Last week someone prayed hard for me on a prayer line based on what they picked up in the spirit. They prayed for me to be loose from some things especially what happened to me as a child.I was getting dreams / confirmation of things changing but now I'm unsure. However today, I commited a sin that I was running away from... Right now not only am I feeling guilty but like what I did defeated the purpose of the prayers/ tampered with the process.

I can download the bible on kindle?? If yes how🥹

Hi guys.. I feel like God doesn't help or love me. I've had some serious medical issues and when I've prayed to God about them I get no help, no response.

I remember as a 10 year old, I rejected God and said I hated him. I have no idea why this occurred, it's very strange.

Then when I was 16, I remember doing bike tricks in front of a church. The tricks were hard to complete so I voiced out hatred to God for it.

2 weeks ago, I had medication in my book bag that went bad and I blamed God for it cuz I was counting on that medication to help me through a situation. I then cursed God's name out like dozens and dozens of times out of pure frustration and anger

I've been Godamning God himself and my problems in life. It's like my life has been a long term curse with not solution in sight. I want to give God another chance but every time I do, bad things either happen or my problems stay put and don't improve. Like I said, my life is cursed. What do you all suggest?

Hello! So recently I made a post about a coworker that I have that claims to be psychic. I don’t normally believe in that stuff but she told me some things about myself and my family that I’ve never told her, she also told me some things about my future because I was too curious and asked. I know I shouldn’t have done that so I’ve decided to not let curiosity get the best of me and not ask anymore questions. However, she keeps asking me certain things and then she’ll be like “I knew it” and at first it was cool and intriguing, now I’m just getting kind of annoyed because she keeps acting like she knows everything about me and it’s creepy but I also don’t want that weird energy around me. I work in a gas station so we’re normally in very close quarters and I just don’t know what to say. I’ve been trying to not talk about those things because I know I’m not supposed to she just keeps asking me things like she wants to know if she was right or not.

I wanna get baptized, but my step-dad is extremely against Christianity. My mom says she's a Christian but she agrees with his views all the time. Would it be wrong to not tell them I'm getting baptized? And to just not tell them I did it in the first place? My brother got baptized a couple months ago and he invited them and they both came bit since then my step-dad has really started to hate Christianity.

Not sure if this is the right community for this question but I’m really struggling and need some prayers and maybe advice. In March I felt really hopeless and was feeling down about being single and continuously dating the wrong men. I prayed to God about a passcode I set and that I would see it or hear it in some capacity when I knew I met the right man for me. I did see it in July after I met a great guy. Then 2 weeks ago he broke up with me out of the blue. I’m struggling to understand why and where I went wrong. Was seeing this sign just a coincidence? Any prayers or words of wisdom are extremely appreciated. Thank you

A little bit about my situation: I used to go to church etc as a kid and did all of the Christian style things and then in my 20's (now 32) | stopped going to church and everything like that

In May this year I had a bleed in my brain (AVM) and have been through some of the toughest months since then learning to walk again, talk, recognise my wife and family etc. It has only been a few months really since it happened and if you were to see me or even meet me you'd probably never know something like this has happened. The last few months while l've been facing my challenges l've been thinking about Christianity and how I can slowly get myself back to it.

I've thought about podcasts as it's something I can listen to and think about. My short term memory is really bad so l know reading and retaining information isn't something I can do just now. My mobility is pretty poor as of late so going to a church etc isn't something I feel I could cope with and being in crowds of people is a real struggle. I really just wanted to post to see if anyone had any suggestions of things I could try, if you read this far I am thankful for it. Was really hard getting my thoughts into words

I’ve always heard that you can hear the Voice of God in numerous ways , rather through scripture, prayer and just being silent, or through others. I’m struggling figuring out how he talks to me. I read daily as well as pray and I try to find a sign or direction and struggle for clarity

Today we're sharing an article from Marina Berzins McCoy on Zechariah and Holy Silence.

“Advent is sensual. It’s a season of barren trees and cold hands and darkness that falls earlier every day. We put away the patio furniture, caulk the windows, and retreat indoors. It’s a season of light—burning logs in the fireplace, candles in the Advent wreath, gossamer white lights in the trees along Main Street.

