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[__ Prayer __] "neither poverty nor riches"

Christ_empowered

Christ_empowered

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So, I'm working--bit by bit, day by day--on a degree from Liberty (online) in business. It dawned on me that just getting into a "respectable" job from where I was before requires miracles. I would go to tech school, but there are a number of factors that go against that (powerful people ruined my reputation around here, I don't have technical skills, and I have amassed a number of useful college credits I want to "cash in" on).

So...I'd like prayer for "neither poverty nor riches." This big one for me will be avoiding poverty. I'm poor by myself, but my newly affluent parents take care of me and protect me. My experience of poverty was so dreadful (stigma, forced electroshock, etc.) that I'm really, really, REALLY not looking to go down that road again. Some people can live in perfect peace while poor. For any number of reasons, I was singled out for destruction and pain, and I'm really not looking to go through all that again.

Please pray that, one day, I can live in "neither poverty nor riches," and be safe from the sort of oppression I've experienced in the past.
 
Dear brother, living on SSI, and if needed being provided a social environment with others in lieu of payment need not be what you experienced in the past. Your new birth, your new nature of Christ in you, and your knowledge of what God the Holy Spirit is doing in you to be in the perfect will of God for you will lead you into that which is for your good. Take advantage of that which God is allowing in your life, and we're told our steps are ordered of the Lord. Trust Him for He is worthy, and has earned that honor we should always give Him as we trust that He loves us at all times. Continuing in prayer for you in Jesus' name.
 
I'm terrified of a group home. I'm afraid I won't see my people very often and that'll be it for me...a life in a group home where I just go crazier, don't have friends, and have to live out my days under medical (mostly psychiatric) supervision. Could be worse, though.
 
Christ_empowered said:
I'm terrified of a group home. I'm afraid I won't see my people very often and that'll be it for me...a life in a group home where I just go crazier, don't have friends, and have to live out my days under medical (mostly psychiatric) supervision. Could be worse, though.
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God has even provided backup for you brother. You can be at ease to go forward without fear of failure taking in the abundance of His grace toward you that loves Him.

Looking back I can see everything that occurred in my life was secured for me by God including jobs lost causing new destinations, new people put into my life, and above all the truth of Him revealed to me. He provided my retirement that is secure, a wife that stuck with me through all the storms, a place to dwell, and sustenance regardless my faithfulness. You've began a trip to the celestial city led by Him who loves more than Himself; do not be afraid. Along the way there will be naysayers, boogie bears of all manner, and them that will attempt to have you go from the path God leads you, and yet in all these things you will be more than a conqueror thriugh Him that will never leave or forsake you. :)
 
Your focus right now should be on your studies, my dear friend Christ_empowered . Let tomorrow be tomorrow, without concern for it today. Also, your focus should also be on reading/studying Scripture, praying for continued guidance from our Lord, and placing your complete trust in our Lord.

Our Lord has brought you to this point quite handily and with abundant love. He's not going to abandon you ever !
 
AirDancer said:
Your focus right now should be on your studies, my dear friend Christ_empowered . Let tomorrow be tomorrow, without concern for it today. Also, your focus should also be on reading/studying Scripture, praying for continued guidance from our Lord, and placing your complete trust in our Lord.

Our Lord has brought you to this point quite handily and with abundant love. He's not going to abandon you ever !
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Good post Air.Wise words.
 
OK....I'm not thinking about group homes anymore (shudder). Don't get me wrong; group homes can be constructive. I did a mini-research on them yesterday, lol. But...I can't do that, not right now...I think God has made me capable of college-level work so that I'll be able to support myself sometime relatively soon, and leave all this mental health stigma stuff behind me, even if that means I have to move (although we'll just have to see about that in a few years).

Now that my mind has been sharpened and what not, I feel more like I just went through a 10 year odyssey of sorts and now I get to have a "real life," thanks to Christ Jesus.

Time to do my Liberty work :-)
 
Christ_empowered said:
OK....I'm not thinking about group homes anymore (shudder). Don't get me wrong; group homes can be constructive. I did a mini-research on them yesterday, lol. But...I can't do that, not right now...I think God has made me capable of college-level work so that I'll be able to support myself sometime relatively soon, and leave all this mental health stigma stuff behind me, even if that means I have to move (although we'll just have to see about that in a few years).

