Want to live right, afraid God is not with me, & I struggle w anxiety/agoraphobia

Q: I’ve always had faith but I haven’t been on the path like I should be. I dont go you church and I dont pray.  I am worried that God doesn’t come into my life. I want to really try to live right.  Also, I struggle with agoraphobia and I’ve been praying for help but it hasn’t seemed to help. I just want the relationship that you guys have. And be able to do things.


A: Avoiding Bible and prayer is 1. What the unsaved do even if they profess but live as idolators, 2. what leads to  problems in a believers life; robs their joy, makes them anxious and full of worry & fears. Not reading the Bible, not praying and not going to church are not behaviors of a believer. It is possible you obeyed the Gospel and have been saved but are a weak believer. You need to examine yourself to find out, and go from there. 

Let's look at this by Illustration of a believer:
You have a fiance whom you love and you delight in writing letters to communicate your thoughts, feelings and desired hopes. Your betrothed writes you love letters and you anticipate getting to the next one and reading it, and re reading it as you get to know the person more and more you love em deeper and deeper & cant wait till you finally see each other [& live together for life]. The same is true of Scripture. It is the Word of God. Jesus is called the Word of God and our bridegroom. We believers are the Bride. 

If you stop communicating it shows there is no love. A lack of love. There's no relationship and no future with that person. 

God has written us 66 love letters and put it in one book; Holy Scripture.

If you dont read it, dont communicate, it shows you dont really love that person. 

So something is wrong. Either you deluded yourself to think you had a relationship, or you need to repent of failing to be the person you are supposed to be towards the one you love. Go to God in prayer and deal with this issue, then the fellowship will be restored, your relationship renewed, and you can grow your relationship stronger, to be unbreakable. You now determine to be faithful and reliable and trustworthy to the one you truly do love. And prove it in your daily life. 


If we want God in our life we cant try to hide from Him. It is impossible to anyways. The key question to consider is, have you born again by God? People can desire a relationship with God but until they obey the Gospel, he wont be in your life like is with believers [His children]. So resolve this today and begin that relationship. Watch 👈 this vid clip, and this one. Then obey the Gospel.  

Note: there is a lot of false teaching out there about losing ones salvation. The truth biblically is that Scripture [God's Word] calls us to examine ourselves to see if we are in the Faith. If we are, we are saved since Jesus paid "once for all time" for our past, current & future sins). However if God didnt convert us then we didnt surrender our lives to Him and were not transformed into a new creation, and did not recieve the righteous nature & the Holy Spirit. It means we believed a false gospel. Coming to Jesus for something other than what Scripture commands and offers. Some come to a false gospel of a suffering free life, a life where they dont die to self but want a better life now, or a false gospel where God is their genie and gives them prosperity (wealth and health). These are all idolatry. There are many varied false gospels out there that get people into churches [false churches and some bible based churches] but these folks end up leaving. They never got saved and never understood the Gospel. But there is hope for them. 

Here are some resources to help you. And may they bless you as you live for Jesus.

1. Self Examination to see where you are

2. Helping people come to a full knowledge for salvation



5. Conquering the sin of anxiety.
Also... my ministry friend had that anxiety disorder and it took 3 yrs or so for him to overcome it. It was so bad he couldn't even eat with his family. You can overcome this. 

The first step is taking (in faith with God at your side) a baby step. And then another. Challenge yourself one step at a time and before you know it you will be running with joy. 

Here is some self counseling on anxiety & depression, and referrals to professional biblical counselors to help you conquer this. 


You can be victorious in all of these aspirations. You can do this 💪. 

God bless


Footnote:
Illustration from Ray Comfort 


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