I started crying watching this. I've felt this way for years and it's gotten more severe lately I want to believe so badly and receive the holy spirit and know that christ is God and that he died for us but i can't. I'm trying so hard and I dont know what else to do. God please help me. If anyone is okay with praying for me please pray for me :( I need help
@@cest5401 I honestly thought I was the only one who felt this way. We should all pray for each other, because honestly, for me , I desperately want to be saved and want to have a relationship with Jesus.
U do know it's just demons attacking ur mind, u just said u pray that means u know theres a God u know hes infinite were not that means we need a infinite saving which was the infinite God in the flesh.
i am not even christian but i found this video because i am losing faith in my own religion and it frustrates me so much that i am doubting because i've believed all my life but with getting older it is becoming harder and harder to believe things and being happy in general.
That's what has happened to me: I knew it was the truth, but I couldn't have faith! I finally realized it was not with my brain that I would have it, but only God could give it to me! I prayed : God, help my unbelief. And I was sooo thirsty! A week after, God gave me faith, I had an encounter with God, heard him in my spirit telling me: you are mine now! Just pray and be like a child, waiting everything from God :) 🙏
RECIPE FOR HOW TO REGAIN FAITH ---> If you don't know how to regain your faith in God, here is a recipe for you because I went through the same thing and I think this is the right recipe for it: a more peaceful approach is always better because this way you look down on others, convinced that you are really right because you stuck to a purely logical conclusion and view of things (that's how it looks from the side) and it's as if you don't leave room for what even you, so intelligent, don't fully know, and the question is whether God as such can even be understood logically , despite the fact that we possess or have been given such an understanding, even a doubtful one. Faith is not a matter of reason. And the logical mind cannot fathom many things, we are also rationally limited beings. Don't get so much used to this world and that you know how it really work, because you really don't. You just noticed some patterns. Remember that you are an SOUL. Think like one. Remember how is it to be one: You can never learn everything about this world, you just started. Stay unaccustomed, stay in tune, stay in anticipation. Stay faithful IN your ignorance, not TO it. I hope you will not hear this message of mine in a wrong tone, it was written with good intentions and a calm spirit.
Faith comes by hearing...and hearing the WORD of God. I struggled with this sittuation of not understanding who Jesus is for most of my life. I am 50 going on to 51 years of age. I was a Jehovah's Witness from 15years of age. I was disfellowshiped for visiting other churches trying to find out what the Bible really taught about Jesus Christ. My sister was Penticostal and used to tell me that the JW was a cult and so I begun to sturdy from outside materials seeking truth. She used to tell me that Jesus is God and I just couldn't understand how, knowing what JW had taught me. Only recently the Holy Spirit brought to my attention that truth from bible verses from the Holy Bible by the Apostle Paul's gospels. If only we just empty our minds of man-made phylosphies and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us into the Bible's truths.
This is exactly how I used to feel all the time! Pray and tell God how you feel about this topic... be completely honest! He wants to listen to you and take away your anxieties/fears. The closer you get in a relationship with God, the harder the road gets with doubts, persecution, loss of people you thought were friends, etc. All of those things are part of God’s plan for you to get closer with Him! The attacks from the devil also increase. Those voices in your head saying you won’t be saved are from the devil. He wants you to feel unworthy and incapable of inheriting the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ died for your sins and took EVERY OUNCE of punishment which was supposed to be ours. The more you remind yourself and thank God for that, the closer you will get to God, along with the higher certainty that you will inherit Heaven! Hope this helps!! God bless and I’ll be praying for you 💕
As a Christian, i've learnt that nobody in the beginning has 100% faith. We live in a world where if we cant see/test something, it doesn't exist. But i learnt that we must break away from the Physical reality and live in the Spiritual reality. Be one with God and you're doubts will go.
peace& Love this made me realize that everythin isnt over for me...Im so dissapointed with myself bc im struggling with religion but i still pray. Hopefully everything will change one day. Amen.
@@aba-jt4sl I was similar to you guy's faith was essentially dead to me for most of my life. Eventually though I realized with the studying I had done made me jaded, and philosophy had opened me up to how grey everything really turns out to be. I think we are creatures of mind and emotion. The emotion is the heart, but the depths of the heart to me is almost art. I see us as soul, and deeper essence. I have felt things, but maybe that's just my experience.
PLEASE STOP AND LISTEN!! I was struggling with this so much until I tapped into and embraced the faith I already have because if your afraid of not believing, that means that you do have faith because something in you knows it’s true, you’re just afraid of your lack of faith in it, but if you embrace the faith you already have, then that’s all you need! Don’t be afraid just depend on your mustard seed faith no one’s faith is perfect. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” so embrace the faith you already have! You don’t have to believe perfectly! It’s not about the size of faith all that matters is that you have it! Learn about God’s fatherly love for you and that will help grow ur faith. And that will give u the security and confidence u need to exercise ur faith! Because love casts out fear. I would recommend u guys watch the video about salvation OCD by mark dejesus.
@@Nox-mb7iu I’m so very happy to help my friend :) reject fear and chose peace. God will take care of you. Meditate on scriptures about faith as well that really helps as well as fasting and praying ❤️
@@maggiesamson7480 I’m so very happy to help my friend :) reject fear and chose peace. God will take care of you. Meditate on scriptures about faith as well that really helps as well as fasting and praying ❤️
I’ve been doubting Jesus big time, and it hit me harder today. When I say doubting Jesus, I mean doubting the fact that he’s the Son of God, he walked this earth, he died for me, and rose again. I thought I was doing well in my walk with God, but I have to accept this before I can do anything. I’ve been trying, but doubt keeps coming back and I don’t know what to do. I shudder at the fact of not believing, because I don’t want to go to hell. I know for a fact that Jesus is real, but for some reason, my mind is having an extremely hard time accepting God’s free gift. It really terrifies me. I’m trying to keep the Faith, and just Faith in general. There’s so many things I must improve on to be a better Christian, a better believer. I pray that the Lord will work things out for me, although I believe he will. Please help pray for me! God bless ❤
@@KristinsTunes reject the fear. Don’t be afraid, just keep seeking Him by praying, fasting (if healthy for you), and reading the Bible. Pray everyday to God and ask for bigger faith, Jesus encourages us to keep praying for what we need read luke 11:5-10 this parable talks about being persistent in prayer. “So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it will be opened”-Jesus Christ. So please keep knocking! As you walk with God more and more you will start to grown in faith. And please write down scriptures about faith and meditate on them day and night. Let’s fight the good fight. Understand that your human feelings are NOT truth. God’s word is truth! So when doubts come rebuke them and replace them with a scripture that speaks truth. Start putting in the full armor of God. Wear the shield of faith and walk in wisdom that you’re given through God’s word. If you accepted Jesus into your life, then don’t worry, God’s not mad at you but He wants you to trust in him more. Just walk by what Jesus has taught and what the Bible has said and keep talking to Jesus. Also look up Christian chats on google for support if you need it! You can talk to a Christian counselor for free! Meditate on the gospel and ask for help from the Holy Spirit! You are precious in the sight of God! ❤️ reject what Goes against God! “Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (proverbs 3:5-6) God can do things beyond our wildest imaginations!
I watched this about a year ago, and I'm back to say thank you. It's been a long process, but this video was the beginning of a journey that led me to God through Christ. I have finally directly experienced the undeniable presence of the Holy Spirit. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
@Slidehhy for months I had been spending hours each evening listening to apologetics and systematically going through every objection that came to mind and actively seeking out what the arguments were against my objections. Given that theology had been debate for thousands of years, I found thoughtful, rational arguments for each one. Starting from the rationale for expecting that the universe had a caused beginning, the rationale for why that cause is best explained by a bring with personal agency. Then getting into whether that creator would be the God of the Bible. Digging into the historicity of Christ. Extra-biblical, non Christian first century sources that confirm the basic details of Christ's life and crucifixion. The historical evidence of early church fathers writings that confirm the beliefs were not changed over the centuries. Them pairing that with learning about the many detailed, specific, time-bound prophecies that were fulfilled in the old testament. And the prophecies especially ps.22 and Isaiah 53 which were both written long before Christ, prophecy the specific historically confirmed details of his persecution, and then make the outrageous (for the time) prediction that this suffering of the Messiah will cause the whole world to abandon their gods and turn to the God of weak and fractured little Israel. Something no world empire had ever achieved. And yet, over the last few thousand years AFTER these prophecies were written, we've seen them come to pass. The good of Israel, the monotheistic Abrahamic God, has been accepted by people on every continent, and very few polytheistic religions are left. But... I still didn't really believe. Rationally, intellectually, academically, I was fascinated to discover that there was actually so much reason to believe. I was shocked to discover it really isn't blind faith. I'd just always refused to genuinely seek out the arguments. But despite compiling a list of evidences and arguments pages long, I still didn't feel it in my heart. I didn't have a strong reason NOT to believe, but supernatural things just weren't "supposed to" exist. I was really struggling with the fact that I was starting to conclude God to be the most probable explanation for our reality, but that I still just couldn't believe in my heart. So I prayed about it. I listed off to God every piece of evidence in my list, one by one. And after each point I would honestly say, "and yet I don't believe". I had heard Christians often say they had personal relationship with God, and I really felt I needed that. I asked God to help my really know Him. Not just have a bunch of academic arguments bouncing around in my head, but please God just let me KNOW you. I then sat in silent prayer for about an hour. Nothing was happening. I was getting antsy. I had been an atheist for 37 years. I knew it was presumptuous to expect God to give me some big revelation so soon. I figured he'd probably test me longer. So after about an hour, I was ready to give up. I thought, "It's okay God, it doesn't have to be today. It's up to your will, not mine. I'm not gonna make demands of you. I'll keep trying as long as it takes". The instant I completed that thought, though I was sitting in a dark room at night, it was like a dimmer switch started turning on the lights behind my closed eyelids. It started gradual and then spotted up in intensity until it was blinding bright. Simultaneously I felt a sensation akin to getting the chills, but instead of the tingling passing over my body, it thumped into the center of my chest and such there, where it also accelerated and intensified. It was like a harmonic resonance vibration sensation. Like a Tibetan singing bowl or a tuning fork. It's hard to describe because there was a sense of awe but it was also terrifying. I was afraid I might go blind, or have a heart attack because the energy seemed to much for my body to contain. The whole experience probably lasted less than 10 seconds before I popped my eyes open and said, "Okay okay okay that's enough! Message received, thank you!" Then I sat there in shock for a good 15 minutes just trying to digest what happened. I was completely lucid and awake the whole time. I'd been meditating for 10 years prior, and many times had sat in meditation for over an hour. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened.
To summarize how it happened, I think it was because of this: 1. I put in genuine effort to seek understanding, and open myself up to changing my worldview. 2. I came to realize the truth of what Piper says in this video. Despite all my work and study, I couldn't muster up faith on my own. 3. I was genuinely repentant. I felt like I ought to believe. Rationally, I had enough evidence. I felt like I was falling God by not believing. 4. In this state of genuinely seeking God, and genuinely repenting of my continued resistance to God, I prayed. 5. That final act of submission and surrender when I told God I wouldn't demand a revelation from Him I wouldn't make my continued seeking dependant on Him giving me what I want. I think that's why it happened when it did.
This brings me to tears because I've been asking & praying for faith for over a decade. I struggle to believe but as much as I want to I just don't. I am basically bedridden & can't go to a church. I have tried reading the bible but it confuses me. I will listen to John Piper because I have great respect for him. I saw him preach in Seattle years ago when I could walk & he had a great sermon. If there are any believers out there that are willing to pray for me I would really appreciate it. .
I will pray for you Cheryl. But know this, you don't need to go to church. In fact you could be all alone lying in bed. Just ask him to make himself real to YOU. Then you watch, wait and see. I know waiting on the LORD can be frustrating sometimes but keep asking and waiting, then you will know for yourself.
Cheryl praying for you Cheryl. Thank the Lord for your faith and keep thanking Him. If your mindset is one of gratitude, then you will see more reasons to be thankful.
Prayed for you. I struggle to believe as well, but I want to. I find some hope in the fact that I want to believe and so should you, it means God has not left you but He's doing work in your heart. Hang in there, I know it's hard
Thank you all very much for your support & prayers. It means more to me than you know. And Mable I have asked Him many times to make Himself real to me but then I read that I am supposed to have faith & believe without Him proving it so I get confused.
Sister. The only thing that really helped me with my faith in Christ to be real and realistically lived out is through watching many sermons about science's proof for God. One person named Kent Hovind helped me a lot when I doubted that God couldn't exist. But it seems that you need the power of the Holy Spirit to help you live the Christian life of faith in God. I will do my best to pray for you, however, I am weak at praying. But don't stop praying and seeking the Lord. My prayers took many months for them to be answered and significant results to appear. I struggled with them for so many months. But God didn't left me when my faith started to dwindle or because I don't pray much. He still says to me He loves me and that is enough for me to continue on. Don't give up. All things work for the good of those who love Him. He wont leave you through your darkest days. He is with you through fire and water and he wont let you be scorched or drowned. Believe in those word of God. They helped me a lot through my mental challenges. 😄💗
I’m trying to believe but it’s like a mental block in which I just have this reacquiring question saying “how do u know” and I rly want to believe and I KNOW deep down I can and we all can. 6 months ago when I wrote what above, I was very far from God. Now, 6 months later, I feel that I have been saved. You all can too❤️God bless you all
Fox Lif me? I’m feeling better but it isn’t over yet. We must know that faith is not about feelings. It’s not like “If I don’t feel that I believe in Him, then I don’t” it’s something in our minds, and we choose what we want to believe in, not our minds nor our feelings. WE. Not our minds, I mean, sometimes I get thoughts telling me that I don’t believe but they are just thoughts and my thoughts don’t choose what I believe and what I don’t. That’s what I’ve learned.
