To be more tenderhearted than any human, and to love more than life itself hate-crazed rapists as well as and their innocent victims, is to live on an emotional nuclear bomb. Nevertheless, this is the agonizing, heart-wrenching place where God lives. To be the God of perfect justice, and yet merciful and forgiving, is to live on a knife-edge that demands terrifyingly immense wisdom. If you, in your wildest dreams, suppose you could do better that the God of perfection, it is because in this infinitesimal fragment of eternity, you know only a fraction of the facts and the final destinies of those involved.

The Lord could have stripped us all of our dignity and freedom of choice, enslaving humanity so that it is impossible for any of us to make wrong decisions and hurt people. Yes, such iron control would remove evil, but it would also remove all good. If robbed of choice, every human action would be reduced to moral neutrality. We could never know the joyous fulfillment and honor of having chosen correctly.

You cannot congratulate a robot. Only its maker could be honored. God wants not machines but children – dignified beings who can be honored. We cannot make praiseworthy decisions, without it being possible for us to make blameworthy decisions. To be destined to rule as royalty with God for all eternity, necessitates the freedom to make horrific mistakes. Love does not enslave; it sets free.

And to again quote myself:

The Divine Ache

You cannot fervently love someone without aching for that person to love you – especially if you know that person desperately needs you in his/her life. To deeply love someone means you could have everything else in the universe, and yet without that person’s love you would still be heartbroken. To love is to make oneself so vulnerable that even having unlimited power could not help. Omnipotence could easily force someone to obey you. Or it could produce something like a “love” potion, causing a person to be under the illusion of loving you. But genuine love can never be compelled. If it involves force or chemicals or deceit or bribery, it is a sham, and can never satisfy your yearning for that person’s love.

There are things that not even omnipotence can achieve. It cannot, for example, produce a square circle. It can easily turn a circle into a square, but the instant it has straight sides it is not a circle. Likewise, when someone is forced to act in love, it is not genuine love. Even with unlimited power, there is little anyone could do to induce genuine love in a person, other than be loving and wait for a response.

We would be appalled if a man kidnapped a woman and raped and enslaved her because he claims he loves her, wants her as his wife and is convinced he can make her happy. It would be an immoral abuse of power, regardless of whether he used physical force or threats – in which case she would be conscious of the violation of her rights – or if he used drugs or hypnotism so that she is unaware that what is happening is against her will. Real love respects the desires of the beloved, no matter how much it clashes with the lover’s personal longings, and no matter how certain he is that the person would benefit from lifelong intimacy with him.

God wants a relationship with us more intimate, more permanent and more exclusive than the most wonderful marriage any human couple could ever experience. When we learn that he wants us to love, honor and obey him, however, we tend to back off in horror before discovering that in every way we benefit from this relationship and it is God, not us, who gets the raw end. He loves you more than you love yourself and has your best interests at heart even more than you do. He alone has infinite understanding and – as demonstrated by Jesus suffering on the cross for you – he is utterly unselfish and would sacrifice anything for your eternal happiness. To disregard the advice of someone of infinite intelligence who wants only your best, makes as much sense as deliberately harming yourself. Any time we fail to love, honor and obey the God who is devoted to our welfare, we ruin that part of our lives, relative to what we would otherwise have enjoyed and achieved.

God is love, and love takes enormous risks, because there is no other way to love. “If you love something, set it free; if it comes back it’s yours, if it doesn’t, it never was,” said Richard Bach. This principle is the driving force behind all that God does.

God is good. He is perfect in all his ways. He is infinitely trustworthy.

When it Seems God has Favorites

If we confuse circumstances with God’s favor, we are bound to suffer bouts of feeling unloved. Until we understand the heart of God and his plans for us, there is little that is more likely to crush our ability to feel loved than when God seems to be blessing others more than us.

Let’s examine the reasons why it is so common for us to mistakenly think God has favorites. (If you don’t require all the detail provided in this section, feel free to just skim through it.)

Not Seeing the Big Picture

One of Jesus’ most chilling expressions was, “they have received their reward in full” (Matthew 6:2,5,16). Despite seeming blessed of God, their current satisfaction, smugness or “fifteen minutes of fame” is all they will ever get.

There are those who by missing out down here are storing up treasure in heaven, and there are those who are the envy of people down here, but will live in eternal regret. “What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight” (Luke 16:15).

