what should i do

[Jahbless]

hi everyone im still trying to get a hang with how to post things up and reply to people lol but i will get there eventually im so glad we finally have a full on website where we can all chat and encourage each other about our one and only lord jesus christ i found this website after having a huge argument with my brother and sisters and i was trying to find a christian camp event where i could go to, to get closer to god because i couldnt take anymore of my families lies anymore and watching them commite sin and whats worse was i started doubting if we even had a god because i've been praying for so long for him to help my family live in peace and to love one another and to stop sinning and as i was searching for a youth camp i saw your website and came on it and saw how encouraging your website was and how everyone on it have such a close relationship with god and i was hoping can anyone help me get back on track with god because i feel like if i dont help my family see god then im committing the biggest sin and thinking of myself, but at the same time i feel like the more i focus on trying to help them the more i sin because im not focusing on god im focusing on trying help them i really dont know what to do and at the same time i feel like im loosing my faith and i dont want to please help??

[The_Light_Within]

(01-15-2012 02:44 AM)Jahbless Wrote:  hi everyone im still trying to get a hang with how to post things up and reply to people lol but i will get there eventually im so glad we finally have a full on website where we can all chat and encourage each other about our one and only lord jesus christ i found this website after having a huge argument with my brother and sisters and i was trying to find a christian camp event where i could go to, to get closer to god because i couldnt take anymore of my families lies anymore and watching them commite sin and whats worse was i started doubting if we even had a god because i've been praying for so long for him to help my family live in peace and to love one another and to stop sinning and as i was searching for a youth camp i saw your website and came on it and saw how encouraging your website was and how everyone on it have such a close relationship with god and i was hoping can anyone help me get back on track with god because i feel like if i dont help my family see god then im committing the biggest sin and thinking of myself, but at the same time i feel like the more i focus on trying to help them the more i sin because im not focusing on god im focusing on trying help them i really dont know what to do and at the same time i feel like im loosing my faith and i dont want to please help??

Welcome Jahbless, it's wonderful to see you here. I can relate to what you are going through as well so I completely understand. Many people believe answered prayer is God granting a prayer request that is offered to Him. If a prayer request is not granted, it is understood as an “unanswered” prayer. However, this is an incorrect understanding of prayer. God answers every prayer that is lifted to Him. Sometimes God answers “no” or “wait.” God only promises to grant our prayers when we ask according to His will. “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).

Praying according to God’s will is praying for things that honor and glorify God and/or praying for what the Bible clearly reveals God’s will to be. If we pray for something that is not honoring to God or not God’s will for our lives, God will not give what we ask for. How can we know what God’s will is? God promises to give us wisdom when we ask for it. James 1:5 proclaims, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” A good place to start is 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24, which outlines many things that are God’s will for us. The better we understand God’s Word, the better we will know what to pray for (John 15:7). The better we know what to pray for, the more often God will answer “yes” to our requests.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you (James 4:1-10).

I pray this helps you in your current situation. If you have anything else to ask feel free to post. Lord bless.

[Jahbless]

thank you so much for the encouragement i will keep my head high continue to read the holy book and pray for right reasons not for wrong thank you again for the scriptures it really helped me understand what i am going through god is truly amazing god bless