What made you choose to walk with God instead of walking away from Him?

Pastorsrus

Posts: 127

Everyone has gone through tough times physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sometimes those tough times cause us to question our Christian walk. I'm still here. You're still here. What made you choose to still be here?

Gumby4jc

Posts: 10

He has always proven Himself faithful, even in my faithlessness. Like Peter, I can only cry out "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." And like Peter, that cry is not a statement born of my great understanding, but of my awareness of my desperate need for Him.

Callielou

Posts: 20,706

Thank you Pastorsus for the note.

I have never questioned my faith even from a very young person. When trials and tribulations occur, it only draws me closer to my faith and God. There I know I will find comfort and strength just as we know water quenches the thirst.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor

Rgurley4

Posts: 3,789

After my salvation and a period of "growing", I understood a very real truth.
Your spirit must allow the inwelling God the Holy Spirit to GUIDE your WALK on the right PATH...stay in the will of God.

John 16: 12-15 (NASB)...Jesus: the gift of God the Holy Spirit will GUIDE

But when He, (God) the (Holy) Spirit of truth, comes,
He will GUIDE you into all the TRUTH;
for He will not speak on His own initiative,
but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. (the right path to take!)
He will glorify Me (God the Son,Jesus) , for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.
All things that (God) the Father has are Mine; ...

2 Corinthians 5: 5-10 (NASB)...Walk in the Spirit by Faith

...Now He who prepared us for this very purpose (walk in life) is (the TRI-UNE) God,
who gave to us the (indwelling God the Holy) Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore, being always of good courage, and
knowing that while we are at home in the body (+ soul)
we are (spiritually) absent from the Lord
— for we WALK by FAITH, not by "sight"—
we are of good courage, I say, and
prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be PLEASING to Him.
For we must all appear before the "Judgment Seat of Christ", (Judgment of the Believer's Works...SEE: 1 Corinthians 3)
so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds (works) in the body, (and Soul after salvation)
according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (spiritually)

Psalm 142 : (NASB)...David, when he was in the cave...Prayer for Help in Trouble.

When my SPIRIT was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my PATH
In the way where I WALK
They (worldly enemies) have hidden a trap for me.
Look to the right and see;
For there is no one who regards (respects?) me;
There is no escape for me;(from the world!)
No one cares for my soul (and Spirit) ....(BUT!)
I cried out to You, O LORD;
I said, “You are my REFUGE,
My PORTION in the land of the living.

belleo

Posts: 2,627

Everyone has gone through tough times physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sometimes those tough times cause us to question our Christian walk. I'm still here. You're still here. What made you choose to still be here?

GOD IS SO VERY CLOSE TO ME . I know we all have had our hardships . The word of God tells me to praise so I do it daily . Praise keeps me on the straight and narrow . Our God gifts us with many who can help along the way . I choose to still be here because I know the loving kindness of God for me and mine .

Thanks Pastor ffor inviting me here . Marie

Just me

Darlene

Posts: 65

Through the years, from a young child, I felt a calling upon my life. When I became an adult and looked back over all the experiences that made up my formative years, there was no doubt that God had always been with me. Some of the circumstances I was brought through were life-threatening, while others simply led me to know that I didn't want to live that way. My role models weren't the best, but somehow I had a moral compass that guided and directed my steps. In my early twenties I began studying the scriptures in earnest and have never stopped. God's word has been the guiding force in my life and has seen me through some tough times.

I never lost faith in him, no matter how bad things got or whatever I had to endure. Somehow I always knew he would see me through, and he has. I cannot fathom life without him. It would be worthless. Not one day goes by that I don't awaken to praise him and thank him for all his blessings. I talk to him as I travel to and from work, I spend time with him in studying his word every chance I get, I nod off to sleep at night, my last thoughts being thankfulness and peace. He brings me understanding while I sleep and I awaken each morning with delightful new insights and increased faith.

He is my everything and my greatest desire is to stand before him at the end of days and have him say, "Well done my good and faithful daughter, come and inherit the blessings I have prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Amen!

Dunamus3

Posts: 557

Jan 15, 2012 -- 12:06PM, Pastorsrus wrote:
Everyone has gone through tough times physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sometimes those tough times cause us to question our Christian walk. I'm still here. You're still here. What made you choose to still be here?

He never told me the road would be easy, I've come too far to turn around. Besides, where I have been is so deplorable, I have no where else to go...God has never betrayed my trust. After all thats said and done, Jesus Christ is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

annie

Posts: 5,807

hi pastor s, i just got home from a long weekend,,i am tired but to answer your question, i have always been very religious,,maybe when i was a teen i drifted a bit,,but then again at 20 i was on the straight and good path..

i never even asked myself why i was like this,,it is just me and there would be no me without my religion... luv annie

Beautiful_Dreamer

Posts: 4,924

Thanks for the note pointing me toward this thread!

I wasn't really raised a Christian and didn't become one until I was about 15, when some good friends told me about Him...I'd heard things before but only on a very cursory level. The fact that these people took time with me, were patient with me and my stubbornness, and that they actually *walked the walk* made a huge impression on me.

I don't really know how to describe this, but it sort of felt as though I'd always known God, just not used that name. I'd always been a very introspective person who felt a connection to something outside of myself, but I didn't exactly know what it was. Coming to know Jesus put a name to it.

There have definitely been times since then that I have felt like I was on shaky ground. I thought God hated me and had left me for a while there. But learning that I had a mood disorder (bipolar) helped me because I was able to remind myself that it was the disorder that was making me feel like God hated me, not that He actually *did*. If that makes sense. I have to take a step back and analyze things more now, and that analyzation helps me to realize things about God that I had sort of 'let slip' before.

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Goodwinterri

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Jan 15, 2012 -- 12:06PM, Pastorsrus wrote:
Everyone has gone through tough times physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sometimes those tough times cause us to question our Christian walk. I'm still here. You're still here. What made you choose to still be here?

The only reason I am still here is because of God's grace and mercy. The word of God says that he sends angels to bring us into salvation it also says that we were thought of even before we were created.

Salvation is a gift of God and not of works least any man should boast. So, you see I can't take the credit. This is it! Eventhough, I've had trials and tribulations God has promised to be with me. So, God was in the situation all the time directing the outcome.

He says trials and tribulations come to make you strong. God why do you need for me to be strong? I thought that you were my strength.

Yes, that's correct as long as you stay in me but listen eventhough I have conquered death, hell and the grave my time is not yet Satan still has free reign but he still needs permission.

So when a tribulation comes God says have you considered my servant Terri? Because he knows the outcome and he will not give me more than I can bare.

Nothing absolutely nothing can happen to me without God's premission!

I just pray that he keeps me safe under his wings!

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