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YellowStone:
Hi Carol,

You wrote :)

--- Quote ---It's hard, when so many things are uncertain.  Not to mention, coming out of the church, the one place I felt God had been LEADING me to all my life, is difficult.  I don't feel any pull to remain but I do feel a bit lost and very alone.  But it's such a blessing to be able to fellowship with all of you here.
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Carol, there is only one thing that you and I anyone needs to know and fully understand, is that we do not know what tomorrow may bring, but GOD does. :)

Pro 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.  

The following words of Christ are so comforting to me, I hope that they can be for all that read them too. :)

Mat 6:25   “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
 
Mat 6:26   Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
 
Mat 6:27   Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
 
Mat 6:28   “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
 
Mat 6:29   Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
 
Mat 6:30   If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
 
Mat 6:31   So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
 
Mat 6:32   For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
 
Mat 6:33   But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
 
Mat 6:34   Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

There are many things in this life I call mine that I do not have answers for; the "what if's..." are staggering yet I / we have all we need. We have a Father who knows, loves and cares for all. :)

Faith and Worry do not fit well together  ;D

Much love to you Carol, it is so good having you here so that we can learn and grow together in the body of Christ.

Love,
Darren
 

LittleBear:
Gina, I love that! "shock and awe". How true!

Hi Carol,

So many of us on this forum seem to be going through various trials. That's God's way of helping us grow up spritually. It seems that sometimes they are piled up one on top of the other and you don't know if you can bear it all. I find that I really press into God during these times, I really pray a lot and include Him. Hang in there! Sometimes I wonder if that's the reason for the lonliness, so that one turns wholly to God because there is no one else.

Oh, as far as the label "believer", I don't think it is for us. "Christian" also won't do. I still really don't know what to call myself if someone should ask. So far it hasn't happenned. Um, maybe.....follower of Christ? Possible Elect? So far though, I am unlabelled.

Love,

Ursula

DWIGHT:
Hi Carol,

Some really good advise here.  Maybe I can add just a little.  Your journey sounds so familiar to the rest of us, because God has created that hunger and thirst for righteousness in us.  Like the children of Israel, we were all slaves in bondage.  Then God began saving us by the blood over the door.  But to many Christians that is where they still are...in Egypt.  They never even got through the Red Sea, let alone into the wilderness, where they must wander for forty years.  Then those who disobeyed, died and just a few made it through Jordan to fight the battles with the inhabitants of the land.  What I'm getting at is it takes quite a process for us to get through this life and into to His rest.  It takes time and a lot of trials and tribulations to enter into the kingdom.  Right now you are brought to the place where God knows what you can and cannot take.  Some are a little further ahead and some are still in Egypt.  This journey will not end until the day we die.  We cannot see what we cannot see and we cannot hear what cannot hear. This can only come by God's revelation.

Try not think of your husband as one that you're unequally yoked with, but as one who hasn't been given eyes to see or ears to hear yet.  It's not his fault, all is of God.  When God wants him to see, he will see.  Not one of us here wanted to see or hear.  We were dead in our sins.  But God......it's all God.  God bless you on your journey, your'e not alone anymore.

In Him,

Dwight

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