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God’s Tender Love     Feel yourself carried by the most comforting and protective arms in the universe into his arms:   Psalms 40:2  He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed

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.

Walked seven miles on feet that had had nails driven right through them!’   ‘And he was rejected and shamefully treated by his brothers, like Jesus was rejected by most of his brethren He feels like a worm – not even human. His hands and feet are pierced. They divide his clothes by casting lots.  He fell in worship at Jesus’ feet. The others giggled.  

Few of us would put ourselves in the league of professional counselors, but most of us feel at least I’m left standing there feeling . . . well feeling raped, actually! I feel they came to me, made out that they were doing something nice for me, used me for their own ego I see going to church and interacting with small-minded people who feel they can sum up humanity into I always walk away deeply hurt and feeling used.  

Hidden deep within you is the need to feel morally superior to your offender. In all her life she has known nothing but deception, rejection and cruelty. He can fulfill her fondest dreams, but she keeps rejecting him, convinced it is just another sordid trick It’s scary, but the only way the tragedy of rejected love can be averted is for her to get as close to This vicious circle feels too strong to be broken by my own efforts alone.

Please feel free to share your stories and what God is doing for you. Your Sister Vicki Morris

No one peering through the haze of guilt feelings, defeatism and fleshly cravings can hope to see clearly People can even suffer from a medical condition that floods them with chronic feelings of guilt that bear no resemblance to how God views them, and causes them to misread Scripture and feel the object of On the other hand, we should not reject a certain understanding of Scripture just because people who We must neither blindly accept nor blindly reject a teaching because of what others believe.

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

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.

I often feel like that: small and insignificant. I need to feel as bad about that sin as if I were guilty of murder. It’s because lepers lose feeling. And that’s our problem. We have lost feeling in part of our conscience. Pray any part of it that you feel you can agree with.

Some abusers might not be able to connect with their conscience to feel guilt, but is that any better Anyone unable to feel guilt is missing the opportunity to repent, thus causing his sin to consume him A chance to grow and to learn to connect with feelings again, both good and bad. And when the bad feelings come, we don’t have to allow them to drag us down.

No one can expect to feel convinced of this in just a short webpage, but we have to start somewhere.   As I have written elsewhere:   When feeling defeated, one of the most important things is to focus on Your spiritual enemies, however, want to make you feel uneasy about running to God. No one feels your every pain and delights in your happiness like God. my only feeling is that of being left out.