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When you post about things you are going through, what kind of responses would you like? What responses are helpful?

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Discipline brings freedom. There's no feeling quite like knowing you'll eventually reach your goals because you know how to fight for them.

My parents taught the virtues of a college education from a very young age. My attending wasn't even a question. On the inside I didn't feel willing. But no one gave an alternative. So I went and manifested mental illness for the first time. I just wish that someone had been there to say it's...

I actually enjoy Orthodox Christian hymns. Like this one

Yes. Very lovely worship

That doesn't discourage me. I know I will always long for another personal encounter with God whether that makes sense to others or not. The Bible says Elijah was a man with a nature like ours yet he prayed for three years that it wouldn't rain and it didn't. I don't believe we have any less...

New Testament believers also had personal encounters with God. Saul became Paul after he was surrounded with light and heard the audible voice of the Lord. I've had a personal encounter with the Lord in the past. I will seek it again.

It's true that God's presence never leaves us whether we feel that it's there or not. But I do believe God can encounter us more personally while we are here on earth. I would say Moses experienced God more up close and personal than a lot of his peers. This is what Im after.

I like the pro-life stance of many Baptists and Catholics

Can Christians stop sinning? Absolutely. Modern preachers and theologians may say otherwise but when I just read the Scripture...I get "every sin must go". The power that raised Jesus from the dead is inside us. So yes, sinning can be overcome.

Psalm 53:2 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

More than just blessings, I want God's presence. I do want another personal encounter. I have to be honest with myself. He has emotions like we do. He isn't just a concept. He wants to be sought out. I want to pursue Him. I don't know why He doesn't always choose to appear when we seek Him...

Lord, you bless me in so many ways. But You are the greatest blessing of them all. You are not aloof. Not just a concept. You are very real, a very present help. I long to encounter You again. I want to speak to you like Moses. To have the joy of being overwhelmed by your presence. I want this...

Thank you Lord for speaking to me. Thank you for teaching me the beauty and power of a quiet life.

May leave reddit. Ill consider it. I joined because I thought I would enjoy engaging in AskAChristian type threads and witnessing. I still think its good if a believer is actively doing that. But I don't have time to dedicate to that.

A quiet life can make a difference. It's about God's power, not our strength.

I think we can definitely hear from God but we are to test the spirits. I don't think we should follow any voice that contradicts God's clear commands in the Bible. But I do think we can hear a still small voice and have the Holy Spirit direct us if we are still and are listening.

Will simply continue to pray daily. Am honestly tempted to take a brutally honest approach but God has not really released me to do that. That would be better coming from a man anyway.

A major way we become whole is by renewing our minds. We usually think of our thoughts as this onslaught we cannot control. We are taught to cast down every thought contrary to what God would have us think. In this world, our internal thoughts, the devil, and the world are trying to take us...