Opening up to the Lord?

Question

In what ways as believers do you open your being up to the Lord each day for Him to touch who you are. Each of us has areas in our hearts that we struggle with and year after year may pass and still the Lord has not been given a way to deal with this matter in us. I know that I struggle with a certain matter and I have found that coming to the Word and simply being washed by the water in the word refreshes me. Opening up to call upon the Lord's name just ushers me into the Spirit, its there that I know i am most real... I can drink of the Spirit and be energised and nourished and supplied. For each of us it may be different. Some of us love to listen to hymns.. meet with others to be encouraged, read the word or pray, some spend a while just confessing before the Lord applying the blood to their consciences. How do you go on day by day with your inner struggles and besetting matters before Him? Your testimony may encourage someone here today.

Answer 1

I strive daily to be obedient. I also fail him daily.In order to stay open to my savior,I can only repent and continue to ask for guidance from him.Surrendering all,would be my answer.God Bless!

Answer 2

It means to increase your faith. You need to not worry about all the evidence, you don't need evidence. And if you realy want evidence just look at the world, there is no way a big bang can create the world so perfect. So to open your heart to the lord, you need to give your heart to him. You have to trust in Him and have no doubts. Read the bible when you can, and it is imporatnt to pray to him every day. Just talk to him like you would talk to a friend. Tell him how your day was, what you need him to help you with, etc. The more you talk to him, the more your relationship will grow with him. You will feel it growing. So basically, trust in him. That is what it basically means. Live for him. Do what you think he wants you to do.

Answer 3

there are 2 scripture references I would like to encourage you to read, one is Matthew 25, and the other is Isaiah 58:5-14. The hardest move for a well to do person, to make is to help the poor.. If you study the life of CHRIST, that is what HE did more than anythingelse.HE reached out to the rejected, the needy, the sick and the blind, all those the religious leaders of the day rejected, HE EMBRACED. HE did not put any conditions on them, but freely gave of HIS POWER and love.. can we do the same? Can the dr in the congregation open his clinic one day a week and help those who need it? will the nurse visit the shutins and check on their needs? will a sunday school class spend church time in the kitchen making sack lunches only to eat 1 and then go pass them out to the hungry? every week? will you open your home to a welfare family on thanksgiving and give them a reason to thank GOD? We in America spend more on cars food and movie rentals than anyonelse in the world.. cigarettes a beer, you name it.. now if we were to have one week a year where we all gave up our habits, and gave instead of took, what would happen? To the reader, when you go shopping for a car, buy a lease return and give the thousands u just saved to a soup kitchen, or outreach program.. but save some for yourself and help ur church class feed the indegent.WHY/ because that is what JESUS would do.. and so should we.. myself included.. because in serving others we come as close to JESUS as possible. When we open up our hearts to JESUS we see ourselves for who we are and see HIM for who HE is..and fall to our knees.. and do the unthinkable..

Answer 4

Please understand that I embrace your right to hold whichever beliefs you find most comforting. You have a perfect right to your views and I am offering the following criticism only to illustrate the enormous gap between your way of thinking and mine.

You speak in riddles. Exactly how does one "open [their] being up to the Lord each day for Him to touch who you are"? Very poetic and sweet sounding, but utterly without a meaningful literal interpretation. You speak of the human heart as if it were the seat of human emotion, but in reality it's only a blood pump. "...coming to the Word and simply being washed by the water in the word refreshes [you]." What are you talking about? What "water" in the word? Then you say that "Opening up to call upon the Lord's name ushers you into the Spirit." This sounds exactly like prayer causes you to become temporarily insane. Do you speak in tongues and roll on the floor screaming at the top of your lungs, as my own mother did whenever she was "overcome by the Spirit?" You sound exactly like you're a schizophrenic, who doesn't understand that your subjective experience is created by your own living brain. You call it "energized and nourished and supplied." Most mental health professionals would call it either a willful delusion or a psychotic break, depending on how far from reality a person allows themself to wander. Has anyone ever suggested that you see a good psychiatrist? You are playing with emotional fire by habitually reinforcing your religious head-games.

I'm sure you must feel insulted and that is NOT my intention. I grew up in a household with two Pentecostal parents and the experience scarred me for life! My mother spoke exactly as you do and eventually she was committed many times to a state mental hospital, where she recieved electro-convulsive thearpy and large doses of powerful anti-psychotics in an attempt to bring her back to reality. Religious superstitions are not the path to fulfillment and joy. In the long run, over a lifetime, they drive people to imagine their own thoughts are real. Mom spent the last forty years of her life in torment and constant mental anguish precisely because she believed the same superstitions you are happily promoting. Religion is a poor substitute for reality and can drive its most devout believers insane.

I am certain you totally disagree with me. Please understand that I mean no disrespect and only wish to warn you that you are gambling with your own sanity for the sake of ancient superstition. Peace and Love.......

Answer 5

We all definitely have our struggles. I try to read the word every day, and I pray that God will reveal something new to me each time. Music also helps. I'm a musician, so it has a different affect on me than it does on other people, music can make me cry, laugh, sing, or dance, depending on the mood of the song, so I have to be careful about what kind of music I listen to, whenever I listen to Christian music, though, it's like my heart's on fire for God.

I also compose music, so that's another outlet.

Answer 6

Hi Sandy! I like to read and meditate on the goodness of God. I try to think of good things. I try to think of positive things.I try to enjoy life because God has been so good to me.

Romans 8:28

Answer 7

First of all, repent, the LORD our GOD will wipe your book clean, But don't forget, HE gave us free will, and it is up to us to do things right. Once you have repented, then you try your best to be of good character and do HIS will, not what you want. The only way to learn to be good, is to read the Bible and study it. Gaining knowledge is a key into developing a good, meaning-full relationship with the LORD.

Answer 8

Know thy self and then you will be known. Lip worshiping doesn't give you increase in knowledge because faith without works is dead. If you believe in Yeshua then you would keep his commandments and WALK in his footsteps. What has he given? "Be perfect just as your heavenly father is perfect".

If you aren't seeking to live your life to the highest possible ideal that the knowledge you have permits you to, then you have already crucified Yeshua within you and threw away knowledge. James gave that to know good and do it not is sin. Or in a simple way to say it, to have to knowledge of living a greater truth and do it not is sin.

And no Yeshua's blood doesn't cleanse, for the Yeshua in the scriptures is a ALLEGORY that you must apply within yourself as the key of knowledge. The literal letter as projected by you in the others in this thread killeth as Paul gave. You must turn the scriptures within for it to be of any use.

Peace

Answer 9

As some one who has struggled with MANY short coming in my life, we did a bible study called "spiritual warfare" by Chuck Lawless and a nother gentleman, I cant remember his name. It was awesome. I would recommend you get a copy and try to do this it really explained so much. we got our at Life-way Book stores.

Answer 10

To walk in nature, among the beauty of trees and flowers and natural wonders, is always enough for me to feel inspired and amazed by God and the wondrous world He has created...