Brenda Collin Very true, I wrote that comment five months ago and now now and this time I realize that I was on the track to believing. It’s just an accepted thing, you know? You are going to get thoughts from time to time questioning your faith. That’s just life, that’s always going to happen. That doesn’t mean you don’t believe, It’s just starting thoughts. When it becomes a problem though is when you start to believe those thoughts And that is what will take you farther away from God and from where you want to be. Repent and pray and you will be fine, spread the word of God
I've been reading a lot of these comments that say "I try and try and nothing is happening". With respect to you, did you not hear what this gentleman said? God wants you to chill and stop trying. He wants you to give all your fears and troubling situations to him and then rest. In his time he will put situations in your life that will guide you to the belief you're seeking. He wants us to depend on him. He says it over and over.
We can't rest, because we have no choice but to constantly struggle to keep our miserably crumbling lives barely held together so we do not, quite literally, die of starvation, disease, or exposure. For your scenario to work, God would actually have to be of any use whatsoever in our time of need. Since He refuses to, we have no choice.
Finally, someone gets me. I always thought I had faith but I recently realized I don’t at all. My mind is set on things of the flesh, not the spirit. No matter how hard I’ve tried I can’t believe in God. Please pray for me. I’m scared that the end of times will come or I’ll die before being saved. I want faith but I am blinded by things of the flesh, I need help. My family says I’m fine because I’m 13 which is young, but regardless of my age I am in God’s wrath.
Talk to Jesus. Instead of telling others how you are feeling, tell Jesus exactly how you are feeling. Talk to Him like you are talking to a friend. You probably are trying too hard. Just relax yourself. Tell Him exactly how you are feeling , and ask Him to show you the way. You are not too young to go to heaven or hell. You are not in His wrath. Take it one day at a time. He promised never to leave you nor forsake you. He is your refuge and strength a very present help in times of trouble. You can call on Him any and every time time because He is never too busy to listen to you. His love for you is endless and mind blowing. Do you attend Church? I will be praying for you. Listen to this czcams.com/video/ebsfGWFgOTk/video.html
I'm also 17 and I struggle with this too. A couple versus that have helped me are this, "...You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you." Psalm 9:10 and "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away." John 6:37
You're not alone regardless of what you're Going through God is there. Open your heart and cry out to Him He'll hear and also read your Bible He's in there go back to the new Testament read the 4 gospels and ask for understanding always know that Jesus died for you so that He could bring you home. May God be with you.
Faith is an ongoing struggle, especially as you get older. You see your spouse, friends and family die. You see tragedy, sickness, and pain everywhere. Doubts creep in, but somehow you find yourself still praying and seeking God. Remember that Thomas walked with Jesus for 3 years, seen the miracles, heard Jesus teach, and still had doubts. God understands, and is always with us. Remember that doubt is not unbelief.
It's difficult for me as well with everything you mentioned and with the logical arguments against the existence of God/ religions overall. I'm pretty upset about it and don't know If I can undue my doubts this time.
Amazing, from a young child I have denied Jesus. God has shown me his grace and mercy by awakening my faith, and bringing me into Church and getting baptised. But I am still battling with my faith in Jesus. I am trying so hard to bring Jesus into my heart ❤ but my mind will not allow it 🙏
No one on their own apart from the work of God desires faith. So the fact that you want to believe is evidence the Holy Spirit is at work in you. And He who began a good work in you will see it through. God is the author and finisher of our faith. He's at work and will finish that work. Call on the Lord to grant you faith then rest in his promise that he will not cast away anyone that comes after him.
Indeed, as bible says, no one seeks after true triune God through his/her own will... The genuine desire to seek indicates one's genuine regeneration. However, beware of the teaching that teaches that some physical miracle must happen to prove faith and salvation.
Pastor John, Thank you for this. I come back to this video periodically to remind myself to stop “trying” so hard and give God the burden and rest in knowing Jesus died for me. “It’s a gift, you can receive a gift”, I love that.
I've been trying and trying again to have faith. I don't know what Jesus wants me to do. i don't feel anything when I pray or read the Bible. I feel left out when I see all the testimonies of people who where saved and can actually feel the lord. I have many problems like a lot of people and i'm lonely and sad a lot of times. It's a painful existence and I pray that he could tell me what to do about it along with everything else. I would follow him to the ends of the earth if I only knew he was there for real. So there are times when I feel like I'm praying to nothing but I can't accept that as a reality because that would really scare me and make me feel hopeless. I need jesus in my life I just wish I knew for sure he or God was there
GOD LOVES YOU DEARLY AND DESIRES YOU TO BELIEVE HIS GOSPEL. I TELL YOU READ THE MESSAGE I TYPED UNDER Ningreingam Kamei who has a similar problem. His Comment is right under yours. I Know it will not only help but give you assurance. IF YOU CAN NOT FIND IT JUST TELL ME AND I WILL PASTE IT HERE. GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU.
It must be sad to lose that really peaceful veil of ignorance that believers have. Sorry bro. But look beyond this. Even if you can't have faith, you can still do your best to live a moral life. Try watching the genetically modified skeptic. In my opinion he is very respectful and open about his deconversion. Just realize you are not alone.
That's your problem right their you don't believe because you don't see him, the mystery of faith a forever debate. Blessed is he who believeth and cannot see. Johnny pools it comes down to love , sometimes I feel exactly like you unworthy and unloveable, at least your on the right track. Jesus is LOVE LOVE LOVE, try to imagine where he comes from and where we come from , i hope that helps you because he does love you so much , too much for words to express.❤
jonnypools Philippians 2:12-13, Paul writes, “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence - continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his purpose
I've repented, I've taken god into my life but no visions no help my life is worse than ever. I love god and jesus and want them inside me forever but I feel so lonely and hurt. Please Jesus heal me. I hear of people being saved and right away a bright light came to them and they were saved. I take Jesus as my savior and almost wind up in a mental ward with severe panic. :( Please save me Jesus. Please. My life is spinning downhill fast.
God made us to live in harmony with Him. If you confess to Jesus Christ that he is your Lord and Savior and if you accept Him in your heart that he died for you on the Cross and rose after 3 days you will be saved (Romans 10:9). Then you're ready to get to know God more and more through prayer and reading the Bible. Everything you ask for will be given to you (Matthew 7:7)
I have sever panic too which corresponds with my ocd. My life has spiraled out of control in 2021 and the thought of suicide is always on my mind. It makes just want to be a kid again. I knows it’s painful. I will pray for you. I don’t think I’m saved and I’m not even sure god is real. My mind feels like a mess but I will pray for you.
@@Ian-xd2in you’re loved ♥️ when things get difficult may the Lord, Jesus of Nazareth, Yahweh be with you and show you ways and healing like you never before.
Brenda Collin I’m not the guy that created the comment your responded too but I’m in a place in my life where the lord has bless me at least that’s what I think giving that everything is going good for me or it could be that I have the spirit of delusion that has swelled upon me just recently I watched a video that troubles me and in it the guy said (don’t quote me exactly because I do not remember the exacts words he said and use but it went something like this) if you are living in sin and nothing bad has happened to you it’s because you are not of your Heavenly Father, those that are his children he chastens then if they turn to sin until they get back on the right path he does not chastens those who are not his and let’s them live in their darkness now that’s what troubles me because I do sin even till this day and it’s knowingly sin but nothing bad happens everything is still going good for me so I am very troubled because I could die at any moment and not be saved
Today was one of the first times I felt this. As I'm getting more into my relationship with God, I've been doubting Jesus Christ. Idk what happend😭 One moment I was reading the Book of John the next moment I started to doubt my Saviour's life and truth. I've been struggling with things being humble and yielding to Him, but now I feel like I'm playing around with my salvation. Please pray for the Lord to soften my heart and to hear my thoughts and heal my season of doubt
@ツPaula don't focus on the unbelief! He'll come to you just have faith. Read a book about the Holy Spirit and get spirit filled. Jesus will come to you. He loves you more than you know. It's not intellect, it's faith. Just keep praying and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you!
I struggle a lot because I am a highly logical person, and if I don't have something clearly presented to me, I can't just have blind faith in it. I cry when I hear things like this, and when I read the comments. But I don't know if I am crying because the world is so insane and it feels so comforting to think that ultimately we will be taken care of, or if I'm crying for some other reason. I just can't imagine all the things the Bible says. It is a very confusing piece of literature and I've had trouble with so many aspects of it. It was written by man, not God. I was taught man can not fathom or hear the word of God. In the old Testament he seems so cruel and proud. How could this creator who claims he loves me leave one of his children in so much doubt when they are desperate? I was raised Christian but had no idea what it meant. I still don't. I've tried praying but the truth is, I don't know who I'm talking to other than a being I am imagining because that's all we have. I am definitely lost in this.
RECIPE FOR HOW TO REGAIN FAITH ---> If you don't know how to regain your faith in God, here is a recipe for you because I went through the same thing and I think this is the right recipe for it: a more peaceful approach is always better because this way you look down on others, convinced that you are really right because you stuck to a purely logical conclusion and view of things (that's how it looks from the side) and it's as if you don't leave room for what even you, so intelligent, don't fully know, and the question is whether God as such can even be understood logically , despite the fact that we possess or have been given such an understanding, even a doubtful one. Faith is not a matter of reason. And the logical mind cannot fathom many things, we are also rationally limited beings. Don't get so much used to this world and that you know how it really work, because you really don't. You just noticed some patterns. Remember that you are an SOUL. Think like one. Remember how is it to be one: You can never learn everything about this world, you just started. Stay unaccustomed, stay in tune, stay in anticipation. Stay faithful IN your ignorance, not TO it. I hope you will not hear this message of mine in a wrong tone, it was written with good intentions and a calm spirit.
Hi! Ive read your thoughts and my 1st thought was to keep fingers crossed do we both have those unbelief far behind ourselves. For Hebrews, faith=trust. So the question is 'what burden from your heart would you entrust'. Let's get acquainted with Jesus, regardless of this unbelief, let He takes those barriers, not we, so we could feel that 'Jesus saves'. Be blessed in God's name Yahwe
but then, isn't god deciding? If God does not want you to go to hell then he will always choose you to go to hell, so if anyone goes to hell, it means he failed to save them. Then he is not omnipotent.
You Jehovah's witness burn in hell forever and ever. And you burn in hell forever and ever. Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
I think the modern world force us away from our beliefs, I so envy people with strong faith, I once knew of gods existence and was sure he helped me, I need to find him again, I took him for granted , I pray he will listen to me once more.I think god is the goodness inside us, we have powerful minds that is gods gift. Good luck to all searching.
I started to cry when I saw this video it was made for me now I understand thank you thank you bless you bless you I'm crying now thank you!! ALSO I'M GETTING REALLY EMOTIONAL READING ALL THE COMMENTS AND SEEING OTHER PEOPLE WITH MY PROBLE M, AND PEOPLE WHO GIVE ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT!! BLESS YOU ALL I'M CRYING SO MUCH NOW happy tears
I was in that place for a very long time. I told God I have no other place to go, so I will seek you still for you have the words of eternal life. As the years went by I had terrible dark moments of doubt and grief. I keep reading and studying the Bible. At a certain point I realized I was the one causing the problem with my unbelief. I saw how much God loved me and it broke my heart and I wept for days. I kept struggling until I gave up and told God I quit. Then God began to work in my life. You have no idea how much I really love him. He fills my heart with joy. I attend a good church and Iove my bothers and sisters. I listened to Dr McGee daily for years. Make sure you find a good teacher. My recovery was done by God and not me but I had to let him take over. Job said I have heard of you but now I have seen you. I pray that those seeking will see him. God bless you all.
I'm there right now. About 4 months ago I cam to the conclusion that I was lost and have been aking for savig faith. In. thebegining, I sturggled with believiign in the resurection so i akse dfor faith and God anskwered. I struggled with repenting of a sin that has been an addiction for me for almost half my life and God freed m fromt ahta ddictiomn. he made me aware of something in my life that was an idol and He change dmy heart so that I don't desire it anymore. To each of these request He answered but when I ask for savign faith, when I ask for Jesus to save me: nothing. It's gotten to the point where yesterday I actually told God I hate Him because he's only brought me halfway. I apologised afterwards and honestly I still feel bad about it today. I don't want to be angry or hate God. I just want to be saved. What's the point of God doing lal this work in me if I'm just going to go to hell?
@@estherm.4351 I exactly understand what you went through God changed me too he made me know about him a lot. I asked him to get me a church fit for me and I found the nicest church ever. I asked to love the bible he made me love it indeed. I asked other things and those I got. All except faith in Christ 😅. That was until a few months ago I went through depression for the 1st time in my life and I was going through hell I was terrified of everything and so weak to even be mad at God when I couldn't go on I let myself fall I just leapt in belief I don't even know how I did it tbh but the extreme suffering was what did it for me and I have never felt that terrifying crippling feeling since that moment. Although I feel fear and mild depression from time to time as I have asked him to use this disgusting trial to make my faith stronger. All I'm saying is if I can believe believe me anyone can ❤
We really fall short of the Glory of God and ONLY he can save us. I was active duty Air Force for 21 years and saw alot of 'stuff' around this world, human beings are so cruel. Be advised, let go and let the Lord Christ be your light. Let's be ready to go, please ask Jesus to envelope you and make you His, just ask him for forgiveness of all your sins and allow him into your heart, God wants you, he is stretching his hands to hold you. Jesus would tell me in dreams to give all to him. I'm stuck at times and the Holy Spirit guides me but I don't always follow and feel like garbage. I'm constantly bombarded by demons, my wife has seen and yelled at them to leave me alone. I have old habits, hard to kill those habits and I would gladly die, to live for My Lord and Savior.