Advent breaks down the walls between the sacred and the secular. Yes, Christmas can devolve into a gaudy, commercial festival, but the core of it is family and gift-giving and music and food and happy celebration, and the core of all that is the coming of Christ into a cold, dark world. It’s delightful to anticipate all that. So let’s light the Advent candles and say the prayers and sing the songs. Christ is coming.” -Jim Manney, dotMagis blog

A song for Advent from Martin Smith (via YouTube) 'Waiting Here For You.'

How are you embracing silence, anticipating Christmas, or focusing on expectant waiting during this Advent season?

For some context I am a young christian that is new to the bible and i’ve been reading the new testament. I landed on the gospel of Mark and Mark 10:18 seems to heavily contradict the holy trinity. So i was just wondering if someone more knowledgeable could help explain.

The Gospel of Mark KJV

10:17-22

17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

I really don’t even know why I’m here cause I’m not Christian, but I don’t have anywhere else to go and I don’t know what else I can do.

Every day and every second is just getting worse and I feel hopeless. I fear I may have no future here. I wake up every day with something on my mind. There’s never been a singular day that I have had a clear mind one that wasn’t worrying, scared, anxious or sad.

I think I was able to ignore it for a long time because I believed what I had was just temporary sadness but as time goes on, it’s not temporary anymore. It’s just constant.

I’m losing motivation for everything. I hate doing even the things that I love. I can’t leave my house anymore cause I’m scared. I hardly wanna leave the bed. The only thing I actually enjoy doing is being on my phone cause it just helps me escape from everything that’s outside of it.

And I’m scared for what my future holds or looks like because I’m only 17 now and if it’s this bad at 17, I don’t know what else is in store for me.

I tried asking God for help so many times and every time nothing changes and nothing happens and I feel like I’m being ignored. I just want to feel okay again and I wanna feel normal again. I don’t wanna have to go to a therapist or a doctor and have them prescribe me some pills to take for the rest of my life and become reliant on. I just wanna be normal on my own and he won’t help me. I feel like this is awesome big joke on me for something I did and can’t remember or some karmic thing but I don’t know. I just want everything to stop and I don’t know why it feels like he’s just spectating like he’s just letting everything happen.

I don’t know what else he could be trying to say or what else he wants from me. I’m already alone. I already have no one to talk to. I was already was born into unfortunate circumstances. I’ve been done wrong by so many people and now I’m just wondering how many times am I gonna be pushed down before I can get up? When will I get a break? When will I get a chance to actually be happy again? When will I get a chance to actually have something go my way?

I’m sorry that this just feels like some crazy unthought out ramble. I’m just hopeless and I don’t know what else I can do.

I was on a good path getting closer with God every day and working out/bettering myself daily. I was playing basketball every day and barely had time for video games. Now I’ve pretty much quit all those things and play video games all day when I get home from school. It makes me feel like I’m wasting my time. I feel much further away from God and don’t know how to get back on track. Any tips would be appreciated.

I was watching a Catholic YouTube channel called TFP student action and they had documented a large percentage of there protests against the satanic temple. They were protesting satan-con in new mexico, I believe and one of the people came up to them and said that he was an anti-catholic. this man said how religion was fake and made up, how anarchy is the reason that any modern civilization exists. It just hurts me to see these people so blinded by satan's lies that they believe that what they are doing is ok, I have already said a prayer for him hoping that he comes to know Jesus. But how do we fight this? How do we remove satan? How do we win?

Hello, I need advice.

I (F23) started going to a church a few months ago and there is a young man there I have a concern about. I would say I'm a pretty empathic person, but whenever I look at him, I swear I can actually feel his anxiety. It's like it punches me in the face. I can literally see suffering whenever I look at him. Is that weird?

I've thought about talking to him about it, but I feel it would be inapropriate because I actually don't even know him.

Is it possible I could be seeing something that isn't even there?

I was doing a read through of the bible today and was on 1st samuel and i dont know why but I was LOST. For example when i read about the dagon part in chapter 5 i thought dagon was a litteral person till i looked it up and found out it was a statue. I changed to the amp version and this cleared up my confusion. ANYWAYS i was wondering if there was a site or resource i could use to read along with the bible so these are less likely to happen?

