Anchovers
May 21st 2009, 12:02 AM
Why is it that when I try to seek God that I have this desire to do what's right and I am so afraid that I'll do something wrong...because I want to please God and do what's right more than anything but then I tell myself I'm dissapointed in myself..I hate who I am and I wonder why God created me because of all my struggles..I want God to know that I love him deep down inside but I'm tired of all my struggles and I have prayed these past 2 days..and I just want God.
baxpack7
May 22nd 2009, 09:53 PM
Hello Anchovers and welcome to the boards. May I ask, what is troubling you and what are you struggling with at this time?
ImHe
May 22nd 2009, 10:38 PM
Stick-up for yourself and cast out those demons, repent and take control of your life living it for the Lord to the best of your abilities. Let no man or demon get in the way of you and the Lord, and by you living this way and obeying his laws you will have shown yourself a Child of G-d.
livingwaters
May 22nd 2009, 11:01 PM
First of all, God does not give us the spirit of fear!!!! Are you a born-again Christian? Do you read your Bible and how often? Do you know anything about the armor of God? God's Word says, if God is for you, who can be against you? Meaning, if God's for you, don't worry about the rest. Follow the Word of God and you will do what's right!! HIS Word says, whosoever loves ME, will do what my Word says. (paraphrased)
If you are a born-again Christian, how long have you been saved? These are important questions. I'm just trying to understand where you are before sending scriptures and offering you advice.
God Bless:)
Sala
May 23rd 2009, 12:40 AM
Why is it that when I try to seek God that I have this desire to do what's right and I am so afraid that I'll do something wrong...because I want to please God and do what's right more than anything but then I tell myself I'm dissapointed in myself..I hate who I am and I wonder why God created me because of all my struggles..I want God to know that I love him deep down inside but I'm tired of all my struggles and I have prayed these past 2 days..and I just want God.
God loves you, there is nothing you can do to earn His love. He loves you because of who He is. I struggled with wanting to be accepted and loved by someone... anyone. Jesus accepted me and loved me when I cried out to Him. He also changed the way I see myself, I had warped view of who I was but God made it clear to me and now I have peace. Praying for you that He will love on you and show you who you are in Christ.
DaniHansen
May 25th 2009, 02:05 PM
Romans 7
13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
