It all starting at the beginning of this year, i was going through fine with God's plans that i thought he called me for , had a awesome spirit and energy to pursue what i believe was for me but it was not so. The reason i thought this was what God called me for was because after i prayed about a specific thing. I was getting alot of confirmation, i was getting it from my pastor, from God's word, from quotes that would pop up on my news feed on social media, everything was going so wonderful until something crazy happened. I woke up out of my sleep like around 5.00 am one day....i think it was new years eve morning......... everyone was still asleep and i was the only one that was up. I felt somehow in my spirit that God was calling me to do something at that very moment hence the reason why he woke me up out my bed to do something specific. So i followed thinking it was going to work out because i believe this was God's work but it didn't work out . That's when i started getting angry at God because it was something i really wanted and it was according to God's will, i believe in my heart that i had gotten the confirmation i needed, you know, repetitive messages which is one way that God speaks , over and over again i was getting confirmation in many areas of my life and it all vanished just in one morning. Believe me when i tell you i cried my eyeballs out that day, i thought in my mind like how could God do this to me after everything i've been through, A God that loved me would hurt me this way....i was so angry and from then on my life has went down hill from there.....i still serve God and everything....still worship and pray and read his word but i will never understand why it happened because everything was falling into place in every way and now i believe i lost my faith and in trusting God because what he did was unbelievable, we have spoken so long about this, yes he a reason for why he did it but i will never understand why? and i am not going to question God about it, i'm sure he has a purpose for the why i have in the back of my mind, i just need to wait and see, eventually he will reveal his will for me. But until then i believe i've lost my faith and my purpose i believe i once had.
How can i get back my faith? I think i've lost it.
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I am so laughing at you, for you have the beginning marks of a child of The Living GOD being train by GOD.
I am not going to say no more. Since this is your first seen as a member of “TalkJesus”. Com.
It might be a one day thing for you. And you might be one of those who is only seeking to do great things for GOD.
Gook luck.
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I'm not laughing.
When our hopes are crushed it can be devastating, especially when we thought God was directing us in a particular path.
Talk to anyone who has followed Jesus for a long time and they will be able to tell stories of painful disappointment. I certainly can.
Or read the psalms, which are full of people taking their frustrations and feelings of abandonment to God.
And yes, in time I'm sure that you'll be able to look back and see God's goodness in this situation.
With prayers,
When our hopes are crushed it can be devastating, especially when we thought God was directing us in a particular path.
Talk to anyone who has followed Jesus for a long time and they will be able to tell stories of painful disappointment. I certainly can.
Or read the psalms, which are full of people taking their frustrations and feelings of abandonment to God.
And yes, in time I'm sure that you'll be able to look back and see God's goodness in this situation.
With prayers,
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If anyone want to follow Jesus that person better take a look what path he took, they might want change their mind. There is map available for to read. But let it be known “Once you put your hands to the Plow”
Tam’s Quote almost 2 months ago, almost:
“It all starting at the beginning of this year, i was going through fine with God's plans that i thought”
Like what made you think it was not GOD’s plan?
“All things work together for the good to those who love GOD called according to HIS purpose”
“why people think GOD acts like a “ Fortune 500” Club? In GOD’S club you going to cross! And by the time you make it to Heaven you going to be Raggedy as can be, you are going to need some new clothes!
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Tam123, Hekuran is right in that there are others, in the BODY OF CHRIST, who have experienced something similiar that can, at first, be discouraging. It's hard not to feel disappointment when something ( or someone) that you have set your heart on...gotten confirmations...and, then, it's gone. I can testify to that happening MANY times in my life....especially, the "someone" loss. But, King Jesus has revealled alot of the "whys" the longer that I have stayed in Christ. Not that I have had a perfect walk. But, whenever I threw one of those "baby Christian tantrums" in the beginning, I missed my fellowship with Him too much to stay away for long. I need His closeness like I need air. Without it, my heart hurts.....He is my everything. My walk in Christ is over 40 years old. If I told you all the things that "others" had prophesied over me and "spoke over me" that has not come to pass....and, that I, myself, spoke over others...IN ERROR...that have not come to pass.....you would wonder if I ever knew King Jesus. Zealousness while NOT being rooted has made many walk away from the faith. (STUDY THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER IN LUKE 8:5-8 , 11-15 - MATTHEW 13:3-23 - MARK 4:3 - 9, 13 -20) Let me encourage you, Tam123, that what you are experiencing is what many in Christ may labelled as a "lesson in the ALL sufficientcy of our Loving, Faithful Father's grace." Is it a tough lesson?Yess. But, is it a necessary one for the building up of our "spiritual" muscle? ABSOLUTELY! One of the "fruits of the Spirit" is longsuffering...patience. That does not come from getting everything that YOU want, when YOU want it, the way YOU will accept it. STAY IN CHRIST and King Jesus will show you ALL of the "whys" of your disappointments. You will learn that our Loving, Faithful Father ALWAYS desires to give us HIS best. He does what pleases HIM...and HE does all things according to HIS Word. Amen? STAY ENCOURAGED. THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!
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I am NOT laughing also.
What you are experiencing is very common regarding Faith , you can't lose something, if maybe you didn't have it in the first place!
You don't manufacture Faith, it is a gift of God:
Ephesians 2: 8-9
I don't know you...maybe you haven't acknowledged to God that you are sinful.
That is the beginning.
Get on your knees, acknowledge your sin and ask God for His free gift of Grace and Belief and God will take care of the rest!
