Our lack of knowledge of the truth, or sometimes our refusal to accept the truth, causes us to have repeated problems and blame God because they won’t go away. One of the core Kingdom values that is possibly linked to more personal destruction than anything else is personal responsibility. Theologically this feeds the idea that God should fix our problems which is related to another core Luciferian concept: since God created the world and the world is evil, God is evil. The Christian version of this heresy is extreme sovereignty: God is in control of everything; therefore, your life is what He has chosen.
One of the core realities of faith is that we are created in the likeness and image of God; therefore, like God, we have free will, i.e. freedom of choice and, like God, we have authority. Since this is true, it isn’t God who needs to fix our life; we need to fix our life using God’s resources provided through the Word and the Spirit.
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us How to Set Our Life In Order. It shows us how to use our authority and even shows the categories we must address to avoid temptation and evil, i.e. chaos and destruction. I want to help you make your life work the way Jesus promised! Join me this week for Impact CyberChurch and learn the secret of setting your life in order. Click here to step into this incredible message!
I have accepted that all my problems are caused by me and my sins. I have prayed for help from God, and thanked him daily for all he has given me. I have asked for forgiveness for all the sins that I can remember. I have accepted that all the bad in my life is caused by me and the good is given by him. I pray daily for strength and admit my weakness to him. I have asked Jesus to take control of my life and asked Jesus to take my burdens from me. I have been without work for 3 years and I am rejected daily. I tried to retrain myself and the Lord blessed me with good marks, but nothing. I am losing all hope. My faith is deeply shaken. I am not worthy of God’s help but I have no where else to turn. I have started to pray for him to please take my life so that my wife will be taken care of and will be able to go on with her life. I don’t know if I have been accepted by Jesus or if I am saved as I am still a sinner and always will be. I am a man and I am never going to be able make things better. Only God can make things better in my life if it is his will, but it doesn’t look like that is the case. I have prayed for a better understanding but it looks like he is going to put me on the street. At 60 years old I won’t survive a week on my own. All I wanted was a job, not to get rich, but to be able to be able to be able to take of my wife and me. I have no family, everyone has been taken back to the Lord. I am on my own and have no where to turn. Why won’t he lift his boot from my neck?
We are praying for you Jeffrey. First of all God does not have his boot on your neck. God is absolutely good and He is always for us. So everything bad you are experiencing is not from God, thus it is from Satan. Once you have decided to believe in Jesus Christ you are no longer a sinner, you are adopted into the family of God and given the Holy Spirit with all His fruits and gifts. So you cannot tell yourself that you are not worthy of God’s help – HE PROMISES to help us, it is His desire to help us. So when you are faced with rejection (a lie from the devil), or burdens too hard to bear (Jesus says His burden is light), or doubt that Jesus has accepted you (another lie, God says believe in what Jesus did on the cross and you will be saved.) So when faced with anything that is against you or that causes you to doubt you have to stand up and tell the lies and devils to get out of your life, they have no right to cause harm to you spirit, soul or body and turn your attention to the Word of God and all God’s promises. And I will tell you that God will never answer a prayer asking for Him to kill you.
Jeffrey, I too have been going through an impossible situation for 9 years and counting. I have prayed, struggled, humbled myself and fought when others would have taken their lives. I actually checked myself in a mental hospital because I was about to take my own life. I too have asked God to take my life, and 9 years later, I am still here, struggling. I just finished praying and found your post.
I have understood that we live in an evil world. God gave everyone free will. The good and the evil alike. Evil doers far outnumber the children of God, and their father is the devil. The devil has launched an all out war against humanity, but concentrated more intensely on those of us who love and serve the Lord. As such he directs those who reject God’s grace through his son Jesus Christ to do evil to God’s children. In their mind they think they are doing good, but they are doing evil. When they reject us and persecute us they don’t think that what they are doing is wrong (proverbs 21:2), but God created you and me. He saw our entire life play out before he even formed us. He saw what we would go through, even to me typing this message right now. God is not evil. I promise you that when he saw the troubles that we would go through he also devised a way and a time for us to overcome them. Don’t give up. Trust in the Lord and no matter what you do keep moving forward. As far as getting a job is concerned, if you are not picky about what particular job you do there are jobs out there. Have you tried creating an account on Indeed? That way employeers can find you instead of you finding them. There are also several companies that employ older adults, like restaurant chains such as Chick-fil-A, and warehouse stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot. I don’t know if you are a veteran or not, but you can also go to the VA and ask them to hire you on their vocational rehabilitation program, which is a great way to make some tax free money and is also a path to getting a permanent job with the government. If not, you can go to any vocational rehabilitation center. Type “vocational rehabilitation centers” in goodle and it should give you some options and locations. Also, you can apply for welfare and food stamps. Your age will guarantee you that you get them until you secure employment. Depending on what your physcial and mental health situation is you could also qualify for social security payments and supplemental security income (SSI). God loves you. He loves me. He doesn’t want us to struggle. God is not a sadist. He doesn’t want us to suffer. You wouldn’t “punish” your children by destroying them and God won’t do so with his children either. Don’t give up. I know it’s hard, but go back to the drawing board and try again. Remember that those that wait on the Lord will renew their strength, take up flight like the eagle, run and not get tired, walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:31). Let’s lift each other up in prayer. I don’t know you, nor you me, but I will lift you up in prayer from now on, and I would be grateful if you do the same for me. My name is Javier. God bless you.