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Please pray for a friend of mine

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Posted by: Frederik

His name is Kai.
He's a pretty young christian.
He's struggling with doubts. He really has a good heart and he wants to serve God but he also suffers from doubts and then he becomes insecure wether God even exists and it drags him down.He just wants to be sure cause otherwise he cannot serve God effectively if he's vulnerable to doubts.Actually I have the same problems this is why I'm so sorry for him.
Please pray for him that God does whatever is right and that he gives him strength and endurance.Thanks.

I also dont understand it.Some people become christians and it's like everything is given to them.They have visions,see Jesus,hear him and all this stuff and others don't have any of that.


Posted by: Sulten

Dear Heavenly Father, I pray for Kai that You would convict his heart and soul with the power and testimony of Jesus Christ, that He is real and bring him to accept Him into his life and His teachings and receive salvation and hope and faith in Him and every good thing You desire for him to receive. I pray You will open his heart and mind as with the little grain of mustard seed that he can let that have root and take hold in his life. Please I ask that You open a door for him and lead him to the truth and let him feel of Your love and know that it is real and that You are real, I pray any blessings he stands in need, in Jesus Holy name, amen.


Posted by: Frederik

But he has accepted Jesus.


Posted by: Sulten

That is confusing Frederick. He has accepted Jesus Christ into his life and believes he is saved, but he still doubts whether or not there is a God? So he sort of believes? Faith produces miracles; miracles do not produce faith. God is no respecter of persons. Carol (akabezalel) said something I thought was very significant a few days ago. She said to watch the things we say, that by our very words we can cast doubts and relinquish our faith. I had been talking about my brother-in-law who has cancer and I said we still hoped for a miracle, but he was going downhill fast. Well that statement was not a faith producing statement. The Lord works through our faith, not before. She said to watch our words. If you are always doubting and questioning everything, I'm not sure how much the Lord can work in someone's life, since faith is a pre-requisite to miracles and answers to prayer.

According to your faith be it unto you, Matt. 9: 29. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible unto you, Matt. 17: 20 (Luke 17: 6). Faith is the substance of things hoped for, Heb. 11: 1

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no arespecter• of persons.


Posted by: bill & alexis

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frederik
His name is Kai.
He's a pretty young christian.
He's struggling with doubts. He really has a good heart and he wants to serve God but he also suffers from doubts and then he becomes insecure wether God even exists and it drags him down.He just wants to be sure cause otherwise he cannot serve God effectively if he's vulnerable to doubts.Actually I have the same problems this is why I'm so sorry for him.
Please pray for him that God does whatever is right and that he gives him strength and endurance.Thanks.

I also dont understand it.Some people become christians and it's like everything is given to them.They have visions,see Jesus,hear him and all this stuff and others don't have any of that.

Father God, thank YOU for Frederik, and Kai! Bless both of these young men with the mind of Christ. Show, and teach, them through YOUR Awesome Holy Spirit, how to surrender - not just their minds - but every part of their lives. Help them with their doubt! Rebuke the whispers, and lies, of the enemy that bring these doubtful thoughts into their minds. Reveal YOUR Glory in all creation around them, so that their spiritual eyes may see. Establish them in the faith of YOUR Son Jesus Christ! May they grow into a testimony - as men of faith - for their brothers to see the works of an Awesome, and Glorious God - in Jesus name - Amen!


Posted by: Remnant7

Quote:
Originally Posted by Frederik
His name is Kai.
He's a pretty young christian.
He's struggling with doubts. He really has a good heart and he wants to serve God but he also suffers from doubts and then he becomes insecure wether God even exists and it drags him down.He just wants to be sure cause otherwise he cannot serve God effectively if he's vulnerable to doubts.Actually I have the same problems this is why I'm so sorry for him.
Please pray for him that God does whatever is right and that he gives him strength and endurance.Thanks.

I also dont understand it.Some people become christians and it's like everything is given to them.They have visions,see Jesus,hear him and all this stuff and others don't have any of that.

First of all, not knowing whether God exists is the crux of your problems. It also explains all the questions you have and the continued arguments you give whenever people minister to you. In otherwords, you have major trust issues, with God and His saints. Without trust in God, you cannot have faith. Without faith, you cannot believe. Without belief, you can't even be a Christian.

Since you have, as you have said, accepted the Lord as your savior several times in the past four years, then I would like to offer that you need the baptism of the Holy Spirit to give you the POWER to live the Christian life, after the first issues (above) are firmly resolved. (It is my opinion that Sulten had the right leading, based on all that you're submitting to us, that Kai (and I add, possibly you), need to truly accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Please read the following to help you regarding The Baptism of the Holy Spirit:

May 27 The Life To Know Him
. . . tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high
—Luke 24:49
The disciples had to tarry, staying in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost, not only for their own preparation but because they had to wait until the Lord was actually glorified. And as soon as He was glorified, what happened? "Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear" ( Acts 2:33 ). The statement in John 7:39 — ". . . for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified"— does not pertain to us. The Holy Spirit has been given; the Lord is glorified— our waiting is not dependent on the providence of God, but on our own spiritual fitness.

The Holy Spirit’s influence and power were at work before Pentecost, but He was not here. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the world, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that He is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of a believer. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord.

It is not the baptism of the Holy Spirit that changes people, but the power of the ascended Christ coming into their lives through the Holy Spirit. We all too often separate things that the New Testament never separates. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not an experience apart from Jesus Christ— it is the evidence of the ascended Christ.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit does not make you think of time or eternity— it is one amazing glorious now. "This is eternal life, that they may know You . . ." ( John 17:3 ). Begin to know Him now, and never finish.

Fredrick, stop and really think about this and pray about this and ask God to reveal the truth of this to you. Don't come back with a quick answer like you have a tendency to do. Let God's Holy Spirit reveal Him to you. We'll continue to pray for you as you draw closer to Him in spirit and in truth.


Posted by: Lynn7

I am standing in agreement