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Please confirm: Please select an option. This was an attempt to show that looking at God through the eyes of a parent. There is more to parenting than not giving bad things. Parents also give good things to their kids. The person who God created for you will see something within you that you cannot see yourself. Ask God to bring your helper into your life. Never met, until recently when God told me it was time to travel to meet him. God told me to prepare for marriage. Not the guy, God. And I did.
And guess what? I came with everything I needed to get married. God speaks. God directs. We met online in November of that same year. You say nowhere in the bible does it say holy spirit is an emotion thats true.. But that does not mean that everybody who asks for a partner in life is going to get one. Does that mean I asked God wrong? God bless you, in Jesus name, Amen.
Asl God to remove all bitterness you have towards his silence. All traces of hurt and anger that you have. Bind it by the blood of Jesus and cast it out of you. Life and death is in the tongue. Bind what you hate and want to get rid of and loose what you love and want. Matthew — Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Proverbs Good News Translation What you say can preserve life or destroy it; so you must accept the consequences of your words. Philippians ESV Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. Look at what is before your eyes.
Everything that you have mentioned that you are struggling with, find a corresponding verse to counteract satan with. This is a fight against rulers of the dark world. What I have observed today in the things you have mentioned to me is darkness trying to steal your joy.
This has nothing to do with God speaking to you or not. This is about first casting out all influence of evil in your life. And come to find out, he was being tormented my a demon. God revealed it to me. I had never seen evil looking back at me. But gradually, I stopped being scared of evil and evil started fleeing from me.
I prayed and fasted. It took a long time, but I never stopped praying for this friends deliverance, salvation and healing, and I can say that prayer works. Christ freed him from the grip of satan. His no longer thinks negatively. He is no longer addicted to drugs, cigarettes, pornography, fornication, homosexuality. All chains of bondage have been broken. This person hated his life. He hated himself!
God told me to help him. Pray for a stranger who I met online. God showed me his true identity. He was demonized his entire life. Awful upbringing. But God brought me into his life to intercede for him. God me details about his life that no one else knew. He was shocked as to how I knew these things.
He admitted we were soul mates, but he still pushed me away. He thought I was too good for him. It was a demon. Tormented his whole life. Who the Son sets free is free indeed. We are getting married soon. God led me to him online and now God led me to him in real life.
That hate he once had towards his life and bitterness is completely gone. He used to think he was ugly and undeserving of love, and he pushed me away. Look now, we are so happy and so in love. I have prayed to God for help with all of this. So far no help from God. I have prayed for God to remove everything negative from me and this life. Genesis took two months. Whenever I pray things get more worse,relationships break,accidents happens…I feel like ending my life. Am total drained up in prayers because am working on a divorce, and every time these man likes to send money for his child on my account.
But every time he send money,its either the child will fall and loose the teeth, or I will fall sick, or my parents will be involved in road accidents and ending up loosing double of what he send me. Before he send the money, I will dream a man trying to assist me,then in the morning I will find money on my account. But before I realise something bad will happen to me,the child, or my family. Plz I need total deliverance. I tried a nother relationship,the man fall sick almost dying and that was the end of us.
Plz I need prayers. God bless am siz. God did what you wanted him to do. So what do you say to the people who did not get what they wanted, to those who prayed and fasted and asked for God to move and do something in their relationship or in their lives and nothing worked out for them? The above is a wonderful article on hope.
It greatly encouraged me when I was discouraged as I have been praying for over 23 years for a wayward son. I have no guarantee that God will answer my prayers the way I want but I know that He is a good, faithful and caring Heavenly Father. God knows what we need. The desire of our heart should be for others to come to repent and know Jesus Christ. Ask God to remove all bitterness you have towards his silence. Hello Kenneth. How are you doing today?
Did you try out any of my suggestions? Correction… suggestions that the Holy Spirit led me to tell you yesterday. Morning Joy, I read Ephesians 6: 10 — Not having anything to make life worthwhile. It is very difficult to find positivity in this depression. Yes I have prayed for healing from that, but still nothing. So I continue to be a complete failure without hope for this life.
Until that changes, life never will. God bless you. Waking up is a blessing. It is enough. Soften your heart brother. How do you expect God to help you when everything about your entire existence has been hardened to all that He has done for you? For hours yesterday, I tried to help you identity the disconnect and every single positive thing I mentioned was met with negativity.
You need to fight to get your mind back. You have to diligently seek that freedom for yourself. This negativity is what is paralyzing you from experiencing the fullness of God in your life. You so desperately want to hear from God, I suggest you desperately take heed the words that I have spoken since yesterday. Disconnect from the world so you can connect to God.
Have you ever taken out a full day of not eating, no drinking, no phone calls, no tv, no work, no nothing? Just talking to God for 24 hours. Or silently being in his presence for 24 hours. Uninterrupted with 0 distractions.
Joy, I have done 4 days without food or water. I have spent days in quiet speaking to God. I live in an apartment right by the front door. Always people coming and going, talking up a storm right outside my door. In a day, how often do you pray? Do you listen to worship music? Take one full day out to just engulf yourself into the Word of God.
