If they are continuing to do so much sins even in old ages then they are never Christians.a real follower of Christ will be transformed from all past mistakes or unholiness and become a new man with the power of Holy spirit. a good Christian will be easily identified not by the words he speaks but the character he lives.if some body never become a holy person means he is not Christian but an agent of Satan. I pray I never meet such demonic person till the rest of my life.if that person is meant to be somebody he will defenetly a real Christian .people can do wrong but confess and never go back to bad old life become holy or spiritual is what we are looking from a man.nothing else!!
(6)Demonic possession Some people send curses on the victim for different reasons: They don't want the victim to experience pleasure from sexual relationship;don't want them to find love,happiness and joy,and have children. Demons are also sent on people because the victim has material possessions which the sender is coveting.
Hello brother Mark I'm from Syria Middle-East. I just wanted to thank you for this channel and these videos, God has used a lot to bless me and guide me. I'm also sharing it with other friends. I just wanted to say this hoping that will encourage you to keep moving forward in your ministry and be encouraged. May our Lord bless you, peace & grace.
I am suffering 4 out of 5 sins. I am mostly struggling with sexual immorality. I need help. Pray for me to overcome this kind of sin. Including other sins I have committed.😥❤
Hi Carlos! I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps! Will be praying for you!
I've never been in a serious serious relationship. I mean madly in love kinda thing. I struggle with fear. Fear that nobody will love me. I mean the right person loving me and I love them. I am still single.
I think another way to look at this is this: getting a partner is not some guarantee of curing all your problems. In fact they will start up on a whole new level. You wont be immune to infidelity/adultery and a whole host of other things. Then you got to face the fact that as you both age, you are going to face medical problems and so on. Those vows are serious, 'for better or worse..and sickness and in health' etc etc. I say all this because after many years of walking away from God and getting involved in relationships...there is nothing worse than being with someone who doesnt appreciate that there is another dimension to life. I have paid the price now...gotten too old to have a family, and zero (below zero actually) chance of meeting the right Lady to get married to. Any of you reading this who is a believer and fooling around..please take on board what I am saying. Your 20's and 30's will zip by..then you hit middle age and so on..life passes faster and faster. Dont waste your time with someone you know full well isnt right for you.
Thanks for the advice. I went through #4 in the last relationship and now praying to overcome #1 completely, pray that I will overcome this and keep a positive outlook that I might find love again. If it is not within His will, pray that I will be at peace until that day God decides to grace me with a good life partner.
This video and topic is indeed interesting. Many people no longer marry because modern marriage is financially, psychologically, and spiritually brutal, or life destroying.
You make the best videos! And your wife makes me laugh. Awesome channel. Thank you so much for following your calling and helping people. I’m 35 & single w/ a strong desire for a husband and children of my own. I am constantly hit on by married men or ones not living for the lord (or even lukewarm Christian men) and am very afraid of choosing the wrong one for the sake of wanting a family. I appreciate all the insight!
I struggle with idolatry, it began with the iPhone, tv, costumes,Halloween,other music then gospel music, etc, but mainly I’ve been idolize this music artist called “Witt Lowry” for some time now, it’s been corrupting me without realizing it till I found this video, but I need change that and could someone/people pray for so it can be easier please and thank you, have a good day/night and god bless you all.
This one was so good. I want God to make my life a blessing. I love Jesus but I am a perpetual beacon for wolves and weirdos. It sounds funny but it gets old lol.
Lucy Lu, “Wolves and Weirdos” it sounds like a good book title, lol. Keep seeking Christ and overtime you will look back and see how much he has grown you.
@@ApplyGodsWordcomMarkBallenger thank you Mark! Lol it would definitely be a page turner. I appreciate your prayers and advice. I think if God were to send me someone my kids would have to point it out to me. It is difficult to be a single mother and try to live a godly life. I am secure knowing that Jesus loves me and can be my all in all. I think I am coming to terms that single is an ok state to live in.
Amen Lucy Lu, it's a family decision when kids are involved, and being single is a blessing to according to 1 Corinthians 7. There are often seasons of life for singleness and relationships so you never know what the future holds. As we walk with God he will certainly make our paths straight.
I agree that all these things block the blessing of a relationship from God, but a big one that was missed is unhealthy addictions. Addiction of any kind can and does block blessings from the Lord, especially a relationship blessing.
According to most Christians, Jesus was God-incarnate, full man and full God. Can the finite and the infinite be one? "To be full" God means freedom from finite forms and from helplessness, and to be "full man" means the absence of divinity. 1.To be son is to be less than divine and to be divine is to be no one’s son. How could Jesus have the attributes of sonship and divinity altogether? 2.Christians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote him in John 14:9: "He that has seen me has seen the Father". Didn’t Jesus clearly say that people have never seen God, as it says in John 5:37: "And the father himself which Has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE"? 3.Christians say that Jesus was God because he was called Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, and "savior". Ezekiel was addressed in the Bible as Son of Man. Jesus spoke of "the peace makers" as Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan of God was called SON OF GOD in the Jewish tradition and in their language (Genesis 6:2,4; Exodus 4:22; Psalm 2:7; Romans 8:14). "Messiah" which in Hebrew means "God’s anointed" and not "Christ", and "Cyrus" the person is called "Messiah" or "the anointed". As for "savior", in II KINGS 13:5, other individuals were given that title too without being gods. So where is the proof in these terms that Jesus was God when the word son is not exclusively used for him alone? 4.Christians claim that Jesus acknowledged that he and God were one in the sense of nature when he says in John 10:30 "I and my father are one". Later on in John 17:21-23, Jesus refers to his followers and himself and God as one in five places. So why did they give the previous "one" a different meaning from the other five "ones? 5.Is God three-in-one and one in three simultaneously or one at a time? 6.If God is one and three simultaneously, then none of the three could be the complete God. Granting that such was the case, then when Jesus was on earth, he wasn’t a complete God, nor was the "father in Heaven" a whole God. Doesn’t that contradict what Jesus always said about His God and our God in heaven, his Lord and our Lord ? Does that also mean that there was no complete god then, between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrection? 7.If God is one and three at a time, then who was the God in heaven when Jesus was on earth? Wouldn’t this contradict his many references to a God in Heaven that sent him? 8.If God is three and one at the same time, who was the God in Heaven within three days between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrect ion? 9.Christians say that: "The Father(F) is God, the Son(S) is God, and the Holy Ghost(H) is God, but the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not the Father". In simple arithmetic and terms therefore, if F = G, S = G, and H = G, then it follows that F = S = H, while the second part of the statement suggests that F ¹ S ¹ H (meaning, "not equal"). Isn’t that a contradiction to the Christian dogma of Trinity in itself ? 10.If Jesus was God, why did he tell the man who called him "good master" not to call him "good" because accordingly, there is none good but his God in Heaven alone? 11.Why do Christians say that God is three-in-one and one in three when Jesus says in Mark 12:29: "The Lord our God is one Lord" in as many places as yet in the Bible? 12.If belief in the Trinity was such a necessary condition for being a Christian, why didn’t Jesus teach and emphasize it to the Christians during his time? How were those followers of Jesus considered Christians without ever hearing the term Trinity? Had the Trinity been the spinal cord of Christianity, Jesus would have emphasized it on many occasions and would have taught and explained it in detail to the people. 13.Christians claim that Jesus was God as they quote in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". This is John speaking and not Jesus. Also, the Greek word for the first occurrence of God is HOTHEOS which means "the God" or "God" with a capital "G", while the Greek word for its second occurrence is "TONTHEOS", which means "a god " or "god" with a small "g". Isn’t this dishonesty and inconsistency on the part of those translating the Greek Bible? ? Isn’t such quotation in John 1:1 recognized by every Christian scholar of the Bible to have been written by a Jew named Philo Alexandria way before Jesus and John? 14.Wasn’t the word "god" or "TONTHEOS" also used to refer to others as well as in II Corinthians 4:4 "(and the Devil is) the god of this world" and in Exodus 7:1 "See , I have made thee (Moses ) a god to Pharaoh"?
