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I don't know what to do.
G. Driggs:
--- Quote from: Lupac on December 29, 2009, 04:25:56 PM --- I wish I could believe, but I don't know how...
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Just ask and believe you will receive.
Mat 21:22 "And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Joh 16:24 "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
I too sometimes struggle with unbelief, but I have never forgotten these next verses and how much they have helped. Ask Him to help your unbelief.
Mar 9:23 And Jesus said to him, " 'If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes."
Mar 9:24 Immediately the boy's father cried out and said, "I do believe; help my unbelief."
All good gifts must be asked for and given by God.
Mat 7:11 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!
Luk 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
Everything good comes from God, including your faith, your belief, your hope, your love, and the grace and salvation you WILL receive. Just ask and be patient, give yourself time like Kat told you, all this does not happen overnight. I have complete confidence you will believe, in HIS time.
Sincerely hope this helps a little.
G.Driggs
Lupac:
I'm learning, and doing better now. One thing that's hard, for me, (I need to get over myself...) is that Calvinists have a very, very negative view of humanity. They believe that not only we deserve to die, (Which we do, and WILL.) but we deserve nothing less than to be tortured forever, just for existing/sinning. (I don't know if that's what they say they believe, nor would they admit it, but that's what a lot of them think.) It's very depressing, and it's hard to get out of that mindset.
arion:
The truth of the teachings of God's great love for all is not only found throughout scripture but is now on the doorstep of your heart through the teachings. You know in your own spirit I believe, the truth of this. Time to turn off the Christian tv, radio or books that parrot the doctrine of babylon. Ray has said it many times that if something is true the more study you do shows it to be true and by the same token if something is false (the typical pagan hell doctrine) the more honest study you do proves it to be false. It does take some time for most of us to be able to slough off all the old and carnal teachings that we received.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I find these fruits everyday on this board and on precious few other websites that have grasped some truths of universal salvation.
However,
Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
I also see many of these manifested on various websites and in every church that I was ever a part of. Not that any of us are any better than those who do these things as it is God who works in us both will and to do of his good pleasure. Jesus said that by their fruits you will know them and of course being in the carnal teachings of the institutional church that is all that you ever saw so it was easy to point the finger at other churches and belief systems and be blind to the works of the flesh in your own church and in your own self. It didn't really take all that long after throwing myself into the teachings and into the people on this board to discern these things once God turned the lights on in my heart as it were. Just keep on keeping on...you'll make it.
Lupac:
Thanks. I worry about stuff that shouldn't even be worried about. Worrying won't do me any good. I'm still very afraid of hell, unfortunately. When I was younger, I used to have nightmares about being sent there. I never told my parents. I worry that... this is really silly, that maybe all of this isn't even true, (God, Jesus, an afterlife at all.) but I know it is. I've stumbled across many sites in the past I wish I hadn't. One was a site, I hate to even say it, run by a satanist that supposedly "proved" that the Bible was a Jewish/Catholic conspiracy designed to keep the masses under control, and not let them into the "higher up's secrete occult power". Yeah... I sometimes wish I could erase all my memories and leave only the "good" ones. I worry about the stupidest stuff. I don't know where I'm really going with this post, I had the idea earlier, but I had to leave my house and when I got back, I couldn't remember what I was going to say.
Ninny:
Bryant...please keep it in your heart and mind that God is Love..keep that...remember that...Love doesn't torture, love doesn't hurt intentionally, Love is God...whatsoever things are true...think on these things..God is not out to hurt or torture in any way any of his creation..not you nor I nor anyone...ever...If you can't cling to anything else in the darkness, cling to the fact that God is Love....God is Love....His Love is awesome and He is an awesome Father...You've been given the scriptures. Now let them soak in...
Kathy :-*
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