Are Christians Punished for Past Relationship Sins? Why Is God Keeping Me Single?
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Why is God keeping me single? Am I being punished for my past relationship sins? Is God mad at me? In this video, we discuss what the Bible says about punishment, discipline, consequences, and how they all relate to past relationship sins.
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I’m currently in a season of discipline for the past 2 years. I was promiscuous for a long time and 2 years ago I fully have repented. It’s really tough having no sexual or emotional intimacy for so long but the Lord has helped me grow in my faith more in these two years than for my whole life! Really puts things into perspective when you understand discipline in the right context thank you for this video!
Similar for me here. I lived in sin with my boyfriend for the last five years. We broke up a year ago. I still love him, I wish I hadn’t hurt him.
Yes got to be smart enough to pay attention to when God disciplines you and learn from it our you will find yourself back in the same place again. Good video.
Amen Mary Swenson
God does not punish us if we have repented. He forgives us. God said that it is not good for man to be alone. It is Satan, spiritual husbands and jealous witches that TRY to keep people from their God ordained marriages.
Anjulah Puraless Yes! I wish the church would understand this.
When you sin yes God forgives you but dont go around thinking he wont discipline you bcuz he will.When it comes to finding your future parter its not really satan holding that back ,it all has to do about God's timing, and the level of maturity and circumstances around both of yall, at the perfect time ( or time God finds appropriate according to his wisdom) he will unite you both ,but let me say this ,dont go out looking for a mate instead focus on your relationship with God and try to be a better person both on the inside and the outside ,just trust God ,be faithful ,be patient ,and he will bring him along one day . :)
I'm going to have to disagree with you because someone can be putting God first and waiting patiently and doing everything they need to but if there is a witch in their family or someone putting a curse on them and demonic forces against them to keep them single, there's a different kind of warfare that needs to go on to break them free from that bondage. I know you think that you were giving wise counsel but I don't think you understand what's really being said here.
Tamaqua1212 All power is given unto Jesus. His disciples cant be victim of witchcraft. Just wanted to put this out there.. but I agree thst there are many evil people trying to do whatever they can to destory godly relationships. Everyone has their own story I guess. God knows where we are and He will provide. But it will require some discipline from our side, I dont know any godly couple that happened just like that, usually both people in tje relationship go through "wilderness"...
But dont worry about witches really, they cant harm God's children. They will lie that they will hurt you, but it is just a deception
YOU BETTER STOP THAT LIE...
YOU CAN REPENT ALL YOU WANT TO...YOU CAN CALLED ON THAT jesus name all you want....ESAU WILL PAY FOR THE SINS OF HIS FOREFATHERS...JUST LIKE WE HAD TO PAY...THE 400 YEAR CURSE WE PAID...ESAU MUST PAY CAN'T SKIP JUDGMENT.... SO STOP LYING TO YOURSELVES
God knows I needed this... I feel so relieved..
I think that God keeps you single for a season is a blessing because he is not ready for you to get into a relationship just yet. He wants you to be able to get your life together before you try to settle down because whoever you are in a relationship with they can be the main factor on how you live your life. I don't think God is disciplining me I think that he wants me to be ok single until I get into the right the direction on how I am supposed to live my life.
Well said Tonita Queta Parks
Thank you for sharing. You're incredibly gifted, solid, balanced, and gracious. Keep up the excellent work!
Thanks for the encouragement mademoisellemsc :) God bless, glad you like AGW
Clearly explained! That's right. Jesus has paid whole punishmant for our sins, but each mistake we've done have certain consequence. God disciplines us for our good as well. "Because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child" Hebrews 12,6
Finally God is definitely disciplining me . God forgive me I am just a child , I have since what I did wrong and I promise to be better . I am sorry father
Hi Mark-- What is your take on generational curses/sins? A lot of (pentecostal) Christians say that some people are single because of something their ancestors have done and need to break these curses in their lives/family line (even if it's something that they personally have not done but their ancestors have eg.idolatory). They seem to have a lot of scripture to back them up. Other people say that Jesus wiped all of that slate clean when He died (and also have scriptures to back that up). What is your take on this?
I don't see Bible evidence for generational curses in the New Testament. I do believe than certain families struggle in certain ways (mental health, addiction, etc) bc of the biology in that family. I also believe certain certain traits that can affect your life can be learned from families and thus it's helpful to know your family history/trends
Hiya Mark! Ok, wow! I love the Holy Spirit & how he moves in such perfect timing. I was just saying something like: "...it feels as if God's punishing me or something..." Though, I know better...it really just feels this way sometimes. So I pray to Him to show me what He wants me to learn. Be careful what you pray for...you just might get it! Lol! Our God's so faithful (even if we're not), He shows us the errors of our ways...and it can feel horrible. Not only as it relates to relationships, but just living life day-to-day. Then I remember that God wouldn't discipline me (or usher me into a season of discipline) if He didn't care & want the best for me! For I'm His child! We all are His children if we're seeking to live life His way, through The Way. Thx for this timely vid, my bro! 👍🏿💓
Disa Jardine dont use the word 'lol' it has hidden meaning...
