Nice & Wavy
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Praying for you today, my sister. The Lord has you in His arms!
Lots of hugs from me to you!!!
I'm hoping Shimmie can give some adv...
NiceandWavy
Maybe she can assist too...
(((hugs))) I've been where you have been. I ventured out.And that storm made me realize how being a Christian was for me.
loolalooh sending you a pm
Loolalooh,
I don't know the specifics of the events that have transpired that have caused you to question what is going on with as it relates to your faith. I can tell you, however, that it is not God's will to have His children to suffer.
Without getting too deep here, all I can tell you to do is to pray about it. Right now, the enemy is happy, because he is causing you to question your relationship with God. That is the enemy's purpose: to turn people away from God, to make them think that God is the reason for the bad things happening on this earth.
I really hope you receive peace about whatever decision you make. Even as a life-long Christian, I have strayed and back slid and decided to do my "own" thing. It didn't work. My faith in God is the one thing I know that can never be destroyed. Praying for you... (big hug)
loolalooh - A few months ago, I could've written your post myself. And, I could've written it several times before then as well. The best advice I can give you right now is... "Be still and know that I am God." God is trying to get your attention. I know it doesn't feel like it now, but God has not left you alone. If you sit still for a little while, God will make his purpose clear and plain to you. You don't have to be standing on a mountain of faith at all times. In fact, all we need is a mustard seed of faith and we can tell that very mountain to move and it will move. The simple fact that you started this thread shows that you have that mustard seed of faith. You could've walked away and never looked back but your mustard seed won't let you do that.
Be still my sister. Give it some time and I promise the pain and the confusion will subside. Continue to spend time with God even if you have no words to say. Just sit quietly with a Bible open in front of you. I've had to do that many times before so I can say from experience that it works. You will feel better and you will understand better with time.
Oh Sweet Loolalooh,
I am so sorry that you are in the midst of a storm. I think many of us have had moments maybe even seasons where we weren't certain of God's Word or our relationship with Him. I can "hear" in your message how heartbroken you are, and I am sorry. I am truly, truly sorry.
I am also praying for you. It is when we get so weary that we can't pray that a fellow believer needs to stand in the gap for us. I (and I'm sure many of the other ladies here) am willing to stand in the gap for you:
Heavenly Father,
Our sister needs to feel your presence and loving care more than ever right now. God, the enemy is preying on her. She is broken and weary. Lord, your word says that hope deferred makes the heart sick. Whatever the situation/difficulty that she is going through, God I know that you can use it for good. I know that you can bless her beyond what she could ever imagine. I pray that you bind up the enemy and put a hedge of protection around our dear sister. I have been broken and weary, and you lifted me up. You restored me and then you blessed me. Your Word says that you are not a respecter of persons, so I know that since you did it for me that you will do it for our dear sister in Christ. Your Word will not return to you void. Lord, you spoke to dry bones and they lived again. Sometimes we become weary in waiting to get to the promised land. We see that our dreams may sometimes take a while to come to pass. But, we know that you are in the business of breathing life into dry bones. You are in the business of making the impossible to be so. Bless our dear sister to hold onto your unchanging hand. Touch her heart, Lord, and bless her to know that you love her, care for her, and that her tears DO matter. Bless her to be able to see right through the lies that the enemy is playing over and over in her mind. Give her new words and a strong voice to combat those lies. Fill her with a thirst for more of You and your Word. Just comfort her as only You can Father. Fill her mind with Your truths and her mouth with Your praise. You are Jehovah Jireh and You can do all things. Open up the floodgates of heaven, Father, and bless her in a mighty way. Turn her situation completely around. Then, bless her to be able to use this storm as her testimony to speak to another brother or sister in their time of need.
In Jesus' name, Amen!
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with is being Jesus' friend. He's kinda rough on his friends. Ask St. Teresa de Avila, the one who founded the Carmelite order in Spain in the 1500's. After going through some very difficult times with accusations and gossip against her (she had revelations of Jesus and faced persecution), she was complaining to some of her own earthly friends. Later, Jesus told her, "Teresa, that's how I treat my friends." She replied, "No wonder you don't have many friends." That got her thinking that if he has so few true ones, why not be a very true one herself as well as the best she could be? He expects his friends to suffer. Most times, we look and pick aside the scriptures that tell us that G-d is going to deliver us. We want all the positives. What about the ones indicating that if He suffered, surely we will. He promised to be with us...during it all.
