Published by admin on 18 Jun 2010 at 04:31 pm
WHEN GOD BREAKS HIS PROMISE
Have you ever felt in your heart that God has broken His promise? Has your situation ever become so opposite of what is written in His Word that you finally threw up your hands and said, Well, that’s it, the devil was right, God didn’t come through after all? If so, you’re not alone. Many people have. But they forgot the two most important rules when dealing with God: Number one, God cannot lie. Number two: If you think He DID, refer to rule number one. Really, life is simple when you live according to those two rules. We try to be theologians and somehow manage to muddy up the waters something fierce. I remember reading a story about the comedian W.C. Fields being found reading a Bible one time, and he was not a Christian. When asked why he was reading the Bible, he replied he was looking for loopholes. Sounds like many Christians today. Many of those who claim to believe God’s Word are looking for excuses not to believe what is written. It’s almost as if the promises are too good to be true, so we look for every reason not to believe. But has God really broken His promise, or have we simply failed to believe Him?
Some people refuse to accept any responsibility for their situation, and it would be like saying, I got drunk but it wasn’t my fault, someone overpowered me and drug me into a bar and held me down and poured a case of beer down my throat. Or, I couldn’t pay my rent because I looked in my wallet for my money, and all I found were lottery tickets that had somehow bought themselves. Or, I got laid off my job because I couldn’t get the TV to turn off so I could go to work on time, and it’s happened three times this week Or, I couldn’t help committing adultery with that woman, my car just drove itself to the hotel and our clothes just kinda fell off by themselves. C’mon people, give me a break! As with anything in life, there are consequences for our actions, whether we want to face them or not, and ignoring them doesn’t make them go away.
They say, Well, if God wants to save or heal me, He will do it. He’s God, I’m not, I can’t make it happen, so if I don’t get saved or healed, it’s just God’s will, you can’t blame me. To that I say, you haven’t read God’s Word. God made lots of promises in His Word, but most come with a condition attached, such as those in Deuteronomy 28:1-13, that starts out like this: And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee oin high above all nations of the earth. Did you see that? There is a condition to the promise, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO GOD AND OBEY HIM in order to receive the promises. How sure are God’s promises? Here’s an example in Jeremiah 33:20-21:
Thus saith the LORD, if ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the Priests, My ministers. I would say God is real serious about keeping His end of the promise, wouldn’t you?
Your situation may not offer much hope right now. Back in the days of Abraham and Sarah, things didn’t look too promising for them to have children of their own, after all, they were old, well past the age of child bearing. Then God came along and promised them a son. Most of us would say, Yeah, right….
Let’s read about it in Hebrews 11:11-12: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. This to me says it all: “she judged Him faithful who had promised.” How about you in your situation? Do you judge God to be faithful to His promise? Does it make a difference? After all, God is sovereign, right? He can make it happen whether you believe or not, right? Well yes He’s sovereign, but it won’t happen for you unless you believe. And you can’t blame everything on the devil. Only YOU decide whether or not you will believe God. Satan himself cannot force you to disbelieve. He can suggest that you doubt, and even reason with you a thousand reasons why you are not worthy that God would do anything for you, or otherwise talk you out of believing, but the bottom line is this: Jesus said in Mark 11:24, Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Do you see a condition on that promise? Yes! You must believe that you receive! When do you believe: after you see it? No! When you pray. When do you receive? when you believe, and not a moment before. So now the question begs to be asked, Why would you doubt the promise? Do you think God is not able and willing to hold up His end of the promise, or is it because you doubt God will do it for you personally?
If you don’t think God would do it for you, then it must be an identity problem, not who HE is, but who YOU are in Him. There is a story about a leper in Mark 1:40-42 that we need to look at: And there came a leper to Him, beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying unto Him, If thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. And as soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. Here was a leper who had heard of Jesus and came to Him, knowing He COULD heal him. But WOULD He? The leper had his doubts, just like you do right now. He was testing the waters, wanting to be healed, alright, but just wanting to be healed is not enough. Nobody that is sick wants to be sick. This leper had an identity problem. He knew who Jesus was, but he didn’t know who HE was! It goes on to say, Jesus was moved with compassion. Why? Because the leper meant something to Him, he was important and beloved to Him. The leper saw himself as walking garbage, the scourge of the earth. Jesus saw him as precious, and He couldn’t wait to show His mercy to him. But first, Jesus had to remove the leper’s doubt, just like He has to remove YOUR doubt. When Jesus said I WILL; BE THOU CLEAN, He cancelled the leper’s “IF”. What’s it going to take to cancel YOUR “if”?
How about YOU, my friend? Have you been waiting for God’s promise to manifest in your life for so long that you think Jesus has forgotten about you or broken His promise to you? Then you are suffering from an identity crisis, just like the leper. You know who Jesus is and what He can do. But when you look in the mirror, you don’t see who Jesus sees. He sees you as the one He went to the cross for and suffered horribly, even beyond our ability to describe, laying His life down in exchange for yours, in order for His Father to show you mercy. His blood was spilled out for YOU, redeeming you from your sins and to making you whole, healing all your diseases, binding up your wounds. But before you can ever become obedient to God’s Word, before you can ever believe for salvation and healing, you must be able to believe you are who Jesus died for. You must see yourself as He sees you, the same as He saw the leper. Jesus couldn’t just walk away from the leper, any more than he could have walked away from you on that day. He simply HAD to heal him. Why? Because of who HE is! He is the God of compassion, never changing, the same yesterday, today, and for ever.
Jesus is waiting for you, His beloved, to receive all that which He has so lovingly provided. He is the God of “more than enough”, who has never broken a promise in all eternity, and He certainly isn’t going to start with you.
But do you know, Jesus isn’t interested in saving and healing the old man. There’s no room in God’s Kingdom for the sick old sinner. No, the old man must die, and you must become a new creation in Christ Jesus and assume the identity He died to give you! He will give you the faith to believe that you are who He says you are, that you can do what He says you can, that you can be all He will help you to become: a lean, mean, soul-winning machine, a fisher of men, full of compassion, bringing the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world.
And what about when God breaks His promise? You’ll never have to worry about it, because it will never happen!
Aubrey Furtado on 19 Jun 2010 at 12:00 am #
Its beautifyl to read and remember that OUR FATHER GOD never fail its us who loose
our faith and trust in HIM
LOVE IN CHRIST
IN HIM
Aubrey
Rick Stone on 26 Dec 2011 at 1:33 pm #
Thanks for your article.. it helped me refocus… Please pray for my marriage, Maria Victoria and Ed of Irving, Texas…
Chris on 11 Mar 2012 at 10:10 pm #
ll I can say is….Yes He can break his promise’s. I am living proof of it. I have spent 30 years believing and begging God to keep his promises and help me. especially the last three years alone I have begged God for help as my life fell apart. and I have reached a point of hurting so bad, and being so miserable I have begged the angel of Death to end my suffering as I don’t even want to live anymore. And yet as Always my cries fall of death eats, My suffering is seen by blind eyes and NO promises are kept. And yet for 30 years I believed and turned to God again, and Again , And Again. now I just want to die. is that one of God’s promises, to let you suffer till your so hurt, and broken you want nothing more than an end to your life? I thought it said ask and you shall receive, That No weapons formed against you will prosper, and that with God all things are possible. That what the locusts have eaten he will return, that all that the liar satan has taken from you he will make him give it back times three. seems these were nothing more than empty promises. I seem to be living proof of this. I beg God ever day all day and many times all night for help and to full fill his promises. And yet I wake every day to the same misery same pains, same dispair. and things just get worse not better. and it has broken even my will to want to live. so where are these promises? as it seems God does not keep them with me.
