dusty,

The love comes from God: in Christ. God is love. In people we will find sinners who have not really been able to love. Some of them are even perps. Learning how to love is a journey which never gets completely fulfilled this side of eternity.


10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1 John 4:10 NLT Bible


Allen

pufferfish

What do I do with gay feelings? (from being abused by a man
How do I control my thoughts
how do I renew my mind after years of masturbating about gay sex - sometime sex with a past girlfriend?

I am truely a broken man

I feel like a failed christian

ashamed

confused

ever analysing

Nathan 5

nathan, i am sorry to see you suffering so much over this. in answer to your question, , perhaps consider first dealing with the shame that causes you to think that sexual attractions are 'bad' in the first place. you can live in peace with yourself just as you are; give yourself permission to do so. sounds simple huh? ....it's not, but i have found accepting myself as i am is far easier row to hoe than trying to twist myself into something i believe i 'should' be in the i's of others. that's my take on it.

ron

Ron
guess it was being sexually,abused in violation of my will at an age I couldn't comprehend and my mother messing with my head saying I wanted to go to that house of hell when my father took me there


Well man - I am giving myself permission to be sexually attracted

thanks for releasing me
Nathan 5

Passages in the Bible that continue to help me with my recovery from the effects of abuse:
- Jude 24 +25. Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling...
- Ecclesiastes 4 The value of a friend
- "Take no thought of tomorrow - what troubles it may bring"
- "Ah Lord God, you who made the heavens, nothing is too difficult for You"
- "What Satan planned for evil, I permitted for good"

There are many verses that speak into individual situations that may be for a lifetime or a single hour or day. Whenever I start looking for a>

Greetings my fellow brothers/friends.

This is an interesting subject, it is a subject that has been in the very depths of my soul. Along with all the abuse memories that have surfaced in the last 6 months, I am still trying to find me, just who am I? Just what am I?

I have posted this same question in another post.

If I truly can't find me? Just how am I to find God?

I made a post a while back, in the spirituality site, called
"Trusting God No longer". As of this moment I still believe in that post.

I read where he is with us from what is posted above. But some of us still ask the question where was HE when WE needed Him? We have to have faith in Him, we have to believe in Him. But if I can't believe in myself, how can I Him? I'm still in the depths of hell.

Heal well my brothers/friends.

Pete (Irishmoose)

expom
thank you for the Bible passages

truely it is in God whom I place my trust

my desire is to walk in His ways
and trusting Him to restore my soul Palm 23

Nathan

Dusty and Guys

Our God is an awsome God full of love.. Im sorry you dont see god in that light. He only wants good things for yu and your life. He knew you before you were born, he knopws every hair on your head. He created you in his image.
Gods word will never come back void..."Gods will, will never send you were his grace wont protect you"
sorry fpr preaching...but I love God with all my heart and he loves me....
Gary

Gary
thank you.I too love God with all my heart. He has kept me alive and He is restoring my soul.

"Dear Lord Jesus,
we in this forum have been wounded
abused in our childhood by evil people
thank you we are able to support each other
and share insights
but many of us want more
some do not understand why you did not stop it
some of us just want answers, keys to recovery
healing of our souls, our broken hearts,
our sexuality and out horrid memories.
Please Jesus, release a wave of cleansing, of healing, of deliverance.
wash us
restore us
deliver us

show us the way out of our despair,
our patterns which hinder us
be our saviour please

Nathan

Amen & Halleluia.......

Succinct and very powerfull prayer.......