Spiritual Warfare

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26 questions

• QI am seeking the wisdom of God. How can I keep on being holy and blameless in my daily struggle?
• QI am 21 years old. I have been struggling with a spiritual problem for the past few months. Constant bad thoughts about God keep coming into my head. Even when I am…
• QPlease tell me how to get close to God, since I keep hearing voices telling me there is no hope for me. My life is really so miserable because I no more have Peace in my…
• QI am in turmoil and confused about the issue of pride, self-guilt, self-condemnation and self-excuse. Of the three, which is normal and which is sinful? How can one…
• QFew weeks ago I confessed a serious sin to my spiritual father. Although, I stopped doing those bad deeds, I'm still suffering from the core problem (thoughts of…
• QAgain, I have fallen. I have fallen to the same lustful sin. I feel empty. I feel lost. I am so weak and worthless. I have been praying in the Agpeya, fasting, reading…
• QWhat will happen if we depart from this life not having obtained full victory over a certain sin that we have been fighting against for a period in our lives? Will we be…
• QI'm finding it very hard to get closer to God. I am beginning to understand why I am unable to get closer to God and why He won't reveal Himself to me; it is because of…
• QWhy did God create us in the first place? Why did he create us with a weak body that would be made to suffer? Why does Christianity have to be so difficult? I don't like…
• QI am a 20 year old university student. I attend church regularly, a youth servant, and minister of outreach in the church. I try my best to obey my father of confession,…
• QWhat is the proof that there is a God; for many are living their lives, much, much better than many Christians? Why do Christians think themselves better than the rest of…
• QI have a big problem with lust. I have been fighting my evil desires for years now, but I continue to stumble and sin. I don't want to commit this sin anymore, but when I…
• QI talked to my spiritual father of confession about my inability to come into communion with God, and he gave me some good advice. However, I still feel very lost and…
• QI have a problem controlling my temper. Although I always feel God's miraculous hands supporting me and alerting me to danger lying ahead of me, yet I can easily get…
• QI am having trouble getting closer to God. During the Holy Great Fast I used to read the Holy Bible; but now even if I read; I get mentally distracted; and I lose…
• QIn my life of sin and spiritual struggle, A number of queries crop up in my mind: If this life is temporary and will end soon, and all those who are unprepared or fall…
• QTo liken my spiritual warfare to that of a soldier's; I feel I am like a soldier who is well equipped, armored and well trained; but when it comes to the actual battle;…
• QI have been going through unexplainable spiritual afflictions, as if the devil himself has been tormenting me, for about two years now. A few days ago I have experienced…
• QI try to rise and be a better person and change but nothing happens. Every sermon I heard, I imagine that its words are easy to follow and I expect myself to become a…
• QI am a servant and deacon in the Church and also in graduate school. I was tempted and instead of resisting, I quenched the work of the Holy Spirit in me many times until…
• QBut I sat with myself to revise everything and I noticed that the wars are the worst when I am studying for long periods of time. In the summer I do whatever it takes to…
• QMy situation with a young lady did not transpire very well and the negativity of her family has had detrimental effects on me personally which in turn, of course, has…
• QI am suffering emotional and spiritual distress. I feel spiritually lower instead of growing, and I constantly keep thinking back a few years ago when I was spiritually…
• QI have been struggling with a very difficult and major spiritual warfare that has plagued me for years, everyday and almost every single minute whether I pray or do other…
• QI am from the Eritrean Orthodox Church and have been suffering from tormenting spiritual problem/illness for a long time. I have constant blasphemous thoughts against the…
• QI am a bad child. I defy my parents and often do not obey. I find that the cause is our house and how we live. I do not know how to stop. Usually, on a normal day, I use…

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