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I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
An awareness of desperate inadequacy precedes the call for help. We are to know that without forgivness through Jesus we are sunk ships. If we have never known God, his Spirit will bring this awareness to us but he doesn't leave us there......he points us to the sin bearer; the one who gave his life so that we can live. There is only one Saviour, one deliverer. No pope or priest or person of any description can deliver like Jesus.I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
Hi, Lavender Purple, and welcome to the forum!I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
Intense fear about going to hell is definitely a tough thing to deal with on your own.I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
Is there anyone among God’s genuine children (Hebrews 12:6) who hasn't gone through this? Still, the debilitating fear is not of God but of our old fallen human nature. Instead of letting it terrorize you, use it wisely to fuel your prayers and devotions. There is an abundance of spiritual refreshment awaiting you at the end of this tribulation (Psalms 66:10-12).I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
You biggest problem is you have never sat down and just talked to Him...to get to know Him....why would He sacrifice so much for you (His only begotten Son, Jesus) just to cast you into hell? He loves you more than you can comprehend! He knows every thought you think, and every word you speak before it even comes out of your mouth.Thank you all for your replies. Random people online said if you come to God/Jesus bc your scared of hell, you are wrong. I felt this was my case and now I feel even more guilty. I fear I will end up like this guy here:
You biggest problem is you have never sat down and just talked to Him...to get to know Him....why would He sacrifice so much for you (His only begotten Son, Jesus) just to cast you into hell? He loves you more than you can comprehend! He knows every thought you think, and every word you speak before it even comes out of your mouth.
You were taught to FEAR GOD! But that is not the kind of relationship He desires with you...He is a good, good, Father who longs for you to seek Him and you will find Him.
The Fear of the Lord in scripture is the same meaning as reverence or respect....it's not fear as in be afraid...be very afraid....for if you sin you're going to hell.....
Not the Father I serve! Our Father promises to perfect in us that good work that He begun when we became born again.
What He will judge when you stand before Him is your heart not your flesh..is there any unforgiveness, bitterness, evil desires things like that in your heart? These things must be purged.
I agree with that man about several things, but I'm not sure he's right about everything. I've visited hell myself. Yes, there are different levels from what I've seen, so I agree with him on that. He said other things however that aren't quite right. Don't let them disturb you. Don't worry so much about the future: Do what is right now because if you do what is right now, the future will take care of itself.Thank you all for your replies. Random people online said if you come to God/Jesus bc your scared of hell, you are wrong. I felt this was my case and now I feel even more guilty. I fear I will end up like this guy here:
I love you ViJ.as one member said you will most likely get different replies. I lived my whole life or most of what I remember of if with this intense crippling fear. My counselor says it maybe began with my step father who terrorized our home singing gospel hymns while drunk. That I was trained early on to always be expecting the next shoe to drop in a major way so physically, my body stayed tightened and prepared for fight or flight. I don’t think it was all his fault but just who I become which is fear based and terrified always. It made me sick. Sometimes losing down to ninety pounds. When I had children, panic attacks surfaced. Sometimes all day long one after another until I could not function in life in anyway. Basically housebound under being a stay at home mother, on antidepressants for thirty years and Xanax. OCD, yes that too. Sometimes a fear so great it prevented even swallowing. All kinds of little odd ticks of trying to control the fear. Only telling you all this because I want you to know that several years ago I sat with the counselor and when being told one day I could be free and be different...to my core I thought ‘what a joke. You have no idea how deep it goes. This is just who I am and who I will always be.” That I believed wholeheartedly. Several years ago though something changed in my heart and thoughts. It wasn’t how I could please God because that was terrifying in itself. It was beginning to see just how enormous God is and how small I am. The more enormous God became and the More capable I saw He is, the more a quiet trust began to surface. It causes problems on such topics where you become titled as once saved always saved and that is not the point. I try to tell others, in my case, I can’t focus there on myself but to be well and to rest ... God becomes the capable One and not me. It has been nearly a year now since I’ve taken my antidepressant. Can’t remember the last time I had a panic attack, when they once were so bad I would get in the car to run and once in the car the panic was still there, my realizing (even more terrifying) I had nowhere TO RUN. Doctors could NOT help me. Pills could Not help me because, even then with the pills panic was still present with me. God is the only one who helped. I still get depressed but even in depression, every day there is this Tremendous Hope because I have seen to my core something has changed drastically that I was fully convinced would never change. The biggest change is being no longer convinced ‘it is impossible.’ Life is different. Now I can go sit in a restaurant and have a meal and coffee without struggling to swallow for looking for the nearest exit. Something He taught me once, in the beginning and hopefully maybe it will help you. I was told I had to have an MRI and would be in the machine for over two hours. For weeks I stressed over being trapped in there and was nearly to the point of “I just can’t do it.” In prayer right before the test He revealed a plane (realize that sounds insane) but even at the time I didn’t realize what He had done. He replaced the X-ray machine with being stuck in a plane. In prayer I saw that although I had never been on a plane, being in one in flight with no exit and no way out would be the ultimate of being trapped. In my mind the X-ray machine became so small ...I could get out anytime I decided and I wasn’t really trapped. Somehow He had diminished my fear and I was able to do the test. Again, realize that may sound crazy. Sometimes I wondered why a plane? Why not just take the fear away without replacing it with something I never considered fearing? His word says to fear God First and fear of all those other things starts to diminish and become irrelevant in Light of Him. I hope He shows you how enormous and capable and sufficient He is, and promise everything else will get smaller. He can move mountains, yeah.
Thank you all for your replies. Random people online said if you come to God/Jesus bc your scared of hell, you are wrong. I felt this was my case and now I feel even more guilty. I fear I will end up like this guy here:
I'm suffering about this intense fear. Is anyone else going through this?
Thank you all for your replies. Random people online said if you come to God/Jesus bc your scared of hell, you are wrong.