Many don't stick around. The temptation to leave him for a "better" temporal friend is fierce. Teresa overcame many things by a deep desire to love. So, my advice to you is to have this conversation to the universe, to the power out there - the one you sense. Give him all your questions, doubts, fear, even accusations...tell him everything. He hears it all. Be of good courage and seek love, no matter where you are.
loolalooh I'm not going to get preachy,I'm going to get ultra holy on you. It's not my pov and nor will it ever be. I know that your hurting and I know you are doing all you can to please God. Sometimes things we go through make no absolute sense at all. Sometimes the things we walk through just are like wow God why? Why let a baby be raped or why let a child be beaten and go hungry or why so much pain in the world? God's ways aren't your ways. I know it's not mines because so much wouldn't happen if I were god. But alas I'm not. Sometimes the things we go through isn't for out understanding and we are just suppose to stand and be firm.
I know for those of the intelligent variety this is a very hard thing to do. You know your doing all you can to be right and live pleasing to his sight. But then things still happen that are horrid. Right now I'm right there with you but unlike you I'm one foot over the line of walking away for good. However your testimony is far to valuable and your work for God is far too golden to walk away. I know it doesn't take away the pain and confusion and maybe it never goes away. However you have to stand firm and trust that even though you don't understand now and may never God did it for the ultimate big picture and which means at some point it will work for his glory./
loolalooh....
I dare you to leave God. i dare you. By the Grace of All Mighty God, I will not give you peace if you do.
Here's why:
God is making you stronger than the world and the circumstances that are facing you. Those who talk about leaving, let em' go. But don't you dare follow their path.
What gets me is this: With all of the poisons and counterfeit products and cheats in this world... The folks leaving God are not going to stop taking care of their hair, makeup, fashion, eating, drinking, driving, whatever else people do.
In other words, they're not walking away from the other aspects of life, YET they choose to doubt and leave God.
Please!
Let the world and the universe have them. But YOU are not going to lose out on the life and love that God has preordained for you.
I'm not through, but I'm going to bed now. I'm tired. I've had a long day and I only came in to respond to your post. i should have been in bed a long time ago. And trust, I love my sleep. But as my sister you were worth staying up for. I'm not allowing satan to have any part of destroying your life.
Keep posting the Word of God as you've been doing; Keep praying and do not stop reading the Word of God and do not stop believing Him.
I'll be back sometime tomorrow, but you can believe that I will be praying for you and I am not going to back down no matter who likes it or not. I really don't care. You are worth fighting for.
Sweet sleep Angel
loolalooh, first, please know that you stand were many believers have stood before. Even without knowing details, people over and over have been shaken to the core and felt like their faith could not stand in light of what was before them.
I have been there and it is possible to get to the other side.
The one thing I feel I can leave you with is the fact that, without Christ, whatever you've seen or experienced will still be there. You can confront it while abiding in Him, or confront it without. But again, nothing about the evil of this world goes away because a Christian walks away from their faith. The choices are the hard path with help or the hard path without it. Even if you feel like whatever you've seen/heard/experienced makes it impossible to believe in the Lord, it cannot negate all the good things you've experienced in Him. If you've seen Him truly before, sensed Him, known Him, then you know He's there. Even Jesus, for a moment, cried out "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
You can get to the other side of this. You can.
Sis, don't just think on it....ponder upon it, hold on it and don't let it go until you get your answer from God! Remember this: satan knows what's familiar to you and what buttons to press that would cause you to question yourself as a child of God. BUT, God, Our Father, would not have you to be ignorant of the devils devices he uses...Our Father makes a way for you, He always does.
While you are healing, the Lord will visit you in a way that you have never experienced Him before. You will understand and gain wisdom and knowledge of His plans for your life, and then you will be able to move in the position that He has set up for you.
I am with Shimmie...I will not let the devil win in your life. I will stand along side you and with all of us, how can satan win?
Jesus is truly Lord over your life....be like Jacob and hold on to God and don't let Him go until you get what you came for!
loolahloo the ladies in this thread shared a wealth of wisdom and encouragement, and I will be praying for you as well.
Indeed, you are a child of God and we overcome by the blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony.
