How do you start believing in God again?

Answer 1

Why would you want to? Just click your shoes together and say "There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home." Oh wait wrong fantasy story, sorry.

Answer 2

I was lost for a long time, so many things happening in my life not knowing what to believe.
I was in a very bad car accident that I shouldn't have survived, my friend trapped in the car and yet we both survived. I was in the hospital and doctors said I wouldn't be able to walk, yet I somehow made it and am walking and that happened in 1993.

I was pregnant with my first child, and never knew that my body was fighting to get rid of the child, and rushed to the hospital because I was bleeding while I was at work...It wasn't the first time I almost lost him..so I prayed and prayed and cried and prayed..and now he is three.

I had my second child this year and I thought I went threw a ruff time with the first one, and it was even worse with the second one..In the middle of labor his heart beat dropped down in the twenties and when he came out, they rushed him out of the room I had him at 12:19 in the morning and I didn't see him until 4:30am I prayed the whole time, The doctor flat out told me there were major problems and he had to see a doctor..I won't go into gory details but when he was born we took no pictures because he looked dead. and I did everything right during the pregnancy.
I prayed, I was numb, felt why me, and prayed some more.
during the pregnancy my body again was having problems..and I am a healthy woman..

I look at my two children and know that no one other than God could have gotten me threw the many times in my life, even when I wasn't sure what I believed in.
So many things in my life wouldn't have happened if something greater than me or any human wasn't there by my side.

I wish you the best and you are in my prayers.
you should read the poem Footprints in the Sand.

Answer 3

My question to you would be why did you stop believing in God in the first place? Throughout my life I have had bouts of uncertainty, and questions; at times of sorrow it is hard to not have doubts and there has been plenty of sorrow in my life. When I found myself in a depressive state I really began to question all of my teachings and beliefs throughout my life and I will tell you what I discovered, that through self anyalasis God is real. I would get up 15 minutes earlier for work so I could spend that time reading the bible. I started out with the upper room reading the daily reading and then the verses it suggested to read in the bible for that day, it was not long before I felt some peace. After awhile of doing this I decided I wanted to read the bible like a book, from beginning to end. I suggest you start with the new testament. I began to spend 30 minutes in the evening in the quiet of my room just praying and talking with God asking for guidance, assurance that He was there and help with my self and all around me, the one thing I found is if you listen and truly listen with your heart you will hear what He is trying to tell you. I had lost my spirit and my belief in pastors and finally I understood they were people just like me that make mistakes. Just because they are educated and more learned of the bible they were still people. Some are chosen by God to spread the word but many others choose it as a profession and it was hard for me to seperate the two. Then I realized that God lives within me, if I am in church or at home or on vacation, He is here with me. "He that is in me is greater then he that is in the world." First start by getting in touch with your feelings, then start praying and getting in touch with God, listen and He will answer and I gaurantee that reading the bible every single morning will put your day in order and a smile on your face for all to see because He is in you. Take care, & God be with you always...

Answer 4

Hi Kristie L.

Just remember, Jesus said, "I will never leave you or forsake you." A Christian woman I barely knew reminded me of this many years ago when I really, really needed to hear it. It's true. First, remember that. Then, believe it. And if you have trouble, ask God to help you remember and believe. Sometimes things get pretty muddled in our lives and our vision becomes cloudy. Sometimes we are in a fog for a long time. Just remember, Jesus is there and he has been there all along. He will still be there tomorrow (when things seem better) and the next day (when things seem worse). It's OK. He never left.

Answer 5

Why would you think there's a need to do that? If you find the idea of a supernatural being that is everything some religion says it is to be unbelievable, so what? Sure, it will be a problem in some social circumstances, but anyone who wants to exclude you from friendship just because you don't believe in some invisible guy in the sky -- that sort of person isn't worth being friends with anyway.

Answer 6

Kristie, it sounds like you are sincere, or at least, sincerely looking for answers.

Humans are 'wired' to believe in God. What made you stop believing? Was it someone's hypocrisy? Did a 'believer' injury you, or grievously disappoint you? If so, please let me apologize for the wrongs done to you.

Those 'wrongs,' Kristie, are sin--human failings and not indicative of God's existence, or love. One cannot 'prove' God exists. One can only believe, or not. God is the Supreme Being, he will not be analyzed with a microscope or measured with a yardstick. He simply is.

And the beautiful thing Kirstie, is that believing in Him cost us nothing. It is a gift that we are free to accept, or reject. He has given us free will and will not force us to acknowledge Him.

If you truly want to believe in God again, then ask yourself why you stopped believing. Deal with that first and then, leave it behind you and begin again. Clear your mind and heart and speak to Him, if you can. If you feel 'steeped in sin' and unable to communicate with God, then (if you are a Catholic), try Confession. If you are not Catholic, then make an appointment with your Rabi or minister and discuss this matter at length with him. Certainly, try prayer.

God bless you.

Best wishes,

H

Answer 7

well first after you made ur choice of "God" or "No God", you have to find a worship area (for whatever religion u are) in your community. talk to the head person (priest, pastor, rabi,etc.) in that place and see if maybe they could help you, and ask if maybe they'd be able to help u find away to get more in depth at this "worship area" like saying a sermon, doing a reading, helping out w/ church related things in the community (church fairs, the classes teaching young children, or just helping out during a service) will first help you because you will probably be caught up on whats going on, and its a nice thing to do for God. then start going to ur worship area's services or meetings.
you probably never stopped believing in God but probably just took a "finding the faith" vacation from Him. Good luck "believing in God again"

Answer 8

Tell God right now, right here - I stopped believing in you and I was wrong, forgive me please, and replace all my doubts with all your assurances. Then associate yourself with a local fellowship and begin your maturing process afresh in the Lord. I promise you that even though you may have stepped away from him, God never stopped following close behind just for this moment. So, just turn around and hug him and return to him.

Does this mean that the time you were away and practiced your life outside his will won't have an impact in your life? No. Whatever choices you made outside His will on your own, you will still have those consequences to deal with. But He will cast this time away from him as far as the east is from the west and into the depths of the seas.

Heavenly Father, our joy is overflowing as this one seeks to come home and rejoin our family - we open our arms and usher her to you, knowing that you've waited far more patiently than we would have. Amen.

Welcome home, loved one, we've missed you, and you didn't even know it!

Answer 9

Go outside on a beautiful sunny day and observe the clouds, the blue sky, the sun, the birds and everything else growing around you. It won't take you long to remember that God is real, and none of those things could be present without God as Creator.

Then, take time everyday and read your Bible.

Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Answer 10

How did you stop? Did it become inconvenient? Perhaps it interfered with your social life at some point? Became unfashionable?

First things first: really analyze what you believe now. Ask yourself questions like: Why and how does anything exist? Was my great, great, great grandma a monkey? Do I enjoy the sensation of intense burning for very prolonged periods of time? When I die, will I rot and smell worse than poo or would I rather be with jesus and the tooth fairy? Does my life have no more purpose in the grand scheme of things than that of an ameoba, or would I rather be with jesus and the tooth fairy? Do I like jesus and rainbows and chocolate and tooth fairies?

Hope that helps! Good luck! Amen.

Answer 11

We never stop believing in god, we just get hurt somewhere and when where hurt we intent to put the blame on god , that's a normal emotion , so for your question just continue to believe in god like you use to that's all , you don't start you continue ...

i am not a priest or in any religion activist just a simple person...