why do I keep wavering?

Hello Via;

Get in line for you are not alone.

Please go behind closed doors, just between you and God and confess to Him that you are battling this wavering and doubt in your faith.
By giving your best effort to confess this to Him, He is so much greater than your wavering and doubts and will bless your honesty with His Control.

Read and meditate on these two passages;

Isaiah 41:9-10, 9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”; 10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:13 For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

James 1:6-8, 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

You are loved and prayed over by your brothers and sisters here at CFS, Via.

Hang in there. 😎

God bless you, your whole family and Merry Christmas.
 
Via dolarossa said:
for the last few months I have been wavering in my faith.
I keep thinking it will just stop. its getting annoying because I can go for weeks believing. then I fail. and backslide into doubt.

I think its the enemy.
is this when I should put on my full armour?

what bible verses are best for this annoying condition?
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being tested good news God grades on grace------------every day we put on the armor the word of God
 
I would like to amen what has been said. Remember the battle is against principalities and powers and that is not ABCs. For scriptural encouragement, remember John the Baptist after all he had said and done, when in prison he said 'are you the one or should we look for another. Take courage for Jesus did no rebuke him but instead said 'look and see then turned around and told the people how great John was. Trials are for the believers good. Being pushed to the point where we don't have the answers is for our good for then we are forced to furn to the one that has the answers....
 
Hello Via my dear sister in Christ
Many of us go through awful times like this. Tes, I believe it is the enemy. He does not want you to have faith. He wants to drag you down with him. He cannot do it though. Rebuke him in the name of Jesus Christ The Son of God. Kneel down and pray and He will flee. Keep on reading God's word and The Holy Spirit will give you the verse to say to rebuke the evil one. Just like Jesus did. You are a child of God and have dominion over Satan and his evil demons. Send them packing.
Roman's 8:38,39
38. For I am persuaded , that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor any other creature is able to
separate us from the love of God
 
i really like peter he was bold has was brash, he had a heart for the Lord . yet in his flesh he failed big time, his famous words i will never ..but yet he did. he cut the roman solders ear off. imo it was a signal this could have been your head .
he denied Christ 3 times even cursed in denial :eek: . this was his flesh our battles is flesh vs spirit which ever one we feed the most wins.
back to peter in our standards he blew it bombed big time..
but note this in the end peter was the only one who walked on water.. he got out of the boat and on the day Pentecost he preached and 3 thousand souls saved.. he must did something right.. i really like his writings in the bible
 
forgiven61 said:
i really like peter he was bold has was brash, he had a heart for the Lord . yet in his flesh he failed big time, his famous words i will never ..but yet he did. he cut the roman solders ear off. imo it was a signal this could have been your head .
he denied Christ 3 times even cursed in denial :eek: . this was his flesh our battles is flesh vs spirit which ever one we feed the most wins.
back to peter in our standards he blew it bombed big time..
but note this in the end peter was the only one who walked on water.. he got out of the boat and on the day Pentecost he preached and 3 thousand souls saved.. he must did something right.. i really like his writings in the bible
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I totally agree. The Lord knew Peter's heart. It was Peter God chose to lead the Jews but God knew that he would not deny the gentiles as well. He was also the first one to say that Jesus was the Son of God.
 
Via dolarossa said:
I have been wavering in my faith.
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may i ask how you would define wavering .. i cant say for sure but i dont think it is wavering.. back at our house for past 7 years or more we have had for kids in our lives ..not kin but claim as ours..
it started out the wife baby sitting ..no body else could handle them we watched them grow up ages 13 11 9-7 .we kept them at our house for period time. my wife potty trained two youngest..
we loved these kids so much, there mom out of the blue moves never told my wife or anything. we call these kids our adopted gkids long story short it has been vacant
every weekend we got them did things with them.. took them to church. its been a trial around here . i been paying God intervene we hear nothing from the Mom . we have went over and beyond doing for the family i have prayed the way scriptures instructs yes its tough .

not knowing what your going through it may not be wavering.. it just may be tribulation we all have our own trials . i mean everyone .no one is left out
 
Via dolarossa said:
for the last few months I have been wavering in my faith.
I keep thinking it will just stop. its getting annoying because I can go for weeks believing. then I fail. and backslide into doubt.

I think its the enemy.
is this when I should put on my full armour?

what bible verses are best for this annoying condition?
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When you speak of the armor of God, remember that the HELMET OF SALVATION is there to protect your mind. It sounds as if you really are certain of your faith, but are mistaking the testing of that faith as some kind of sin into which you "backslide". Doubt is actually a Christian's ally as long as you remember that your faith is based on the FACTS of Scripture and not upon how you feel. Doubt energizes us to study so that we can resolve them and strengthen our faith. Don't allow anyone or anything take away the joy of your salvation by a form of doubt that carries condemnation with it. I'll pray for you.
 
