How to Stop Thinking About Someone: When You Loved Someone But It's Time...

Excellent message again! I have been praying for many years, probably 40 of them, for my children and my extended narcissistic family. They do not change and they seem to be getting worse. Then one day God said to me in my heart, "all the prayers you uttered over the past 40 years still are on record, no need to keep praying, I know your desire for them and what is best for them. " This freed me from uttering prayers so often, practically begging God. I realized it might be a lack of faith to keep praying since perhaps I don't know if He heard me or if He knows what He needs to do. Such arrogance on my part to think I should keep telling God what to do. Now I pray that God will cause me to do and be the right things when I have to be around these people. If I don't heave to be around them I stay away as much as possible.

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Following the Culture can Lead to Hell

The way we grow up shapes our entire lives unless we question those ways and learn from God through the scriptures the right way to think.

When we are in Christ we don't measure what we do or how we think by the opinions of others, we measure them by the mind of Christ.

Many people if not most, hang on tightly to the way they were raised. They don't question the meaning of the things they were taught. They don't ponder the deeper things to discover the truth.

When we allow others to do our thinking for us we will be easily manipulated by the culture around us. We can be guilted into thinking we did something wrong when God's word told us to obey Him His way. Those who are not interested in obeying the word of God will attach our character to discredit us. They did it to the prophets and they will do it to bold born again believers too.

When we are weak in our spirit depending on the validation of others we will easily give in to the culture around us.

We can see what that leads to by how adamantly the culture as a whole has rejected Christ. Even those who say they are "Christians" are incensed at the suggestion that they are not thinking Biblically. Many Christians have gone with their culture instead of Christ and have learned the ways of the devil instead of obeying God.

When we share our wisdom from God's word it is often met with sideways stares and mean looks, even anger in the one who is hearing it.

There is great joy in knowing Christ and living for Him His way. When we do this our conscience and love of Christ is far more comforting than the approval of those who are in bondage to the culture.

Proverbs 1:6-7 "…6 and to understand the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline."

Proverbs 4:13-15 "…13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life. 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by."