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Somehow I'm scared
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Posted by: Frederik
Today I listened to a sermon and the speaker said that those which do not go God's will are missing the mark and that God will say to them that they never knew them and somehow this scares me. I mean I haven't done any great things for God. What if I die and he's totally angry at me? I know somebody who wants to become a missionary but I think I wouldn't even be able to do something like this. I don't think I would last out there only 1 week, most likely I'd get a nervous breakdown and freak out. Being a missionary for example and going to dangerous countries and being far away from home would make me totally unhappy and I'd feel totally lost. I already feel strange when I go on vacation.
I don't even know what God wants from me but also don't know what I could be used for since I'm not so able to work under pressure. 
What if God asked me to do something and I cannot do it cause it overextends me?
Posted by: son of God
Just a thought u stop looking at uand pray for poeple here on the board and start ask God For Wisdom for understanding of what u cause most of the what u do ask and brother or sisters respond to u Its like u have smartalic respond back to them or flash on them. start serveing ur brothern. 
servant
Posted by: pickone
Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Your spirit is warring against your flesh. Your flesh is afraid to take risks because of the possibility of failure. So with all of its power, it will make you not want to do things that might be the right thing to do - for example, try to talk to your Dad about Jesus and salvation. Or, ask someone a question that might sound stupid. Or, stand up for a person because someone is making fun of them because they believe in God.
Your spirit, which has always known God and His power wants to leap into the middle of situations that your flesh runs away from. Your spirit knows no fear, because it knows LIFE personally (God-Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.). Since flesh is temporary, it will pass away, but the real you, which is spirit, lives forever.
So, you are in a war with yourself. The flesh is strong. It will do everything in its power (the natural man) to keep you from changing. I don't know why! Maybe it likes demons or evil activity too much. It knows that if it is crucified (you've determined to follow God no matter what) it will lose the war against your spirit, then the Spirit of God gets to be the Boss because that's Who your spirit wants.
I'm going to try to add scripture here to back up what I've said:
1Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
James 4:1-3
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
2Corinthians 10:2-5
.... which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
I know that you don't like a lot of writing, but I did receive correction from you (and others) before about not backing up my words with scripture. I received your correction because you were right, but they do take up more space and cause more writing. 
The scripture is the most important thing to write.
Posted by: Frederik
and how do I crucify the flesh? by praying a special prayer or confessing something like "Now I crucify my flesh." 
Posted by: pickone
You are buying school supplies and there is only one notebook left. A person shoves you out of the way and picks it up.
FLESH SAYS: Smack them now! Hard!
SPIRIT SAYS: Blessed be the Name of the LORD.
You drive your brand new, spotless Rolls Royce to school. You park it in a really safe place. When you get out of school and go to your car, you notice someone has "keyed" it from front to back (run a hard object down the side of your vehicle causing damage to the paint).
FLESH SAYS: Look around quickly! If you see someone watching and smiling, run and smack them now! Hard!
SPIRIT SAYS: LORD, wherever they are, I ask You to bless them.
You give up what you want to do, to do what you believe God would have you do.
Romans 7:15
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
(What we think when we let our flesh win.)
Matthew 5:44-45
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
(God's instruction.)
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
If we are truly sincere about loving God and following Him, we will be weird to the world because the world does not know Him. Did you ever wonder why the apostles were so persecuted? Why aren't we? Are we walking in accordance to His will, or our own?
Posted by: Frederik
Oh man. But I cannot make myself love my enemies! I cannot even make myself love other people! Only God can.
I have prayed for more love a few times but somehow nothing happens.
Posted by: pickone
It has been hard for me, too.
I don't want to give my enemies power over my life, so I have to learn how to let go. It has taken years. I don't know if I've completely let go yet.