Need help

[txplowgirl]

Hi everyone, i'm kinda at a turning point in my life right now. I'm not even for sure for what I'm asking. I know, dosen't make sense, but i'll try to explain.
Back on the 8th of this month I asked HIM to come into my life. I thought he had always been with me but I just didn't truly acknowledge that he was there, if that makes any sense.
Anyway, I was laying in bed and crying because I was lost, A friend of mine called, interestingly enough out of the blue, who just in the last few months had found Jesus. When he asked why I was crying I told him everything that had been happening. He asked me to pray with him that HE would come into my life and be with me. This feeling came over me, first time I had felt peace in many years, in fact the last time I felt that good was when I was maybe 6 or 7. My crying stopped and I have felt that peaceful feeling since that day.
I have been reading my bible and trying to make sense of it, but it still has me a little confused. Being a truck driver out here on the road it's kinda hard to find a church but we have these little trucker chapels that we can go to but I haven't found one I am comfortable in yet to be able to talk with anyone. So, I thought I would turn to the good people here on BWH.
I want to keep this peaceful feeling, I don't want it to go away. I have not had an anxiety attack or even been really worried about anything and I can tell you I am a notorious worrywart, worrying about the least little thing. I pray to HIM every night before I go to bed and I thank HIM for giving me another good day. I read my bible, I listen to the word when I can find a station on the radio. Listen to CD's that I find on my way around the country.
I'm just wondering or I guess I should say I'm expecting this feeling to go away and I'm wondering how I keep it. Is it just a simple matter of believeing in him, is it really that simple or have I gone off my rocker?

[Grizzy]

Hey tx :)

In this post I want to give you something to think about. Then we can go on if you like. I hope others will share in this discussion as well, because you were at a cross road in your life and made a decision that changes your forever. You decided to become part of the most beautiful Love relationship ever written about or known by mankind...

Consider this..

God eternal created.. and man was part of His creating. Man fell from grace when he sinned and sin separates us from our Father. Hell is the very separation from God.. I cannot even imagine the terror of it.

In place of sacrifices (as in the Old Testament) God provided a Lamb. Jesus suffered and died and was raised back from the dead. He bore the beating and pain and took upon himself the punishment for all of our sins. We then were left free to accept the gift of eternal life, by accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives.. or free to reject Him and embrace forever without our Father in it.. without Grace, fellowship with God, protection, and the peace that passes all understanding..

As Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit (the Comforter) are all One.. we understand that God Himself made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may be acceptable and able to come to Him. When we accept HIM, Jesus, then Jesus dwells In us.

There is more to say, but for now jus let your heart meditate on the knowing that you were invited into God's creation. A price was paid, long before your heart heard the wooing of the Holy Spirit.. like a sweetheart woos.. softly, gently, desiring goodness in a relationship... only now there is power in your life. You were bought and paid for with the precious blood of Jesus...

tx.. who is able to love so completely as your Heavenly Father? and there is no wickedness in Him. You.. are His precious Little One. Oh, that the sweetness of the presence of the Holy Spirit would never depart from us.

We are promised that Jesus will return to gather us and take us Home.. where there is no pain, no suffering, no loneliness, every tear will be dried.

You.. are loved more than we can comprehend.

If you have time, read Psalm 91.. slowly and out loud. See that when you walk with God the Father, you are not alone.. you are safe.

Bearhugs. How precious are your words.

Be Strong
~Grizzy~

[johnny]

Tx'pg--just pause for a moment and ponder this.......

How many miles have you had HIM sitting right beside you and never knowing

How much rubber have the TWO of you laid down never knowing of the ONE that was your passenger

How many close calls have you had when miraculously somehow you made it thru with nary a scratch

Now you know

wasnt luck after all

your 'co-driver' steered you thru it!


Cant rightly say if 'you've lost your grip'

but darn sure 'you have found your way'!

[txplowgirl]

Thank you Grizzy, I needed that. That psalm really helped me this morning before I took off. I think i'll read it every day or so until I feel right. Thank you.

