Christian Support Group Community Group
This is a place for everyone who loves Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior (or those who are seeking Him), to come and discuss important issues in their lives and find support from fellow believers in regards to their faith and life. We uphold the Bible and living a Christ-like life, not as a way to heaven, but as a reflection of our love for God.
The Reality of Godly Living
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. - (1 Peter 5:8)
The Christian life is the greatest life there is. God takes a life that was empty and aimless and headed to a certain judgment, and He turns it around and transforms it. He removes all of our sin. That is more than enough right there, but then He puts the righteousness of Jesus Christ into our spiritual bank account. That is called justification. He removes the guilt that haunted us, fills the emptiness inside of us, and literally takes residence in our hearts. This all comes as a result of the gospel, believed and followed. That is the good news.
The bad news is there are some new problems that come along with all of that. You get rid of an old set of problems and inherit new ones. As the great Bible commentator Ray Stedman said, “A Christian is one who is completely fearless, continually cheerful, and constantly in trouble.”
Once you become a Christian, you have a very aggressive adversary that has set his crosshairs on you. That adversary is the devil, Satan, and he wants to undermine you. He wants to bring you down. The Bible warns that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). That word “persecuted” means to be hunted, to be harassed.
So we need to be aware of that and not be surprised when we discover that the Christian life is not a playground; it is a battleground. I think a lot of people believe in a watered-down gospel, and thus they have a watered-down faith that, in reality, isn’t faith at all. They have heard so many sermonettes, they have turned into Christianettes.
If you live a godly life, the reality is that persecution will follow.
Harvest ministries, Greg Laurie
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. - (1 Peter 5:8)
The Christian life is the greatest life there is. God takes a life that was empty and aimless and headed to a certain judgment, and He turns it around and transforms it. He removes all of our sin. That is more than enough right there, but then He puts the righteousness of Jesus Christ into our spiritual bank account. That is called justification. He removes the guilt that haunted us, fills the emptiness inside of us, and literally takes residence in our hearts. This all comes as a result of the gospel, believed and followed. That is the good news.
The bad news is there are some new problems that come along with all of that. You get rid of an old set of problems and inherit new ones. As the great Bible commentator Ray Stedman said, “A Christian is one who is completely fearless, continually cheerful, and constantly in trouble.”
Once you become a Christian, you have a very aggressive adversary that has set his crosshairs on you. That adversary is the devil, Satan, and he wants to undermine you. He wants to bring you down. The Bible warns that “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). That word “persecuted” means to be hunted, to be harassed.
So we need to be aware of that and not be surprised when we discover that the Christian life is not a playground; it is a battleground. I think a lot of people believe in a watered-down gospel, and thus they have a watered-down faith that, in reality, isn’t faith at all. They have heard so many sermonettes, they have turned into Christianettes.
If you live a godly life, the reality is that persecution will follow.
Harvest ministries, Greg Laurie
I pray each one of you and including myself are able to become close to the Lord and so strong ..that you will be able to ward off the enemies tactics and deception.Please pray for me as i am iunder attack
(((hugs))) praying for you and all of us who are rejected by unkind people out there.
Maddie i am sorry that you are going through an awful time with your family .
Yes Judy getiing back up....Thankyou..I just need some encouragement
Thankyou Valerie
I used to work at a church with the main lady who had the priest's ear all of the time. She would tell partial lies about various employees and get them in trouble with the priest. I finally quit the job for awhile and went into therapy. The therapist told me the reason some people stir up trouble is because that is what they're familiar with, lots of commotion. OR, the other reason people lie about us is so they can get everyone mad at someone else and then they can stand back and look innocent. (That's what our parish gal was doing, for sure)
Hope this bit of info helps you. It's very difficult to have someone confronting us all over the place, and hard to have our peace, although they say it is possible with time spent with Jesus. I'll be praying for you and your sister. So sorry you have to suffer through this behavior. God bless you.
We all havebattles, weare giventhefull armour of God for this very reason.