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[Idontknowaname15]

I’ve known about God and my family are all Christians.. I’ve went to church on and off. I’ve had plenty of prayers answered. I just realized though I don’t think I’m where I need to be with God. In the last year I’ve slept with multiple people and I’m always lonely. I feel like I have no one. I’m also angry all the time. I don’t know exactly what I believe. I don’t have the relationship with Jesus that I need, but I don’t really know where to start or what I need to do.

 

[Waggles]

Two points of advice for you
1: pray to Jesus to help you learn and to guide you to his truth.
He may well send the right people to connect with you and preach the gospel of salvation.

2: read your New Testament and desire to do what the gospel teaches you to do.
May I recommend the gospel of John then Acts and then the epistles to the churches.
You will learn where to start and what you need to do for the Word of God is truth.
Read and believe.

 

[lilstarsmum]

I’m sorry you’re feeling that way, friend. I appreciate your courage to reach out for help. Please don’t be hard on yourself. Bible clearly says that we all have sinned. We cannot do anything without God’s help. Have you considered talking to Christian counselor or a Pastor/trusted adult? Do you have a support group or a Bible study group nearby? I just said a prayer for you, asking the Lord to draw you closer to Himself and guide you in His ways. Remember that “the Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34:18). He will never fail you or forsake you. May He be your ever-present help and may His comfort be your strength as you lean upon Him, trusting in His wisdom and mercy. Stay strong in Him.

 

[Idontknowaname15]

Thank you both. I will try to do what both of you all are telling me

 

[Brad Huber]

Praying for you, I dont know a name 15. Know that whomever seeks the Lord with all his/her heart shall ALWAYS find Him. Reading scripture, new testament gospels as said will help some, praying to God will help also. But what you are seeking is not just knowledge of God, you already have some of that, you are truly seeking a (your) spirit to Spirit (God's Holy Spirit) connection, and you will know it when you have it. Without that spirit to Spirit connection, all faith is head knowledge only and next to worthless.

 

[Idontknowaname15]

Praying for you, I dont know a name 15. Know that whomever seeks the Lord with all his/her heart shall ALWAYS find Him. Reading scripture, new testament gospels as said will help some, praying to God will help also. But what you are seeking is not just knowledge of God, you already have some of that, you are truly seeking a (your) spirit to Spirit (God's Holy Spirit) connection, and you will know it when you have it. Without that spirit to Spirit connection, all faith is head knowledge only and next to worthless.

How do you get that spirit to spirit connection exactly?

 

[Brother-Paul]

I’ve known about God and my family are all Christians.. I’ve went to church on and off. I’ve had plenty of prayers answered. I just realized though I don’t think I’m where I need to be with God. In the last year I’ve slept with multiple people and I’m always lonely. I feel like I have no one. I’m also angry all the time. I don’t know exactly what I believe. I don’t have the relationship with Jesus that I need, but I don’t really know where to start or what I need to do.

Welcome to the forum @Idontknowaname15

Pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ, in Jesus Name, God gave Jesus all authority, he is the intercessor of our prayers to the Father.

Pray the Lord's prayer, take your time, understand each part of it, pray God will reveal the Truth in His Word, the Bible, he will.

Your have already received some good advice, I like John's Gospel, it is my favourite, pray first, then read and take your time, don't read the Bible like a book, it is God's Word, it is a message to all people of all generations. It is the Good News of Salvation through what Jesus taught and went through for each one of us.

The whole Gospel is full of guidance and meaning, take note when you read them, especially John chapter 3 verses 1 to 21.

I also agree with our friend @Waggles, read John, then Acts and follow through the epistles.

If you have any questions, please ask, we are all only to happy to help, no question is a silly question my friend, enjoy the fellowship, God loves a searching heart.

Peace be with you.

Jesus loves you, we do too.

Brother-Paul

 

[Waggles]

How do you get that spirit to spirit connection exactly?

I received the Holy Spirit and my life was instantly transformed by the power of God.
People opened up their Bibles and read out scriptures to me and I believed the Word of God.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Amen, Amen, I say unto thee, Except one be born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born being an old man? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Amen, Amen, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said to thee, Ye must be born from above. - [ye = you all]
8 The Spirit breathes where he wills, and thou hear his voice, but know not whence he comes, and whither he goes: so is every one born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?

 

[Waggles]

How do you get that spirit to spirit connection exactly?

Acts 10:19 And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said, Lo, two men seek thee.
20 But arise, and get down, and go with them, nothing doubting: because I have sent them.
21 And Peter went down unto the men, and said, Lo, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
22 And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.

Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all that heard the word.
45 And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, who came with Peter, because that on the nations also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can anyone forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then asked they him to tarry certain days.

 

[Waggles]

How do you get that spirit to spirit connection exactly?

Acts 19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper regions came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:
Act 19:2 and he said unto them, Whether ye received the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether there is a Holy Spirit.
Act 19:3 And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into the baptism of John.
Act 19:4 And Paul said, John baptized a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe unto him that should come after him, that is, unto Jesus.
Act 19:5 And when they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Act 19:6 And when Paul had laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.
Act 19:7 And they were in all about twelve men.

Believe the scriptures for they will tell you how to get the spirit connection.

 

[Idontknowaname15]

I’m going to try to read these tonight when I’m alone. I’ve read most of these before or I know the basics I guess. I know you have to have a relationship with God and be born again. I don’t know how to let him in I think is the problem and I know I’ve had prayers answered when I pray to God. So I can’t say that he isn’t there. If that makes sense. I also have been reading some of the forums on here and it has been making me extremely anxious because of the end times and the thought of eternity and things like that. People say I would rather put my faith in God and be wrong then the opposite and then be in agony for all time. That right there is what has me extremely at unease. I’m not exactly sure how to write what I’m feeling in the best way for people to understand.

 

[Waggles]

I’m not exactly sure how to write what I’m feeling in the best way for people to understand.

Just write what you want to write and then read it before you post.

 

[Brad Huber]

How do you get that spirit to spirit connection exactly?

In prayer to God (this is talking to God, just like we talk to each other down here on earth), tell Him that you are sorry for your sins that have committed, and then tell Him that you want to be in fellowship with Him and live for the truth in your life, ask Jesus to cleanse you from your sins as He promised He would and make you a new creation that desires to be righteous. Ask Him for the Holy Spirit as He promised He would give us to help serve the Lord.

That would be the birth of a new person, you, then like a tree planted by living waters, you will grow in faith. Read scripture just as the others say, do some everyday. Scripture tells us more about the person Jesus who is also God. Then find someone of faith that will help you get baptized, and when you do get baptized, ask the Lord for a double portion of the Holy Spirit and He will gladly do so. Then learn more about the Holy Spirit who will be living inside you. You can read about Him and Jesus in scripture. A good guidebook on the Holy Spirit, other than scripture, is "The Holy Spirit" by Billy Graham. Talk to the Holy Spirit daily, ask Him for help in all things that might be difficult, ask about spiritual things that you want to know more about. Learn to know the voice of the Holy Spirit, and know that evil spirits will sometimes try to pretend its the Holy Spirit, I am talking about thoughts that spring up in your head, almost as of without your guidance. If whatever the spirits tell you lines up with scripture, its the Holy Spirit, if it tries to make you feel guilty and ashamed when you have done nothing wrong then know evil spirit are trying to separate you from the connection you now have with God. Expect your prayers to be answered by the Holy Spirit, that voice inside your head, the quiet voice, or the joyful voice.

 

[Idontknowaname15]

Welcome to the forum @Idontknowaname15

Pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ, in Jesus Name, God gave Jesus all authority, he is the intercessor of our prayers to the Father.

Pray the Lord's prayer, take your time, understand each part of it, pray God will reveal the Truth in His Word, the Bible, he will.

Your have already received some good advice, I like John's Gospel, it is my favourite, pray first, then read and take your time, don't read the Bible like a book, it is God's Word, it is a message to all people of all generations. It is the Good News of Salvation through what Jesus taught and went through for each one of us.

The whole Gospel is full of guidance and meaning, take note when you read them, especially John chapter 3 verses 1 to 21.

I also agree with our friend @Waggles, read John, then Acts and follow through the epistles.

If you have any questions, please ask, we are all only to happy to help, no question is a silly question my friend, enjoy the fellowship, God loves a searching heart.

Peace be with you.

Jesus loves you, we do too.

Brother-Paul

I found my old Bible in my closet and it was bookmarked at john

 

[Waggles]

I found my old Bible in my closet and it was bookmarked at john

 

[Brother-Paul]

I found my old Bible in my closet and it was bookmarked at john

Praise the Lord.

Then away you go...

In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God.......

Wonderful Gospel, The Truth floods from every chapter, every verse.

Be Truly Blessed, pray first, ask God to reveal The Truth in The Word to you. Do everything with an open heart. Give thanks when you finish reading, sometimes things will jump out and speak to you, other times the Holy Spirit plants seeds, later you read another scripture and The Truth is revealed to you by the Holy Spirit.

