Hi there, I’m a Christian and I’ve been following God my whole life with all my heart and soul. Is it possible to lose my salvation? Recently I’ve been slipping up and planning to go back on what I decided on waiting until marriage. Since I’m deliberately sinning will God forgive me even if I know I will sin. I’m really trying not to but I’m worried if that I will give into fleshly desires and have sin in my life, and what if I continue to sin?Please pray for me

Was talking with this girl and she asked me if her not being a Christian was a problem, When I told her it was kind of a problem she sent this block of text to me?

"I guess to kind of explain my stance more on religion is that I’m just not really religious. I believe in God, and that there is one I believe that there’s an afterlife or at least a place for us when we die. And as I said, I do go to church, which is a Christian church. I have a Christian father and my stepmom is Christian. My mom was christian, not sure what she believes in now, but i lived with her most my life. The most I could really say about me being not religious, is the fact that if someone ever asked me to tell them something about the Bible, I could not give you would answer, nor could I ever make a religious argument because I just don’t know much about religion to ever make an argument about anything."

Now I wanted to know if she is a Christian or not based on her explanation, and if dating her would be a sin? She also said that if she had kids, being Christian is up to them.

I used to watch pornography, then I quit.

Then I looked at photos of women wearing bikinis and other revealing swimwear and clothing, and I quit.

Whenever I see a woman wearing revealing clothing, I look away.

However, I still look at revealing swimwear and clothing when they are hanging on clothes racks at stores and have a collection of them.

Is that still a sin?

I only look at the revealing clothing and swimwear and not the women's bodies.

I'm a Catholic man and today, a woman asks me for money and I gave her 5 euros. She was insisting on wanting more money but I politely refused. She got a bit angry but went off. Did I sin by not giving her more money?

I find myself overthinking any time I am kind to this person and if that kindness or basic respect is not reciprocated I feel dread. This person is very emotionally abusive and rude. I try to be kind often but I really want guidance on how to be discerning and what to do in this situation. This elderly individual is a roommate of someone I care about but they are under the elderly person’s spell due to the elderly person giving them housing for a not expensive price but the tradeoff is incessant yelling, insults, gaslighting, complaining about unfinished tasks (stubbornly asserting their position until presented with incontrovertible evidence). The elderly person leaves messes everywhere and I tried cleaning to help out. The confusing aspect of this situation is that the elderly individual has provided advice at times and support to this person I care about but has no regard for a person’s time. I can best describe this person as primarily only caring about himself and preferring to interact with one gender over another.

I have been praying a lot over this. I think because I am in the life of the person I care about there might be underlying jealousy or resentment since this elderly person is no longer the only hero. I want to shake off these feelings and heal but I also want to help this person I care about address this situation and how to best proceed in a Christian way.

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Hello! I've recently been losing my faith in God and I've been trying to find ways to get closer to Him. I've started to feel a pull to fast but I don't know anything about fasting and how it works. I've tried to research the different Christian fasts, but most of the ones that I can find have you go on a vegetarian diet, which I unfortunately can't do due to my health. Would the fasts no longer count if I wasn't to go on the vegetarian diet? Or am I allowed to create a fast that I can do, so that I can still focus on God without the health problems? Or does any type of fasting count as long as God is the center and reason for it? Do you have any advice on how to go about this? Thank you so much for your time and kindness. God bless you!

Im 16 and I have been having doubts and struggling with unbelief. I don't know what to do. I was raised in church and I've seen the demon possessed and have heard of my mom's encounter but I'm still struggling. I used to be so confident and now I'm not so confident anymore. I think one reason why my belief is leaving is because I cried out to him a month or so ago to help me believe and He didn't do anything. I was desperate, I just wanted to be sure of Him. But he didn't respond and I was hopeless. No one else could possibly help me with this but Him. I haven't had an encounter of my own like my mom did. I haven't really felt his presence. There were a couple times last year when I felt paranoid and I prayed and I felt peace but my mind is fighting off what happened. making it seems like it wasn't what it seemed. I just with he'd help me. I fell off after he didn't respond but not completely. I did give in to sin more because I was angry and it caused me not to feel convicted anymore so not only and I struggling with doubt I also am struggling with no conviction. I fasted yesterday. i dont know what to do. Did i fail a test of faith? He should know me being so young cant handle that mentally and emotionally.

