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I have been loosing my faith lately in God but I want to get closer to him😔

So ive grown up in a christian household my whole life and i DONT want to commit to being​ a christian but my mind knows that it is the way to eternal life and i know his words are true but it seems like every time I need help in life he is there for me, I constantly commit sins such as blasphemy, drunkenness, sexual immorality, and I cant seem to let go of this life style. I wrote a prayer request to my church 2 months ago asking to accept Jesus but the following night I find myself smoking and fucking, they called me up yesterday and i fucking lied to him, i told him my life got a whole lot better but in reality my life hasnt changed, its too amazing in my own eyes to stop. I cant deal with myself, It's too much fun and I have given into this life style. I have seen God do wonderous things in my life but I won't accept him into my heart it's almost like he cant enter. I really don't want me or my girlfriend to go to hell but I cant bring myself to commit. help (17 years old and autistic)

• Exodus 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."
• 1 Peter 2:21 “To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.”
• 1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.”
• Matthew 5:16 “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
• Colossians 3:17 “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
• Hebrews 10:24-25 “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.”

If you know anymore verses then share them as much as you can because in everything, GOD COMES FIRST

This reddit forum has thousands, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. I scroll past conversations of discussion, debates, encouraging stories and even miracles.
“Then if any one says to you, ‘Lo, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭23‬ ‭RSV‬‬
How often do we tend to believe what we read on this reddit forum… I pause and think back, oh the swine we have wasted our pearls on here REDDIT!

The last thing paul ended second corinthians 13 with (Last sentence to the church of corinth.) “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭14‬ ‭RSV‬‬

So i ask you again, if you believe prayer and the Holy spirit is real use this community for fellowship and prayer. If we all put our prayer request in the comments of this post I will personally spend time with the holy spirit asking God about each one.

TLDR; I’m Matthew from brisbane and if we have faith in the same vast God he will know. Comment yours.

I am a teen girl, and i am getting baptised into a Pentecostal-Elim church in two weeks. I am wondering if you have any tips, or anything to ask or learn about? I could really use some help, i feel a bit lost. (I know i am ready though.) If you know what I should expect to see/do, that would be very helpful too. God bless.

Hi all, I first wanted to say that I am an agnostic (really unsure whether God exists but know for certain it would be a Christian God if so) from the UK and I'm from an area thats been particularly effected by the wildfires happening around here. My town is full of smoke so we either breathe it in or close our windows and trap 40c heat in our houses and people have lost their homes. I'm so deeply worried that the fire will hurt the people I love and will damage the expensive music equipment I have been curating before I study music at university.

Anyway, because of this, I've been feeling an ever growing urge to pray, to beg God to help us and demand the fire leaves my home unharmed in Jesus's name. I'm just looking for advice on how exactly to do this (if I should) and any insight anyone can give me from a Christian perspective. Thank you all

im here asking for some guidance from people who have been walking with christ longer than i have. i’m very new to christianity. in fact i’m still in the process of coming to christ, learning and trying to understand what it means to truly follow jesus. saying that out loud is scary for me. for most of my life i rejected or denied jesus christ as my savior. i didn’t take christianity seriously and i didn’t have a relationship with god. i even once considered myself to be a witch. now that i’m starting to seek him i feel a lot of emotions at once. i feel grateful hopeful and drawn toward him but i also feel ashamed and afraid.

i know that god is merciful. i know that forgiveness is possible. i know that i shouldn’t allow fear of other people to keep me from god. but emotionally i’m struggling with that. i’m an alternative looking person. i have facial piercings, i dye my hair, i wear mostly black and dark clothing and my appearance is pretty far from what some people might picture when they think of a christian. when i’ve come to people i feel they aren’t taking me seriously because of how i look so i’m honestly terrified that christians will look at me and decide that i don’t belong. i know that ultimately i shouldn’t care what people think of my appearance compared to what god sees in my heart but i’m still insecure about it.