I am a person who endeavors to follow Christ. I am also a person who has some pretty sad and disconnected relationships with my non-believing family members. I am the only believer in both my immediate and extended family. I also have a history of my parents and family being just very mistuned to me or neglectful of me you could say from a very young age. Not asking me questions, I ask them about their day and how they are doing and they don't ask me about my day or how I'm doing, that sort of thing. It makes me feel wretched. These people were supposed to make me feel cared for and seen and validated and part of something and model for me what attunement and love is and they failed at that and it has really done a number on my well-being over the years.

I think with at least one family member there is an opening to work on this. To point out the pattern, talk about how it makes me feel, etc.... But then sometimes I wonder if as a believer I am even supposed to pursue that sort of thing with non-believers. After all the Bible says:

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 

“I will dwell with them 

and walk among them, 

and I will be their God, 

and they will be My people.”

“Therefore come out from among them 

and be separate, says the Lord. 

Touch no unclean thing, 

and I will receive you.”

And: 

“I will be a Father to you, 

and you will be My sons and daughters, 

says the Lord Almighty.”

...So does this mean I should just give up on trying to heal or improve relationships in my family and just accept them for what they are? Because they are not my true spiritual family anyway, and I shouldn't expect true fellowship with them anyway, or something like this? What are the implications of these verses on situations like my own? How do these verses apply?

Hello everybody. God bless you all. I wanted to ask how some of you balanced university and your Christian faith. Let me give some background so you guys better understand. I am a 20-year-old pastor's son. My dad has been pastoring since I was six, and because of that, I have, by default, been going to my parent's church, even when I was old enough to choose otherwise. I'll be honest: the church is small. Few people go, and of those who go, hardly any are believers in Christ (At least their lives would point to that). With that said, there is a lot of work to do in the church. This is where my dilemma arises. I want to do well in school so badly. I want to honor God by doing well in school. However, I also want to serve God in my church. The issue is because the church is so small, my parents want me to have large leadership roles like being the youth leader, worship leader, or preaching weekly. I feel, at least for the stage I am in right now in my life, this isn't possible. I feel I don't have the time. Am I making excuses? I hope that someone else here has gone through the same situation. Please let me know if I am making excuses or if I am valid in my concerns. Thanks.

I’m trying to get some understanding. When I woke up this morning I felt off, like I couldn’t drive to church to ask the priest this question. And I needed an answer so I came here of all places. So I was praying to God asking for Jesus to help me into the kingdom. Then the thought of “depart from me for I have never knew you” crossed my mind.

Now I have been weary and unsure of any thoughts for years, thinking they are demons trying to convince me to sin. Sometimes the thoughts are suggestions of what I should do in positive light, but the enemy lures me in with these to spring the trap later on. I use to fall victim to them, but now I’m petrified that some of these positive thoughts are of God’s/Jesus’s attempts to help. So I’m always on edge.

Well a few nights ago, I was praying like I always do asking for help mentally and spiritually, then those words crossed my mind “depart from me for I have never knew you.” I can’t tell if this is a demonic attack, or a call to action to double down on the faith. Can anyone clarify?

Hello everyone! I have a question for you all. Sometimes I have hard time forgiving to others their insults or other things like that, but with time I can forgive most of the time (or at least I try).

For example my job is to keep up order in public transport, me and the other guards get into a lot of fights (mostly just verbal but rarely phisycal) from day to day.

I have a lot of coworkers who are weaker than me and they get a lot of abuse from some passangers, one of them got spat on her face yesterday. I find it very hard to forgive to those who hurt the weak.

Are there different guidelines or principles for forgiving people who hurt others, especially the vulnerable, compared to forgiving those who hurt me personally?

Marriage reconciliation after seperation/divorce testimonies

Hey brothers and sisters in Christ. Me and my wife split up (mainly due to me because i felt so rejected for too long) after a month or so i started regretting that mistake and reached out only for her to read and ghost me not answering one single message or phone call (never blocked me). Then she reached out after not speaking to me for like 2 months only to tell me that she wanted me to know that she's not mad or bitter or anything, but only focused on spending time with Jesus the last couple of weeks and months and wanted me to know that I'm not blocked and that i can reach out if it's very important but that she doesn't want anything to do with me besides that. I was sad and hurt because even tho i was the initator of the separation and divorce to begin with (Due to lack of intimacy and never getting kids of my own with her even tho she has 1 whom i was stepdad to since we got married 8 years ago, where she promised we could get kids after i finalized the divorce in 2022, where i accepted reconciliation but kids never happened and we ended up in the same toxic cycle of not putting God first and both being somewhat selfish). I begged and pleaded with her to still be in my life in some way shape or form whether it'd be purely friendship or as i preffered to be mine again. God has showed and taught me so much of the mistakes I've done and really planted this mindset that i should always love and lead her and family by example as i too often didn't do my part because i felt like she didn't do her part. But that was wrong. As a husband i should've laid down my life for her as Christ did for us. Now, if i ever get my wife back i will cherish her no matter what, even if we don't get kids together.