To illustrate, Jesus compared Lazarus, a diseased, despised beggar, with a hard-hearted rich man, who seemed to be basking in God’s blessing. For all eternity, their situations will be reversed (Luke 16:19-26). Another time, Jesus told of a farmer who seemed so divinely favored that he had to build bigger barns to store all his wealth, but his riches were of no consequence because he would die and his bumper harvests were the only “blessing” he would ever receive (Luke 12:16-21).

Jesus kept emphasizing that what matters is not current circumstances – whether our own or those of other people. Over and over, Jesus taught that everyone’s existence takes an astounding twist; a terrifying or heart-stoppingly thrilling reversal of fortune, in the next life. The proud will be humbled. The humble will be exalted. The first will end up last. The meek will inherit the earth. Jesus revealed that at the end of the age, when the “sheep” are separated from the “goats,” both classes of people will be shocked. Neither had imagined the stupendous and eternal implications of their seemingly minor decisions (Matthew 25:31-46). He spoke of three servants entrusted with money. Two worked hard, one had a life of ease, but the day of reckoning came (Matthew 25:14-30).

Jesus’ own life highlights the great reversal. He went from the cross to the throne; from earthly shame to eternal glory; from apparent rejection from God to being exalted by him. The final twist was staggering. And he told us to take up our cross and follow him on this astounding journey.

In the short term, the ungodly can indeed prosper and, like our crucified Lord, God’s children can get a raw deal. It is vital that we focus on the eternal, not current “blessings.” When we confuse the two, everything slides out of focus and we will wrongly think God is overlooking us.

Often we are like athletes selected for Olympic glory, thinking that if the coach truly cared about us he wouldn’t set us grueling training sessions.

Jesus warned us to store up treasure in heaven, not on earth. Blessed are the poor, the meek, the persecuted, he declared. There are Christians who will spend all eternity rejoicing in the blessing of having on earth suffered severe persecution and defamation. And there are Christians who seem to have it all and yet will suffer eternal loss, as if a fire had ripped through their home, destroying everything they owned (1 Corinthians 3:11-15).

Seasons in God

Job crashed from prosperity to poverty, from health to sickness and from a large, happy family to devastating grief. Throughout it all there was not the slightest fluctuation in God’s love for him. Joseph went from being the pampered, favorite son, to being a slave, then branded a rapist and incarcerated as a criminal, and finally exalted to political power, fame and fortune – all without any change in God’s attitude to him. David moved from shepherd boy to giant killer, to King’s son-in-law, to fugitive, to King – with God being proud of him the whole time.

We could talk of Elijah, who slid from mountain top, to depression, to spectacular entry to heaven. Or we could burst out of the Old Testament into the New, and see the mightily blessed apostle Paul often having not even enough to eat (Scriptures), suffering horrific beatings, unjust prison sentences, pounded by natural disasters (snake bite, several ship wrecks, and so on) and God refusing to answer his prayers (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). On and on we could go, showing from God’s revelation to humanity (the Bible) that changing fortunes need not indicate changes in God’s favor.

To always be in fruit would kill a tree. As trees cycle from dormancy, to blossom, to fruitfulness, to loss, pruning, and dormancy again, without fluctuations in God’s blessing, so people basking in God’s blessing have seasons of growth and fruitfulness and seasons of loss, dryness and barrenness. The main difference between spiritual seasons and natural seasons is that nature moves in unison, whereas at any one time, different Christians in the same locality will be in different spiritual seasons. Some people will be over the moon, pampered with spiritual goose bumps, like John when receiving his revelation. Others will be languishing in the midst of an oppressive trial, like John was, as a prisoner on Patmos, when his vision commenced (Revelation 1:9). It would be a grave misunderstanding to think this means some have God’s favor and some do not, or to think you have fallen out of God’s love and blessing, when it is simply not your season for fruit.

As I have said elsewhere:

If spring could tip-toe past nature without stirring it from its winter slumber; if the sun could slip through the sky without dispelling the night; if rain could fall to the ground without bringing life to the desert – only then should you fear dry times, dark times, lean times.

You might be envious of the Apostle Paul, thinking you would feel so loved of God if the Lord had appeared to you in blinding light as he did to Paul. But would you feel loved of God if, like Paul, you reeled from one catastrophe to another – shipwreck after shipwreck, years languishing in prison, religious leaders wanting him dead, forsaken by Christians (Scriptures), and so on?

