. It is our love as much as his. From the way you are speaking, it sounds like you do not like or value contact. Many years ago I would have said to talk about Jesus's love was everything. The trouble is that excludes normal life issues, my own emotional struggles, success, joy and sadness and others.
Jesus came to make us mature people who understand our emotions, relationships etc and can bring life into them.
It does take time, and lots of things in our experience and development limit us and our expression. But we can change, there are not limits, if you want to walk with the Lord, it is just one step at a time.
'human contact' is almost exclusively sinful in all the earth, so it needs to be specified more accurately for clarity.
it is only when sanctified, atoned, redeemed, set apart, in christ jesus ---
only in grace that there is any chance for change and for experiencing life as yahweh gives freely.
perhaps someone encountered hostile fake believers, or the heresy - the most common view of 'christendom' on earth and totally evil and deceptive and dangerous(death dealing) according to scripture;
in jesus, human contact is wonderful, refreshing, edifying, exhilarating, watering, planting, disciplining, chastising, uncomfortable at times(of yahweh's discipline),
and all the other emotions and feelings and reactions and actions
of and in life as yahweh provides with un-compromising willing joyful righteousness.(very few indeed, but required).
it is only when sanctified, atoned, redeemed, set apart, in christ jesus ---
only in grace that there is any chance for change and for experiencing life as yahweh gives freely.
perhaps someone encountered hostile fake believers, or the heresy - the most common view of 'christendom' on earth and totally evil and deceptive and dangerous(death dealing) according to scripture;
in jesus, human contact is wonderful, refreshing, edifying, exhilarating, watering, planting, disciplining, chastising, uncomfortable at times(of yahweh's discipline),
and all the other emotions and feelings and reactions and actions
of and in life as yahweh provides with un-compromising willing joyful righteousness.(very few indeed, but required).
You are disfunctional. Jesus called us to be a people who by our love for each so it stands as a testimony of his work in us. His vision was we would understand ourselves and each other, so that our contact is not sinful.
Sin is actions, actual actions that cause harm. I have lots of contact with people but it is not sinful. This communication is not sinful. Sharing parts of my life with my family are not sinful. The work I do with my company is not sinful.
The traveling I do, conversations I have, getting information and giving it is not sinful. In fact 99% of all this interaction is not sinful. So though it sounds meaningful it is just wrong. It is through interactions we show love, we do good works, we shine a light into dark places, we listen, show we care, have empathy. To even think such an idea as you have expressed shows deep hurt and feelings of betrayal. I pray the Lord heals you, and shows you, you need not fear when His love touches and empowers your heart. God bless
Sin is actions, actual actions that cause harm. I have lots of contact with people but it is not sinful. This communication is not sinful. Sharing parts of my life with my family are not sinful. The work I do with my company is not sinful.
The traveling I do, conversations I have, getting information and giving it is not sinful. In fact 99% of all this interaction is not sinful. So though it sounds meaningful it is just wrong. It is through interactions we show love, we do good works, we shine a light into dark places, we listen, show we care, have empathy. To even think such an idea as you have expressed shows deep hurt and feelings of betrayal. I pray the Lord heals you, and shows you, you need not fear when His love touches and empowers your heart. God bless
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