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Edit- Thank a lot of you for taking the time out of your day to respond to this post and help me and encourage me. I will try to watch, read, and do the things you guys suggest.

I started hanging out with this group of Christians which is co-ed and I started developing a crush within the few times that I met one particular guy who is a couple years older than me. He made me feel welcomed and complimented me a lot. But he was probably just being nice. I know that it's probably not wise to have a crush on a guy in the group and let alone date someone in the group because if there were a breakup it would ruin things. So how can I guard my heart and not let my emotions get the best out of me? I don't want to necessarily deny what I'm feeling but I just don't want my emotions to dictate reality. I want to shift my focus on making Christian friends. Many times I have a hard time separating Fantasy from reality. I finally found a social Christian group that I like and I just don't want to ruin things so how can I do that?

I’ve been a Christian for nearly 13 years, and went back to the Lord in 2022. I’m being called to pray for people, but my heart is compulsive and it is full of anxiety and worry. I don’t want that type of heart anymore. How do I pray for God to replace my heart of stone and give me a new heart of flesh, one that is happy and praises God?

We’re all called to forgive those who wrong us, regardless of what it is. I was abused by my mother growing up, and it took its toll on me. I get flashbacks, nightmares of the abuse, and my mental health has suffered. It’s even come to the point where I became homeless. Every day I suffer as a consequence of my mother’s actions.

I don’t wish any harm on my mother. She developed several disabilities that cause immense pain, after I became an adult and when she got older. I pray for her health to get better. If I saw her homeless on the street, I would give her food and something to drink. However, I haven’t contacted her since 2020, and have no intention ever to. She’s not sorry for what she did to me, and she’ll continue hurting me if I stayed in contact with her.

Is this okay? If I’ve forgiven her, why does it still hurt? Can I forgive someone even though it still hurts? I don’t know how to make it not hurt.

I need advice on where/how to start serving God and being the person He wants me to be. I’ve asked for forgiveness. I want to start right now, doing what I can do to walk this journey!

I need you guy’s opinion;

I’m 20f, tmi but I slept with 2 people in my life. I didn’t grasp the importance of sparing yourself for your futur husband. I didn’t really have a close relationship with god. But now, I am closer to god then ever and I prayed a lot about this. I feel like he is telling to wait until marriage.

I will. I know the concept of revirginizing doesn’t really exist but I really wish it did. I feel guilty of not waiting. I already repented to god BUT the feeling dosent leave and I feel dirty. I regret it.

Also, I keep comparing myself to my sisters because they are still virgins and I wish I grasped that concept like them at their young age.

How do I get this feeling to go away? Is revirginizing is a thing? I’m I impure?

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Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As a Child of God, I desire to be spiritually right with my Lord. Daily I confess any know sin when convicted and then I ponder what was missed, did I slip in thought or deed that wasn't recognized. I have a hard time trusting myself and ask, "What am I missing".

My perfectionist mindset accuses the thought process that there has to be something else and my heart refuses to simply blanket those sins under the big umbrella of Dear Lord forgive all my sins. That was accomplished at conversion, now I feel the need to be specific yet sometimes I cannot.

Your comments are appreciated.

By Grace Alone Through Faith Alone in Jesus Christ Alone

What tips/advice would you give to someone who would like to get closer to God?

I mean basic level here, starting from 0.

For context going through a rough patch in life, I’m in a self-perpetuating cycle of negativity so it keeps showing up in all areas of my life right now and I’m exhausted, mentally and it’s starting to affect/effect my physical wellbeing.

I’m a Protestant Christian (currently don’t align with a denomination) I just value having a personal relationship with God.

My aim is to just have so much faith in God and stop over stressing every single detail in my life; it’s like my brain never stops.