R Tr ...for real?! 😮😕
Thank you for this video. God is literally talking to me through you. He’s definitely trying to show discipline to me for my past 3 year relationship. Thank you so much! I’ll be thanking God more and may he bless you 🙂📖
Very well explained God bless you!!😇🌼
Thanks Eva, God bless you too!
ApplyGodsWord.com/Mark Ballenger You are welcome Mark🙂and thank you.
It confused me.
I needed this video thank you
Amen Christ’s Warrior, glad it was timely
Right on time!!! I been thinking of this for so long
The same for me!
Amen, glad it was timely :)
Thank you so much for this video, for me it was so on time!
Amen Kristine K, glad to hear it was timely :)
Two videos in and I must say I am already blessed. New Subie🤌🏿💃🏿.
The only thing I have left is GOD. I believe he’s all I ever had.
Thanks Mark for the help
My pleasure!
I guess it is this, once our hearts are purified our lives become more abundant!
Lovely Mark
No!!
Hey Pastor Mark! Great video as always!!!
Glad you think so! God bless :)
I have been feeling the consequences of something I did for a long time now and now I am being disciplined for it and its hard but I know its good for me
God forgives our sins from the past, but he doesn't necessarily take away the consequences for that sin!
Smart man
Sun Dance 👍
Perfect ‼️
I guess I"m being punished then because I am feeling condemned. Still not clear on this issue as I would like to be. So natural consequences can be part of correction? Or always? What is meant by Hebrews 12:11 "all discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful..."? Does that mean that it feels a bit like punishment? What does it mean when God scourges us? How does it happen? Would you please give some examples in your life or the lives of people you know of all three, punishment/consequences/correction-scourging?
If you are single it is not God's punishment. You may be like one of my friends who has chosen to live unmarried so he can minister to others and serve God with total and undivided devotion! But others may be single because they have emotional and psychological issues that prohibit them from becoming married. It is not God's punishment, but the consequences of problems people experience in their lives that make marriage unattainable!
Now I know my husband loves to do punishment. I can see that it is not right. I consequently think about end this relationship everytime thinking about him. Is it possible from God’s Will? ( He did not do adultery. But he beats and punish me everytime I hurt him even though just a little bit. Shame to say this..) Could you teach a lesson about this? Thank you!!
Mark, have you read or heard about John Owen's book Death of Death? What do you think about limited atonement?
How do you know what He’s teaching you?
I believe God sanctifies is from sinful and hurtful things. So whatever is unhealthy God will teach us how to be better and honor him more
ApplyGodsWord.com/Mark Ballenger so it’s unhealthy, sinful, and hurtful for me to want to meet another man (or in this case, a specific man)? That’s the message I’m getting from God - “give up because no one wants you obviously!”
Celeste Cummins Not true, you are welcome to like another man. God encourages us to love one another and the relationship should be centered around him
Thank you
Why did god sent a demon to soul to torment him then?
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I am hated no matter what and and done with it and God!!! I want no more plus I've have Tinnitus since 09 which my sister and others deserve not myself so I can't go to concerts or any loud place so I'm screwed no matter what.Not worth it.
Question that sort of relates to this, but idk if its possible i will EVER find a wife and not just because past sins but just by the way ALOT of people are especially females more specific in terms of what they do and choices they make and the way they are. I feel like theres NOBODY i come across who is right and decent if they even notice me. And also to add on i have to be honest its starting to make me bitter or resentful that i have to be single even cant meet someone or have a woman notice me yet tons of people have it in the wrong ways whether in adulterous relationships living together unmarried having sex regularly unmarried even someone homosexual. Yet i have to be miserable and depressed and lonely extremely because i have no one to be close with and relate to.
Help Me SELFHELP 2 productivity ,pliz pray to God for a Godly woman . God is our matchmaker. Im praying too
Judith Ange Epoupa Mpacko ,thats words of wisdom sister. God bless u .fr india
Judith Ange Epoupa Mpacko ,pray for me for a Godly man n ill do the same for you too ok..gud nite
Yes! Exactly what I’m thinking. I’m following God (although it’s to the point I’m wondering why because nothing EVER works out)! I can’t trust Him anymore.