Mack Reynolds on 17 May 2012 at 3:24 am #
Chris — Thank you for saying what you did, That’s exactly where I am, and so many more people than I can count, as I read horrible testimonies on line. I don’t know what to say, except there is something wrong with this “religion”. I’m sorry. Thanks again for your courage and for saying this so well.
Tony on 20 Oct 2012 at 7:59 pm #
I have also been begging God to heal me and restore me and He just doesn’t want to keep His side of promise. I believed, thanked Him, worshiped, exalted Him in every way and in return my situation is getting worse. Where is the all loving God, where is His mercy that stretches across the galaxy, where is the God??? Where is He?? He said He does not lie or change His mind!! Where is He? Does He not care I’m hurting, I need Him, and yet He refuses to heal me…
Shelly on 07 Jan 2013 at 12:24 am #
I to am struggling with gods promises. I prayed for almost two years to conceive. I finally did I praised god everyday for 8 weeks. Than I started to cramp and bleed I prayed so hard and trusted god that it would all be okay. For with god all things are possible, in believing ask and you shall receive. Ya right my baby died anyway. My faith used to be so strong now I have none.
Nathan on 25 May 2013 at 12:53 pm #
For 50 years I have listened to God, obeyed God, loved God by keeping His commandments…but now I feel like I am walking through the valley of the shadow of death. I don’t fear evil. I don’t fear anything anymore. Sounds great right? But not so much because I’m at the point now where I would rather spend a long time in hell, to be followed by judgement before God, then an eternity in the lake of fire…where the worm never dies. God is a breaker of His promises because He words them like any good lawyer who’s only intent is to be within the law instead of doing things for our good. “Ask and ye shall receive….” is one. What have I asked for? God’s presence with me. I’m not asking for money, or food, or clothing or wealth or power. I’m asking for God. Yet all I can cry out these days is “Eli Eli Lama Sabacthani?” (Psm 22). I have tried so hard to obey, to show Him love by keeping His commandment, yet my own father took the birth-right away from me and gave it all to my younger brother, then he separated himself from me, and my brother got away with taking my reputation and using it to create his company and my mom stopped my attempt to reconcile with my Dad and my former boss sexually harassed me until I was so ashamed of my emotional response that I wanted to kill myself. This is the God of Jesus the Christ? This is how He stands with His children? This is for my benefit? I stand in weakness before an Omniscient God and I hope God has only enough mercy to kill me…that’s all I ask. Not because I have no strength to do it, but so that my wife and children have some money after I’m gone. Who is this God that He would declare Himself perfect, that He would say, “I am with you always”. What a liar!!!!
Now go ahead, tell me I have the wrong expectations of God. Tell me that God truly does exist. Tell me that I have misread His promises. I’m calling you out God. Defend yourself!!
Ellen on 02 Sep 2013 at 12:59 am #
I can relate, especially to Shelly. I have wanted children since I was 3. Before I got married, I prayed and God promised us a long, healthy life with children. Later, I was called by the Divine Feminine, who also promised me a child. No children – just two miscarriages. Artificial insemination with donor sperm failed. Adoption is not feasible for us due to cost and risk factors such as the mother changing her mind and keeping the child. This would wreak havoc on my mental state. Doctors found pre-cancerous cells in my uterus and I ended up having a total abdominal hysterectomy. So long, children. Later, I had my ovaries removed due to a suspiciion of cancer there. Instant menopause with hot flashes and night sweats, and nothing helps. Now my health is in ruins.
My husband is happy with the situation since he never wanted children in the first place. And I can see that this situation just might be for the highest good, given his attitude and my health issues.. But I have done my best to do the right things and end up with a pile of shattered dreams. My attempts to become a mother have failed. My efforts toward a career have met a dead end. My health has totally broken down to the point that I couldn’t hold a job even if I could get one. I have absolutely nothing I can point to that would remotely resemble an accomplishment, and am extremely upset with God and Goddess for lying to me. Platitudes are not going to help with this one. I am only getting older and worried that no one will care for me or about me once I am totally alone.
I am in extreme mental, emotional and physical pain, and even now I can’t stand to see a pregnant woman. I just cannot be happy for her. And I am absolutely furious when women who don’t want to be pregnant anyhow end up with babies. The Powers that Be have really screwed up with me, and I really have a hard time praying or praising God in church when I would like nothing more than to rage at him, then turn around and denounce any and all allegiances to deities, and become perhaps a White Witch. I have some talents in that area, and while the Bible says “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”, this verse is mistranslated. The correct interpretation is “Thou shalt not suffer a poisoner to live”. So far as I know, I have not poisoned anyone. I am in severe pain and don’t know what to do or where to go from here. My life has been a total failure. It’s God’s fault, and Goddess’s fault, for dangling carrots in front of me and keeping them just out of reach.
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PASTOR JERRY’S REPLY: I don’t know what “God” you worship, but it isn’t the LORD, as there is no”Divine Feminine” in the Holy Bible. If the LORD promised you children, He would have delivered. God never lies. Apparently you have allowed yourself to be deceived by “voices”, and they are certainly not the HOLY SPIRIT. I sorrow for you. As for being a White Witch, let me tell you, there are no good devils no matter what you say. Witchcraft is an abomination to the LORD GOD, always has been, always will be. The things that have happened to you are not God’s fault. He had nothing to do with them. They are the results of the devil, whom the LORD JESUS said in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to kill, and to destroy, and to steal” Does that sound like the story of your life? Then you know who has been coming to visit you. As for renouncing GOD? No, you need to renounce the devil and your “Goddess” and turn with your whole heart unto the LORD GOD, who in His mercy is quick to forgive IF YOU REPENT OF YOUR SINS. And by the way, Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” is NOT mistranslated. The word translated into “witch” in Hebrew is ” a whisperer, an enchanter, one who pronounces spells, who practices witchcraft. ” And God commanded the Hebrews to destroy any witch from among them, as the witches are an abomination to Him which caused disobedience and corruption from the LORD’S ways. As for your interpretation of a witch being “a poisoner”, well that is accurate in the sense that the devil poisons everyone he touches with his lies, rebellion and attitude. He has certainly poisoned YOU, hasn’t he? And you want to be a witch, which is a disciple of Satan????? You say you already have talents in that area? That isn’t of God, period, don’t deceive yourself. If you continue in your present path, you will allow the devil to destroy you, and you will be lost forever. But if you have not committed the unpardonable sin, which is telling God you want nothing to do with Him forever, then you still have hope of repentance and salvation. God has not dangled carrots in front of you and kept them out of your reach. No, He says “Walk in THIS path…this is the way”, and somewhere along the way, you made the decision to walk your own path and worship “another god”, who is not the LORD GOD. The devil can’t MAKE you, but he can entice you to do so. I hope you will turn to God with your whole heart. Only He can straighten out your hopelessly tangled mess.