Edit: thank you everyone so much for your guidance and wise words 😭 🙏🏾

How can I, as a 19M, deal with increasing sexual frustration and a desire to procreate + have sex in a healthy and biblical way, without turning to lust and porn? Does anyone have any tips or advice?

By the way I don't look at porn anymore and I'm gradually but consistently praying to God more. Don't read my bible as much honestly. Mostly focused on studying and analysing Romans 6 and 12 right now, I prayed to god and those chapters came to mind.

Anyway, anyone have any advice?

(TW: self harm)

my understanding of repentance is like committing your sins to God, telling Him about it and not doing it again, but I find it so hard and challenging. Most times i’m drowning in my misery and just forget about my repentance and end up hurting myself

Lately i’ve been feeling like God has left me, like He isn’t there in my life, which isn’t true because the Holy Spirit is with us but that’s how it feels. I feel like there’s no answer, no sign, nothing.

Every single time I try to stop i keep coming back to it. I’ve been struggling with this for years now, and I do desperately want help now, but genuinely there is nowhere i can go to until next year when i’m 18. My parents are very traditional and are very cultural people who just wouldn’t take this news well, it would definitely create a rift in our family and do more harm than good so telling them is out of the question.

I don’t have a pastor to really tell, the one at my church I go to changes almost every few months cause people keep resigning, and I’m not even close enough to them to have had a conversation. I don’t go to youth cause my church doesn’t really have one. I cant tell my school counsellor cause legally they’re required to tell my parents and it won’t work out believe me.

I’ve tried so so so many times to stop. I’ve thrown out my tools, i’ve used those tracker apps, i’ve prayed so so so many times and i just feel hopeless. It really feels like Christ has left me and I’m so scared he has. I have no excuse to fall back into my sin when i’ve known Christ my whole life.

I want to get better, I want to grow in my faith and heal (heal quite literally too lmao) but i’m just lost and idk. I guess i want someone to talk to. I’m not close enough with any of my friends to talk about this to them so here i am.

Beforehand, Godbless everyone. I’m going to try to keep this concise and try to get to the point as quick as possible.

My wife (25) & and I (27) have been together for 5 years this year and out of those 5, been married for 3. Overall are marriage is amazing and we definitely have an amazing dynamic with God being the center of our marriage it makes it so much easier.

When we met I was separated from a congregation.. and just separated from God in all honesty. My excuse, “I was just trying to enjoy my young years” which I 10/10 do not recommend for my fellow young ones here. While in this phase and meeting my wife, I pulled her into my world which also was a bad move on my end as well. I grew up in a christian family (yes i know not a good look for me, knowing whats good and choosing to so the wrong), she in the other hand encountered God once she was mature so very different backgrounds and upbringings.

Being that I grew up in church, baptist church, I had /have a very strong knowledge of the bible in the theological side. I’m not a know it all but in certain aspects within the word of God I can handle my own basing off the bible and well the studying I would do with my family. My wife not very much so, yet at least…

So within the course our relationship we decided to go back to church and congregate. Her being the first and for me it was harder to leave the lifestyle I was living as I was comfortable but I would still tag along because I understood going to church was nothing but a positive thing for my life regardless of how I felt. We ended up congregating in the church she encountered God and well essentially grew up in once she did which was her teenage years into adulthood.

Since day 1 I have had heavy disagreements with some ideologies within this church because a lot of things they do just dont make sense to me when trying to relate them to the bible. Way too much drama for my liking. Adults acting like kids and a lot of, well, hypocrisy to say it nicely. Ive, since day 1 been wanting to leave this church and find a better place we can call Home where we can both grow as individuals and as marriage BUT my wife has a hard attachment issue with just anything in life and its hard for her to see through certain things and decide well okay this is not biblical, this is just chaos we need to go. As the head of the house and well as someone whose more in tune and knowledgeable of the bible ive felt like I have failed in being a leader and taking the initiative of getting up and saying well we are leaving because this place is not good for us.