one bible verse that has really been on my mind is 1 samuel 16:7. that verse has been comforting me because i’m realizing that god sees something in me that other people cannot. he knows my heart. he knows why i’m seeking him. he knows how scared i am and how badly i want to understand him. i’m also struggling with the fact that i feel like i rejected him for so long. i feel ashamed that it took me this long to seek jesus. part of me is afraid that i don’t deserve forgiveness because of the way i lived or the things i believed before. at the same time i’m trying to understand that christianity is about grace and that i don’t earn god's love by being perfect. i think my heart just feels very heavy right now. i want to come to christ but i’m afraid of what comes with that. i’m afraid of people judging me. i’m afraid of doing something wrong. i’m afraid that i’m not worthy. and i’m afraid because i dont want to dilute myself for people to believe i have faith.

i would really appreciate advice on this. advice on going to church. advice on where to begin. advice on being a alternative women and christian.

im trying to be a christian but im seeing accusations about christian youtubers i watch like timothy dew, i dont want to be deceived

Hey all, I hope you are having a great day. I was hoping for some advice. (posted in a few Christian subreddits so I hope that is alright, I just wanted a diversity of opinion) (I am from the UK)

I come from quite a generationally agnostic background and have never been baptised or part of any faith. I have felt a strong calling to faith over the last few months and I see lots of sometimes "toxic" online discourse between believers and lots of the confusion and lacklustre and difference in beliefs keeps me very uncertain with looking at the different variety of beliefs and arguments that cite church fathers, transubstantiation, baptism and all of them beliefs that often can cause major disputes between people. It made me quite incredibly anxious on what can I be certain of or know what is right which put me off faith and made me during the whole process of considering faith a year back and I felt no spiritual connection or holy spirit at all or motivation to pray. or read the bible and I felt like god just fully abandoned me and it was impossible for me to feel faith. it just became a loop of researching non stop

I am feeling that pull again and was wondering is focusing on the Bible first and doctrinal teachings and taking it all in myself while ignoring outside influences a good move to start off with? Or is it good to decide on a denomination/church while reading? Any advice for how to approach it this time as that spiritless abandoning feeling from last year was quite heavy to sit on and I really want to read through the Bible as I never have done that and start my journey in faith and truly dedicate myself to God.

Any advice on how to become a Christian in this way? And advice on this situation?

So I’ve been going to the same church my ENTIRE life and I don’t have a single friend. Ever since I seriously devoted to Christianity I’ve lost my boyfriend, friend group, and even an entire side of my family which realistically I am SO grateful for now that I don’t have any bad influences (per se) surrounding me. The issue is I got used to being kind of popular and for the past few months I’ve been at my loneliest I’ve ever been.

Before anyone says “join the youth community,” I sit in the youth section every Sunday, I’m apart of youth night setup/breakdown (meaning I’m with 13-19 y/o all day Sunday) and I’ve introduced myself to like everybody but I just can’t seem to make but a single friend. I know one guy who’s been really great and tries to make me feel included but I feel so guilty solely leaning on him. I’m usually super extroverted but this weird new anxiety feels like the devil is literally pulling me away from Christ centered people.

What do I do??

Hello, I am someone who is beginning to start reading the Bible and turn towards Christianity, but I have a few interests that might contradict or disrespect the religion. I am a person who enjoys horror movies, secular music (Eminem and Sabrina Carpenter for instance) and comics and superheroes like Daredevil (a catholic) and the MCU where Deadpool has considered himself to be “Marvel jesus”. Do I have to erase these from my life? Can I still be Christian while enjoying these things, but not let the messages and words guide me? Thank you! 

PS

Sorry for the rambling and panicked writing and also the possible aggressive title :)

I'm a Christian, but I'm also a polykin. I try to make sure this doesn't get in the way of being a Christian. I was wondering, what are your guys thoughts on Christians who are therians?

I come from a house of abuse so finding this out about myself has opened up my eyes to the different sides of myself.

Unlike most therians I don't believe I had a life before this one and I know I'm a person, I like to think that God gave me the gift to connect to my theriotypes on a different level.