We love you......
loolahloo, you are in my prayers as you go through with your procedure
If there was ever a test of faith. I believe you may truly be having a JOB moment.
Maybe you need to dig EVEN DEEPER.
MAYBE this is your time to fast. This is the time to get down on your knees and stay there. It seems its time for warfare. You can't go into warfare with a bible in your hands.
Believe it or not, God may be asking you to PUT DOWN YOUR BIBLE...and Hear ME. You can Stand on the WORD STILL AND FOREVER....But this time...more than ever seems to be YOUR TEST.
In this test...you don't have to walk away....(really...can you)?
And let me tell you....I don't know HOW BAD the news was....I don't know how awful it was...Or who lost who or what....And I have been in a dungeon before. I have been LOW before. I had a Job moment about 8 years ago....thinking that was the lowest I could get...Only to have anothr JOB moment a year ago (it will be a year ago on 1/11)...And here I am.
I am in a fast right now myself...I see it was YOU who I was supposed to pray for!
Peace.
loolalooh, praying for you that all goes well with the procedure.. God is with you always....
I don't know if what I'm about to post is for Loolaloh or someone else but God just reminded me of something. I have been going through this particular trial for almost an entire year now. I have gone through some ups and downs, anger, rage, outright mad at the Lord because he wasn't delivering me. I have cried entire nights and went into angry fits of throwing things. I simply did not see God moving in this particular situation although I have seen Him work in other situations where I have prayed for myself and others. I toyed with the idea of walking away and even fell into sin for a brief period. Then I had to ask myself, what in the world am I going to?? Suffering with God is better any day than suffering as an evildoer. So I had to get on my face before God and seek mercy. And God put something in my spirit one day:
Daniel 3:17-18 KJV
If it be so , our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. [18] But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
The 3 Hebrew boys were faced with certain death. They served a God they knew was able to deliver them from the fiery furnace but guess what, they said we know He's able, but even if he chooses not to deliver we still won't bow. I have learned a valuable lesson. The God I serve can make this situation vanish that I've been dealing with for over a year. But even if he doesn't, I'm not bowing. I'm not giving up! Though he slay me yet will I trust him. We're going to suffer in this life. But God gave us a comforter, we are not alone. We can't give up just because we go through. We have to press in that much harder.
When I took on that mind set I'm telling you I had peace. Things are still rough for me, yes. But leaving Jesus Christ is not an option. There is nothing to go to if I leave Him.
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You are loved my sister and I thank God for you!PART TWO
No amount of words can express my thanks, Shimmie. Thank you for all your prayers, for you fighting for me, the list goes on.
Thank you for your wisdom, nicola.kirwan. I had not considered that truth.
No amount of words can express my thanks to you as well, Nice & Wavy. Thank you for shedding light on what this time of healing could be, thank you for your prayers, and more.
Thank you for your prayers and hugs, PinkPebbles.
Thank you for the excerpt and your prayers, LiftedUp.
Thank you for all your prayers (now and before), Iwanthealthyhair67.
Thank you for your guidance and understanding, naturalgyrl5199.
Thank you for your prayers, Laela.
I definitely took away a lot from this post, MrsHaseeb. Thank you for sharing and thank you for your prayers.
PART ONE
I really should be resting right now but I had to come here and respond to everyone's post. Thank you ALL for reaching out during this time. I woke this morning intent on putting my spiritual walk on the back burner and just focusing on my physical. However, during one of my moments in the restroom today I instinctively said a prayer (concerning something else) to the Lord. After the prayer, I said "What am I doing? I'm not supposed to be praying." That's how I know how much a part of me this walk is. Even when my mind tries to put it behind me, it won't go behind me.
Anyway, I'm going to be useless for the rest of the week until I recover some from my procedure. I thank you all for praying for me. ALL your words (and PMs) means the world to me. I will check in as soon as I am physically able. In the mean time, know that I will be okay.
Love you all!
You are loved my sister and I thank God for you!
Amen, Shimmie!I came in to check on you. Please get your rest. We have you covered and your place in this forum will always be here for you. It's a confirmed position. And even more you are beyond confirmed in the heart of God your Father, always permanent in His heart.
Rest Precious Sister.... Rest in the arms of God your Father and Heal.
Love,
Shimmie