I just want everyone to know watching this video that it is completely normal to question God’s existence especially as a young teen going into adulthood! And if you truly believe just one time and ask him to be in your heart at that moment he never leaves it’s locked in
Cat Galaxy I know almost exactly what you mean, your words show me that you’re daily striving to build a relationship with God. If you do that, you’ll be just fine :)) there’s a certain level of discernment when you Pursue the truth on a daily basis :) I know it’s hard to understand, but all you can do is grow your faith in what you know. Read your bible and just trust God with what everything even if u feel as if you don’t know him :)
Cat Galaxy You need to find a very good Church home, it needs to be around other believers :) hopefully you’ve found one but if you have to keep searching keep doing that because u need to be around other believers. :l
It's taken me two years too after I started fearing Hell. I stopped believing 4 years ago, but I had a sinking feeling almost 2 years ago and I'm finally working on getting the gift of faith back through reading the Bible and praying. I'm having a lot of really bad panic attacks about Hell and the Rapture, but I'm still hanging on and working on it.
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@@sophiasjesus7333God indeed made hell for the devil and demons but we rebelled agaisnt God and were added to that list. demons absolutely do not have faith. believing that God is real is not faith at all. believing in Jesus is faith not believing that he is real.
For many, many years I did believe in the Christ, but like this young man, I just didn't have faith. I could write volumes about the struggles. Now I am an old man and after (developing) the faith that I actually did have somewhere, my faith is alive and vital. My faith always connects me to Jesus and His Father. I can honestly say that I belong 100% to Him. It took many, many trials. Gary White. Toronto, Ontario.
Right now I'm in this situation, this video is hard for me to understand since English is not my native language. But reading some of this comment makes me feel at ease knowing I'm not alone who experience it. I wish all of us find our own fate and peace of mind. Please pray for me as well. Thank you!
I just stumbled across this & I was struggling to type this comment for crying! The words spoken in this video deeply resonated with me. I'm not religious but I would love to have faith, to belong to something bigger.
Don't overthink it or try to prove it or ask for signs. Simply believe and begin to trust God and pray every time you have doubt. Talk to God like you would a loving Father.
@@blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848 Thank you, I have just recently started talking to God & I honestly do feel peaceful within myself afterwards. I was actually quite surprised the very first time I let him know that I was ready to accept him into my heart, as it lifted my spirits. 💯💖
I think I understand what Pastor John is trying to say. In Matthew 13, Jesus tells of the Parable of the Sower. In the parable, the seed fell in four kinds of ground. The first kind was a paved path. It was hard, packed, and impenetrable. That type of ground was essentially solid stone. I think what the asker has realized is that his heart towards the Word matches this type of ground, and he/she wants his/her heart, for lack of a better term, un-stoned, but he/she has also realized that all his/her attempts to un-stone his/her heart have been for naught. What Pastor John is trying to say is that only God can un-stone a person's heart and that when we come to a place where we realize that, the best thing we can to is to turn our hearts over to Him and ask Him to un-stone it for us. Ezekiel 36: 26 (NIV) " I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
The God Christ Jesus has shown himself to people before. But idiots choose to burn in hell forever and ever. The God Christ Jesus has shown people visions of hell. And they saw demons tormenting people in hell forever and ever in hell. Because they didn’t love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. They burn in hell forever and get tormented by demons in hell forever. Go into many cursed and haunted houses and cuss and cuss out the immortal demons in there. And the immortal demons in there will beat you up. Then you will know that the God Christ Jesus hates demons. Go buy a ouija board and put the ouija board on your living room table for the immortal demon to see that. And for the immortal demon to haunt your house. The God Christ Jesus does not forgive making any deal with a immortal demon. The God Christ Jesus already explained this. All sorcerers with magic from demons all have their part in burning in hell forever and ever. The God Christ Jesus already answered the only way to heaven is to love the God Christ Jesus with all you're heart, body, mind and soul. That is the first commandment from the God Christ Jesus. That means love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. Or the God Christ Jesus throws you into hell to burn forever and ever. With the demons to torment you in hell forever and ever. There is only one God Christ Jesus and there are no gods beside him. Even the demons want to go to heaven. But you hate heaven. You want to burn in hell forever and ever. And you want to be tormented by demons in hell forever and ever. You burn in hell forever and ever. Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
THANK YOU SO SO SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I just need to accept God’s gift! This is amazing news! THIS is the Good News! Jesus died for me and all I need to do to be saved is ACCEPT HIS GIFT!! THANK YOU SIR! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!!! GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!
This really helped me to make a breakthrough ❤ right now we need breakthroughs we need prayers we need faith we need patience we need courage we need to put on the full armor of God and the helmet of salvation praying for all the all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord
I use to be agnostic before I met my husband. Anytime he would talk about Jesus or the bible I would challenge him, there was almost nothing in me that believed in God or Jesus. Then one day I decided to go to church with him and he told me to ask God to reveal to me that he is real. So I prayed before I when to church and when the Pastor touched my head I felt this strong magnetic,electrical feeling and at that moment something in me clicked and I knew ever since then that the bible is real. Jesus is real and it's like I can feel God now. Its like a hole inside me got filled and I know that Jesus loves me and I love him and that is the only true life. All any of us have or need in life is Jesus he loves us so much, but it seems like hardly anyone knows it.Please I plea with you do the same ask for God to reveal to you that Jesus is the one true God and if you really mean it with your whole heart God will answer you.
How amazing His Grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.😢😢 Truly truly God is worthy of all blessings and honor and glory!! Praise the Triune LORD God of Scripture, who is forever Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
@@joshuanadeem8898 Amen. I do too. Please let it be ongoing prayer. I know tht by grace your are one of His and I have faith, no in you but in the work that has been done in you life.
@Mel Bornn cry out to God until the last day of your life. Many times I gave up and sinned thinking I was justified. It is God's grace that we are alive today. Let us live holding on to the cross even if we are skipped over. Sin has nothing for us. Sin makes us God's enemies. Forsaken it and surrender to Him and His many, many mercies.
@Mel Bornn Hi Mel. Although I'm just a stranger on the Internet, please believe me when I say I do really care for you. So it may be longer than avg YT comments but please read all of the following. Thanks. First, just a quick note. Its still such *Amazing* Grace even if it does only save a "few" considering anyone who sins deserves eternal hell. BTW, we weren't all born to go to hell. Rather, We were all born going to hell. That's a big difference. Think: will you be content in hell after freely choosing to reject the Gospel(that God has offered eternal life to man only through/ in His Son, Jesus Christ) even though you didn't need to?? No you won't be. Anyway, I sort of understand what you're saying by "glad you won the lottery"(sarcastically?? because you claim to not believe) but here's the thing. If you were indeed pointing to it, I agree there's certainly a tension in Bible between God's Sovereignty and man's responsibility in Repentance. God does choose us while we are dead in our trespasses YET He tells everyone everywhere to believe; and that we have a choice in this matter... I truly believe that this is a mystery that won't be revealed on this side of heaven. A similar tension existed between God's Holy Hatred for sinners and His Holy Love for man which was shown by *Jesus Christ's death on the cross for the sin of the world and Resurrection*. - Don't put your faith in hyper/Calvinism or arminianism. *Put your faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God. John 14v6 - He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man can come to the Father but by Jesus.* He is commanding you to Repent and Believe. He has already invited you specifically Mel - 1 John 2v2. The choice is up to you my friend. *Again, will you be content in hell knowing God offered you eternal life as a free gift and you chose to reject it with your own free will even though you didnt need to?* May God bless you Mel and open your eyes in Jesus' Holy Name. Amen.
I'm not the only one? Wow, I thought I was the only one and that I was the problem like I just wasn't good enough to faith. I've been trying to get my own faith for 3 years and this is all I had to do? Life has been very hard and I'm crying while typing this because I've gone through hell just for me to realize that I can't get more faith by oneself. No one has ever told me that, Thank you.
Thank you. May the Lord be with you all and shine his light through you. May you all follow Jesus, read the Bible, know him and be re-united with him when your time comes. May the light Jesus gives you, resonate to your friends and family so you can save them too
I feel you, cause i felt it too. Lack of faith was bringing me to agnostic, new age, tao, ho'oponopono, new tought, then get back to Jesus again. It was long roundabout, and what a ride, actually. And yes it is not by my work but ONLY by the grace of God that i'm saved. Keep asking and coming to Him, and do it in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. His way is different than our way. We, imperfect human, can't grasp the way of The Almighty. And He doesn't owe us any explanation in His way. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye. shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you Lord bless you and keep you brother
I'm praying that someone can help me. I stumbled on this by accident and it describes exactly what I'm dealing with and have dealt with my entire life. I grew up in the church, and when I was a child I believed like a child and I so wish that I could have that back. I strayed for a long time, and then God brought me back to him through my mistakes and where they had left me. I was at a point where I wanted to die, and He put people in my way to remind me of who I used to be. But in the time spent running from God, I dabbled in atheism and also paganism. Every time I get too close to God, I'm reminded of my doubts so strongly that it cripples me into giving up on trying to be near Him at all. My faith in Jesus died entirely. My faith in God is intact, and I know that He chased me down, but a part of me doubts even that, meaning that maybe my life isn't worth living but I feel that He gave me so many clear signs when He found me again to tell me that it really was Him. If I'm going to hell because I can't force myself to believe in Jesus, then maybe I should just kill myself now and get it over with because it causes me constant panic and fear and trembling. I also have OCD which may or may not play a role in the obsessive doubt. I don't want to die, but if I can't believe then what is the point of living on this earth anymore? I also can't make myself go through with an attempt because again, I don't want to die. This is cyclical. I'm losing hope. I keep praying anyway because maybe there is hope on the other side of this somehow. I don't know what to do anymore. I can't tell my family because they won't understand. I am so scared. For a few months, I really felt joy and God like I had never felt when I stopped worrying about what I believed and what I didn't believe and now I feel as though my life has no meaning. I just keep begging God to not leave me here like this. To please send someone if I go too far and try to take my own life so that I know that He doesn't want me dead and that it really was Him who found me again. Please pray for me. I used to believe, I know I did. I'm at the point where I don't even think God can do anything to help me anymore. I am the unsaveable.
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I feel God' presence in this video. It's so powerful. Even halfway while the pastor was reading the question, I felt the Holy Spirit move in me in a way of extreme empathy and sympathy for the individual who asked that question. Receive Him. That's all I can say on my end.
We must know that faith is not about feelings. It’s not like “If I don’t feel that I believe in Him, then I don’t” it’s something in our minds, and we choose what we want to believe in, not our minds nor our feelings. WE. Not our minds, I mean, sometimes I get thoughts telling me that I don’t believe but they are just thoughts and my thoughts don’t choose what I believe and what I don’t. That’s what I’ve learned.
Don't just set your financial goals without consulting a financial advisor. Their expertise ensures a solid plan for success. Building wealth involves developing good habits like regularly setting aside money in intervals for smart investments.
Thanks for the advice! I'm new to financial planning and wasn't sure where to start. Any tips on finding a reliable financial adviser or resource to guide beginners?
I agree. Based on personal experience working with an investment advisor, I currently have $1m in a well diversified portfolio, that has experienced exponential growth. It is not about having money to invest in stocks,but also you need to be knowledgeable, persistent, and have strong hands to back it up.
How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financial future and am eager to participate. who is the driving force behind your success?.
I am just like the man in this letter. I seek to believe in Christianity vividly as I used to back when I was a kid. Why would God choose to not make me believe in him even if I truly want to?
@God's Whisper but in order for that to happen, we should have that genuine hunger for |Christ in us to begin with. Here most of people struggle with not having it, realizing/being aware of not having but wanting to have it. .
This makes me feel very good as someone who grew up in the church and struggled with my faith past couple years. Im going to seek the lord. And see if my faith can return
You know, if your in a place where you are struggling to believe in the very existence of God and it bothers you. That alone just shows how real your faith really is. Because you care and believe there’s something there worth your time because if you truly didn’t believe or even care. You wouldn’t even be here or have any emotion to it.
A hypocrite never questions his hypocrisy let alone believes he is one, but one who is fearful he is one is far from being a hypocrite. I think the asker is on to something. Many believe but even those who believe some will be denied. I think the one that ask Piper this question is more concerned if her faith is genuine or not.
I have been a "Christian" for 29 years. I have strived to have faith, and I felt so guilty that I didn't have faith. I have struggled for so long. I "knew" it was a gift but still couldn't seem to make myself believe. This simple message, delivered here, made me cry. Thank you for these words. God bless you!
Same thing for me I knew it in my mind to be true I knew it was the gift but I couldn't find it in me to receive the gift by faith my heart didn't have the faith to receive Jesus
Think of it this way, if you didn’t Believe in God why do you try to believe in him when you already do, you obviously know he is real other wise you would not be seeking him, but God is allowing satan to cloud your mind so that you will continue to fight and to rely on God and to make your faith stronger. Me personally, I think you do believe in God because if you truly didn’t believe you would have dropped everything and gave up a long time ago Thats for you and the other gentlemen that commented that’s he’s in the same place
Alex Medina, Your a Warrior just like me, and all of our brothers and sisters, we fight, and we fight till our time has come to go see our father, keep on fighting and if you have any questions comment on here by my name and ask and I’ll help the best I can😊, God bless you and always be with YOU.
YOU know I thought it was only me who think so and thought even god (jesus) has no solution for my problem. BUT now i got a hope after reading all your comments.I was in depression from past one weak over thinking about this belief issue and thinking that i could never accept jesus as my savior. BUT after knowing that many of u went through and had overcome this belief issue and now living peacefully in christ, I got a hope. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I hope u to pls pray for me , my soul , my spirit by receiving peace and by receiving the holy spirit and accepting christ as my saviour in my life.
