Keep Honouring God. Keep an attitude of faith, and you won't have to fight. God will move the wrong people out of the way, He'll open a door that you couldn't open; He'll turn that situation in your health around. Outlast the sickness, outlast the injustice, outlast the trouble at work, outlast the loneliness. You have to tap into that staying power. As Scripture says 'He who endures to the end will receive the prize' Don't Give up along the way; don't get discouraged because this is taking longer than you thought. Your time is coming.
I came across this somewhere I don't recall and have always found it a useful reminder that God is in control. Hopefully, some Anons might find it a help as well. God bless you all.
They can ask for forgiveness yes but it must also be real. The LORD knows if it is or not. SO there will be some who do not make it to Heaven. STAY STRONG fren
I struggle with this. I feel like I am always asking God for help, but never giving anything in return. How do I give back to God?
By giving thanks. Being a blessing to others. Give of yourself (your time, talents, abundance) asking nothing in return. Share your stories of God's goodness to others. Bless you for wanting to give back to God!
Forgiveness and avoiding consequences of your actions are two different things.
"I directly killed 20 people, indirectly killed 5M, ate 10k babies, raped 100k more, helped rape/eat/mutilate 10M more, have been an agent of evil/satanism on the planet throughout my life, but now I repent. So we're good now God, right?"
Yea that's not how it works. Sure, you're forgiven. But your actions have consequences and you are responsible for your actions.
Memo to Hilary et al.
There is a point of no return and God knows when that line is crossed. He gives them over to their depravity.
Romans 1:18-32
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.