oh and ghostface i used to be the same way...then i realized this summer that i had never really become a christian. its more than just trying and being emotional...one thing i've learned a lot recently is that its not about how you feel. its about what you know. if you've genuinely given your life to jesus then you are saved. you might not "feel" saved all the time but that doesn't mean you arent...
Ye, but come on, why should I be a christian when i dont know anything or feel anything? Of course i know the stuff i been told from my parents, but the same does muslim kids.
Why should I not have sex before marriage or not drink because of something I dont believe in? I cant help it that i dont believe in it.
I did take the decision 4 years ago. I got baptised and all.
dazedandconfused -It definitely sounds like God is trying to tell you something.
You can "hear" from God in many different ways. Sometimes someone else will tell you something from God, often He'll reveal Himself to you through His Word, personally I've had an occasion where I could almost audibly hear Him.
He speaks to us in so many different ways, we only have to learn to listen.
stressful and triggering at times but in all it was a lot of fun and worth the month i was up there
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
thats nice but meaningless with out faith. Which brings us to the question...What hinders you from faith?
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
dazedandconfused God is definitely speaking to you! I used to feel like God wasn't talking to me and it was a one way relationship until i prayed that he would open my ears and eyes to what he was saying because someone told me it was me that was the problem not God. Since then I feel liek God hasn't stopped speaking to me! People can put it down to coincidence but I put it down to God and that's where I think people trip up. The more I listen to my random thoughts I realise that God can talk to you through any way and it's not always wise to ignore it if it sounds silly.
For example I was walkign home alone after church and it was about 10pm as i was about to turn into my road I just thought/felt/heard (however you want to see it) 'God isn't done with you yet' so i (against my better judgement) put on my ipod full blast on to some God songs and walked the other way. I ended up finding a quiet little path and just letting go for God and just dancing and praising him and not worrying about anything. It was one of my best God moments and after I was done I started walking home and just felt so at peace with everything. I'm not sure that was relevant at all but i just wanted to tell someone because it was so cool.
I think God can be speaking in 'coincidenses' because he is omnipitent or omnipresent or something really cool and knows everything that is goign to happen so nothing happens by chance if that makes sense?
'The nights of crying your eyes out give way to the days of laughter' Psalm 30 v 5
Brought up in a Christina family, would class myself as a Christian wih questions. I dont know what anyone else here thinks but because my parents have such strong beliefs it makes it really difficult for me to be unsure.
I want to be able to tlk to them about my self harming, but i'm scared of how they will react, especially as my mum is a strong christian with very strong views on life being sacred and all that.
thanks guys...and pineapple it makes sense...and your story made me smile :)
ok...so..i feel special now lol YAY! God's speaking to me...ok but here's the thing...i threw them away earlier today...and then i started thinking about it later in the day and i seriously almost had a panic attack...i went and got them out of the trash...i feel really bad cuz i know i'm disobeying God...but how can i do this? i'm having the hardest time with it. the thought of throwing them out and not being able to use them absolutely TERRIFIES me...its horrible... why am i soooo attached to them? i haven't used them for 5 weeks but then suddenly when i try to get rid of them i feel like i need them?! i just don't make sense to myself. i know they just make my life worse...how can i get rid of them without absolutely freaking out??
Hi
I havent been around for awhile because i havent had an easy time. (not that the christian life is easy).
I am lacking guidance and questioning stuff about self harm and god.
I just, dont feel that anyone understands and that i havent read the bible for so long or prayed and i cant go to girls group because it makes me feel all self concious cos everyone else seems so happy.
silentgirl - if you've been out of touch with the 'god' thing, could you get back into it, really small at first? maybe say some standard prayer every day, the Our Father or something similar, or reading just one verse from a gospel. if you're having difficulty feeling like you can pray, smaller things seem less scarey than going to a group or something. apologies if i've got the wrong end of the stick.
Ghostface - i know this was not exactly the point of your original post, but you said, why should i not drink because of something i don't really believe, and there was two things that made me think: first, who says Christians can't drink! have you done any of your own learning about Christianity? it might really help you to read around it a bit so you're not relying just on your parents' views (not discounting them at all, or suggesting you should, but we do need to make informed choices, for ourselves). i'm afraid the books i've found most helpful have been about Catholicism, so i don't know if anyone here can recommend some from a Protestant perspective..? i can tell you some titles i've read if you like, but i expect it'd be better to start from your own denomination and work outwards as you wish.
i feel like i have let god down in a big way when i relapsed on friday. but i also feel doubt about his love. how can i be teaching teenagers and professing love for god when i am so unsure. everytime i cut i seem to move 1 step further away how could god love me?
You are his and he loves you unconditionally. There is nothing you can do to stop his love. I no its really hard to remember this when you are triggered but its the truth.
Isaiah 1:18 (NIV)
"Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
thanks ph1sh it's always helpful to be reminded of God's love, just difficult to remember it at times.
cut again today there is someting that just keeps drawing me back,. i hope that one day god can forgive me and use what i am experiencing to glorfy him
Freedom from addiction, freedom from pain. The suffering is worth the life I live now.
i hope that one day god can forgive me and use what i am experiencing to glorfy him
If you confess with your mouth he will forgive you i dosent matter if its a second or a decade after the sin. Yes he will now after 4 months he is using me to change peoples lives.
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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers
I haven't posted on this thread yet (I dont think!)
I'm a christian, have been from the age of 6 so 11years. I used to SI although I haven't for 10 and a half months now. My walk with God is much stronger now than it ever used to be. I think that through our SI we can give testimony to how amazing God is.
~Here I am at your feet in my brokenness complete~
*deepest*regrets* hi :) and yay for 10 and a half months and you have just put a silver lining on a massive SI cloud, which is a pretty ace thing! I never actually looked at it as being a positive in your relationship with God and seeing his great works but now it all makes quite a lot of sense!
'The nights of crying your eyes out give way to the days of laughter' Psalm 30 v 5
