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Thank you for sharing your secret. I have another secret and I feel shameful. I suffer from severe anxiety so I often have a few of beers to help me relax, I don't get drunk but it does help a little. I do wish I didn't. But after years and years of praying for healing it hasn't come.

Like you I wonder if it's my thorn in my flesh that will ultimately be healed when Jesus calls an end to time.

I think the problem is that fellow believers who do not suffer with issues frown upon the coping/helping mechanisms we have that are not considered normal per-se, like smoking pot/cigarettes or drinking a few beers and can frown upon us or we think they may do. Yet the truth is many believers suffer from issues but do other things, like drink copious amounts of coffee, eat lots of food, buy fancy stuff, spend money on things like makeup or aftershave and don't see that they are actually no different from me.

As for the spiritual side of things I think God sees the heart. He is greater than it all.
He knows our true thoughts/feelings/emotions.

Can you budge over behind the sofa and let me join you.
Matt.15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
He looks into the inner part of man!
 
Matt.15:11
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
He looks into the inner part of man!
I think the problem is that is never taught. All we hear is, don't do this, don't do that. Those that teach such things don't consider the inner person of the person.
 
Thank you for sharing your secret. I have another secret and I feel shameful. I suffer from severe anxiety so I often have a few of beers to help me relax, I don't get drunk but it does help a little. I do wish I didn't. But after years and years of praying for healing it hasn't come.

Like you I wonder if it's my thorn in my flesh that will ultimately be healed when Jesus calls an end to time.

I think the problem is that fellow believers who do not suffer with issues frown upon the coping/helping mechanisms we have that are not considered normal per-se, like smoking pot/cigarettes or drinking a few beers and can frown upon us or we think they may do. Yet the truth is many believers suffer from issues but do other things, like drink copious amounts of coffee, eat lots of food, buy fancy stuff, spend money on things like makeup or aftershave and don't see that they are actually no different from me.

As for the spiritual side of things I think God sees the heart. He is greater than it all.
He knows our true thoughts/feelings/emotions.

Can you budge over behind the sofa and let me join you.

I hear ya' Brother. I don't like that when people frown upon my mj use. Like I'm being a hypocrite, because I'm a Christian.

But I don't let it bother me too much. I know the important thing is to stay seizure free for work. I do like being clear headed though and it's also an awesome muscle relaxer so right before bed is the best time, lol.
 
I hear ya' Brother. I don't like that when people frown upon my mj use. Like I'm being a hypocrite, because I'm a Christian.

But I don't let it bother me too much. I know the important thing is to stay seizure free for work. I do like being clear headed though and it's also an awesome muscle relaxer so right before bed is the best time, lol.
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I remember years ago, I would seek people's approval because I thought that was the right thing to do. However, I no longer worry about what anyone says about me any longer. I now just dust it off and keep it moving.:coffee
 
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Thank you for sharing your secret. I have another secret and I feel shameful. I suffer from severe anxiety so I often have a few of beers to help me relax, I don't get drunk but it does help a little. I do wish I didn't. But after years and years of praying for healing it hasn't come.

Like you I wonder if it's my thorn in my flesh that will ultimately be healed when Jesus calls an end to time.

I think the problem is that fellow believers who do not suffer with issues frown upon the coping/helping mechanisms we have that are not considered normal per-se, like smoking pot/cigarettes or drinking a few beers and can frown upon us or we think they may do. Yet the truth is many believers suffer from issues but do other things, like drink copious amounts of coffee, eat lots of food, buy fancy stuff, spend money on things like makeup or aftershave and don't see that they are actually no different from me.

As for the spiritual side of things I think God sees the heart. He is greater than it all.
He knows our true thoughts/feelings/emotions.

Can you budge over behind the sofa and let me join you.

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LOL
Some people drink a few beers and they don't even HAVE severe anxiety!!

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I remember years ago, I would seek people's approval because I thought that was the right thing to do. However, I no longer worry about what anyone says about me any longer. I now just dust it off and keep it moving.:coffee
I believe we should care about what people think of us.
Don't you want to set a good example for other Christians and for those who are not Christian?
1 thessalonians 5:22
1 Corinthians 8:9

Wondering
 
I remember years ago, I would seek people's approval because I thought that was the right thing to do. However, I no longer worry about what anyone says about me any longer. I now just dust it off and keep it moving.:coffee

Thank you Brother. Some people don't understand the definition of the thread as you do. I stay to myself and am very selective who I want in my life and the approval of other's.
 