Alice on 14 Nov 2013 at 12:45 am #
Here is the thing the promises aren’t promises at all. They don’t work. If you’re destined to be murdered, you’ll be murdered. Destined to starve, you’ll starve. No magic promises. Like Chris has explained, we have mistakenly put our faith and trust in the wrong place. The bible is not the firm foundation that it is claimed to be. It is the shifting sand of a dark god. “Just put your trust in me and everything will be fine. I’ll take good care of you. Just do whatever I say and take me at my word.” Would you trust a person who said that to you? A politician? Unforseen events are always happening, even the gods are caught unawares. Well, I for one, have learned not to waste time trusting in bible promises that might never come true (and if they ever did- are too late now anyway). I also have lost any faith in the eternal salvation as promised in the scriptures. If god is untrustworthy in little matters, we cannot trust him in greater things.
Pastor Jerry’s reply: I’m sorry you don’t trust the LORD. If you knew Him, you would. I didn’t delete this because as long as you’re living, you still have an opportunity to know the LORD, so I have hope for a change of heart for you, knowing how merciful the LORD is, even though we don’t deserve it.
Michael Taylor on 17 Jan 2014 at 2:36 am #
I have had a similar situation to many of you and most likely, if your pride will allow me to say this, even worse. I have had over 55 promises (some confirmations of others) over my life and have not seen one come to pass. I did see the Lord try to bring them to pass through a plan, but the devil’s attack was severe, and I was not obedient to the Lord like I should have been, and had a sin habit I could not break. That was years ago and I have not been healed as of yet from it. However, recently the Lord began to chasten and rebuke me for not practicing my calling, and I’ve learned a few lessons. If you have a promise or prophecy from the Lord, it MUST line up with scripture, or it was not Jesus. If it was Jesus, step one: believe and confess it. You can confess Jesus’ personal promises just like you would a scripture. (1 Timothy 1:18). Next, be holy!!!! God hates sin, and wants to bless you, but you may need to get out of a sin habit to enter into the promised land. (2 Peter 1:4). Third and most importantly, DO anything required to get the promise to come to pass. I used to believe simply “a man’s word is his bond”, and since God cannot lie, and “let God be true, and every man a liar”, He simply says it, and it will be! But have you noticed any demonic attack about the time of your blessing? The devil doesn’t just waste his time, you know. If he’s attacking, he’s trying to destroy or steal something from you. The most important thing to remember is God may be wanting you to DO something before you can enter into His promised land. Apparently ALL of god’s promises are conditional. Even though He says “I will do it”, shortly thereafter he may tell you to do something for him or move to try to get you to do something. BE OBEDIENT!!!!!!! The most important scripture to remember is (Hebrews 10:36). You have to DO THE WILL OF GOD, then be patient, and AFTERWARD ye shall receive the promise!!! Don’t forget to believe God’s word and speak forth that it will come to pass, and be ready to do whatever comes up that may be required of you to help bring it to pass. Then, just surrender it to God and trust in Him. We are co-laborers with him. He won’t do everything for us, and we can’t do everything without him. We do the earthly seen grunt work, and He does the heavenly, behind the scenes unseen spiritual work on the hearts and events to bring it to pass. However, apparently He will not bring it to pass simply because he said it. You must first believe Him, like in salvation. The word is there, but it will not profit you if you don’t believe. Then, do your part. “Show me your faith without works, and i will show you my faith by my works”!!! (James 2:18). Believe me, I’m not just someone mouthing off here. I have been through exactly what you’re talking about and it has devastated me. However, these are the recent lessons I have learned. I may have lost some things forever, but i am going to try to get back as much as I can, perhaps even a double portion, by believing according to the parameters taught in a message by Kenneth Hagin, years ago when he says Jesus appeared to him and told him that if anybody follows these four steps, they will get whatever they want from He or the Father. The steps are according to the woman with the issue of blood, who came behind Him in a crowd, touched his clothes, and was healed. The steps are: 1.) Say it, 2.) Do it, 3.) Receive it, and 4.) Tell it to someone else.
Scott Osterloh on 31 Mar 2014 at 2:15 pm #
All these people hurting yet they can share their hearts. These people have more strength then the God they through their lives away on. God picks favorites and the rest he leaves to hurt. God can only be a few things too weak to help, uncaring, doesn’t know your suffering, or worse he is actually evil and or vindictive, maybe he just is not there. My sugestion to the people hurting is to find sites to rewire your thinking particularly athiestic sites, because you really have to rewrite the way you think. God is dead or gone or doesn’t exsist at all.
Pastor Jerry’s reply:
Thanks for your comment Scott. I’m sorry you feel God is not there. It is written in Hebrews 11:6, But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Diligently seeking God is a full-time thing, not just seeking Him when the bottom falls out of your bucket. He’s always there for me even when the devil is trying to convince me like what you have written. I ignore my thinking and concentrate on what the Bible says. I don’t thing God favors one person over another, but what He does favor is faith and obedience to His Word. Yes, you really DO have to rewrite the way you think, but according to the Bible, not according to your feelings or the way the world thinks.
Skye on 08 Jul 2014 at 11:05 pm #
I am SO glad to see that I’m not the only one questioning this. People of ‘faith’ always have a generic response to why a prayer wasn’t answered. Oh it must’ve been selfish, you must’ve been disobedient, God is teaching you patience and faith, blah blah blah. The fact is, God does not keep his word, not as it’s written anyway. Ask anything in my name and believe and you will receive. Did I sum that up nice enough? I don’t have the patience to list how much I DON’T sin, because the fact is, I was raised in church and I’ve always been afraid of hell. My mother killed my father, then my mother was killed, I was sent to foster care, molested in foster care, was removed and sent to a relative, molested by relatives. In recent years, lost my job because of a lie. Even after the lie was revealed, I still wasn’t reinstated but will have to go back through the one year process and that’s assuming there’s an opening when I finish. Lost my home. Then worst of all, lost my only son. Still, my head is in the bible every morning. My knees bent every day and night. I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t party, I don’t fornicate, I don’t lie, I don’t’ steal, I don’t bother anyone. I go to school, that’s it. The workforce commission said I’ve applied for about 1700 jobs. I haven’t had one interview. I have almost 4 college degrees but I haven’t had one call back. Financial aid can only pay for so much. My last child is mildly retarded, still with it all, I’m preaching the word to anyone that will listen, praying, studying the bible, worshipping and believing. After all that, most of which happened in a 6 month span, still no job, financial aid spread thin, and now an eviction notice. So don’t give me this crap about if you believe. There are thousands, if not millions, of people who have deep rooted honest to goodness faith in God when they go to Him with their prayers. And the fact of the matter is, He could care less. He flat out could care less. And that’s why the answer is and always will be NO!
Jonathan on 23 Aug 2014 at 12:32 pm #
I was promised great things by God, but I could not be 100% obedient when I would see his choices. I know He can do anything, but it’s his best, not our best or what we want sometimes. His way can be harder and more difficult, and most the time isn’t worth it. I’ve been let down, and life happens badly to some and good to some, even those who believe and don’t believe. So there’s no reason to really get your hopes up people. Life happens.
