What to do in Dry Periods of Faith
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“Act your way into the feelings…”. Exactly! Sometimes the last thing my flesh wants to do is interact with others….I prefer self-isolation. Self-isolation leads me into a self-centered downward spiral away from God…..yikes! Help me Lord! Then I have to force myself to be with people. Once there, I seem to just blossom, and the love I feel for these folks just explodes….This feeling, this love, for people whom I did not want to initially interact with, is certainly not from me, but Holy Spirit ! God “changes my channel” back to LIFE. I feel alive again and motivated to continue to press on….I am so thankful God does not give up on me….His faithfulness is relentless! He gives the me the garment of praise to overcome the spirit of heaviness. So I praise Him when it is the last thing I actually feel like doing…..He provides the miracle !
I think you missed the point here. He is apathetic because he doesn’t love God. He doesn’t know Jesus.
wow, this is exactly what I needed to hear, thank you, Jim.
I'm going thru the same thing, and the diagnosis is exactly that in my case.
AMEN brother J Warner Wallace The Bible specifically Gospels and Scriptures are meant to strengthen our Faith in Christ our Lord. God has made Himself known to us human beings through Creation, our consciences and reality being studied historically, scientifically and Logically. Why do Atheists always justify thinking that God doesn't exist by citing immorality atrocities and suffering that we creatures experience as if it's explained by God's Non Existence? We don't need to explain Evil as it rains on the Just and Unjust as we live in a F-CKED UP WORLD 🌎🌍 😢. With God being God He's Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent but God's Foreknowledge which is His Omniscience doesn't eliminate Free Will and personal responsibility and accountability for our actions. No God created calamity not Evil there's a difference between calamity and Evil. It seems that Atheists in the comments section obviously don't understand that Free Will has a burden of moral responsibility and accountability for Good and Evil that we choose to do. OH SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. It's crazy the silly arguments that Atheists make in defense of their LACK OF BELIEFS WHATEVER THAT MEANS 🤔🤣. Creation is indicative of a Creator so we can understand reality as a Creation which allows us to understand it scientifically because it's intelligently designed in a manner meant to suit the survival and prolonging of living creatures in their environment which is also suited to our necessities. Many Atheists, secular humanists and skeptics are very intelligent and logical but shows how dishonest their position can be in changing his standards for evidence by shifting the goalpost everytime it comes to what their standard of God's Existence being supported by evidence would be. It's obviously not the burden of proof for believers but God Himself to meet the burden of proof which He has for us Christian theists despite what Atheists claim are just unsupported claims. This has nothing to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a 23 year old Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college graduate. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
This really resonates with me. I tend not to to think about it in any depth, but it makes perfect sense. I've been very stagnant in my faith.
I have a job that occupies exactly every other Sunday, and I've steadily used that as an excuse. And I don't get out much otherwise.
Thank you Jim, I really needed to hear this.
When I was a deacon in a small church, God broke out. People were coming, and lives were being changed. Mobs of children came, many by themselves. Then God seemed to go away. "What do we do now?" I said, "I think when he returns, you want him to find you doing what he last told you to do." We had many children, so we threw ourselves into children's ministry! Many are now members of the church with their families 25 years later.
Yes! Works and absolutely true!
No Bible, no breakfast. No read, no feed. Live that way, brothers and sisters.
Mr J. Warner Wallace, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've learned so much from your videos. Do you plan on debating other religions?
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