I'll just add that I don't know why you think a 25 year old having to live in his car is somehow a hard thing. The young generation is terribly dissociated from realities, life has been handed to them as a video game, and they know they lack authenticity. Complaining about the car is like saying, how can God be so cruel as to make my son go mountain climbing? Young people need danger, risk and reality to learn the real stakes of living. That may mean that a few of them don't survive the experiment. By the way, there are 60 and 70 year olds living in their cars and loving it. Life is meant to be an adventure, something it seems like you may have missed. Dying comfortably in your bed is not the best way to die, nor should having a job or a home be the highest priorities of a life well-lived.
Well I'd have to say I had faith and not sure I do anymore. If goes knows what I need why do I have to pray, ask and you shall receive, so I've asked why is my son still having to live in his car because he can't find a place to live that he can afford? (yes he works full time) He was VERY faithful, joined groups, volunteered at church, he also lost his faith. Friend told me that "maybe God wants him to go through this" hmm the reason being? If he lost his faith due to no answers I think that is the opposite of what God may have wanted. If God is all seeing and all knowing then he sees and supplies what I need then why do I pray? I've used to pray every morning for all the people that I knew, all my friends. When I stopped nothing changed good or bad, I give up!
My wife went through something really similar: what's the point of praying if you don't get what you ask for? My faith is much less adventurous: I pray three ways. First, for God to help me be the person He wants me to be -- and when I don't pray for this, I'm much worse. Second, I thank Him for things throughout the whole day. Third, I ask Him for forgiveness. If you pray for these three things, I believe you'll get them: God never promised you anything in life other than Himself. He says if you keep asking you'll receive. So I keep asking for Him all the time -- even for salvation. I don't believe salvation is a one-time thing. I think it's a process. And I think the more we pray for these three things, the closer we feel to Him.
Thing is I am not asking for ME. Why would a loving God have a 25 yr old live in his car for 2 months while working? I haven't asked for anything for me that's the thing!
I don’t know why God does that. What I can tell you is that my mom prayed for years for my soul and I was doing hard drugs the whole time. My conversion was a real surprise. God is good -- and He works His own way, in His own time. I’ll pray for your boy too. Hang in there.
I'll just add that I don't know why you think a 25 year old having to live in his car is somehow a hard thing. The young generation is terribly dissociated from realities, life has been handed to them as a video game, and they know they lack authenticity. Complaining about the car is like saying, how can God be so cruel as to make my son go mountain climbing? Young people need danger, risk and reality to learn the real stakes of living. That may mean that a few of them don't survive the experiment. By the way, there are 60 and 70 year olds living in their cars and loving it. Life is meant to be an adventure, something it seems like you may have missed. Dying comfortably in your bed is not the best way to die, nor should having a job or a home be the highest priorities of a life well-lived.
Well I'd have to say I had faith and not sure I do anymore. If goes knows what I need why do I have to pray, ask and you shall receive, so I've asked why is my son still having to live in his car because he can't find a place to live that he can afford? (yes he works full time) He was VERY faithful, joined groups, volunteered at church, he also lost his faith. Friend told me that "maybe God wants him to go through this" hmm the reason being? If he lost his faith due to no answers I think that is the opposite of what God may have wanted. If God is all seeing and all knowing then he sees and supplies what I need then why do I pray? I've used to pray every morning for all the people that I knew, all my friends. When I stopped nothing changed good or bad, I give up!
My wife went through something really similar: what's the point of praying if you don't get what you ask for? My faith is much less adventurous: I pray three ways. First, for God to help me be the person He wants me to be -- and when I don't pray for this, I'm much worse. Second, I thank Him for things throughout the whole day. Third, I ask Him for forgiveness. If you pray for these three things, I believe you'll get them: God never promised you anything in life other than Himself. He says if you keep asking you'll receive. So I keep asking for Him all the time -- even for salvation. I don't believe salvation is a one-time thing. I think it's a process. And I think the more we pray for these three things, the closer we feel to Him.
Thing is I am not asking for ME. Why would a loving God have a 25 yr old live in his car for 2 months while working? I haven't asked for anything for me that's the thing!
I don’t know why God does that. What I can tell you is that my mom prayed for years for my soul and I was doing hard drugs the whole time. My conversion was a real surprise. God is good -- and He works His own way, in His own time. I’ll pray for your boy too. Hang in there.