Steven on 19 Apr 2015 at 8:41 am #
Most of the above is written from the heart and I can see people’s point of view having spent most of my life in a living hell.
I can only say what I have learned and refuse to judge others now as it brings only bad things. What I see is this: eternity is obviously large compared to our lifespan and to earn this right to enter into it we have to suffer. I don’t know why and I don’t even care why anymore. I will never know why.
The closer I have tried to get to God, the worse my life has got until I found myself considering backtracking or worse, giving up on Him, and life.
This is a big deal to me as I consider God and Jesus the only ‘ things’ ( people ) worth living for.
I have no interest in money or things or partying. I don’t drink or smoke have never had a relationship ever, pray, tithe, obey, give free- will tithes and do my very best.
The problem is our best is never good enough and never will be. If you progress in one area you are expected to catch up quick in another.
You will never be perfect but that is our goal. We try to become something we can never be in a very short space of time as we receive many layers of problems, have to fight on five or more fronts at the same time and learn and understand The Bible.
Life is a test and the testing ends only when we die. I have no expectation now as everything has been taken from me ; health money, job church rejected me en mass for telling the truth about their false teaching. It is all gone and that is meaningless to me as I know I am being tested.
As well as this I have been promised something from God. I act on it as I am meant to but eventually you are so physically and mentally worn down to the nib that death becomes a gold lit dream that is all my birthdays put together.
You see, your attitude because of events, alters events which alters your attitude and there then seems no way out of it.
God has certainly enraged me with all He has promised and thrown at me. I know it is not Satan as I have read the Bible thirteen times so know it fairly well.
All the people in the Bible who got close to God were put through hell on earth.
When I contradicted the pastor of the church I went to here in Scotland who had adopted Todd Bentley’s insane dogma I was met with rage and rejected. I saw it clear as day: I spoke the truth. God in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament both say they ARE Truth, there for anyone who hates you for telling the truth (Speaking in God’s Spirit ) is a hater of God even if they are a pastor.
The truth is that God does not lie but he does deceive (as He says Himself in The Bible ) to see how you will react when you do Not get what you are promised.
I also found out the hard way that the more spiritual maturity you are given the harder you are tested in order to compensate for the fairness of the testing ‘system’, if you will.
I look at it like this. I have to go through certain things that are absolute hell on earth that make me angry enough to end it all on a daily basis. But once I get through it I have eternal life. I would be lying if I said I cared at this stage but I think that reason can be skewed when you are suffering badly.
All this is from experience and I hope it guides someone.
It is hard to accept new information or ways of seeing things when angry and hopeless. I should know. To those angry at God, you are not the first and you won’t be the last. All I can suggest is to ask Him where you are going wrong. If you get no answer then God can’t condemn you for sin in ignorance, and if He does tell you then you can begin to move on. No one has all the answers, certainly not me.
Best Wishes to you all.
Mike Price on 30 May 2015 at 6:26 pm #
The problem is taking a promise not meant for you and applying it to yourself. The Bible must be “RIGHTLY DIVIDED”. The Jews were promised many physical blessings for following after God. The Christian has been made many SPIRITUAL PROMISES for following after God. Too many false prophets try to appropriate the PHYSICAL promises made to the nation of Israel and foist them onto the church.
The whole Bible was written for us to learn from but not every verse applies to every person.
If you want the promises made for this Age to the church you must stay within the confines of the Apostle Paul’s letters to the church. Romans through Titus.
Christians are preparing for a life after death and this life is nothing more than a way station preparing us for it.
The Apostle Paul encourages Christians to CONTENT with whatever life circumstances they find themselves in.
He says he knows how to abound and how to suffer need.
SARAH on 27 Jul 2015 at 5:35 am #
hello everyone.
firstly pardon me for my poor English.
i can understand what you people are going through but i just want to say HAVE SOME FAITH.
God is all powerful you know, he always answers prayers. and you will see sooner or later in your life. he has answered me and he s all faithful to his promises. i received exactly (i mean it) like every single word i prayed, he heard and answer. and still he hears and answer. you just have to believe in him.
i went through some terrible and heart wrenching situation that at the i almost gave up on my faith but then i start staying more in prayers and in reading bible more then usual. and i leave every single thing in My Lord hands and believe it or not with in couple of months i received my answers.
and let me share with you all that now a days i’m again going through some brutal phase but i never give up on LORD JESUS CHRIST because i know and have my strong faith that this time will pass anyway and i will see him answering all prayers. amen
i am and you all are already winners because GOD IS WITH US.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL ABUNDANTLY AND YOU WILL GET YOUR MIRACLES TODAY IN JESUS NAME.
Cynthia on 26 Aug 2015 at 4:05 pm #
I will soon be 64 years old, and the older I get, the more I see that life is , indeed, but a vapor. Compared to eternity, the which I think we are not able to understand fully, life is so short. My experiences in life do not sound as desperate as some of the others I read here, but, of course, like most people, I have had pain and disappointment in my life. I must have heard the Gospel on TV when I was very young, because I can remember calling out to God for help at a very young age. I didn’t know any Bible then, but I knew that He was the One who could help me. Things didn’t seem to get better, but I never gave up. It never occurred to me to blame God for that. As I got older, I went to church off and on, (My parents were not consistent in their faith when they did come to the Lord), and made a public confession to the Lord when I was 11 years old. I have not always walked with Him, but I know that He has always walked with me, and has never left me, nor forsaken me. I have always been aware of Him. I finally got through childhood, and being disobedient, found myself marrying a man whom I know was not the Lord’s will. I was very miserable for many years, but never did I blame God for my problems. I’ve prayed prayers that haven’t all been answered, and I don’t always know the reason why, but I’ve also had many prayers answered. I asked the Lord once, “I don’t hold it against You that my prayers weren’t answered when I was a little girl (i had a rather miserable childhood), but why did You not help me when I cried out to You?” I did not hear an audible voice, but a still, small voice inside my being, it seemed to come from the center of my body, which said, “I did help you. You don’t know what it would have been like if I hadn’t.” That gave me so much peace. It is hard to describe the peace I got from that. If we could see things from God’s perspective, how glorious that would be. The Bible says God knows the end from the beginning. If we trust Him, the end will make the journey, however hard, worth it all. And He will wipe away every tear. Child, no matter what you go through, and I know people go through things that are inconceivable to me, God is there with you. He does not always deliver us physically, from the lion’s den. Read about the heroes of faith–many were killed. But, then comes eternity. If you’ve suffered in this life, you know how agonizing that is. But then comes eternity. Would you suffer for all eternity? Try to imagine that. The suffering of this life on earth, cannot compare to the joy unspeakable, and full of glory, that awaits the believer. Repent if you have not received Him, or have turned your back on Him. He awaits you, like the prodigal’s father awaited him. He has so much for you, in this life, if nothing else, peace. And in the next life, eternity, untold joy.
Phil Lacefield on 18 Oct 2015 at 11:45 am #
Just curious. Do you believe that God ‘s promises, made to King David, in Psalm 34 and 37, also apply to us Christians living today? Abd, If so, why?