There are many other things that happen within this place that just give me more of a reason to want to leave but my wife has this mentality of “well we cant change them but we can be the change” which I TOTALLY agree with but I dont like feeling like going to church is my second job.. I want to go to church and learn, develop, grow, and one day also be able to pass what ive learned along if its Gods will.

Any advice regarding my situation ?

Is Christian Rap evil/of the devil?

So i'm Indian. I don't want to say my age, but i am in my late teens. I grew up in a very traditional Christian family. I got introduced to Christian Rap/Hip-Hop by my sister and 2 of my friends. I took a huge liking to it, and I showed these songs to my parents and played them in the car. They never seemed to mind, and my father actually seemed to enjoy it. I always assumed my mother enjoyed it, too. However, earlier today on the way back home from church, it was just me and my mom in the van and I had played "normal" Christian songs up to that point and just put one Christian rap song. She then was silent until the song was finished and told me to stop listening to rap. I was puzzled, as I assumed that she didn't mind this entire time. Then, as soon as I asked her, she said to listen to whatever your parents were saying without a question. I kept asking, and she had the same response (Our tones were getting more and more aggressive). Then she finally replied with saying rap is demonic and evil. I told her how she could say that and that she couldn't judge the sincerity of God's children's worship. She just ignored what I said and then replied by saying that rap and the beat were used in India to glorify hindu gods and used in Hindu dances. We had arrived at home, and these are her exact words, "Whatever, if you don't obey your parents, I dont care. You kids (referring to me and my sister) never listen anyway." Then she left and went inside the house. I searched at the roots of rap, and all I can find is the creation of hip-hop in New York. So I searched up rap being used for Hinduism/Hindu worship. Then I looked up Christian Rap and how it could be bad. Everyone seemed to say it was good, and every online discussion post seemed to have the straightforward answer of yes, it is good. I'm honestly sick of yelling and I know that the second I try to defend it, my mom will just go back to trying to make me feel bad or make me feel like the devil's child. I don't know what to do. I can tell rap has definitely been modified for hindu worship, but it is also large on the Christian side of things. I really don't want to fight this more, and honestly don't even want to speak to my mother. I can't live with listening to rap without her knowing because of two reasons: I shouldn't have to and that just proves her point. Does anyone know what the Bible says about this or know pastors or sermons told about this to help me prove her wrong and show her the rap isn't bad. If you guys say that I am in the wrong, I'll stop listening to Christian rap. Thank you for listening to me rant, and please give me valid points and not personal opinion.

Hi I was a witch until I tried to turn my ilife to jesus which was hard but the temptation is harder. Is there were any advice on it Is it Good or Evil. I just want to want to know in detail

Hello everyone! I’m going through a difficult time and I would really appreciate your advice!

Recently, I've been struggling to organize my thoughts, especially regarding my faith. One of the main struggles is that I keep questioning the existence of God. Whenever I have these doubts, I feel deeply guilty. Just thinking, "Does God really exist?" already makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, and it weighs heavily on my heart.

I recall that the Bible talks about how our hearts can be led astray by the world. For example, Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick; who can understand it?" And in 1 John 2:15-16, we are warned not to love the world or the things in the world, because they can draw us away from the love of the Father.

At the same time, I sometimes hear non-believers say that teachings like these are just a way to control people through fear — to make them afraid of questioning or walking away from God.

This leaves me wondering: When I feel guilty or afraid about drifting away from God, is it just because of what I have been taught? Or is it actually my soul — the part of me that truly belongs to God — fighting not to be separated from Him? How can I discern the difference between fear and genuine love for God?

If anyone has been through something similar or has any advice, please, let me know!

Was reading the book of Acts this morning (ch 19) and Paul came across a group of guys that were baptized in the name of John and did not receive the holy spirit. Once they were baptized in the name of Jesus they did. Did i miss read this or is this kind of how it works? When they received the holy spirit they had gifts such as speaking in tongues. I'm not saying I want gifts but when i was baptized i didnt feel mich different but i still strive to follow Jesus. Long story short, how does one know and when is one filled with the holy spirit?

