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Your expressions are so eerily similar to my own. I am 16 years ahead of you. I am sure you realize that the God you resent will be the same to whom you’ll repent. for me the beginning of the end came while reading one of the saints. Jesus said “your impatience causes me more suffering than physical pain.” for some reason I held on to this, incorporating it into my prayers, eventually leaving the desert.

There are so many things to learn experiencing the violence of poverty. It is inflicted upon you by men.If you can try volunteering at a food bank. Not a single sigh of yours is overlooked or underappreciated by God.He will never forget a nanosecond of your suffering. After you yell at God you have to turn back, hat-in-hand, head bowed and beg forgiveness.

A confessor told me St. Augustine said "O Lord grant me patience, and grant it right now!"If God made you perfect right now, you might be filled with so much pride you’d endanger your immortal soul. I hope you have a firm grasp of your future bliss, you know “What does it profit a man…” It is so difficult, but Our Father has a plan.

Peace
 
scoobydoo6v92 said:
I don’t know. it is not that it’s a competition, rather calling God on his promise in Mark 11:23 and I am expecting him to honor his promise. I am not lukewarm with God I am very HOT or cold but never lukewam, and I expect my hearts desire as he promised in mark 11;23 We EXPECT the Eucharist is valid when we receive. We don’t say according to God’s will,no we expect that the bread and wine be confected into the body and blood of Christ according to John 6, well he starts out Mark 11:23 the same way.“Amen I say to you.” I will get my hearts desire and I will not take no for an answer NO!!! I am expecting it. just in the desert. Also promised in Psalms 37:1 - 5. I understand your sentiment and that is how most people are. I ask God to forgive me of my anger and my resentments,
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Be careful when reading the bible - look at it in whole, rather than picking out bits a pieces. Particularly when sampling from the Old Testament and the New at the same time. If ‘your hearts desire’ is peace - that’s easy, but if it’s truckloads of cash, you’re barking up the wrong tree.
 
Offdoodykcrn said:
Be careful when reading the bible - look at it in whole, rather than picking out bits a pieces. Particularly when sampling from the Old Testament and the New at the same time. If ‘your hearts desire’ is peace - that’s easy, but if it’s truckloads of cash, you’re barking up the wrong tree.
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No not money, asking God for money is like spitting in his face. What I am asking is much more holy and helpful to others. But not money. The bank is calling me everyday 15 times. I would like God to help with that. . but that isn’t my hearts desire, I can always move. No my hearts desire is one that I have held for 20 plus years.
 
Mark11:23 Amen, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him. 24Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours. 25When you stand to pray, forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance, so that your heavenly Father may in turn forgive you your transgressions.”

Amen

Peace
 
You say you have suffered s much as you can. Do you have AIDS? 2 legs & 2 arms? Then Blessed is the Day the Lord has made.

I know how you feel, you are being pushed in a direction in which you feel you cant take it anymore and all this happens for a reason.
I advice you to meditate, just sit in silence and to pray to and really try to surrender your while being to God. This will free you from the shackles. Try to not think about either past bor future for now, only when you have to out of practical reasons. sadness has its root in that you look at your past and compare it to others which you often percieve to be better “pasts” than yours. With that palette one paints a sad future.

“Lord, show me the way and make me ready to follow it.” ~ St. Bridget

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on me
 
scoobydoo6v92 said:
I understand what you are saying, I just don’t feel God is here. I have suffered as much as I humanly can and I don’t know what to do at this time. I hope God helps soon I mean soon. I am looking for all answers I am looking for God to come and help. I have gone as far as Ican go the ball is in God’s court.
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I too struggle with feeling abandoned by God. To try to have the perspective that I am a sinner and deserve nothing, does not ring true. God is a loving parent who willed me into existence. Doesn’t he have some responsibility for my life, as a parent does for a child? Shouldn’t I have a balance of happiness and suffering on earth?

But I feel this way, and my thoughts go down that dark path, when I view my suffering as something entrapping me. My thoughts are entirely focused on myself; I feel sorry for myself, and I feel like a victim. But when I look at my suffering from another angle I feel free. I may not be able to choose not to suffer, but I can choose to suffer well. Suffering has a greater purpose. I look at the “quiet sufferers” around me - the people who are lonely, sick, in pain, the old people who lose spouses and face old age alone, the children growing up in chaos and abuse. I see the outliers in society - the schizophrenics, the mentally challenged, the weirdos. The suffering of the mentally ill especially outweighs all other suffering. And I realize that if I choose to bear my suffering as well as I can, that it will do something good for the world. And I ask God to relieve the suffering of someone else, in exchange for me to accept my suffering without anger, and to do my best to bear it bravely.
 
I don’t know. it is not that it’s a competition, rather calling God on his promise in Mark 11:23 and I am expecting him to honor his promise.
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Yes, Jesus said that. And yet, when Jesus was confronted with the horrible suffering he was about to go through in his Passion, this is what he prayed:
“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.” Matt 26:39 (RSV)
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And he allowed them to torture and crucify him.
 
Ruthie_again said:
Yes, Jesus said that. And yet, when Jesus was confronted with the horrible suffering he was about to go through in his Passion, this is what he prayed: And he allowed them to torture and crucify him.
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I know, but I am not Christ and why would he say that in Mark 11:23?? that is the question.
 
They provoked him at the waters of Meribah.
Through their fault it went ill with Moses;
for they made his heart grow bitter
and he uttered words that were rash.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
– as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Ant. Keep it carefully in mind; the Lord your God has made a covenant with you.
forgive yourself

Peace
 
You’re angry because God is not fulfilling the promise in Mark 11:22-23: "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. (RSV)

Pray and think about this passage, too:

He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matt 14:29-31 (RSV)
 
Ruthie_again said:
You’re angry because God is not fulfilling the promise in Mark 11:22-23: "Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. (RSV)

Pray and think about this passage, too:

He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus; but when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, “O man of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matt 14:29-31 (RSV)
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I am trying to have that faith and I am praying for that faith. Please pray for me if you don’t mind. God bless
 
Perhaps he is waiting for you to completely trust him and love him more then your needs.

I came to realize that it is wrong to see God as he owns us anything and he is supposed somehow be a good God other wise we won’t go to him.

If anything, we are the one to earn his love and to learn to truly put him first above anything else. He already gave his own life for the salvation of our soul why we demand him to prove to us that he loves us again. He knows the big picture and he knows that the salvation of our soul is far more important then earthly need. When you pray, do it from your heart, be humble, then surrender to God completely. Don’t forget to pray for others that have the same need.

He is a loving God, he is a God of his word and he did say to ask and it shall be given. Now, it cannot interferer with his divine will and we need to trust that when he will grant us our prayer, it will be the perfect time. Some soul needs to suffer to purify. I feel God will never take this away too soon because he far loves us far more then he has need to be loved in return. Our own good for salvation is priority to him. We were created to know him, to love him and to be with him in Heaven.

One woman that was cripple in bed prayed Jesus for three years before she finally received this amazing miracle. God knows us well and he knows what we truly need. This woman, needed to learn many lesson first, purify her soul perhaps, develop the virtue of patience or simply learn the truth about who Jesus truly was (She was Pakistan).

I am in a very stressful situation, it seems also that God isn’t hearing my prayer but i had been given this grace to trust God that he knows what is best for me. Pray to be given this grace of trust, hope and complete faith in him. He won’t let you down, on the other hand pray to be granted virtues and don’t forget to pray the rosary. We need our blessed Mother.

Blessings to you!
 
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