Pastor Jerry’s reply:
Hi Phil, Please note that these promises were not made to “Christians” for there were no Christians when this was written, but rather to those who LOVE AND OBEY GOD. The promises apply to all who actually DO SO, not just those who say they believe or can quote the promises. But let me qualify “Believe” here, for it is written that Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Abraham loved and feared God and acted upon His words, not just merely giving God “lip-service”. The devil also believes in God, but he is not righteous
Joe on 16 Jan 2016 at 11:28 am #
I was once a Christian and love God very much, but my heart was broken far too many times to believe anymore.
I believed it when God said he would redeem me and loved me and placed my faith, as shaky as it was, in believing it. I read the bible daily and asked for guidance. tried to live my life the way Gd intended and asked for counsel when issues entered my life.
Last year was a turning point too much happened in my life to bear and I cracked. I turned to God but me with an empty voice. I shed so many tears, but God did not answer nor save me. I looked at the lives of others and realized they we left alone and abandoned in their hour of need (poor victims of the Titanic or auschwitz) I realized that if a baby or small child would not be rescued by God, God also would not care about me. It was then that I became an atheist (for several months), but not a militant one. I realize people need to believe and for many, its the only thing they have left that doesnt drive them to madness. I cant take that away from them.
I must admit i am still in pain due to my bereavement (after all i loved God for decades and believed in him.) But i now recognize that God does not care for your happiness, your safety, and life. This was not the same God i believed in the bible and thus have realized that the loving God i knew does not exist.
I realize now that the bible is a book written by people wanting relief from misery and depression. We all want a loving parent to guide us and help us in life. but this is not true.
The bible is a broken promise. It is kind words that heal an emotional wound, but look at look at the posts above and you see the impact of broken promises. I noticed you did not reply to the majority of comments in this post which is unfortunate. They all needed you to help them, but you only gave them happy words. They need you, you need to help all of them in addressing your comments or your promise is also broken.
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Pastor Jerry’s reply:
I DO respond to these comments when needed. People can correspond directly with me by phone 24/7, or email, or text message, as my contact info is on our website. I’m available as much as possible, but there are thousands of prayer requests, and only one of me to write back. I obviously cannot help EVERYONE, though I wish I could. Try writing to the other “big name ministers” and see how many of them PERSONALLY write back to you (not just someone on their staff), but I do. This is my life’s work. Actually, I even travel to visit many of them individually.
I’m sorry nobody was apparently there to encourage you when you were struggling, as we are supposed to encourage our brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, God has not broken His promise to you or anyone else. I tend to agree with you on this point; God is not interested in you being “comfortable”. He is interested in your eternal future and you becoming an overcomer, and for that reason He gives us the Comforter (the Holy Spirit) to lead us. That does not necessarily mean we will “follow”, even when He leads us. Most of the time God will lead us to do the opposite of what our carnal mind would do. The Lord Jesus said He would neither leave or forsake us. Even though you no longer believe in God, He still believes in YOU, and I hope you return to Him. All of us have our cross to bear, and there is no promise our lives will be pleasant or easy once we commit to follow Jesus. I know I certainly have my share of difficult times, as do all my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. Nobody cares how a race starts, but rather how it ends. God tells us those who endure to the END shall be saved. We aren’t at the “end” yet if we are still breathing. Everybody starts well with Jesus, but will they stay with Him to death? That’s the question only God knows the answer to. God never promised “easy”. The promises are to those who obey and are faithful to the end, no matter how hard that may be. I hope I will be strong enough to remain faithful to the end, and I hope you will make it, too.
Former christian on 06 Mar 2016 at 11:04 am #
I was once a Christian. Crying Ed for years because God wouldn’t help me. God made me a promise and broke it. I became an atheist and fixed my own life. I realize now that the here is no God.
Unfortunately there is no God who loves vets you and there is no heaven. Live your lives. I ignored what science said about the bible and wanted to believe . I thought God abandoned me for years and nearly committed suicide. You need to fix your own problems because their isn’t a God to help you. You wait in vain.
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Pastor Jerry’s reply:
I’m sorry you feel like God has abandoned you. He hasn’t. You’ve just been listening to the lies of the devil for so long, you have started believing them. Jesus promised He would neither leave or forsake us. So, if there’s any “forsaking” taking place, it’s on OUR part. We tend to look at our circumstances, and believe them over the Word of God. It is written that he who ENDURES TO THE END shall be saved. That means WE have to endure some things in the process, just as Jesus had to endure some things He didn’t want to. Remember, even JESUS prayed, My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? Well, His God had to turn His back on Jesus as he bore the punishment for our sins, YOUR sins and MY sins. Jesus didn’t forsake you, no, He bore your sins upon Himself, my friend. Took them as far as the East is from the West away from you. I’ve gone through some hard times in my life, just like everyone else does. God has not given up on YOU. As long as you have breath in you, you can come back to God and be restored. ONCE A SON, ALWAYS A SON! But, as you know, even a son can disown his parents, but you cannot change the fact you are a SON! Think about that, my friend. I’m praying for you.
Carol on 24 May 2016 at 12:46 pm #
Witchcraft has messed my family n my lyf,my aunt and grandmother have done everything to make sure we are miserable,My dad was fired 18 years down the line he has never been pain nor reinstated yet he won the case,am loosing hope,nothing ever works out for me,not my workwork,not my relationships nothing really seems to work for me.I have a boy 5months God promised me After praying soo hard that his father was the man to marry me,know I hear he wants to marry yet av never wronged him,I have completely reached my breaking point.Please help
David on 07 Dec 2016 at 6:01 pm #
I am sick and tired of this bullshit. I have served God for over 30 years. I have children of my own and have raised them to believe in the god if the Bible. So after all these years, where is He? I need him, cry out to him, beg him and get no response. No intervention, nothing. I am not asking for money or anything tangible like that either.
My son and daughter have seen the effort and my heart crying out for God. Serving. Giving. Praising. Honoring his commands. But when I need HIM…what happens…I get a big FUCK YOU from him. I try to show my kids that God’s timing is not our timing, but all they see (And now me too) is that it must be after I’m dead because he has not helped or answered prayer and it feels like no matter what I say if no matter how genuine my heart has been that he doesn’t give a SHIT about me or my family. It is very clear.
So what he has accomplished is driving my whole family away from him as we are tired of lies and unanswered prayers. Please don’t waste my time with platitudes and empty scripture quotes. Don’t tell me about Job or any other fairy tale.
Where is the He shall supply all your needs…where is the “ever present help in time of trouble”?
His failure to keep his promises has affected multiple generations now and will for generations to come. And to think it could have been completely different if he had bothered to show up.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe there is a God, he is just not the promise keeper he purports to be. Quite a Scam.
Katherine miracle on 15 Dec 2016 at 5:53 pm #
All I’m going to say is the devil is real just like god honey I have some stories. God luck living life blindfolded.
albarka abuja on 05 Jan 2017 at 12:07 pm #
I don’t know why God delights in giving me empty promises.Since 28 november 2004 Demons were casted out of me but the total healing from that demonic posession never took place uptil now,God will speak to me clearly that on so and so date I will be healed but the said date will come and go but no healling will take place,the last empty promise that God gave me was He will lift everything come this 1 january 2017 I waited patiently and confidently thinking the empty promise will be over that God will indeed fulfill His promise 1 january came and nothing happen.I am totally confused and the truth is I now I am losing faith in God and saying to myself if I had known that this it will be I will have serve the Devil because I found God totally untrustworthy.Please I need word of encouragement from you.Thanks
Eric on 31 Jul 2017 at 8:52 pm #
Are you saying if the promises of God don’t come through for its all my fault?How about God deciding to say no?Doesn’t that happen sometimes?