Example.

Some verses say...
Believe on the Lord and you will be saved. Beware even the devil believes God and Jesus.

Call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved. How do you believe? How do you call?

Read the most popular verse in scripture, John 3:16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only son (wait for it), so that who ever believes on him will have everlasting life.

There are millions of people that say they are Christians, say they believe in Jesus, go to church every Sunday. Are they saved? Based on the single verses mentioned they may say so, they may think so.

Read ALL of John 3:1-21 not just John 3:16 or similar verses, read in the right context you will see there is more required.

The early verses are a conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus, who was Nicodemus. He was a very respectable man, a Jew, (as was Jesus). Nicodemus was a key member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling Counsel, but there was more, Nicodemus was a teacher of The Law, a teacher of all Israel, a very respectable man, a very qualified man; yet he didn't understand what Jesus said. If anyone should have understood, Nicodemus should have.

The good news my friend, he was like you, like us all at some stage, bit most Importantly he had a searching heart. God loves a searching heart.

You will see in these 21 verses, a very important Truth.

1 - First part of these verses explains clearly, you (all of us) must be born again from above, of water and spirit. (Baptism of water and spirit)

2 - v16-17 shows how much God loves us, even though we are 'sinners'.

3 - v18-21, sums up this whole section, so that the message is not misunderstood.

Beware of reading single verses, the context of a message is so often missed by quoting single verses.

John 3:1-21 has a wonderful message, a powerful message, yet so often it is broken up into smaller pieces.

Many a sermons focuses on Nicodemus and Jesus, most people quote John 3:16-17, but very few quote the whole 21 verses and even fewer quote the last few verses.

I pray the above, and what others share with you on here8, will be good guidance for you, you have begun a wonderful journey, a journey towards salvation, a journey towards peace, inner peace (more about this in John's Gospel and elsewhere, when you get to it, pray and read slowly).

And if that is not all, a love that will not let you down, a love within, an amazing love, a love you will not be able to describe but a love that makes you feel complete.

It doesn't all happen straight away, you need faith, faith comes by hearing The Word of God. Then you will want to be forgiven for a your sins, really forgiven. You will want to be baptised, you will want to practice righteousness, you will not want to sin because sin separates us from God.

God's speed my friend, he takes us as we are, terrible sinners, not worthy to be saved, yet God allowed his one and only son to die on the cross, shedding his blood, paying the price for our sins, so we don't have to pay the price ourselves.

That is a truly amazing love.

Bless you

 

[Idontknowaname15]

I’m not sure where I need to post this but I’m just wondering if any of you could or would answer this question. What made you become a Christian? Was it the way you were taught to be one? A prayer being answered? How did you just convert or start believing?

 

[Waggles]

What made you become a Christian?

So glad you asked
I had been a "practising" Roman Catholic all my life and had Sunday School knowledge of the Bible stories.
Grew up in the suburbs in a middle class family with a mum and dad and three sisters.
BUT the 1970s came and everything changed - hippies, counter culture, alternative lifestyle, free love, marijuana, mushrooms, the Beatles, sex with anybody, lentils and hummus ...
With all of this came the freedom to sin with self-righteous excuse making because we knew the truth and everybody else was part of the system.
Unfortunately it all proved to be a terrible lie.
By the time I was 40 I was a most corrupt and evil person not only a junkie and a smoker, but worse a sexual pervert cheating on my wife and family.

One day in 1996 I walked out of the local shopping centre and there was a Pentecostal church witnessing to people out in the mall.
I read two testimonies pinned to a brightly coloured wooden door - one was from a junkie and hippy who had been healed and set free from heroin and hepatitis C.
The other testimony was from a man who had gone to gaol (jail) a few times and had been in and out of boys homes and foster care most of his young life.
Both of these testimonies spoke of believing the gospel and repentance, followed by water baptism [full immersion] and then baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.
Then for both of these people their lives were immediately transformed for the better and they were set free from their previous sinful lives.

Being Roman Catholic I was a bit spun out by this - transformed lives by the power of God !! Wow whatever next.
I listened to a man who opened up his Bible and read out many scriptures about being born from above, the kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, miracles and healings.
The scriptures came off the pages and entered my heart. They touched me and I was fearful that these scriptures were true.

