Hello everyone. This is my first day on this forum. I recently, with tears in my eyes, asked God for his forgiveness because I've strayed away from him. I lost my brother recently to suicide and my life became a mess. I have asked God to get me back on track in life. I caved into lust with the wrong women, have neglected my friends who care for me, and most importantly I have neglected my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believe God has led me here. Please pray that I may overcome my demons and get back on track with my life. I love God and am so thankful that he is a forgiving God because I desperately need to strengthen my relationship with him and make him the center of my life.

Thank you to everyone. I'll take all the prayers that I can get.

Hi, I congratulate you because you've just made the right step towards getting back. Ill pray for you, may you continue to seek your way back.

Hi Grateful22,

You will be in my prayers and I know that God will help you over come and bring you through all that hurt, and pain that you are feeling right now. We have all made mistakes and have fallen, but going to God was the best thing you could do and i'm so happy for you that you are letting Him bring you through and draw you closer to Him once again. You are not alone and we here your sisters and brothers, and friends in the Lord are praying for you and lifting you up to God. If you ever need you can feel free to p.m me if you need to vent or have questions and i'll do my best through our Lord Jesus to help you.

God bless you now and always
AA

Welcome to TJ Grateful22,
I pray that this site will be a blessing and a guiding light in your time of trial. The enemy will take every opportunity to have you turn away from the truth that you know through Christ Jesus. Keep in mind that all that you can do, you don’t do alone. It’s with Christ in your life, that you are able to do all things. Phil 4:13

As you’ve come to realize, that we need to have Him in our lives at all times, and not only when things are going bad. I don’t think there’s a believer out there who hasn’t been down and out, and some similar to your situation as well. Yet with all of us who believe, it didn’t take long to realize that He will never forsake us. He guides us to that realization through the Holy Spirit. Meaning, no matter what happens in our lives, how much we try to run in the opposite direction, when we were called by Him in the first place and answered, we became sealed with the Holy Spirit, which is a seal that cannot be broken by the enemy. Grab the word of God; pray; fellowship with other believers even if the only ones you can find are here at TJ. Whatever it takes through Christ Jesus, you do brother, and know that you have brothers & sisters praying for and with you. You are not alone and never will be. Take comfort in that truth!
YBIC
C4E

Thank you so much everyone and God bless you all Its great to read all the positive words. I've struggled the past few days...it feels like I am constantly having to battle my old demons. This journey back to cleaning up my life will be a difficult one and anything encouraging is sincerely appreciated. I'll will continue to work on myself each day and I know that God will see me through this.

God does not measure the qauntity of our non-Christian actions and then he decides it's impossible to forgive us because our non-Christians actions out-weigh our Christian actions. It is the quality of our Christian actions, even if it's only a couple during our lives on Earth, that keeps God in our lives because he knows Satan is the Deceiver who has been released on Earth to do his dirty work. Accepting Jesus as our Lord Healer and Savior can do wonders in our lives, and we become Learners and Leaders of Christ instead of Losers and Weepers of Satan. Sometimes I wonder how God's punishment for Adam and Eve had stretched out so far to punish all family generations in the past, present and future - while the spiritual disease of Satan called sin has caused so much confusion, violence, poverty and pollution.

I pray that the supernatural peace and patience be with you along with every other believer so that the coming of Jesus, hopefully very soon in the future, will transform us into new glorious minds and bodies of Christ once Satan is defeated and sin is deleted. So that the fullness of Christ's supernatural joy will keep our hearts so very positive and our faces always keeping on smiling, as we socialize together in peace and harmony in the most modern and most massive place of community: the Kingdom Of God on a new oceanless planet Earth, where human suffering will become non-existent: such as homelessness, loneliness, old age forgettable senior citizens, drug-trafficking, crime of all sorts from shoplifting to homicide, starvation, war and pollution.:*:.

That was very powerful Quas. God bless you my friend

One of the main problems I've had over the past couple of days is exhaustion. I feel like i've been using all of my energy to fight off everything negative that was in my life to the point that when I get home from my work I just want to sleep until it's time to work again so that I'm not tempted by anything that will displease God. Hopefully this is just a phase and bad habits begin to fade away.

We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us
Romans 8:37


Grateful22

Just keep calling out to Jesus when you are feeling low and defeated.
Jesus will not condemn you......He just wants to bless you

Remember satan, who will try to convince you you are a failure, has no business in your life.....you are a child of the King.

If you are feeling weary get immersed in the word of God,
Pray
Wait on the Lord and let Him do His perfect work in you

Bless you brother



They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31

Dear brother. This may very well be true. However, it's not just waiting for the bad habits to fade. You have to change and start filling them those times with good habits. Everything from, reading His Word, praying, talking with others as you grow in His word about the One who saved you. You have abilities that God has given you, even if they have been dormant or unused until now. Put them to use. Incorporate the things you like to do, working out, technology, etc. with growing in His Word. You’ll be surprised how much of the Word of God really does apply to each and every situation that one can go through, and can touch the areas that we do have abilities in as well. These will be the areas that God will begin using you in and will make you stronger as well. The day will come that those “bad habits” that you talk about now, will be only examples that you use to show others, how Christ has changed you, and helped you to be the person you will be through Christ Jesus. Fragrant Grace has given you good scripture verses to pray and reflect upon. See how they fit into your life. Then you’ll start to change, and begin to put new good habits in place. The interesting part is that once you start on this path of growth, you’ll be surprised that you’ve changed at all, because it will take someone else to bring it to your attention! To you it won’t seem like you’ve changed, but you will have! We're the last ones to see the change in ourselves.

Remember you have brothers & sisters here at TJ who are praying for you as well.
C4E