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u/SeaRegion · 11 pointsr/Christianmarriage

> What’s hard is that I don’t know what to do.

Just an observation friend, but it appears that you're measuring your spirituality by what you do rather than by who you are. In other words, you feel that you're a good Christian on the days when you read the Bible and pray but you feel like a bad Christian on the days when you don't.

It would seem to me that the cure here is to make an internal switch into a deeper acceptance of the Gospel. When Jesus died for our sins, he freed us forever from condemnation and performance. You're just as much a child of God on the days when you don't measure up to your internal standards as on the days when you do good deeds.

If this resonates, a book I'd recommend is this: Victory over the Darkness by Neil Anderson. The message is simple and powerful - if we try to act from a mindset of, "I have to do these things so I'll be a good Christian" we will burn out. If instead we change our mindset to, "I am a child of God seated with Christ in the heavens. Jesus paid for all of my failures and He loves me very much, regardless of if I have good or bad days." - then we will change how we live simply because it's who we are.

Regardless - praying for God's wisdom and guidance for you in this hard season.

u/Delk133 · 2 pointsr/Christianity

So glad to hear it! If you are looking for more verses on God's love and how personal He is on our lives, this has really helped me...an oldie but a goldie :p

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Edl-2HUZYSQ

I have learned so much from this book right here. This book spends maybe the first half or so just talking about how to be a Christian on the inside. How to receive deep in your heart that you are a child of God dearly loved by the Father and forgiven of everything. It then gives very practical guidance for becoming more like Christ. Truly a gem!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0764213768/

The author of this book was the head of the Practical Theology department at a major seminary for 10 years. This basically means that his full time job was to give people super practical guidance on how to live out what the Bible says.

u/RazzleDazzleForThree · 2 pointsr/Reformed

I think you are absolutely right in your assessment of the situation and linking the events of childhood to the beliefs of now. It seems to me that you've precisely identified both the cause and the problem which is impacting your prayer life - even though you understand intellectually that God is good, there's a wall that comes up preventing this truth from entering your heart.

Through this author, I have broken through a wall very similar to what you are expressing here. This book is particularly focused on how to break through this wall into the truth of Scripture:

https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Over-Darkness-Realize-Identity/dp/0764213768/

The backstory of this book is very relevant to the situation, I believe. The author came into the ministry out of a burden: he saw that in Scripture Jesus came to set us free and transform us, but when he looked around, he didn't see many Christians who were living as though what the Bible says were truth for today. So he became a professor at Talbot seminary and ran a graduate course for 10 years in which he worked with Christians who are struggling to believe the Gospel and live a transformed life. This book is what he has discovered as part of personally counselling 2,000 Christians and leading a ministry that has impacted millions.

After going through this author's work I was able to move into persistent prayer. At times I was able to experience uninterrupted prayer that would stretch for hours. It became a delight rather than a burden because I fell in love with God and just wanted to lay at His feet and praise Him. The "switch" for me was allowing the love of God to move from my head to my heart and that changed everything. This book gives super practical guidance and help for doing just this.

Here's a few quotes that capture the heart of the book:

  • "I believe that your hope for growth, meaning and fulfillment as a Christian is based on understanding who you are - specifically, your identity in Christ as a child of God. Your understanding of who God is and who you are in relationship to Him is the critical foundation for your belief system and your behavior patterns as a Christian."

  • "We must have a true knowledge of God and know who we are as children of God. If we really knew God, our behavior would change radically and instantly."

  • "We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted, so we serve God. We don't follow Him to be loved; we are loved, so we follow Him. It is not what we do that determines who we are; it is who we are that determines what we do."


    It helped me in a very similar situation that you are in. I'd highly recommend it! (I own it on Kindle and can send it to any email address for two weeks - if you want to read it but don't want to buy it, just PM me an email [throwaway is fine] and I'll shoot you my copy)
u/TasteTasteTaste · 1 pointr/Reformed

Do you have time to read a book? The message in this changed my life and it sounds very relevant to the difficulties you're going through.

https://www.amazon.com/Victory-Over-Darkness-Realize-Identity/dp/0764213768/

The book is basically a huge dose of comfort, hope, and peace. It digs into the truth of who we are in Christ and shows that all things are possible through Jesus. Very comforting and hope-filled resource.