Welcome Flamedramon! It is nice to see you here. I would like to suggest a web place for you to get answers to many questions you might have. The place is www.allaboutgod.com . Here is a place to fellowship with people who believe in God and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I believe the Bible to be God's "guidebook" for us to create a relationship with him. You my friend are on a journey. A journey filled with God's truth and Love. Please take time to search for truthand answers. Seek knowledge,truth and a better understanding. God has given all of us the ability we need to fill our lives with joy,peace and a great Hope for the future. We must seek the truth. We must not rely on "things" to lead us around. Our journey begins with the desire to understand fully God's unending Love for each of us. Let the Journey begin!
journeymanhd

Welcome alias 'flamedramon' your very first step of faith in questioning God.

For it is written, 'seek me and you will find me', all a bit heavy isn't it?
But let me tell you God reveals himself to you in your life in very very real ways, transforming your heart if you let him and transforming your life also.

He has done this for me, I did not have the strength to change, nor the way. Both these things he has given me and can give you to.

Ask me what ever you wish and I will gladly respond to you the best I can, I don't have all the answers, but I welcome the conversation.
In the mean time, here is something for you to enjoy, each verse is bible based and reveals the nature of the creator, our Father our God.

What an exciting journey you are about to embark my freind, and you don't even know it yet!
When you seek him you will find him, and I know from experience that he does great and wonderful things.
You are right, in part, only it is God who will, in you do great things.
There are many good freinds on here that can support you as well as I.
Welcome aboard :)

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Welcome
Glad you joined our wonderful internet family, sharing the love of Christ, learning and growing in your spiritual life.And as a bonus making wonderful friends.

May you experience a wonderful fellowship and growth with all the others by joining in the groups and forums and share the love of Christ.
Blessings Nienie

it takes time, but you soon begin to realize how much has added up and is down to God.
For example I have been set free from an eating dissorder, I no longer have depression, infact the opposite is true!..and so many other things, big and small.

what ever happens will be individual to you, as you begin to trust in him.

It is impossible to have faith/believe without trust. However we understand that trust is not an airy fairy thing that it can't just 'happen', it is something that has to grow in us as we question and learn of his true nature.
We understand in this world how to 'learn' in the term of education, but God puts in us a different way then of just 'brain work' and teaches us from the heart.
A special knowledge that sinks in to the bone, rather then sits in our head to be tossed in or out depending on this or that good argument presented to us.
Keep seeking my freind, open your mouth in the quiet of your private time and ask him to show you who he really is, and wait patiently.
It feels silly to do it, but if you do this and continue to search for answers about him he will answer you.
He promises in fact that if you seek him you will find him.
It sounds 'far out' and is hard for our own head to understand, but it does happen.
In doing this you embark on a journey, a journey where the focus is learning to understand and enjoy the journey, rather then the whole 'head work' of the destination and arrival time.

The lyrics to 'Amazing Grace' used to mean nothing to me...now it is totally different.. God's Grace is Totally amazing.. I pray God will show you... be ready to receive it!

The bible is God's Love Letter to us.. Believe it! Our God is a God who cannot lie! These are scripture verses..

God Gave Them Up
August 9, 2009

Rom 1:28 When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

This is a terrifying verse, climaxing the awful indictment (in Romans 1:18-32) of God against a world in rebellion against its maker. This burning passage begins with Paul's declaration that God's wrath has been revealed against all those who "hold the truth"--or, more explicitly, "hold down or suppress the truth" in unrighteousness.

Then, in a rising crescendo of testimonies of wickedness and resulting condemnation, one fearful clause appears no less than three times: "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts. . . . For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections. . . . God gave them over to a reprobate mind" (vv. 24, 26, 28).

As terrible as such judgments seem, the provocations were infinitely worse. They "changed the glory of the uncorruptible God" into idols depicting His creatures (v. 23). They "changed the truth of God into a lie" and rejected Him as Creator (v. 25). They subjected Him to critical philosophical scrutiny, and chose not "to retain God in their knowledge" at all (implied in the Greek "did not like") (v. 28). Thus it was that our God of all grace finally had to give them up!

But the frightening thing is that this dark scene describes more than ancient paganism. Every verse is also a precise indictment of this present, evil "post-Christian" world, as we almost seem to be reading therein a documentary of the present age. What a picture it draws of modern evolutionary humanism in practice!

Yet the apostle Paul was still preparing to go to Rome, "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," for that gospel was then--and still is--"the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Romans 1:16). HMM

God does hold people accountable...He will give them up to the ways which they want to go...they have a Free Will...

Rom 1:18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves. [fn]


Rom 1:19 For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. [fn] God has put this knowledge in their hearts.


Rom 1:20 From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.


Rom 1:21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.


Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.


Rom 1:23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.


Rom 1:24 So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.


Rom 1:25 Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen.


Rom 1:26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.


Rom 1:27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.


Rom 1:28 When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.


Rom 1:29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.


Rom 1:30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedient to their parents.


Rom 1:31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, and are heartless and unforgiving.


Rom 1:32 They are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet they go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

Question:
Who controls the weather.. God or Satan?

The increasing number of natural disasters and terrible storms have many people wondering, who controls the weather, God or Satan? An examination of Scripture reveals that Satan and his demon angels have no control over natural disasters. The Devil, our “adversary,” must be taken seriously, however, by acknowledging his reality and his limited power over the secular world. Satan, a defeated fallen angel, is super-human but not divine, having only that power that God ultimately allows (2 Thessalonians 2:6-11).

If Satan could impact the weather, it would only be by God's permission, though restrained, as in the case of Job. Satan was allowed by God to torment Job in order to test him, and this included “the fire of God” (probably lightning) which “fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants” (Job 1:16). This was followed by a “mighty wind” (possibly a tornado) that destroyed his home and killed his children (vv. 18-19). So if the fire from heaven and the tornado were somehow caused by Satan, they were still under the ultimate control of God for His purposes.

It is God, not Satan, who controls the weather (Exodus 9:29; Psalm 135:6-7; Jeremiah 10:13).
God controls the skies and the rain (Psalm 77:16-19).
God controls the wind (Mark 4:35-41; Jeremiah 51:16).
God upholds and sustains the universe (Hebrews 1:3).
God has power over the clouds (Job 37:11-12, 16).
God has power over lightning and Satan (Psalm 18:14).
God has power over all nature (Job 26).

God is in control of all things, including the weather, and through His providence, provides for and protects His children, but He also ordains or permits Satan, demons, and mankind to exercise their limited will to commit acts of sin, evil, and wickedness. These same beings are fully responsible for any and all man-made disasters and tragedies they cause. We know that God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass (Ephesians 1:11; Romans 11:36), and therefore His invisible hand is in our pain, even though He cannot sin or be the perpetrator of evil (James 1:13-17).

There can be no meaningless suffering for the believer, whether the suffering is caused by mankind or by a natural event. We may not always know why evil acts or natural disasters happen, but we can be assured that in all our trials and tribulations God is working all things together for His glory and for our everlasting good (Romans 8:18-28).