For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do...

[dougishere]

God promises to listen to His children: cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

God promises to forgive His children: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

God loves His children: See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. 1 John 3:1

God promises to never leave us: Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Joshua 1:5

I'm not doing well. I believe these promises of God, but I feel like my prayer often hits a brick wall, and it's disappointing. My sins are open to God, and I'm not wanting to sin, but like Romans 7:14-25 says, there's a war in my mind making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. In other words, I'm weak and I fall a lot. But I get back up.

I know I need to believe those promises better. I confess my sins to God and with the intent to repent. Sometimes sin is a trap, and I don't know how to stop the cycle. I believe repentance is turning away from the idea of sinning, but to make it work takes God's help. And sometimes God's help is slower than we anticipate. It takes people from the church to restore, in Christ's name, a fallen brother: My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

My prayer goes to God. Does anybody feel the same way sometimes?

 

[elysian]

Are you struggling with sin, or are you struggling with a specific problem (like ailment etc.), and God isn't answering your prayer.

 

[dougishere]

This is sin, like Paul talks about in Romans 7. I'm afraid of God's displeasure in me, even though Paul was able to rejoice and say "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!", I am scared. I do suffer from a mental disorder where it's typical to have false guilt.

 

[Angelina]

Please read Paul's conclusion in the following chapter -

Romans 8

[sup]1[/sup] Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, [sup]2[/sup] because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. [sup]3[/sup] For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, [sup]4[/sup] in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
[sup]5[/sup] Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. [sup]6[/sup] The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. [sup]7[/sup] The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. [sup]8[/sup] Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
[sup]9[/sup] You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. [sup]10[/sup] But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. [sup]11[/sup] And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
[sup]12[/sup] Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. [sup]13[/sup] For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
[sup]14[/sup] For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. [sup]15[/sup] The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”[sup]16[/sup] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. [sup]17[/sup] Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Blessings!!!

 

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God promises to listen to His children: cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

God promises to forgive His children: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

God loves His children: See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. 1 John 3:1

God promises to never leave us: Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. Joshua 1:5

I'm not doing well. I believe these promises of God, but I feel like my prayer often hits a brick wall, and it's disappointing. My sins are open to God, and I'm not wanting to sin, but like Romans 7:14-25 says, there's a war in my mind making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. In other words, I'm weak and I fall a lot. But I get back up.

I know I need to believe those promises better. I confess my sins to God and with the intent to repent. Sometimes sin is a trap, and I don't know how to stop the cycle. I believe repentance is turning away from the idea of sinning, but to make it work takes God's help. And sometimes God's help is slower than we anticipate. It takes people from the church to restore, in Christ's name, a fallen brother: My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

My prayer goes to God. Does anybody feel the same way sometimes?

Believing the promises of God is essential for our spiritual, mental and physical welfare. The practice does not, however, serve to manipulate God to our own ends. As Christians we live to serve our Lord , not the other way around.

That God is generous and gracious toward us beyond anything we deserve or earn is a fact. It doesn't mean that the Almighty is some sort of vending machine or that He may be an easy touch when we want something.

We live to serve Christ. He is the head of the body.
He cares for us more deeply than we can imagine, but He isn't our carpet to walk over and wipe our feet on and complain about when things don't go our way.

I met a man once who had cancer and I asked him if he was angry at God or why this had happened to him. He responded by saying that with regard to God's hand in the matter, it was none of his private business.

The man was healed (slowly and certainly) when most physicians had written him off as dead. This is an example of divine mercy, not manipulation.

Praise God for His faithfulness toward us - even though we deserve it not.

 

[veteran]

This is sin, like Paul talks about in Romans 7. I'm afraid of God's displeasure in me, even though Paul was able to rejoice and say "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!", I am scared. I do suffer from a mental disorder where it's typical to have false guilt.

If you're trying to overcome sin and have asked forgiveness and repented to Christ Jesus and prayed, then also don't forget to cast any evil spirits away from you, in Jesus' Name. EVERY time you catch a desire coming on for the sin, cast the evil spirits behind you sending them back to the pit, in the Name of Jesus Christ. If that's part of the problem, they'll eventually get tired of bothering you and will leave you alone.

Also don't forget to anoint yourself with oil (cooking oil will suffice), per James 5. Touch a drop to your forehead and cast the evil away from you, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Good idea to anoint the door posts of your home also, every time you feel an evil presence might have followed someone in your home.

Luke 10:18-19 is our authority from our Lord Jesus to do this.

 

[dougishere]

Believing the promises of God is essential for our spiritual, mental and physical welfare. The practice does not, however, serve to manipulate God to our own ends. As Christians we live to serve our Lord , not the other way around.

That God is generous and gracious toward us beyond anything we deserve or earn is a fact. It doesn't mean that the Almighty is some sort of vending machine or that He may be an easy touch when we want something.

We live to serve Christ. He is the head of the body.
He cares for us more deeply than we can imagine, but He isn't our carpet to walk over and wipe our feet on and complain about when things don't go our way.

I met a man once who had cancer and I asked him if he was angry at God or why this had happened to him. He responded by saying that with regard to God's hand in the matter, it was none of his private business.

The man was healed (slowly and certainly) when most physicians had written him off as dead. This is an example of divine mercy, not manipulation.

Praise God for His faithfulness toward us - even though we deserve it not.

I don't sense in my heart of hearts I'm trying to use God as a vending machine. Besides, 1 Peter 5:7 says to cast all our anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. And another place says to bear one anothers' burdens. I've accepted my illness, anyway. I'm talking about when it's hard to see the light of day, where Christ dwells in us. Nothing to do with manipulation.

 

[Phillip]

This is sin, like Paul talks about in Romans 7. I'm afraid of God's displeasure in me, even though Paul was able to rejoice and say "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!", I am scared. I do suffer from a mental disorder where it's typical to have false guilt.

As in all our cases, and as also in Paul's, we must be faithful to understand and LIVE the Resurrection Life of Jesus, by which Paul is thanking Jesus that He has been delivered from His body of death that he described earlier in Romans 7.

So the big question really is, "How was Paul (and how are we) delievered from this body of death?

Next chapter! This is what we NOW Live in deliverence;

Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Rom 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Rom 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.