Yh it's never about feeling

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

It’s what you have in spite of your feelings sometimes

This spoke to me I always tend to feel that faith is a feeling and wonder why I get upset when I feel like I’m not on fire for God.

for one, i never saw anything like "overflowing faith" but rather words on the quality and resilience of someone's faith. it is less quantitative and more boolean; faith, or no faith? and sometimes being a faithful person comes with a lot of feelings. but i imagine if God asked us to literally always be fervently passionately "feeling" faith that we'd... probably run out eventually. sometimes you won't get those "butterflies" so to speak, but definitely don't let that discourage you :) and always remember. Jesus loves you ❤

Love how you put that!

WOW! This was a really good take. We do forget that it is a marathon.

Man. My pastor told me the exact same thing about how this is a marathon. . . . . .wait. Are you my pastor!?!😳

@@Alex-jv7fx I’m not a pastor. 😅 I’m glad your pastor shared the same words to you.

Such an amazing way to say this, thank you so much ❤

Look at what Christ endured. You can do it too❤️

I'll be praying for you brother/sister 🙏 please don't give up ❤️

I’m praying for you. I was struggling too, maybe not as much as you, but this video helped and I pray the truth of it will help you now and in the long run. I’m about your age as well, you are not alone here brother. I pray that you will have the strength to follow God, even when you don’t feel like it ❤️Jesus is near (Matthew 28:20).

@@dje3.16I appreciate your want to help brother, but I would encourage you to be a little more sensitive about the way you reply. I think you just came off a little blunt, but thank you, for I know you didn’t mean any harm. God bless ❤️🙏

Me too

I agree with you whole heartidly, and even tho I don't feel like it (yeah, I have to convince myself to go praying), I'll pray for you too Isaac🫶

Bars

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

Love this

Haha this is so true... Faith is leaning on him even when you can't feel him

beautifully said.

Think of it more like mountain climbing (which if you haven’t done, why are you even living?) where there are the highs and the lows (both physically and spiritually), but the grandest moment is at the summit which belongs to days we won’t see in this lifetime.

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

Youre not alone!!!!!! He is there even tho we dont “feel” him!🫂

Go watch IMBeggar

If you are struggling read this~ I know I’m young but I would just like to say that, In 7th grade I was in a very dark place. I couldn’t feel much emotion and I had thoughts of revenge and the other things. But God saved me, he gave me the people in my life and he showed himself to me. Even in my darkest days he was there with me, he never left me. One day while I was in bed I started to pray with my hand to the sky and I felt something holding my hand. At that very moment I knew it was him. I repent of all of the sins I have committed. I am ready to begin a new life with him. There is still time to repent love one another and believe in Christ for he will forgive you❤️ He helped me in hard and he will help you too:). me in hard times he will help you too:)

damn, that sucks

I'm really sorry about your divorce. It's not justified because Jesus even said that whoever divorces their spouse except on the grounds of sexual immorality commits adultery. To see you committing to God even after such an unjust thing done to you is so wonderful. I pray that He may comfort you, and pour His love on you. May His will for your life come to pass, and His purposes prevail.

@kevinjacksonvlogs what a beautiful message! You are a gem in the Kingdom. I am so sorry about your separation. I like the videos on your channel: great job on your music. 🙌🏼

@kevinjacksonvlogs1356 I'm sorry to hear about that, brother. All praise be to YAHWEH for giving you strength in this difficult time ❤ you'll be in my prayers ❤❤

Thank you for encouraging me.. This happened to me this year as well. It's encouraging that something like this has happened to someone else too and yet their life is not over.

That really touched me.

It’s a great analogy. That’s the one (of the many) reason(s) God gave us marriage, to provide us a parallel for our relationship with Him. Well said! God Bless!

Haha It’s the analogy! Gods Covenant with His people.

I find it funny that you call it a poor analogy, but the Bible uses this exact analogy to describe our relationship with Christ. The Bible often refers to the Church as God's bride and very often likens our relationship to God to a marriage. Marriage is intended to mirror God's relationship with the Church, much like we are mirrors of His Image.

Aye man, thank you so much for posting this. This helped me a lot.

This was so good. I screenshot this. Thank you.