Now that my mind has been sharpened and what not, I feel more like I just went through a 10 year odyssey of sorts and now I get to have a "real life," thanks to Christ Jesus.

Time to do my Liberty work :)
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:thumbsup Right on CE, and do you realize that in the above post you didn't once mention shock, or all the other things that have led you to this place in your life.
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1 Tim 1:7 God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind

He has healed you, given you a sound mind. Fear of the future is not from God; don't let it take over your mind. He has shown you abundantly how much he loves you, so just trust him. He knows what you need.
 
The OT King who prayed for neither poverty nor riches lived before the Holy Spirit had come.

Paul said he had learned to be content in whatever condition he found himself.

There might be your own individual economic faith position, but do not fear if it tends to change over time.

Jesus is aware of where we are.

eddif
 
Eugene said:
:thumbsup Right on CE, and do you realize that in the above post you didn't once mention shock, or all the other things that have led you to this place in your life.
:woot2
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This, in itself, is a gigantic milestone.
 
Christ_empowered said:
OK....I'm not thinking about group homes anymore (shudder). Don't get me wrong; group homes can be constructive. I did a mini-research on them yesterday, lol. But...I can't do that, not right now...I think God has made me capable of college-level work so that I'll be able to support myself sometime relatively soon, and leave all this mental health stigma stuff behind me, even if that means I have to move (although we'll just have to see about that in a few years).

Now that my mind has been sharpened and what not, I feel more like I just went through a 10 year odyssey of sorts and now I get to have a "real life," thanks to Christ Jesus.

Time to do my Liberty work :)
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The course of events in the yesterdays of our lives help influence us towards the sort of life we seek for our futures. Any negative event or behavior from the past teaches us what not to do in future. Through it all, today is what matters. How best are we serving our Lord today?

In your situation, Christ_empowered, you know from yesterdays events in your life what sort of life you certainly do not wish to have repeated in your future. By focusing on your studies and your time with our Lord today, your future will be lovingly guided in accordance with our Lord's will.

And through it all, you certainly do bring a smile to my heart. You are hearing and listening to what our Lord is saying to you!
 
Just got a grade back for my Worldviews class. 38/40 points!

Progress, progress, progress....day by day, bit by bit, step by step. "Recovery" is a process. I'm on the road to Well-ville!
 
Christ_empowered said:
Just got a grade back for my Worldviews class. 38/40 points!

Progress, progress, progress....day by day, bit by bit, step by step. "Recovery" is a process. I'm on the road to Well-ville!
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Jesus said, to focus on the Kingdom of God and your right standing with God, as He even feeds the birds and your much better than they (Righteousness/ right standing with) and all things will be added unto you.

We don't want to focus on getting wealth, but what we are suppose to do. In this way we won't stay broke and be a blessing to many.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
(Job 36:11)

You can't stay broke and obey and serve God in all things. The Lord said so.
 
Trying to make those good grades, lol. Overall, doing well. Microeconomics is...a challenge :-)

Thanks for all the helpful input, y'all. The Lord has been most gracious to me. The world says (and by "the world," I mostly mean my community, lol): "You messed up. You were a teenager at college and you messed up. Kill yourself, pick yourself up by your boot straps, go to a state mental hospital." Seriously.

The Lord blessed my parents with more upper middle/maybe upper class status, and He's been working through them to bless me with an opportunity to have a real life. Its true; I messed up. No, I wasn't ready for college, and no, I shouldn't have been at *that* particular college, but...wow...I messed up. Big time. The Lord has seen me through!

I am no longer ugly, low-IQ, obviously brain damaged, prematurely aged, stunted (I hit a delayed growth spurt that pushed me into average height!), socially inept, or even all that crazy. OK. A little crazy...that's what Abilify is for, lol.

I have so much to be thankful for. According the rules of "the real world," I should be dead. Or maybe in a state mental hospital. The Good Lord has other plans for me, so here I am, typing away to you guys after I just finished an online economics quiz @ liberty online. I consider my life yet another miracle playing out in "real time," with all the complications you get from your own sin and the sins of a fallen world.
 
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