HOLY SPIRIT: The only place in the Bible where the Paraclete was called the Holy Spirit is in John 14:26 "But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you". What has the Holy Spirit brought or taught for the last 2000 years? 26.Christians say that the Paraclete means the Holy Spirit (John 14;26). Jesus said in John 16:7-8 "If I do not go away the Paraclete will not come to you". This could not mean the Holy spirit, since the Holy spirit was said to have been there before Jesus was even born as in Luke 1:41 "Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit". Here, the Holy spirit was also present during Jesus life time. So how could this fit with the condition that Jesus must go away so that the Holy spirit will come? 27.In John 16:7-8, it says: "But if go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of Judgment". What do "he" and "him" refer here? Don’t they refer to a man? 28.Does the Holy Spirit talk to good Christians and bad Christians as well? Is the Holy spirit with them all the time or just at certain times? When does it start visiting a person who wants to become a Christian? 29.How can you as a Christian tell if the Holy Spirit is inside another Christian? How come many Christians fooled people by claiming that the Holy spirit was inside them only to be converted to another religion later on ? 30.Does the Holy Spirit dictate what Christians should do without choice or freedom at all or does it only guide them and they have the freedom to follow or not ? 31.If the Holy Spirit dictates what Christian should do, why do Christians commit sins and make mistakes ? How can you explain the conversion to other religions and atheism of many Christians? Are they told to do that by the Holy Spirit? 32.If the Holy Spirit guides Christians only, and they are free to do what they want, then how do we know that the writers of the Gospels didn’t make mistakes in writing them? 33.If Christians believe that the Holy Spirit comes and talks to them everyday, why don’t they ask the Holy Spirit about which version of the Bible to follow since there are too many versions floating around? MISSION OF JESUS: Without borrowing from other religions and systems, can Christianity provide people with a complete way of life? Since Christianity is limited to spiritual life and does not provide law, how can a society decide which laws are right or wrong? 34.Why do the Christians say that Jesus came with a universal mission when he said that he was sent to the Jews only? He said to the Canaanite woman who asked him to heal her daughter from demon-possession: "I was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel" and also said: "It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs", Matthew 15:21-28.
100% thanks again mr mark. this is my favorite and number 1 channel. this was on time again. Man God has been moving. see this is why i love serving God. there so much joy in it. And very much helpful
I didn't know I have number 5 after more than 20years until recently when I think back about my last relationship what gone bad😔 I let my emotional took control of me way to much that I not only hurt my ex but also myself. He walked away from me because he cannot handle me anymore and just couple of months, he found passion with a new love that he wanted to pursue. I was wondering how did someone who claimed he loved me can simply walked away, get involved with another woman so quickly and aggressively pursue her to make her fall in love with him🤔 then I realised, it has been a repeated pattern in my ex relationship cycle after each break up, i was also part of his healing cycle when we got together that I didn't know it. This relationship hurt me deeply and badly but after 1. 5 years of healing.. am glad the peace and harmony within me that God gives is so precious after he walk with me out from a tumultuous 3.5years of self inflated harm. When a person falls in love, we often get so engross with a new person that we forgotten about God and this is a bad mistake
Hey Mark you are such an inspiration ,I like the fact that you qoute verses from Holy Bible to give us clarity what God really says, i enjoy your videos as a South African, Durban ,God bless
I've been watching these vids lately and this one kind of gets me sad. Most people who i know are in relationships. Only one of those persons is a practicing Christian. Everyone else(co workers, acquaintances) are not Christian, are atheists or another unchristian religion. They all have relationships! Some of them even live together and have premarital sex. Not judging but for the sake of this video is like i can easily find a non-Christian boyfriend but because we're Christians, we have to be extra super clean and without sin to even have a whiff of a relationship while everyone else can just get in and out of relationships and even get married? That's very discouraging! I think this video can be helpful if it were worded differently. I've gotten that advice before(EVEN FROM OTHER CHRISTIANS) , that I must be doing "something" wrong for the 11 years that I have been single since everyone can get a mate except me! I'm just really in a funk about being single and this was kind of a slap in the face. I'm sorry, I never complain about videos and free content but geez! Lol please forgive me, you guys. I see a few other sad persons in the comments, too. I've been praying and fasting for a relationship for years, ever since I was a little girl (fasting came with adult hood).
You're illustrating how religion does two things at once... #1 Takes away the personal power of self-determination as you wait for your desire to arrive. #2 Causes the religious people you ask "why isn't God giving me a husband" (who have no answer) to tell you that God wants you single or "he is working on it, have faith" or that YOU are not good enough- that YOU are the problem and that YOUR failure is the explanation for God not delivering on your desire... when the REAL truth is that the religious people have no rational explanation to tell you why your prayer is not being answered, since they have been teaching you that passivity and waiting in faith is the way, instead of TAKING ACTION. The reality is that God designed us for connection and relationship and marriage (read Song of Solomon). This is the BIG area where "pray for _____ to magically arrive" fails.... and the explanation? God wants you to be single. Or the horrible lie that your people told you... that you are the problem! We DO need to take action. Otherwise you end up single and middle-aged like ME! And I'm a Christian if you can believe that. Or maybe I just de-converted when I typed this comment? Just kidding! Though really, Jesus never said "Don't take action. Just sit on your butt and have God bring everything". Churches and pastors are the ones who say that (don't forget to tithe)!!! ;)
@@StratMatt777 thank you for explaining that better than I ever could. I try to get off of my butt and go into town. Since I'm not good at partying too much, i just go to libraries, church, volunteering, coffee shops, etc. I really dont have any other places to go! But wherever I go, I'm looking! Lol there aren't really a lot of single Christian events in my town but a ton of, uh, wordly events(not trying to seem holier than thou). Just last night(after I wrote this comment) a guy asked for my phone number for the first time in years. I gave him the number and prayed the whole drive home about him. Told God I'd delet his number as soon as God gives me the word that he wasnt for me. Took two hours for him to say some slight sexual statements. I already told him that I was a Christian just briefly because it was only two hours of chatting and then he said what he said. I asked him what type of women he talks to that allow dudes to talk to them that way? He got confused and said his statement was a compliment. I told him that that was disrespectful to speak to a lady like that! So, thank you, God for providing me with his mindset EARLY on. SEX... But was pretty sad because that waa the first guy to get my number in years but didnt get excited because I know God is my matchmaker. If i didnt have God, i probably would have ignored his sexual comment and a world of craziness would have happened. It was a blessing in disguise because i see how fast God works and how He doesn't want me to be with just anyone. ALSO, it was maybe a test to see if id still wait for who God wants ME to have and not a wordly partner. Disclaimer: just like my initial comment, I'm not looking for perfection, just NOT SAYING SEXUAL THINGS WITHIN TWO HOURS OF TALKING, or really, like ever talking to me like that before marriage. After marriage 😍 it would have been a compliment! Just wanted to state that again before someone comes up saying WELL WHAT DID HE SAY, YOU MIGHT BE TOO SENSITIVE, MAYBE YOU'RE BLOWING UP WHAT HE SAID OUT OF PROPORTION. Anyway, i unsubscribed from this channel. Had no idea they had this unbiblical Mindset. None of this is in the Bible in relation to HAVING A RELATIONSHIP OR BEING SINGLE. They're adding things to the Bible and teaching that to others. Videos like this keep single Christians single for a longer time period. Sorry yall.
