I’ve heard the same. Coincidence? “Do trust Me?” Always followed by something that requires trust. Also have heard “Do you know My voice?” ...many times.
For me it's just the repetition . . . Trust Me . . . Trust Me . . .
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I’ve heard the same. Coincidence? “Do trust Me?” Always followed by something that requires trust. Also have heard “Do you know My voice?” ...many times.
thank you. Will watch the video.It is Only us who place barriers , it is not God who is elusive. God doesn't play games hiding on us. God can change you if you are willing. He Loves you and stands waiting for you to come all the way to Him. He will give you a new heart. Sometimes people begin to believe--but they have not yet received Jesus and His grace.
Watch the video & Lee's testimony that I linked, I think it will help you.
For myself, I didn't feel close to God until I truly got humbled ,I was convicted by the Holy Spirit and truly saw myself as a despicable unworthy sinner, and repented & submitted myself and my life to Jesus as my Lord and Savior. At that time, I was willing to make a commitment by overcoming my resistance by seeking Him my whole heart, I attended Bible study, I sought out and attended faithfully a Bible believing humble church that preached THE BIBLE scripture by scripture. I worshiped with others and I prayed asking God to let me HEAR the Holy Spirit's teaching through that Pastor. I took a bible and used a highlighter & red ink in it to make notes in the margins on the scriptures.
Prior to that , when I was skeptical and seeking I listened to testimonies like from Lee Stobel to know why I should believe that Jesus was not just a legend, but HE is the Son of God who was crucified on Calvary and Jesus arose from the dead and that all the accounts in the bible are TRUTH. I humbly went on my knees and asked God for forgiveness for my life of rebelliousness & my doubt. I asked the Lord to forgive me my stubborness & the sins that I committed against HIM and I read the Psalms and prayed.
Lee Strobel A Case For Christ testimony-God's Promises are real. God will spiritually wash away your sins, He will cleanse you from all your impurities, He will Give you a New heart and a New Spirit. When that happens you will know that you belong to Jesus, that you are one of His sheep for ever more!
Ezekiel 36:26
"25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
26 I Will Give You a NEW HEART and Put a New Spirit within You;
I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.…"
For me it's just the repetition . . . Trust Me . . . Trust Me . . .
I’ve been reclusive my whole life. My mother is the same. If I had the choice between isolation or a crowd...I’d choose isolation. My husband is the opposite and fits in easily wherever he goes with whoever he is around. One social and needing others —the other the opposite. It has been a challenge and I do believe I’ve held him back from others.
Personalities are different but that is aside.I'm the same way, solitary. I would prefer to be alone whenever possible. And I was that way before I met God. And if anything, after I met Him, I became more solitary, not less. I also had a very outgoing husband.
Some people recharge their batteries being around others. Then people like us only become more exhausted the more we can't be alone. We need to be alone to recharge.
You don't have to feel guilty for being an introvert. Its how you're built. Once you understand that, you can be you unapologetically.
Do you remember in the Old Testament when the prophet challenged the false prophets to call down fire and their idol didn’t show up? But God ...the Living God...showed up when called upon and did exactly what He said He would do. I know God is real. But sometimes I doubt and it is as if I’m calling as those false prophets did and there is only silence. Nothing. My biggest fear and depression comes from what if He is not alive. What if like all the dead idols which have no breath or life and do not show up when called ...what if He is the same and just another idol without Life. I could take anything except ...Him not being the Living God. Atheists come here and say our God is not real. That He is just another religious idol. I ask God to please show up. They say they also believed once and called for His help and He never came. God said He came so that we could have Hope. Sometimes I feel like a dog chasing its tail ‘round and ‘round until it is exhausted. The darkest place of depression for me is in wondering if the God I’ve called on doesn’t answer...nothing but silence...like when they called on a false god who was not real...what then? As the disciples said “where would we go?”
I guess the question is: why is He elusive?
all of this is not about our comfort with others or our needing to charge our batteries by isolating.
