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A good friend of mine told me to post here. I belong to another board where I am being attacked right now. I don’t believe I’m being attacked by people per say, the enemy maybe but maybe I have the concepts confused. I am a follower of Christ, so I am a Christian.

There really isn’t an “introduce yourself” section 🙂

I’m 25, married, I love God very very much and have a deep desire to get to know Him more and obey His commands more and more. I do not believe in compromising for the world.

Lately, I have been praying day and night because I see that I have an anger problem and in my anger, I often sin because I can’t control it. I see that God is showing me what makes me angry and is teaching me, testing me through the attacks of these people to show me another way. It is a great process because He is molding me and refining me but it is also very disheartening. He is also teaching me that I need to seek approval and validation from only Him and not the world. Along time ago, I noticed I would do a good deed and then look to see who was watching, tell someone of it to receive praise. When I saw that was not right with God, I asked Him to show me another way. He did. What I didn’t know is that I would need to pray and ask Him to help me with a different avenue later.

Also, I have a pretty accurate diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. I can’t not get an exact diagnosis yet as I do not have health insurance but I had an attack where I was paralyzed on the left side of me over a month ago right after my husband and I went to a marriage conference through our church. Ever since that ER visit and them finding lesions on my brain, the symptoms I have been undergoing are just awful. From my limbs being numb, not being able to walk, weakness, stabbing pains, nocturia to swallowing problems.

I have learned to accept that I have an illness and every day, I rely on the strength of Jesus to get me through the day. My faith has been growing and growing and growing so literally, He is also teaching me to walk by Faith more and more.

I don’t agree with these Christians who believe they can live any life they want without consequences. I did that before, sat on the fence and I was playing with fire.

Well, my friend told me you are very loving here. I am looking forward to getting to know you.

Blessings and Peace To You All,
Jami
 
Sorry to hear that you’ve been potentially diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

Suffering is a fact of earthly life, and takes a wide variety of forms. Being Christian does not offer immunity.

Too often we focus on deliverance stories in the Bible for example eg. the Israelites who escaped from Pharaoh, Joshua’s miraculous victories in the battle for the land of Canaan, Job’s restoration of wealth after his trial by Satan, Daniel’s deliverance in the lion’s pit, Paul and Silas escaping jail due to an earthquake, etc.

We forget about the years of slavery before the Israelites were delivered; those Jews who
died in battle in Joshua’s campaigns, Job’s trial before he was restored (and frankly, most don’t have their fortunes restored and magnified); Daniel was a member of a subject race, many of whom had perished in the wars with Assyria and Babylon; and Paul gave us a list of the things he endured as an apostle.

For every miraculous escape from an aircraft crash, or the story of someone who cancelled their flight beforehand, there would be hundreds who died, and more than one who changed their booking to a doomed flight.

For every miraculous healing, there are millions who are not healed.

Anyway all the best, and I hope that either you are given a (rare) miracle of healing, or that the researchers are able to find a cure for MS before it has advanced too far.
 
Welcome to the forums!! I hope you will be feeling better soon. :hug1:
 
FaithInHim84 said:
A good friend of mine told me to post here. I belong to another board where I am being attacked right now. I don’t believe I’m being attacked by people per say, the enemy maybe but maybe I have the concepts confused. I am a follower of Christ, so I am a Christian.

There really isn’t an “introduce yourself” section 🙂

I’m 25, married, I love God very very much and have a deep desire to get to know Him more and obey His commands more and more. I do not believe in compromising for the world.

Lately, I have been praying day and night because I see that I have an anger problem and in my anger, I often sin because I can’t control it. I see that God is showing me what makes me angry and is teaching me, testing me through the attacks of these people to show me another way. It is a great process because He is molding me and refining me but it is also very disheartening. He is also teaching me that I need to seek approval and validation from only Him and not the world. Along time ago, I noticed I would do a good deed and then look to see who was watching, tell someone of it to receive praise. When I saw that was not right with God, I asked Him to show me another way. He did. What I didn’t know is that I would need to pray and ask Him to help me with a different avenue later.

Also, I have a pretty accurate diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. I can’t not get an exact diagnosis yet as I do not have health insurance but I had an attack where I was paralyzed on the left side of me over a month ago right after my husband and I went to a marriage conference through our church. Ever since that ER visit and them finding lesions on my brain, the symptoms I have been undergoing are just awful. From my limbs being numb, not being able to walk, weakness, stabbing pains, nocturia to swallowing problems.

I have learned to accept that I have an illness and every day, I rely on the strength of Jesus to get me through the day. My faith has been growing and growing and growing so literally, He is also teaching me to walk by Faith more and more.

I don’t agree with these Christians who believe they can live any life they want without consequences. I did that before, sat on the fence and I was playing with fire.

