Comfort

Question 1

Lie: I have been so bad God could never save or use me.

Answer 1

Truth: everyone should accept the fact that Jesus came into this world to save the worst sinner-me.First Timothy 1:15

Question 2

Lie: God’s ways work for everyone else but in my case they don’t work. The people that do me in, are all happy and have gotten away with it.

Answer 2

Truth: no one gets away with anything. What a man sows he will reap, God will not be made a fool of. Those that offend me are the real ones in trouble, I should pray for them.Psalms 73 Galatians 6:7

Question 3

Lie: I have no gifts I am so small and weak nobody needs me.

Answer 3

Truth: when I feel like I am the least useful it turns out I am much more needed than those who seem important. If I don’t do my part things will not go well for others. First Corinthians 12:22 Zacchaeus was short and despised but Jesus chose him.

Question 4

Lie: I give and give and no one gives back or even notices my needs. So why bother?

Answer 4

Truth: I will be blessed by God when I give, especially if I give to those unable to give back.Luke 14:14

Question 5

Lie: Good Christians shouldn’t mourn when they lose a loved one. Just stuff it or you will make God look bad.

Answer 5

Truth: Of course, I should mourn, God will bless me for mourning. But I need to mourn with hope and live my remaining time on earth blessing God for letting the one I lost, be in my life. Blessed are they that mourn and weep because God will lift me up. Job 1:22/ 1 Thessalonians 4:13,14 Matthew 5:4 James 4;9

Question 6

Lie: I don’t have as much stuff as others so I am a failure.

Answer 6

Truth: My life is not made up of the abundance of what I own but rather it is made up of the treasure Jesus has stored up for me in heaven. Luke12:15 Matthew 6:19-21

Question 7

Lie: My mother and my father didn’t want me so how could anybody want me?

Answer 7

Truth: when my mother and my father reject me God takes me up, His love for me is stronger than a mother’s for a newborn. He has carved my name on his palms. Psalms 27;10 Isaiah 49:14-16

Question 8

Lie: God helps those to help themselves and I cannot help myself so I guess God can’t won’t help me.

Answer 8

Truth: Without God, I can do nothing and God loves to help me. I just need to admit my poverty of knowledge, poverty of abilities , poverty of spirit. I can then do the little I can and he makes up the difference. He gets glory from my weakness. Not many strong or wise are used by God. I have this treasure of God in this earthen vessel that the treasure might be seen.John 15:5, I Corinthians 1 :26,27,28, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 12:10

Question 9

Lie: I am truly defiled by the things that were done to me when I was a child. I am sure I am so damaged that I am of no use..

Answer 9

Truth: It is never what is done to a person or the things they consume or the things that have been forced to see that defile a person. Rather it is my response to those things and God can help me with that. In him my great defilement is overcome with his infinite virtue and purity. Mark 7:15-20/ Matthew 9:20-22

Question 10

Lie: My baby died too young to make any decision for or against God. So the baby is either condemned or ceases to exist.

Answer 10

Truth: My baby has gone to heaven. They can not come to me but I can, and will, go to them. Meanwhile I need to comfort myself and others in our hurt. 2 Samuel 12:22-24 (David obviously went to heaven when he died and he said, that was where his baby was.)

Question 11

Lie: Real men don’t cry so I must be “strong” by not showing emotion

Answer 11

Truth: Jesus wept, (was wracked with sobs) John 11:35 Luke 19:41 It is good to weep over the problems of this world and to join into the grieving of those I love

Question 12

Lie: When I think of doing things God’s way it seems exhausting, will never work, I am just not strong enough, and frankly I do not really want to. Therefore doing a God’s way would be hypocritical I should wait until I feel like doing it.

Answer 12

Truth: I am being obedient when I do the will of my father in heaven even when I do not want to. In fact love is proved most by what I do because it is right; even when it is hard for me and I do not want to. Matthew 21:28-31 Jonah the whole book. He did what God told him, even with his bad attitude, and God brought a great revival.

Question 13

Line: My sin is so big and what I did is so terrible that I do not deserve to be forgiven. I am not sure I can accept a God who would forgive someone as bad as I.

Answer 13

Truth: When I see that my sin abounds, piles up to the stars, I need to remember the Grace even more abounds. True I do not deserve forgiveness but is not that the definition of Mercy, undeserved forgiveness. Now I need to let grace rule through righteousness, producing eternal life. Romans 5:20–21

Question 14

Lie: There are 8 billion people in the world so how can I as one tiny person count in God’s eyes?

Answer 14

Throat: There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents! Luke 15:7 God looked for one person to stand in the gap because God plus one is enough! Ezekiel 22:30

Question 15

Lie: Maybe I can do it God’s way today, and maybe tomorrow, but I will never be able to keep it up, so why even try?

Answer 15

Truth: without God I can do nothing, I cannot even handle today. But with him I can stand firm and resist temptation one day at a time. I should not worry about tomorrow or wallow in the past I have enough trouble to deal with today. Philippians 3:13, 4:13, Matthew 6:34,

Question 16

lie: I do not have anything to give to God, no power, no strength, no wisdom, no skills so I am not as important is other people

Answer 16

truth: Those who seem to be the least are much more important than those who seem to be much. God says if I present my body living sacrifice that will be acceptable to him. If not my gifts he wants it is me that he wants. He uses the weak things of the world to defeat the strong. First Corinthians 12: 22, Romans 12: 1 with the left forearm he has developed what he

Question 17

Lie: I am so depressed and anxious that I can’t do anything. Someone somewhere will have to fix me before I can do anything.

Answer 17

Truth: I can always pray even when I groan at night on my bed and make my bed swim with tears God hears my voice. Psalm 6:9 / True my belief is weak but God can make up the difference. Mark 9:24 / If I “sow” in tears I will reap in joy. Psalm 126:5 / If I pray with strong weeping, I will be heard. Hebrews 12:17 / When I can’t sleep, I can meditate on God’s word. Psalm 119:148

Question 18

Lie: I have to trust my own heart, right? If my heart says that I am probably not even saved, not even God’s adopted child, if my heart condemns me and says that I am worthless, useless, and hopeless–then it must be true, right?

Answer 18

Truth: When my heart condemns me, God is greater than my heart and knows more than I do. I asked him for forgiveness/ he gave it/ I did not feel different but the transaction is done. I am his forever and he is mine. Jesus had paid for my sins and all he needed was my asking.
(Now if you have not confessed your sin and need for forgiveness, then when your heart condemns it is called conviction by the Holy Spirit and is there for your blessing to drive you to God?)