i been tying for years, and i'm with god in the Spirit, thank God. But i still fall, i do not want to fall anymore, anybody have any pointers?
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This problem has more than one dimension. It is a spiritual as well as a physical problem. The fact that you are reaching out to get help is encouraging. If your situation was hopeless or near hopeless you would be asking where you could score instead of how you can stop relapseing.\n\nDefinitely get into a drug treatment problem. The physical part of your problem demands a physical solution. This is most likely the strongest addiction you could have. In some cases a sudden withdrawal from drugs is in and of itself life threatening. This is not to say you should hurry out and get more cocaine. The problems with that approach are that it is not legal and there is no way to monitor the dose.You must get help and stop immediately because the purity and strength of what you are taking cannot be easily determined. \n\nIn no way does does addressing the physical aspect of the problem indicate you are spiritually weak . God is interested in results and there are effective treatments available.  \n\nMake your request known to God (even though He already knows) and then expect positive results. He is certainly willing and you are willing. What a powerful combination but you must not be double minded. Believe immediately that you have received your request and then don't waver. Wavering is when the trouble begins. \n\nGod bless you . You can see that there are people all over the place that are concerned. You have my prayers.
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Pray, pray, pray!  Don't forget that God loves you very much.  He could never forget you.  But you are here on this earth to learn and grow.  The best way to learn is by experience.  Bad things happen, and they happen to everybody.  The testing point is how you answer these challenges.\n\nRemember that even Jesus felt abandoned by God for a moment during the atonement and crusafiction.  \n\nThe best thing you can do now is continue to have faith.  The scriptures say to endure to the end in faith, right?  That's what we are asked to do, not 'endure to the bad parts in faith'.  Just stay strong.  Good luck.
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Can you fall???  \n\nThis is the best lesson you can learn!!!  Put your padding on <wrist guards, and knee pads are good>, and practice falling down.  Do this at least 100 times.  After the first 10 times, you'll get board and find creative ways to fall.  Once you've mastered falling, you can try anything without fear, and then you approach your new stunts <going backwards> just like you did with falling.\n\nBasically, you're screen name says it all ... it all came tumbling down!!!
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There is nothing wrong in and of itself with pursuing a path of vigorous physical conditioning.\n\nIf you are in regular contact with God, ask him specifically that he help you remain vigilant over one of your possible pitfalls--namely, vanity. If you are earnest in your desire to remain faithful to God and not to fall into self-adoration, it is highly probable that God will continue tempering your spirit in this regard.\n\nOne thing that I have experienced is that I have had to give my natural gifts back to God so that he may set me in right relation to them. For example, God gave me a degree of intelligence, and I used to be prideful about it, believing that since I had a different degree of intellectual capacity than others that I was better than most. When I accepted salvation and asked God to teach me humility, one thing I needed to surrender to him was my intellectual pride. What God has shown me--and it has been a process--is that he can and will clarify my mind so that he may best use my capacities for his own glory, not mine. In my surrendering my pride to my creator, God has allowed me to continue utilizing my abilities, but he has also given me the ability to question the previous underlying assumptions so that I may find them to be false.\n\nIn other words, and in short, the fact that I have a measure of intelligence just means I have a gift from God. It places me neither above nor below anyone else. If I place myself below God--where I belong--then God places me in right relation to myself and others.\n\nI would suggest that you pursue this path, and be ever vigilant. Ask God to reveal to you when and if you are tempted to become vain again. Ask his infinite mercy and strength in guiding you to remain humble while pursuing that which brings you challenge and pleasure.\n\nBest to you in your walk with Christ.
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Read the book of Job. It is Satan trying to make you give up on Christ. Have faith. Remember the mustard seed. If you have faith, it is only faith when tested. You are going through a period of darkness. Remember Jesus was our example and he too allowed himself a period to go out to the dessert to increase and test his faith. He was tempted by Satan but he used scripture to get him through. Surround yourself with good spiritual support persons. Lean on others when you are not strong. Remember that when you can't walk in the spirit God is carrying you, trust.
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I havebeen recently battling this demon of fear myself. I am not happy in my current job and want to move on, but i fear failure. I really hate feeling this way because I know GOD did not give us a spirit of fear, but love, peace and a sound mind. I am praying on this and I know GOD will deliver me. GOD Bless you.
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That has happened to me before. With my ex-boyfriend. And boy did i learn from that mistake. Sometimes we can't ask others for advice on these things. We just have to live it through and learn from it. If you've got some friends who will help you pick you up when you fall down then you'll probably recover eventually. I know i did.
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Run with it, just take off and don't look back. Nobody on earth is going to get you to heaven. Your treasures are laid up there, lay everything else down and go for it. It takes alot of guts, but your being called, thats why this is weighing so heavy on you. Jesus was spit on, kicked , speared, whipped, cursed at etc, and look where he is now. I will pray for you right now!!! God bless you!
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Sometimes God is silent. He wants to know if you are serious about Him. Continue to pray and don't give up. Your consistency in prayer will make you stronger. I feel for you and please know that regardless of what people tell you, you are precious in God's site, and He cares about you.
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First, don't dwell on the negatives in life. There are so many little blessings in life that so many people overlook. I am also a Christian, so I also have the comfort that God is control, and He makes no mistakes. God gives us trials in our lives to draw us closer to Him, and God would not give us a trial that we do not have the strength to overcome. Hang in there, and just look on the better side of life.
