God, If You’re Out There I Need Some Help
It started with a trip to a walk-in clinic. Then there was the phone call, “You need to come to the hospital right now.” Then came more tests and an uncomfortable conversation with a nurse who had the tough job of saying the words, “We think you have leukemia.”
Mike is a creative guy, he’s into music and photography. Years ago when he first tried weed he felt it opened his mind, made him more creative and he liked the way it felt. When a friend offered him OxyContin he took it and that’s when life started to get really messy.
OxyContin is highly addictive. It’s also very expensive and Mike turned to fraud to get his fix. Months later the police caught up with him, took his money and his pills and that’s when Mike started looking for help elsewhere.
God, if you’re out there I need some help.
Mike found God during a year-long stint with Teen Challenge. Now he’s figuring out what faith looks like when the doctors are measuring your life expectancy in months. This is his story.
God is interested in your life.
If you’ve ever wished you could have a do-over you need to read this.
What would your life look like if you could start over with a clean slate? Jesus came, and died, and rose again to wipe the slate clean. He was scourged, tormented, and finally nailed on the cross for humankind’s sins – this was all part of God’s plan to bring you and I back into relationship with him. God wants to be a part of your life … in fact, not just a part of your life, but wants you to live in full fellowship with Him.
God loves you and created you to know Him personally. He longs for you to have the kind of full life you were always meant to have. So why do people not experience this kind of life? People are lost and separated from God, so we cannot know Him personally or experience His love. Because of our sins, we justly deserve judgement. But God provided his Son, Jesus Christ, as the only provision for our sin. He died in our place, then he rose from the dead.
We must individually trust Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know God personally, receive forgiveness for our sins, and experience His love: “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12)
We trust God through faith. You can trust Christ right now by faith through prayer! (Prayer is just talking with God.) God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. You could pray something like this:
Jesus, I need you. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be. Amen
If you want the life Jesus offers, pray this prayer right now and you can be sure that he will save you, just as he promised.
If it does, pray this prayer right now, and Christ will come into your life, just as He promised.
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I’m going through had time I’m Christian I pary but I’m loosing my faith.
I’m in a bad point no onei need God to help me but I’m not getting any luck.
to Gina– prayer father God I do pray for your help for her and I pray for Christians to come along her path to encourage her be with Gina at this time and bring dreams and visions that you love her with an everlasting love I am praying for you. I pray all of this in JESUS name amen
I have always been a great christian always done my part always helped others always prayed but no i am just lost. God never seems to be there when i need him.
Hi Cindy,
I am sorry that you have felt abandoned by God. Your words sound very similar to some things that King David wrote during his life. “How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?” (Psalm 13:1) I think most followers of Jesus have felt that desperation at some point in their life. But also like you, David continued to put his trust in God. He remembered that even when it doesn’t seem like God is hearing and providing for us, there are ways that God is pouring out His love into our lives that we never even realize. David concludes his Psalm with “But I have trusted in Your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.”
Our faith is not based on what we are able to see, but in what we know about God’s character: He is perfectly faithful, perfectly loving, perfectly powerful, perfectly wise, and perfectly good. So even when it seems like He should be doing things differently, we can trust that everything He does is right and good. We believe in the promise “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5). We have confidence in the declaration, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28). We put our trust in Jesus’ words, “Come to me all of you who are weary and weighed down; I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28).
Cindy, I have found that it is helpful to think back to the times in my life when Jesus has made Himself known in tangible ways. Why don’t you tell me about how you came to be a Christian. Was there something that had happened that made His promise to you meaningful? Was there some insight that you had that helped you be aware of His character? Was it a moment of conversion or did it happen over time?
In the meantime, let me pray for you: Dear Jesus, I pray for Cindy as she goes through this time of confusion and suffering. I pray that You would reveal Yourself to her in a unique way, and give her the assurance that You have never left nor abandoned her. Help her deal with the struggles that she is living in right now, and give her strength to carry on. Bring people around her who can encourage, support her and point her to You. Amen.
I look forward to hearing back from you soon Cindy. Have a blessed Easter.