@@dunkinnatalie You have to make the effort to go into town... I live IN a HUGE city and I'm here on TH-cam- and I'm already in Seattle! So, I've got you totally beat on the laziness! Maybe you should visit every church you can find? :) Though there are lots of Christians on here who talk about how worldly Christians in churches are too. God designed humans to be attracted to the opposite sex and want to pair up... now here's the problem you are running into: for guys, initial attraction is visual, that triggers us to get our attention (I'm a "face" guy myself, but lots of guys are "butt" guys or whatever)… So picture this: A walking pile of flesh with no spiritual awareness whatsoever is visually attracted to you and that is what causes him to approach. So that's where his mind is starting from. Flesh. At church you have a better chance of finding a guy who's flesh is not entirely in charge of him since he has a spiritual sensibility and also has the intelligence to know that he is looking for a good woman with a beautiful personality (and everything else). It would have been easier to find the kind of man you are looking for in 1960... but the U.S. and the world has changed so you have to see if you can find any of these respectable gentlemen in a church or maybe even on eharmony or something. I don't have anyone because I don't approach... and that IS MY job as the man. ;) Regarding TH-cam, most channels are a means of advertising a product that you have to pay for. It's marketing. This guy offers coaching (Christian dating coaching or something I think)? You know the first rule of sales? Identify what your customer is lacking or needs and tell them how your product will solve their problem. It's interesting to note that religious institutions and pastors tend to teach passivity and lack of personal power because God is going to do everything. So you and I pray for our dream partner for 10 or 15 years and no one shows up. And then you get depressed and you need to go find a coach to teach you that you do need to take action. I'm not hating on the guy by the way. Not at all. I'm just making an observation of the passive mindset that religion can sometimes create (passivity that Jesus did NOT teach- Jesus had a mission and he got stuff done!). Regarding your concern about people who might be critical of what you may have typed... they don't matter. Only your judgement of you matters. If someone doesn't like you it's because they have bad judgement. NEXT!
@@StratMatt777 thank you. I'm trying. I don't think I'm lazy in my wanting to go out, i try to get out when i can. I'm at starbucks outside, right now. Been writing some things. Just wanted to get out of the house. Even doing something as simple as drinking coffee, I'm on thr prowl! Kidding, kidding but i am always looking. Thank you for giving me a non Christian mans insight in women. I'll keep that in mind. I'm trying to write a guide about why this thinking is incorrect for single Christians. Idk what I'm going to do with it but I think Gods been putting it on my heart to write a CHRISTIAN SINGLES MYTH list with explanations for a long time. I'm just getting around to doing it. Oops. Thank you God for giving me the kick in the pants to write this. 😉
@@dunkinnatalie What I meant to say is that, in comparison to you (who has to make the effort to drive to town), I am lazy. I didn't really mean to call you lazy like I did! I've been awake for 24 hours! I meant that I am lazy! Believe it or not, I am a Christi.... well, actually I've started calling myself "a follower of the teachings of Jesus" now since Trump and the current anti-Christ Republican party, but _anyway_... the reality is that what I described is really how all men function. It's a primal thing. Hopefully the Christian man catches that primal train of thought and steers it to seeking the spiritual things that actually matter about a woman!
Thanks for sharing this! My mission is to fall deeper in love with God. I am in a season right now where I have asked God to work on me. I want to make sure my heart and motive is pure concerning why I want to be married again.
Amen, always a blessing to hear your messages. I don't struggle with none. At one point in my life I did and God help me with my weakness cause I decide that I didn't want any of those in my life. God put me people that would pray for me, guide me and encourage me. The most important thing to me was holy spirit. It can help you out with these sins. Having the holy spirit guide you and fill you with his presence and giving you the understand of the living word of God. So let's do the same with a sister and a brother and don't let the enemy stay with that soul. God bless you.💛
Hi Mark, It's me, Jacqueline. Please forgive me that I haven't been watching your videos in a very loooooooonnnnng time due to me working as well as going unnecessary stress with someone I told you about in a while back as well as he was my fiance´. But, now I am back, and thank you for this video. I am still looking forward to see more videos that can relate on what I am going through. As always, keep up the good work, and God bless you and your family. 😇
This is the first time I will criticize your post even before watching it because the title is misleading. Marriage is instituted by God, to state that there are “sins” keeping Christians single is a very serious misrepresentation. Pls bear that in mind. Being single is nothing to be worried about, God’s timing is the perfect timing, serve God whilst you are single and continue to serve him even in marriage, both phases have their blessings, this title is misleading..pls..
First one, third - i’m virgin but i have a strong addiction with masturbation and especially the last one because Godly relationships with a girl who touched my heart ♥️ it’s a dream above all dreams for me.
Decide. Replace bad habits with good habits. Tend to, and fill, your unmet human needs (loneliness?) in healthy ways, with healthy connections to good people who are good for you to be around. Realize that your unmet emotional needs can not be filled by pretend love/infatuation/sex.
Mine is fear. I'm scared of bringing someone in my life which I consider somehow a mess. But I'm also scared of not being good enough to be in a relationship or not being able to handle one. That's quite sad.
So if we know that we struggle with sexual immorality, what can we do to stop?? Gods grace is sufficient, please explain on how we can overcome these things.
My fear comes from self-image. I think that since I have looked at porn extensively, a woman will look down upon me. Also, since I'm skinny, I fear that women don't want a guy like me. I am praying on it though. I guess another problem is I'm an introvert, once I get to know someone I don't have a problem talking to them.
God made some of us different and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being an introvert. Just focus on overcoming porn through trusting in the LORD and the rest would take care of itself
Great content, I don't know how stop committing some some of these. Don't get me wrong I've came along way from who I use to be but some of that stuff hasn't went away I've prayed about it I don't have any Christian friends I can get gut level honest with and tell them what I'm struggling with. Suggestions please, I wanna live in God's will he's done so much for me how can I not obey him 😕
HI Katylyn! First off, I would suggest finding some friends who you trust - maybe leaders at a church - who you feel comfortable sharing things with. I've had a mentor for the past 3 years that I talk about everything with and it is AMAZING. To overcome these sins, this may help: I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps! Will be praying for you!
I feel so good saying that God is my best friend. Man it feels so good within me to say that. I wish people could experience this beautiful feeling. With him I dont feel empty. With him, death is victory to us, because we are saved by him. Amen!!!
I want to ask, have you done a video on someone being friends and having so much in common? One person slowly falling in love while the other is still emotionally attached to some one else who isn't right for them? Or their relationship with someone else is toxic and they're not even married but living together?
There’s a Christian girl a my job I like and want to pro sue but we come from different back rounds I’m Baptist’s she Pentecostal. Everyone say leave she not be the one I need to Guard my heart but if I do that I will let fear back in I can’t do that. Any tips
Oh no, your profile pic! Haha. But anyway, I've been praying for a boyfriend that will wait until marriage to have relations without me having to force that value on him. There's gotta be a couple more guys that want to wait.