Anyway to cut a long story short I started going to these Pentecostal meetings to see what they were about.
I was challenged by the man who witnessed to me if I would get baptized - immediately scriptures came into my mind - and I responded in the affirmative.
For a month I would go to my RCC mass on Sunday mornings and also to the Pentecostal service on Sunday afternoons. I was not quite ready to let go of the old ways yet.
After the service meetings I would go into the prayer room and pray and ask to receive the Holy Spirit.
And one month later on the 1st December 1996 I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. Also I had a wonderful revelation about truth, about Jesus being my God and Redeemer.
PLUS I was also instantly healed and set free from cigarettes, marijuana, heroin, speed, and sinful habits like doing crime and sexual lusts.
The truth shall set you free indeed.
God through the Holy Spirit went on to heal my kidneys (I used to pass blood in my urine) and my smoker's lungs, and also took away the alcohol when I yielded to His Spirit.
And I ceased being a Roman Catholic nor ever went back to mass again.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness
23 gentleness, self control; against such there is no law.
24 And they of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

 

[Idontknowaname15]

So glad you asked
I had been a "practising" Roman Catholic all my life and had Sunday School knowledge of the Bible stories.
Grew up in the suburbs in a middle class family with a mum and dad and three sisters.
BUT the 1970s came and everything changed - hippies, counter culture, alternative lifestyle, free love, marijuana, mushrooms, the Beatles, sex with anybody, lentils and hummus ...
With all of this came the freedom to sin with self-righteous excuse making because we knew the truth and everybody else was part of the system.
Unfortunately it all proved to be a terrible lie.
By the time I was 40 I was a most corrupt and evil person not only a junkie and a smoker, but worse a sexual pervert cheating on my wife and family.

One day in 1996 I walked out of the local shopping centre and there was a Pentecostal church witnessing to people out in the mall.
I read two testimonies pinned to a brightly coloured wooden door - one was from a junkie and hippy who had been healed and set free from heroin and hepatitis C.
The other testimony was from a man who had gone to gaol (jail) a few times and had been in and out of boys homes and foster care most of his young life.
Both of these testimonies spoke of believing the gospel and repentance, followed by water baptism [full immersion] and then baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.
Then for both of these people their lives were immediately transformed for the better and they were set free from their previous sinful lives.

Being Roman Catholic I was a bit spun out by this - transformed lives by the power of God !! Wow whatever next.
I listened to a man who opened up his Bible and read out many scriptures about being born from above, the kingdom of God, the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, miracles and healings.
The scriptures came off the pages and entered my heart. They touched me and I was fearful that these scriptures were true.

Anyway to cut a long story short I started going to these Pentecostal meetings to see what they were about.
I was challenged by the man who witnessed to me if I would get baptized - immediately scriptures came into my mind - and I responded in the affirmative.
For a month I would go to my RCC mass on Sunday mornings and also to the Pentecostal service on Sunday afternoons. I was not quite ready to let go of the old ways yet.
After the service meetings I would go into the prayer room and pray and ask to receive the Holy Spirit.
And one month later on the 1st December 1996 I was baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. Also I had a wonderful revelation about truth, about Jesus being my God and Redeemer.
PLUS I was also instantly healed and set free from cigarettes, marijuana, heroin, speed, and sinful habits like doing crime and sexual lusts.
The truth shall set you free indeed.
God through the Holy Spirit went on to heal my kidneys (I used to pass blood in my urine) and my smoker's lungs, and also took away the alcohol when I yielded to His Spirit.
And I ceased being a Roman Catholic nor ever went back to mass again.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness
23 gentleness, self control; against such there is no law.
24 And they of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.
25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

Thank you.. I have knowledge also but knowledge isn’t enough and I’m starting to get scared of what is happening in the world and I get so angry with myself because I see it and see how it’s the same stuff from the Bible. I’m angry with myself because it’s like if I don’t get right with Jesus or believe then I go to Hell so I just get scared and kind of shut down. I never move forward.. I’ve been like this for a while but some days it’s so overwhelming.

 

[Mayflower]

I’ve known about God and my family are all Christians.. I’ve went to church on and off. I’ve had plenty of prayers answered. I just realized though I don’t think I’m where I need to be with God. In the last year I’ve slept with multiple people and I’m always lonely. I feel like I have no one. I’m also angry all the time. I don’t know exactly what I believe. I don’t have the relationship with Jesus that I need, but I don’t really know where to start or what I need to do.

Welcome to Talk Jesus. The Word of God is seed, so if you take a lot of that seed in and you make it a goal to go for it/live by it, then it will start yielding positive results in your life. Bless you in your journey.