What words from a believer in Jesus helped you have a breakthrough in dealing with an issue in your life? What did they say to you?
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CLAP5 on March 15, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Hi, For 2 years I prayed for some way to tell about Gods great Love for us. A few things came up but none really worked out. None filled me with a sence of the Holy Spirit.
So I asked God to answer my prayer “in plain english” He sent word by way of Esther. She was just someone I knew from church. Who said I had qualities that could be used in peer counseling at the Pregnancy Resourse Center where she volunters. I knew this was Gods way of telling me this is it! It’s been 3 years since she told me that “in plain english”
I share the gospel, and try to help many women with the answer “is this life inside me? Thanks to Esther, God has used me to tell his Gospel. I have felt the Holy Spirit very strong, when the right words come at just the right time, for just the right client
Lynn C on March 17, 2010 at 9:37 am
For myself and for reasons to long and I’m sure too boring to go into my struggle has been with not believing but feeling that even God can’t love me that much. Sin and weakness is a constant struggle with me and the hardest part of Christian life is all the people who know the exact time, day, weather, place and so on of their conversion. And how they never have doubts or sin in their lives or so they appear to the rest of us.
One of the biggest hurdles the faith I have found are the perfect Christians who let you know your faults and sins then later on stumble but make excuses for their short fall. My own father-in-law loves nothing better than to go after other Christians and show that they are not really saved or point out how many people me proved were wrong and made say the confession he believes in and thus saved them. I read the Bible everyday but my memory is poor I can’t quote scripture but I know what it means.
I think often of the passages that say “not because of anything I did am I saved but only through Christ” and “I believe help me with my unbelief” that somehow give me comfort.
Growing up with a father who said I love you less than 10 times and you can’t be mine or worse more times than I can count as well as so called christians who condemned me for no other reason than I was not like them (to me retarded is word that needs to be placed alongside the N word as a type of hate speech) My mom was my rock but when she died I was cut off from not only her but her family (who also gave me comfort) for years by dad and stepmom when I needed the church that I grew up in they threw me aside even saying I was going to hell cause of whatever reason they chose, but never did they offer help from the abuse saying I must of deserved it.
It took me a lot of years to trust a church again and then I found it the same full of people who are perfectly perfect in every way and 100 excuses for everything they do wrong. That and the old it is ok for me to do this cause I have been forgiven by Christ before I did it speech.
I still struggle and pray every day that one day I can eat the crumbs that fall to the floor in heaven and at least be with God.
To me the biggest stumbling block to new Christians or those looking to God in America is the perfect christians they meet. That and churches who change their beliefs to match the mood of the people. I have more respect for people of third world nations who are facing death or whatever for their beliefs and still hold true to the Word of God than for first world christians who follow political correctness over God’s word.
God save us from perfect Christians and politically correct christians and give us more true Christians who love the sinner and hate the sin and who lift us up and don’t us us for a step to get closer to
God.
Daph on March 22, 2010 at 6:01 am
Hi,
There was a time i was feeling low, with no definate reason.I share with a friend. She asked why i was feeling low and i told her i had no exact reason.She went like..’ Well, the stop feeling low!!!”
fellowstruggler on March 22, 2010 at 6:26 am
After stuggling with drug addiction for years and on the verge of giving up completely and thinking I would never be free of that bondage, I was sitting in my friend and pastors office crying and scared I would do just do it again. He looked me in the eyes with love and said; “no matter what happens when you leave this room, even if you go straight out and do more drugs, just keep coming back”. What a blessing to hear those words and I often reflect on what would have happened if he would have been less loving or judgemental. That was one major turning point.
bethsjourney on April 8, 2010 at 7:40 am
A wise, loving friend from my church kept telling me during my sister’s terminal illness with melanoma cancer..she kept saying “Just give it ALL to God!” “Give it ALL to Him”.
I was so worn out from taking care of my three kids, my house, bills, etc and being at my mother’s every night taking care of my sister on Hospice while she was dying….all the while dealing with it, knowing what was coming. I prayed for the strength….my sister passed away this past January 2010. I look back and think how in the world did I make it through?
But I made it through because God was right there, and although I didnt feel like I gave it ALL to Him, I guess I did. He was right there through it all. ANd my glorious wise friend from church told me so.