And i know that God always prefers husband and wife to reconcile no matter what as marriage is supposed to mirror the relationship between Jesus and the church...Which consists of a whole lot of forgiveness, mercy and love. I would even stretch it as far as to believe that nobody can actually remarry even if the grounds for divorce were valid as the bible says that a spouse is only set free in the case of death of their spouse because seeing as marriage is a mirror for Jesus and us, Jesus always forgives us and gives us grace to continue no matter how much we have sinned against him.

So i started to fully devote my life to Jesus and only focus on him and not marriage, love, success and money as I did for too long...Basically idolising everything else but Jesus.

What i want to know, so i can get more motivation and grace to keep going trying not focus so much on my ex wife...Is...If there's anyone here who has a testimony or heard a testimony of a marriage that God reconciled even after months or years of being apart.

God bless you all

Not the first dream I've had with him, but I've really been struggling recently. Yesterday I was feeling down. I was reading some psalms before bed to help me feel connected and more hopeful.

In the dream I was on a mountaintop with Jesus showing me the world below. I don't remember much else. Any idea what you think it means?

What do I need to say, feel, or talk about? but most importantly how do I repent properly? I would like some advice because I feel like my current way of praying isn't good enough.

Personally I have seen and read a lot of apologetics books, but I feel I am a little limited when I really think about. I would like to here what books you would recommend and why. Who or what would you consult if you were in a debate with a non-believer? I have read books made by Lee Strobel, William D Mounce, and Gary Habermas.

I am Catholic, yesterday I went to a service at a Protestant church. I haven't actively gone to church for quite a while now (due to personal issues) but I really want to go again.

One of my friends was kind enough to take me along to the service at her church. It was amazing, all the people were incredibly kind and it felt so warm. It's something that I always missed at the service of the church in my town. Would it be considered really bad if I kept going to the one at the other church? I plan on going twice a week. To be fair I'd try to go to Catholic churches again, but I'm very anxious about going alone and none of my friends share my faith enough to come along.

Any advice?

Apologies for any ignorance of this post as I haven't exactly been a Christian for all my life so the faith is all still new to me in a sense.

I've been thinking about this lately and I've always had the question, do misguided souls go to Heaven? Like those born into a family situation where they've accepted permanently another religion and not Christianity due to let's say their ethnicity (take India and Hinduism for example).

I ask this because of my late mother who passed when I was 7 years old. As far as I know and remember, my mother was a Hindu and never really had the concept or thought of Christianity in her mind as the country we lived in, it was never really something huge there or ever discussed. I found God and Jesus once I moved to America but like my mother who spent her whole life in the country I was born in, I was never really even aware of Christianity either in my home country. Do these misguided souls go to Heaven?

i want to split this into two paragraphs so you can answer both questions

im gonna get a 6 month kitten soon and its name is ✨magic✨ its also a black kitten

so lets say i had a new black kitten and( i ) named it "magic" for me it would be a cute name but also it has witchy vibes a is it a sin to name a cat magic or is it bad?

and now lets say i got a 6month old kitten and it was allready called magic could I change its name? Would it be bad to keep it name?

Just curious as a new Christian. Why didn’t God heal my family member who is deep into the word and prayed for forgiveness and believed they would receive it? They now have Alzheimer’s and they are on hospice. What would gods reason be? Also they have a younger son? Is this a generational curse that was passed down due to sins?

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There are psychopaths and sociopaths in the world and we might meet them in our lives unknowingly. They can be our neighbors, best friends, or people online, trying to gain someone's trust only to abuse them.
What are some of the red flags you're looking for when trying to figure out if someone is a bad person? What are your experiences with such people?

Corinthians 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

If Jesus told us to not to do violence and love enemies, why did Crusades happened and isn't it sinful according to God's word?