Yes that can be a sin... it can be seen as passivity, apathy and/or complacency in your life. If you're too lazy to work through things that will often come up in a dating relationship, and could keep you being single.. I would suggest taking this to God and repenting for this, then asking Him to help you overcome this! We all deal with different sins because of this fallen world and our weakness, but with Him we can overcome it :) Hope that helps!
does this mean that you must rid of all these sins before getting married? I unsterstand fully why they are hindrances, but I also find it unpractical that all these sins will be resolved before marriage. I know that god can do anything, but aint some of these sins gonna be a lifetime process of removal? like you're not gonna get rid of all your pride before marriage right?
Fear is not a sin. For God you should fear. That's the good way of having fear. It's out of respect for his greatness. Fear is a bad way however is also not a sin. For the Lord will help you, if you let him. Unequal yoked is also not a sin. It's from 2 Corinthians and written by Paul. But Paul's option is not important. It's the option of God and our Lord Yeshua that's important. Who doesn't knows the story of the good Samaritan. He's an unbeliever and he helped a believer. Also one of the two most important commandments: love your neighbor... How could you love your neighbor if you can't deal with unbelievers?
I think dating and being married to a non Christian is a disaster waiting to happen. I talk to non believers all of the time but I would never start a relationship with someone who doesn't want to give their life to Christ.
Thank you! Although I have a question, is kissing considered a sexual sin, I know it’s sexual but if you kiss someone you’ve gone on several dates with is that considered a sin?
Ogechi Chukwu One is either married or single. there is nothing like being in transition. so whatever act we do as Christians we need to know which class of the 2 we are in and what God approves in each of them. Read a book "sex and the single Christian girl" by Marian Jordan Ellis. Also Mark talks about this in his video. There is nothing like I am in love or I think this one is the right person or we hope to get married one day , to me the qn is what is God approving right now.! purity comes first
Wow! Guess I am sinning in fear of relationships cause I don't and never will trust anyone again... I refuse to be with anyone and turn down every guy that asks me out. I just don't want to be with anyone or ever again. I prefer to die single. Guess that's one sin I will never repent!
@@PrincessTatyanna I understand ma'am, but I just have a strong desire of not wanting to be with anyone. I mean there's nothing really wrong with just wanting to be alone is there.??..even rejecting every man that asks me out. I just don't exactly comprehend how is it a sin just wanting to be single...even after watching the video, just doesn't make sense to me.
I hate when people say fear is a sin. How stupid. Oh if you're human and you fear your sin of fear is keeping you single. Don't even wanna listen to the rest.
Hi Julie! I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps with overcoming fear :) Will be praying for you!
@@kalligrace1077 thank you. This is just what I need. What I need to do....I'm not good at this. I've believed lies and believed the fears were true. Thank you so much. Now maybe I can get a grip on this sin and be rid of it. Please pray for me!
If you can find my initial comment on her, i explain the SAME thing. Please take a read... And unsub. This isn't in the Bible in regards to being single.
@@dunkinnatalie - I commented because using sins to justify a marriage partner is unbiblical, utterly foolish and in vain. Christ died for our sins so that we can live in His world not of this world. However since we are still facing tribulations of this world that we are in, just ask Christ for His grace - If ye ask any thing in my name I will do it. Jn 14:14 And the Holy One shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Rev 21:4 shalom
@@gojohnnygo3209 i totally agree. I'm actually writing about the mindset in this video right now. I went on a mini rant in my comment on this video about how unbiblical this video is.
I encourage you to do a search on the phrase "Do not fear" or "Do not be afraid." This is a command found throughout the Bible. Sin is when you disobey what God says, so yes, fear can be a sin.
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THIS video in a nutshell:
(1)Fear
(2)Pride
(3)Sexual Immorality
(4)Unequally Yoked
(5)Idolatry
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Check No 3 is sexual immorality...not immortality
If they are continuing to do so much sins even in old ages then they are never Christians.a real follower of Christ will be transformed from all past mistakes or unholiness and become a new man with the power of Holy spirit. a good Christian will be easily identified not by the words he speaks but the character he lives.if some body never become a holy person means he is not Christian but an agent of Satan.
I pray I never meet such demonic person till the rest of my life.if that person is meant to be somebody he will defenetly a real Christian .people can do wrong but confess and never go back to bad old life become holy or spiritual is what we are looking from a man.nothing else!!
(6)Demonic possession
Some people send curses on the victim for different reasons:
They don't want the victim to experience pleasure from sexual relationship;don't want them to find love,happiness and joy,and have children.
Demons are also sent on people because the victim has material possessions which the sender is coveting.
Btw the use of P0rn is a sin not just the addiction of it. Any use of it or watching is sin.
I struggle on all of sin listed. But God shown the error of my ways. And now I am letting God guide my life.
That's awesome :)
I have struggled with some of those things but God has changed that.
Treamann M.O.G amen
Treamann M.O.G saw amen too that
Being single in and of itself is not so terrible...singleness for me is actually a beautiful blessing from God:)
Amen, some are called to a life of singleness and this is a blessing
Same here single and a blessing
Amen
I have Christian friends! This is enough for me! I had hoped to find someone, but I am now content as I am! 🙌🙌🙌🙏✝️❤️🤗
Friends won't last your last 40 years of life
Hello brother Mark
I'm from Syria Middle-East.
I just wanted to thank you for this channel and these videos, God has used a lot to bless me and guide me. I'm also sharing it with other friends.
I just wanted to say this hoping that will encourage you to keep moving forward in your ministry and be encouraged.
May our Lord bless you, peace & grace.
I am suffering 4 out of 5 sins. I am mostly struggling with sexual immorality. I need help. Pray for me to overcome this kind of sin. Including other sins I have committed.😥❤
Prayers to you ,and God will deliver you from all kind of sins in Jesus name Amen
@@lilliechebby7175 Thank you.❤😇
Hi Carlos! I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps! Will be praying for you!
@@carlosrodriguezrodriguez6558 you're welcome
@@kalligrace1077 Wow thanks for telling me about the 4 R's.Thank you.😀❤😇
For there is no single Christian! A Christian is always with Jesus, holly spirit and our God father in heaven
Perfect love casteth out fear. Amen. Thanks for another great video Mark!
My pleasure!
I've never been in a serious serious relationship. I mean madly in love kinda thing. I struggle with fear. Fear that nobody will love me. I mean the right person loving me and I love them. I am still single.
I have that fear sometimes you're not alone don't let it get the best of you :)
@@ZBooneBeats Thank You I will not let it get the best of me
@@katerigonzalez3261 That's good I won't let it get the best of me either :) we're in this together!
This was a wealth of information shared in under 5 minutes. Thank you for this blessing ! 🙌
I'm so glad it was a blessing!
I think another way to look at this is this: getting a partner is not some guarantee of curing all your problems. In fact they will start up on a whole new level. You wont be immune to infidelity/adultery and a whole host of other things. Then you got to face the fact that as you both age, you are going to face medical problems and so on. Those vows are serious, 'for better or worse..and sickness and in health' etc etc. I say all this because after many years of walking away from God and getting involved in relationships...there is nothing worse than being with someone who doesnt appreciate that there is another dimension to life. I have paid the price now...gotten too old to have a family, and zero (below zero actually) chance of meeting the right Lady to get married to. Any of you reading this who is a believer and fooling around..please take on board what I am saying. Your 20's and 30's will zip by..then you hit middle age and so on..life passes faster and faster. Dont waste your time with someone you know full well isnt right for you.
