Dear Christians, the harder you fall the higher you can rise?

Question

I had a pretty hard time growing up like poverty, insecurity, picked on and bullied, shyness, fear and anxiety, being intimidated, depression and drug use and so on. My best friend played a large part in my maladies. But I can't make excuses now. It has affected me as an adult and I try to move on but I keep on slipping back down. I try and try and try. My life is a mess and it's only because of my faith that I'm still barely hanging on. I just don't know if I have what it takes to overcome. I pray on my knees in tears WHY GOD!!!? God knows what I'm going threw? God knows what's best for me? God has a purpose? Stop looking at God, help yourself because He won't. I'm now 26. Has anyone here gone from complete failure to rising to the top? Do you have a story of inspiration? I just want to know that it has been done before. Still I keep the faith, thank you.

Answer 1

Of course you have what it takes to overcome, you just aren't using it. God promises that He will bless those who follow Him, so stop doing things your way and do them God's way instead. The blessings will come, and they will overflow your life :)

Answer 2

I grew up in the church all my life and when I became 18 I joined the Army and back slid. I started sleeping with women, became a alcoholic, slept with prostitutes. I was addicted to porn, masturbation and even contemplated the thought of murder. I was at the slimy bottom and I wanted out so bad, but it felt like God was not hearing me. But God will not always pull you out of a situation when you feel like it, but in His timing. Some decisions we make put us in the "pit" and the Lord will allow us to stay there until we are sick and tired of it. If you are not sick and tired of your life and you come out of the pit, then you will just go back to doing what you did before. The Lord pulled me out in His timing. Of course, I still struggled with being obedient, because I was trying to be obedient on my own strength. I kept failing at being obedient. Then the Lord showed me obedience requires that I lean completely on what His Word says. Only God's Word has the power to change you as you believe what it says.