Living in Unnecessary Spiritual Poverty

In Jesus’ famous parable, the prodigal son’s brother was jealous of the father’s extravagant display of love for the wayward son. “You’ve thrown a party, slaughtering the fatted calf for this no-hoper, when you haven’t given me so much as a baby goat!” he complained bitterly.

The father’s reply is staggering: “Son, all that I have has always been yours for the taking” (Luke 15:29-31, my paraphrase).

This brother had been waiting for the father to give him things; never having sufficiently believed in his father’s love and generosity to have realized that he could have helped himself to everything.

Some people help themselves to God’s blessings, simply because they choose to believe the Bible when it says that God is love, does not show favoritism (Scriptures), and that he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Others miss out, not because they are any less loved, nor because God doesn’t want them to have it, but simply because they fail to take God at his word.

Different Callings

The Scriptures reveal that Christians differ so greatly from each other that it likens them to totally different bodily organs. Some of us are like eyes – spiritually perceptive but delicate and useless for carrying anything. Some are like arms – strong and useful but can sense very little. Being destined to fulfill different roles in the body of Christ means that some people will be more spiritually perceptive than others, not because God is moving more powerfully in their lives, and certainly not because they are more loved of God, but simply because they are called to perform a different function in the body than other parts.

Just as everyone sees your fingernails and no one sees your kidneys, some parts of Christ’s body will, of necessity, be more noticed than others. Again, this is solely because of their function. Prominence in the body does not in the slightest mean prominence in the heart of God. In fact, as Scripture points out, God has ordained that those parts of the body that get all the attention – such as our hair – are actually less important than parts that no one sees (Scripture).

Personality Types

Some people’s personality causes them to regularly soar and plunge from dizzy peaks to darkened valleys, while certain individuals have moods that barely change from one day or week to the next. Those of us whose personality type keeps our emotions on a steady course can end up feeling inferior – and feel less loved by God – simply because we have never had the highs of those Christians who suffer great highs and lows. On the other hand, people whose personality takes them on an emotional roller coaster, instead of realizing the uniqueness of their highs, often feel inferior to Christians who rarely suffer such lows because their emotional journey is much flatter.

Especially because too few Christians are brutally honest about their down times, the spiritual grass always seems greener in someone else’s life.

We might be envious of Elijah when God was working miracles through him, but none of us envy him when he was in the pits of depression wishing he were dead (1 Kings 19:4).

Poetic License?

Yet another complicating factor is that what happens inside of us is virtually indescribable. Some people are so poetic in their attempts to describe their feelings that even if those hearing the description had the identical experience, they wouldn’t recognize it and would still feel envious.

So comparing our own spiritual journey with what we know of that of other Christians is strewn with spiritual danger. To quote myself again:

Eleven thousand teachers competed with Christa McAuliffe and lost. The winner of a seat on space shuttle Challenger was the envy of millions – until the shuttle disintegrated soon after take-off. Eleven thousand losers suddenly became winners.

In the twinkling of an eye, the first shall be last (1 Corinthians 15:52; Matthew 20:16; Luke 16:15). Until that wondrous moment, don’t assume you’re a loser.

Despite God insisting in his Word that he loves each of us with all of his heart, we are all subject to many factors that give the upsetting illusion that others are more loved of God than us. No wonder faith is so critical to the Christian life. Without faith in the integrity of God’s word and his love, we will never see past the temporary and superficial, to the heart of God.

If God Loved Me He Wouldn’t Have . . .

It is hard to find anyone in Scripture of whom God is proud, who did not suffer what must have felt like endless times when it seemed to the untrained eye that God was acting unlovingly toward that person.

Over and over, Scripture praises Abraham for his faith, and yet he must surely have endured many times with the thought churning in his mind, “If God really loved me he would have given me a son by now. I’m getting too old to enjoy a child even if I had one.”

I can well imagine Joseph thinking, “If God loved me, he wouldn’t have sold me into slavery.” Yet, after year upon year of setbacks, he ended up declaring to his brothers, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good . . .” (Genesis 50:20).

