Why won’t God give a sign to a seeker?

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[SeekTheTruth]

Salvation is not a "feeling" its a KNOWING, BELIEVE and have FAITH in Jesus and the gospel and you will be saved, we can't go on our "feelings"

[paulnone]

I've prayed for things and signs and sometimes you get them right away and sometimes it takes a long time. God is always listening to you and your needs.

There was one time about 10 years ago that I was at work and in my life, I was so frustrated with everything going on and felt so helpless. I was stuck in a crappy job, didn't have a gf at the time and felt trapped. I asked if god could tell me he was listening to me and to give me a sign. Later that night when i got home, I went onto Facebook, even though I don't' really use social media a lot. There was a picture on the home page that I'd never subscribed to before and it was in black and white letters like it was a portrait. It said, "I will always love you. I will never leave you or forsake you. -God" And it felt amazing to know I was being listened to.

Later on, I tried to find that page again and it simply just didn't exist. I could never find that message the way I saw it on my home page.

[jaredmcdade]

God answers prayers sometimes 40 years later I found out

[kerryschallon]

Ive been knocking and praying for over 40 years. Still no answer no help.

[dancinglightning]

You can't expect anything. A confirmation, a prayer answered, not a damn thing. We have to constantly defend this evil idea of a god. Why he didnt show up, why when you prayed, the town still burned, why when you seeked, the "door" wasn't opened. Constantly defending this diety is literally insane. Im an x believer i think anyway.. hard to tell my brain is so scrambled from religious trama.

[fallenhuman]

Don't lack faith, but remeber: the less you need God, the less you will see God.

[NewCreationInChrist]

Walk by faith not by sight.🕊
Hebrews 12:2

[ClipCoyote]

Demands you believe, even if belief requires ignoring every cognitive faculty he gave you to discern truth from fiction under threat of eternal pain and misery; but he loves you!

[kellvey]

From time to time I will ask for a sign- to see Him, or to hear His voice audibly, etc. Sometimes I want something more concrete. He nearly always pops John 20:29 into my head. "Jesus said to him, 'Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'" And I rest in knowing that He hears me, even if I don't hear Him. He sees me, even if I don't see Him.

[Gilbertlouise]

He answers. I think in my situation it's because no one else could tell me what only he could tell me. I couldn't accept it from anyone else. I had been going through a really tough time. I was down on my knees in a church which I just ran to, it wasn't my church. I was the only person in there and I was crying, from a depth I can't even explain.. I just kept repeating over and over again 'I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry' and he answered me audibly. 'Get up, my child, your sins are forgiven'. I couldn't see anyone. But I heard his voice and he's changed my life. All of the burdens/stress/anxiety/shame/guilt, that I had been suffering, was lifted from me... Since then, many people have walked out of my life or they just can't stand hearing about Jesus anymore... I have talked to everyone who will stand still long enough to listen. He is real. He is compassionate and he loves. It blows my human head sometimes that the same Jesus in the Bible talked to me.. How is that? I don't know.. Why me? I don't know that either, but I think it's because I wouldn't hear it from anyone else. I needed to hear it from him.. Don't ever walk away thinking he doesn't care, cos he does. I'm living proof of that. He loves and he's awesome.. The Bible is an awesome book and many verses have since been realised in my life, but he isn't the book, he is Spirit and very real today. Seek him with all ur heart, with all ur being and you'll find him.

[johnnyappleseed]

HE offers peace, but we still have to make the conscious decision to accept it

[stephencastro]

God knows us more than we know ourselves. He treats everybody accordingly to suit his purposes.

[tabunga]

God gave me sign after sign... 3 times did he show me what I asked for yet I denied it and kept asking. After the third I was tired of going through what me asking was putting me through. I knew that he had showed me I just didn't want it to be real and eventually accepted him and his love :)

[brendankeane]

Whenever someone asked Jesus for a sign in the Gospel, he would say to them that no sign would be given.

[bjornsampras]

I do appreciate how he said “I’m just speculating here” but surely it should also be an option that he does not exist if he’s not responding back

[bunnylady]

Feelings change. Sometimes we may feel unsaved but we just have to take God at His Word.

[alexbrocklebank]

It’s unreasonable to have expectations of God? He’s all powerful and all knowing. He can do anything.

[thegreatbehoover]

I had the same problem. I knew the Bible said I must seek Him eith my WHOLE HEART. at the time I was so frustrated, I had put some of my heart on reserve...I was scared of finding out that there was actually no God. The nehilism of atheism and evolution had really done a number on me...but...I still wanted PROOF. I was DEMANDING that God prove Himself to me. And God rightfully laughed at such a silly demand. After being confounded for years, I read Steven Covey's "First Things First" I realized that if God was real that He LOGICALLY was MOST important...not just a placeholder for whether I gave him permission to be BELIEVED.

The silly thing about miracles for mankind is that all of mankind wants a personal miracle. God spoke to me (wasn't sure at that time) that the red sea was ALREADY parted, the flood of Noah already occurred, the virgin birth and MIRACULOUS life, death and resurrection of Jesus had BEEN DONE...the problem was not that the sign of jonah wasn't enough. The problem was BELIEF. No one in Jesus' home town could BELIEVE he was the Christ and therefore got no miracles. The BELIEF...100% and no going back kind of BELIEF ... always comes FIRST...then we can see when our eyes are opened! Miracles are happening all around...literally everywhere. My wife's skin cancer just went away after a single BELIEVING prayer INSPIRED by the Holy Spirit...not my selfish wishes. My friend's child...healed of cystic fibrosis...MEDICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! My coworker's wife...her spine in her neck REJOINED after months of paralysis and an unexpected visitor came in and prayed over her and turned to dad and gave him a smile and a thumbs up...never saw the man again!

It's not that there aren't signs...it is that the signs are for the shaming of unbelievers and the encouragement of the redeemed. Jesus said those looking for a sign can look to Jonah...and yet miracles upon miracles were constantly being done...some didn't see it! They DIDN'T BELIEVE FIRST! If you are reading this as a skeptic, you have the order wrong with God. He doesn't have to prove Himself to you...you have to BELIEVE based on what you KNOW he has already done. The Jews BELIEVE this...not like fake gods and goddesses of the past...but it is HISTORICAL. So it is far different from made up gods. You don't BELIEVE because you want God to bow to you! It doesn't work that way. I can't count the miracles anymore. I tell people I no longer BELIEVE in God..now I KNOW!!! It is the greatest peace KNOWING that He has PROVEN what I first BELIEVED with all my heart based on what He had already done! I had it backwards and had ignored the MIRACULOUS all around me. What a fool I had been. Praise God for TRUTH!

[raymolina]

Born again is always gonna be the best confirmation.

[desnowboarder]

Thank you Lord my God! This was exactly what I needed to hear.