Very true.It is never too late for God to bring someone your way.
robraver exactly. I lost my husband to cancer. Being a widow is difficult.
@@AnitaBarneycastle sorry to hear that. I hope your faith is still intact?
robraver ...my faith is stronger. the Lord is my refuge..my comforter.
Amazing! God bless and thank you for this video they are helpul to all singles out there 😍💓😊
My pleasure Sirena :)
@Kyle Gregory God bless😊
@Kyle Gregory Amen !😊 Thank you !😊 God bless!😊
Amen and want to honor God in my marriage which I have done and always do🙏🏻
I can relate and am trusting God to help me through the various sins, temptations and matters in the way of the marriage God has promised me
John Murphy 👍
Amen
Have you found your God-ordained spouse yet ?
Fear is not a sin, it is a human emotion, and also a spirit.
Thanks for the advice. I went through #4 in the last relationship and now praying to overcome #1 completely, pray that I will overcome this and keep a positive outlook that I might find love again. If it is not within His will, pray that I will be at peace until that day God decides to grace me with a good life partner.
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This video and topic is indeed interesting. Many people no longer marry because modern marriage is financially, psychologically, and spiritually brutal, or life destroying.
This was right on time!!!
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it always is👍
You make the best videos! And your wife makes me laugh. Awesome channel. Thank you so much for following your calling and helping people. I’m 35 & single w/ a strong desire for a husband and children of my own. I am constantly hit on by married men or ones not living for the lord (or even lukewarm Christian men) and am very afraid of choosing the wrong one for the sake of wanting a family. I appreciate all the insight!
34 and same
L -EM me too. Just trust God 😊
I’m so glad this channel has been helpful!
Almost 33 and SAME 😭
39 and facing the same situation..
1,3, and 5 are what I struggle with
I struggle with idolatry, it began with the iPhone, tv, costumes,Halloween,other music then gospel music, etc, but mainly I’ve been idolize this music artist called “Witt Lowry” for some time now, it’s been corrupting me without realizing it till I found this video, but I need change that and could someone/people pray for so it can be easier please and thank you, have a good day/night and god bless you all.
This one was so good. I want God to make my life a blessing. I love Jesus but I am a perpetual beacon for wolves and weirdos. It sounds funny but it gets old lol.
Lucy Lu, “Wolves and Weirdos” it sounds like a good book title, lol. Keep seeking Christ and overtime you will look back and see how much he has grown you.
@@ApplyGodsWordcomMarkBallenger thank you Mark! Lol it would definitely be a page turner. I appreciate your prayers and advice. I think if God were to send me someone my kids would have to point it out to me. It is difficult to be a single mother and try to live a godly life. I am secure knowing that Jesus loves me and can be my all in all. I think I am coming to terms that single is an ok state to live in.
Thank you 😊
@Kyle Gregory yes please. I appreciate that very much!
Amen Lucy Lu, it's a family decision when kids are involved, and being single is a blessing to according to 1 Corinthians 7. There are often seasons of life for singleness and relationships so you never know what the future holds. As we walk with God he will certainly make our paths straight.
priorities. seek first the kingdom. trust God with all thine heart.
its all true....thank you for this video it really helps a lot for each one of us as a christians ...
Thanks Mark.
So help me God
I've been waiting 41 years. Please pray that He comes through soon for me.
The background music is especially nice in this vid
Thanks for the feedback :)
I agree that all these things block the blessing of a relationship from God, but a big one that was missed is unhealthy addictions. Addiction of any kind can and does block blessings from the Lord, especially a relationship blessing.
According to most Christians, Jesus was God-incarnate, full man and full God. Can the finite and the infinite be one? "To be full" God means freedom from finite forms and from helplessness, and to be "full man" means the absence of divinity.
1.To be son is to be less than divine and to be divine is to be no one’s son. How could Jesus have the attributes of sonship and divinity altogether?
2.Christians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote him in John 14:9: "He that has seen me has seen the Father". Didn’t Jesus clearly say that people have never seen God, as it says in John 5:37: "And the father himself which Has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE AT ANY TIME NOR SEEN HIS SHAPE"?
3.Christians say that Jesus was God because he was called Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, and "savior". Ezekiel was addressed in the Bible as Son of Man. Jesus spoke of "the peace makers" as Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan of God was called SON OF GOD in the Jewish tradition and in their language (Genesis 6:2,4; Exodus 4:22; Psalm 2:7; Romans 8:14). "Messiah" which in Hebrew means "God’s anointed" and not "Christ", and "Cyrus" the person is called "Messiah" or "the anointed". As for "savior", in II KINGS 13:5, other individuals were given that title too without being gods. So where is the proof in these terms that Jesus was God when the word son is not exclusively used for him alone?
4.Christians claim that Jesus acknowledged that he and God were one in the sense of nature when he says in John 10:30 "I and my father are one". Later on in John 17:21-23, Jesus refers to his followers and himself and God as one in five places. So why did they give the previous "one" a different meaning from the other five "ones?
5.Is God three-in-one and one in three simultaneously or one at a time?
6.If God is one and three simultaneously, then none of the three could be the complete God. Granting that such was the case, then when Jesus was on earth, he wasn’t a complete God, nor was the "father in Heaven" a whole God. Doesn’t that contradict what Jesus always said about His God and our God in heaven, his Lord and our Lord ? Does that also mean that there was no complete god then, between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrection?
7.If God is one and three at a time, then who was the God in heaven when Jesus was on earth? Wouldn’t this contradict his many references to a God in Heaven that sent him?
8.If God is three and one at the same time, who was the God in Heaven within three days between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrect ion?
9.Christians say that: "The Father(F) is God, the Son(S) is God, and the Holy Ghost(H) is God, but the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not the Father". In simple arithmetic and terms therefore, if F = G, S = G, and H = G, then it follows that F = S = H, while the second part of the statement suggests that F ¹ S ¹ H (meaning, "not equal"). Isn’t that a contradiction to the Christian dogma of Trinity in itself ?
10.If Jesus was God, why did he tell the man who called him "good master" not to call him "good" because accordingly, there is none good but his God in Heaven alone?
11.Why do Christians say that God is three-in-one and one in three when Jesus says in Mark 12:29: "The Lord our God is one Lord" in as many places as yet in the Bible?
12.If belief in the Trinity was such a necessary condition for being a Christian, why didn’t Jesus teach and emphasize it to the Christians during his time? How were those followers of Jesus considered Christians without ever hearing the term Trinity? Had the Trinity been the spinal cord of Christianity, Jesus would have emphasized it on many occasions and would have taught and explained it in detail to the people.
13.Christians claim that Jesus was God as they quote in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". This is John speaking and not Jesus. Also, the Greek word for the first occurrence of God is HOTHEOS which means "the God" or "God" with a capital "G", while the Greek word for its second occurrence is "TONTHEOS", which means "a god " or "god" with a small "g". Isn’t this dishonesty and inconsistency on the part of those translating the Greek Bible? ? Isn’t such quotation in John 1:1 recognized by every Christian scholar of the Bible to have been written by a Jew named Philo Alexandria way before Jesus and John?
14.Wasn’t the word "god" or "TONTHEOS" also used to refer to others as well as in II Corinthians 4:4 "(and the Devil is) the god of this world" and in Exodus 7:1 "See , I have made thee (Moses ) a god to Pharaoh"?