I used to be doubleminded and that was a precarious state to be in, because those who are double-minded cannot expect anything from God.

I was encouraged by the song ' I have decided to follow Jesus' and how it says there's no turning back..because I don't want to go back to Egypt. (or the state I was) Egypt was slavery. Jesus is freedom. And Jesus is life.

I don't wanna be Lot's wife who looked back. I'm now looking forward, and from my looking forward I may still have a long way to go but I am going forward every day.
 
Via dolarossa said:
for the last few months I have been wavering in my faith.
I keep thinking it will just stop. its getting annoying because I can go for weeks believing. then I fail. and backslide into doubt.

I think its the enemy.
is this when I should put on my full armour?

what bible verses are best for this annoying condition?
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As Robert said.......welcome to our world!!!!

The better question to ask might be WHY is this happening??? Now I am NO expert at all but I would suggest a couple just might be.......

You are applying human thinking to your circumstances. Sometimes God is going to require us to do something with which human reasoning disagrees.

We allow our feelings to overcome our faith. It could be a sense of unworthiness or inadequacy that trips us up. Fear of criticism or failure might cause us to doubt we can do what He asks. "Sometimes, Sometimes" this feeling can come from clinical depression and not a faith issue at all.

At times I have failed to see God at work in my circumstances. I was expecting something but God had a different plan. Doubts creep in when we have asked Him to take action but nothing appears to be happening or not what we wanted.

Then there is the one that besets us all and that is that we have guilt over sin, past or present. We cannot operate with strong faith when we are under conviction of sin or dwelling on guilt over past wrongdoing.

Then remember my dear sister that we are all subject to listen to the Enemy's lies. Satan is the Father of lies, whose objective is to have us reject God's truth and believe his deception instead.

You have lots of friends right here in front of you. Please feel free to PM any of us and we will stand with you and along side you!!!!
Do not struggle alone or think that what you are feeling is just YOU!

Hope some of this helps you!!!!!
 
forgiven61 said:
may i ask how you would define wavering .. i cant say for sure but i dont think it is wavering.. back at our house for past 7 years or more we have had for kids in our lives ..not kin but claim as ours..
it started out the wife baby sitting ..no body else could handle them we watched them grow up ages 13 11 9-7 .we kept them at our house for period time. my wife potty trained two youngest..
we loved these kids so much, there mom out of the blue moves never told my wife or anything. we call these kids our adopted gkids long story short it has been vacant
every weekend we got them did things with them.. took them to church. its been a trial around here . i been paying God intervene we hear nothing from the Mom . we have went over and beyond doing for the family i have prayed the way scriptures instructs yes its tough .

not knowing what your going through it may not be wavering.. it just may be tribulation we all have our own trials . i mean everyone .no one is left out
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wavering to me is like I am in two minds about doing something.
I can't decide which one to do. its like feeling stuck. and I hate feeling stuck.
but it also did feel like a tribulation....of sorts. in the sense that I am loosing patience, becoming frustrated in waiting for some kind of certainty before action and being committed.

but since I posted this thread, I have some kind of peace about what I need to do.

turns out none of the choices I had in mind was even of any value in the long run...they were material values.

The Lord showed me a new option which trumps them all, not one I would have even thought of to be honest. and I actually don't like His choice, but its most certainly biblical/spiritual. and its going to be a great challenge. one I don't think im even ready for☹️
 
Via dolarossa said:
wavering to me is like I am in two minds about doing something.
I can't decide which one to do. its like feeling stuck. and I hate feeling stuck.
but it also did feel like a tribulation....of sorts. in the sense that I am loosing patience, becoming frustrated in waiting for some kind of certainty before action and being committed.

but since I posted this thread, I have some kind of peace about what I need to do.

turns out none of the choices I had in mind was even of any value in the long run...they were material values.

The Lord showed me a new option which trumps them all, not one I would have even thought of to be honest. and I actually don't like His choice, but its most certainly biblical/spiritual. and its going to be a great challenge. one I don't think im even ready for☹️
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take it one step at a time
 
John 17 :17
Sanctify them THROUGH thy truth: thy WORD is truth.

John 8:36
If the son therefore shall make you FREE,ye shall be FREE INDEED.


My dear sister, as has been said there are times in our lives that we say within ourselves that even God wants nothing to do with us. We see through carnal eyes,he sees us through spiritual eyes of love.

I love the word for during my times when my mind is darkened and I can not see the truth, I goes as a blind man in search of that peace only he can give.

His word is full of examples where doubt came to mind,look at Abraham and Sarah. There is so much to learn about our nature, how we fail and yet how God comes through in the word.

I feel a kinship to Peter,he and I are a lot alike!

We have ALL we need in him and his word. We must take it and eat as John was told in Revelations. It may be bitter at times but it is true honey to our soul.

I pray that by this times it has been settled in your heart and assurance washes through your soul.
We stand as a family,united,holding and lifting each other up.
 
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