This is how I have felt for years. Truly makes me feel God doesn’t care let aloe LOVE me because I have prayed, begged, read and studied the Bible sooooooooooo much, yet nothing. In fact the first time I read the Bible I struggled to see how it is good
@@bourne8636 🙄😑 i never said i deserved a reward stop gaslighting me. So many so called Christians are so good at this. Don’t twist my words just because you can’t answer them. Pathetic
You need to pray with the right heart attitude. You need to ask God to give you the faith you need for your salvation. You need to want to serve Jesus Christ as your Lord as well as love Him as your Saviour. Maybe you are holding onto a favourite sin or something or someone in your life that God wants you to be prepared to let go of. If you ask God to give you the faith you need for your salvation and that you will follow wherever He wants to lead you and that you want Jesus Christ only on His terms, God will give you the gift of saving faith. Jesus promised that God never refuses the Holy Spirit to those who ask but your asking mus be in the right spirit. You might also have to acknowledge to God that there is nothing good that you can do of yourself that is acceptable to Him but that every good thing that you do and have ever done is only because of His grace and mercy restraining you from being totally wicked and depraved.
I cried a little listening to this. But I feel better about after watching the video. I believe in God with my whole heart. In him my faith is almost like knowing. I believe in the Holy Spirit because He is real and God very own spirit. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ...75%. I need it to be 100%. I've been trying to read books about Jesus. But you're right: faith is a gift. My faith came upon me suddenly. It was a gift. I'll just be patient and hope that Jesus gives me more.
Another approach, which has worked for me. The fact that they are trying to believe, ironically, means that they do believe. Why else would they "try"? I would, if I were them, thank God that you do believe. Thank God that he is going to change you from the inside out by his grace through your faith. I think sometimes we think we don't believe because we don't see a change in the way we feel. Obviously, if you're looking inside at how you feel to decide whether you believe, your eyes are on yourself. By thanking God that you do believe, you are acting in faith and you will begin to see God at work in you and in the world. It will happen. It may not be immediate but I guarantee you it will happen. It has for me. I hope this helps.
The gift in Eph 2:8-9 is Salvation.Recieved by Grace through Faith......God doesnt give the gift of salvation to some and not others.he gives Salvation to all those who believe.
"God, please show me light, allow me to realize the truth and show me your will... I want to be with you god and understand your ways" "And please also bring light to who ever is reading this and is suffering from the same problem, My lack of faith causes fear of death." To who ever is struggling with the same problem as me ive been dealing with this for a month now, just understand there are other consious beings (Humans/ppl) that understand YOU, because i sure do. And that prayer was for the both of us. I come from a Christain family and i still have my struggles believing. Stay strong. do what makes you happy and follow god. Maybe we can both see this light and understand the true meaning of god. 😔
Hi:) There are many times when it is hard to have a true passion and faith in God. I remember I felt like I was forcing myself to believe in Him and questioned if this is how it feels to believe in God. If it is I told myself, "I didn't want it." After I told myself this, so many signs from people and my life told me to continue my journey with God. For months I had this confusion, but I continued to pray, read, fast, and talk, think about God throughout the day. I am so glad I continued my journey and made me realize the story of Job. Job suffered from the devils' trick, but still had faith in the Lord, please read Job 42. I hope you continue your journey with God and I'll pray for you, I know how hard it is to believe when we are staggering. My journey strengthened my faith in Jesus and taught me it wasn't for my works, but for the love of Jesus Christ. Not many people stick to God in hard times and I'm glad you are. I recommend you Vihan Damaris and Servants of Christ to youtube channels. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 🤗
Ayden praying for u... I completely relate with the struggle and desperation that I try to endure. Praying we continue to hold on and persevere when we’re going through the valleys. He is faithful. We can make it
--------------------- First of all, please know that if you're searching him, God has chosen you: Please search "how do we know wether or not we've been chosen" When you refuse to believe, you are not his sheep: John 10:26 "But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep." But when you are searching for him, you already chosen: John 6:37 : Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away John 6:44: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day John 6:65: So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come ----------------------------- What is it that makes you doubt?
Hi, so I’m really struggling with this and today I almost gave up (that felt horrible to even consider). I don’t really understand though. You wrote that it says “You refuse to believe because you are not my sheep”, but then you wrote that all who seeks Him is chosen. Do you mind explaining 😊?
I was in the same position. I believed Jesus is salvation but I didn't believe that he died for us or rose from the dead. I tried and tried and tried and I couldn't believe. I even stopped believing in God for a few years. But then I heard a voice in me say, Christ didn't die for sins...and then all of a sudden I believed he did! I rebuked the voice and said yes he did. It was a miracle! Jesus says he will manifest himself if you follow his commandments, there are 39 of the I believe. If you have a Bible read his commandments and obey them with all of your heart and he will manifest. Anyone who seeks finds!
I would appreciate prayers, too. Been battling health issues for over 8 years I'm 26 and feel like I've lost my ability to believe. Please pray my eyes are opened and I desire God again and what is good and do not give into temptation to turn away. That he will find me again.
It is a bit difficult for me to have absolute faith in our Heavenly Father. My parents are Christian, my dad would tell me stories about how when he was young he had talked to one angel when he was a very small boy, my grandmother would ask him who he was talking to, he said, "I'm talking to the angel." Grandma said nothing was there. My mom told me stories as well about how when she was 18-19 years old, that she would have dreams and those dreams would come true. One of her dreams in particular was of her neighbor passing away, she said she had a dream a week before he died about him dying. The next week he passed away in bed, a bible in his hands. I think that there is a chance for me to have faith but it is difficult, I am still young and maybe he has a plan that he wants to unfold with me in the future instead of me being able to have faith now. All I can do is pray.
I also worry that the atonement hadn’t been applied to me by God. Lord please open the eyes of my heart and help me see how loving you are and grant me assurance. I hate that I lack assurance. I’m sorry for anybody else out there who struggles with this.
Amen!! Dont focus on the feel,feelings are deceiving teust in Jesus faith inside you like a small musterd seed..we must move past what we feel thats flesh and only believe.
Not sure if anyone still searches and watches this video but I feel I need to say something that may give a some people hope. My grandfather is a Baptist preacher, and I've never had the heart to tell him that I struggle with my faith. That isn't to say that I don't want to believe, as I would give everything I had if I could just instantly believe with no doubts whatsoever. He told me about a year ago that God plants the desire to believe in him in every single person. Also that us having doubts is us being "lost spiritually". It doesn't mean that we are hopeless, it just means that we have to find ourselves in God again. This differs from what the guy in the video said, but I figure any input I can give to someone out there that may help, should be said. I still struggle in my faith but I believe that one day I will be whole with the lord. My grandfather has told me many times that I should try reading the book of John in the Bible, as it deals with learning about God and developing faith in him. I haven't tried to read it in a long time but I should try again soon. To everyone else out there with similar issues, you are not alone. And I have faith that God will make himself known to all of us sooner or later. It's just a matter of not giving up.
The God Christ Jesus has shown himself to people before. But idiots choose to burn in hell forever and ever. The God Christ Jesus has shown people visions of hell. And they saw demons tormenting people in hell forever and ever in hell. Because they didn’t love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. They burn in hell forever and get tormented by demons in hell forever. Go into many cursed and haunted houses and cuss and cuss out the immortal demons in there. And the immortal demons in there will beat you up. Then you will know that the God Christ Jesus hates demons. Go buy a ouija board and put the ouija board on your living room table for the immortal demon to see that. And for the immortal demon to haunt your house. The God Christ Jesus does not forgive making any deal with a immortal demon. The God Christ Jesus already explained this. All sorcerers with magic from demons all have their part in burning in hell forever and ever. The God Christ Jesus already answered the only way to heaven is to love the God Christ Jesus with all you're heart, body, mind and soul. That is the first commandment from the God Christ Jesus. That means love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. Or the God Christ Jesus throws you into hell to burn forever and ever. With the demons to torment you in hell forever and ever. There is only one God Christ Jesus and there are no gods beside him. Even the demons want to go to heaven. But you hate heaven. You want to burn in hell forever and ever. And you want to be tormented by demons in hell forever and ever. You burn in hell forever and ever. Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
What I’ve learned during my own process of seeking spirituality and Higher Power and God is that all this conversation centers on humility. A lot of the objections that people raise during conversations like this rely on logic. This really isn’t a logical thing. I can hear the atheists and skeptics laughing loudly. I know, I was one-still am, depending on what mood you catch me in. The point is, I’ve found that I’m not meant to do anything, really. And I don’t believe God (whoever or whatever that might be) is asking me to do anything either.... other than (as much as I am capable) to maintain this disposition that we might agree to call humility.
I’ve been struggling with this for over two years and at many different periods throughout my life. I felt that its been getting severely worse lately and I want so badly to receive the holy spirit and to know that Christ is God he died but I can’t do it myself. I’m trying So hard to believe and I feel so desperate. Please pray for me.
I've been struggling with this for awhile now, my mother is a catholic and my dad is greek orthodox and I've gone through fearful/fanatical stages but that phase passes and I just feel disconnected and like I can't convince my mind to do so. I've felt sceptical for awhile now and I don't know what to do because when I pray I don't feel it and feel disingenuous. How do I turn the scepticism off? Does God still love those who air on the side of scepticism?
I've been a believer and an evangelist for 30 years. Despite constantly reading the bible and praying for my whole life and giving my all to God, I've never actually heard from God myself. Pastors would tell me what was God's will for me and they ended up being wrong completely. I ended up watching the Atheist Experience tv show and it's like a light went off in my head. Everything clicked. I started to notice that people who believed in Jesus believed for horrible reasons (faith, anonymous eye-witness testimony, feelings etc). I'm now an atheist and couldn't be happier. I make better decisions in life without faith through skepticism and never looked back. If Jesus really loved me, he would make every attempt to reveal himself to me in a way I can confirm he is real and divine. Not through a book or feelings but by testable evidence. An all-knowing, all-powerful God could easily reveal himself to everyone.
I started crying watching this. I've felt this way for years and it's gotten more severe lately I want to believe so badly and receive the holy spirit and know that christ is God and that he died for us but i can't. I'm trying so hard and I dont know what else to do. God please help me. If anyone is okay with praying for me please pray for me :( I need help
@@cest5401 I honestly thought I was the only one who felt this way. We should all pray for each other, because honestly, for me , I desperately want to be saved and want to have a relationship with Jesus.
I'm in the same exact situation for many years now and I continue to pray, go to church and read the bible but nothing changes
U do know it's just demons attacking ur mind, u just said u pray that means u know theres a God u know hes infinite were not that means we need a infinite saving which was the infinite God in the flesh.
This man is no Help !
i am not even christian but i found this video because i am losing faith in my own religion and it frustrates me so much that i am doubting because i've believed all my life but with getting older it is becoming harder and harder to believe things and being happy in general.
That's what has happened to me: I knew it was the truth, but I couldn't have faith! I finally realized it was not with my brain that I would have it, but only God could give it to me! I prayed : God, help my unbelief. And I was sooo thirsty! A week after, God gave me faith, I had an encounter with God, heard him in my spirit telling me: you are mine now! Just pray and be like a child, waiting everything from God :) 🙏
That's awesome and I'm happy it worked out for you!
People who believe in Jesus are idiots.
RECIPE FOR HOW TO REGAIN FAITH ---> If you don't know how to regain your faith in God, here is a recipe for you because I went through the same thing and I think this is the right recipe for it: a more peaceful approach is always better because this way you look down on others, convinced that you are really right because you stuck to a purely logical conclusion and view of things (that's how it looks from the side) and it's as if you don't leave room for what even you, so intelligent, don't fully know, and the question is whether God as such can even be understood logically , despite the fact that we possess or have been given such an understanding, even a doubtful one. Faith is not a matter of reason. And the logical mind cannot fathom many things, we are also rationally limited beings. Don't get so much used to this world and that you know how it really work, because you really don't. You just noticed some patterns. Remember that you are an SOUL. Think like one. Remember how is it to be one: You can never learn everything about this world, you just started. Stay unaccustomed, stay in tune, stay in anticipation. Stay faithful IN your ignorance, not TO it.
I hope you will not hear this message of mine in a wrong tone, it was written with good intentions and a calm spirit.
`` I knew it was the truth``
Faith comes by hearing...and hearing the WORD of God.
I struggled with this sittuation of not understanding who Jesus is for most of my life.
I am 50 going on to 51 years of age.
I was a Jehovah's Witness from 15years of age.
I was disfellowshiped for visiting other churches trying to find out what the Bible really taught about Jesus Christ.
My sister was Penticostal and used to tell me that the JW was a cult and so I begun to sturdy from outside materials seeking truth.
She used to tell me that Jesus is God and I just couldn't understand how, knowing what JW had taught me.
Only recently the Holy Spirit brought to my attention that truth from bible verses from the Holy Bible by the Apostle Paul's gospels.
If only we just empty our minds of man-made phylosphies and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us into the Bible's truths.
"Jesus, please heal my unbelief".
Amen
Yea uh Jesus ain’t real......this whole conversation is rediculous
Jensen I agree....but the question is....what can you do to convince me....and why has jesus convinced u but not me? 💩
Engineer Locs because we opened our hearts and humbled ourselves to know that God is real he he loves you too
The fact that your calling on jesus means you believe.
Nothing scarier than wondering what happened to your faith and feeling like you'll never be saved
Right?
This is exactly how I used to feel all the time! Pray and tell God how you feel about this topic... be completely honest! He wants to listen to you and take away your anxieties/fears. The closer you get in a relationship with God, the harder the road gets with doubts, persecution, loss of people you thought were friends, etc. All of those things are part of God’s plan for you to get closer with Him! The attacks from the devil also increase. Those voices in your head saying you won’t be saved are from the devil. He wants you to feel unworthy and incapable of inheriting the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ died for your sins and took EVERY OUNCE of punishment which was supposed to be ours. The more you remind yourself and thank God for that, the closer you will get to God, along with the higher certainty that you will inherit Heaven! Hope this helps!! God bless and I’ll be praying for you 💕
@@graceee4813 thank you for this. Needes this so much!
