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I have noticed that as time goes by that I have not been feeling emotions very much. Like I know when I am with friends that I am having fun but the feeling of happiness is not there. It is the same as relationships I feel closed off. What should I do I have been praying and reading the word and I don't know what to do.

Hi, the feeling you have may actually be a good sign. A sign that you have outgrown your season/stage in life but yet are still living in it. Kinda like a teenager who has grown up putting on clothes they wore when they were younger. The clothes may still fit, but will be tight and maybe even worn. You may have outgrown your relationships and the friends who do not ignite your passion for life. The reason you know something is amiss is because first you have matured/grown and you probably have been to that place /or in that situation that you felt ignited/alive/passionate.
Thinking back to those times may help you determine your next steps towards your next season of fulfillment.

Wow -- Both statements very deep --

I could relate or have related to in the past to some aspect of that statement ---- An opportunity to get closer to God through seeking him it is--

but yea dude -- remember when you were not turned off - think what can get you on - speak to who you got to speak to -- yourself , God, friends, etc .

last week's message by A Nesbit at Fusion- spoke 1 truth that Jesus is the everlasting water.

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From my own personal experience...Sounds like you got a case of Spiritual Boredom to me. That's what happens when God calls you to live higher than you currently are. I get that ALL the time. And the loss of happiness or sensation can lots of times happen when we ignore God's call to rise up...or maybe it's just the first sensation that tips us off to the fact that something needs to change.

Most of the time for me is that God has called me to go and do something that I am not doing...and then things start to fade...what used to be fun isn't fun anymore, etc. If you don't know what God is calling you to do then ask Him specifically what it is. If not, ask some Christians in your life what they think. But, like I said...for me, it's usually that God is calling me to get involved in the world around me (missions trip, outreach, serve someone else, 2nd commandment type stuff).

That would be my first thought based on what you wrote...just because I've been there.

Keep searching God out in prayer and meditating on the word. In our barren season of prayer and reading the word, it can be like that it feel emotionless, and there is like a stillness and it quiet. But that creates a yearning for more and it will always be that way because we are made for eternity. God loves you and we dont need feeling to prove that and through this he will show you a new side of him. If you seat with him in prayer in this season you will be able to show an expression of his love to others because of what you gain from sowing into your spirit you will reap. Sometimes friends will seem so far because God is really trying to reveal somethings to you in this season. So don't worry its normal and its painful because your like what is wrong with me and the thing is nothing is wrong with you. You just are longing and your spirit knows that there is more than this. Seat with God and allow him to minister to you so you can really express who he is to others. Everything else will fall into order in due time, right now I believe this is a great moment you are in and God is drawing you in with his love, and kindness and wants to take you deeper of knowing him in the stillness.

Jesus is the True Vine and his father (our God) is the gardener. He cutts off every branch that dosent produce fruit and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. Remain in me and I will remain in you John 15:1-4 In your time of stillness


[b]And then the fruit comes

[/b]How do you remain in JESUS?
John 15:9-17
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other