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Relationship with God part 1: Confused?

Jonah

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I will hopefully make a part 2 if this goes well enough that will be on a different subject.

Sometimes I find myself asking: Am I a christian? It makes you try and think back to when you were saved, and if being in a christian family means you are saved already. You go away and try and pray about, to ask god to give you strength and know you need to be saved, but god not answering after so many times of asking makes you more confused and desperate. You carry on praying, but it becomes a routine and it looses meaning. Sometimes it happens with praise as well untill you only sometimes actually "feel" towards god. You carry on praying but it doesn't work and you begin to have anxieties. What if I'm not supposed to go to heaven? But all can be freed. Well what if I never am? And the argument with your soul continues untill your completely confused and feel as if you want to take out the confusing knot of knowledge from your head and start fresh. You have stages where you are closer to god and feel saved and other times when you are hanging on to your faith by the finger tips.
This is what it feel like, and sorry if it sounds confusing but it feels like that too. Could you please pray for me and also tell me if you know what I'm talking about. Feedback would be even better.
Thanks, Jonah:baffle:
 
I will hopefully make a part 2 if this goes well enough that will be on a different subject.

Sometimes I find myself asking: Am I a christian? It makes you try and think back to when you were saved, and if being in a christian family means you are saved already. You go away and try and pray about, to ask god to give you strength and know you need to be saved, but god not answering after so many times of asking makes you more confused and desperate. You carry on praying, but it becomes a routine and it looses meaning. Sometimes it happens with praise as well untill you only sometimes actually "feel" towards god. You carry on praying but it doesn't work and you begin to have anxieties. What if I'm not supposed to go to heaven? But all can be freed. Well what if I never am? And the argument with your soul continues untill your completely confused and feel as if you want to take out the confusing knot of knowledge from your head and start fresh. You have stages where you are closer to god and feel saved and other times when you are hanging on to your faith by the finger tips.
This is what it feel like, and sorry if it sounds confusing but it feels like that too. Could you please pray for me and also tell me if you know what I'm talking about. Feedback would be even better.
Thanks, Jonah:baffle:

I do not know if you are saved or not. To be saved you must repent of your sins, and ask for Jesus to come into your heart, and believe Jesus is the son of God, died for your sins and was risen from the dead three days later. Have you prayed and asked God into your heart? have you repented of your sins? (and I want to point out you are not going to be perfect when you do this you will still sin but as long as you have an attitude in your heart of repentance its ok... romans 5:20b But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:) And lastly do you believe Jesus died for your sins and was risen from the dead? If you answered yes to the questions above then Glory Glory Hallelujah, you ARE saved. If you didnt answer yes, then you need to get with God thru prayer.
I want to tell you a story. A man, very dear to me, Who has gone on to be with the Lord once told me this story. He had gotten saved. But every sunday at church he would go to altar call and "get saved again" repeating the salvation prayer. He told me he doubted if he was actually saved or not but just wanted to make sure. He said one day God spoke to him and said "What are you doing?" He replied, going to get saved. God replied "I already saved you. Sit back down" (this isnt word for word I am paraphrasing of course). This man said in the end of all this he learned to just trust God by believing His Word, or The Bible. If God said it then it is so, it is true God does not lie. What my point is is we cant go on "feelings" as you said in your post. We must go on faith. We must believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith and not by sight.
This is an old saying:
Three men were walking on a wall, Feeling, Faith, and Fact. Feeling took an awful fall and Faith was taken back. But Fact remained both strong and true, and that brought back Faith and Feeling too.
1 peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Now as far as what you said about not supposed to go to heaven... John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
and even more.... 2 peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
God loves you more than any human language can say. He loves you enough to Have His only begotten son be whipped with a cat-o-nine, have his beard yanked out, a crown of thorns mashed down on his head, people spit in his face and mock him, and finally to be hung on a cross all to pay for your and my sins so we will not perish in our sins. There is no greater love than you lay down your life for your friends. And the bible says if we do what he commands Jesus will call us friends.(john 15:13) Jesus did not die in vain.
I am going to pray for you, and I tried to give feed back either way, if you are or are not saved. I hope it has helped you in some way.
 
Hi Jonah! Did you know that you are named after the greatest evangelist short of Jesus Himself? Due to his preaching a whole city of hundreds of thousands repented in just a couple of days. And Jonah's heart wasn't even in it. But when we are weakest, that's when God is the stongest in us.... IF we are saved and serving God in whatever way we can. We are at heart a dark soul that desires to sin in many ways,,,.because we have this dark heart where the evil desires come from, we must ask Christ to come into that/our heart, to clean it up, and stay there to keep His redeeming heart covering ours with the desires of the Holy Spirit. If you have asked Christ to live inside you, and to forgive you your sins, then you must trust His redeeming work to keep you on the path till the day of your journeys end on this earth. I would be glad to pray for you!!
 
Thanks Alot Eddie,
This was very encouraging and I do feel I need to be more faithful. I just got stressed because what my mind said to be true, my heart did not feel. It was like my mind was saying "Jesus saved me by dying on the cross" and my heart said "so what?". It made feel like that I didn't have faith and it troubled me. Now I realise that if I obey god and praise him, then that is when I begin to love him for who he is. Thankyou for praying for me too.
p.s I did know about everyone being able to enter heaven, it was just an example of doubt.

Thanks alot Brad,
I do realise that my heart is naturally against god and only he can change that. Even a great prophet like Jonah number 1 was against god. but god used him. John Newton was a slave trader, until god changed him and he went on to write probably the most famous hymn ever. I need to be more enclined to worship him, and then he will give me his spirit. Thank you for praying for me.
 
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