Hi yall,
Quick question. Recently I have been getting into praying more since I have a lot to cry out to God for. However sometimes I don’t know what to say so recently I’ve been writing out my prayers instead. Is writing out prayers the same as saying them out loud? Or should I just say them. I didn’t find anything in the bible about it besides going into the secret place.
I recently developed this fear of being truly saved and not having false assurance of salvation since learning about predestination . I have repeatedly asking Jesus to save me I truly believe in him. But my brain and mind keeping saying what if I’m not elected/ chosen? I don’t want to die and find out I was going to hell. This has clouded my mind for the past month. I can’t eat drink, I keep thinking I’m just having peace on this earth to die and go to hell.
Hi so I believe Calvin teaches something called “evanescent” grace which is where a reprobate person can experience the grace of God and think they’re saved. In this system does that mean we can have absolutely no assurance of our own salvation? Calvin says I believe that the reprobate in this instance is almost indistinguishable from the saved. Can anyone help please?
I deal with religious OCD. I a constantly looping if I a saved. I know in my heart that Jesus is the only reason I am saved. And this lifts a great deal of worry because I couldn’t be more grateful. But my mind just keeps going about salvation. I’ve become so depressed. Is this considered a sin? Because I’m placing my trust in my own assurance? I keep repenting because I know it’s wrong.
I am struggling y’all. All I think about is God. And how every single thing I do has to please him. And maintaining a pure heart. But I can’t do anything else. Like I can’t have conversations and watch anything without feeling guilty. Like I feel like I can’t live normal life. I also feel depressed about this
I’ve been really struggling with my faith lately and I honestly don’t know what to do. I feel like being a Christian is so hard, and I keep feeling like I’m not even genuine. I want to follow God, but my flesh feels so weak and I keep messing up, and it makes me feel embarrassed to even call myself a Christian sometimes.
I also have this constant fear that maybe I don’t have the Holy Spirit, and that’s why I’m struggling so much. Like what if I’m not actually saved or not truly changed? My thoughts keep going in circles and it’s exhausting. I don’t feel peace or confidence, just a lot of fear and doubt.
At the same time, I do want God. I care about Him and I want to be close to Him, but my mind makes me question everything, even my own intentions. It makes me feel like nothing I say or do is genuine.
Has anyone else felt like this before? What does it actually feel like to be a genuine Christian? And how do you know if you really have the Holy Spirit?
I am depressed and hopeless. I am not sure I am saved. I want to be saved I believe in God and the Lord Jesus. My mind has been looping with my OCD and sometimes I wonder if I am lying to myself. I want God to take me home with him. I am a hopeless sinner. But I would burn in hell if I am not saved. I hate that I was even born. I don’t want God to separate me
How do we know if we have genuine faith in Christ? I am afraid what if I don’t?
Some, after having been long silent, and so practically denying Christ, go farther, and apostatize altogether from the faith they once had. No man who hath a genuine faith in Christ will lose it, for the faith which God gives will live for ever.
— Charles Spurgeon, titled "Suffering and Reigning with Jesus" (also known in some collections as a sermon on 2 Timothy 2:12)