Relative to God’s plans, what human minds presume to be best are nothing but short-term thrills that fizzle. The infinity of God’s intellect and the eternity of his perspective often push his loving ways frustratingly beyond our understanding. We are sorely tempted to let this eat away at our belief in his love for us. We are like children thinking, “If Mommy really loved me she’d feed me nothing but candy and ice-cream.” Just as a little child finds such logic undeniable, we find ourselves weighed down by the nagging suspicion that God cannot really love us because he does not do things the way our puny minds think he should.

Every time I cannot see the love and wisdom behind God’s actions, I am displaying my ignorance and folly. To plunder other writings of mine:

Embraced by divine love, your life will be tinged with mystery but aglow with glory.

Tucked in the heart of Scripture sleeps a tiny psalm of precious truth (Psalm 131) . The singer confessed that as a mother denies her baby access to her milk when it’s time for her darling to be weaned, so God sometimes denies us things we crave. Yet as a weaned infant lies warm and secure in its mother’s bosom, our soul can nestle into God, not knowing why we have been denied that which we have clamored for, but content to draw love and comfort from the Father’s heart.

As the heavens soar far above us, high and unreachable, so is God’s wisdom (Isaiah 55:8-9; Psalm 139:6; 147:5; Romans 11:33-34; Job 11:7-9). Our tiny minds may understand the Father’s ways no more than a babe understands its mother, yet still we can rest in him, bathed in the certainty that when the omnipotent, omniscient Lord lets the inexplicable touch a child of his, it is a manifestation of unfathomable love. In the hands of the One who wouldn’t so much as break a damaged reed or snuff a smoking wick, you are safe (Matthew 12:20).

False Humility

I have to quote myself again:

For most of my life, scriptures like “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6) have filled me with such dread of the dangerous trap of pride that I felt driven to avoid it at all costs. Tragically, this commendable attitude got me nowhere. My godly intentions were sabotaged by such a mistaken understanding of pride that all I managed was to fall into false humility. I wrongly thought I could foster humility by thinking negatively about myself. To my horror, I eventually discovered that false humility is itself a form of pride.

I correctly understood that if I thought I could achieve anything of lasting value without God’s help, or if I thought I were moral enough to gain God’s approval outside of Christ’s forgiveness, then humbling myself involved lowering my opinion of myself. My mistake was in wrongly concluding from this truth that the basic ingredient of humility is having a low opinion of oneself.

Godly humility flows not from thinking lowly of oneself but from seeing things through God’s eyes. Pride is having the audacity to disagree with God. It is saying I know more than the God of the universe; my puny intellect knows better than the Almighty; the God of truth is wrong and I am right.

Since the God of love sees you as lovable, and true humility involves taking God’s assessment of everything as gospel, humility requires you to see yourself as lovable. If God sees you through eyes of love, how dare you see yourself in a different light, as if your perspective is right and your Creator and Savior is wrong? If God forgives you, to refuse to forgive yourself is to have the audacity to imply that you have higher moral standards than the Judge of all the earth; that you are holier than the Holy Lord. Isn’t that the very pinnacle of pride? Please avoid this deadly trap.

Make God your God by agreeing with him. He says you are the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). Dare you exalt yourself above God by disagreeing with him? Stop wounding yourself by squandering your faith on a lie, thus robbing God of faith that should be invested in him. Refuse the sinful, pride-filled path that deceptively seems humble but is actually implying that you know better than the Almighty. Set yourself free. Embrace God’s truth.

Spiritual Blockages

Isaiah 59:1-2 Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened

Then there are those who have unrepentant sin in their lives and are unaware that God disapproves. At the end of this page is a link under Spiritual Blockages to the testimony of a woman who suddenly found that God seemed distant. It turned out that this was the Lord’s way of getting her to seek him and to discover that there were matters (in her case, previous dabbling in the occult) God wanted her to repent of. Up until then, her Lord had tolerated this being in her past, but he decided that now was the time for her to learn that it is spiritually dangerous and to deal with it.

Practical Help

A significant cause of not feeling God’s love is that for years we have let damaging lies cycle through our minds over and over. The lies might be that we are useless or hopeless or unlovable or unforgivable. The continual repetition of these lies is such a deadly form of brainwashing that not just our intellect, but our heart or subconscious in which are feelings are based, is profoundly affected and we end up with deceptively strong feelings that make the lies seem true.

Letting lies repeat over and over in our minds becomes a habit that is as hard to break as any serious addiction. Through Christ, any addiction can be broken but it usually takes great effort and much time.