HOLY SPIRIT:
The only place in the Bible where the Paraclete was called the Holy Spirit is in John 14:26 "But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you". What has the Holy Spirit brought or taught for the last 2000 years?
26.Christians say that the Paraclete means the Holy Spirit (John 14;26). Jesus said in John 16:7-8 "If I do not go away the Paraclete will not come to you". This could not mean the Holy spirit, since the Holy spirit was said to have been there before Jesus was even born as in Luke 1:41 "Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit". Here, the Holy spirit was also present during Jesus life time. So how could this fit with the condition that Jesus must go away so that the Holy spirit will come?
27.In John 16:7-8, it says: "But if go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world of sins and of righteousness and of Judgment". What do "he" and "him" refer here? Don’t they refer to a man?
28.Does the Holy Spirit talk to good Christians and bad Christians as well? Is the Holy spirit with them all the time or just at certain times? When does it start visiting a person who wants to become a Christian?
29.How can you as a Christian tell if the Holy Spirit is inside another Christian? How come many Christians fooled people by claiming that the Holy spirit was inside them only to be converted to another religion later on ?
30.Does the Holy Spirit dictate what Christians should do without choice or freedom at all or does it only guide them and they have the freedom to follow or not ?
31.If the Holy Spirit dictates what Christian should do, why do Christians commit sins and make mistakes ? How can you explain the conversion to other religions and atheism of many Christians? Are they told to do that by the Holy Spirit?
32.If the Holy Spirit guides Christians only, and they are free to do what they want, then how do we know that the writers of the Gospels didn’t make mistakes in writing them?
33.If Christians believe that the Holy Spirit comes and talks to them everyday, why don’t they ask the Holy Spirit about which version of the Bible to follow since there are too many versions floating around?
MISSION OF JESUS:
Without borrowing from other religions and systems, can Christianity provide people with a complete way of life? Since Christianity is limited to spiritual life and does not provide law, how can a society decide which laws are right or wrong?
34.Why do the Christians say that Jesus came with a universal mission when he said that he was sent to the Jews only? He said to the Canaanite woman who asked him to heal her daughter from demon-possession: "I was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel" and also said: "It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs", Matthew 15:21-28.
100% thanks again mr mark. this is my favorite and number 1 channel. this was on time again. Man God has been moving. see this is why i love serving God. there so much joy in it. And very much helpful
RHG4 2020 amen, I’m so glad this content has been helpful to you!
I didn't know I have number 5 after more than 20years until recently when I think back about my last relationship what gone bad😔 I let my emotional took control of me way to much that I not only hurt my ex but also myself. He walked away from me because he cannot handle me anymore and just couple of months, he found passion with a new love that he wanted to pursue. I was wondering how did someone who claimed he loved me can simply walked away, get involved with another woman so quickly and aggressively pursue her to make her fall in love with him🤔 then I realised, it has been a repeated pattern in my ex relationship cycle after each break up, i was also part of his healing cycle when we got together that I didn't know it. This relationship hurt me deeply and badly but after 1. 5 years of healing.. am glad the peace and harmony within me that God gives is so precious after he walk with me out from a tumultuous 3.5years of self inflated harm. When a person falls in love, we often get so engross with a new person that we forgotten about God and this is a bad mistake
Hey Mark you are such an inspiration ,I like the fact that you qoute verses from Holy Bible to give us clarity what God really says, i enjoy your videos as a South African, Durban ,God bless
Thanks a lot brother.
Definitely guilty of 2. 3 I stopped 1.5 years ago.
God is good, keep seeking him
I've been watching these vids lately and this one kind of gets me sad. Most people who i know are in relationships. Only one of those persons is a practicing Christian. Everyone else(co workers, acquaintances) are not Christian, are atheists or another unchristian religion. They all have relationships! Some of them even live together and have premarital sex. Not judging but for the sake of this video is like i can easily find a non-Christian boyfriend but because we're Christians, we have to be extra super clean and without sin to even have a whiff of a relationship while everyone else can just get in and out of relationships and even get married? That's very discouraging! I think this video can be helpful if it were worded differently.
I've gotten that advice before(EVEN FROM OTHER CHRISTIANS) , that I must be doing "something" wrong for the 11 years that I have been single since everyone can get a mate except me!
I'm just really in a funk about being single and this was kind of a slap in the face. I'm sorry, I never complain about videos and free content but geez! Lol please forgive me, you guys. I see a few other sad persons in the comments, too. I've been praying and fasting for a relationship for years, ever since I was a little girl (fasting came with adult hood).
You're illustrating how religion does two things at once...
#1 Takes away the personal power of self-determination as you wait for your desire to arrive.
#2 Causes the religious people you ask "why isn't God giving me a husband" (who have no answer) to tell you that God wants you single or "he is working on it, have faith" or that YOU are not good enough- that YOU are the problem and that YOUR failure is the explanation for God not delivering on your desire... when the REAL truth is that the religious people have no rational explanation to tell you why your prayer is not being answered, since they have been teaching you that passivity and waiting in faith is the way, instead of TAKING ACTION.
The reality is that God designed us for connection and relationship and marriage (read Song of Solomon). This is the BIG area where "pray for _____ to magically arrive" fails.... and the explanation? God wants you to be single. Or the horrible lie that your people told you... that you are the problem!
We DO need to take action. Otherwise you end up single and middle-aged like ME!
And I'm a Christian if you can believe that. Or maybe I just de-converted when I typed this comment?
Just kidding!
Though really, Jesus never said "Don't take action. Just sit on your butt and have God bring everything". Churches and pastors are the ones who say that (don't forget to tithe)!!!
;)
@@StratMatt777 thank you for explaining that better than I ever could. I try to get off of my butt and go into town. Since I'm not good at partying too much, i just go to libraries, church, volunteering, coffee shops, etc. I really dont have any other places to go! But wherever I go, I'm looking!
Lol there aren't really a lot of single Christian events in my town but a ton of, uh, wordly events(not trying to seem holier than thou).
Just last night(after I wrote this comment) a guy asked for my phone number for the first time in years. I gave him the number and prayed the whole drive home about him. Told God I'd delet his number as soon as God gives me the word that he wasnt for me.
Took two hours for him to say some slight sexual statements. I already told him that I was a Christian just briefly because it was only two hours of chatting and then he said what he said. I asked him what type of women he talks to that allow dudes to talk to them that way? He got confused and said his statement was a compliment. I told him that that was disrespectful to speak to a lady like that!
So, thank you, God for providing me with his mindset EARLY on. SEX...
But was pretty sad because that waa the first guy to get my number in years but didnt get excited because I know God is my matchmaker. If i didnt have God, i probably would have ignored his sexual comment and a world of craziness would have happened.
It was a blessing in disguise because i see how fast God works and how He doesn't want me to be with just anyone. ALSO, it was maybe a test to see if id still wait for who God wants ME to have and not a wordly partner.
Disclaimer: just like my initial comment, I'm not looking for perfection, just NOT SAYING SEXUAL THINGS WITHIN TWO HOURS OF TALKING, or really, like ever talking to me like that before marriage. After marriage 😍 it would have been a compliment! Just wanted to state that again before someone comes up saying WELL WHAT DID HE SAY, YOU MIGHT BE TOO SENSITIVE, MAYBE YOU'RE BLOWING UP WHAT HE SAID OUT OF PROPORTION. Anyway, i unsubscribed from this channel. Had no idea they had this unbiblical Mindset. None of this is in the Bible in relation to HAVING A RELATIONSHIP OR BEING SINGLE. They're adding things to the Bible and teaching that to others. Videos like this keep single Christians single for a longer time period. Sorry yall.
