Your Turn: "Mistakes Backsliders Make"

[nahkoe]

Then start a new thread, or pm me. lol I think I could use your stories right now.

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

Ok cool! I think I got it with the short story! And I understand, I was raised apostolic and backslid for about almost 13 yrs and have been back 7 yrs. so different roads yes but understand.


Still grinnin bout the last post tho... Oh how I see me in that post LOL... we SHALL NOT go there tho! This is supposed to be a serious thread not comical LOL...

[NightOwl]

Originally Posted by meBNme

It won't ever be "just like it was" because you are not who you were then.
BUT you can overcome.
Really, you wouldnt WANT it to be like it was then, because then, you fell. Now, you have experiences, and knowledge that you can turn into determination and you can be stronger than you ever were.

Stop trying to "get back" to the way it was, and let God meke you like HE wants you to be, and that will be even BETTER than "the way you were"

This...... I also know from personal experience.



Which reminds me of another mistake backsliders make.

Focusing on what they did, what they were, when they were backsliden.
(Everytime the enemy tries to remind you of that backslidden time of your life, litterally, plead the blood of Jesus, shove the negative memories back where they came from, and start thanking God for changing you and taking you out of that backslidden state. Use each attack of bad memories to make you more determined to never live like that again. Overcome, through the power of your testimony. So you fell, you backslid, BUT GOD brought you up again! Revel in that victory, and use it to move forward!)

I know it wont be like it used to be I didnt expect that. It is just the desire has never been there like it should be. I feel like I am just doing things because I know thats what I know I need to do. To me it feels like an obligation rather than doing it out of a desire, and I know it shouldnt be that way but after trying praying and trying to get that desire back I am begining to think it is a loosing battle.
People say I should be careful I dont want to backslide again but what they dont know is that although I am going to church I feel like I have already backslid in my heart and that is where it counts.
We can sit in a service and put on an everythings ok face and thats what I have done, not that I wantr people to think I am somthing I am not but I am afraid to let folks in.
I am not trying to discurrage any from trying to get back just sharing my experience

[AmazingGrace]

Originally Posted by Ron

I understand what you are saying and it isn't in the Bible that one is to forgive oneself-yet there are multitudes under a burden of guilt.

One can beat ones self up for what one has done and can be released when one forgives himself.

Very similar to forgiving someone for something they did or didn't do even though they are not around.
Example is I stood in a service and forgave my dad for committing suicide when I was 4, and for my mom turning into an alcoholic and dying when I was 18.

I felt a release when I did si, yet forgiving dead people isn't in the Bible.

Yet, isn't forgiveness a releasing of someone for a debt/trespass owed?

Not in the Bible-but it works.

I agree totally. I had so much to "forgive myself for" that I thought I would never get there. My pastor told me over and over God has forgiven you etc etc.. it was just words ... Things that my children had been put through etc. It was just all so horrifying I couldnt begin to believe God could forgive me and then I realized I was not forgiving myself and then I looked and realized that...

My kids were all except for 1 now filled with the holy ghost!

My kids are all aware of where mom and dad have been and know the results of what could happen and I believe that has made them more intent to make sure they dont ever sway!

My kids are a living testimony of where I was and what God can fix if we let him...

And I realized all of this and then realized that if he can do these things.. then he can do them for me..then I realized he had done those things for me... and for my children... and I was forgiven and it wasnt nothing to do with me forgiving myself but letting him be the one to totally forgive me!

[AmazingGrace]

Originally Posted by Ron

I am always glad and pleased to see people at the altar!
It is good when people seek God!

I always see it this way, everyone makes mistakes---it just a point of whether we see them make them or not.

EVERYBODY NEEDS THE ALTAR!

Are you saying I need to pray thru?!?!?!?!?!?! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


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[PastorD]

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

I agree totally. I had so much to "forgive myself for" that I thought I would never get there. My pastor told me over and over God has forgiven you etc etc.. it was just words ... Things that my children had been put through etc. It was just all so horrifying I couldnt begin to believe God could forgive me and then I realized I was not forgiving myself and then I looked and realized that...

My kids were all except for 1 now filled with the holy ghost!

My kids are all aware of where mom and dad have been and know the results of what could happen and I believe that has made them more intent to make sure they dont ever sway!

My kids are a living testimony of where I was and what God can fix if we let him...

And I realized all of this and then realized that if he can do these things.. then he can do them for me..then I realized he had done those things for me... and for my children... and I was forgiven and it wasnt nothing to do with me forgiving myself but letting him be the one to totally forgive me!

awesome word.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

I agree totally. I had so much to "forgive myself for" that I thought I would never get there. My pastor told me over and over God has forgiven you etc etc.. it was just words ... Things that my children had been put through etc. It was just all so horrifying I couldnt begin to believe God could forgive me and then I realized I was not forgiving myself and then I looked and realized that...

My kids were all except for 1 now filled with the holy ghost!

My kids are all aware of where mom and dad have been and know the results of what could happen and I believe that has made them more intent to make sure they dont ever sway!

My kids are a living testimony of where I was and what God can fix if we let him...

And I realized all of this and then realized that if he can do these things.. then he can do them for me..then I realized he had done those things for me... and for my children... and I was forgiven and it wasnt nothing to do with me forgiving myself but letting him be the one to totally forgive me!

That is a fantastic testimony and yet it is still being written, there is more that God has for us.
Your username is an apt one fit for any one of us.

[AmazingGrace]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

Then start a new thread, or pm me. lol I think I could use your stories right now.

Oh no we dont need that!! LOL...


besides i would have to be nice and thats a rough side of AG to see lately ROFL nah I will spare ya for now!

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

Oh no. I do not think so.

Are you remembering another thread about this? lol I STILL say I will not. Oh no. The back pew is nice and safe....

I'm running for my life, I'm running for my life, I'm running for my life, I'm running for my LIFE.

If anybody asks you, what happened to me, just tellin I'm saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled, Jesus name baptized, and I'm running for my life!

I will be praying that you shout and run right down the backs of the pews in Jesus name!

Lord bless you forever!

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa

www.OnTimeJournal.com

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

I agree totally. I had so much to "forgive myself for" that I thought I would never get there. My pastor told me over and over God has forgiven you etc etc.. it was just words ... Things that my children had been put through etc. It was just all so horrifying I couldnt begin to believe God could forgive me and then I realized I was not forgiving myself and then I looked and realized that...

My kids were all except for 1 now filled with the holy ghost!

My kids are all aware of where mom and dad have been and know the results of what could happen and I believe that has made them more intent to make sure they dont ever sway!

My kids are a living testimony of where I was and what God can fix if we let him...

And I realized all of this and then realized that if he can do these things.. then he can do them for me..then I realized he had done those things for me... and for my children... and I was forgiven and it wasnt nothing to do with me forgiving myself but letting him be the one to totally forgive me!

So basically, what you are saying is when you accepted God's forgiveness you forgave yourself. I think that's what Ron is saying too.

We all know that you can't "forgive" youself that's God's job, but at some point we have to release whatever we are holding onto and accept that God has forgiven us, so we "forget" ourselves!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by AmazingGrace

Are you saying I need to pray thru?!?!?!?!?!?! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


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I was in the local Christian bookstore recently and when the clerk asked me what happened to my ankle this is what I first told her.

I said, "do you know where Sarah called Abraham Master and Lord?"
She said, "Yes!"

I said, "don't try and make our wives say it!"


Sorry, Steadfast not trying to hijack an interesting thread.