1. Am I wrong for this?

2. Can you be a Christian and a therian

3. Am I looking at this all wrong?

How to I return to Christ after years of avoiding and backsliding and I mean emotion wise hardened like an apostate , I drifted suddenly and quickly and I’m of the world really , I want to get out but not badly enough that when I say or pray or try to surrender that it’s not fully genuien , on my knees asking to surrender and the second I feel myself losing control I must go do something of my own will, wether it be music food people tv, I hate losing control and I hate feeling alone and I feel alone now I’m trapped in my distractions and self coping and pity , I wish I missed God but I’m so hardened , I want to miss him he’s my dad dude and I’ve just like haven’t missed him this whole time idk , and I should miss him

Has anyone been able to overcome it? I am 14M, and it's been a struggle of mine for a few years now. I have gotten better at controlling it with the help of the Lord, but I still cannot quit. I feel deep guilt and shame when I do it, and that affects my mental health. Any tips from other teens who have been able to stop would be greatly appreciated. Pray for me, please!

Hi, I’m 16f coptic Egyptian and from a young age I’ve struggled on going to church to attend the classes which caused me to not have friends at all and led to me having to be paired up with other girls by the church teachers who in the end just left me the moment the teacher turned their back, now in my age that still heavily affects me, just being really scared of going and not finding anyone to talk to because i’m “too late” especially since I’m not good at starting conversation

Right now I’m always being asked by my mom, siblings and cousins whether I’m gonna join them in church theater or carol or even just the weekly classes which is honestly a lot of pressure on me as by my mom I’m always being compared to my sister who goes to basically everything…I’m also the youngest of four so my mom pretty much gave up on trying to get me to be consistent with church when I was younger which of course is showing its affect now.

And now since I’ve moved, none of my cousins or sister can give me a heads up on who I can meet because they all still go to our old church which gives me a lot of anxiety. I don’t know if I’m being dramatic and I should just suck it up and go or if there’s an actual approach to this that can help. Any tips please?

