Dry Eyes??
#1
Posted 26 September 2015 - 05:03 AM
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#2
Posted 26 September 2015 - 06:55 PM
my eyes are dry my faith is cold and I know how I ought to be alive to you and dead to me. what can be done to an old heart like mine. we read watch videos of prayer remember great quotes by ravenhill, tozer and then offer our weak prayers God please forgive me stir this old man for your glory
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#3
Posted 28 September 2015 - 05:57 AM
Bob,
What a mess we are in today, eh?
Sometimes, when I read a definitive analysis of the conditions that enslave us today, my first impulse is to respond with a bravo!. And then, reason takes over and stops me in my thought process. I realize that most of the ills of this world are directly attributable to the weaknesses in human nature. The impulses, self-will, self-interest, all of which are easily manipulated by dark force that masquerades as light. I conclude what is the use of speaking the truth? Who wants to know? Who wants to change the course that we set for ourselves?
And thus I do constant internal battle with the conundrum - should I speak or remain silent?
Therefore, I dont usually post in%2
#4
Posted 28 September 2015 - 05:58 AM
Therefore, I dont usually post in here. I do read though and then I ponder to myself the things the other members post. While there are a number of folks in here who could speak to your heart felt post better than I, I hate that no one has stepped up. So, I cant speak for others but only myself - please keep that in mind.
First of all you ought to know that you are not alone. Many of Christs sheep are languishing for life giving, soul restoring food and water nowadays. I have my theories on why this is in this era. Personally I first attribute it to the clever manipulations of satan who knows how to divide and conquer us at our core. Who knows how to pander to our weak human natures. Who knows how to entice us into religiousity and churchianity, ridged laws, demands, and expectations that eventually, predictably, let us down and make us wonder if there is a God at all. Or makes us wonder if we are worthy and therefore keeps us from rising to His perfect will for us.
But you know, Christ, Himself, said that His yoke was easy.
(Matthew 11:28) Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (11:29) 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. (11:30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Why then are we so attracted to the hard way?
I dont know your story. I dont know if you have been let down by religion or others. All I can do is make assumptions based on your words that you are weary. Of what though is the question. God is the same forever and always. We are basically, based on the fallen human nature the same as well. We make the same missteps and wrong choices over and over again. Like brain-dead thirteen year olds. But this is not news to our Lord and Savior. He knows He knows. He still wants us anyway. Satan just wants to keep us from Him.
There is the old saying that it is always darkest just before the dawn. Clear you head and silence all the clanging voices that tell you that you arent doing it right and just ask Him what He wants from you. He does not live in a building. He is not revealed in mens writings and books. He is patiently waiting for anyone who just wants to know HIM. Not what others think.
I say, what do you have to lose by asking?
For Him,
Meema
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#5 Guest_Marvin Harrell_*
Posted 28 September 2015 - 07:23 AM
And thus I do constant internal battle with the conundrum - should I speak or remain silent?
Therefore, I dont usually post in%2
By all means, Meema, SPEAK!!! this is the strength of our community. Thank you for all you've said already today!
#6
Posted 28 September 2015 - 07:56 AM
bob, like meema, I don`t know your situation, but your words have been spoken before. There are many, many things I don`t know, there are many things I think I know, and there are some things that I do know beyond any doubt. What I do know is this....if you ask, you will receive, if you earnestly seek, you will find, God is closer to you than your next breath. You have not been abandoned by God and left helpless in this world. We are all sinners and until we accept the fact that Jesus sacrificed Himself for us to give us His righteousness, we are all in a place of terrible, terrible condemnation. There is only one way out of this death sentence, for the sentence is deserved by all of us, and is on the way.
Sounds as if you have heard the Word, and maybe at one time you believed. Salvation is a great thing and is available to us all, but we need to know what it is, how we can obtain it, who gives it to us, how the salvation was obtained for us, and then we need to be secure in the fact that we have it. Well, maybe we don`t need to know all the points, but in knowing them we can rest assured and bask in a peace that is so fine as to defy description.
I pray you find God`s peace through His salvation purchased through the sacrifice of His Lamb.
Charlie
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#7
Posted 28 September 2015 - 10:28 AM
Perhaps selfishly I grabbed hold of the question...Are there some who would cry out for the lost, the wandering, the indifferent and for revival and holiness? And somehow in spite of my lacking all I count on is that God does what is love... much of the time I blame myself for not loving the LORD or others' ... seems folks have used or misused the word love for so long that I have a difficult time and get into thinking about how do I love God or others at all?
Perhaps having dry eyes and believing faith is cold is part of a long dark night of the soul.... Don't know what you've been wrangling with Bob but God KNOWS and God Cares... we don't shock Him... Somehow in spite of all my faults, failures, fuming, and fussing there remains 2 words that help in spite of my state of faith or of feelings...... "God KNOWS".
God Knows each doubt, each sorrow, each and every thought or feeling and only God can save me to the uttermost and that is something that is more than my wee brain can fathom so back to "God KNOWS" and to let it be okay that I don't know how to pray as I ought... Perhaps only God KNOWS and holds onto us and never lets go or stops keeping us through it all... God KNOWS....
I can feel whatever and be plumb pitiful and full of self .... God KNOWS and keeps me through it all...... God KNOWS is what I can hold onto whatever.... From the Cross and from the Throne O Lord Jesus you knew and you KNOW.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Please God and thank you ....
Ginger
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#8
Posted 28 September 2015 - 03:45 PM
Lord there has to be more to this . bob
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#9
Posted 28 September 2015 - 07:14 PM
not what I expected and it may not be the same one you get, but where you are sounds
a bit like my situation. Here is what I was told, or what was revealed, or whatever...I know God let me know, because everything suddenly became so very clear, and I knew it was the truth. "Charlie, you know all ABOUT Me, but you
don`t KNOW Me" My Father wanted a relationship with me! He wanted me to trust Him, talk with Him, and allow Him to be a part of my daily life. The God of the universe knew my name and wanted me to have an actual relationship with
Him. All of a sudden I had a hunger for Him and wanted to climb into His
lap and cry, laugh, yell, and just be His.
Is there more to all this? For me the answer is YES...a thousand times YES! I
pray that you find the joy and the experience of the Father`s love that will
change your life. It changed mine.
Your brother in Christ,
Charlie
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#10
Posted 29 September 2015 - 03:26 PM
So Bob,I thank Christ for speaking thru you all.I heard believed the word many a year ago and the lord truly brought me into a new man.my salvation is not in doubt. words , thoughts are hard for me to get out.my hearth just aches for more. and the reality of the presence of Christ I desire and seek .
Lord there has to be more to this . bob
You are in a good place; your heart aches for more of Him. Keep asking for the Lord to stir your soul, but know the stirring is just to Him. It's not a stirring to more striving, effort to please, or the like. Jesus paid that part. Think of Mary as opposed to Martha. Mary was just sitting and loving. Martha was working to please the Lord and that is not what He needed, or wanted. There is a difference. I know this sounds like a sound bite. But ask the Lord to help you to practice this perspective and I believe your heart cry will be answered; you will receive more of Him.
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#12
Posted 03 October 2015 - 08:32 PM
I will not try to add anything more....all posts here are beautiful responses of grace..
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