I hear God every day. All throughout my day. I get vision of events before they happen. God tells me to pray for ppl who are sick before they even tell me of their illness. If this is truly what you desire. I took hours out of my day yesterday to message you.
No, I had a loads. But God led me to this page yesterday to minister to you. God led me to give you examples of what has worked for me. Do you believe God answers prayers through divine helpers and connections? How can you continue to say that God is being silent to your Prayers when he literally led me to you?
Led me to write to you for hours upon hours yesterday? Everything I have spoken to you was not from my thoughts. But you say God is being silent. God can strategically place ppl In ones life to help them. To begin the process of healing. This is all still part of God teaching you. I am not rejecting what you say. It was your choice to come to this page, and your choice to text me back and forth. Every teacher was a student first.
Know God so you can make Him known. You must know God so you can teach others about Him. The Bible believe it or not is the Word of God. To say otherwise is blasphemy.
The say otherwise would cause silence and unanswered prayers. It would fill the whole world, but what is described in the Bible are actually events that took place. Evey single one. His will became my will and now all my prayers get answered.
And yes, God does speak to me. Again, it happens when one is fully submitted onto him. God has given me visions and dreams of events before they even happen. Details they had never even told a soul and God will tell me to pray for Xxxxxx because they need prayer for xxxxx. Days, weeks, months later, the person will then tell me about their specific struggle that the Lord already told me about. The Lord will tell me to call a person at the most random time of the day.
No matter what, I obey. Because this just happened. One day, I asked God to reveal to me why a specific person suddenly stopped talking to me.
In the letter to myself, the person went into detail about the struggles they were going through. Drug addiction.
Among others. After the Holy Spirit led me to write the letter, I went about my business. Not even a week later, the person messaged me and revealed to me verbatim everything the Holy Spirit told me in the letter about their life. It blew my Mind!
I was in shock. Now, These things happen to me all the time. I pray that you could experience it. By no means am I saying these things to boast. Hi Joy, I am one of those people who have never had a prayer answered.
I so desperately need a connection to God like you described, direct and daily. I gave myself to God through Jesus 40 years ago and have only ever received silence from God. I have prayed for God to make his will know so that I may do it, nothing. I have had a dream to help homeless people get off the street, and have prayed for God to make this happen.
Still nothing. I have prayed for God to reveal what He wants from me, what my purpose is, nothing. All I can guess is that since I hate everything about my life and everything about myself. That I am persistent as the Bible says to do with prayers for the two things that would make me happy. Am I supposed to not care about myself at all? Am I supposed to forget about being happy? I have also prayed for God to show me how to be content in this miserable life, nothing.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks and God bless you, in Jesus name, Amen. Hello Brother Kenneth. Thanks for your response. I believe the disconnect between you and God lies within these 2 comments. Could you elaborate more on this so I can get a better understanding? Thank you. I really want to help you connect with God, a 2-way connection, not just 1-sided.
Joy O, What I mean by hate everything about my life and myself. I could keep going on this but I think you can get the point I am making. As for showing me how to be content with this miserable life.
I have nothing that makes life worth living. Just look at everything above to see that I do mean nothing worthwhile. Does that answer your question. Thanks God bless you, in Jesus name, Amen. I really wish I could help you. I just really want you to take time to reflect on everything you have written. Heavenly Father, first, I would like to thank You for waking me up this morning.
I would like to thank You for giving me a home in a world where so many people are homeless. Or people who have to go to dirty streams to fetch water. Thank You for the limitless supply of water you have blessed me with. Father God, I appreciate everything you have done for me, but there are a few things I would like Your help with to strengthen my relationship with You.
Father God, in the name of Jesus, I ask that You reveal to me my purpose in life. Father God, I ask You to remove the negative thoughts that I have towards the life You have given me and towards the way I perceive myself.
Father God, I ask You to remove all hatred that I have inside about myself. Remove within me everything that is making me unhappy. Father God, this unhappiness I feel is not from You. This is clearly the enemy at work trying to cause strife between us. These are lies from the enemy, and in the name of Jesus, I ask that You silence him now so I can hear You instead of him…. During a time when I was lonely.
In another country lonely. No family. No nothing. I began writing to God and God became my closest friend. God began speaking to me when I silenced everything else. Starting with the lies of satan. Rebuke him every minute of the day.
Any time you get a negative thought, immediately bind it. The Holy Spirit led me to him back in September. His story is incredible. An atheist to a Man on fire for the Lord. God bless you brother Kenneth. And when I say I am praying for you, I not simply saying words, I am going to pray for you. I will stand in the gap and intercede for you. I am going to do everything I can for you to get a breakthrough.
I cannot have you, my brother in Christ, living life like this any longer. In the mighty name of Jesus, satan, with all authority given to me by Christ Jesus, I command you to depart from Kenneth Gray now!
In Jesus name! Question: Have you read the entire Bible front to back? I want you to pray Ephesians every day, when you wake up. During the day. Lunch break maybe. And again at night before you sleep. You are not the scourge of society. God is very real and very powerful. I have type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and sciatica.