@@graceee4813 you still dont get it...
Say to these thoughts "Haha, I believe in God anyway!"
As a Christian, i've learnt that nobody in the beginning has 100% faith. We live in a world where if we cant see/test something, it doesn't exist. But i learnt that we must break away from the Physical reality and live in the Spiritual reality. Be one with God and you're doubts will go.
peace& Love But How do I believe god
How can I be one with god
peace& Love this made me realize that everythin isnt over for me...Im so dissapointed with myself bc im struggling with religion but i still pray. Hopefully everything will change one day. Amen.
@@aba-jt4sl I was similar to you guy's faith was essentially dead to me for most of my life. Eventually though I realized with the studying I had done made me jaded, and philosophy had opened me up to how grey everything really turns out to be.
I think we are creatures of mind and emotion. The emotion is the heart, but the depths of the heart to me is almost art. I see us as soul, and deeper essence. I have felt things, but maybe that's just my experience.
Easier said than done.
PLEASE STOP AND LISTEN!! I was struggling with this so much until I tapped into and embraced the faith I already have because if your afraid of not believing, that means that you do have faith because something in you knows it’s true, you’re just afraid of your lack of faith in it, but if you embrace the faith you already have, then that’s all you need! Don’t be afraid just depend on your mustard seed faith no one’s faith is perfect. Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 17:20 “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” so embrace the faith you already have! You don’t have to believe perfectly! It’s not about the size of faith all that matters is that you have it! Learn about God’s fatherly love for you and that will help grow ur faith. And that will give u the security and confidence u need to exercise ur faith! Because love casts out fear. I would recommend u guys watch the video about salvation OCD by mark dejesus.
Thank you for this comment. This helps more than you can imagine. Thank you.
@@Nox-mb7iu I’m so very happy to help my friend :) reject fear and chose peace. God will take care of you. Meditate on scriptures about faith as well that really helps as well as fasting and praying ❤️
@@maggiesamson7480 I’m so very happy to help my friend :) reject fear and chose peace. God will take care of you. Meditate on scriptures about faith as well that really helps as well as fasting and praying ❤️
I’ve been doubting Jesus big time, and it hit me harder today. When I say doubting Jesus, I mean doubting the fact that he’s the Son of God, he walked this earth, he died for me, and rose again. I thought I was doing well in my walk with God, but I have to accept this before I can do anything. I’ve been trying, but doubt keeps coming back and I don’t know what to do. I shudder at the fact of not believing, because I don’t want to go to hell. I know for a fact that Jesus is real, but for some reason, my mind is having an extremely hard time accepting God’s free gift. It really terrifies me. I’m trying to keep the Faith, and just Faith in general. There’s so many things I must improve on to be a better Christian, a better believer. I pray that the Lord will work things out for me, although I believe he will. Please help pray for me! God bless ❤
@@KristinsTunes reject the fear. Don’t be afraid, just keep seeking Him by praying, fasting (if healthy for you), and reading the Bible. Pray everyday to God and ask for bigger faith, Jesus encourages us to keep praying for what we need read luke 11:5-10 this parable talks about being persistent in prayer. “So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it will be opened”-Jesus Christ. So please keep knocking! As you walk with God more and more you will start to grown in faith. And please write down scriptures about faith and meditate on them day and night. Let’s fight the good fight. Understand that your human feelings are NOT truth. God’s word is truth! So when doubts come rebuke them and replace them with a scripture that speaks truth. Start putting in the full armor of God. Wear the shield of faith and walk in wisdom that you’re given through God’s word. If you accepted Jesus into your life, then don’t worry, God’s not mad at you but He wants you to trust in him more. Just walk by what Jesus has taught and what the Bible has said and keep talking to Jesus. Also look up Christian chats on google for support if you need it! You can talk to a Christian counselor for free! Meditate on the gospel and ask for help from the Holy Spirit! You are precious in the sight of God! ❤️ reject what Goes against God! “Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (proverbs 3:5-6) God can do things beyond our wildest imaginations!
Let's remember the man who said too Jesus "I believe. Help my unbelief." Jesus still healed his son.
EXACTLY. I too got the same thing in my mind.
I watched this about a year ago, and I'm back to say thank you. It's been a long process, but this video was the beginning of a journey that led me to God through Christ. I have finally directly experienced the undeniable presence of the Holy Spirit. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
❤️🙏
How did you receive the holy spirit
The biggest sin and scam is to tell people there's a better life after death then ask them to make a donation.
@Slidehhy for months I had been spending hours each evening listening to apologetics and systematically going through every objection that came to mind and actively seeking out what the arguments were against my objections. Given that theology had been debate for thousands of years, I found thoughtful, rational arguments for each one. Starting from the rationale for expecting that the universe had a caused beginning, the rationale for why that cause is best explained by a bring with personal agency. Then getting into whether that creator would be the God of the Bible. Digging into the historicity of Christ. Extra-biblical, non Christian first century sources that confirm the basic details of Christ's life and crucifixion. The historical evidence of early church fathers writings that confirm the beliefs were not changed over the centuries. Them pairing that with learning about the many detailed, specific, time-bound prophecies that were fulfilled in the old testament. And the prophecies especially ps.22 and Isaiah 53 which were both written long before Christ, prophecy the specific historically confirmed details of his persecution, and then make the outrageous (for the time) prediction that this suffering of the Messiah will cause the whole world to abandon their gods and turn to the God of weak and fractured little Israel. Something no world empire had ever achieved. And yet, over the last few thousand years AFTER these prophecies were written, we've seen them come to pass. The good of Israel, the monotheistic Abrahamic God, has been accepted by people on every continent, and very few polytheistic religions are left.
But... I still didn't really believe. Rationally, intellectually, academically, I was fascinated to discover that there was actually so much reason to believe. I was shocked to discover it really isn't blind faith. I'd just always refused to genuinely seek out the arguments. But despite compiling a list of evidences and arguments pages long, I still didn't feel it in my heart. I didn't have a strong reason NOT to believe, but supernatural things just weren't "supposed to" exist. I was really struggling with the fact that I was starting to conclude God to be the most probable explanation for our reality, but that I still just couldn't believe in my heart. So I prayed about it. I listed off to God every piece of evidence in my list, one by one. And after each point I would honestly say, "and yet I don't believe". I had heard Christians often say they had personal relationship with God, and I really felt I needed that. I asked God to help my really know Him. Not just have a bunch of academic arguments bouncing around in my head, but please God just let me KNOW you. I then sat in silent prayer for about an hour. Nothing was happening. I was getting antsy. I had been an atheist for 37 years. I knew it was presumptuous to expect God to give me some big revelation so soon. I figured he'd probably test me longer. So after about an hour, I was ready to give up. I thought, "It's okay God, it doesn't have to be today. It's up to your will, not mine. I'm not gonna make demands of you. I'll keep trying as long as it takes".
The instant I completed that thought, though I was sitting in a dark room at night, it was like a dimmer switch started turning on the lights behind my closed eyelids. It started gradual and then spotted up in intensity until it was blinding bright. Simultaneously I felt a sensation akin to getting the chills, but instead of the tingling passing over my body, it thumped into the center of my chest and such there, where it also accelerated and intensified. It was like a harmonic resonance vibration sensation. Like a Tibetan singing bowl or a tuning fork. It's hard to describe because there was a sense of awe but it was also terrifying. I was afraid I might go blind, or have a heart attack because the energy seemed to much for my body to contain. The whole experience probably lasted less than 10 seconds before I popped my eyes open and said, "Okay okay okay that's enough! Message received, thank you!" Then I sat there in shock for a good 15 minutes just trying to digest what happened. I was completely lucid and awake the whole time. I'd been meditating for 10 years prior, and many times had sat in meditation for over an hour. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before.
Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened.
To summarize how it happened, I think it was because of this:
1. I put in genuine effort to seek understanding, and open myself up to changing my worldview.
2. I came to realize the truth of what Piper says in this video. Despite all my work and study, I couldn't muster up faith on my own.
3. I was genuinely repentant. I felt like I ought to believe. Rationally, I had enough evidence. I felt like I was falling God by not believing.
4. In this state of genuinely seeking God, and genuinely repenting of my continued resistance to God, I prayed.
5. That final act of submission and surrender when I told God I wouldn't demand a revelation from Him I wouldn't make my continued seeking dependant on Him giving me what I want.
I think that's why it happened when it did.
This brings me to tears because I've been asking & praying for faith for over a decade. I struggle to believe but as much as I want to I just don't. I am basically bedridden & can't go to a church. I have tried reading the bible but it confuses me. I will listen to John Piper because I have great respect for him. I saw him preach in Seattle years ago when I could walk & he had a great sermon. If there are any believers out there that are willing to pray for me I would really appreciate it.
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I will pray for you Cheryl. But know this, you don't need to go to church. In fact you could be all alone lying in bed. Just ask him to make himself real to YOU. Then you watch, wait and see. I know waiting on the LORD can be frustrating sometimes but keep asking and waiting, then you will know for yourself.
Cheryl praying for you Cheryl. Thank the Lord for your faith and keep thanking Him. If your mindset is one of gratitude, then you will see more reasons to be thankful.
Prayed for you. I struggle to believe as well, but I want to. I find some hope in the fact that I want to believe and so should you, it means God has not left you but He's doing work in your heart. Hang in there, I know it's hard
Thank you all very much for your support & prayers. It means more to me than you know. And Mable I have asked Him many times to make Himself real to me but then I read that I am supposed to have faith & believe without Him proving it so I get confused.
Sister. The only thing that really helped me with my faith in Christ to be real and realistically lived out is through watching many sermons about science's proof for God. One person named Kent Hovind helped me a lot when I doubted that God couldn't exist. But it seems that you need the power of the Holy Spirit to help you live the Christian life of faith in God. I will do my best to pray for you, however, I am weak at praying. But don't stop praying and seeking the Lord. My prayers took many months for them to be answered and significant results to appear. I struggled with them for so many months. But God didn't left me when my faith started to dwindle or because I don't pray much. He still says to me He loves me and that is enough for me to continue on. Don't give up. All things work for the good of those who love Him. He wont leave you through your darkest days. He is with you through fire and water and he wont let you be scorched or drowned. Believe in those word of God. They helped me a lot through my mental challenges. 😄💗
I’m trying to believe but it’s like a mental block in which I just have this reacquiring question saying “how do u know” and I rly want to believe and I KNOW deep down I can and we all can.
6 months ago when I wrote what above, I was very far from God. Now, 6 months later, I feel that I have been saved. You all can too❤️God bless you all
Hudson Flores me too I’ll just pray 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Jacqueline Elsberry I feel the same way. How do you feel now?
Brenda Collin how do you feel k ow
Fox Lif me? I’m feeling better but it isn’t over yet. We must know that faith is not about feelings. It’s not like “If I don’t feel that I believe in Him, then I don’t” it’s something in our minds, and we choose what we want to believe in, not our minds nor our feelings. WE. Not our minds, I mean, sometimes I get thoughts telling me that I don’t believe but they are just thoughts and my thoughts don’t choose what I believe and what I don’t. That’s what I’ve learned.
Brenda Collin Very true, I wrote that comment five months ago and now now and this time I realize that I was on the track to believing. It’s just an accepted thing, you know? You are going to get thoughts from time to time questioning your faith. That’s just life, that’s always going to happen. That doesn’t mean you don’t believe, It’s just starting thoughts. When it becomes a problem though is when you start to believe those thoughts And that is what will take you farther away from God and from where you want to be. Repent and pray and you will be fine, spread the word of God
I've been reading a lot of these comments that say "I try and try and nothing is happening". With respect to you, did you not hear what this gentleman said? God wants you to chill and stop trying. He wants you to give all your fears and troubling situations to him and then rest. In his time he will put situations in your life that will guide you to the belief you're seeking. He wants us to depend on him. He says it over and over.
We can't rest, because we have no choice but to constantly struggle to keep our miserably crumbling lives barely held together so we do not, quite literally, die of starvation, disease, or exposure. For your scenario to work, God would actually have to be of any use whatsoever in our time of need. Since He refuses to, we have no choice.
HELLLO
@@marcushoward6560 I don’t think that’s what he means by rest.
Finally, someone gets me. I always thought I had faith but I recently realized I don’t at all. My mind is set on things of the flesh, not the spirit. No matter how hard I’ve tried I can’t believe in God. Please pray for me. I’m scared that the end of times will come or I’ll die before being saved. I want faith but I am blinded by things of the flesh, I need help. My family says I’m fine because I’m 13 which is young, but regardless of my age I am in God’s wrath.
You’re not alone and I’ll pray for you. I’m 17 and I struggle as well.
Talk to Jesus. Instead of telling others how you are feeling, tell Jesus exactly how you are feeling. Talk to Him like you are talking to a friend. You probably are trying too hard. Just relax yourself. Tell Him exactly how you are feeling , and ask Him to show you the way. You are not too young to go to heaven or hell. You are not in His wrath. Take it one day at a time. He promised never to leave you nor forsake you. He is your refuge and strength a very present help in times of trouble. You can call on Him any and every time time because He is never too busy to listen to you. His love for you is endless and mind blowing. Do you attend Church? I will be praying for you. Listen to this czcams.com/video/ebsfGWFgOTk/video.html
I'm also 17 and I struggle with this too. A couple versus that have helped me are this, "...You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you." Psalm 9:10 and "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away." John 6:37
You're not alone regardless of what you're Going through God is there. Open your heart and cry out to Him He'll hear and also read your Bible He's in there go back to the new Testament read the 4 gospels and ask for understanding always know that Jesus died for you so that He could bring you home. May God be with you.