The best way to break this destructive addiction is to do two things. The first is to establish the new habit of whenever you catch yourself thinking a lie that does not honor the God who made you, such as “I am useless,” or “No one loves me,” immediately start praising and thanking God that the opposite is true. Silently pray such things as, “Lord, I praise you that you are powerful enough and loving enough to use me to do great things. Thank you that you are love and that I am special in your eyes. I love you because you first loved me. Thank you that because Christ suffered in my place on the cross, you see me as being as good and holy as your eternal Son.” On and on you should go, thanking and praising God.

The second thing to do is identical, except do not wait for the lie to prompt you to declare the truth. Go on the offensive by habitually thanking and praising God throughout the day, regardless of whether or not you are attacked by negative thoughts. By doing this, you will begin to make inroads into that huge stockpile of negative thoughts you have sown into your heart. By repeatedly depositing truth in your heart, you will begin counteracting the countless thousands of times that you told yourself lies in the past. Eventually, this will affect your feelings, but it is a long-term project. You cannot expect repeating a truth a hundred times to wipe out the effect of having repeated a lie a thousand times.

It’s been wisely said that faith leads; feelings follow. We must never let feelings take the lead.

Faith painstakingly hacks a path through virgin jungle; an escape route from the dark, perversely seductive dungeon of familiarity. It’s the only way, but when faith ventures ahead of feelings, lies seem more real than the truth; prison bars seem safer than freedom. Breaking free is a hard slog, made harder still by everything within us screaming that we should return to the dungeon of doubt.

Satan is a sore loser. Once he finds something that shakes us up he, keeps trying it over and over relentlessly until he is absolutely convinced that his tactics will never again work with you. His persistence is so very unpleasant. The positive side, however, is that this will make you stronger and stronger as you keep resisting his lies.

The Horror of Being a Feeling Junkie

We all know about anorexia and how people – often women – can be attractive and yet be fooled by a cruel trick of the mind into being thoroughly convinced that they are repulsively overweight. This is not just a devastating delusion; it can kill.

There is something very similar that crushes marriages – women who are gorgeous in their husband’s eyes and yet feel so undesirable that they shrink from their husband’s advances. Not only do these women undergo needless distress, it cripples the entire relationship; greatly hindering, or even destroying, intimacy and the couple’s enjoyment of each other. The most distressing aspect of this tragedy is that all the suffering is completely needless because the husband is thrilled with his wife’s appearance, and yet this fact keeps bouncing off the woman. Either, despite all her husband’s pleas, she does not believe him, or, rather than delighting in what she knows is her husband’s view of her, she is so caught up in her own delusion that she allows her mistaken self-image to enslave her. Either way, the husband reels in the pain of rejection and the frustration of seeing his beloved suffering, and yet spurning all his efforts to convince her of how desirable he finds her.

An almost identical tragedy devastates relationships with God when much of the Lord’s delight in us is dismissed as a lie, merely because it does not match our feelings. Or the tragedy hits when we are so self-absorbed with our own feelings and distorted self-image that we have little interest in how thrilled God is with us.

The choice is ours. We can cave in to oppressive feelings, letting them bluff us into spoiling our relationship with God. Or we can press on, despite our feelings, and enter into the countless blessings God has for us.

Feelings not based on truth are as useless and dangerous as drug-induced highs. Truth depends on facts, not feelings. It is facts, not feel-good delusions, that we need, and it is precisely these critical, life-changing facts that the Bible deals with.

Chasing feelings is like chasing the ends of rainbows. To be a feeling-junkie is to throw your life away, as surely as mainlining heroin. To stake your spiritual life on the integrity of God’s love and his Word, however, is to store up treasure in heaven, where the interest rates are out of this world.

Ridiculously old and childless, Abraham didn’t feel like he would end up a father of many nations. Scared and ill-quipped, Joshua, Gideon, young David and so many other heroes of the faith, didn’t feel like facing the enemy. Tired and discouraged by a fruitless night, Peter and his fishing partners didn’t feel like obeying Jesus and launching into the deep. Frail and outnumbered in a jostling crowd, the hemorrhaging woman didn’t feel like fighting through the throng to touch Jesus’ cloak. Sweating, as it were, drops of blood, Jesus didn’t feel like doing God’s will. Tortured time and again, the apostle Paul kept having to pray for the courage just to keep going (Ephesians 6:19-20; Philippians 1:20).