I don't see any difference in that than popping pills for it also..
At least God created it, lol..it contains seeds..
My husband was the same way, he provided for his family, even working in dangerous conditions, up on lifts, ladders, way up in the air, doing commercial construction in sheet metal..
Wanted to be treated like everyone else..
I prayed for him everyday..
When he would run out of it, he would have a seizure.
Thus, his phenytoin medication, did not help on its own.
Spiritual, I wouldn't worry about it, it is a medical condition, as heart failure, you both have a bad connection, lol..

Wow we have a lot in common then, me & your hubby. I'm HVAC and that includes comm. Sheet metal. I had a seizure and fell off the top of a 10' ladder a few years back. Dislocated my hip and wouldn't let them take me to the hospital. I layed in bed for a week, dislocated. One night before bed I prayed to be healed as I slept.

I was woke up in the middle of the night with a burning sensation in my hip. It got hotter, HOT! So hot that...I said something bad, lol. But It went away and I drifted back to sleep. In the morning, I was thinking about that, and how I had read before, people's healing testimonies and many of them report heat while they're being healed.

So I sat up quick and pulled down my jammies to look at my hip...and it was flat again. I couldn't see the (dislocated) bone sticking out any more. God healed my dislocated hip and reset it!

It was still sore though and will always be when a bone is reset. But only for a couple days so I knew that I'd know for sure in couple days when it healed up from soreness. It did. Praise the Lord!

But He didn't heal my back or seizures...oh well, I have a lot to look forward to. :)
 
Wow we have a lot in common then, me & your hubby. I'm HVAC and that includes comm. Sheet metal. I had a seizure and fell off the top of a 10' ladder a few years back. Dislocated my hip and wouldn't let them take me to the hospital. I layed in bed for a week, dislocated. One night before bed I prayed to be healed as I slept.

I was woke up in the middle of the night with a burning sensation in my hip. It got hotter, HOT! So hot that...I said something bad, lol. But It went away and I drifted back to sleep. In the morning, I was thinking about that, and how I had read before, people's healing testimonies and many of them report heat while they're being healed.

So I sat up quick and pulled down my jammies to look at my hip...and it was flat again. I couldn't see the (dislocated) bone sticking out any more. God healed my dislocated hip and reset it!

It was still sore though and will always be when a bone is reset. But only for a couple days so I knew that I'd know for sure in couple days when it healed up from soreness. It did. Praise the Lord!

But He didn't heal my back or seizures...oh well, I have a lot to look forward to. :)
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Thank you Brother. Some people don't understand the definition of the thread as you do. I stay to myself and am very selective who I want in my life and the approval of other's.

Oh that's ok Sister. :) It goes both ways I think. On one level, I don't care what people think of me, but on another level I do. It depends who it is actually, lol. I just don't go advertising my sensitive stuff. Well, again, depends who it is. :dancing
 
I believe we should care about what people think of us.
Don't you want to set a good example for other Christians and for those who are not Christian?
1 thessalonians 5:22
1 Corinthians 8:9

Wondering
One is concerning food given over to idols..
The other, abstain from all appearance of evil.

We are talking about illnesses here.
Morphine and other medications are used for all sorts of people that are ill.
Are they bad?
Depends on what the purpose is...
In 1Tim.5:23 it states
Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities..
I see nothing wrong with drinking a little, to calm you, help relax..
Just don't turn to a drunkard.
And that also can become a illness..
 
One is concerning food given over to idols..
The other, abstain from all appearance of evil.

We are talking about illnesses here.
Morphine and other medications are used for all sorts of people that are ill.
Are they bad?
Depends on what the purpose is...
In 1Tim.5:23 it states
Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities..
I see nothing wrong with drinking a little, to calm you, help relax..
Just don't turn to a drunkard.
And that also can become a illness..

I needed morphine several years ago when I had kidney stones to numb the pain. Once in awhile I'll have a glass of wine.
 
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