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[.a.m.y.]

ok..so im new to this whole chat forum thing. but i have a problem. lately ive been having problems being really committed with my faith. its not that i dont want to be, or anything like that..ive been a christian almost all of my life and i have no doubt that it is the right path and i KNOW thats where i need to be, but lately ive been messing up. sometimes i feel like im so limited when i follow christian rules. like theres so much im missing out on. i know thats horrible..but still..that feeling is there. ive done some things..with boys..that i really regret, because i have sort of an inadiquate feeling, an insecurity. i dont know what to do. but i need help. i need someone to talk to. and..i just needed to get that out..haha.

[Angel]

Hello a.m.y.

Hey I have checked your profile and you are very very young. You are allowed to make mistakes cause that is part of growing and learning. In fact we still make mistakes even when we are older - like me, lol, :-) but when we are in God we just keep trying to get it right. Keep praying to God and ask him to help you with your problems and ask Him what His will in your life is. Pray for guidance in your daily walk with Him. Jesus is our light and He will lighten the darkness in our lives.;)

Psalm 119 verse 105
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path"

Being a Christian does not mean missing out on things. You can still have fun but when you have the knowledge of who Jesus really is and I say "is" and not "was" because Jesus is alive, you come to realise what is wrong and what is right and what God expects from you. You are full of potential and a very special unique person. God loves you very much and has a plan for you which he will fulfill.

Hebrews 13 verse 8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Have fun but also respect yourself, seek out other christian friends who have good values. Join a youth group. God is always there to help you - just remember to call on Him.

God Bless You

Angel :af

[CheeseKing]

First off, welcome to the christian chat forum. The world will tempt you and will always tempt you. It will look appitizing and will draw many in. We must be in the world, but not of the world though. The righteous road may look limited of possibilities, from the outside, but once you have yourself secured on the right path, there will be endless possibilities. We may feel that we trully miss out on the things in the world, but it is better that we do, rather than hurting ourselves in the long run. It is a common thing with teenagers, to be insecure (I know, because I just so happen to be a teenager), but we must not look to other teenagers for security. Not boy friends, girl friends, or anyone like that, but we must gain security through the Lord. Its like what one of the hymns says "Trust and obey". Satan, the mighty tempter, will always be showing you all the possibilities available, in the world of sin, but though the temptations will be brought to you, none are too great to bear and trusting in the Lord will always carry you though.

1 corinthians 10:13 (KJV) "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

Proverbs 3:5-6 (KJV) "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

[jfreak]

Welcome .a.m.y. Everybody has similar feelings, but the truth is, we're not the ones missing out; they are, and in the end, everyone will be jugged, and they'll realize they lost their chance. I know it’s hard, it is for all of us, but at least we have Someone to lean on; and He is the only One who can really help.

[Manoluv1957]

hello there
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[dill987]

a.m.y i know how you feel and stuff and i was a christian all my life and i did bad things with girls,friends etc.But my cousin talked to me and now look at me I couldn't feel better.Sometimes I get mad that I can't do alot because it's a sin like example for christmas I got SOCOM 2(a game) and i can't play it because God wouldn't like it but no matter what remember god will award you for not doing a sin like he did for me.And a tip if your confused about whats a sin just know that god is looking at everything your doing,looking over your shoulder.

[luv4JC]

Dear a.m.y., I am so sorry to hear that ur unhappy but I know from my own experience that we have all been there in our christian walk with Jesus. We have all back slided. What I do when this happens to me is PRAY and then PRAY some more. The power of pray is so great that no matter how bad things seem to be going...........prayer pulls me out of it. Satan is always trying his best to pull us away from Christ but I know he won't win in my life and I am sure he won't in urs either. God Bless You a.m.y. My prayers will be with u.

[OneVoice]

ok..so im new to this whole chat forum thing. but i have a problem. lately ive been having problems being really committed with my faith. its not that i dont want to be, or anything like that..ive been a christian almost all of my life and i have no doubt that it is the right path and i KNOW thats where i need to be, but lately ive been messing up. sometimes i feel like im so limited when i follow christian rules. like theres so much im missing out on. i know thats horrible..but still..that feeling is there. ive done some things..with boys..that i really regret, because i have sort of an inadiquate feeling, an insecurity. i dont know what to do. but i need help. i need someone to talk to. and..i just needed to get that out..haha.

If you feel limited in following Chrostian rules and you really beloieve that Christianity is a set of rules to be followed then Chrosyianity is not what you are practing.
You have a religion instead of a relationship.
God is not real.
Jesus is aqn icon.
And it won't matter.
You can't follow the rules and you can't keep them and be perfect enough to go to heaven.

That leaves you where?
backsliding?
No.
There's no such thing.
You are either in a committed relationship of you ae in a selfcentered relationship that define eternity by how much you care to give to that relationship.
God defines eternity in Himself.
he defines His love as perfectly committed in all things.
He sees your sin.
And it is sin to say that His rules are too much bother...
And he knows your heart, which believes it has a right to say no.

But let me ask you something.
Who is Jesus to you?