Sammy on 18 Aug 2017 at 9:03 am #
What good will come from allowing my wife and children to suffer lack….of food, of clothes/shoes, of an education. WHAT eternal lesson do I learn watching my 7 year old go hungry? Not all things work for my good, especially not watching my children go hungry? Why tell me that you will never leave me nor forsake me when you have abandon me to poverty and lack? What was the point of tell me that I shouldn’t worry since you’d feed me, clothe me and give me shelter. All I know is the disgrace of poverty. I’m worse than a heathen for I cannot provide for my family.
If I could, I’d take my people and hid from you….when I said yes to you 16yts ago, I thought that you’d change my life, change everything about my life….yes, am going to heaven but surely I didn’t sign up to live a life without divine favor or victory?
You have dealt with me like an enemy. Lord Jesus, what happened to you?
MICHAEL ERHARDT on 23 Dec 2017 at 2:05 pm #
I understand some of the hurt and disappointment. Even pastors have it. I’ve asked about scriptures and been told that there are gray areas that we just don’t understand. What they are saying is that there are areas that they have no faith for or have unbelief. John 14:12 Jesus says that those who believe in him will do what he did because he goes to the father and anything we ask he will do. If you look at John 14 you will see the disciples asking to see the father. Jesus say’s that if you have seen him you have seen the father. He goes on to say that he does what the father tells him to do. In other words God is speaking through Jesus. So when Jesus says that those who believe in him will do what he did, actually God is speaking through him and giving us authority to do what Jesus did. He’s not going to tell us to do something that we can’t do. Act’s 3 1-16 is an example of the results of believing in Jesus. I have laid hands on people to be healed. I have seen a leg grow out 2″ on a man that had a built up shoe so he could walk. I’ve seen backs straightened and all pain taken away in the name of Jesus. I’ve also seen no results at times. My wife is a diabetic. when it first showed up we believed for her healing. The elders of the church and the pastor told her to go back on the insulin because if anything happened to her it would give Jesus a bad name and I would go to jail. Fear. They said that she was doing it on my faith not her own. Who’s faith was the centurions servant healed by. Not his own. It seems that it’s what you believe. A man named Wigglesworth believed and went around healing and bringing back the dead. A tribe in Africa takes communion by dipping a bucket in the river and having the water change into wine.
Sometimes it is what comes out of your mouth, Jesus said say to your mountain. Psalm 103:20says that angels act on the voice of the word. It doesn’t say angels act on the voice of the Lord. Can that mean that when we give voice to Gods word that angel act on it. I start my day by saying I am surrounded by favor like a shield. Do I always see the favor, no. But when I do it’s awesome. I am retired and for six years I helped out at a junk yard. No pay, just able to pull parts off the cars that were to be crushed. I have a store on ebay. It was great until the price of metal went down and one day I walked in and they said that they had to sell the parts themselves and they didn’t need me any more. What a shock. I walked out and got in my truck and drove home not nowing what I was going to do. I cried out to God and said what am I going to do. That still small voice said don’t worry, I will keep you barn filled to overflowing. When I left there I had 460 items on ebay. I now have almost 900. I now have three junk yards that let me pick. One called me up and said that they had pulled in a small car and that there might be a few parts I could use. I went and after about three hours I called him at work and said that I hoped there was enough left to crush. It was a Miata. Everything sold off it. Sometimes we think God is not answering and the problem is that he already did. When my son asks for $20 to hold him over until payday and I put it on the desk, did I not make it available to him. Now if you leaves and doen’st take it does that mean that I didn’t give it to him. I read once that God has given us everything for life and Godliness and is waiting for us to take it. And we are waiting for God to give it to us. Who is to blame here. God can’t give you something that he already gave you. Why it seems that God doesn’t answer all the time I don’t know. Maybe he has given us what we asked for and we just haven’t taken it. You also have to remember that you have authority over the enemy. It’s like a policeman stopping a tractor trailer. Does he have the strength to do it, no. Does he have the authority to do it, yes. Trusting God isn’t easy. But it’s better then the alternative.
Rudy on 25 Jan 2018 at 5:36 pm #
This author is obviously a hired church writer because he didn’t answer my question. Biblically fanatic. Talking as if she is the only one who understand the bible. Philosophy shallow and freak.
Who says we did not have faith nor believe? Christianity is the best selling religion.
Jerry Baysinger on 06 Feb 2018 at 10:14 pm #
Rudy, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not a hired church writer. I do this for free, and have for 25 years now. I don’t have all the answers, nor do I claim to. By the way, what was your question, I don’t see one, just accusations.
Jay on 19 Feb 2018 at 12:54 pm #
I still believe in God. Still believe in his promises. And because I’ve still believe in God his promises I know he’s going to restore my marriage. Amen.
Sean Doughtie on 11 Mar 2018 at 11:25 pm #
I can’t get passed the first paragraph about the two rules. He is unfaithful and not trustworthy…
Jerry’s reply: You must not be talking about the LORD GOD….
William T. Spells Jr. on 18 Apr 2018 at 6:41 am #
Thank God for comfirming his promises through your article.
William
Teesh on 11 Jun 2018 at 11:55 am #
I have read every comment, every response, every cry, every moan, and every groaning on this page. It amazes me that preachers and ministers are just like lawyers and any other quaint profession this world offers. Everyone in this world is selfish to some extent, and if we were made in God’s image, then God is also selfish. He said, there will not be any other God before Him and yet we put our families, our jobs, our stuff before Him. How many times have we made decisions without acknowledging Him? Then we want Him to clean up what we messed up. Have you ever heard of “generations of curses?” Some of us are just products of a long history of curses. I know I am…I come from a family of suicidal and negative people. When you are brought up in that rearing, it becomes you. I struggle daily just to make ends meet, to carry on, sometimes to get out of bed. Yet, I believe that He loves me enough not to allow me to take my own life. I ask Him constantly why am I me, why did He create me? Do you think I got an answer? No, but I trust His plan is greater than my mere existence. None of us have it all, no matter what it looks like. Remember, He is the creator of all things good and perfect, but yet we are not perfect. For everyone has sinned and fallen short of His glory…yes that even means preachers and ministers, but I find it hard to believe that God is the cause of our misery. Yes, stuff happens and prayers go unanswered, and there is famine, loss, greed, hatred, backbiting, witchcraft, you name it, it is happening. But we have definitely lost focus. I have prayed for many things and sought answers from pastors but to no avail. Let us all be honest, we really need to stop looking for answers in other people. No shrinks, no preachers, no ministers, no prophets (I really do not think there are many true prophets left in this world because they all are narcissist and self-loving at this point). It is hard to discern the things of the world and the things of the spirit, because we are all focused on what is wrong and not right. Everyone has valid reasons to feel the way they feel, sometimes we as Christians just need to sit back, listen, and not throw scripture at everything and be judgemental. Everyone does not deserve what they are going through, nor did they do anything to be punished. Sometimes it is what it is and we just need to say I understand and I am here for you. I wish I had enough money to give to the lady who said she watched her baby starving, or a home to give to the homeless. I want to be that Christian, one who shows love when the only Jesus love they see is me. We always say, I will pray for you, but the truth be told, if someone came to me hungry, they are not looking for prayer, they are looking for food….if I cannot provide it, my best bet is to find someone who can. Yes, I know of the promises God speaks of, but I am I prepared to receive them? I just know I am in the meantime trusting that one day the blessings of God will run me down and overtake me. Remember..His promises are yea and amen. Do not stop believing and trusting. God is still God…Look within yourself and find that piece of you that resembles His love the most and hold on to it until you can no longer see you or your situation. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path. Love you all with all I have. May His peace return you to His perfect will for your life.
