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When One’s Heart Feels Like a Pit of Despair Comfort for the Hurting By Leigh Merrett The Word of God I turn to Him, yet feel mocked. I feel my heart hardening, Yet this time I’m too hurt to let it stop. When one’s heart feels like a pit of despair, And feelings of emptiness almost consume; It is then when I feel spat on when seeking comfort; Kicked in the stomach when seeking grace.

He feels your pain. He weeps for you. Your spiritual enemies, however, want to make you feel uneasy about running to God. So they swamp you with feelings of condemnation, hoping you will believe those feelings rather than believe Some people feel pressured to act as if fear is not there, but it is just an act. No matter how groundless or irrational the fear is, the feeling is often devastatingly intense.

Hope and inspiration for frustrated, dejected or hurting Christians Paul’s patience was at breaking point The less we feel like praising, the more we need its power. Every time you feel old, rejoice that Jacob was in his nineties when he had his all-night wrestling match When I feel I could crumble, I’m nearing perfection. Everything is going my way. Life-Changing Discovery Comment by a reader I’ve struggled with my Christian walk for many years now, always feeling

One rejection from a publisher would send me reeling. Would-be novelist John Creasey received an unbroken succession of 743 rejections. The chilly winds of rejection can ruffle our feathers or carry us to new heights. Harness rejection’s power. We begin to feel safe in our hole and imagine all sorts of horrors are poised to savage us should we

So if ever you feel damned and utterly rejected by God, take seriously Scripture’s words of hope to people If your mind is reeling as your entire view of prophecy comes crashing down, I can well understand your Perhaps you are sometimes tempted to feel as doomed to destruction as Jerusalem was in this prophecy.

very many incidents that we never get to hear of because the people receiving revelations prefer to reject cf 2 Corinthians 2:15-16) with those accepting the message soaring to new spiritual realms and those rejecting affected by their mother’s sexually transmitted disease, or children descended from people who have rejected Immediately his feet touched the beach. He was one of the few in the party who survived.

How, then, does the divine Shepherd feel when pastors do not tenderly and selflessly tend their flocks Whether we feel it or not, our Lord continually gives us his sweet presence, divine encouragement, inspiration With this truth firmly established, let’s return to the critical question: how does God feel about spiritual Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

You are right to reject a religion that’s a list of dos and don’ts, or a gathering of dour-faced, self-righteous Jesus would reject it too.

Contrary to every feeling, you are not regressing. Similarly, in the spiritual realm a failure to distinguish between feelings and love for God has serious but in putting one’s life on the line. (1 John 3:16-18) It’s pain endured in the valley, not gooey feelings Likewise, in the midst of a spiritual trial, it is not uncommon to be stronger and yet feel weaker than Every day it feels you’ve slumped another notch.

To my warped thinking, people’s normal shyness, fear of rejection, preoccupation with their own affairs This so powerfully shapes one’s self-image that the victims accept it as truth and subconsciously reject You can never feel loved while hiding in the bleak, scary, lonely hole of secrecy. They might reject us or gossip about us or, if we have done something illegal, turn us over to authorities Drown the doubts, insecurities and guilt feelings.

universe – Almighty God – and they still can’t accept it and, despite everything, they continue to feel With tragic consequences, young people can feel so invincible that they are certain that no warnings To my surprise, I couldn’t find anything in it that could lead me to feel condemned.    Countless thousands of sincere, Bible-loving Jews longing for their Messiah rejected Jesus as their Savior actually happens, and it is God testing his people to see if they truly love him or will knowingly reject

Christ because she clings by faith to the forgiving power of Christ and refuses to give in to false feelings of shame, no matter how strong and oppressive those feelings are. I used to feel that I had to live my life perfectly or I’d fall under the judgment of God. their feelings, including feeling that no one is as depraved as them.   We will feel pathetically weak even though the fact that we are still holding on to Christ shows that