Hey Johnny, lol, that gave me a chuckle, you are so right, there have been days when something or should I say someone has warned me about something and i've managed to evade a hazard. Feeling better tonight thanks.

[Builder Ken]

Tx Remember satan will come to kill steal and destroy now that you have this new relationship with our Lord you will be on his hit list. So keep close to the word. Now I will give you a lesson to study see if you can find scriptires about the Armor of God.

I am by no means a teacher I leave that to Grizzy but I have found that if I have something I am looking for I end up learning more than just reading.

Lord I thank you for saving my soul as well as Tx and the others I pray that you help her stay strong and protect her as she drives. In Jesus name Amen
Ken

[Laura]

Hi everyone, i'm kinda at a turning point in my life right now. I'm not even for sure for what I'm asking. I know, dosen't make sense, but i'll try to explain.
Back on the 8th of this month I asked HIM to come into my life. I thought he had always been with me but I just didn't truly acknowledge that he was there, if that makes any sense.

Makes total sense. There are days now that I look back at some of the places I was in, situations I created.....and think "I can't believe He would follow me in there....but He did". Amazing Grace, Amazing Patience. Amazing Love!!

Anyway, I was laying in bed and crying because I was lost, A friend of mine called, interestingly enough out of the blue, who just in the last few months had found Jesus. When he asked why I was crying I told him everything that had been happening. He asked me to pray with him that HE would come into my life and be with me. This feeling came over me, first time I had felt peace in many years, in fact the last time I felt that good was when I was maybe 6 or 7. My crying stopped and I have felt that peaceful feeling since that day.

Step 1!!
Now, as a Believer, we begin to follow Him. Dig deep in Scripture, and stay in Scripture! If you get the chance, Bible Study Fellowship International (http://www.bsfinternational.org/)has an amazing verse by verse study!
There will be trials. (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%201:2-8&version=NIV) He never Promised us a cake walk....but He did Promise us a Way out!! (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+10:12-14&version=NIV) Knowing the Word, is your 'Peace'. It will lead you back to His Promises when you are tested!!

I have been reading my bible and trying to make sense of it, but it still has me a little confused. Being a truck driver out here on the road it's kinda hard to find a church but we have these little trucker chapels that we can go to but I haven't found one I am comfortable in yet to be able to talk with anyone. So, I thought I would turn to the good people here on BWH.

Bible Study Fellowship would help SO much!!
Let me dig around and see if there is a good 'study guide' for John. I will get back with you.

I want to keep this peaceful feeling, I don't want it to go away. I have not had an anxiety attack or even been really worried about anything and I can tell you I am a notorious worrywart, worrying about the least little thing. I pray to HIM every night before I go to bed and I thank HIM for giving me another good day. I read my bible, I listen to the word when I can find a station on the radio. Listen to CD's that I find on my way around the country.

I find that when I am in the car that is when I talk to Him the most!!
Please, don't take this as a snarky comment, I truly mean this 'in love' and with all seriousness........
When you have Him, you always have Peace within you. Always.
Don't be fooled by 'feelings'.....they are used and manipulated by the evil one all the time.....that is why it is so important to 'hide the Word in your heart' (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119:10-12&version=NIV) that way you will always fall back on Truth, not emotions.
Jump on craigs list and see if someone is selling the "Bible on C/D" that way while you are driving you can 'listen' to the Bible being read. I recommend the NIV for someone new to the Word.


I'm just wondering or I guess I should say I'm expecting this feeling to go away and I'm wondering how I keep it. Is it just a simple matter of believeing in him, is it really that simple or have I gone off my rocker?

You have not gone off your rocker.
Not at all.
When I first Believed.....it was like an ocean wave washing over me. I felt 'clean'....washed.....and like a child being held in the arms of one who loves them......Amazing. It was amazing.
There are moments when I feel this 'Peace', in a tangible way, but more over I KNOW that Peace is always with me. It's a matter if *I* choose it or not.

Stay in the Word, talk to Him ALL the time...see if you can find the Bible on C/D. The Word, is all you need. You have Him to guide you through it!!
Praise the Lord!!