Think of a time when you were in realy trouble.
It may not have been legal trouble.
It may only have been something you really wish you had NOT been caught at, it might be something you wich=sh you had never been doing to get caught at.
Remeber the fear, and anxiety, and shame of being seen in that sin, what ever it was. Now what was the fine, opunishment, penalty?
Think about how that felt.
Now... how stepped up and said a.m.y. is guilty and her piunishment is just. I will pay her fine, take her punishment, make amende for her."
Did some one infact come and offer to take your place?
If your parents spanked when you were a child did any of your friends ever offer to take your spanking for you?
No?
It's rare.
Who have you interceeded for and what did it cost you personally. Arm?
eye... your life.
See you are guilty and some one loved you and was so unashamed of you that He took all you have coming to you on Himself.
Now... what wouldn't you do for some one who has paid such a price for you?
A gift you can't earn.
A gift you don't deserve.
and YET Jesus valued your life to be worthy of thos Gift and freely gave it.
No one made him do it (read John 10)

For you, dear... He was unhestiantly willing.

See you aren't following a set of rules.
You are beginning a relationship with some one who has lover you this much since the beginning of creation.
You specifically.
becaue God so loved AMY that He gace His only Son that if AMY would believe in Him AMY would not perrish but have ever lasting life.
LIFE...
It is not a matter of what you must give up so much as how much you are willing to do for God the Fatrher who loves you so
for God the Son Who expressed that love on the Cross
and God the Spirit who will help you choose in thankfulness and love for Him who lover you FIRST.
Itr's amazing isn;t it... that even as you sit here debating the worthiness of God who died for you to determin whether you are willing to accepot His commands on how to live and He sits there ever faithfully loving you?


Christianity is NOT a religion. It is NOT a set of rules
It is a relationship with God.

And franly... if you don't love Him back even a little... you won't try to follow his laws and you won't care that He weeps when you break them and sin.

If you don't care about the GIFT how can you possibly love th GIVER?

Now... a short word about giving up your wants and desires... giving up your fun and how your friends think about you, dealing with how the world will see you...
I can tell you that God can change the desires of your heart. And he does it without forcing you.

there is a hymn
"Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His WONDERFUL face, and the things of earth
woill grow strangely dim,
in the light of His glory and grace"
What that means is the more you know Jesus the less you will want the world and only want Him. Until you have had a glimps of what that is you can't understand it.
It tajkes risk and faith and RISK... to find out that He is that wonderful and that Jesus s worth leaving the world behid in order to know you will one day be in His presence.
To see the unimagined Love that poured tself out for you, precious, for you personally.

If you truely want to believe it will cost you everything in this world.
But Jesus said "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his eternal soul?"

when you are ready, God will make these changes... when He is ready He will begin ti cliam His child away from a world that will end in order to give you a workd without end in heaven through the gift of His Son Jesus, our Lord and savior.

It's never about keeping the rules.
It about loving the rule giver so much that you would break to peices to know He was weeping on your account.

And know, His is always grieving our sin, as every parent knows whos child has ever done wrong.

And come to it...
you can't keep the rules.
But I will write another post about that on a new thread later on... it may have to wait for tomorrow.

one more time tho.... It;'s NOT about keeping ri=ules.
It's about God loving you enough to have given them.

Gd bless you nd give you what you are seeking in Him.
OneVoice

[Prodical Son]

ok..so im new to this whole chat forum thing. but i have a problem. lately ive been having problems being really committed with my faith. its not that i dont want to be, or anything like that..ive been a christian almost all of my life and i have no doubt that it is the right path and i KNOW thats where i need to be, but lately ive been messing up. sometimes i feel like im so limited when i follow christian rules. like theres so much im missing out on. i know thats horrible..but still..that feeling is there. ive done some things..with boys..that i really regret, because i have sort of an inadiquate feeling, an insecurity. i dont know what to do. but i need help. i need someone to talk to. and..i just needed to get that out..haha.
Well .A.m.y. it really depends on what type of relationship you have with God. I know you said you've been a christian almost all your life but there come times in our walk and our lives that it get stale and sorry to say but dead, like dry bones in the valley. In the book of Ezekiel (37:1-14) God ask the prophet "can these bones live?" and He said Lord you know. So God knows your heart, but His word stands. The only way a person living in a human body can abstain for fleshly lust and willfully sinning is through the power of the Holy Ghost.(1 Peter 1:10) I can tell that you love and fear God but just like a license your spirit needs to be renewed. I know because I've been through it. Please read the scriptures they will help incourage you.
Especially Psalms 51, Acts 2:4. We know that we can't make it to Heaven in sin. If you can read your Bible more and pray more understanding will come and that desire of the world won't be so tough. My dad told me what you feed will live and what you starve will die. Ask God to protect you and keep you. With much Love, I hope I didn't write too much. Pr.Sun
Prdical Son

[philuk]

ok..so im new to this whole chat forum thing. but i have a problem. lately ive been having problems being really committed with my faith. its not that i dont want to be, or anything like that..ive been a christian almost all of my life and i have no doubt that it is the right path and i KNOW thats where i need to be, but lately ive been messing up. sometimes i feel like im so limited when i follow christian rules. like theres so much im missing out on. i know thats horrible..but still..that feeling is there. ive done some things..with boys..that i really regret, because i have sort of an inadiquate feeling, an insecurity. i dont know what to do. but i need help. i need someone to talk to. and..i just needed to get that out..haha.
amy dont worry and stop trying so hard to be perfect we carry the burden of imperfectionwith us jesus knows this he is patient messing up is something i made a careeer out of what i discovered is i mess up more when i step back from the lord jesus. write down what you are messing up with and next to it write the answer.Keep seeking the kingdom we r living in critical times and satan is doing everything he can to turn us away or to take our eye of things be humble with yourself and others and you will find it much easier to be a christian