Does God help those who help themselves?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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CoreChristianity.com. First up today, let's go to Donald, who's calling in from Kansas.

Donald, what's your question for Pastor Adriel? Well, good afternoon. My situation is I became a

Christian accepted Christ at age 16, which is over 40 years ago now.

And throughout my Christian life, I have seen my family members get married, my friends get married, have children, but I'm single.

I simply don't know why because it brings me a lot of pain,

sometimes physical, sometimes mental. And if you're wondering, yes, I love the Lord,

but my concern is you can't take Jesus out for a movie and dinner. I am disturbed by this,

and I need to know what the Bible says and any advice you can give me.

Yeah.

Well, brother, I'm sorry for the loneliness that you've experienced, and you're right, right?

I mean, our relationship with the Lord is, I mean, I think above all else, in i mean our relationship with the lord um is i mean i think above all else in

terms of of our relationships you know that that's that's the main thing but it's it's different than

a relationship that you would have with a friend or with a spouse um and it sounds to me like you

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