[BREEZEMOMMY]

welcome to the family of GOD . JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU SO MUCH ! YOUR VERY LIFE IS A GIFT OF LOVE FROM HIM . JESUS WILL BE WITH YOU EVERY INSTANT OF YOUR LIFE AND SOMEDAY HE WILL TAKE YOU HOME TO HEAVEN TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER . i'm looking forward to meeting you in heaven someday . MAY JESUS CHRIST BLESS YOU AND YOURS ! breezemommy

[Terri]

Spend a little time every day with Him.

My Father does it by reading from the Bible every morning: I do it by talking to God every day.

There will be times that the world is loud enough so that you do not feel His presence every waking moment: remember that he is still with you, at all times! We simply MIGHT not feel Him when we are alsdo concentrating on an emergency or an ilness or whattever. He *IS* still there, and when we put down what is distressing us we will feel him again. There ARE times in our lives when we must give the problems of the wold our full attention!

Oh, yes. Isn't it amazing how He communicates with us? It is hard to explain to a non-believer, but, after 44 years of being a born again Christian, if I clear my mind and talk to him, He is there!

[goldengate]

I am so happy for you that I am tearing up. You are right. This is a "honeymoon" period for you. But unlike earthly honeymoons, you can go back to this one. If you might start to feel dirty, confess and repent quickly. If you feel distant from Him, go back to His love letter, The Bible, and read something from it. When you feel the weight of worries and troubles, you can look at them and think, "Yes, you are there. But God Loves Me!"
That knowledge is the joy that no one and no thing can take away from you.
Welcome to the family!

[copperbrown]

maybe not the right spot to ask but since the ones seeing this and reading this are born again christains and i am 2 we are to trust in the Lord i believe that He will be taking us home before the tripulation. i am not sure even though, i have been praying asking 4 wisdom how much prep. should i be doing.

[txplowgirl]

Thanks everyone for the support. Here I am and still feeling good. HE has helped me come to terms with so many things in my life in such a short time.
I'm reading everyday and I have XM radio and I found a christian channel that I had never paid attention to before because I thought it was something else. Lo and behold I've been listening to Focus on the Family, Chuck Swindall, Not sure of that spelling at the moment, and a lady named Joyce Myer. I really like her a lot.
There are so many different programs it hasn't gotten old so far, knock on wood, lol. I listen more to this channel every day and a lot less news and music than I used to. It's amazing.

[BonnyLake]

Thanks everyone for the support. Here I am and still feeling good. HE has helped me come to terms with so many things in my life in such a short time.
I'm reading everyday and I have XM radio and I found a christian channel that I had never paid attention to before because I thought it was something else. Lo and behold I've been listening to Focus on the Family, Chuck Swindall, Not sure of that spelling at the moment, and a lady named Joyce Myer. I really like her a lot.
There are so many different programs it hasn't gotten old so far, knock on wood, lol. I listen more to this channel every day and a lot less news and music than I used to. It's amazing.

Listening to positive info and music will soothe the soul - just don't take everything you hear as "gospel" though. Everyone has a different agenda, just like in every aspect of life, but by hearing them quote from the Bible itself, regardless of any spin they attach to it, will make your ears perk up and your spirit will feel His words and always remember them. It's crazy but very real. They also have christian music CD's that have topics that are great to listen to - like ones for just worship, old hyms (which I love), scriptures set to music, etc. - stuff like that, and they are usually pretty cheap, I've picked them up at truck stops when I've been on long road trips!

I love hearing the experiences of new believers... makes me happy! Bless ya gal!

[txplowgirl]

Thanks Bonnylake.
No, There are some out there that I take with a grain of salt. I've already listened to a few who I had this feeling that's not what He wanted me to hear or believe. Right now i'm listening to something inside of me. I'm not quite sure what it is. My own intuition telling me something or if He's whispering to me. Anyway, i'm goin with the flow and enjoying myself.