What you are experiencing is very common regarding Faith , you can't lose something, if maybe you didn't have it in the first place!
You don't manufacture Faith, it is a gift of God:
Ephesians 2: 8-9
I don't know you...maybe you haven't acknowledged to God that you are sinful.
That is the beginning.
Get on your knees, acknowledge your sin and ask God for His free gift of Grace and Belief and God will take care of the rest!
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Please, I would not be surprised if the next time she appears on TalkJesus would sometime be in the next 5 or 10 years. And I do hope this is not true.
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You hope what is not true?
Hello Tam123,
This is an interesting post. However, you have not mentioned at all what you believe God has called you to do. This makes it difficult to understand why you were so upset when everything fell flat. I do not want to speculate about possible causes. I can give plenty of biblical answers that possibly could help you but God does not work on speculation. In order for me to pray and get wise counsel from God for you I need more information in order to get to the core problem. Now I encourage you to post additional information regarding what you believe God called your to do and we can go from there.
I will be waiting to see if there is any response.
Blessings in Jesus
This is an interesting post. However, you have not mentioned at all what you believe God has called you to do. This makes it difficult to understand why you were so upset when everything fell flat. I do not want to speculate about possible causes. I can give plenty of biblical answers that possibly could help you but God does not work on speculation. In order for me to pray and get wise counsel from God for you I need more information in order to get to the core problem. Now I encourage you to post additional information regarding what you believe God called your to do and we can go from there.
I will be waiting to see if there is any response.
Blessings in Jesus
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Can you share what it was that you think God was leading you to accomplish? That may be the key to why you are in this place of confusion.
And it’s not true that every time you receive confirmations it’s always from God. The devil can do the same to sidetrack you, the key is what you were praying to God about. If you’re praying about some kind of worldly accomplishment the devil can easily come in as a false gift giver because God does not want our minds to be absorbed about the things of this world. Do not love this world is what the apostles taught.
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Ephesians 2 : 8-9
God gives us Faith/Belief.
Thank Him for Jesus dieing for our sins.
Once you have done that and have accepted His free gift of Faith and Belief, worry about nothing else!
God gives us Faith/Belief.
Thank Him for Jesus dieing for our sins.
Once you have done that and have accepted His free gift of Faith and Belief, worry about nothing else!
Since you have not conveyed exactly what God had called you to do and encountered disappointments, I can only offer possible solutions for which you need to ask Jesus if this be so or not.
In these latter days, a lot of believers are becoming religious in binding themselves to do what they believe God called them to do like making a commitment or a promise to do that when Jesus would not have us be bound to earth to do any of His work, but to do what He had asked us to do for that day or God be willing, for a period of time. In other words, if you had made a commitment or a promise or set your heart to be bound to that purpose on earth, then the disappointment is to set you free from that bondage on earth so you will be free to go when the Bridegroom comes. Scripture is here to show the necessity for Jesus to set us free from being overcharged for the cares of this life.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
So if you have been feeling that this is your charge as in your purpose to do in life in serving Him every day, then maybe you should reassess how you were doing that which God called you to do, especially if you set your value on that purpose rather than seeing what the Lord will do that day until He calls you Home.
James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
We may see what He wants us to do but it is not something we are bound to earth to do as if that is our purpose in life and so to be bound to do this for the Lord. It is not about us, but to see what the Lord will do that day until it is time to go Home. The Just shall live by faith, in Him and all His promises to us for why He needs no commitments nor promises from us.
Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage..... 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:.... 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
John 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Not sure if the Lord will use this video to help you, but she is talking about what you are talking about.
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If you took notice, she posted a thread the same day she joined “Feb. 17, 2022” and never log on again, but maybe view the sight. But from the day she posted it seems right away, all the signs of this “Parable” I said; seems, which is also noted in my post in reply; post # 7.
“And these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 16“And in a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; 17and they have no firm root in themselves, but are onlytemporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.”
PS. And it is very understandable. Reason; because it is, from those who have lead us, Never go on or stand on, The confirmation of a man or a mortal human. Dreams and visions. Even, your own thoughts! If you believe God want you to go or do, He better “Pick you up and take you there”. That Satan He appears like “A Messenger of LIGHT” shining on a thousands hills! “stand still and watch”. Do not move, until GOD takes me there. Some people believe in “vain faith” or “vain hope” that ship will let you down ever time. Sail you out, on The 7 Seas! You will be so far from land, with out paddle, and I don’t care how bright your light is! It is dark out there.
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'So then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God.'
(Rom 10:17)
Hello @Tam123.
Your faith initially came by hearing the word of God concerning the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord: you believed what you heard and placed your trust in God to do what He said He would do, in His Word. I believe that growth occurs in the same way. You hear, you believe and you trust God . Feelings are fickle and experiences unreliable, but God's word is sure. Trust God. He is teaching you to walk by faith and not by sight.
Do you think your post #2 was responsible for her not coming back?
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Ploughboy....You're mean and nasty right clear through....This person is asking for help and you deficated on them. For all your bragging and judging, there appears to be nothing of Love in you. You need Jesus in your life.....I would say it in gentler ways but you don't seem to understand gentler ways
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Hey Tam
Romans 10:17
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Get into the Word and read it out loud...Always read it out loud.....The very first voice your spirit will believe is your voice....so when you read the Word aloud your voice goes inot your ears, your spirit hears and believes, then your mouth will begiin to speak it, then your voice will go into your ears......When you speak Gods Word about anything, you speak with His power coming out of your mouth and things happen.
