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I love this, Marks.Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
All joy and peace in believing.
Faith comes first, then feelings follow.
That's normal for us. Feeling are formed from our thoughts and values and choices.
We can see the same dark shape approach in a dark room, if we think it's an attacker, we may feel one way. When we realize, Oh, it's my wife, I feel a different way.
In either case what I feel is based on what I think is real.
We want to feel God's love. We want to feel His peace. We want to feel Him present. We want to feel safe.
If we believe He loves us, that's when we feel loved. We believe He cares for us, we feel safe. We believe Him here with us, we feel Him here.
All joy and peace . . . in believing.
Sometimes I just need to stop the world, sit down with some good Godly music, and my Bible, and remember all these things are true. It's a good feeling!
Much love!
I love this, Marks.
We live in a Christian environment that has grown to embrace a “tough love” (or, “hate-lite”) kind of attitude. There has been a strong movement away from emotion/ feelings and toward hard quantifiable truth. I do not mean that objective truth is unimportant (it is vital). But what we feel and experience are just as important – sometimes more important (sometimes less). I think that people forget we are human and that God chose in Christ to identify with us in our humanity.
Anyway – great post.
paul n did a decent version tooChocolate Jesus reminds me of this old song called "Plastic Jesus"
Why do you bother?emo bad, ok. driving.
woman desire is for man
who is wearing the pants?
right?
in most marriages, we ask the q for a little joke, yeh?
lol
I must be like an itching scab to you.hhh ok wow you prolly are not going to...hmm, should i even do this, i guess
man...
indeedWhy do you bother?
I love this, Marks.
We live in a Christian environment that has grown to embrace a “tough love” (or, “hate-lite”) kind of attitude. There has been a strong movement away from emotion/ feelings and toward hard quantifiable truth. I do not mean that objective truth is unimportant (it is vital). But what we feel and experience are just as important – sometimes more important (sometimes less). I think that people forget we are human and that God chose in Christ to identify with us in our humanity.
Anyway – great post.
I guess you do. Where is the fruitfulness for you in this?we just like to cross swords lol
dont doubt that use of satan's dialectic is the drawing of swords okI guess you do. Where is the fruitfulness for you in this?
Hurt my feelings, both off them. Lolwhat are your feeling sss about THAT i wonder
To me Faith is a gift. I have that gift. The whole world can say that there is no God but I will say He is. I can see that you have this gift also. Some times a gift has to be unwrapped and what better way than affliction Affliction draws us closer to The Lord to a point of total dependence.To me all affliction comes by the hands of the enemy. This is allowed for a season of testing. These are the words I received after my suffering, "You have come through the fire, the fire of affliction, and you have not lost the Faith." That same Faith, in its season, will be used to rebuke the cause of the affliction so that it will no longer have any power over us. For He that is in us, is stronger than he that is in the world.Amen!
Why do you think it is that affliction produces a faith I didn't know before I was afflicted?
I sometimes have to force myself to remember God's deliverances of me in the past, as I'm tested again.
Much love!
I know exactly what you are saying....I grew up with a very abusive stepfather so I never knew what a loving father felt like until that day He spoke to me for the first time and revealed Himself to me as my Father....oh the joy of having a Daddy God....Abba/Father.....and He has shown me what a loving Father is.....I call out to Him all the time crying Abba.....Father....how I love Him so much!Ah, but for some of us, the lies of Satan can dim that joy, by placing doubts. I never ever had a close relationship with my earthly father so, I really have nothing to compare a "fathers love" to a child. It seems that, even though I know what His word say's about loving us, and I believe His word...the "feelings' do not come along with the truth. It is very hared for myself to understand why He loves me much less would even like me! So, I have learned to never measure anything by my "feelings". Now, if God were a woman, like the heavenly mother and not heavenly father, I do believe that would make a huge difference as I was as close as close can be to my wonderful God fearing sweet as the day is long, mom. I would surely have those same "feelings"? Hmmm, dunno, lol.
Nancy, you are not alone. I grew up believing I had a father but later found out the man I was told all my life was my father, was not. He was mostly absent also but my biological father was a man my mother had an affair with and I was conceived. Every one knew the secret but me. Then there was my step-father (which makes three)who had a hand in my hating religion and old gospel songs he sang with his guitar whenever sloppy drunk. God is a Father to the fatherless. It wasn’t until a couple years ago this all come out...I was 47... oddly the secret was revealed whenever I asked God to show me who I am. By the time it came out He had already thoroughly convinced me...He is the only Father that will never leave or forsake you. You are loved. Let Him heal that message of abandonment and not worthy of love.
Hi VictoryinJesus,
I'm sorry to hear about your current situation. I'm also going through a similar experience with my life - in this case, all of my family. "Mom" isn't mom, "dad" isn't dad, "brother" isn't brother, "sister" isn't sister. And "mom" and "dad" were divorced early on.
So now I'm left split and divided even more than I thought I was throughout my life. In fact, I don't even know who I am lol.
And I'm just finding out within the last year or so. I can't say my adoptive family wasn't family, cause they are, but there's still something missing, a piece of me I don't know.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I know exactly how you're feeling and what you're going through. God-the-Father and God-the-Son know you; know us. Maybe we'll even get to meet our bio family member(s) in Heaven?