Love this

It's a process, don't give up hope. Even for long-time believers, some days are harder than others. I will pray for you.

i’m a 19 year old newly christian woman. i feel the exact same way as you, esp about only talking to god when i need something (or to say thanks). i hope we can overcome this. i know that with Him, we can.

Jude 1:20 says to build yourself up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. You need an infilling of the Holy Spirit like they had in the book of Acts. The fire of the Holy Spirit is what gets rid of the things you just can't shake on your own. My advice is to read the book of Acts and ask the Father for the same experience the followers of Christ had that made them so bold that they could take anything the world sent them for the sake of Christ. Jesus said we have not because we ask not. Just ask. And you may have to ask more than once, but don't give up, because if you ask, and you really pursue Him, He will answer.

Your walk with Jesus is a journey; your sanctification will take the rest of your life. Continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will convict you of your sins so you turn from them. Pray that Jesus will help you. I will pray for you.

@@driftingdandelionexactly what I’m going through now I’m also 19

I felt this for a long, long time and then God introduced me to some Orthodox Christians.... :o

Same and I start to question why I don’t feel that way

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

@erichurst1731 i know how you feel. Sometimes its not something big that makes you question your faith. Its the little things that build up over the course of time. Its important to just take things one day at a time: yesterday can't be changed and tomorrow isn't guaranteed, so focus on leaning on and trusting in YAHWEH today, here and now. I'll be praying for you my friend ❤

❤❤❤ hope you have a community

Amen brother

I was in the same situation too but there’s a way out take small steps that’s what I’m currently doing now

Life is hard, i have been feeling that nothing that i believe makes sense and idk what to do, i hope God can reveal himself to you again

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

feelings may change but the Person and Work of Jesus Christ on the cross is objective and absolute

I hope you would also land to conclusion that bad moments does not deny God's existence

​@@negativedawahilariousabsolutely! We worship him not for what he can do for us, but because we love him and he's deserving of worship.

@djashovel What you say reminds me of Ecclesiastes

​@sarahbelzer6124 Maybe but mine is the Opposite completely of his ( I've always seen ecclesiasties is just a guy who Is just a materialist and Heathenistic )

@@djashovel Very interesting, I would give it another read.

@djashovel: WOW! You are like my twin! I 💯 feel the same: Im all about conquest & living a spiritually thrilling life for God’s Glory. General Patton is one of my biggest inspirations as well as Joan of Arc. If it makes you feel any better: God did allow me to do some ‘battles’ & I began to lead an ‘army’…..and it was miraculously successful: but there is a HEAVY price to pay. Ive been persecuted by a lot of people in so many confounding ways. I lost my family, everything I built, my businesses…….im homeless. Just for living a life determined to make the most out of living in a land of opportunity and insisting on peace, love & nobility: following Jesus cost me my entire life. And after decades of having God’s help in the battle….He made it very clear that He wants me to stop. Not sure for how long. Ive been through a lot of ego deaths……our modern times just do not allow “greats” any more. Its not possible. My hope is because Jesus is so close to returning, we really only need Him. I can really feel your soul fr your comment & who you are in the Kingdom: you have the heart of a true Christ Warrior. ⚔️ ✝️ There are millions of us Brother: and as long as we share our hearts & our intentions: we keep our legacy alive. We know amongst ourselves what we could do given no limitations. I trust & believe in you. And Jesus does too. He may be sparing us in ways we cant imagine. PS: absolutely LOVE your () comment. I put those commentary boundaries up too 😂😂 People need to mind their own business when it comes to other’s salvations! 😉

Lifting you up in prayer 💕

Even though I am not Eastern Orthodox , I appreciate Orthodoxy when it comes to their view in suffering and desolation. They do take those opportunities to produce humility and be more humble and be more reliant to God by the grace of God.

Orthodoxy is not Orthodox to scripture.

It's not about being on fire for God it's about reminded yourself that your a sinner and God loved you so much he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for your sins.... You being on fire and producing fruit like Cain won't be accepted you offering up an acceptable sacrifice with is faith in Jesus and Jesus only is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord remember your works are as filthy rags..

