Such as stop hating people's behaviors and they themselves for that matter. So you can say you truly love the Lord?
2006-09-29 06:04:13 · 11 answers · asked by haloengine7496 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Stay in communication with God and do all he asks of you.
2006-09-29 06:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by pknutson_sws 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We most certainly should not hate other people, but love them. But many of the ways of people are sometimes wrong, and we are not expected to love wrongdoings done by any person. Just pray for them to change, when this is the case. But I have found out that the most important things in being used by the Lord, is to continually stay in the Word of God, pray to Him daily, and always be available for Him to use. By this I mean, always be willing to do whatever He desires for us to do. He will never tell us to do anything that He is not going to give us the ability to do. But I have also had to learn, that being used by the Lord, is not always preaching from a pulpit, or teaching a class, or other such things as this. But I have found out, that when we help a neighbor, or a brother or sister in need, we are also doing service unto the Lord. And we should always try to give Him the glory for what we are able to do, and not always try and glorify ourselves for what we do. I believe that God has a job for every one of his Children. But one thing that is vitally important, is to always be willing to do whatever He tells us to do; not just what we want to do. Start looking for ways that you can be of help to others. God will surely begin to open doors for you when you do such.
2006-09-29 13:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Calvin S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tell you--I prayed for a while to be used by God. The more I prayed it, the more I meant it, and DO mean it.
You wouldn't BELIEVE what all He has done for me!
I truly understand people. I see both sides of every sadness, or happiness. I can reach out to others easier. I complement easier. Boy, it ALL comes back to YOU!
What you give away, God returns it to you ten-fold!
God also keeps me safe in the raging storms . He keeps me calm, because I have placed my absolute trust in Him, that He has my life planned out.
I can actually just enjoy my life, while God is in control.
He is such an AWESOME GOD!
2006-09-29 13:06:04 · answer #3 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love God.. God is the homie.. God is a prankster to.. God loves us so much that we cant see it.. He teaches us lessons through tough love.. Kinda like a baby that is beginning to walk.. You push the baby dawn and the baby gets right back up.. Do it again and the baby might laugh or cry.. Either way the baby gets up an tries again..Your not harming the baby but your giving the baby a hard time.. God gives us hard times but they mean to strengthen us.. This is one reason God is the homie..
2006-09-29 13:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by tough questions 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My advice, would be spend alot of time reading the Word of God. There God will show you and he will change your heart. There is not much we can do to change are self. But with the help of the LORD God he can change us.
2006-09-29 13:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes an attitude shift.
You cannot control this perfectly, you can only contribute to it. You need to actively invite God to bring these situations and attitudes to your attention, and to change your heart so that you love as He loves.
For myself, I can say that I was "coldly logical" when younger, finding it easy to judge people and simply be annoyed/angry all the time, inside, at their inconsistencies and hypocrisies.
That ability to evaluate behavior has not been lost, but it has been tempered with a real passion to be 'with' someone rather than standing 'over' them. I have had to accept my own failings and weaknesses, and realize that -- even with my good intentions sometimes -- I am in the same boat as everyone else.
More importantly, the ability to discern good and bad is not a club to be used to accuse and punish. It is merely a tool to be used as I involve myself with others and share my story with them, in a way that they will find meaningful. It's a diagnostic tool, not a judicial weapon.
Often I think now about what it really means for God to "love me in my sin." Jesus offered himself for me, suffered a great deal, when there was no assurance I would turn around and seek God -- and he did it anyway.
If the Trinity loves me THAT much, if God can love his enemies that much, if He saw as not as a burden to be carried or a plague to be wiped out but as broken people who need redemption and restored relationships, well, I need to learn how to see things like He does. Jesus is my model.
I also discern now that many times people do wrong things for the right reasons... or they fail simply because they are weak and human. They're simply at a certain stage in life -- a stage in life I've been at, and I'm on that same road.
If I condemn them, I stand condemned as well. We're all in this together.
I know that's all "concepts," not practical advice. For practical advice, you need to indulge in lots of prayer and reflexive listening/thinking:
1. Ask God to help you see clearly, first your own life, THEN the life of your brother and sister.
2. Pray for your brother and sister, for redemption, for peace, for a change of heart, for open eyes. Pray for their souls and relationship with God. Pray for them as if they were someone you loved. It's impossible (I think) to hate someone you are actively praying for in positive ways.
3. Assume (for the moment) that the other person is messing up without realizing what's wrong with their behavior. What "positive" or "well-intentioned" reasons might exist for them behaving this way? Use this knowledge to ask good questions of them. And REALLY listen to their answers.
4. Look for the story in their lives. Look for the underlying spiritual struggle -- what's actually going on in their souls? What would God want to specifically change in their lives? See their lives as a story to which you can contribute -- not as a dictator or executioner, but as a teacher, guide, companion, and friend.
Those are good places to start. You will have to play the rest by ear.
2006-09-29 13:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone have to start making himself better. If you do wrong, you wrong your own soul. With this notion in mind, you must start learning what is good and what is bad.
But the best way, is to learn self-restraint. and the best way to learn this, is by fasting at least one week.
2006-09-29 13:09:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep praying to God to guide you and show you the way. Pray for your enemies.
2006-09-29 13:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by yeppers 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop thinking. Thinking just interferes with spiritual frequencies.
2006-09-29 13:09:39 · answer #9 · answered by boukenger 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pray about it and leave it at the Father's feet!
2006-09-29 13:07:55 · answer #10 · answered by Dragonfly 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