Do you Christians know how closed your mind is?Do you know how much your missing out on?
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messing out on hell,  yep I know what I am missing.\n\nYou don't realise what you are missing, the joy and happiness that Christ can offer
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I talk to God as if he were a friend talking a walk with me. I start off kinda formal and then get friendly and casual. "Dear God/Lord, Please do this or that if it's what you know is best, but if not....or how can I reach so and so and help him...oh, I know I can show them that passage in the Bible. Cool, thanks for bringing that to my mind." \n\nSometimes I get a revelation during the conversation. Yes I said conversation. I don't think of it as me talking to God, but us having a conversation with each other. Cuz if you aren't planning on listening to him, then you are wasting your time.\n\nOthers I may not hear or feel the answer right away. It may take days, weeks, months or years. Sometimes the answer doesn't come in a feeling or revelation but in the form of an action from someone else....certain circumstances will show me why God did what he did or why he led me in a certain direction.\n\nGod Bless you\nby the way: I am a Christian and I thank God for sending His son to die for us in my prayers too.\n\nP.S. I pray silently if I'm in public or around others. If I by myself, I talk out loud a lot. I really like to pray when I am walking alone or driving.
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Like you I pray daily that God would lift me into his arms and carry me home; but then he reminds me that he's not through with what he has for me to do.  I have seizures, as many as 4 to 5 a day, and therefore may lose as many as six hours a day of memory - it is very hard for me as I'm constantly wondering if I even had a day, but knowing full well that I am God's daughter and that the Holy spirit resides within me, and knowing that "I" feel like a burden to my family, God is teaching far greater lessons to those around me.  We may not always like the situation God places us in or how he allows our flesh to be used, but our Spirit is his, so who are we to be anything less than content.  That might not bring you much comfort other than to know you are not alone - you have my permission to contact me if you would like to share more personally you're experiences, as God has had me writing poetry for 20 years that deals with so many issues that I'm sure it is no coincidence he has had me online at this point in time to answer your question.  Heavenly Father, I empathize with this one as you know I too beg with each unconscious state to slip on into your abode, but you keep rudely(!) sending me back to these who I love and who are still needing taught of your mercy and grace, and I am glad each time you send someone into my life, as I can no longer get out, to share how wonderful and merciful you are!  Bring a contentment and peace that passeth understanding into this ones life as you have mine. Amen.
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yes.\n\nI understand your angst, only because you do not have a personal relationship with Christ. However, when you do, everything changes 180 degrees. http://tinyurl.com/o44bt
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Not frequently, but we do.  I have only meditated once or twice in something of a group, and that was only in high school, so I don't know how much it counts for.  What we did was sit down in some area of the classroom, wherever we were able to keep to ourselves and think alone.  Then our teacher led us in a meditation by describing a setting (along the Nile River, I seem to recall) back when Jesus was still walking the Earth.  It was kind of a prompt, what the teacher said next.  She turned on some relaxing music, and gave us one scenario before letting us think to ourselves.  It was something along the lines of: "You see Jesus in the distance, sitting in the shade under a tree.  As you approach him, you decide to have a conversation.  What are you going to say to him?  Will you ask him something?"  And then the rest was left up to our minds.  The more a person thought about it, the more they put into the spiritual experience.  Some people just fell asleep.  =/
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I think sometimes we shut and open doors ourselves, and then say that it is God playing games with us. I think you just need a bit more time, and patience with what God is doing in your life. Allow yourself time to hear God. \n\nI also think God has moved you on to a new level with Him. That is maybe a bit more difficult than where you were previously. That is why this seems a bit more difficult to figure out. God is constantly wanting us to move forward, and to move higher. Relax in what God wants, and if you are not sure, then just wait a while. \n\nNothing happens in our timing, no matter how hard we try to control time we can not. Also, a big thing for me, is to go on what peace I have. If I have complete peace, not a shadow of a doubt, then I know that it is what God wants. But if there is even a smallest of a fraction of doubt. Then I know that I should not pursue that what I was wanting to. \n\nKeep praying and asking God for the answer. He will give you the answer, maybe the answer is already given, but you yourself are opening and closing doors... \n\nThis could be also a big test for you, to see how much you are willing to give up for God. Sometimes, when we give up one thing, God gives us something far greater than what we ever imagined. \n\nI dont know the whole situation here, but rest in God. That is the only thing I can say works. Spend time with Holy Spirit, allowing Him to work in your life, and to show you the way that you must go....\n\nI wish you all the best in what you are facing... it can not be easy, but know that God is right there with you. He never leaves your side. He knows what is best for you....
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"if you cant change your mind, how do you know you still have one?"\n\neverything in our life should inspire us to inquire and question.  Yahoo  Religion & Spirituality section included.   If you are so closed minded that you cannot even IMAGINE the possibility having your mind changed (not even about the BIG things but about the million points of spiritual minutae) then you are just a robot, sadly...
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I think your questions count as preaching, but I can tell you that I am not interested in a relationship with Jesus or the Christian God.  I do feel complete.  I do not feel vulnerable and alone - my beliefs empower me and surrounds me with the protections I need to enjoy my life.  Even with an army on your side, anyone can feel scared from time to time - but I am very safe in my understanding of the Universe.\n\nThe things is, that even in a Christian God model philosophy the point is not to life your live for god - the point is to understand your own divinity and to understand that you and god are a team.  If god is an ocean, we are each and everyone of us a glass of god, with tremendous power and divine right - no matter what we call this being.  To spend time steeped in any church dogma only brings you closer to understanding the church, not god.  \n\nI am glad that Christianity has helped you and I rejoice that you are happy on your chosen path.  I regret that you feel you need to school others or that you feel you have the only answer to the mysteries of life.  There is no way to truly know the Unknowable and there are many paths to enlightenment.  Worry about your own soul until someone asks you for help if you truly want to display the virtue of christianity.\n\nPeace!
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"Don't understand what is happening to you?"\n\nCould you elucidate that?\n\nSometimes I get upset at God, yes, but I'm still Christian.
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well, truthfully, I waste time that i should be using elsewhere. i get caught up in having stuff to deal with and not spending my "dew time" in prayer. \n\nThanks for the chastisment, whether you knew it or not....\nbe blessed~vicki
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Is it a sin to be a closed-minded moron? Are you going to hell for living life like that? I hope so...
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Congrats! I think you may be close to realizing one of the ~mysteries~ hidden from those who try to read Scripture w/o faith. Bless you!
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You are enlightened, don't let them pull you back down.\n\nI always love how we are closed-minded after we examine various world religions, philosophies, etc... but they have one book that they have read and they are open-minded.
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I do feel it's important to stop and think, and I feel it's crucial to allow myself to feel the loneliness at times, too. That way, I'm not denying the feeling. Denial is very unhealthy. \n\nWhen I'm particularly lonely, I pray - God is very loving and gracious to give me a sense of his presence. And I do answers, read books, organize the house, exercise, and catch up with work.
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God had me in mind before I was born, there is a verse I know of that says "I know even the number of hairs on your head, but if your asking that is  the first sign that your listening to God's quiet voice, it takes time to understand but praying and reading the Bible (one you can understand) does help you get the answers. A kind person who understands what and how God works in our daily life would help you out, find a local coffee house, mission, someplace informal. Sometimes going to a Church is hard to do, but what do you really have to loose?
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Yes. And no i couldn't function...until i let her go and focused on the things in my life that i had some control over.  Look up the serenity prayer, it is short and sweet but says a lot.
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"How did you get to be so knowledgeable?"\n\n\nPS Ricky - are you assuming something else (and tinged with Christianity) about this hypothetical omniscient being?