[peter_maumau]

Most Christians will tell you of the lovely feeling they had when they first Got saved..How it felt to have to hose burdens Of guilt lifted, observing miracles, having their prayers answered like that and just a feeling of general Joy...that is until the temptations, persecutions and doubts checked in, doubts whether one was really saved, what happened? Since we Know that God did not change, then what?

In His address to the Galatians Church Paul actually calls them foolish In gal 3.
Foolish because they had substituted faith of Christ with useless commandments, they had no business messing with, as a form of justification in God's eyes. I would have glossed over the passage had I not come to galatians 5 which says that if you are circumcised, (as a testament of obeserving the law) then christ shall Profit you nothing, You have indeed fallen from grace..

I think that having recived the gracious simple but expesinve gift of dalvation, many christians go On to Perfect it by works. Belief in jesus, who is also our righteousness is replace with useless works in the hope of pleasing God.. since faith is replaced with works, the spirit is no longer dominant, but the flesh is.. we find then old habbits creeping in , and we wonder where God went, why he does not hear our Prayers anymore..

Go back to where you fell from ,jesus advises the Churches in reveleation.
You are saved by believing in christ, and that is how you should continue, let belief in Jesus be the aim ,since by the law you were condemned anyway, and you will discover that God never leaves you nor forsakes You