Struggling Christian

[Tyler22]

I came to the point yesterday where i Just wanted to and gave up my faith.  I dont understand how some people are so happy with God and God makes me miserable.  I cant "bear witness" to anything in the Word of God.  I hate this so much cus, i try to seek the Word, i just cant "bear witness" to it.  It just isnt working and ive been reading for years.  I keep having thoughts about damnation that terrify me but I also have OCD.  My one wish is that i can miraculualsly see, believe, and BEAR WITNESS to the word of God.  But ive prayed for years and nothing.  Its like should i just accept damnation?  

[Tristen]

The God of the universe loves you and desires personal fellowship with you. He permitted the sacrifice of His perfect Son, just so He would have the opportunity to spend forever with you. He has a unique purpose and destiny prepared specifically for your life. If you have nothing else, you have God - which means you have everything. You are a beloved child of the Most High God. His gaze is ever on you and He smiles when He thinks of you.

As we mature, we must learn to encourage ourself. We are expected to learn how to take control of our thoughts and bring them into submission to God's truth (2 Cor 10:5). Your value is in the name of Him who made you. And no matter how you feel right now, you are and ever will be, the apple of His eye. That is His truth for you.

Psalm 42:5-11

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

Psalm 43

43 Vindicate me, O God,
And plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
2 For You are the God of my strength;
Why do You cast me off?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your tabernacle.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp I will praise You,
O God, my God.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

 

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 John 4:4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 10:10

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Romans 8:38-39

38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

If you have found Christ, you win the game of life - no matter what else happens.