Hi beautiful people could yall please pray for me I’ll be ranting about two things one is about my health issues and one is about my ex bf issue okay so first about my ex bf he’s CANANDIAN and his name is ryden and me and him met on TikTok he was posting sad posts about his ex and I decided to be his friends and support him and be there and I love him since February I confessed after a month and told him I’m in love and then after that he got back with his ex and I told him I didn’t wanna disturb them because I genuinely love him and he would say that his ex is a bad person his ex gf name is angle and he told me not to leave him I told him okay I won’t and I kept listening to him but there was a issue he would always disappear a lot and ghost me and use me a lot then after that he misled me and I didn’t give up I kept waiting for them I’d pray to Jesus a lot to separate them because he would say she’s a bad person so I’d pray she’d leave him and get someone else and start to mature but then ryden decided to disappear more and he faked coma and also faked death and his friends supporting him faking those and they also said he’s at hospital and one friend said he’s at school it was so painful for me because hearing him fake health and stuff was painful because ever since I’m a kid I go to hospital a lot and I still do go there a lot but I still didn’t give up on ryden and his sister was rude to me and kept saying u can move on and even his friends disrespected me but I still didn’t cuss or argue I told them I love ryden and ryden know and he told me to not leave him and then they also disappeared and by the way I loved ryden since February,march April may June and July and now it’s August and ryden disappeared a lot in those months still faking coma and he came back in July and we started dating I comforted him a lot but while dating him i felt so used he kept using me a lot a lot and this was online dating but I kept praying to Jesus a lot about these and still supported ryden and he said I’m the only person who made him feel so loved and I never saw ryden face or heard his voice but he saw my face and when we dated he would say his phone got stolen so he said he was texting me in his little sister phone it felt like Lies to me but I kept waiting for him to change and he never did and he also told me he dated guy before me and also tried to find mistakes in me when he couldn’t find he would disappear and text me when he want and while dating him he mentioned about his ex gf angle but I never forced him to move on I wanted to love that man so much and be there for him I wanted to love his flaws and mistake and get him closer to Jesus as well so I sent him prayers everyday… sent him bible vids too and would also flirt with him as well and I was so loyal to him I wouldn’t speak to guys much and I’d be honest to ryden but he would lie a lot to me and text girls and worst of all he had his girl best friend account password but I still tried to be there for him I kept loving him but he kept making too many mistakes and after that he would disappear again I’d feel so tired to the point my heart feel heavy and I’d tell God to please make that man change and then after that he texted my friends but not me and he said he know he hurted me but he doesn’t wanna change for me so we broke up and I kept crying to Jesus and I made paragraphs to ryden I told him I loved u and did everything while all u did was hurt me and we broke up after we broke up his homegirl would view my story and one of his friend came back apologizing to me and I forgave her and I started listening to her and comforted her and then I’d try to be a bit away and try to heal but it’s hard guys because he misled me and also when I’d try to leave him he would do a drama that caused me to stay and now on August 8th I found out ryden is dating his ex gf angle and I also tried to reach out to her before but she would purposely ignore me and it’s painful because he got back with her three time but never was willing to change to become a better man for me and his friends are rude they sent my friends death threat and they are threatening us a lot and it’s so painful because all I did was love that man and today I had so much pain in me I sent that man texts i had been preparing and also apologized in the paragraph because I cannot be too rude and I always feel guilty and feel unlovable and all my relationships I’ve been crying a lot all of my exes tell me I deserve better some cheat on me then ruin me and some lie to me and some would say I deserve better and leave me then they date other people and it’s painful I wanna beg Jesus and tell him “Jesus you know I’m tired of suffering in all relationships I always let u take those bad guys away but can u please change ryden and make us be together forever please” I wanna tell Jesus so much stuff and I’m trying hard not to cry right now it’s just painful and about the health issues since I’m a kid I have a hole inside my heart but that’s a bit okay for me I also had a lot of health issues I’d go to hospital a lot and suffer a lot from migraines headache and I’d also skip school a lot of time because of my health and it caused me traumas and anxiety I don’t know how to communicate in real life to be honest I start to tremble and tell Jesus to protect me and I also have been sexually assaulted before and my traumas caused me to be hypersexual and at 14 year old in 2023 I started to feel one side of my face cheek getting chubbier my families thought it was weight gain but my parents noticed it’s only one sided fat like one cheek was small and the other was chubbier so she took me to a dentist the dentist accidentally messed up surgery but I was not worried about that I was suffering a lot I didn’t care anymore but in 2024 when I turned 15 a doctor told my mom to take me to a Maxillofacial surgeon and not a dentist my mom took me there and the Maxillofacial surgeon was shocked and told my mom “your daughter have a rare heart case and how can she get tumor” and I didn’t know what tumor meant that time I just kept staring curiously at both my mama and the Maxillofacial surgeon and then after that I had to get xray done and I kept going to a lot of different HOSPITAL and they had to do a biopsy test on me at a private hospital it was expensive and BRO THAT HURTED SO BAD and I had to eat cold food and in August 2024 I got admitted at a public hospital but I got bad experience the doctors were mean and harsh and staying there was painful but I tried to help other patients and be kind but then a doctor came from India and did my surgery and this surgery was huge like i starved for days I couldn’t eat they tried to shove tube in my nose but I couldnt handle it so they didn’t put it in my nose I just kept starving and laying on bed and I couldn’t speak I couldn’t cry because the surgery was that painful I couldn’t show a emotion and after the surgery the doctor told me that I need another surgery and now it’s 2026 I might be getting a bone grafting surgery in this August I’d love if you guys pray that this surgery goes well and that they place the bone in my face because my face been a bit asymmetrical so I really would love it if u guys pray and the surgery goes well and make my face symmetrical I’d really appreciate all the prayers and guys please pray ryden realize his mistake deep down I want him to be the guy I marry but he never did anything for me can we all pray to God that he start realizing his mistakes? Thank you to everyone who read this and please pray I feel lighter and don’t overthink because I overthink a lot and would always be there for people who hurt me but I get tired I wanna be loved too..

I really hope I dont cause any problems with this question.

Is it okay to have tattoos as a christian? It is not so that I can justify getting one. I would not want to get one. But I dont know what to say if people ask me whether having tattoos are okay as a christian.