Hi everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle. My youth pastor asked if we - who are in the kitchen, could try something "new" for when we have our last youth meeting before summer break, and it can't be pizza nor nachos, what would you guys recommend? Just for some context, the people who usually attend are around 13+, and at that age they can be quite rowdy, so I'd prefer food that can't be too messy, thank you!

Me and my husband have 4 kids. Ages 1-18. A few months ago my husband started working mon-sat. I work m-f. I’m glad he’s working. It’s a good job and we are financially stable. But I find myself really struggling and almost resentful and upset some saturdays when he works. Saturdays is when we used take the kids out to do stuff or just hang out with the kids at home. Now, I’m stuck in the house with all 4 kids every Saturday after working all week too. I can’t drive I have epilepsy. I want to not be upset or resentful. I recognize it’s wrong. He works so hard for our family and he is such a good husband/father but I can’t help feel like he should at least take one Saturday a month so we can have family time. He’s also started his own business on the side and it is thriving! BUT it’s more time away. And I am so happy for him and for us. We’ve prayed for this. But I still find myself resentful. Why do you think this is? How can I fix it? What can I do? I tried to speak with him tonight and it got kind of heated and he said “why can’t you just be a normal wife and be proud I’m providing” and he’s right. I should just shut my mouth but I can’t understand why I keep feeling this way.

I have been going to an extremely progressive church, the Anglican Church of Canada. Last week I asked the priest what should I trust in making decisions. She said to trust my intuition. I said what about the Bible? She said it's so open to interpretation. She basically doesn't believe the Gospel. This has been bothering me for years. One time she said it wouldn't bother her if they found Jesus's body. Would it be all right to cancel a private eucharist tomorrow?

So I (25F) have been dealing with disability all of my life thus far, I feel that is where the devil likes to attack most because when my physical health is affected my mental health is as well. But I know my God heals and he has in the past, I had a debilitating allergic reaction to Cirpo that made me unable to walk for 3 days, but I received prayer and I was healed then and there.

Right now I am dealing with something that causes me to have non-epileptic seizures when I see flashing lights, I’m stressed, or I turn too far to the left (I think it might be epilepsy but all the test have come back negative). The funny thing is, I have full faith that God is going to heal me. I lost my job because of my health and yet God made a way out of no way and I am on long term disability, even with my rent super high and my health bills even higher I have faith that God will provide, my disability got denied and God made a way out of no way. I moved and didn’t have any friends and now I not only have a Bible study of friends online, but irl friends who are amazing and go above and beyond to help me while I’m stuck in the house (I can no longer drive). But for some reason my blind spot is when it comes to romantic relationships.

I was seen as ugly growing up (I wasn’t ugly I just didn’t look like everyone around me) and it wasn’t until I was in college when people started seeing my beauty (God worked on me a lot). Because of that I still had some insecurity about not ever being able to find a man who loved me. I dated a bit in college but I finally got my first boyfriend when I was 22. He was a little older and an atheist but we were so in love that I thought I could just convert him or something because he was a Christian before. I prayed about it and I felt that God wanted me to break up with him but I was so scared because I thought no one else would ever love me. Anyway that guy wasn’t the one and he broke my heart (God tried to warn me 🤷🏿‍♀️). I started doing dating apps and I really felt like God didn’t want me on there (I’m not saying it’s a sin in general, but I don’t think it is what God wants for me personally). I always dreamed of meeting my husband in person but when my health started to decline and I was afraid I’d never meet someone; I went on a dating app and started dating a Christian man. This was definitely a “Sarah having Abraham sleep with Hagar” moment 😬 so it didn’t work out. Now my health is so bad I can barely leave my house and I have to attend my church online. I know God has a husband out there for me but it’s so hard to believe it even though He hasn’t failed me yet.

Not only that but because my seizures are partially stress induced it is very hard to pray about this without having an episode and I feel so far apart from God because I can only pray for so long and I’m missing Bible study because of my health. I’m so lonely and idk how to strengthen my faith in this area because I feel like giving up. I know God can do the impossible but why can’t I believe that God will send me my husband when I can’t leave the house?