Well, my friend told me you are very loving here. I am looking forward to getting to know you.

Blessings and Peace To You All,
Jami
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Welcome Jami

It’s a catholic belief we most closely resemble Jesus when we suffer. Therefore its an ancient catholic practise to see Jesus in those who suffer, especially. I hope you get over the MS. I have a friend with that. Suffering is a mystery. But great blessings often come from great trials. Maby people find after great trials they receive great blessings. When we are in bad times it seems they will never end. But they do and good times come. And it seems the good times will never end. No matter what happens if we stay close to the Lord we will be alright. Suffering though often repugnant to us is a gift by God to draw us to Him and help us become like Him.

Suffering is prayer to if you join it to that of Jesus. Offer some for me please, and I’ll pray for you too.

God bless you:thumbsup:🙂

John
 
I haven’t been here in awhile. I tried to give the other board one more go of it but it just resulted in persecution for trying to get people to understand they are being hypocritical by not showing love to members of God’s Kingdom even if it is just a “computer screen” as they say.

Anyways, the diagnosis is definite now. My husband has Grave’s disease, no thyroid and the antibodies started attacking his eyes. They haven’t gone back to normal since his surgery 5 years ago. They have to do a surgery immediately so he doesn’t go blind. Please pray for him.

On top of that, we took my mother in who was in an abusive marriage. People over at the other forums cast stones at me because I said that I believe God hates divorce and wants us to come to Him, to trust Him to work miracles. Well, of course we need to make sure our own house is in order with Him. Well, they didn’t think too highly of me after that.

Well, I’m coming back here where there is love the way Jesus wants it and am anxious to start getting to know some of you.

Blessings in the name of the Most High,
Jami
 
FaithInHim84 said:
I haven’t been here in awhile. I tried to give the other board one more go of it but it just resulted in persecution for trying to get people to understand they are being hypocritical by not showing love to members of God’s Kingdom even if it is just a “computer screen” as they say.

Anyways, the diagnosis is definite now. My husband has Grave’s disease, no thyroid and the antibodies started attacking his eyes. They haven’t gone back to normal since his surgery 5 years ago. They have to do a surgery immediately so he doesn’t go blind. Please pray for him.

On top of that, we took my mother in who was in an abusive marriage. People over at the other forums cast stones at me because I said that I believe God hates divorce and wants us to come to Him, to trust Him to work miracles. Well, of course we need to make sure our own house is in order with Him. Well, they didn’t think too highly of me after that.

Well, I’m coming back here where there is love the way Jesus wants it and am anxious to start getting to know some of you.

Blessings in the name of the Most High,
Jami
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Welcome, Jami. I will say a prayer for you and your husband.

It is my belief that God can and does work miracles, but sometimes we miss the miracles because they aren’t what we are looking for or think they should be. I will give you an example, and it relates to suffering. I had 2 major illnesses when I was in my 40’s (I am now 61.) One was a major clinical depression that put me in the hospital, and the other was unexpectedly having to have open-heart surgery at the age of 48. Now I don’t like illness and suffering any more than anyone else, and I have been known to complain when it occurs, but incredibly, these two illnesses brought me so much closer to God. In fact, even though I called myself a Christian, I wasn’t nearly ready for heaven, and God, in His graciousness, by allowing me to suffer, began to clean up my act by teaching me a few things–patience, the loss of reliance on material things to make me happy, learning to depend on God, having to learn humility by having to let other people help me, and a few other things. This certainly was a miracle in my life (aside from the fact that my heart condition was discovered by accident, I was a time bomb and could have dropped dead at any given moment–my doctor said he couldn’t believe I was still alive.)

Not that He has perfected me yet–every day I discover more and more imperfections, or become aware of them, at least, but that decade of my life was a major turning point toward Jesus Christ. Without it, I am not quite sure where I would be today in my relationship with Him. And I have discovered that every time God allows some suffering to occur in my life, I can come out of it a better person if I choose to.

I am impressed with your attitude toward your illness and the fact that you are choosing to allow God to work through it to make you holier and a better witness to Him. You seem to be a very loving and pleasant person. You may or may not receive a physical healing, that is up to God, but there sure is a miracle going on in your soul and you are being spiritually healed. And that is the most important kind, isn’t it?

As for those who persecute you, pray for them. That is what Jesus told us to do. It is sad when Christians tear each other down instead of building each other up. Build them up in prayer.
 
Thanks Carolyn and wow, what an awesome testimony. Wow, open heart surgery. I bet that was pretty scary stuff.

Thanks for the prayers. I know we are being purified like gold and He will get us through this. We have been through worse things.

I think suffering is a blessing because if we weren’t suffering, we would be focused on the world and its ways instead of the LORD.
 
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