What do I do if I pray really intense prayers when I’m going through a hard time and nothing changes still. I don’t wanna go to him just cuz I need help I try and talk to him all the time but this thing just keeps coming back and idk why if it’s out of my control or it’s cuz I’m lukewarm I just don’t know what to do. Does that mean I’m unsaved if I’ve been not treating him good or feel close
I’ve struggled with this before just praying constantly like it says to pray without ceasing in scripture, or do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. After we pray, God invites us to trust Him to answer our prayers- and part of that is trusting that He heard us and will answer the first prayer we pray. So part of actually giving up something to Him in prayer is letting go and trusting Him with it. Once practice that can help is having a “God box” where you write down what you need from God and put it in a box. And if you don’t trust that He’ll answer it, you can “take it back” from Him and confess that you haven’t trusted Him with it. It’s kinda like ERP for prayer but it’s a way to grow in faith and trust in God. And to answer your question Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God”
It doesn't mean you are not saved. It does not mean you are lukewarm! The OCD wants you get you to question your salvation and worry about things like that. God actually wants you to be free from the torment of worry that the OCD causes. So give yourself grace!! God has compassion on your suffering. I am so sorry this so so hard. OCD gives us a distorted view of God. But God is not actually giving us rules like the OCD does.
Suffering is not opposite of God. Jesus suffered intense agony in the garden before he died (enough to sweat blood) asking if God would spare him from the cross- he willingly went through with it because of how much he loves us. Suffering allows us to experience as Jesus did. He didn’t have OCD, but we live in a fallen world and will never have peace here….. but God walks with us and uses suffering to grow us and ultimately it’s for our good. Check out Romans 5:3-5
I’m trying to change my prayers from “God please take it away” to “God please walk with me through this and give me your strength to fight it” because he will fight with us and the comfort of knowing he’s with me is so lovely
There is app called bible chat it will answer all your questions about God.
So I almost said something against the Holy Spirit the devil has been trying to get me to say something against it for like weeks now and has been trying to get me to see Jesus in like a scary way with like devil horns and all of that stuff like that and then last night he made the cross my mind where I wasn’t scared to go to hell but I truly am and I see how he’s playing on my emotions and the fact that where I tried to cry, but I couldn’t cry anymore and he keeps trying to convince me to say these things that I don’t wanna say and he he keeps trying to get me to say that I curse the Holy Spirit, but I don’t I really truly don’t and then I just started to feel weird last night like I didn’t feel anything I felt really empty and then I keep praying and trying to talk to God, but I can’t feel him or the Holy Spirit. I’m scared because I feel like I’m going to hellwhat do I do? Also like as if he was on the cross and that they Holy Spirit is evil. Every form of blasphemy I feel like I’ve committed how do I fix this because now I feel empty and scared to go to hell
It’s so hard to pray to God. I don’t want o put him on the back burner but I get anxiety talking to him and sitting in his presence. Then I will force myself to but then I just feel dumb since my flesh doesn’t want me to. And I pray and rush it then immediately scroll on my phone after cuz I get stressed and don’t know how to hear from him bc if I pray and just wait for Him I will get intrusive thoughts over and over and like I can’t even hear him anyway my mind is constantly going 1 million miles an hour and I have so many real life problems too on top of the ocd that makes it even harder.
Hello, I've been really struggling with my relationship with God since I believe He is coming soon. I've made alot of mistakes I've turned from but I don't think I've sought or advocated enough for hurt I've caused I don't know if God will help me or has His back turned from me. I don't know where I stand with Him and I pray He restores those I hurt truly
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