@@dunkinnatalie You have to make the effort to go into town... I live IN a HUGE city and I'm here on TH-cam- and I'm already in Seattle! So, I've got you totally beat on the laziness!
Maybe you should visit every church you can find? :) Though there are lots of Christians on here who talk about how worldly Christians in churches are too.
God designed humans to be attracted to the opposite sex and want to pair up... now here's the problem you are running into: for guys, initial attraction is visual, that triggers us to get our attention (I'm a "face" guy myself, but lots of guys are "butt" guys or whatever)…
So picture this: A walking pile of flesh with no spiritual awareness whatsoever is visually attracted to you and that is what causes him to approach. So that's where his mind is starting from. Flesh.
At church you have a better chance of finding a guy who's flesh is not entirely in charge of him since he has a spiritual sensibility and also has the intelligence to know that he is looking for a good woman with a beautiful personality (and everything else).
It would have been easier to find the kind of man you are looking for in 1960... but the U.S. and the world has changed so you have to see if you can find any of these respectable gentlemen in a church or maybe even on eharmony or something.
I don't have anyone because I don't approach... and that IS MY job as the man. ;)
Regarding TH-cam, most channels are a means of advertising a product that you have to pay for. It's marketing.
This guy offers coaching (Christian dating coaching or something I think)?
You know the first rule of sales?
Identify what your customer is lacking or needs and tell them how your product will solve their problem.
It's interesting to note that religious institutions and pastors tend to teach passivity and lack of personal power because God is going to do everything.
So you and I pray for our dream partner for 10 or 15 years and no one shows up.
And then you get depressed and you need to go find a coach to teach you that you do need to take action.
I'm not hating on the guy by the way. Not at all.
I'm just making an observation of the passive mindset that religion can sometimes create (passivity that Jesus did NOT teach- Jesus had a mission and he got stuff done!).
Regarding your concern about people who might be critical of what you may have typed... they don't matter. Only your judgement of you matters.
If someone doesn't like you it's because they have bad judgement. NEXT!
@@StratMatt777 thank you. I'm trying. I don't think I'm lazy in my wanting to go out, i try to get out when i can. I'm at starbucks outside, right now. Been writing some things. Just wanted to get out of the house. Even doing something as simple as drinking coffee, I'm on thr prowl! Kidding, kidding but i am always looking. Thank you for giving me a non Christian mans insight in women. I'll keep that in mind. I'm trying to write a guide about why this thinking is incorrect for single Christians. Idk what I'm going to do with it but I think Gods been putting it on my heart to write a CHRISTIAN SINGLES MYTH list with explanations for a long time. I'm just getting around to doing it. Oops. Thank you God for giving me the kick in the pants to write this. 😉
@@dunkinnatalie What I meant to say is that, in comparison to you (who has to make the effort to drive to town), I am lazy. I didn't really mean to call you lazy like I did! I've been awake for 24 hours!
I meant that I am lazy!
Believe it or not, I am a Christi.... well, actually I've started calling myself "a follower of the teachings of Jesus" now since Trump and the current anti-Christ Republican party, but _anyway_... the reality is that what I described is really how all men function. It's a primal thing.
Hopefully the Christian man catches that primal train of thought and steers it to seeking the spiritual things that actually matter about a woman!
Thanks for sharing this! My mission is to fall deeper in love with God. I am in a season right now where I have asked God to work on me. I want to make sure my heart and motive is pure concerning why I want to be married again.
Amen, always a blessing to hear your messages. I don't struggle with none. At one point in my life I did and God help me with my weakness cause I decide that I didn't want any of those in my life. God put me people that would pray for me, guide me and encourage me. The most important thing to me was holy spirit. It can help you out with these sins. Having the holy spirit guide you and fill you with his presence and giving you the understand of the living word of God. So let's do the same with a sister and a brother and don't let the enemy stay with that soul. God bless you.💛
Hi Mark, It's me, Jacqueline. Please forgive me that I haven't been watching your videos in a very loooooooonnnnng time due to me working as well as going unnecessary stress with someone I told you about in a while back as well as he was my fiance´. But, now I am back, and thank you for this video. I am still looking forward to see more videos that can relate on what I am going through. As always, keep up the good work, and God bless you and your family. 😇
Jacqueline Woods 👍
@@ApplyGodsWordcomMarkBallenger , Thank you for remembering me! 😂😂😂👍
Broken up from a toxic relationship I've had for five yrs best move ever and I don't even want another relationship with a man anymore just with God
I was all of the above! And I will never be married now! God knows what he is doing!
I'm struggling with this. Please pray for me.
Paul, John the Baptist, Jeremiah were all single, so I'd say I'm in good company
I refuse to marry and keep single in the rest of my life.
Im probably going to be single all my life and I dont have a problem with that
I'm glad you are okay with that! Are you sure that's God's will for you? Just making sure you don't miss His will :)
Me too I'm 32 and still single. My life is good and if I was in a relationship I would feel stuck or isolated. Not sure if that makes any sense.
thank you for providing this.
This is the first time I will criticize your post even before watching it because the title is misleading. Marriage is instituted by God, to state that there are “sins” keeping Christians single is a very serious misrepresentation. Pls bear that in mind. Being single is nothing to be worried about, God’s timing is the perfect timing, serve God whilst you are single and continue to serve him even in marriage, both phases have their blessings, this title is misleading..pls..
So true!!!
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First one, third - i’m virgin but i have a strong addiction with masturbation and especially the last one because Godly relationships with a girl who touched my heart ♥️ it’s a dream above all dreams for me.
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I want to overcome sexual immorality and fear, but how??
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@@ternguliam5063 .. you are taking advantage of a vulnerable person.
Decide.
Replace bad habits with good habits.
Tend to, and fill, your unmet human needs (loneliness?) in healthy ways, with healthy connections to good people who are good for you to be around.
Realize that your unmet emotional needs can not be filled by pretend love/infatuation/sex.
@@ternguliam5063 Why did you post your phone number? Do you need some money wired to your bank account?
Mine is fear. I'm scared of bringing someone in my life which I consider somehow a mess. But I'm also scared of not being good enough to be in a relationship or not being able to handle one. That's quite sad.
"Sexual immorality prevents Christian singles from finding love."
We sin because we're out of love. So what do ?
So if we know that we struggle with sexual immorality, what can we do to stop?? Gods grace is sufficient, please explain on how we can overcome these things.
If any relationship is not of God; I don't want it!
I can guarantee I commit almost all of them except pride...i think
Alex Green keep seeking Christ, his grace is sufficient to transform us
so how to move away with fear arising from past hurts?
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My fear comes from self-image. I think that since I have looked at porn extensively, a woman will look down upon me. Also, since I'm skinny, I fear that women don't want a guy like me. I am praying on it though. I guess another problem is I'm an introvert, once I get to know someone I don't have a problem talking to them.
God made some of us different and there's absolutely nothing wrong with being an introvert. Just focus on overcoming porn through trusting in the LORD and the rest would take care of itself
Great content, I don't know how stop committing some some of these. Don't get me wrong I've came along way from who I use to be but some of that stuff hasn't went away I've prayed about it I don't have any Christian friends I can get gut level honest with and tell them what I'm struggling with. Suggestions please, I wanna live in God's will he's done so much for me how can I not obey him 😕
HI Katylyn! First off, I would suggest finding some friends who you trust - maybe leaders at a church - who you feel comfortable sharing things with. I've had a mentor for the past 3 years that I talk about everything with and it is AMAZING. To overcome these sins, this may help: I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps! Will be praying for you!