The entire Bible is bursting with people who didn’t feel like doing the very thing that made them heroes of the faith. They felt defeated and insignificant, but they kept on anyhow. They treated their feelings with as much disdain as pests. Like troublesome flies, unwanted feelings persist but heaven’s heroes press on regardless. They pushed through the doubt, fear and pain, and kept going despite everything within them screaming that it was hopeless. That’s the heart of a champion. And you were born again to treat your feelings with that same contempt and perpetuate this glorious tradition of spiritual champions by clinging to the belief that God is on your side and loves you passionately, despite everything within you screaming the opposite.

You weren’t born to be a groveling, shame-faced feeling-junkie. Cut the umbilical cord tethering you to spiritual babyhood and soar with spiritual giants to the realm of faith. You can do it! It’s a promise from God himself.

Restoring Your Feelings

We have reaffirmed that God loves. That is an unchangeable aspect of who God is. And as infinitely superior to humans as God is, his love for you is equally superior to the love any human has ever had for anyone. So if, like many other Christians, you cannot feel God’s love, the problem is not with God loving, but with you feeling.

The blockage might be a failure to understand a spiritual principle – we have examined these possibilities – but often the problem is not spiritual at all, but psychological. In this case, it only has negative spiritual implications if, instead of believing God’s love for you – the one whom Christ died to save – you foolishly slump into believing that your lack of feeling proves that God has lost all his integrity and is no longer love.

Suffering a psychological block to feeling God’s love or presence can be a superb stimulus to learning how to live by faith. It can end up giving you the spiritual edge on those who had an easier life.

As much as I long for you to enjoy the spiritual benefits, however, I also yearn for you to be healed from your inner pain.

Anyone trying to suppress inner pain is desperately trying not to feel inner things. The result is like numbing your arm with a local anesthetic to stop physical pain and then finding yourself unable to feel someone lovingly caressing that arm. Who would be so stupid as to permanently plug his ears to prevent himself from hearing hateful comments and then wonder why he never hears loving comments? It should hardly be surprising, then, that anyone even partially successful in suppressing negative inner feelings finds it difficult to sense positive inner feelings, such as feeling God’s love.

We tend to kid ourselves that it is a sign of strength, even spiritual, to try to pretend we are not still wounded by past hurts. Nevertheless, the icy truth is that it is much less noble things, such as fear and defeatism, that keep us from facing emotionally crippling issues head on until fully resolved and healed.

For inspiration to stop living in denial, see the short webpage Positive Confession? Or Living in Denial?

For help with low self esteem, see How to Change Your Self-Image and links.

If you have suffered sexual abuse, see Comfort, Understanding and Healing for Abuse Survivors of Both Genders.

If depression is an issue, see When Things Get Tough and follow the main link at the end of each page.

Find it hard to forgive those who have cruelly wronged you? See Revenge! and the links at the end of that page.

If you sometimes worry that you are unforgivable, see Feeling Condemned? There’s Hope!

Could you possibly have multiple personalities? See Healing the Inner Child and the pages it leads to.

There’s More!

This webpage exists to provide an overview of critical matters affecting the most important thing we will ever encounter – our relationship with God. For the comfort that comes from looking deeper, I invite you to explore the links below, especially those on issues of particular concern to you.

Ensuring You are Truly Born Again

You Can Find Love

When God Seems to Have Favorites

God Isn’t Fair?

To God You Are Special

When You Feel Too Sinful to be Loved/Accepted by God

Feeling Condemned?

Doubts About God’s Goodness

God & Suffering

When God Seems Far Away

Spiritual Wilderness Survival Guide

When God Seems to have Left You

Feeling Rejected by God

Spiritual Blockages

Why We Must Stop Deliberate Sin

Finding Supernatural Power to Break Habits

The Unexpected Reason for God Seeming Distant: Occultic Factors

Enjoying God’s Love

God Loves Me? Receive Your Very Own Revelation of God’s Love

Feeling Unloved Because of Circumstances

Feeling if God loved me he would:

Answer My Prayers

Speak to Me

Heal Me

Comfort Me

Give Me a Ministry

A Help in Feeling Loved of God

How to Change Your Self-Image



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