Hello all –
I want to experience the comforting love from God.
I go to church and read the bible at times but have not ever felt that feeling that people talk about from God.
I have prayed for forgiveness of all past sins and I beleive that Jesus died on the cross for my sins.. I get emotional most times when I think of God’s sacrifice for me, his promisies, the privilages I am blessed with, salvation and others alike.
I want more… I want the anointing of the holy spirit baptism. I have prayed and have gone up for prayers several times and I know God will bless me with it very soon.
I am faced with some personal struggles right now and have prayed for God to provide an answer, a direction and I have not heard or felt anything and its just tough at times.
I know prayer works and I am asking my fellow christians to pray for me and with one accord, I know my God above will show me his love and annoint me with the power as it notes in Acts.
Blessing to all.
I read your post and I am in the same boat. Im having a tough time with my job and relationships. Im just striving to hear from God, through study and prayer. I want to know His plan and direction for me, and for you too :) I will pray for you
You know, the way of God is not at all easy to follow. You must be strong and patient, because the devil and his servants will not let you in peace the moment you have decided to lead a healthy life before God. I assure you that God will give you all the necessary means to overcome it if you seek Him with all your heart.
Just keep praying. God will answer your request very soon. I will pray for you…
I randomly clicked on this link and I’m so glad I did. I felt like I was reading a post from myself. I am also yearning for the exact same thing and was actually deeply struggling with this a few nights ago. There have been several signs that I should be receiving it soon. And while I’m doing my best to remain patient and maintain trust, it does become frustrating sometimes.
I was expressing my frustration over this to one of my closest friends the other night when he reminded me of the exact same struggle I had with my water baptism.
Once I realized I wanted to get baptized I had no doubts about it whatsoever, but for some reason something kept holding me back from following through with it. I went back and forth for a few months and was incredibly frustrated with myself for not knowing why I had this feeling in my heart that wouldn’t let me commit to it. For those several months God took me through what I didn’t understand at the time was a process. It was very intense and each step brought me closer to him.
Then one night a very simple event took place that caused a huge impact in my life. I was out with some friends and a situation took place where someone essentially insulted God. I’ve always been very adamant about the theory of “to each their own” so I was really surprised when I took the jab at God personally and later found myself in tears over how cruel people can be when it comes to him. I started to wonder why I was getting so emotional and then I realized “wow, my heart truly belongs to God and there’s no going back.” At that exact moment God told me I was ready to get baptized and that this rebirth would take place on my actual birthday which was a few days later.
The odds were against me at first with having it work out according to that plan, but on the day of, every single detail fell into place and it was the most incredible experience of my life to date.
Afterwards I realized that had I initially chosen to go against my indecision, take matters into my own hands and get baptized when I wanted to opposed to when God wanted me to, that it wouldn’t have been as incredible and life changing as it was, and I definitely wouldn’t be where I am now on my spiritual journey.
“Don’t plan and then pray for God to make it work, pray and find out what God’s plan is”
So as my close friend said to me the other night, although it may be frustrating when you feel like you’re ready for something and it’s just not happening, all you can do is keep making strides toward God, trust that he knows when we’re ready better than we do, and know that baptism of the spirit (or really anything can be applied here) will happen on his time, not ours. And when it happen, you realize how beautiful, amazing and perfect things can be when they are done in his perfect timing.
Keep your faith. Give yourself whole heartedly to God, surrender to him. I promise you that you will feel is almighty love!! Your in my prayers. God Bless You!
Hello Smile4life,
I’m glad for the ability God gave to you to be able to come out and say this boldly.
In my years of following God and desiring to know Him more, I’ve found out that God is ever near to us than we could ever imagine. Let my try and paint a picture here for you. I will like to use my life as an example.
I gave my life to Christ in year 2001, though I’d always been given my life to him without the proper understanding of what I was getting into. I was good at Churchianity and programs though the so called “Christian’s life” was no where to be found in me. It was later after I had properly gave my life to Christ that I know that what was carrying then was a “MENTAL SALVATION”.> I did confession of sin back in college but it wasn’t genuine but should ask me then, I could tell you my emotional feelings and sincerity of my heart but it wasn’t what god required from me. Desiring to intimacy with God was there but it was boring, unsuccessful and full of frustration.
When I gave my life to Christ in year 2001; It was outside the church building, it was on a street leading to my house, it was around 9:00pm, I could tell you what happened that night, as this young brother, much younger than me was speaking, all I could hear him speaking was Christ, it seemed Christ was the one speaking to me. Tears welled-up in my eyes, I saw myself that night, I wept a little on that street. But when I got home, I couldn’t sleep till I poured my heart to God in tears. It was a memorable day in my life. I was totally lost in prayer that I slept off. But the amazing thing was that, the second day i woke up, all my neighbors and sibling notice a change in me which I didn’t tell them, they could touch and feel it. One of them commented to me that “you’ve changed”, then I knew that indeed I’ve met Christ in the previous night. My eyes were opened, the bible that was boring to me became my very close friend, prayers became something enjoy and not something endure. It was the turning in my life. But, in all these I was not a member of any “Church”, I was all alone in my room. That was the beginning of my journey and I could tell you several people that I’ve met that had this kind of encounter. They don’t have to labour hard before they started enjoying the breast of their mother as a baby in Christ.
My Point is this, if genuinely you have given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, frankly speaking you dont have to labor to enjoy your Lord. What I think you need is help. Yes, prayer will do a part but “in the multitude of counsel there is safety”.
I have met people that had this same challenge, which the Lord has turned around through counselling and tutoring. I’ve also met people who professed to be born-again but to later found out that what they were carrying was a MENTAL salvation that did not allowed them enjoy what other Christians are enjoying.
I will employ you to consider checking your Foundation in Christ..Check the gospel that was presented to you and how you received it. if you don’t do this, you may not be able to experience what God has in store for you.
The beginning matters, if something is wrong there, whatever things you try to place on it will also be wrong. At the long run, we’ll found out that the problem isn’t with God but with us.
Though I have a lot to say as regard this but I don’t wanna make it a long read for you…
If there is anything you dont understand, feel free to chat me up. Always here to help one another in Christ. God bless
John
greatness4lif at gmail dot com