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S. Michael Houdmann
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There are two primary ways Christians can stop doubting God. The first is reading the Bible. In order to stop doubting, trust must be built. But it is hard to trust a stranger, or even an occasiona...
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Jeanetta Bass
Supporter
You are not alone please don't think that u r. Every person doubt God at some point in time. I don't care how big or small the ministry of God's children will doubt Him. You can read ur word all day pray just as much and u will still have the tendency to doubt and not trust God. But don't let that cause u to not move forward. That just that flesh part of us trying hard not to relinquish that part of the mind that's all. The darkest hour is just be dawn so just know that u r winning and what u thought u had to break through Christ Already did that. If hard on us because we have never known love like this without limitation and the traditions of man. God knows ur heart and ur struggles. It's hard to trust in a God that u have never seen and people's opinion about Him differs everyday. He is real, He loves you and need you in His life to do ur part in this wonderful love story here on planet earth We fall down but we get up. Soidlers in the army of the Lord
Johnnatta Giles
Supporter
Doubt comes from not having faith in God. It takes time to build our faith. The best thing you can do is ask God to help you in your unbelief. By reading the word of God and opening yourself up in prayer your faith will increase. I think the best way to help is taking baby steps. Believe God to do something in your life daily. It can be something so small like God I have faith you will get me to work safely today and back home. Its not by accident that you are still here :) My hardest thing i struggled with doubt was the gifts that God gave me and that I wasnt meant to suffer. I couldnt believe that there was more to life than what I had been through. So i read scripture and I found some books on faith. It was hard but i did exactly what i just told you to do and He changed my heart. And it became real to me. Whatever it is that you are doubting find scripture on it. Read it daily and pray and ask God to let His word transform your heart. He will do it because it is His will for you to trust in Him. Remember it is God who changes us we cannot do it ourselves.
Bill Gillan
Supporter
A question which all believers will struggle with at times. Thanks all for your responses, I think the fact that you ask the question says a lot about your desire to mature in your faith and walk with our Father. The above responses are true in that we need to increase our knowledge of God and come before him in prayer. When I find myself with such thoughts I have come to realise that it's something to do with me and not God. I doubt my relationship with God either because I think he doubts me or I have not done enough on my side of the relationship to earn his love. This is where the knowledge of his word strengthens us. God is love. He loves us so much Jesus died for us. The reason being to restore our relationship to the Father and not the other way around. That is why we can come before the throne of God having been made right by faith in Jesus. God established a relationship with Israel and even when they walked away he always had a plan to restore it. So I would like to finish by saying that when I doubt my relationship with God I come to him in honest prayer and tell him exactly what I'm feeling. He knows it anyway so why try to hide it. When I do so he reminds me of his word, his promises and his love for me. He will never let me go, when I wander he comes looking, when I get it wrong I'm still loved. He died for me as I was before I accepted the claims of Jesus so why should it change now AND one day I'm going to be with him forever and he with me.
Dale Casselman
Supporter
I think that having any doubts about your relationship with God is the last thing that you need to worry about. You see, the fact that this is a concern for you is proof that you have already passed from death unto life. It is because of the Spirit regenerating you, giving you a new heart, and the mind of Christ, that has you longing for God's righteousness. The truth is that you already have the righteousness of God. Sure, the flesh is weak and it does give into sin, but you are no longer walking according to the flesh, and you don't. You are not the flesh. You have been given a new spirit inside that flesh. The flesh has been crucified with Christ. Your sins are paid in full and forgotten completely. You are as close to God right now, as you can be. You have God on the inside offering up prayers on your behalf. You have Jesus on the outside, interceding with the Father on your behalf. I mean [Eph. 2:6] says that we are already seated in Christ Jesus in the heavenlies. [2 Tim 2:13] says that if we are faithless, He remains faithful. [John 10:28] says that no one can snatch us out of His hand. It really doesn't get any better than this. The truth is, you have passed from death unto life. There is now, no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [Rom 8:1]. You are sealed with the Paraclete, and on the last day, He will raise you up in glory. Better relationship? That's God's responsibility, and He completed it in Christ. You need to rest in this simple truth. Don't let anyone lie to you by telling you that you need to do anything. That would then change from grace to a works based salvation. Good is pleased with you right now. Stop listening to anyone that says, that you gotta do this or you better do that. I mean you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Get of the hamster wheel and rest in the finished work of Jesus.
