Full Version: Getting Back To God
I once had a very close and intimate relationship with the Lord but stumbled and backslid. I tried for years to get close to Him again and could not seem to find Him again so I gave up. Now years later I still desperately want to walk with the Lord and I have been seeking Him for a year but I am not getting any closer. I pray constantly morning noon and all night. I do not think I am sinning except sometimes I may have thoughts of judging people but nothing real serious. I am not saying I am perfect just trying to get closer to God. I wonder if maybe I must believe first that I have a relationship with Him to have it, you know if I have any doubt maybe it is enough to stop me from entering. So I try to speak only positive thoughts and try to beleive but then days come where I see nothing happening and then I think it is useless. I don't know what else to try to do. I know that faith is resting in Him but I am finding it hard to do this too. Please pray that I can see a big breakthrough in my life with HIm. Any suggestions, any one else been in this position and can help? Thanks for your prayers I need it.
QUOTE(northstar @ Mar 27 2006, 07:16 PM)
I once had a very close and intimate relationship with the Lord but stumbled and backslid. I tried for years to get close to Him again and could not seem to find Him again so I gave up. Now years later I still desperately want to walk with the Lord and I have been seeking Him for a year but I am not getting any closer. I pray constantly morning noon and all night. I do not think I am sinning except sometimes I may have thoughts of judging people but nothing real serious. I am not saying I am perfect just trying to get closer to God. I wonder if maybe I must believe first that I have a relationship with Him to have it, you know if I have any doubt maybe it is enough to stop me from entering. So I try to speak only positive thoughts and try to beleive but then days come where I see nothing happening and then I think it is useless. I don't know what else to try to do. I know that faith is resting in Him but I am finding it hard to do this too. Please pray that I can see a big breakthrough in my life with HIm. Any suggestions, any one else been in this position and can help? Thanks for your prayers I need it.
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Northstar, have you asked GOD to forgive you of your sins, in Jesus NAME???
Hi northstar 
What is it that you are looking for to "happen" ?
If You believe Jesus you have salvation.
The level of relationship is dependant on not grieving the Holy Spirit. Pray for conviction as to what it is that is causing the distance and when you know what it is, Go to God and repent of it in Jesus name.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
QUOTE(northstar @ Mar 28 2006, 11:16 AM)
I once had a very close and intimate relationship with the Lord but stumbled and backslid. I tried for years to get close to Him again and could not seem to find Him again so I gave up. Now years later I still desperately want to walk with the Lord and I have been seeking Him for a year but I am not getting any closer. I pray constantly morning noon and all night. I do not think I am sinning except sometimes I may have thoughts of judging people but nothing real serious. I am not saying I am perfect just trying to get closer to God. I wonder if maybe I must believe first that I have a relationship with Him to have it, you know if I have any doubt maybe it is enough to stop me from entering. So I try to speak only positive thoughts and try to beleive but then days come where I see nothing happening and then I think it is useless. [right][snapback]49715[/snapback][/right]
What is it that you are looking for to "happen" ?
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I don't know what else to try to do. I know that faith is resting in Him but I am finding it hard to do this too. Please pray that I can see a big breakthrough in my life with Him. Any suggestions, any one else been in this position and can help? Thanks for your prayers I need it.
If You believe Jesus you have salvation.
The level of relationship is dependant on not grieving the Holy Spirit. Pray for conviction as to what it is that is causing the distance and when you know what it is, Go to God and repent of it in Jesus name.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
If we believe in Jesus,
repent of our sins,
It is going to happen
He will live in your heart and you will be in heaven one day.
Not what these hands have done
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers, my sighs, my tears
Can bear my awful load.
Thy work alone, O Christ,
Can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
Can give me peace within.
He died for you and me.We are washed in the blood of Jesus.
That poem by Horatius Bonar is a good reminder for me, when I start
thinking if I am doing things right, have done enough, or questioning my
salvation.
Through His stripes we are healed.
Trust in Him. Read His words in The Holy Bible and simply rest in Jesus
Oh yes and He is alive!
Halleluiah to the Lamb of God!
repent of our sins,
It is going to happen
He will live in your heart and you will be in heaven one day.
Not what these hands have done
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne
Can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers, my sighs, my tears
Can bear my awful load.
Thy work alone, O Christ,
Can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
Can give me peace within.
He died for you and me.We are washed in the blood of Jesus.
That poem by Horatius Bonar is a good reminder for me, when I start
thinking if I am doing things right, have done enough, or questioning my
salvation.
Through His stripes we are healed.
Trust in Him. Read His words in The Holy Bible and simply rest in Jesus
Oh yes and He is alive!
Halleluiah to the Lamb of God!
I think that perhaps you are expecting God to show up with a booming voice. He doesn't work like that (not usually). I sure wish He did sometimes.
When you pray, have a journal with you to reflect on what you feel God is saying to you. Write out questions you have. Express what is on your mind.
Then live. Watch who God puts in your life to answer your questions. Observe. God is listening. He loves you. HE LOVES YOU.
When you pray, have a journal with you to reflect on what you feel God is saying to you. Write out questions you have. Express what is on your mind.
Then live. Watch who God puts in your life to answer your questions. Observe. God is listening. He loves you. HE LOVES YOU.
I am glad to hear that your coming back to the Lord and developing a relationship with Him. Remember He never leaves you nor forsakes you. He stood right there even when you left Him. You may be feeling the quilt of having left in the first place. Just know that He is there willing and able to pick up where you left off. He is showing you right now in this dry season what it is truly like without Him. It is dry and dead. Always remember this and recall this moment if one day in the future you think about backsliding again.
He loves you with a everlasting love, one that cannot be shaken. Allow Him to coo you through His words of love through out the book of Psalms. Be rooted in His love first because He is love and then all things will be established after this.
Praise Him with love songs and know that He hears you. When you sing praise to Him, He gives you His attention and listens with an alert ear. He is faithful to you in returing back the love you show Him.
Peace to you
He loves you with a everlasting love, one that cannot be shaken. Allow Him to coo you through His words of love through out the book of Psalms. Be rooted in His love first because He is love and then all things will be established after this.
Praise Him with love songs and know that He hears you. When you sing praise to Him, He gives you His attention and listens with an alert ear. He is faithful to you in returing back the love you show Him.
Peace to you
QUOTE(Pamela @ Mar 27 2006, 08:30 PM)
I am glad to hear that your coming back to the Lord and developing a relationship with Him. Remember He never leaves you nor forsakes you. He stood right there even when you left Him. You may be feeling the quilt of having left in the first place. Just know that He is there willing and able to pick up where you left off. He is showing you right now in this dry season what it is truly like without Him. It is dry and dead. Always remember this and recall this moment if one day in the future you think about backsliding again.
He loves you with a everlasting love, one that cannot be shaken. Allow Him to coo you through His words of love through out the book of Psalms. Be rooted in His love first because He is love and then all things will be established after this.
Praise Him with love songs and know that He hears you. When you sing praise to Him, He gives you His attention and listens with an alert ear. He is faithful to you in returing back the love you show Him.
Peace to you
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He loves you with a everlasting love, one that cannot be shaken. Allow Him to coo you through His words of love through out the book of Psalms. Be rooted in His love first because He is love and then all things will be established after this.
Praise Him with love songs and know that He hears you. When you sing praise to Him, He gives you His attention and listens with an alert ear. He is faithful to you in returing back the love you show Him.
Peace to you
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Pamela, that was beautiful.
That gave me peace too.
Thank you. How true this is!
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