Christ_empowered
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I've been doing it, per Scipture, for a while now. I'll be honest; the initial appeal was the whole "...heaping hot coals on their heads..." part of the verse, but now...
well, prayer is a big part of my daily life, and praying per Biblical instructions has done a lot to change me. I don't mean psychologically or whatever; I mean, somehow, doing what I am called to do, even in something as simple as prayer, seems to have helped move along the process of 'putting off the old, putting on the new.' and yet...
people around here continue to have serious problems with me. i live with my parents, largely because i was driven out of the small apt. they had bought for me (they've since sold it, praise God!). On Easter, people yelled at me. "Guys around here CAN'T RESPECT YOU!" and "This is how WE FEEL ABOUT YOU!," etc. And I'm thinking, Rodney King-style: "cant we all just get along?"
Could be bad. This isn't bad, not really. I don't like it, but its not terrible. I've read horror stories about what other ex-mental patients go thru (back in the days when they still did long term hospitalization), and my experiences overlap a whole lot, even though I've only been hospitalized 2x, both times in short-term, private facilities. I guess...'round here...a mental patient is a mental patient is a mental patient. some things never change...
but, yeah. I've been praying for these people who taunt me and such, and for my enemies in general. I'm a non-entity in this community, and I really seem to "bring out the demon in people," so I'm beginning to think I have a lot more enemies than I had thought. :-(
So...to wrap it all up...for those of you who are kind enough to read these requests and keep me and my family up in prayer (I do appreciate it, btw) I ask that you think about praying for enemies, too. My older, wiser, Pentecostal friend tells me its Satan moving thru these people. I dunno. I kind of think human nature is bad enough as is, with or without the evil one. Then again...satan uses the un-redeemed to his own ends, amiright? right.
ok. i'm finished ((for now...))
well, prayer is a big part of my daily life, and praying per Biblical instructions has done a lot to change me. I don't mean psychologically or whatever; I mean, somehow, doing what I am called to do, even in something as simple as prayer, seems to have helped move along the process of 'putting off the old, putting on the new.' and yet...
people around here continue to have serious problems with me. i live with my parents, largely because i was driven out of the small apt. they had bought for me (they've since sold it, praise God!). On Easter, people yelled at me. "Guys around here CAN'T RESPECT YOU!" and "This is how WE FEEL ABOUT YOU!," etc. And I'm thinking, Rodney King-style: "cant we all just get along?"
Could be bad. This isn't bad, not really. I don't like it, but its not terrible. I've read horror stories about what other ex-mental patients go thru (back in the days when they still did long term hospitalization), and my experiences overlap a whole lot, even though I've only been hospitalized 2x, both times in short-term, private facilities. I guess...'round here...a mental patient is a mental patient is a mental patient. some things never change...
but, yeah. I've been praying for these people who taunt me and such, and for my enemies in general. I'm a non-entity in this community, and I really seem to "bring out the demon in people," so I'm beginning to think I have a lot more enemies than I had thought. :-(
So...to wrap it all up...for those of you who are kind enough to read these requests and keep me and my family up in prayer (I do appreciate it, btw) I ask that you think about praying for enemies, too. My older, wiser, Pentecostal friend tells me its Satan moving thru these people. I dunno. I kind of think human nature is bad enough as is, with or without the evil one. Then again...satan uses the un-redeemed to his own ends, amiright? right.
ok. i'm finished ((for now...))
