God?

[belville]

I know that God is real and i have been a strong Christian since i was 5 and loved him and knew he was there. Now i feel as if God isnt there and i keep hearing in my head that God or Jesus isn't real. It is either the evil ones or his demons, put pray that i will be left alone, and that i can put on the full armor of God.

[Athanasius]

I know that God is real and i have been a strong Christian since i was 5 and loved him and knew he was there. Now i feel as if God isnt there and i keep hearing in my head that God or Jesus isn't real. It is either the evil ones or his demons, put pray that i will be left alone, and that i can put on the full armor of God.

How old are you now? I'm also interested in knowing, what's the difference between 'evil ones' and 'demons'?

[J<3sunshine]

Well, prayer is always effective! But more importantly, you have to Rebuke those thoughts in the Name of Jesus! I am a new Christian and have had my battles with the mind more than anything, so I understand. Pray for a peaceful and sound mind! You know in your heart that he is always here! The enemy is ALWAYS putting irrational thoughts in my head, blow him off. Don't give him a TOW hold! God Bless you! God gave you weapons for spiritual warfare so use them!!!

[SweetSomber]

I can't help but think of C.S. Lewis' book, "The Screwtape Letters," it's really quite deep, but in the introduction to the book, he says that the devil prefers to be shrugged off (irrelevant, non-existent, etc) or to obsessed about (the devil's behind everything) but that the devil can't stand to be laughed at/not taken seriously.

See, if the thought popped to my head, "God doesn't exist," it would be like the thought "I do not have a nose," and it would feel so ridiculous that I would find it rather funny. I don't obsess about knowing that I have a nose, because it's so obvious. God is just as obvious to me, so I don't really worry about satan's obvious lies, since I can just laugh at them. The sneakier lies are the dangerous ones, like, "you can lose your salvation."

[RedBird777]

You must learn to control your thoughts like how you control your physical body. It's tough, but if you can control your thoughts, you will be able to throw those thoughts out right as they enter your mind or you may be able to control them before they enter your conscious mind.

Another thing to do is to inspect your eart and see where you have not let God in. Wherever He has not cleaned out yet, invite Him in, and He will clean your soul or banish any demons. You may also banish to demons by pronouncing that you are driving them away through the name of our LORD, Jesus Christ.

I'll pray these dark thoughts will exit your mind.

[rueful]

I know that God is real and i have been a strong Christian since i was 5 and loved him and knew he was there. Now i feel as if God isnt there and i keep hearing in my head that God or Jesus isn't real. It is either the evil ones or his demons, put pray that i will be left alone, and that i can put on the full armor of God.

I joined because I went through this same experience a few years ago. One important thing to remember comes from Job, and thats the idea that God ultimately lets us be tested. This whole ordeal could be something that Satan wishes to destroy your faith, but God knows will increase it.

Im the son of a Pastor, and when I was a Jr. in highschool, the more I read my bible, the more I saw things that just didnt make sense and the bullet like shots of the words of the tempter kept leading me down a path that ultimately, I had to admit to my youth pastor that I couldnt be on the youth leadership team anymore as I did not believe in God. He was the only person I told of this, because he was the first, and said to not do anything drastic but give him 6 months to help. So I committed to meeting with him twice a week and going through the bible, talking about doubts and questions. All the while, falling further and further into depression that my parents spent their entire lives ministering to me and my siblings, and I didnt believe them. I became suicidal over the guilt of this, luckily, God protected me from anything and everything my mind came up with as a feasible plan of an accident.

Eventually, after crying out to God daily, to show himself and help me, and meeting with my youth pastor multiple times a week, and practically reading through the entire bible, a few months after the realization I didnt believe in God, I lay in bed at night, only a few hours after trying to drown myself in the pool, and cried out to God that I didnt understand. I couldnt understand who he was or why he was or anything. I just wanted to know that he existed and that I would be ok, but every ounce of me said he didnt, and I wouldnt be ok.

Then that still small voice that isnt. It kind of just clicked that God was saying " I am far to incomprehendable for you to comprehend. You will never fully understand me. Why? Because when you understand something, you are smarter than that thing, your better than that. And I will not give you any reason to ever think this. I Am." The next day I started reading Romans, and chapter 1 verses 18-32 really had an impact on me that day.

All this to say, what do you do when your logic tells you there is no God? You do the illogical and cry out to him all the more. He hears you, he sometimes just needs you to know what you need.

[rueful]

Also, I meant to add some advice. Hopefully you have a youth pastor or someone you can talk to who will be willing to help you out without judging you or making a big deal out of it. Talk to them about it and see if they can meet with you at least once a week to talk about your questions, especially if you can share with them some of your doubts so they can have time to prepare answers.

Be in the word. Its the word of God, and through it, God reveals himself to us. Another way God reveals himself to us? His creation, see it for what it is. Another way God reveals himself to us, through the priests of his church. Priests doesnt mean just Pastors, it means anyone who professes the name of Christ, Christians. Surround yourself with some christian friends who have the same mind of Christ in life.

One other thing, start Journaling. Not to be a better christian, but because eventually your faith will be renewed. And future days when you struggle or are downcast, you can look back in your journal for encouragement and just to see Gods fingerprint in your life. Hope this all helps, God Bless.