The Scripture teaches us to Not to forsake assembling together.
There is a time for milk, and there is a time for meat.
There is a time for the flesh, and there is a time for the spirit.
To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.
That was the purpose that prompted this thread.
It is also why there was a time for Jesus to become flesh and walk among men, and also a time for Him to return to the Father God, whom is spirit.
It is also why there was a first Adam, and a Last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
It is also why there was an Israel, the first fold brought by Christ, and also another fold which He must bring.
It is also why we are born of the flesh, but must also be born of the spirit of God; why there is a natural body, and also a spiritual body.
It is also why the word of God has been written on tablets, and why they must also be written in our hearts.
It is also why the Word who inspired men to write the scriptures, would come to say, "The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life."
It is also why Jesus promised another Helper, the Holy Spirit...not to give what was His, the flesh, the writings on tablets, the earth, the moon, and sky, but also to give the kingdom of heaven.
It is also why Jesus laid down His life, and why He took it up again.
It is also why Paul preached to leave the elementary [worldly] principles of Christ, and to press on to the prize, to perfection.
And it is why the Beginning is different than the End.
Nonetheless, we have also heard of Israel following God, and not following God, and then following God again, and circling thus in the desert.
We have heard of God's deliverance from Egypt, and also how some seemed to prefer it and wanted to return.
We have of Israel being saved from disasters, calamity, pestilence, enemies, war, captivity, and fire, and them forgetting, and then remembering again.
We have read how Israel became so focused on what they thought was good and right before God, that they completely missed the coming of their Deliverer.
We have read about what the next times (the times of the gentiles, and the times of the gospel of Christ going out to the ends of the earth) are to be...first the natural, then the spiritual.
And we have read, "Then comes the end", and the faithful and the wise servant, the blessings and the cursings.
So the question is: Should be be about serving milk, or meat; serving the elementary principles of Christ like the law, or pressing on to perfection?
Well, you have all seen what has happened here, who has come out, who is preaching what, who is defending what, who has their eyes on the prize, and who has made the things of God a religion, and who has come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs.
Each person must decide. But do so quickly.
I don't know what to say...except, thank you for complimenting me on something that I have put forth effort to achieve in my personal walk concerning message boards. I have paid mind to my responses to people who come at me aggressively, that I do not respond in kind. (I have not been always perfect in this). Because I know that if I do respond in kind, I am no better than them...those who bear briers and thorns as fruit. I am not naming anyone in particular, but I think that deep down, they know who they are...and also, they are very likely hidden from those to whom they have not also responded in the same manner. But if they have been "prickly" to anyone else, those people have also felt the sting of the thorns that they bear...and I would suggest to those who have felt those pricks, that they consider them to be what Jesus has said them to be...wolves in sheep's clothing.Justbyfaith, you have done so well here. Just SO WELL. I kept hoping very hard that you would not revile back and I could see that you must have walked with God for a long time to have not been dragged under yourself at fleshy displays of pride and arrogance.
You have so encouraged me!
Exactly, nothing you said was arrogant. Many times it is how one chooses to hear, not what one actually stated.It is stupendous to see someone who supplants the authority of scripture with hearing God’s voice. If ppl want to hear from God, they must crack open their bible.
That’s not me being an arrogant jerk, but me defending the sufficiency of the Bible.
That is exactly right.Exactly, nothing you said was arrogant.
Many times it is how one chooses to hear, not what one actually stated.
Yes, unfortunately it's a way for someone to dismiss what was said while taking a swipe at someone's person at the same time.That is exactly right.
Thanks Scott.No. See John 17:20-23 as Jesus continues on to include all who believe in Him.
The interest needs to be in Scripture, it's context, glorifying God through what he reveals, and in the person of Christ. Not how one feels about a person, and how they reflect this in response to said person that is trying to convey the former values.Yes so is the mockery used to take a swipe at others....too bad they don't know the Bible is God-breathed. Instead, they think humans talking is equal to that wisdom.