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Rhys 🕊:
--- Quote from: judy on November 23, 2015, 06:22:10 PM ---Jeff, now I know what you are talking about. This I do understand. I have been diagnosed everything imaginable from Bi-polar to schizophrenic to biologically depressed to mania, I mean you name it. I think I am finally after 40 yrs down to anxiety and some depression. I think mine started because once I drowned, once in a coma and once fell 2 stories from an upstairs apt. building and fractured my skull. Why I lived, I'll never know. But listen there are days when I could only put one foot in front of another and keep going because I had 4 children. I was full of dread at times but besides medicine the one thing I practiced was dissasociating myself from the illness. This took yrs of practice. In a few words, step back and look at it (the crap going on in your head) see it for what it is worth. Ok, today I have unrelenting fear, ok, but that is not me, there is another voice, you have to learn to hear it because it is from God. That something in you that says, "yes, it is there but THIS IS NOT YOU. It is a sympton, reduce it down. This symptom will pass one day if you overlay it with God's word. Some days all I could say to myself is, "God is good, a hundred times, over and over. This is not from God, it is evil and wants to destroy you. Do something that distracts you, do dishes, vacuum, walk anything to get that serotonin working. Just get up and keep going and one day along with your meds it will get better and these meds have to be continually changed, modified, etc. Please believe me because God is no respecter of person and if he can walk besides me through all this bs, he will be with you too. I will pray everyday for you, I promise. I feel you, I understand and please, please, don't give up, fight the darn fight you were allowed to have. My grandson shot himself in the head 2 yrs ago, my mother tried suicide, my uncle killed himself, my family were alchoholics, my other uncle was a murderer. I have seen a lot of crap but you can win with God. I love you like a brother in an illness not many understand. judy
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So much to go through, glad you are here and discovering more truth, it brings peace in the storm
Rhys
Rhys 🕊:
Some good advice on prayer here
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3367.msg25044.html#msg25044
If you think that you must be in a literal closet, on your literal knees, or you can't pray, what would you do if you were drowning in the middle of the ocean? You can pray on your knees, in a closet (although I know of no one who prays in a closet), in any room of the house, in your car, at work, and while you are going to sleep in your bed. I pray all day long as need or inspiration arises. I pray about everything. I thank God for everything. I ask God to bless everyone who comes to our forum, etc. Don't pray by the clock! Pray according to what is needful to pray about WHEN it is needful to pray about it.
Jeff:
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on November 23, 2015, 06:08:40 PM ---Jeff, none of us by our own power can do what is commanded of us. We are marred in the hand's of The Potter, His workmanship, created with weak hearts and carnal minds, subject to moral futility not willingly but by reason of Him. Its a very slow painful process. Jesus said, Eonian life was coming to know the true God. If it takes an aion of time just to know, how much longer then to act upon that knowledge? It seems knowing is the easy step (and i'm sure there is much more to know), obeying is the hard part.
We are no different than the discples and the apostles. We are where they were.
Mark 10:26-28
26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?
27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19:25-27
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
So we wait. Wait for God. What more can men do?
God bless,
Alex
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Alex,
This is essentially what I was trying to express. Even more than that we're rarely seen by others for who we really are - as God knows us. Especially in this medium. That's not a bad thing if compassion is there, as it is, and has been, always, here.
God made each of us uniquely. His word applies to all of mankind perfectly, but each of us will receive something different from God, for that reason. What I mean by that is that in our uniqueness we'll feel the expression of the Word differently. It's the same message, every Scripture is Truth, and while the meaning never changes, we may have strengths and weaknesses in different places, as God chooses, and the Scriptures touch each of us in different ways.
Psalm 139:14 "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
1Cor 12:26 "And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it."
I really just wanted you to know that in my patience, there is impatience, in my belief, there is doubt, in my devotion, there is selfishness...
None of these things take away from me the understanding I've been given by God in Ray's teaching.
In Christ,
Jeff
Jeff:
--- Quote from: Kat on November 21, 2015, 02:34:36 PM ---
Hi Jeff, just wanted to mention something that might encourage you. It seems that God in preparing us by bringing us through certain trials that gives us the experience He will need us to have... each one with their own set of difficulties, making us into what He wants us to be.
2Cor 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
v. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
v. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal (eonian) weight of glory,
v. 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (eonian).
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Kat,
This is what keeps my boat from capsizing.
Jeff:
--- Quote from: indianabob on November 20, 2015, 10:20:33 PM ---2Co 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
2Co 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
2Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2Co 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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Some days this is all I have and it's always more than enough.
John 1:16 "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."
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