Believers. What has been your experience with Gods Grace. I will share my thoughts also.

Your story sounds wonderful but I cannot accept your recommendations on confession, Jesus tells us to confess to Him, not to a man.....false doctrine created by Catholic Church and actually used to charge $ for forgiveness.

I ignored The Father and Son for the last 40 years of my life, chasing after the money success idols of this world. One day 3 years ago, I realized that I needed God in my life. I reached for Jesus as Bible tells us there is only 1 mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus. I repented, asked Him to abide with me. Jesus grabbed my hand and I have newer felt so loved, accepted and at peace. I now walk a different path than the world with the idolatry, but will never look back.

God Bless and Jesus Saves!!

Sweetheart, leave that guilt on the alter and move on. God doesn't want us to carry that garbage around. that is satan and it is exactly what he wants, for you to feel so unworthy, you feel you can't follow God.

Never true. ask for forgiveness and then do your best from that day forward. That simple.

I'm jealous....in a good way...

happy for you

You are right of course but the plants don't wave to anyone else , just me , so im not sure it it is relatable to others . It is not just a perception , they do it enthusiastically and keep it up until i look away . One branch or leaf , waves like crazy while all the others on that plant are still . I hope this happens to other people , not just me .

I live by it daily it is a free gift from God.

James 5 KJV
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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Confess one to another, not to some priest.

The simple fact that ALL OF US are not already in hell
is a pretty good example of God's amazing grace.

Hey.

You have dealt with quite some obstacles.

It’s understandable to believe what you believe.

But that’s just not true about you. You are not lost.

Don’t let the lies of your inner shame and doubt take you away from love. Don’t let the devil blind the light God has given you.

You out of anyone else deserve your love too.

There are many times where I feel void of Gods grace and love. That he has left me. And sometimes I feel very alone. But you know what he’s showing me. He never leaves us! Even if he is silent.

There’s lessons in all of this. Sometimes it hurts to believe in God. The world mocks and rejects us. And even Jesus said the world rejected him it will reject us too

So please don’t be too down on yourself . A lot of the things you described were out of your hands. You didn’t do anything wrong. So don’t feel you did.

Don’t let the regrets define you. Let it go and move forward a new creation in God.

Are you eating again?

Don’t hate yourself! I repeat. Don’t hate yourself! Show yourself love and kindness. Be compassionate to others. And yourself.

Don’t hold a grudge against your wife. It’s her life. She choose what she choose. Now be you. Be the best you, you can be. Let go of the pain and confusion. Embrace that you are called out. Set apart.

Even if you can’t feel him

God is still right there with you.

I'm in tears here....

that's exactly how I feel

a 40 yr old man in tears on the internet....I think I'm pretty close to rock bottom here

I don’t want to argue about scripture . It does no good. And this thread is about Gods grace in our lives. And I’m happy you shared your testimony and aknowldge Jesus saving Grace. And that he has you held. Hold onto that peace in Jesus. It’s truly an amazing blessing. Jesus will never let you go!



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Jesus told his apostles:

John 20:22-23

And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

This is clear bibilcal proof of confession. You can’t read this and deny confession.

With that being said

I don’t expect a non Catholic to believe in the Sacraments . And you don’t have too.

It is very humbling to admit our faults to another person. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I didn’t say be Catholic !

Jesus has many flocks. One Shepard.

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Lift up your prayers. Ask for forgiveness and salvation. When finished with your prayers, know you are BORN AGAIN and all is forgiven. Your name is now in the Lamb's Book of Life and NO ONE can take that from you. NO ONE You are a child of God and mark as His.

Cry those tears and let the HS minister to you. Get it all out.

God loves us all so much, He gave us the incredible gift of grace and salvation thru His Son.

Don’t give up!

The enemy wants you to give up

Don’t.

See the good in you

See God in you

And be new in Jesus.

Give it all to God. Lay it down at the foot of the cross.

I’m praying for you brother!

Don’t let the hurt get you down. You will get through this.

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Amen!!!

good people here.

thanks. I appreciate you both very much

take care

Amen, love my Jesus and praise be to God!!

I'm pretty sure Jesus is still at that door knocking, have you opened it lately??

I pray that you will

You seem like you would have awesome topics of conversation!

I talk to trees

It’s something I do.

I try to understand wind

And nature

I’m not super receptive

But God gets a chuckle when I hug a tree

And I’m telling you. The way I believe “reality” to be. That tree should speak back. But it’s silence. Or maybe I’m just not truly listening

I was upset with my life and behavior. I like all humans was ashamed. I prayed to God as I do most nights, and when I turned on the TV, it was a Christian channel, and on the screen said, “Love Never Fails”! My testimony, life is suppose to be fucking hard and unbearable. The meaning of life is love! Find it, earn it, and show it!

We were created in love, we were given love, and we are to express love! That is the meaning of life! Love everyone and adhere to the commandments of the LORD! Very simple yet we all fail! Jesus Christ is Lord, God is his father, and the phone line between the two is the Holy Spirit!

I should be dead. God gave me my true love and a wonderful son. I promised God to change and asked if he would protect my family. I have not been perfect but hold to the promise I made. My son is OK and he is named in honor of one of God's best followers.

Father I thank you for their life and I pray your name is glorified for your mercy and love.

Blessed be JesuS.

Nice thread, OP.

May God bless all who belong to the Light and bring the lost sheep back.

One more thing to say then im off to work .
All this bible and sermon stuff just creates a narrative in your head . I find progress happens with clearing out all thought . No effort is required so do not "try" . I believe in god but never go to church . Forget anything manmade , nature is the church .

I am still here. Nuff said mate.

God is always there. He is always with you. Through ups, and downs, he is there. You are never alone as long as you open the communication with God. Ask, and you shall receive. I am blessed with another day each day I wake up. That is enough for me. God allows me to live and experience this thing called life.