Jay Saunders
Supporter
A big obstacle for many of us is our earthly parents. Some of us have had parents that could be totally trusted to be there for us through thick and thin. This is an old country expression meaning confidence in our parents to be on our side, or dependable to tell us the truth whether it hurt or not. When our earthly parents have abandoned us, been unreliable, or even cruel and abusive, it is hard to trust a heavenly Father we can not see. But when we understand that our heavenly Father is always good, fair, just, kind, and equitable, we can begin to trust him totally and completely with anything, even our weaknesses. Wow! What a relationship that can be developed beyond our wildest expectations. Guided not by emotions, but by the wisdom that he has given us through his Holy word. That same holy word, spoken and believed upon without doubt, can accomplish the seemingly impossible.
Leslie Coutinho
Supporter
Malachi 2:17: Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, “Wherein have we wearied him?” When ye say, “Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them”; or, “Where is the God of judgment?” One needs to discern in the right spirit, words spoken through your mouth, “a direct reflection of what fills your heart and mind, which is stored in you.” (Lk 6:45) In the land of Uz, “Job, who was perfect and upright, feared God and eschewed evil from his sight, having no doubt, keeping his relationship with God the Father.” (Job 1:1) There was a day when the sons of God who came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them. The Lord God then said to Satan, “Whence comest thou?” Satan then said, “Going to and fro on the earth, and walking up and down on it.” Lord then said unto Satan, “Hast thou considered my servant Job, for there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:6-8) Satan then said, “He is having a hedge and a blessing on him, put by the Lord; therefore, put thine hand and touch all that he had, and he will curse thee to thy face.” The Lord then said unto Satan, “Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon him put forth not thine hand.” Satan then went forth from the presence of the Lord. (Job 1:10-12) Satan then came, when “Job’s oxen were plowing, asses feeding, fire that burned the sheep, camels being carried away, and servants being slayed.” (Job 1:14-17) Then came another man to Job and said, “Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking, there came a great wind and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon them, and they are dead.” Job arose and rent his mantle, shaved his head, and fell upon the ground and worshiped the Lord. “In all this Job sinned not, nor did he charge God foolishly with his lips.” (Job 1:18-20,22,2:10) Job went through the trials and tribulations, knowing, “No thought can be withheld from the Lord God,” for, “He heard by hearing of the ear, and His eyes that seeth the Lord.” (Job 42:2,5) God the Father sent His messenger, John the Baptist, to prepare the way before our Lord Jesus, whom we shall seek. (Mala 3:1) Lord Jesus, after being baptized, went into the wilderness, and then came into the synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom. (Mat 4:1,23/Lk 19:43) During the end times, “More than a prophet! There shall be messengers, His two witnesses, who shall come to prepare the way before thee.” (Mala 4:4-5/Mat 17:3/Rev 11:3) Job knew no thought can be withheld from the Lord God (Job 42:2), having the right Spirit in him, “God the Father who searcheth the heart of men, knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit that maketh intercession with the will of God the Father.” (Rom 8:26-27) Lord Jesus, preaching and revealing the Word of God, in the temple, a day came when the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who was caught in adultery. They said to our Lord Jesus, “Master, this woman was taken in adultery, Moses in the law commanded that such to be stoned to death.” Lord Jesus then stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground, as thou He heard them not. (John 8:2-6) When they continued asking, He then lifted up Himself and said unto them. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone on her,” Lord Jesus stooped down and then wrote on the ground." They who heard it, who wearied the Lord, then being convicted by their own conscience, went out of the temple one by one, and thus Lord Jesus was then left alone with her. Lord Jesus then said unto her, “Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more.” (Joh 8:7-11) Ephesians 4:29-30: Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but “that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
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