[Grizzy]

hey tx :)

Sweetie, the Bible is our manual. Pour into it an savor slowly it's content. Write the words on the table of your heart. We need to know God's promises, stories where He has ben faithful to His beloved people, how He helped men and women jus like us find victory over enemies, peace in troubled times, healing, disapline when they broke God's laws an walked on their own instead of as He wanted them to, faith to hold.. until circumstances changed and God delivered them, walk in the power with angels supporting them. This walk is sooo incredible. Even if you cannot remember where the verses are, when you read them, underline the ones that touch your heart an make a note on the page.. faith, healing.. etc. and try yo remember the verse. When am talking to the Lord, praying for someone, sick or in trouble, I repeat those words. I say "Father, Your word says"... Repeating God's words unleashes power.

When you are dining on the Word it's like the saying goes.. You are what you eat. The Holy Spirit will be there indwelling offering you direction as to who is explaining a Bible concept (like a Christian broadcast or cd etc) an who has jus, unfortunately, missed the mark.

Satan is not pleased to see that your sights are set homebound towards Heaven.. beware of his stoopid games an zingers. One of my favorite things I say that sprang from an emergency a long time ago is "I do not believe what I see.. I believe what I know!" What I saw was an emergency leading to disaster. What I KNOW is that I serve the One True Living God of Creation and anything is possible.. He loves me and His words do not lie.. for He is able and has MANY times delivered me from times of deep trouble.

In all things praise, thank an glorify Him. It doesn't matter if we're unsure of what is happening at a given moment.. we Know who holds our hand.

Oh tx, what a blessing your Friendship is to me.. me lub yas an am following you on the road praying your way is made clear an safe.

God Bless an keep you..
Be Strong

Your Sister in Him
~Grizzy~

[OldSchool]

When we ask Jesus to save us, he gives us a clean slate. Kind of like pulling out all the weeds in our garden. But then, one by one, new ones pop up and grow until we are overwhelmed by them again. Two things we need to do about it:

1) (s)Pray often when the (weeds)issues are small and easy to conquer.
2) Be patient while the (s)praying does it's job, looking to Him, and not our surroundings. Peter had trouble with that one in the storm...
Ok, 3) Get new growth going. Weeds grow quicker in bare ground when nbothing else is there.

Organic Christianing won't work- we have to (s)pray :)

Now, back to my weeds & storms....

[oldtimer]

Welcome to God's family.
You need to read the WORD. Remember, John 1 says Jesus is the Word made flesh. If we love Him, then we must love the Word. Read some every day, start in the Gospel of John.

Then, don't get shook if the "feeling" isn't there. We don't rely on feelings, we rely on faith. That's why the Bible says: "We walk by faith and not by sight".

Feelings can go up and down like a rollercoaster. Sometimes I'm at the top, other times I'm sliding down. But Faith says that even when I'm low, He's still there. The God of the Mountain is still God in the Valley. The God of the good times, is still God in the bad times, the God of the day, is still God in the night, like the song says.

I'll pray for you that you'll hunger for His Word.

YBIC,
Oldtimer

[MYellowRose]

Plowgirl google the poem "The Secret" by Ralph Cushman. My mother wrote it inside a Bible she gave me for Christmas in 1969 and through the years I've memorized it. It helps to keep my feeling centered in Christ. Good luck and God Bless.

[MYellowRose]

I'm back, thought I'd post the poem here for you, hope it helps. I just realized that I only know three of the verses, not the whole poem, but that's okay as I feel the ones I've memorized pretty much sum it up.

The Secret
Poem by Ralph S.Cushman


I met God in the morning
When my day was at its best,
And his presence came like sunrise
Like a glory in my breast.

All day long the Presence lingered,
All day long he stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness
O’er a very troubled sea.

Other ships were blown and battered,
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the winds that seemed to drive them
Brought to us a peace and rest.

Then I thought of other mornings,
With a keen remorse of mind,
When I too had loosed the moorings,
With the Presence left behind.

So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled way:
You must seek him in the morning
If you want him through the day!




From Spiritual Hilltops by Ralph S. Cushman.