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1 | What does "God Fearing" really mean? | Prov 9:10 | Godsstudent | 201087 | ||
I'm confused on what it means to be "God Fearing". The Bible says He doesn't give us the spirit of fear, but we're supposed to FEAR God? | ||||||
2 | Please clarify Proverb 19:23 for me. | Prov 19:23 | Godsstudent | 201086 | ||
This seems contradictory to me because the Word says life promises trials and troubles to make us stronger in the Lord. And people that try to live Christ-like get hit harder than anyone. Clarify? | ||||||
3 | Asking, but not receiving. | Mark 11:24 | Godsstudent | 201499 | ||
I'm really going through a bad time in my life right now and I could use some uplifting. My faith is still with me, but I'm hurting inside. Since I was 25 I've been praying to have a child. And I've believed it and have been asking and waiting on the Lord. Now I'm 40 and still, no child(ren). His word says all we have to do is ask and believe but this doesn't seem to apply to me, and now I don't want to be pregnant at my age. This plus the other trials I'm going through has me feeling abadoned by Jesus. I've been reading Job but I'm not finished yet. This has helped because Job feels like I do. I'm questioning why I'm here as it seems I have no purpose. And I'm hurting in faith because I feel the Lord isn't hearing me. I don't claim to be perfect, but others have done things I'd never even think of and I see them forgiven and blessed with their desires. I try to focus on the things that haven't gone wrong lately. And I'm blessed with a loving husband, mother, father, and mother-in-law that I actually get along with! I've never asked or wanted riches, just the ability to pay what I owe. Other than that the only thing I've always prayed for over the years is a child. Fellow Christians I'm really hurting right now and I'm in need of prayer. I once learned in church the Lord doesn't always want us to have what WE want, or think we want and I get that. But if I wasn't to be a mother, why create me wanting kids because that is so painful for me. I don't go to baby showers no matter who it is because I can't take it. I break down at some point looking at all the stuff. When I see a pregnant woman I feel sad immediately and I avoid them. When my friend got pregnant (for the 2nd time), I pulled away and haven't talked to her since. But I know this is not what Jesus wants me to do. I do it because I don't want to bring anyone down, but I can't force myself to be happy as if it doesn't affect me. I'm being attacked right now and this is just one of several things going on, but this has been one of the most important to me for years now. Please pray for me as I feel like "the woman with no purpose". | ||||||
4 | Need Clarification on Asking/Receiving | James 1:6 | Godsstudent | 205250 | ||
I'm confused about James 1:6-8 which reads; "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways". This confuses me because in verse 6 we're told to ask for things in faith without doubting. I know it doesn't "specifically" say we'll receive it, but it does elude to this otherwise what's the purpose? Also, in other parts of the Bible we're taught "ask and yea shall receive". But in verse 7 it says not to expect anything from the Lord and this has me a bit confused, it just seems a bit contradictory to me and I could use some clarification. |
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5 | Please clarify Proverb 19:19 for me. | James 1:20 | Godsstudent | 201092 | ||
Proverbs 19:19 NIV - "A hot tempered man must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do it again". To me this means if I save him from paying the penalty, I'll have to save him again, because there's no getting around paying a penalty, if one is to be paid. Am I correct? | ||||||