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I do, and I try to find something that I can relate to, not just reading any chapter & verse. God works in mysterious ways. Ask him to guide your eyes and fingers to what He wants you to know. Ask Him to speak to you through this devotion time. AND HE WILL...God Bless
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Its really good to me. To me seems to say that true strength to walk with God comes from God and not from ourselves. It appears to acknowledges that we all try to do things on our own sometimes and think we are leaning on God/letting him guide us, even when we are not and we are really trying to carry the weight on our own. But its quite upbeat and seems to remind me that even that wont separate me from him in the long term! Its a good reminder, thanks for posting it\n I dont know if this is a song written for this topic but it speaks to me about that with the bits about trying to be strong, being serious about it, but not afraid to be weak and say "I got it wrong"....
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I too faced a similar situation where bad things happened at my "old church" and I ended up leaving it. At the time I was immiture in my walk and I ended up turning away from God for a period of time. That was the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. What I should have done was seek him more than ever before. \n\nAt that time I felt like I was going against God becasue I didn't agree with what was going on at the church. This couldn't have been farther from the truth. The truth is we live in a fallen world and people do make mistakes. Even those we look up to and count on are not perfect. They too can dissapoint us. What happened at your church was very wrong. If you want to stay that's fine, but if you feel lead to leave, that is perfectly fine too. As you pray about it God will speak to your heart. Don't be afraid to listen to him. The important thing to remember is that people are people and God is God. People make mistakes but that doesn't change who God is. He is still perfect. He still loves you like crazy. And He never changes. No matter what is going on around you or how you feel, God is still the same.\n\nRight now you are going through a time of testing in your walk with God. You're right if you want to leave your old church, and if you continue to trust God He will lead you to another, the right one where He wants you to be. However you don't know yet because before He does He's allowing you to go through this time of testing. Will you trust God still even though you don't have an answer yet?\n\nRemember God promises "I will never leave you or forsake you" ((Heb 13:5)\n\nRight now I'm reading a book called The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. I highly recommend you check it out during this time in your life. It is changing my life. It's a popular book you can get at Wal-Mart or any bookstore Christian or otherwise.\n\nDay 14 is titled "When God Seems Distant." Here are a few quotes I highlighted as I read it. They might help you out.\n\n"God is real no matter how you feel."\n\n"The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking God during a trial, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while suffering, and loving him when he seems distant."\n\n"But often this feeling of abandonment or estrangement has nothing to do with sin. It is a test of faith - one we all must face: Will you continue to love, trust, obey, and worship God, even when you have no sense of his presence or visible evidence of his work in your life?"\n\n"God ios always present, even when you are unaware of him, and his presence is too profound to measure by mere emotion. Yes, he wants you to sense his presence, but he's more concerned that you trust him than that you feel him. Faith, not feelings pleases God."\n\n"Tell God exactly how you feel. Pour out your heart to God. Unload every emotion that you're feeling...God can handle your doubt, anger, fear, grief, confusion, and questions."\n\n"Never dubt in the dark what God told you in the light."\n\n"Trust God to keep his promises. During times of spiritual dryness you must patiently rely on the promises of God, not your emotions, and realize that he is taking you to a deeper level of maturity...so don't be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God."\n\n"When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way." \n\nHope this helps. Just never forget that God will never leave you and He will get you through this time. You will come out of it stronger in Him than ever.\n\nMany blessings!
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I have faced a similar problem. what I did is that i started thinking... is what I'm doing good? shouldnt I end this evil. then I decided that I must begin the fight against the temptation. So, I began the fight.. every time I'm on messenger, I try my best to control my self, by keeping the good thoughts in my mind. Each time, I get a bit stronger. Sometimes, I decide not to open the computer at all, but rather do any other safe activity. By time, I became strong enough to overcome the temptation, and have the victory. That was the Holy Spirit who gave me this strength. All thanks to God. I hope, my friend, you will benefit from my real experience and God be with you.
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Trust in The Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge the Lord and He will direct your paths.  I am a christian and know that if you ask God to Direct your life He always will and the end result will always be good. So my advice is to Be confident in your own qualities and also add prayer and If you ask God He always has a good plan for you... God luck with your search!
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Love and pain come hand in hand. You can't avoid it. Allow yourself to fall, it's the whole point of "falling" in love. They will catch you if they love you in return. It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. It's the only way to live. Push your fear aside and give it your all.
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I hope I can help you in some small way. First, I believe that Faith is a journey each day of your life. Try to read your Bible some each day particularly the New Testament. Live your life under the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Pray without ceasing....you can talk to GOD anytime you want. HE is always there with you. Will you always get what you want? Of course not....for HE knows what you need. Each day notice the world around you and try to do good things for others. Thank God each day for giving you this day. Have you noticed what a perfect artist GOD is, by the way? Look at the sky, the sunset, the leaves on the trees, the snow, the animals on this earth. What beauty HE has brought to this world. Meditate and be alone with yourself and simply ask GOD for help in guiding you.  I know with all of the horrible stuff going on in this world, sometimes it is hard to have Faith in God. HE, however, did not create this mess. HE gave us free choice and, obviously, we have made many mistakes. Ask GOD to forgive all of us and to show us the way. Each day that you do this, your faith will grow but remember, as I said earlier....Faith in God is a journey til the day you die. Ask HIM to be with you now and always even if you feel like your faith is shakey sometimes. As you grow older, your faith will strengthen. GOD is GOOD and LOVING. May GOD BLESS YOU in your JOURNEY!!!!