@@angelinaoliver5587 thank you!
Faith is an ongoing struggle, especially as you get older. You see your spouse, friends and family die. You see tragedy, sickness, and pain everywhere. Doubts creep in, but somehow you find yourself still praying and seeking God. Remember that Thomas walked with Jesus for 3 years, seen the miracles, heard Jesus teach, and still had doubts. God understands, and is always with us. Remember that doubt is not unbelief.
It's difficult for me as well with everything you mentioned and with the logical arguments against the existence of God/ religions overall. I'm pretty upset about it and don't know If I can undue my doubts this time.
HELLLO
HELLLO
Amazing, from a young child I have denied Jesus. God has shown me his grace and mercy by awakening my faith, and bringing me into Church and getting baptised. But I am still battling with my faith in Jesus. I am trying so hard to bring Jesus into my heart ❤ but my mind will not allow it 🙏
That is how I feel
No one on their own apart from the work of God desires faith. So the fact that you want to believe is evidence the Holy Spirit is at work in you. And He who began a good work in you will see it through. God is the author and finisher of our faith. He's at work and will finish that work. Call on the Lord to grant you faith then rest in his promise that he will not cast away anyone that comes after him.
J Pep thanks, this is wonderful
Thank you for this. Needed this so much
Amen yes this is true... That's a valid promise and the very word of God and God cannot lie.
Indeed, as bible says, no one seeks after true triune God through his/her own will... The genuine desire to seek indicates one's genuine regeneration. However, beware of the teaching that teaches that some physical miracle must happen to prove faith and salvation.
Thank you. This is what I needed. Thank you for your kind words.
Pastor John,
Thank you for this. I come back to this video periodically to remind myself to stop “trying” so hard and give God the burden and rest in knowing Jesus died for me. “It’s a gift, you can receive a gift”, I love that.
"...I do not pray for the world but for those You have given Me..." (John 17/ 9, 20).
What does elitism mean?
I've been trying and trying again to have faith. I don't know what Jesus wants me to do. i don't feel anything when I pray or read the Bible. I feel left out when I see all the testimonies of people who where saved and can actually feel the lord. I have many problems like a lot of people and i'm lonely and sad a lot of times. It's a painful existence and I pray that he could tell me what to do about it along with everything else. I would follow him to the ends of the earth if I only knew he was there for real. So there are times when I feel like I'm praying to nothing but I can't accept that as a reality because that would really scare me and make me feel hopeless. I need jesus in my life I just wish I knew for sure he or God was there
GOD LOVES YOU DEARLY AND DESIRES YOU TO BELIEVE HIS GOSPEL. I TELL YOU READ THE MESSAGE I TYPED UNDER Ningreingam Kamei who has a similar problem. His Comment is right under yours. I Know it will not only help but give you assurance. IF YOU CAN NOT FIND IT JUST TELL ME AND I WILL PASTE IT HERE. GRACE AND PEACE TO YOU.
I feel exactly like this bro
It must be sad to lose that really peaceful veil of ignorance that believers have. Sorry bro. But look beyond this. Even if you can't have faith, you can still do your best to live a moral life. Try watching the genetically modified skeptic. In my opinion he is very respectful and open about his deconversion. Just realize you are not alone.
That's your problem right their you don't believe because you don't see him, the mystery of faith a forever debate. Blessed is he who believeth and cannot see. Johnny pools it comes down to love , sometimes I feel exactly like you unworthy and unloveable, at least your on the right track. Jesus is LOVE LOVE LOVE, try to imagine where he comes from and where we come from , i hope that helps you because he does love you so much , too much for words to express.❤
jonnypools
Philippians 2:12-13, Paul writes, “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed - not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence - continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his purpose
I've repented, I've taken god into my life but no visions no help my life is worse than ever. I love god and jesus and want them inside me forever but I feel so lonely and hurt. Please Jesus heal me. I hear of people being saved and right away a bright light came to them and they were saved. I take Jesus as my savior and almost wind up in a mental ward with severe panic. :(
Please save me Jesus. Please. My life is spinning downhill fast.
God made us to live in harmony with Him. If you confess to Jesus Christ that he is your Lord and Savior and if you accept Him in your heart that he died for you on the Cross and rose after 3 days you will be saved (Romans 10:9). Then you're ready to get to know God more and more through prayer and reading the Bible. Everything you ask for will be given to you (Matthew 7:7)
I have sever panic too which corresponds with my ocd. My life has spiraled out of control in 2021 and the thought of suicide is always on my mind. It makes just want to be a kid again.
I knows it’s painful. I will pray for you. I don’t think I’m saved and I’m not even sure god is real. My mind feels like a mess but I will pray for you.
i've felt the same way. But you have to choose not to give up.
@@Ian-xd2in you’re loved ♥️ when things get difficult may the Lord, Jesus of Nazareth, Yahweh be with you and show you ways and healing like you never before.
Excellent answer, and I struggle with this even as I type this.
Hi, I hope you answer this question. How do you feel right now? Are you still struggling with this?
Brenda Collin I’m not the guy that created the comment your responded too but I’m in a place in my life where the lord has bless me at least that’s what I think giving that everything is going good for me or it could be that I have the spirit of delusion that has swelled upon me just recently I watched a video that troubles me and in it the guy said (don’t quote me exactly because I do not remember the exacts words he said and use but it went something like this) if you are living in sin and nothing bad has happened to you it’s because you are not of your Heavenly Father, those that are his children he chastens then if they turn to sin until they get back on the right path he does not chastens those who are not his and let’s them live in their darkness now that’s what troubles me because I do sin even till this day and it’s knowingly sin but nothing bad happens everything is still going good for me so I am very troubled because I could die at any moment and not be saved
Jesus give me faith. God give me faith.
Today was one of the first times I felt this. As I'm getting more into my relationship with God, I've been doubting Jesus Christ. Idk what happend😭 One moment I was reading the Book of John the next moment I started to doubt my Saviour's life and truth.
I've been struggling with things being humble and yielding to Him, but now I feel like I'm playing around with my salvation. Please pray for the Lord to soften my heart and to hear my thoughts and heal my season of doubt
What made you doubt?
"Reject the devil, and he will flee from you" Bless you.
@ツPaula don't focus on the unbelief! He'll come to you just have faith.
Read a book about the Holy Spirit and get spirit filled. Jesus will come to you.
He loves you more than you know. It's not intellect, it's faith. Just keep praying and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you!
@@clareakemi1329 thank you so much sister . your right.
How are you now?? Is everything fine now??
I struggle a lot because I am a highly logical person, and if I don't have something clearly presented to me, I can't just have blind faith in it. I cry when I hear things like this, and when I read the comments. But I don't know if I am crying because the world is so insane and it feels so comforting to think that ultimately we will be taken care of, or if I'm crying for some other reason. I just can't imagine all the things the Bible says. It is a very confusing piece of literature and I've had trouble with so many aspects of it. It was written by man, not God. I was taught man can not fathom or hear the word of God. In the old Testament he seems so cruel and proud. How could this creator who claims he loves me leave one of his children in so much doubt when they are desperate? I was raised Christian but had no idea what it meant. I still don't. I've tried praying but the truth is, I don't know who I'm talking to other than a being I am imagining because that's all we have. I am definitely lost in this.
Did anything change?
RECIPE FOR HOW TO REGAIN FAITH ---> If you don't know how to regain your faith in God, here is a recipe for you because I went through the same thing and I think this is the right recipe for it: a more peaceful approach is always better because this way you look down on others, convinced that you are really right because you stuck to a purely logical conclusion and view of things (that's how it looks from the side) and it's as if you don't leave room for what even you, so intelligent, don't fully know, and the question is whether God as such can even be understood logically , despite the fact that we possess or have been given such an understanding, even a doubtful one. Faith is not a matter of reason. And the logical mind cannot fathom many things, we are also rationally limited beings. Don't get so much used to this world and that you know how it really work, because you really don't. You just noticed some patterns. Remember that you are an SOUL. Think like one. Remember how is it to be one: You can never learn everything about this world, you just started. Stay unaccustomed, stay in tune, stay in anticipation. Stay faithful IN your ignorance, not TO it.
I hope you will not hear this message of mine in a wrong tone, it was written with good intentions and a calm spirit.
Hi! Ive read your thoughts and my 1st thought was to keep fingers crossed do we both have those unbelief far behind ourselves. For Hebrews, faith=trust. So the question is 'what burden from your heart would you entrust'. Let's get acquainted with Jesus, regardless of this unbelief, let He takes those barriers, not we, so we could feel that 'Jesus saves'. Be blessed in God's name Yahwe
HELLLO
HELLO
i cant save myself,face it
God saves PERIOD
TRUE JESUS
Your words have power! Just try to say you believe in God/Jesus !
@Silvio Manuel What about the rest of us? We can't be saved?
but then, isn't god deciding? If God does not want you to go to hell then he will always choose you to go to hell, so if anyone goes to hell, it means he failed to save them. Then he is not omnipotent.
@Silvio Manuel You Jehovah's witnesses burn in hell forever and ever.
You Jehovah's witness burn in hell forever and ever.
And you burn in hell forever and ever.
Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
I think the modern world force us away from our beliefs, I so envy people with strong faith, I once knew of gods existence and was sure he helped me, I need to find him again, I took him for granted , I pray he will listen to me once more.I think god is the goodness inside us, we have powerful minds that is gods gift. Good luck to all searching.
Paul Watson me too
Jesus is coming soon. We need Faith.
Jesus is the hide and seek champion of the world and always will be!!!
I started to cry when I saw this video it was made for me now I understand thank you thank you bless you bless you I'm crying now thank you!!
ALSO I'M GETTING REALLY EMOTIONAL READING ALL THE COMMENTS AND SEEING OTHER PEOPLE WITH MY PROBLE M, AND PEOPLE WHO GIVE ADVICE AND ENCOURAGEMENT!! BLESS YOU ALL I'M CRYING SO MUCH NOW happy tears
I have been suffering for this doubt and unbelief for 4 decades, thanks be to God for the answer of the man of God. Thank you
I was in that place for a very long time. I told God I have no other place to go, so I will seek you still for you have the words of eternal life. As the years went by I had terrible dark moments of doubt and grief. I keep reading and studying the Bible. At a certain point I realized I was the one causing the problem with my unbelief. I saw how much God loved me and it broke my heart and I wept for days. I kept struggling until I gave up and told God I quit. Then God began to work in my life. You have no idea how much I really love him. He fills my heart with joy. I attend a good church and Iove my bothers and sisters. I listened to Dr McGee daily for years. Make sure you find a good teacher. My recovery was done by God and not me but I had to let him take over. Job said I have heard of you but now I have seen you. I pray that those seeking will see him. God bless you all.
I'm there right now. About 4 months ago I cam to the conclusion that I was lost and have been aking for savig faith. In. thebegining, I sturggled with believiign in the resurection so i akse dfor faith and God anskwered. I struggled with repenting of a sin that has been an addiction for me for almost half my life and God freed m fromt ahta ddictiomn. he made me aware of something in my life that was an idol and He change dmy heart so that I don't desire it anymore. To each of these request He answered but when I ask for savign faith, when I ask for Jesus to save me: nothing.
It's gotten to the point where yesterday I actually told God I hate Him because he's only brought me halfway. I apologised afterwards and honestly I still feel bad about it today. I don't want to be angry or hate God. I just want to be saved. What's the point of God doing lal this work in me if I'm just going to go to hell?
@@estherm.4351 I exactly understand what you went through God changed me too he made me know about him a lot. I asked him to get me a church fit for me and I found the nicest church ever. I asked to love the bible he made me love it indeed. I asked other things and those I got. All except faith in Christ 😅. That was until a few months ago I went through depression for the 1st time in my life and I was going through hell I was terrified of everything and so weak to even be mad at God when I couldn't go on I let myself fall I just leapt in belief I don't even know how I did it tbh but the extreme suffering was what did it for me and I have never felt that terrifying crippling feeling since that moment. Although I feel fear and mild depression from time to time as I have asked him to use this disgusting trial to make my faith stronger. All I'm saying is if I can believe believe me anyone can ❤
Wow that was amazing. We can't produce faith, only God can. We can't do anything on our own
We really fall short of the Glory of God and ONLY he can save us. I was active duty Air Force for 21 years and saw alot of 'stuff' around this world, human beings are so cruel. Be advised, let go and let the Lord Christ be your light. Let's be ready to go, please ask Jesus to envelope you and make you His, just ask him for forgiveness of all your sins and allow him into your heart, God wants you, he is stretching his hands to hold you. Jesus would tell me in dreams to give all to him. I'm stuck at times and the Holy Spirit guides me but I don't always follow and feel like garbage. I'm constantly bombarded by demons, my wife has seen and yelled at them to leave me alone. I have old habits, hard to kill those habits and I would gladly die, to live for My Lord and Savior.
I just want everyone to know watching this video that it is completely normal to question God’s existence especially as a young teen going into adulthood! And if you truly believe just one time and ask him to be in your heart at that moment he never leaves it’s locked in
im a teenager going through this thank you so much
Cat Galaxy I know almost exactly what you mean, your words show me that you’re daily striving to build a relationship with God. If you do that, you’ll be just fine :)) there’s a certain level of discernment when you Pursue the truth on a daily basis :) I know it’s hard to understand, but all you can do is grow your faith in what you know. Read your bible and just trust God with what everything even if u feel as if you don’t know him :)
Cat Galaxy The lord answers prayers in his time, not our time. Do you go to church ?
Cat Galaxy You need to find a very good Church home, it needs to be around other believers :) hopefully you’ve found one but if you have to keep searching keep doing that because u need to be around other believers. :l
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It's taken me two years too after I started fearing Hell. I stopped believing 4 years ago, but I had a sinking feeling almost 2 years ago and I'm finally working on getting the gift of faith back through reading the Bible and praying. I'm having a lot of really bad panic attacks about Hell and the Rapture, but I'm still hanging on and working on it.