Amen!🙏
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I feel so good saying that God is my best friend. Man it feels so good within me to say that. I wish people could experience this beautiful feeling. With him I dont feel empty. With him, death is victory to us, because we are saved by him. Amen!!!
Amen, through Christ alone!
I want to ask, have you done a video on someone being friends and having so much in common? One person slowly falling in love while the other is still emotionally attached to some one else who isn't right for them? Or their relationship with someone else is toxic and they're not even married but living together?
There’s a Christian girl a my job I like and want to pro sue but we come from different back rounds I’m Baptist’s she Pentecostal. Everyone say leave she not be the one I need to Guard my heart but if I do that I will let fear back in I can’t do that. Any tips
Thanks
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If there were only men out there that didn't want sex on the very first day! Most men don't like to wait for marraige...im doomed
Oh no, your profile pic! Haha.
But anyway, I've been praying for a boyfriend that will wait until marriage to have relations without me having to force that value on him. There's gotta be a couple more guys that want to wait.
Btw the use or watching of P0rn is a sin not just the addiction of it. Any use of it or watching is sin.
I agree :)
How about laziness?
Yes that can be a sin... it can be seen as passivity, apathy and/or complacency in your life. If you're too lazy to work through things that will often come up in a dating relationship, and could keep you being single.. I would suggest taking this to God and repenting for this, then asking Him to help you overcome this! We all deal with different sins because of this fallen world and our weakness, but with Him we can overcome it :) Hope that helps!
@@kalligrace1077 Yes, thank you for that insight.
Amen
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does this mean that you must rid of all these sins before getting married? I unsterstand fully why they are hindrances, but I also find it unpractical that all these sins will be resolved before marriage. I know that god can do anything, but aint some of these sins gonna be a lifetime process of removal? like you're not gonna get rid of all your pride before marriage right?
amen
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Fear is not a sin. For God you should fear. That's the good way of having fear. It's out of respect for his greatness.
Fear is a bad way however is also not a sin. For the Lord will help you, if you let him.
Unequal yoked is also not a sin. It's from 2 Corinthians and written by Paul. But Paul's option is not important. It's the option of God and our Lord Yeshua that's important. Who doesn't knows the story of the good Samaritan. He's an unbeliever and he helped a believer.
Also one of the two most important commandments: love your neighbor...
How could you love your neighbor if you can't deal with unbelievers?
I think dating and being married to a non Christian is a disaster waiting to happen. I talk to non believers all of the time but I would never start a relationship with someone who doesn't want to give their life to Christ.
Yay
Keely Sutherland 👍
Thank you! Although I have a question, is kissing considered a sexual sin, I know it’s sexual but if you kiss someone you’ve gone on several dates with is that considered a sin?
My pleasure :)
I would stay away from kissing altogether because it can lead to other things
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@@KadianUrquhart U right some sex addict men are very pushy outhere!. That can scared girl to death.
Ogechi Chukwu One is either married or single. there is nothing like being in transition.
so whatever act we do as Christians we need to know which class of the 2 we are in and what God approves in each of them.
Read a book "sex and the single Christian girl" by Marian Jordan Ellis. Also Mark talks about this in his video. There is nothing like I am in love or I think this one is the right person or we hope to get married one day , to me the qn is what is God approving right now.! purity comes first
The media and social media call women Godesses now.
Wow! Guess I am sinning in fear of relationships cause I don't and never will trust anyone again... I refuse to be with anyone and turn down every guy that asks me out. I just don't want to be with anyone or ever again. I prefer to die single. Guess that's one sin I will never repent!
You must repent or else you will be held accountable for that. You must trust God and not be fearful.
@@PrincessTatyanna I understand ma'am, but I just have a strong desire of not wanting to be with anyone. I mean there's nothing really wrong with just wanting to be alone is there.??..even rejecting every man that asks me out. I just don't exactly comprehend how is it a sin just wanting to be single...even after watching the video, just doesn't make sense to me.
I hate when people say fear is a sin. How stupid. Oh if you're human and you fear your sin of fear is keeping you single. Don't even wanna listen to the rest.
Lol why am I single then? 😂🤦🏾♂️
Is it ok if a lady start with a conversation to start with a friendship and then an a relationship? Just asking?
Yeah I would say it's okay to start the conversation :)
Do you believe blocking someone who isn’t equally yoked and back sliding with you is something that can honor God?
If you see a brother in soon, restore him gently
*sin
I’m not sure how to, especially if they aren’t willing to receive correction.
@@amandakate1247 many won't but are always brought to conviction the holy Spirit.. Just spit the truth..
How can I overcome fear??
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Thank you :-) also, Mark, I've paid and enrolled in your university but I don't know how to log on or get started. Could you help me?
Hi Julie! I just went through a missionary school where we learn something called the 4 R's - Repent, Receive, Rebuke and Replace. With any sin you can go through this and it seriously seriously helps. You start with asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you things, even specific instances that you should repent for. For example: "I repent for judging my sister harshly," Once you feel like you have repented of everything, you ask for forgiveness for what you've done, and then receive forgiveness from God. After that, you Rebuke the enemy for his lies that he's told you and rebuke him from your life. After that, you Replace the lies with truth. If you had been believing that "I am alone," you declare "I am not alone." You profess truth like "I am bold, I am strong, I am beautiful" and whatever other truth the Holy Spirit leads you to declare. This process doesn't take a long time, but the Replace part does. Everyday as the lies you've believed come back, you can walk in the opposite spirit by proclaiming and living out the truth. This has helped me find a lot of freedom from shame, anger, fear, passivity, etc. Hope this helps with overcoming fear :) Will be praying for you!
@@kalligrace1077 thank you. This is just what I need. What I need to do....I'm not good at this. I've believed lies and believed the fears were true. Thank you so much. Now maybe I can get a grip on this sin and be rid of it. Please pray for me!
And thank you for reaching out to me. It's very very timely..💕
Sexual and fear learning not to fear
What is idolatry on this matter? I didn’t t understand it
Idolatry is anything you put before God
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God bless :)
That means married Christians don't have these 5 top sins? and these sins don't apply to non Christians whether married or not?
If you can find my initial comment on her, i explain the SAME thing. Please take a read... And unsub. This isn't in the Bible in regards to being single.
@@dunkinnatalie - I commented because using sins to justify a marriage partner is unbiblical, utterly foolish and in vain.
Christ died for our sins so that we can live in His world not of this world.
However since we are still facing tribulations of this world that we are in, just ask Christ for His grace - If ye ask any thing in my name I will do it. Jn 14:14
And the Holy One shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Rev 21:4 shalom
@@gojohnnygo3209 i totally agree. I'm actually writing about the mindset in this video right now. I went on a mini rant in my comment on this video about how unbiblical this video is.
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Just feels like I could never live up to the standards to be blessed with a relationship. Maybe mgtow is the answer for now till I mature up
I am right there with you. Now I am almost 28 and freaked out because I have never really been able in a relationship
Fear is not a sin IMO
I encourage you to do a search on the phrase "Do not fear" or "Do not be afraid." This is a command found throughout the Bible. Sin is when you disobey what God says, so yes, fear can be a sin.