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ruined my life
uggggggggggggg....i have this feeling so much....and i regret most of the decesions i've ever made!! key word : I'VE!! and i keep vowing to let GOD make the decisions for me but im never patien...theres no time to be patient when i have 2 minutes to make the decesion!! and when its a long-time to think decesion...i pray and the awnser never comes!! i fell like God is ignoring me!!! and i end up making bad choices fer myself!! what am i doing wrong?? why wont God help me??
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God Bless and Pray for me
God Bless and Pray for me
see he will help you u
1. GOD NEVER IGNORES HIS CHILDREN, if you dont feel God working in your life then maybe its you thats ignoring Him. maybe He's present in your life more than you know but you're too blind to see it ? looking for something you dont expect to find can do that to you.
2. theres no such thing as ruining your life ? every second that you live is still your life, a.k.a a chance to change that around ? God isn't gonna do the hard work for you, you have to make the decision to change, once you manage that you will see go in your life and He'll keep you going.
3. Christianity is based on FAITH. You have to have faith and believe God is by yourr side to see Him.
4. a comment you made : . we are not human, we are Christian. we are not of this world. At birth we are baptised and have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside us.. we become a temple of our living God. throughout our lives we receive Holy Communion.. GOD LIVES INSIDE EACH ONE OF US. How can you say we're only human ? God does not give us obstacles that we cant handle, and He's there with us every step of the way. You just have to see Him work. How do you think that sun rises every morning and the moon gives us light at night? its beyond science. You just needah step back out of your own life, your own troubles and issues and look at the bigger picture. You will Find God. GBU [ hope i dont sound like iim attacking what you're saying i dont mean it , promise :-\] please keep me in yur prayers.
God Bless and Pray for me
TRUST ME!!!!!! BELIEVE ME on this one!!!!!! I went through the EXACT SAME THING where I felt like God wasn't answering any of my prayers, I thought he didn't love me anymore, and I thought that all hope was lost... this went on for several months where I cried many times and felt abandoned by God... I didn't believe my FOC or my parents, grandparents or anybody that things would get better... the only way I would be conviced that things were going to get better was if God showed me this and worked in my life.. AND GOD is ALWAYS working. ALWAYS. I just didn't realize it.
And it DID GET BETTER! I learned that God is our hope and he will never ever let you down. If God didn't love you and me, and every single person on this earth then Jesus wouldn't have died on the cross!
He came to save, don't let despair get the better of you.
and that is the same with you! he will never ever EVER leave you, forsake you, or forget you! and it may take a while for Him to work, but He DOES hear your prayers, and he WILL listen to you, and WILL bring you out of all this confusion.
Just don't dwell on these thoughts because they will drive you crazy and only lead you into a feeling of hopelesness and despair, worrying and being anxious doesn't help the problem...all those thoughts are from the devil and not from God, so just try to say a short prayer or make the sign of the cross whenever that happens..
I still think you need to talk to your FOC though, because he can give you good advice and spiritual guidance to your problem... believe me... at my old church, there was an abouna that came from egypt..
and I went to confession, and after a while I was surprised at how much english he knew and how much he helped me with my problem! So pray pray pray, ask God to help you, maybe even to gather the courage to schedule a confession! I'm so sure things will get better, but pray read the bible, go to confession, take communion. even if you don't want to... don't break this connection with God, things will get better.
here are a lot of verses that helped me through this... I hope they help you too! ;)
Isaiah 45:15-16
15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will [b]not forget you."
16"See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me."
"Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?" Jeremiah 32:27
Hebrews 13:5
"I will never leave you, nor forsake you."
yeah sorry this is so long lol i just had a lot to say... ill pray for you :)
GBU, and pray 4 me n my weaknesses,
laura
I think everyone has echoed my thoughts on the situation. but i justed wanted to add my experience with this problem.
I've been through the very same thing. before 6 months ago i had not taken holy communion and was very distant frm the church for over 7 years. 4 of those years i neva prayed or read the bible at that stage i neither liked or hated the Lord i didnt know who he was. until it got to the point where i was very depressed and REGRETED every decision i had made, it seemed like i had done everything wrong.
For the 1st tym i sincerely prayed to the Lord, and startd reading the bible 1 chapter a nite. but I was still very distant frm the church. He neva answered my prayers and for that i hated him, to the point i would costantly curse him, i remember a day when i got home and a picture on the wall had fallen and shattered (it was my fav pic, the one with the Lord knocking on the door)
It seemed that the more i tried to do the rite thing the more problems he put on me and it was driving me nuts. this continued for 3 yrs, at the beginning of this yr i had a great urge to confess and since i didnt have a confession father and was not part of any church community i didnt know how to confess.
thankfully and due to another problem i had to visit church and said hello to the priest, The priest knows me very well and asked me if i wanted to talk to him since i had not seen him for so many years. I jumped at the opportunity and had confession i also took holy communion that week to make it complete.
Since then i have been visiting church and only last week the Lord has granted me one of my prayers. and im sure he will grant me the others in due tym
Ive deliberately spoken in detail about my experience because i hope it helps u relize that the Lord is always with you even if ur not with him and he wouldnt give u a problem he thinks u couldnt handle. So dont give up on him he WILL help u, and its the best feeling in the world knowing that he actually heard ur prayer and acted upon it. till then he's just making u a stronger person.
umm there was a verse i came accross a few days ago and it reminded me of this post... :-\ iii cant remember it ,, sooo soorryyy.. but it was about how if you obey the Lord, your prayers will be answered.. ??? is anyone familiar with it ?? if you are please post it up here ! thankyou :)
John 15
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
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FROM
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john 15;&version=9;
OR
1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
FROM
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 John 3 ;&version=9;
TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER:
I think you should read spiritual books..
like pope shenouda's books..
http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/pope/index.html#books