CounselingChristians

Q: How do you deal with doubt/ trying to find a reason for life. Also figuring out the distinction between relationship with God and Christian Nationalism. I’m feeling very lost and like I’m on the wall of losing my faith.  I don’t want to lose my faith, but my prayers feel vain, and reading the Bible just seems like reading any other History book. I don’t know what to do I’m pretty sure God is real, but I don’t understand. For instance, I’ve prayed for almost 3yrs that God would take away the deep feelings I have for my ex because it causes me so much hurt and He never does. Everyday I wake up crippled by the pain of that situation, I feel lost and lonely and yet my cries feel like they’re bouncing off the walls of Heaven.  I’m not looking for any kind of male validation. I simply think that if God is so good and brings peace then I wouldn’t still be struggling so hard with this amongst other things. I feel like nothing in my life goes any good way at all. I pray and nothing ...

Struggling w Walk Not really sure what to do or think, but I'm feeling confused, frustrated, and scared.      I've been a "Christian" it seems my whole life. I grew up in a Christian home and I've always believed in God, been baptized multiple times, but I haven't always lived as a true Christian should or been truly saved. But, about, 4 or 5 years ago I began my journey to truly become a woman of God and take my relationship with Him seriously. I just feel like it never has truly "clicked" though. I've tried to read my Bible more, pray more, go to church regularly, gave up secular music, listen to Christian podcasts, etc.     But I've been very inconsistent the whole time. What I mean by that is I will pray, read the Word, be obedient, etc. for some days, weeks, or even a month or two. But it ALWAYS seems to come to an end. Then I randomly stop and I'll go days, weeks, months without doing any of it or barely doing it. And then a day c...