Hard times

[*Living~By~Faith*]

Things have really been looking up for me over the past few weeks. I've been talking to a nice guy at my church. I'm assisting in a class at church. I'm going to camp with my church next week (if I don't change my mind) and I"m going to another church camp in July with some friends.

But I feel like I don't belong at my church or anywhere for that matter. As someone else said recently, I'm ready for God to let me race be over. I'm just tired of everything and of feeling the way I do. I don't know what to do about anything. I just want to be alone with God and shut out the whole world.

Strange all of this hit me today when I began listening to praise and worship music again which I have been slacking doing lately.

I'm also thinking about having an elective surgery in the hopes of helping with a health issue that I'm having. I've been thinking about how hard it is to recover from surgery and it'll be harder living on my own. I'll also be out of church for at least a month if I have this surgery.

[Sojourner]

Sometimes we don't feel as if we belong to a church, but maybe that loneliness inside you is a desire to experience God in your life. Maybe, as the deer, you long for the water brook where you can be refreshed and filled with God himself.

I have a suggestion, start doing something for others in the church, be a blessing to others and forget about yourself and then the Joy of the Lord will fill you. God did something in me as I began to give comfort and counseling to others and I forgot about my problems.

Bless you.

[PictCry]

maybe you should just shut out the world and spend some alone time with God I am sure you need it and it well help your grow. We all need alone time and times of refreshing do we not? You might just be spiritually exhausted

[*Living~By~Faith*]

Yes, God has been working on my lately. We are having revival at my church this week and I really believe I'm going to be touched in amazing ways. I feel that the Lord has already been preparing me for it this past week and showing me the things that I need to let go of and surrender to Him.

[livingwaters]

LBF, it sounds like you are trying to do these things on your own. It won't work! You will end up frustrated and exhausted!

Give it to God...tell HIM you are available for whatever HE has for you. You don't have to just "do things" to be in God's Will. As the other posters have said, God will arrange it that you must spend time with HIM to get "spiritually fed!" So, just relax, let go, and give it to God. This goes for everything we face in our lives.....small to large!!!

God bless and enjoy camp! I'll be going as a counselor for our youth, grade 7-12, mid-July. I think I'm more excited than the kids. God always shows up and shows out to get HIS glory. So, make sure everything that you do, GLORIFIES THE LORD!!!!:pp:pp:hug:

[*Living~By~Faith*]

I've been working on surrendering it all to Him, but anyone that knows me knows that I want to be in control of things. I have to learn to let go and trust fully in the Lord. I believe there will be a major breakthrough with this struggle for me by the end of this week.

I will be spending a lot more alone time with God mediating on the messages that we receive during this revival. I think God's trying to tell me something. My tv is messed up right now and I can't seem to get my internet problem fixed, so I'm having it turned off and it'll be sometime next week before I can get it hooked up with the electric company. I believe it's Gods way of telling me to quit wasting time on the internet and in front of the tv and get with Him.

Like the song goes... I want less of me and more of Him. Or as the evangilist said this morning... I want none of me and all of Him.