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I feel I wanna believe in God more. I’ve been trying to read a verse everyday but I can’t seem to remember them and every time I try to pray and read my Bible I get bad intrusive thoughts about Jesus and stuff and I don’t feel anything inside can someone give me advice?
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The most important question is, Why do I believe in God? If, while claiming to believe in God, you ask with your lips only for your own happiness, blessing, success, and prosperity—seeking only the problems of your family, your business, your workplace, your relationships, your children, and your health—then you will never be able to meet God. The fundamental reason God created man was to bring forth humility through sin and evil, and upon that humility, to unite us in love and mercy by sending the love of the cross into this world. Therefore, the power of God’s love is revealed in those who set their aim on the hope of Christ, following the love of the cross even to the point of laying down their very lives.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.(Exodus 20 : 7)
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.(2 Corinthians 7 : 10)
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.(1 John 2 : 15~17)
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.(James 4 : 3~4)
Man cannot be changed or be transformed by his own awakening, resolve, or determination. Only by the divine power revealed within the love of God can transcend these limits, restrains, removes, and covers the inevitable sins that arise from the weakness of man. The question is whether the hope of Christ—denying oneself, following the love of the cross, and living with the aim of Christ’s life—truly becomes the center of one’s faith, or whether, because of serving God alongside the world and material things, one’s faith seeks only personal happiness, blessings, and prosperity amidst every form of corruption, heresy, and falsehood. If it is the latter, then it is a dead faith, a carnal faith, a faith that can only repeat sin until death, a faith with a seared conscience that gradually loses the ability to feel guilty, a faith whose conscience inevitably becomes desolate. Such Christians are not disciples of Christ. Moreover, Christianity itself is not something made by God, but something made by man.
In other words, none of the religions of mankind were created by God. They were established by kings to maintain religious rule, using the name of God and exploiting the distinct authority of religion. From the beginning of creation—through the Indus civilization, the Egyptian civilization, the Mayan civilization, and the civilizations of the East—the common characteristic was religious rule enforced under kingship. This is why so many religious altars and relics are discovered. Likewise, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam alike were all used for religious governance to preserve royal power. The hallmark of religion is absolute power and absolute obedience, existing only for unchecked authority.
The brazen lie told by religious scholars—that religions spread because of some innate religious nature of mankind—is easily disproved by history. Throughout the history of humanity, kings claimed to be either representatives of God or gods themselves, using religion to elevate their rule, and through such power exercised absolute dominion. This is confirmed by the relics and ruins seen today. Christianity is no exception. For the greed and self-interest of royal power, countless lives were taken, countless people shed their blood. What we know today as Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam was built upon the price of the blood of the people.
To believe in God is not to believe in religion. The difference lies here: will you become a slave of religion, or will you become a servant of God? The answer depends entirely on what you truly believe. If your goal is simply to eat well, live well, and dwell in happiness and blessings, then like Esau you cannot escape the yoke of sin, but will remain bound to repeat sin until death.
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.(Romans 5 : 2~10)
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.(Romans 13 : 14)
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.(Hebrews 12 : 16~17)
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.(2 Thessalonians 2 : 10)
Furthermore, this is not the faith of Christ, but a faith inevitably led by Satan—who disguises himself as if he were God and as if he were a Christian, yet is merely following the flesh. A true Christian has no lusts or desires for worldly or carnal things; therefore the very root cause of sin is cut off. But Christians today, because they serve God while clinging to the world and material things, can only pursue every form of corruption, heresy, and falsehood governed by lust and greed. Religion was created by man, and thus the limits of religion are the very limits of man.
Shepherds who guide people their whole lives only to awaken, resolve, and determine by human effort, and believers who follow such guidance by making it their source of inspiration and teaching, can never escape from the human limitation of sinning and repenting, sinning and repenting, until the day they die.
If you truly desire to break free from this limitation, then pursue the truth that leads you to receive the power of God. That truth is revealed precisely in Moses’ Burning Bush(e-book Author : Yo Han Lee). First, examine it with eyes of doubt. And if you still have doubts, then ask questions.(https://mosesbush.com/questions/) The truth answers every question.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.(2 Peter 2 : 10)
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.(James 1 : 14~15)