All incurable. I live in constant pain. I beg God to just give me some relief without having to use drugs. For a year and a half I was on oxycodone three times a day.
I weaned myself off it and have been clean for almost 3 weeks. But I live in Florida and I got my medical marijuana card. Aside from oxycodone that is the only pain relief I get.
But I know that God does not approve of marijuana use. My arthritis is getting worse daily. The pain in my left shoulder and elbow make my left arm almost useless.
And my ankles are so weak I have a hard time walking without a cane. I find it so hard to reconcile the idea that God is a loving father and yet is allowing me to have free incurable diseases that cause me constant pain. I keep asking myself what father would do that to his son. I always seem to have minor disasters that occur around me. For example: 3 weeks ago my main computer crashed with a blue screen of death if anybody knows what that is. I had a backup in the living room that I watch Netflix and other shows with.
Tonight that one crashed out of nowhere too. It had the same exact error. Today that was the final straw. I blew up at God. I told him if he was going to continue to beat me up why not just take me home.
I ended up yelling what the hell do you want from me anyway? I decided to check online and see if there were any answers there. So maybe he is a little more understanding of our human natures than we give him credit for. I know this may sound like a cliche, but there is a quote that has stuck with me for many years.
It goes like this. I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. I know a lady who lives about a hundred miles from me. She has fibromyalgia. That disease is far worse than rheumatoid arthritis. She is in constant horrible pain from her muscles and her nerves. I also have a friend in Pennsylvania who is about 40 years old, still lives with his father, is autistic and has multiple physical issues with his body which require constant surgeries and care.
Yet he still loves the Lord. But he knows that the sufferings we have in this world are nothing compared to the glories we will experience in the next. I have an IQ of I was even an altar boy and went to Catholic school for 8 years. Basically everything except Islam. I have read the Quran, the father. The Vedic scriptures, even the Tibetan book of the Dead.
It is the most reliable document of antiquity there is. Fragments of the Gospels have been dated to less than years after Jesus died. And they were written within 30 to 50 years later by the people that lived with him except for Paul who was given a revelation after he was converted. As Peter said in his epistle: we are not speaking cleverly made up fables but we ourselves are witnesses of his glory and his resurrection.
That is paraphrased by the way. John and his gospel says that which we have beheld and touched referring to Jesus. These men were witnesses. They were beaten, tortured, stoned and finally martyred for what they wrote. They gained absolutely nothing in this world from their testimony.
All they gained was a life of hardship and finally execution. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most reliable fact in human history.
Joy is not a feeling. And not just forgiven, he has made us adopted sons and daughters. When we are in in dwelt by the holy Spirit we are new creatures, no longer simply human. We are now children of the eternal God. No matter what we may feel like inside, or how miserable our life is in this world, that does not change. We still are subject to sin. And we will sin sometimes. But God forgives that too. I know I keep going back to him with the same problem over and over again.
And then I remember when the disciples asked Jesus how often makes you forgive a brother seven times? God forgiveness is unending. And he knows that. That means a personal relationship. That comes through the holy spirit that we are given when we believe.
I know this is going to sound strange, but those who are born in the holy Spirit are no longer human. This Earth is not our home. We are strangers in a strange Land.
We are lights in a dark world. We are not to be tied to this world in any way. The absolute difference between someone who is a born again believer and one who is not is that the unregenerated live with a comatose spirit.
Those who are born again have a reborn spirit that is in communion with the Holy Spirit. But we are still subject to the curse on this world which includes disease, mental and physical. Just remember that no matter how bad things might seem, in this country we still have the right to go to church and to preach the gospel.
In fact millions are being tortured as we speak and some killed. God will bless you through that as well. Become a prayer warrior. Pray for others. Ironically, I can say with confidence that God does hear my prayers for other people. To that end I will add you to my prayer list.
By the way I too have been poor. I was homeless for 2 years. And that makes me a lot more blessed then many people who have lost jobs and lively hood because of this pandemic. And I am truly blessed for having been born in a country where I can practice my religion and faith, freely and safely, so far. We have many things to be thankful for if we stop to think about them. Think about this: if you are unable to go anywhere, you are in a great position to just spend time with the Lord with no major concerns taking your time.
Just talk to him. Tell him how you feel. He knows but he wants to hear it from you. Make him a part of everything you do. Joy is right about one thing. If you change your attitude, God will be able to help you. God does not make junk. You are wonderfully and fearfully made. Did you know there are a lot of ugly actors? But there are moles they fill.
I was a nerd in school. Got beat up a lot by the cool kids in school. I was an editor in the school newspaper and when I State award for a special series of articles I wrote. None of my so-called enemies ever achieved anything like that.
So who cares what people think about you. There are no rules about how many times each day or each week you need to pray if you want to see God respond.
But the more time you spend with anyone, the more known and safe you will feel. The more you bring someone into the situations in your life that matter, the more you will understand how they think and respond. God wants you to know Him in a way that transforms every aspect of who you are. Prayer is one of the ways He chooses to make that happen.
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