Judith Ange Epoupa Mpacko I don’t agree. I’ve been religious all my life. I loved God and really trusted Him. Since I went to a Lutheran school all my life (1st grade through college and then followed my then husband to Seminary), I know God, the Bible, and doctrine very well.
It’s just that EVERYTHING I tried has failed (I’m not doing what I went to college for - teaching in a Lutheran school. I’m divorced from the “wonderful” Pastor because of verbal and emotional abuse. I don’t have custody of my kids. I’m stuck working 5 part time jobs - days, evenings, weekends, holidays - just to pay bills. I have no free time to relax. Even if I wanted to, I can’t go on vacation or leave my home area. My family has never been emotionally close. I’m pretty much all on my own).
I’ve tried to be the good girl (I really thought I was supposed to be a Lutheran teacher and marry a Pastor - I’d wanted to be a Pastor’s wife since I was like 9, but that all failed). I’ve been divorced almost 8 years and I was accepting that my ex was right and that I’m going to “die a lonely old woman.” I resigned myself to being single. I’d even told my Pastor, “If I even THINK about another man, hit me on the head and knock some sense into me.” I was serious!
Unfortunately, he was on vacation when this mailman walked in. We looked at each other and couldn’t take our eyes off each other. I kept telling myself, ‘He’s good looking but he’s a jerk. Don’t fall for him.” But, the more we talked each day, the more I liked him. (And that eye locking thing happened more over the past months).
Fast forward to about a year later, we still talk every day. I still have not discovered anything “bad” about him. Everything seemed like a coincidence to bring us together. But, last Thursday, I heard he had a girlfriend! I was devastated. He’s never even mentioned her causally. I brought her up one day. He told me all about her. She started working at the PO in November. They kept their relationship a secret, but he proposed a couple of weeks ago. (Seems too quick for me)...
I’m completely devastated. I thought he was slowly working up the courage to ask me out (there were so many signs that I thought we were flirting over the months). But, I was wrong about all of it.
Where’s God in all of this? Why couldn’t just ONE thing have worked in my life?!? Why does EVERYTHING I do fail? Why did the mailman get that route (he actually wasn’t even supposed to. Someone else was before him in line) when all he did was break my heart - again? How can I trust God when He dangles all these good things in front of me, but when I think I almost have them, He yanks them away, cruelly laughing at me and saying, “Got her again! Boy, she’s easy to lead on!”
a+b=c. Are spiritual matters an equation? You cannot look at your present circumstances and draw hard and fast conclusions to answer the question “Why?” Over the years, I’ve seen many sexually impure Christians get married while the virgins have continued in painful singleness into their 40s, 50s and beyond. Fornication has major consequences and God never winks at that sin, but he still graciously blesses fornicators with good marriages, just as he blesses us indiscriminately with rain and sunshine (both being a blessing in the agricultural sense). If you lead lonely Christian men to the conclusion that their unwanted singleness is due to some kind of hidden, unconfessed sin, that’s going to drive them to hatred of self or God. Did you know that single men are significantly more likely to commit suicide than those living with a partner or spouse? Single women aren’t affected to this extent because of the other relationships that keep them from coming unglued. It’s time for churches to change their views of singleness, help people get married, speak out against divorce, include singles in the community as though they’re not lepers.
God is very evil and rotten to begin with since he enjoys many of us good men to suffer with singleness. What in the world did we do wrong anyway?
Mark, can u pliz response to my email ? I really want some advise from you regarding some questions i hv pliz .
I don't see any email?
I sent it to markballenger@applyGodsword.com...isn't this yr email add?
Wondered in the Desert for 40 years. Finally wised up & came to God 100%. Set free from ALL sexual sin. CELIBATE 12 glorious years now. WAITING FOR MY BRIDEGROOM FROM HEAVEN TO TAKE ME IN THE GREAT ESCAPE. I CALL THE MINI RAPTURE. ONLY 10% OF THE CHURCH WILL B READY TO GO AT THAT TIME. WHICH IS VERY SOON
God is very stupid for punishing many of us with singleness.
Is this why Christian's are paranoid all time because they are always feeling like that every little thing they do that they are walking on eggshells.Glad I am not Christian or I would really have server panic attacks.
Discipline seems to trigger this trauma response from me sometimes, and this makes it harder for me to accept the lesson that I need to learn. My trauma is linked to power struggles and issues with gender equality. I don't want to feel powerless... I don't want to feel like I'm in a position of not feeling seen or like I am not equal to the opposite sex. It's been a struggle for me throughout my 20s and still at the age I'm at now to recognize that my trauma is a manifestation of every time I've felt like a failure through someone else's eyes and not giving myself enough credit. God says I'm worthy, but I guess sometimes, it's just hard for me to believe in that. ❤️🩹