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@Sophias Jesus your comment does not help anyone people can't control their feelings
@يشوع القائم that's just fucked
@@sophiasjesus7333God indeed made hell for the devil and demons but we rebelled agaisnt God and were added to that list. demons absolutely do not have faith. believing that God is real is not faith at all. believing in Jesus is faith not believing that he is real.
For many, many years I did believe in the Christ, but like this young man, I just didn't have faith. I could write volumes about the struggles. Now I am an old man and after (developing) the faith that I actually did have somewhere, my faith is alive and vital. My faith always connects me to Jesus and His Father. I can honestly say that I belong 100% to Him. It took many, many trials. Gary White. Toronto, Ontario.
Right now I'm in this situation, this video is hard for me to understand since English is not my native language. But reading some of this comment makes me feel at ease knowing I'm not alone who experience it. I wish all of us find our own fate and peace of mind. Please pray for me as well. Thank you!
I just stumbled across this & I was struggling to type this comment for crying! The words spoken in this video deeply resonated with me. I'm not religious but I would love to have faith, to belong to something bigger.
Don't overthink it or try to prove it or ask for signs. Simply believe and begin to trust God and pray every time you have doubt. Talk to God like you would a loving Father.
@@blueskiesandgreenpasturesp3848 Thank you, I have just recently started talking to God & I honestly do feel peaceful within myself afterwards. I was actually quite surprised the very first time I let him know that I was ready to accept him into my heart, as it lifted my spirits. 💯💖
This guy has super nice dad vibes.
Peace, love and prayers ❤️
I think I understand what Pastor John is trying to say. In Matthew 13, Jesus tells of the Parable of the Sower. In the parable, the seed fell in four kinds of ground. The first kind was a paved path. It was hard, packed, and impenetrable. That type of ground was essentially solid stone. I think what the asker has realized is that his heart towards the Word matches this type of ground, and he/she wants his/her heart, for lack of a better term, un-stoned, but he/she has also realized that all his/her attempts to un-stone his/her heart have been for naught. What Pastor John is trying to say is that only God can un-stone a person's heart and that when we come to a place where we realize that, the best thing we can to is to turn our hearts over to Him and ask Him to un-stone it for us.
Ezekiel 36: 26 (NIV) " I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
The God Christ Jesus has shown himself to people before. But idiots choose to burn in hell forever and ever.
The God Christ Jesus has shown people visions of hell. And they saw demons tormenting people in hell forever and ever in hell. Because they didn’t love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. They burn in hell forever and get tormented by demons in hell forever.
Go into many cursed and haunted houses and cuss and cuss out the immortal demons in there. And the immortal demons in there will beat you up. Then you will know that the God Christ Jesus hates demons.
Go buy a ouija board and put the ouija board on your living room table for the immortal demon to see that. And for the immortal demon to haunt your house.
The God Christ Jesus does not forgive making any deal with a immortal demon. The God Christ Jesus already explained this. All sorcerers with magic from demons all have their part in burning in hell forever and ever.
The God Christ Jesus already answered the only way to heaven is to love the God Christ Jesus with all you're heart, body, mind and soul. That is the first commandment from the God Christ Jesus.
That means love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
Or the God Christ Jesus throws you into hell to burn forever and ever.
With the demons to torment you in hell forever and ever.
There is only one God Christ Jesus and there are no gods beside him.
Even the demons want to go to heaven. But you hate heaven. You want to burn in hell forever and ever. And you want to be tormented by demons in hell forever and ever.
You burn in hell forever and ever. Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
@@godchristmadethebigbangand4882 you sound condemning, stop this
THANK YOU SO SO SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I just need to accept God’s gift! This is amazing news! THIS is the Good News! Jesus died for me and all I need to do to be saved is ACCEPT HIS GIFT!! THANK YOU SIR! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!!! GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!
Imma send this to A L L of my friends that need the LORD (including myself)😌💅🏾✨
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I can relate. I concluded that I am an empty vessel. He puts faith in me.
It's a relief to have the burden of producing faith lifted off my shoulders. Faith is grace.
This really helped me to make a breakthrough ❤ right now we need breakthroughs we need prayers we need faith we need patience we need courage we need to put on the full armor of God and the helmet of salvation praying for all the all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord
This is so special. Thank you for sharing the words of our lord so beautifully. ❤ thank you for your mercy, Lord 🙏🙏🙏 never leave us.
I use to be agnostic before I met my husband. Anytime he would talk about Jesus or the bible I would challenge him, there was almost nothing in me that believed in God or Jesus. Then one day I decided to go to church with him and he told me to ask God to reveal to me that he is real. So I prayed before I when to church and when the Pastor touched my head I felt this strong magnetic,electrical feeling and at that moment something in me clicked and I knew ever since then that the bible is real. Jesus is real and it's like I can feel God now. Its like a hole inside me got filled and I know that Jesus loves me and I love him and that is the only true life. All any of us have or need in life is Jesus he loves us so much, but it seems like hardly anyone knows it.Please I plea with you do the same ask for God to reveal to you that Jesus is the one true God and if you really mean it with your whole heart God will answer you.
How amazing His Grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.😢😢 Truly truly God is worthy of all blessings and honor and glory!! Praise the Triune LORD God of Scripture, who is forever Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Please pray for me.
@@emanuelcazarez940 OK I will Emanuel. Romans 5v8. Matthew 27v46. Please pray for yourself too. Amen. God bless you my friend.
@@joshuanadeem8898 Amen. I do too. Please let it be ongoing prayer. I know tht by grace your are one of His and I have faith, no in you but in the work that has been done in you life.
@Mel Bornn cry out to God until the last day of your life. Many times I gave up and sinned thinking I was justified. It is God's grace that we are alive today. Let us live holding on to the cross even if we are skipped over. Sin has nothing for us. Sin makes us God's enemies. Forsaken it and surrender to Him and His many, many mercies.
@Mel Bornn Hi Mel. Although I'm just a stranger on the Internet, please believe me when I say I do really care for you. So it may be longer than avg YT comments but please read all of the following. Thanks.
First, just a quick note. Its still such *Amazing* Grace even if it does only save a "few" considering anyone who sins deserves eternal hell. BTW, we weren't all born to go to hell. Rather, We were all born going to hell. That's a big difference.
Think: will you be content in hell after freely choosing to reject the Gospel(that God has offered eternal life to man only through/ in His Son, Jesus Christ) even though you didn't need to?? No you won't be.
Anyway, I sort of understand what you're saying by "glad you won the lottery"(sarcastically?? because you claim to not believe) but here's the thing. If you were indeed pointing to it, I agree there's certainly a tension in Bible between God's Sovereignty and man's responsibility in Repentance. God does choose us while we are dead in our trespasses YET He tells everyone everywhere to believe; and that we have a choice in this matter... I truly believe that this is a mystery that won't be revealed on this side of heaven. A similar tension existed between God's Holy Hatred for sinners and His Holy Love for man which was shown by *Jesus Christ's death on the cross for the sin of the world and Resurrection*.
- Don't put your faith in hyper/Calvinism or arminianism. *Put your faith in the LORD Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God. John 14v6 - He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man can come to the Father but by Jesus.* He is commanding you to Repent and Believe. He has already invited you specifically Mel - 1 John 2v2. The choice is up to you my friend.
*Again, will you be content in hell knowing God offered you eternal life as a free gift and you chose to reject it with your own free will even though you didnt need to?*
May God bless you Mel and open your eyes in Jesus' Holy Name. Amen.
What a beautiful gentle message Mr. God Bless
Amen 🙏...I am in awe of your teaching....I repent of all negative thoughts in Jesus name 🙏 hallelujah
Thank You Jesus so much for this, Amen
I'm not the only one? Wow, I thought I was the only one and that I was the problem like I just wasn't good enough to faith. I've been trying to get my own faith for 3 years and this is all I had to do? Life has been very hard and I'm crying while typing this because I've gone through hell just for me to realize that I can't get more faith by oneself. No one has ever told me that, Thank you.
I have needed this for so many years!
Thank you my brother for the BEAUTIFUL AWE INSPIRING WORK FOR THE LORD
Thank you. May the Lord be with you all and shine his light through you. May you all follow Jesus, read the Bible, know him and be re-united with him when your time comes. May the light Jesus gives you, resonate to your friends and family so you can save them too
I feel you, cause i felt it too. Lack of faith was bringing me to agnostic, new age, tao, ho'oponopono, new tought, then get back to Jesus again. It was long roundabout, and what a ride, actually. And yes it is not by my work but ONLY by the grace of God that i'm saved.
Keep asking and coming to Him, and do it in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. His way is different than our way. We, imperfect human, can't grasp the way of The Almighty. And He doesn't owe us any explanation in His way.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye. shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
Lord bless you and keep you brother
Thank you
Amazing John Piper, absolutely amazing
Thank you Pastor John. I needed to hear that. I was tired to try to have faith. I need rest in Jesus
I desperately needed to hear that. Thank you so much.
I'm praying that someone can help me. I stumbled on this by accident and it describes exactly what I'm dealing with and have dealt with my entire life. I grew up in the church, and when I was a child I believed like a child and I so wish that I could have that back. I strayed for a long time, and then God brought me back to him through my mistakes and where they had left me. I was at a point where I wanted to die, and He put people in my way to remind me of who I used to be. But in the time spent running from God, I dabbled in atheism and also paganism. Every time I get too close to God, I'm reminded of my doubts so strongly that it cripples me into giving up on trying to be near Him at all. My faith in Jesus died entirely. My faith in God is intact, and I know that He chased me down, but a part of me doubts even that, meaning that maybe my life isn't worth living but I feel that He gave me so many clear signs when He found me again to tell me that it really was Him. If I'm going to hell because I can't force myself to believe in Jesus, then maybe I should just kill myself now and get it over with because it causes me constant panic and fear and trembling. I also have OCD which may or may not play a role in the obsessive doubt. I don't want to die, but if I can't believe then what is the point of living on this earth anymore? I also can't make myself go through with an attempt because again, I don't want to die. This is cyclical. I'm losing hope. I keep praying anyway because maybe there is hope on the other side of this somehow. I don't know what to do anymore. I can't tell my family because they won't understand. I am so scared. For a few months, I really felt joy and God like I had never felt when I stopped worrying about what I believed and what I didn't believe and now I feel as though my life has no meaning. I just keep begging God to not leave me here like this. To please send someone if I go too far and try to take my own life so that I know that He doesn't want me dead and that it really was Him who found me again. Please pray for me. I used to believe, I know I did. I'm at the point where I don't even think God can do anything to help me anymore. I am the unsaveable.
The Anxious Christian hi do you havw facebook? I've been through also with what you have commented
Word by word its what i felt
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Whispers Of-God I will try to keep holding on. I prayed that someone would respond to this, maybe God hasn’t left me after all.
I feel God' presence in this video. It's so powerful. Even halfway while the pastor was reading the question, I felt the Holy Spirit move in me in a way of extreme empathy and sympathy for the individual who asked that question. Receive Him. That's all I can say on my end.
Philippians 1:6: "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:"
"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Make sure that what you're hearing is indeed the word of God.
We must know that faith is not about feelings. It’s not like “If I don’t feel that I believe in Him, then I don’t” it’s something in our minds, and we choose what we want to believe in, not our minds nor our feelings. WE. Not our minds, I mean, sometimes I get thoughts telling me that I don’t believe but they are just thoughts and my thoughts don’t choose what I believe and what I don’t. That’s what I’ve learned.
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Thanks for the advice! I'm new to financial planning and wasn't sure where to start. Any tips on finding a reliable financial adviser or resource to guide beginners?
I agree. Based on personal experience working with an investment advisor, I currently have $1m in a well diversified portfolio, that has experienced exponential growth. It is not about having money to invest in stocks,but also you need to be knowledgeable, persistent, and have strong hands to back it up.
How can I participate in this? I sincerely aspire to establish a secure financial future and am eager to participate. who is the driving force behind your success?.
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God pls help me fight and stop sinning and get closer to you and be more holy and let me follow you
Oh my !!!! Thank you this!
God bless you all !
So beautiful
it sad people think faith is from them faith is a gift of God The faith of Jesus Christ justifies us roman chapter 3 KJV
I am just like the man in this letter. I seek to believe in Christianity vividly as I used to back when I was a kid. Why would God choose to not make me believe in him even if I truly want to?
Thalis Severo romans 10 17
@@thalissevero962 The fact that you are desiring to know Him and are seeking Him is Him working in you. ❤️
Exactly
@God's Whisper but in order for that to happen, we should have that genuine hunger for |Christ in us to begin with. Here most of people struggle with not having it, realizing/being aware of not having but wanting to have it. .
Amen brother! That was a wise answer! Very wise and gracious words God bless you man!
This makes me feel very good as someone who grew up in the church and struggled with my faith past couple years. Im going to seek the lord. And see if my faith can return
Same
faith is priceless...cant afford it 😥🔥
Do you still have the same feeling, and if so why?
is faith a reliable pathway to truth? Could I not say I believe Allah and the Quran based on faith? Why would you want faith over evidence?
You know, if your in a place where you are struggling to believe in the very existence of God and it bothers you. That alone just shows how real your faith really is. Because you care and believe there’s something there worth your time because if you truly didn’t believe or even care. You wouldn’t even be here or have any emotion to it.
A hypocrite never questions his hypocrisy let alone believes he is one, but one who is fearful he is one is far from being a hypocrite. I think the asker is on to something. Many believe but even those who believe some will be denied. I think the one that ask Piper this question is more concerned if her faith is genuine or not.