True recent story: Heart doctor prescribed for me 4 RX drugs. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, angina, and irregular heart beat. I was supposed to come back the next day for "emergency stent surgery".

So there I am at Costco pharmacy, still in shock over this recent bad news, waiting for all these drugs.

And the most beautiful young woman comes out of the office. In the softest sweet voice, she says, "I am sorry Brad, but I cannot dispense these drugs to you now".

I tell her thank you, of course I am not mad. If your angelic self decided all these drugs at these strengths and combination will kill me, then I believe you over the evil heart doctor any day.

I went back 2 days later to thank her for saving my life. I ask, where is the pretty dark haired Pharmacist ? Never saw her, we have no one like that.

THAT was God sending an angel for ME.

I have asked everyone. NO one has ever had their heart medications denied by any pharmacist.

Enjoy reading this thread and you made some very good points in the above post.

Each one of us could help with expanding love and compassion in our own way. Whether offering help to a large audience or an audience of one, we are all equally important and no one is better than another. Some don't even need an audience, but only have to hold love and light. Many different ways.

And we don't need to help everyone. Let God guide us through heightened intuition and synchronicity as to who we could best help based on our personal experiences. It's teamwork, other team mates might be better at helping some people than we could.

It's understandable that many question the love of God because they see innocent young children being molested and sexually abused. What if those young children were pedo predators in their past lives, would they then still say God is evil or would they say God is just.

Karma is one of many divine guidance systems in place to nudge us back onto the path to love when we made very poor and harmful choices out of not knowing any better yet.

What better way to show sexual predators the suffering their victims had to go through than by them becoming the victims to experience the horror. But free will allows them to change for the better or not. Should they fail to heed or see the divine nudges, subsequent nudges will be stronger.

God created this whole universe in love. Being at the infancy of spirituality by design, it is human nature for some to declare with absolute certainty God is evil when they don't see the bigger picture yet.

The caring and compassionate God is pure love. God loves each one of us unconditionally and equally, regardless if we are believers or not, sinners or not.

God's pure love is at an immensity that is beyond human comprehension and unbelievable to many. When we come to realize this, we will re-think about a common belief that God will judge and punish.

Knowing the immensity of God's love is one piece of the puzzle we are here to solve. The next piece of the puzzle is to uncover who or what we truly are and why we are here.

Suffice to say we are here with purpose, not here randomly. And we are not born here as lowly and unworthy sinners, and we are not born here to suffer.

What an amazing challenge we passionately signed up for when in our true home on the other side of the Veil of Forgetfulness.

A challenge that will span many human lifetimes here to see if when left alone with minimal divine intervention, could we go from being purposely separated from God and return to being in Oneness with God by choosing to have pure love and compassion for oneself, for others, and for everything.

God is pure love, compassion, benevolence, and joy.

Our true nature is pure love, compassion, benevolence, and joy. Not the ego that is our false nature.

Connect the dots only if one wishes to do so.

All the best!

Pretty much God is right there where you are. Don't notice it? Drop your ego, or the "I" notion.
No gimmicks.
It may take several years of meditation to achieve such a state.
At such a state, any questions of another or even about God should drop by then. Total Silence ensues. Your natural state of being.

I grew up in Church, Christian home, early Christin school etc. In high school to into college I went my own way like many do at that age ( drugs, drink etc ) but thanks to mom and dad following Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. I did return...

But, it took a crisis for me to return. Thank God for that Crisis!

At 25 I found myself at my lowest point in life to that point, I found myself in my bed, curled up in the fetal position having no idea how I would face tomorrow then I looked on my wall and I witnessed a perfect cross of light.

Now what I was seeing was an outside streetlight shining through my blinds that made a perfect Cross projected on my bedroom wall. Perhaps that Cross had been on that wall every night from the time that Condo was built but I never noticed it, but when I opened my eyes not knowing how I would face tomorrow I was looking at a Cross in the dark on my wall. That was my Miracle, something perhaps easy to explain perhaps not but was MY Miracle, me opening my eyes at the lowest, most alone point in my life and seeing the Cross!

The next day I made some big changes in my life and started once again my walk with my Lord Jesus Christ. About 5 years later and had another huge life crisis and had no idea once again how I would make it another day and as I posted before I had what I believe was an Angel walk up to me at work and share Scripture that once again insured me God was with me!

Im now in my late 50's and looking back over my life I can so clearly see how at the absolute worst times in my life my Lord was always with me, at every turn and every step. Such wonderful loving Grace I have been given all of my life even when I was not walking with him, He was walking with me!

I too wish and Pray others could understand and share the Grace I have been given all of my life. I think so many people are given this grace but can't or won't see it.
That Grace may already be right in front of you, in my case a streetlight projected on my wall in the form of a Cross at that perfect time I needed to see a Cross! I think that Cross was always on my wall from the day I moved in ( perhaps not ) but I had to open my eyes and see it, then make some changes.

I am TRULY BLESSED beyond measure. THANK YOU MY LORD JESUS Christ!

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That Holy Spirit. What a good dude.

Never fails me

Even when I’m down and just defeated

Holy Spirit is there ready to heal me

The thing is

I need to comprehend what I need healing from first. To truly observe the spirits healing in me. To see what I’m being saved from. The sickness of death. The weight of shame and sorrow. To see what being set free in God means. To be new in him.

The Healing Hand of God offers a renewed breathe of air in us . A fresh beginning for our souls. An awakening within. Christ in us. The Hope of Glory.

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Love never fails! What an awesome message. So glad you got it when you did. When you needed it. That’s so cool. It makes me so grateful God does these things for us.

That he cares about us.

Very humbling.

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Thank you for sharing your testimony. I appreciate it.



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