I Feel Unworthy

[LadyKay]

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

[enoob57]

That's the whole point of God working with man... we all are unworthy of Him yet 'He' Being Who He 'IS' so loved that He gave to the unworthiness... It's the whole movement from Rom 7 into Rom 8 teaching. This should motivate us to talk, ask, dwell in communication with Him because of Who He 'IS' not who we are in comparison to Him for there is no compare...

[Christiansfortruth]

It's been my personal experience that God's love is so great that you should never feel unworthy.  My experience is that if you took all of the love in the world everyone has ever felt and compared it to God's love for you...it would be like comparing a sewing thimble to the sun!!!  Even that comparison is not fair because God's love is bigger than anything we've ever known.  You're always worthy to ask for help through the blood of Christ.

[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

But what if God helps anyway?

Might you write him a thank you note?

Give praise to Him?

Celebrate his Glory?

Go ahead and feel unworthy, that is okay.  Fact it is truth, for who is worthy?

Just don't give an ear to the enemy Satan that says you must be worthy.  Instead deny the enemy his victory and ask of God anyway. Praise Him even before help arrives.

Thank you Lord for your mighty protection though I am unworthy. Thank you Lord.

Jacob acknowledged his own unworthiness even as he praised and asked  God for more help.

Paul called himself the least of the Apostles even as he pledged to work harder than all of them.  

Why not take good pleasure in being unworthy? That way there is no pride in self that takes  what is God's alone, His grace, mercy, upon the saints in Christ Jesus is his Glory.

My thoughts only-  It is something I need do, perhaps it is also something others may find some benefit in doing  as well.

Edited August 21, 2017 by Neighbor

[frienduff thaylorde]

1 hour ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

None of us are deserving of grace period.  But Thankfully GOD does not give us what we deserve.  IF he did............I would have been left in my sin and my end the lake of fire.

Don't focus on whether you are worthy.   Just seek HIM and seek to KNOW HIM DEEPLY .   you just do that .  be blessed and let us praise the LORD.

[4LdKHVCzRDj2]

2 hours ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

I feel like that sometimes too. We are nothing without God, we can do nothing without Him.

But He loves us all:

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." - John 3:16

 

And we cannot save ourselves, only through Jesus Christ we are saved. And He did not come to call the righteous, but sinners (the unworthy):

"But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." - Matthew 9:13

 

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." - 1 John 1:9

Then He calls you no matter how you are. Just believe and accept this free gift from God, a gift we did not deserve; but His love and mercy are greater.

 

He loves you more than you can imagine! Thank God!

[Sower]

3 hours ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

Well, if you were perfect LadyKay, you probably wouldn't be thinking about praying to God. Prayer is for the imperfect, and the unworthy. Like all of us.

Psa_86:6  Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Psa_102:17  He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

Psa_55:17  Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.Psa_55:22  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

And Jonah messed up, and felt pretty unworthy and said:  Jonah 2:7  When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.  Then he prayed.

Rom_8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

1Ti_2:8  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

2Th 1:10  When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
2Th 1:11  Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Heb_4:16  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Psa_66:20  Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

1Th_5:17  Pray without ceasing.

 

[Reinitin]

2 hours ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

Prayers for you. None of us are. You see a little kitten soaking wet and shivering in a storm. One man walks by and kicks it yells shut up stupid lil kitten. Another man hears it's cry, gets down in the mud and water, pick the kitten up, puts the soaked mudy crying kitten inside his shirt to warm it, takes it in his house drys it, gives it warm milk, makes a warm bed for it and checks on it through the night. Did the kitten really have anything to do with how either man treated it?

[Annette]

12 hours ago, LadyKay said:

When ever I have a serious need that I need to give to God to take care of, I feel unworthy to pray.  I feel unworthy to ask God for his help. I keep thinking how I am so imperfect. I don't feel like I am worthy of God's help. 

Hi Ladykay,

Keeping you in prayer. I read what you wrote, and I was reminded of the story of the prodigal son that we have been studying at church for the last couple weeks. After spending all that he was given, the son wanted to return home, willing to even come back with the status of a servant rather than the honor of a son. I love the fact that the father, was there waiting for him, and ran out to meet the son. I think that often we allow ourselves to take on concerns because of our life, but we have a Heavenly Father who loves us and is waiting for us to come to Him.

Blessings  

[Lolly]

2 Corinthians 6:18 struck my today--it states, "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters." This implies a two-way relationship. God is our Father, and in return we are his children back toward Him. In other words, God receives back from the relationship. 

Jesus also implied that there was this two-way flow. He stated, "I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me, you can do nothing" (John 15:5). The point is that feeling unworthy leaves out this paradigm altogether--not that I don't feel unworthy myself!

However, I think the best response is to aim at the sentence, which precedes 2 Corinthians 6:18. It reads, "Come out from among them and be separate" (6:17). This passage makes me feel wanted, because it shows us that God WANTS an exclusive relationship with us. He wants us to be close that we might depend upon Him completely. So, we are not unworthy because we are not unwanted by the One Who determines worth.