[/quote]I thank you for this. Also, about the part where you said to ask him to show himself in my belief, I've asked him several times when I was younger, I don't know how he does...Adults around me say hes showed himself to them...but he never does to me..?[/quote]
TTS, you're welcome. There is one thing for sure, as I stated, God shows you Himself everyday in many things and ways, and I think you are not accepting it as being of God. All you must do is look around you, and review seen and unseen dangers you have encountered in your life in harms way, yet you were not harmed.
Take a look at the good, the bad, the ugly, and the indifferent circumstances and situations you have experienced and came through... this should make you wonder how you overcame them and came through in victory without anyone there to assist you. And if by chance someone was there to assist you, do you ever wonder why or how that person who happened to be there on time, knew just what to do or say at the very moment of your need? It was not something grand that you did or the person did or did not do... it was God's love, grace, and mercy He showed you, and provided a means for your escape or made a way to lift the burden from you through that person, because you are His creation, and He protects what belong to Him.
If you would like for God to show Himself to you in a special way, and if you would be specific in asking Him to show Himself to you... He is a man of honor and of His Word, and He has promised those who seek Him diligently, to ask of Him and He will show Himself. But its up to you to tell Him what it is that you are seeking of Him to prove to you that He is God. God has said there is nothng that He has created on earth wherein His Spirit does not already dwell... in other words, its the same as looking upon a piece of art work, without seeing the artist's name, you are able to know who he/she is by their special touch of colors, and strokes. Same as God, without Him having to prove Himself to you, you should already know that you did not create yourself nor did any man create you or anything around us on earth. We as humans have no control over life or death, but only God. If a person does not believe in God, then it would go to say, that the person also does not believe in satan/the devil, thus, if one does not believe in God or satan, then its safe to say, neither is there a heaven or hell, nor is there good or evil, or life after death... and if these things be truth, then one should be able to explain man's existance on earth and the foundation of the universe, and what happens after death has come upon earthly man to be no more.
Moreover, its all about FAITH TO BELIEVE that GOD IS who He says He is... so I think the first thing is to ask God to do for you, is to increase your
FAITH TO BELIEVE, so that when He does show Himself to you in a more specific way, you will know that it is He who has done whatever it is you have asked of Him.
You need a sign to prove there is a God, but true Faith takes it at face value and believes there is a God, because of what we see around us. It is impossible for a person to have FAITH to believe in some one or some thing that they know nothing about. Therefore, as Scripture teaches us, FAITH COMES BY HEARING, AND HEARING THE WORD OF GOD, and in humility we humble ourselves to believe, becasue a sense of false pride prevents and hinder one from believing in many things especially when it comes to truth. There is no way you can believe unless you have FAITH... but I can assure you TTS, if you need proof more than what God has already shown you, then ask of Him. We tend to not believe in people places and things we know nothing about... no one believed in the techology of computers until there was proof in the physical that the computer could do as it was thought... and whatever man puts in the compute will come out... weeell, sometimes :rofl: ... but whatever spiritual knowledge, understanding, and wisdom God imputes inside of you about Himself, it will come out without failure everytime, and that's the difference between man and God... which let's me know for a fact that Al Gore may have invented the second computer, but he didn't invent the first computer, GOD INVENTED THE FIRST COMPUTER USING MAN AS HIS SOLE EXAMPLE in the Garden with Adam and Eve. :idea: lol
Ask of God and lean not to your own understanding, and He will direct your path into all things concerning Himself.
..sorry this is so long, but I had much good to say lol<br /><br />-- 03 Jun 2013, 22:59 --<br /><br />
Dennis said:
No, you do not what Dennis?... lol
