How do you keep believing?

Question

This is a true story of my life. My father died when I was in JR high school and I prayed for things to get better for me and for the days to go by fast. My mother died when I was 20 and I found her in our home. I prayed for my life to get better and for me to find someone to take care of and love me. I thought I found that person when I was 21. I got married and he abuses me verbally, emotionally and sometimes physically. He rehashes all the bad things in my life and calls my parents losers for "dying off" and not leaving me anything. I pray and pray every day for things to change and they never do. I don't know if God is mad at me? I don't know how to keep believing? When will God help me and answer my prayers? Please answer if you are spiritual or have had similar life.

Answer 1

I`m sorry you lost your parents.My mother died when I was22 and my father when I was 24.I was a lone.I had half siblings but they were grown and I was never around them growing up as they were in others states married with their own families.I know its hard to lose parents and its hard to be on your own but you don`t have to settle for some one who abuses you.You have to make choices as what is good for you and go after it.God hasn`t forsaken you and he will be with you what ever you decide.I was married for 25 years and my children grown when my husband decided after I had cancer to run around and he left me for another woman.I was again alone hadn`t worked out of the house in years but I started a band,I learned how to tend bar and went to school and got my high school diploma and also studied to be a Private detective became an armed guard and worked my way up top captain and was second in command of 40 to 50 guards. I was up there in age at this time.You can do anything that's needed to make your life better.I pray that God will give you strength.

Answer 2

First get out of that relationship if you can.

Second, I have been going through something not as tragic as you but it has tested my faith and I was very angry with God for allowing so much pain into my life. My best friend was very depressed and tried to kill herself. I've been helping her and praying but it doesn't seem to help. It has truly effected me because I have had to take care of her and her children.

Sometimes we don't understand why things happen. Sometimes we never will. My only conclusion is that God is faithful and will never test you beyond what you are able to bear.

I just recently started reading the Bible again after about a year away from it. Read Ps 139. One verse says that God thinks about you. ( His thoughts are presious to me.) He loves you so much. If you were the only person on earth he would have done everything he has already done to make it wonderful for you.

God speaks through his word the bible and sometimes through people and circumstances. We speak to him through prayer. There is a Psalm that says be still and know that I am God. You need time to listen to him.

Read the bible. Start with the Epistle of 1st John. Try the Psalms and proverbs and the gospel of John. Ask God to speak to you through his written word.

Answer 3

First of all get away from this man ,no one should have to put up with ABUSE of any kind.You can pray but you also have to take action,don't get stuck you are better than that.My mother died when I was 15 along with a lot of other stuff to hard to talk about .At 18 I married a man who BEAT me ,and verbally beat me till I almost believed him.Emotionally I was a wreck With 3 children .The day I had to leave he was drunk he sent my 4year old to his truck to get his shot gun.Then he made me lay in the floor he put his foot on my chest and tortured me ,with the gun in my face he asked to to think about dieing .Over the 5 year;s of marriage I have had broken bone's you name it .Well for some reason(GOD) he walked off and went and passed out .I got the kid's in the car,but the key's were in his pocket I had to go back in you just don't how scared I was .I made it ,I left town and stayed gone over 20 year's .He died in Dec. of 06 ,we had talked a few time's over the year's it was sad he was 52 .GOD needs' tough people to work for him .SOUL became Paul sometime's GOD turn's your life around .But I believe you have to pick the direction your going to go .Life is very good now it alway's has been I just had to choose NOT TO BE A VICTiM.PEACE AND PRAYER TO YOU

Answer 4

Yes, I went through Hell.
I had to Learn how to Fight using Faith.
GOD sent me some Teaching Tapes.

Kenneth Copeland Ministry
Forth Worth, Texas

With Out those Tapes (cassette, it was a long time ago, now there CD's) I never woulda' made it.

The Authority of the Believer
How to Walk in the Spirit
How to Walk in Love
How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

Father, meets her needs, in the Name of Jesus.
Rise Up with-in her and Lead and Guide her in her Walk of Faith.
I Pray that her Faith Does Not Fail, I pray all of this in The Name of Jesus Christ, Risen from the Dead.
Thank You, Father

Answer 5

Do you see the cycle?

You have to be the change that you need.

And God is not mad at you. The hard stuff is important, it's part of the reason we're here, to learn. The painful lessons are often the ones that sink in the most. And I am of the belief that we choose our lessons before we're even here. You've chosen a difficult path, but you are capable of moving through it to better things. It's really just as simple as letting go of the pain. Just let it go, it's obviously not serving you in any way, shape or form, so let it go. Care enough for yourself to put yourself in a better place. Stop hurting yourself by placing yourself in relationships like the one you've got with your husband. Let it go, and move on to better things. You won't be left alone. Move forward with the faith that the universe is abundant and you will be taken care of. Don't allow yourself to stagnate in fear.

Blessings and light to you, you deserve it.

Answer 6

They say God helps those who help themselves. So get out of that situation and make something happen. Your life will be so much better because of it.

Have the strength to leave and be the change you pray for.

Answer 7

Keep in mind that God doesn't give us everything we want in this life. It is a comfort to know that those who suffer the most will be rewarded the most. There is also alot to be said for positive thinking. We all have to pull ourselves up in times of adversity.

Answer 8

i dont know exactly what are ur beliefs , but as a christian , i can say that , all things are done for good for those who love God , God knows what's the best for us , and trust me , how many bad things happen , but it all end up for my good , trust God , and dont be mad or something , thank him for every thing , every thing , God let bad things happen to us , because maybe he wants us to learn how to pray
, learn to be patient , just trust him , and seek him , know him ,

ill tell u a true story of a saint , this saint was from a rich family they were living at northern africa , then one day when he was a boy, all their money were stolen , and the robbers burnt their house , so at one second they became so poor , so they decided to go to Palastine or israel , i dont know what was the name at that time , so the boy grew up and meet Jesus and became a saint , he's named saint mark ,
so the bad thing happened(being so poor) but it ended up being a saint , dont stop praying , those bad things are happening for a reason , may be u r doing a certain bad thing and God wants u to stop doing it, itsnt a punishment , its for ur own good

Good luck