Jerry Baysinger on 15 Jun 2018 at 9:30 am #
Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you!
Dr.sandra Nwugo on 05 Jul 2018 at 3:40 am #
God can never lie and can never disappoint those who trust in him. Is d devil that gives us the spirit of doubt and unbelieve and once u lack faith God backs off and once he departs from us, things changes for the worst and we begin to say there’s no God and we begin to question his promises. I have seen God in my life and I will continue to trust him until I become all he said I will be. Is only a fool that will say there’s no God! Have you ever thought of how this world came into existence? It means God is real and his faithful to keep his promises.Is still not late my brethren, if u have accused God of not being real, u can start today to amend ur ways and pour your heart to him and he will surely show you mercy and grant your heart desires blc his always ready to forgive his children and welcome them back to him self. Shalom
Richard on 11 Jul 2018 at 10:46 pm #
Maybe it’s our unresolved or un~repented of sin that prevents God from keeping his promises?
It’s not that God doesn’t want to keep his promises it’s that he can’t because of things in our life that we haven’t repented of.
Dunno it’d take a more experienced (in the word) person then me to know for sure.
Alexa Toppin on 05 Nov 2018 at 12:10 pm #
I wholeheartedly agree with the comments which states,that god is unreliable and untrustworthy.Why keep giving someone {Unrelenting Disappointment} giving them false dates and times.I too have been continuously given bogus {dates/times} and then as usual nothing changes at all.And you wake up,with {hopeless misery/despair} every single day.This is unnecessary crap,if he really loved us,why make the world a war zone,to begin with.We kill,Rob one another,we have to worry about {money/Livlihood} day after day,only to then
Ultimately die}.{False unrelenting disappointing hope} becomes worse,than not having any hope at all.I hate this nonsensical world.In which we are called to believe in a god that we’ve never {Seen/Witnessed}and asked to {Believe/Trust} and {Walk by Faith}.We do not need {Spiritual Pep-talk{s}.We need for him,to actually deliver,on all his promises.
Jerry’s reply:Alexa, it’s pretty clear that you have placed your hope and trust in PEOPLE instead of God himself, and that’s why you’re disappointed. People have told you, “God said….” but they were talking out of their flesh. What did God REALLY say? Read His Word and find out for yourself. He backs up His Word. Why is there suffering in this world? If you’d read your Bible, you’d discover that Satan was cast out of heaven for his rebellion, and cast to the earth with his fallen angels. God isn’t causing all this suffering, the devil, and whoever he can convince to work for him, is. He IS coming back, so prepare yourself!
Antonio Waithe on 21 Jan 2019 at 5:48 pm #
I live in The U.K and met a woman over 21 years ago that God promised me in a dream and vision would be my wife, she went back to America soon after I met her and over 21 years later I am still single. I do not feel this woman will ever be my wife because she lives in a far away country and does not even want to get married to anyone now. I have faithfully obeyed God by not fornicating and praying about this situation nearly every day. In all this time all I ever received from God was an apology for not keeping his promise. It got so bad I stopped praying about this and that made things worse as God stopped communicating with me. I have found myself in a lose lose situation. If I prayer for this woman nothing happens if I don’t prayer for her nothing happens. She is now in her fourties(not young anymore) and is still single. I have contacted her through third parties and she has nothing good to say about me. I know the devil really hates me and does not want me to receive any good thing from God but how can God not keep his promises to me?. If your a liar or a womanizer God blesses you if your faithful to God like me- nothing. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in God. I have travelled to her country 3 times each time for various reasons I failed to find her. I see how God blesses many many unsaved and Christian people with spouses and children and not me. You know what they say”nice guys finish last”.
Jerry’s reply:Antonio, I’ve delayed replying to this until I had time to pray about what to tell you. I’m sure God is well pleased that you have lived morally. However, I can tell you without reservation that God did not promise this woman to you. How do I know that? God NEVER breaks His promises. That’s not to say you may not have convinced yourself that God promised you that woman, because you want her so badly. God would have to overrule her free will to make her marry you, and He will not ever violate someone’s free will. Not yours, not hers, not anyone’s. You have to realize that Satan comes as an angel of light, to deceive people. And he has deceived you into what? being disappointed and angry at God. Now, Antonio, does THAT give glory to God? Of course not, so Satan accomplished his desire with you. If I were you, I’d ask God for forgiveness at being angry at Him, for He is not your problem, but rather your HELP. You don’t hear God through your fleshly desires. You hear Him from His Word, and His Word always is His will, and it glorifies Him. You are right in saying, the devil really hates you. He hates EVERYONE, including GOD. Satan can’t hurt God, so he goes after His kids, and if Satan can turn one of God’s kids against Him, it makes his day. Don’t give up on God, He hasn’t given up on YOU1
Bill Johnson on 08 Feb 2019 at 2:23 pm #
I get so sick of the “Blame the victim” mentality. No matter what does or does not happen, it’s ALWAYS the fault of the victim, e.g. the poor sucker who was naive enough to rely on “God’s promises.” In this world contracts mean something. When one side defaults, you sue. But how do you sue God for breach? It doesn’t matter anyway, He always has a “weasel clause” built in, so no matter what, he can hang the failure back on the other party.
Kenneth Gray on 07 May 2020 at 12:34 pm #
I don’t know how to believe in God’s promises as I have been waiting for 40+ years for God to fulfill them. Doesn’t waiting this long show that I have faith in God and Jesus. Still praying even without a single prayer ever answered (with a yes). I have come to understand that God doesn’t care about life on this planet, this life.
Everything that I have read about God’s promises are directed to after we die. God only cares about two things, what we will be during eternity, and His own glory. The crap that we have to suffer in the meantime is irrelevant to God, we are irrelevant. If truth be told, God thinks that our suffering is good for us. This also makes me wonder, God has promised that Heaven will be a paradise. But if God thinks that suffering is good, then what will Heaven actually be like. I struggle daily with God’s apparent lack of interest in my life, the complete silence from God is heartbreaking. I believe in Jesus so much that it is devastating to receive only hardships. Please God, just a little something to bolster the faith would be greatly appreciated. A yes answer to my prayers, a no answer (audible) to my prayers. Some kind of sign that I can comprehend as from you God. This lack of attention from God is a big part of why I am depressed, poverty is the rest. Both easily fixed by God. I want to help homeless people, but need God’s help. Nothing.