I have been a "Christian" for 29 years. I have strived to have faith, and I felt so guilty that I didn't have faith. I have struggled for so long. I "knew" it was a gift but still couldn't seem to make myself believe. This simple message, delivered here, made me cry. Thank you for these words. God bless you!
Same thing for me I knew it in my mind to be true I knew it was the gift but I couldn't find it in me to receive the gift by faith my heart didn't have the faith to receive Jesus
Praise God for His Gift❤
"Faith is believin' what you know ain't so." -- Mark Twain
Oh I wish I could like this more than once...
I feel like this and I feel like I am running out of time. I want to believe so bad.
Think of it this way, if you didn’t Believe in God why do you try to believe in him when you already do, you obviously know he is real other wise you would not be seeking him, but God is allowing satan to cloud your mind so that you will continue to fight and to rely on God and to make your faith stronger. Me personally, I think you do believe in God because if you truly didn’t believe you would have dropped everything and gave up a long time ago Thats for you and the other gentlemen that commented that’s he’s in the same place
Alex Medina, Your a Warrior just like me, and all of our brothers and sisters, we fight, and we fight till our time has come to go see our father, keep on fighting and if you have any questions comment on here by my name and ask and I’ll help the best I can😊, God bless you and always be with YOU.
@Clorox Bleach god bless you ❤️
@@benmclendon858 you just said the situation I am in
Nádia Garcia D'Assuncão Castro yes, that’s it
Christ did it all for us 🙌🏻
YOU know I thought it was only me who think so and thought even god (jesus) has no solution for my problem. BUT now i got a hope after reading all your comments.I was in depression from past one weak over thinking about this belief issue and thinking that i could never accept jesus as my savior. BUT after knowing that many of u went through and had overcome this belief issue and now living peacefully in christ, I got a hope. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I hope u to pls pray for me , my soul , my spirit by receiving peace and by receiving the holy spirit and accepting christ as my saviour in my life.
God help us to receive his Grace and to see as he did to me. Seek and ye shall find, when he seek me with all your heart you will find me( Jer 29 13)
This is how I have felt for years. Truly makes me feel God doesn’t care let aloe LOVE me because I have prayed, begged, read and studied the Bible sooooooooooo much, yet nothing. In fact the first time I read the Bible I struggled to see how it is good
You think you deserve a reward for following him? He died for your sins show some respect
But honestly i have been struggling with faith too, i just simply believe religion has been outdated.
@@bourne8636 🙄😑 i never said i deserved a reward stop gaslighting me. So many so called Christians are so good at this. Don’t twist my words just because you can’t answer them. Pathetic
@@nadinegomez8858 i know it's just you said "yet nothing" which seems as if you were expecting something.
You need to pray with the right heart attitude. You need to ask God to give you the faith you need for your salvation. You need to want to serve Jesus Christ as your Lord as well as love Him as your Saviour. Maybe you are holding onto a favourite sin or something or someone in your life that God wants you to be prepared to let go of. If you ask God to give you the faith you need for your salvation and that you will follow wherever He wants to lead you and that you want Jesus Christ only on His terms, God will give you the gift of saving faith. Jesus promised that God never refuses the Holy Spirit to those who ask but your asking mus be in the right spirit. You might also have to acknowledge to God that there is nothing good that you can do of yourself that is acceptable to Him but that every good thing that you do and have ever done is only because of His grace and mercy restraining you from being totally wicked and depraved.
I cried a little listening to this. But I feel better about after watching the video. I believe in God with my whole heart. In him my faith is almost like knowing. I believe in the Holy Spirit because He is real and God very own spirit. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ...75%. I need it to be 100%. I've been trying to read books about Jesus. But you're right: faith is a gift. My faith came upon me suddenly. It was a gift. I'll just be patient and hope that Jesus gives me more.
Thank you Pastor John.
Another approach, which has worked for me. The fact that they are trying to believe, ironically, means that they do believe. Why else would they "try"? I would, if I were them, thank God that you do believe. Thank God that he is going to change you from the inside out by his grace through your faith. I think sometimes we think we don't believe because we don't see a change in the way we feel. Obviously, if you're looking inside at how you feel to decide whether you believe, your eyes are on yourself. By thanking God that you do believe, you are acting in faith and you will begin to see God at work in you and in the world. It will happen. It may not be immediate but I guarantee you it will happen. It has for me. I hope this helps.
The gift in Eph 2:8-9 is Salvation.Recieved by Grace through Faith......God doesnt give the gift of salvation to some and not others.he gives Salvation to all those who believe.
"God, please show me light, allow me to realize the truth and show me your will... I want to be with you god and understand your ways"
"And please also bring light to who ever is reading this and is suffering from the same problem, My lack of faith causes fear of death."
To who ever is struggling with the same problem as me ive been dealing with this for a month now, just understand there are other consious beings (Humans/ppl) that understand YOU, because i sure do. And that prayer was for the both of us. I come from a Christain family and i still have my struggles believing. Stay strong. do what makes you happy and follow god. Maybe we can both see this light and understand the true meaning of god. 😔
Hi:) There are many times when it is hard to have a true passion and faith in God. I remember I felt like I was forcing myself to believe in Him and questioned if this is how it feels to believe in God. If it is I told myself, "I didn't want it." After I told myself this, so many signs from people and my life told me to continue my journey with God. For months I had this confusion, but I continued to pray, read, fast, and talk, think about God throughout the day. I am so glad I continued my journey and made me realize the story of Job. Job suffered from the devils' trick, but still had faith in the Lord, please read Job 42. I hope you continue your journey with God and I'll pray for you, I know how hard it is to believe when we are staggering. My journey strengthened my faith in Jesus and taught me it wasn't for my works, but for the love of Jesus Christ. Not many people stick to God in hard times and I'm glad you are. I recommend you Vihan Damaris and Servants of Christ to youtube channels. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 🤗
Thank you so much. IVE BEEN TRYING to find out how to do this. I thought there was a way I could.
Thank you.
ive been struggling with this for a long time now, it follows me constantly.. please pray for me, I dont think I can do it alone anymore.
Ayden praying for u... I completely relate with the struggle and desperation that I try to endure. Praying we continue to hold on and persevere when we’re going through the valleys. He is faithful. We can make it
@@Lulu-xk5ll hi
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First of all, please know that if you're searching him, God has chosen you:
Please search "how do we know wether or not we've been chosen"
When you refuse to believe, you are not his sheep:
John 10:26 "But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep."
But when you are searching for him, you already chosen:
John 6:37 : Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away
John 6:44: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day
John 6:65: So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come
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What is it that makes you doubt?
Hi, so I’m really struggling with this and today I almost gave up (that felt horrible to even consider). I don’t really understand though. You wrote that it says “You refuse to believe because you are not my sheep”, but then you wrote that all who seeks Him is chosen. Do you mind explaining 😊?
I get what this man is sayin! Still heard though! I’ve been struggling to believe off and on lately too! Please pray for me if you’re reading this!
I was in the same position. I believed Jesus is salvation but I didn't believe that he died for us or rose from the dead. I tried and tried and tried and I couldn't believe. I even stopped believing in God for a few years. But then I heard a voice in me say, Christ didn't die for sins...and then all of a sudden I believed he did! I rebuked the voice and said yes he did. It was a miracle! Jesus says he will manifest himself if you follow his commandments, there are 39 of the I believe. If you have a Bible read his commandments and obey them with all of your heart and he will manifest. Anyone who seeks finds!
I would appreciate prayers, too. Been battling health issues for over 8 years I'm 26 and feel like I've lost my ability to believe. Please pray my eyes are opened and I desire God again and what is good and do not give into temptation to turn away. That he will find me again.
Similar story. Need prayer too
Same here
Dear God I am unable to produce faith myself. Please bless me with faith amen
same here
is faith a reliable pathway to truth? Could I not say I believe Allah and the Quran based on faith? Why would you want faith over evidence?
I didn't know there was people like me
God! Please help my unbelief. I know you're the only one who saved me and save me again. Get rid of my unblief!
This was beautiful.
It is a bit difficult for me to have absolute faith in our Heavenly Father.
My parents are Christian, my dad would tell me stories about how when he was young he had talked to one angel when he was a very small boy, my grandmother would ask him who he was talking to, he said, "I'm talking to the angel." Grandma said nothing was there.
My mom told me stories as well about how when she was 18-19 years old, that she would have dreams and those dreams would come true. One of her dreams in particular was of her neighbor passing away, she said she had a dream a week before he died about him dying. The next week he passed away in bed, a bible in his hands.
I think that there is a chance for me to have faith but it is difficult, I am still young and maybe he has a plan that he wants to unfold with me in the future instead of me being able to have faith now.
All I can do is pray.
I also worry that the atonement hadn’t been applied to me by God. Lord please open the eyes of my heart and help me see how loving you are and grant me assurance. I hate that I lack assurance. I’m sorry for anybody else out there who struggles with this.
How's your struggle going brother
@@milka1150 thanks for checking in. I think it’s improved. My mustard seed is growing little by little
@@aaronbuchholz2510 like yours truly it will happen brother! you'll look back and be amazed at the miracle of faith.
Thank God for this, ive been doing my best, but it is time to stop trying and to rest in Him.
Don't just rest. Ask God to give you the faith you need for your salvation and tell Him why you want it.
Amen!! Dont focus on the feel,feelings are deceiving teust in Jesus faith inside you like a small musterd seed..we must move past what we feel thats flesh and only believe.
Not sure if anyone still searches and watches this video but I feel I need to say something that may give a some people hope.
My grandfather is a Baptist preacher, and I've never had the heart to tell him that I struggle with my faith. That isn't to say that I don't want to believe, as I would give everything I had if I could just instantly believe with no doubts whatsoever. He told me about a year ago that God plants the desire to believe in him in every single person. Also that us having doubts is us being "lost spiritually". It doesn't mean that we are hopeless, it just means that we have to find ourselves in God again.
This differs from what the guy in the video said, but I figure any input I can give to someone out there that may help, should be said. I still struggle in my faith but I believe that one day I will be whole with the lord. My grandfather has told me many times that I should try reading the book of John in the Bible, as it deals with learning about God and developing faith in him. I haven't tried to read it in a long time but I should try again soon.
To everyone else out there with similar issues, you are not alone. And I have faith that God will make himself known to all of us sooner or later. It's just a matter of not giving up.
The God Christ Jesus has shown himself to people before. But idiots choose to burn in hell forever and ever.
The God Christ Jesus has shown people visions of hell. And they saw demons tormenting people in hell forever and ever in hell. Because they didn’t love the God Christ Jesus first today forever. They burn in hell forever and get tormented by demons in hell forever.
Go into many cursed and haunted houses and cuss and cuss out the immortal demons in there. And the immortal demons in there will beat you up. Then you will know that the God Christ Jesus hates demons.
Go buy a ouija board and put the ouija board on your living room table for the immortal demon to see that. And for the immortal demon to haunt your house.
The God Christ Jesus does not forgive making any deal with a immortal demon. The God Christ Jesus already explained this. All sorcerers with magic from demons all have their part in burning in hell forever and ever.
The God Christ Jesus already answered the only way to heaven is to love the God Christ Jesus with all you're heart, body, mind and soul. That is the first commandment from the God Christ Jesus.
That means love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
Or the God Christ Jesus throws you into hell to burn forever and ever.
With the demons to torment you in hell forever and ever.
There is only one God Christ Jesus and there are no gods beside him.
Even the demons want to go to heaven. But you hate heaven. You want to burn in hell forever and ever. And you want to be tormented by demons in hell forever and ever.
You burn in hell forever and ever. Because you did not love the God Christ Jesus first today forever.
What I’ve learned during my own process of seeking spirituality and Higher Power and God is that all this conversation centers on humility. A lot of the objections that people raise during conversations like this rely on logic. This really isn’t a logical thing. I can hear the atheists and skeptics laughing loudly. I know, I was one-still am, depending on what mood you catch me in. The point is, I’ve found that I’m not meant to do anything, really. And I don’t believe God (whoever or whatever that might be) is asking me to do anything either.... other than (as much as I am capable) to maintain this disposition that we might agree to call humility.
Thank you so much for this video, it just changed my lofe
Thank you for this video.
I’ve been struggling with this for over two years and at many different periods throughout my life. I felt that its been getting severely worse lately and I want so badly to receive the holy spirit and to know that Christ is God he died but I can’t do it myself. I’m trying So hard to believe and I feel so desperate. Please pray for me.
I feel the same way..I really don't know what to believe anymore
How are u?
@@lexvee8527 Trust in Christ in the logical conclusion, do not live by your feelings.
How are things now?
I've been struggling with this for awhile now, my mother is a catholic and my dad is greek orthodox and I've gone through fearful/fanatical stages but that phase passes and I just feel disconnected and like I can't convince my mind to do so. I've felt sceptical for awhile now and I don't know what to do because when I pray I don't feel it and feel disingenuous. How do I turn the scepticism off? Does God still love those who air on the side of scepticism?
I've been a believer and an evangelist for 30 years. Despite constantly reading the bible and praying for my whole life and giving my all to God, I've never actually heard from God myself. Pastors would tell me what was God's will for me and they ended up being wrong completely. I ended up watching the Atheist Experience tv show and it's like a light went off in my head. Everything clicked. I started to notice that people who believed in Jesus believed for horrible reasons (faith, anonymous eye-witness testimony, feelings etc). I'm now an atheist and couldn't be happier. I make better decisions in life without faith through skepticism and never looked back. If Jesus really loved me, he would make every attempt to reveal himself to me in a way I can confirm he is real and divine. Not through a book or feelings but by testable evidence. An all-knowing, all-powerful God could easily reveal himself to everyone.
This made me want to cry, I always try too hard, I try to force and manhandle my way into things happening. Thank yoy
Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God scripture keep in the word of God