​​​@@lalogarcia6811 Our faith in the Messiah [Christ], Yeshua [Jesus], the Son of the Living God, justified us. To be "justified" is to be counted amongst the righteous in the court of justice. As we're reassured: there is no condemnation for those who are in Him; to remind oneself that they are a sinner, is to affirm an identity that has been put to death and no longer true of oneself. We're the children (a declaration) of the household of Light (Kingdom of Heaven/God), willing vessels of righteous through whom our Father, in Heaven, is made known in the image and likeness of His only-begotten Son. Therefore, as correction in the intent of edification: if one is going to remind themself of old, then, remind yourself who you are now, by means of the transformative power of the set-apart breath (Holy Spirit), in comparison to who were. That the man you once were is no longer your identity; born-again (of the water and Spirit), you're a new-man (or creature), who is no longer of this world but of the Righteous One in Heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father. Our works, as a child of God, working with faith, are not filthy rags... as they are the works the Father, in Heaven, has prepared beforehand that we, as His handiwork [craftsmanship] should walk in. I pray that both of you all are encouraged, and that the LORD [Eternal Existent One] blesses you; may He who makes peace in His heights, make peace upon you, brothers. Amen.

I needed this too -- thanks for saying all of that carefully and sincerely!

Hello there anjiee, i pray this comment find you well❤❤ I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling lately. Reading through your comment, it reminds me a lot of the prophet Elijah. Elijah was on fire for YAHWEH, he was the only prophet that obeyed and served YAHWEH while everyone else was turning to worship baal. He stood up against King Ahab and Queen Jezebel and the 450 prophets of baal. After what happened on Mount Carmel with YAHWEH proving that HE alone is the true ELOHIM, and the killing of the prophets of baal, Jezebel tries to have Elijah killed. Then in 1 kings 19:3-8, this happens "3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O YAHWEH, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of YAHWEH came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of ELOHIM." Even Elijah, someone who was so on fire for YAHWEH, grew tired and felt hopeless. But then he rested, YAHWEH revived him, and he continued to perservere. Later on in 1 Kings 9, Elijah continues to feel hopeless, so YAHWEH sent him to find Elisha. "13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? 14 And he said, I have been very jealous for YAHWEH ELOHIM of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15 And YAHWEH said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room." Reading through Elijah's story, it reminds us that even the most dedicated, passionate believers can get tired and feel hopeless from time to time. But after Elijah rested, ate and found fellowship with Elisha, he kept going. We need time to rest, even YAHWEH rested on the 7th day after creation. That's why HE gave us the sabbath so we can rest from our work and be refreshed. We need to eat and be properly nourished so we have energy to serve and obey YAHWEH (not saying that fasting isn't important or that we shouldn't do it. But there are other fast that can be done other than food or water fasts, like fasts from social media) And we need to lean on and work with the fellow believers in our lives. There's strength in numbers. I pray that you will have the strength to keep perservering in spite of the struggles you are facing ❤❤❤

Yeah, I understand... It's hard. It just doesn't make sense, and it seems just so contrary to what we believe, that God will make it right... and looking at others, how happy they are, living your dreams, can truly feel so hopeless... The only things I can say is... just try looking at the small good things. Small little joyful things. Some good scent you feel on the street, the comfort of your bed at night, something funny you saw... and as hard as it is, try to purposefully cut out the negative thoughts. Be honest with God... tell him how you feel. I know he already knows, but really, tell him. And after many heartbreaks and arguing with him, after you poured out every last bit of bitterness... give up. Surrender. Tell him "Okay, i guve up, it's truly all you from now on. I have nothing in my heart that I could use, and I know I gave my heart to you countless times again, but here I am again, I surrender". You won't feel immediate relief, don't think this is some one-time miracle. Once I started embracing my weakness and surrendering to God, because I knew I was nothing, that's when I started to feel better. I'm still healing, all this I wrote happened recently, but this is what helps me. Hope it helps you too. You know, sometimes we live through things not because of us, but to be able to help others. Sometimes, we are just examples that hurt for one (us) but is hope for others... like Job... And if my depression can be a hope for others, so be it... Just hang on, trust in him, that everything truly happens for a reason. You may never understand it here on Earth, because you are not onmiscient, but in heaven Im sure... im sure it will all make sense there

My walk with Him here**

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