Since God is ignoring me, could you pray that God takes a hands on approach towards me and my problems, or a least speak up.
Thanks and God Bless You in Jesus name. Amen.
Wearybear on 27 May 2020 at 7:14 pm #
I firmly believe that we Christians either grossly misinterpret or grossly misapply God’s promises. An example would be when Jesus told His disciples to “ask anything in my name and you will receive it.” Unfortunately, Christians apply this promise to their empty stomachs and not to the ministry Jesus was sending his followers on. The painful truth is that God technically only promised to do two things for us – to be with us and to save us. Everything else is optional.
The older I get the more I believe that God gets far too much blame for the bad stuff, and far too much credit for the good. I gave up a couple years ago asking God for help with anything, big or little. It feels way to much like playing the lottery. It might happen, but you’d be a fool to rely on it. I got tired of hearing God whisper in my ear “Why are your wasting my time with your petty problems. Your job is to kiss my butt and find other people willing to kiss my butt” (The Purpose Driven Life book). I do thank God when good things happen, but it is always unexpected.
I have the opportunity while at work to listen to an audio Bible, thousands of sermons, seminars, and quite a few religious books for hours at a time. And, it discourages me every time. The Bible is filled with huge amounts of rules, regulations, edicts, loopholes, requirements, conditions, and exclusions. I will never measure up and I am exhausted trying. Satan tells me it is not worth it, and Jesus tells me “crickets, crickets.” Isn’t it discouraging that Satan will speak to you a thousand more times each day than God. I guess I am not worth the effort to Him.
Anthony Walker on 08 Jun 2020 at 4:41 pm #
GOD will prevail! If you would just keep believing he doesn’t break his Promise’s! GOD BLESS!
Ag on 17 Jun 2020 at 6:06 pm #
Please pray as I believe God’s promise to reunite Roxanna and me and remove all the obstacles that stand between us and help us overcome any more than will inevitably come up in the future. I ask to pray that we be healed and focus on the good on each other and how we make a perfect team and leave the past in the past. I ask that you pray that God blesses me with a well paying job and that He honors his promises this year.
Kenneth Gray on 03 Jul 2020 at 9:39 pm #
I feel that God (Jesus) has failed to keep his promises, promises that were made in the New Testament. One of you said that God only has spiritual promises in the New Testament, wrong. Look at Matthew 7: 7- 8, does this promise sound spiritual? It says that whatever you ask for in Jesus name you will receive. The only condition here is to ask in Jesus name. I was taught that it’s a sin to add to the Bible. Yet I am told that there is another condition in these verses. To only ask in God’s will is presumed to be there. To me that is adding to the Bible. Each verse is complete as is. That being said, I have prayed for both physical blessings and spiritual blessings in Jesus name and in God’s will. 40+ years of prayers that have not been answered. 40+ years of absolute silence. I have been struggling mightily all these years for nothing in this life. Yes God gave His only begotten son for us to have eternal life, but that was for everyone. That is why I say that God has never done anything for me. I try to find out why God is being unfaithful, only to have scripture thrown in my face. Meaningless automatic responses to questions. That or platitudes to cover for God’s inaction. I know that I am not a perfect Christian, only Jesus can be a perfect anything. SO WHERE IS GOD?
Thanks for letting me say my piece and God Bless You, in Jesus name, Amen
Catie on 10 Oct 2020 at 1:42 am #
I would like to say something, And I understand however one feels because the same feelings are what prompted me to do the search that brought me to this thread.
To the gal who desperately wanted children. I prayed with a friend who wanted children. She did get pregnant and then lost the baby 8 months along. I was devastated because I had pronounced that because God allowed her to get pregnant he would protect the baby. It was 2 years before I could talk to her. She continued in her faith to believe that God was good and that he was sovereign over her life.It was about 3 years later that she became pregnant with a set of twins, and all this time she encouraged others to continue believing God even when things didn’t go the way that we might want them to.
In my own suffering and in my own doubts I’ve been searching for answers this evening to the huge questions and doubts that I’m struggling with, Like everyone here.
Even as I am talking about my doubt, I’d like to share a couple of stories.Once when I was moving to a remote location in Alaska, I made a list of furniture and items that I would need to buy on a shoe string. I asked God for 2 couches, one with 2 recliners, And the other just a regular couch. I asked him for 2 bar stools to go under the unusually low breakfast bar. I asked him for a round table with 4 cushioned swivelling captain’s chairs.One day I saw in the newspaper what look like my answers to prayer so I rushed over there. The gentleman opened his Garage door and there was everything that I had prayed for except the couch with 2 recliners in it. I new that I had asked God for 2 couches very specifically because he said to pray specifically. So I ask the man if he had a matching couch and he said yes it’s in the house above us. My wife has not decided if she wanted to sell it yet. I went home with 2 couches that I had prayed for knowing that I had believed that what I prayed for I would receive. In that instance God colour cordinated all the furniture As I had forgotten to ask him about it. My living Room and dining Room matched. Instead of round table he gave me an octagonal table so that it would sit flush up against the wall.
Before that, I had once prayed for the things that I would need as a military wife going to Germany. I put 2 lists on the paper, one for needs and one for wants. Altogether there were 123 items on my lists. I lost that list and found it 18 months later after I arrived in Germany with my children. Every item that I had prayed about was provided!
A few years ago, I was supposed to have a complete hysterectomy right after I had my cancer treatments. I didn’t believe that this should happen so I went to a church on the East Coast and ask for prayer where people had been getting healed. God completely healed my body and when I showed up for the surgery they said that I didn’t need the surgery!
I prayed with my neighbour who had been trying to get pregnant and had 13 miscarriages. She came over to my house and was very upset about her latest miscarriage. I did the only thing I new. I prayed for her! 6 1/2 months later, she left the hospital with a brand new baby girl named joy!
I think of the prophet Elijah in The Bible. You may remember the story where he called fire down out of the sky in it burnt the mountain and all the Priest of the false gods also? But the next scene shows him in such depression that he just wanted to die! He was afraid of the evil Queen who had threatened to kill him. God-sent his angel To help Elijah and to encourage him.
I think God respects your honest doubts, more than the words of the pious that go to church and echo empty platitudes to him.
Tonight I bring my honest doubts and struggles to this site because I’m at the lowest place in my faith due to abuse issues than I have been in my life! At every juncture that I look back in my past, I see God’s hand working in various ways on my behalf, not only in the ways that I would like him to.
I would encourage you not to give up on him. Get real with him because that’s what he wants and I remind myself of this even as I write the last words of my post!
NT on 20 Oct 2020 at 8:43 am #
Hi
I want to start off something here and I hope to continue as it goes along. Firstly, I did received still small voices from Holy Spirit and I quote “He will keep his promise” and immediately that intense peace, joy and assurance overwhelmed me and it lasted a few days. Firstly, was this from God? Second, if it was from God, is this considered as unconditional promise? Thanks
NT on 20 Oct 2020 at 8:47 am #
I want to start off something here and I hope to continue as it goes along. Firstly, I did received still small voices from Holy Spirit and I quote “He will keep his promise” and immediately that intense peace, joy and assurance overwhelmed me and it lasted a few days. Firstly, was this from God? Second, if it was from God, is this considered as unconditional promise?