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You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free

Wrg1405

Wrg1405

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Jesus is the truth, why then would someone whom beleives in him not be free, from anxiety, depression.
Someone who has to drag their backside out of bed in the morning to go to work to support their wife and kids, someone who feels they would be better of dead yet seeks God every day and prays "RELEASE ME PLEASE I BEG YOU"

Please don't respond with bible says go do go beleive. If that were the case then no anxiety, no depression no wishing death.

Any of you have experienced the above and are now free? If so why?
Was it healing, deliverance?
I can't believe such symptoms can be a thorn in the flesh.

Interested to hear your thoughts.
 
Why was i not free from cancer? an illness is an illness. .. we can get hung - up because of the 'mind' factor... I believe our brains emit certain chemicals ... to me those chemicals being out of wack is not different then my body not being able to combat cancer on its own...


had surgery/chemo and cancer is gone. be 8 years this summer..
 
reba said:
Why was i not free from cancer? an illness is an illness. .. we can get hung - up because of the 'mind' factor... I believe our brains emit certain chemicals ... to me those chemicals being out of wack is not different then my body not being able to combat cancer on its own...


had surgery/chemo and cancer is gone. be 8 years this summer..
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Awesome!!! God is good!
 
I have been diagnosed with Bipolar I. When I'm not treated, the symptoms can look a lot like Schizophrenia (How they made the distinction is hard for me to grasp...). I go through a lot, even on meds. Point is...

...God knows right where you're at. Is it a brain problem? Possibly. Meds do help a lot of different problems. Is it a personal failing? I don't think so, no. Anxiety is, to me, a disease/problem of modern life. We live and work in ways that didn't happen back in Jesus' time and, actually, weren't common until recently. Jesus knows this. Anxiety is a normal reaction to life in modern times.
Sometimes, I think a lot of severe mental problems have popped up in response to the stresses of modern times, too. People did go mad in ancient cultures, but I don't think so many people had these sorts of problems.

Jesus knows right where you're at. I pray a lot when I have problems, especially the lingering paranoia and thoughts on my past. The neighbors mess with me, which doesn't help at all. Try reaching out to Him and asking Him to meet you at your weak points. That's what I've been doing, and I feel closer to The Lord (surprisingly, I'm also more lucid).
 
Christ_empowered, I will pray for you my brother that the Lord will help and comfort you
amidst your difficulties. Your faith in the Lord was a blessing and a comfort to my heart.
Like most human beings I have problems too. May the Lord bless and protect we His people.
 
My wife and I attend a fairly large Bible believing Baptist Church with maybe 600 members.
Each week the pastor prints out a Prayer List of all the sick and dying members of the church
and passes it out at our Wednesday night prayer meeting.

I can tell you that the list is, at least from our immediate human viewpoint, heart-breaking.

Even though Heaven is our home, nonetheless human suffering and eventually death is a fact of life,
especially in the older ages.

As the years go on, most every kind of death and suffering known to mankind appears on that Prayer
List. My purpose in mentioning this Prayer List is to provide comfort to the soul. Human suffering
followed by physical death is a fact of human life caused by The Fall in Genesis and the entrance
of sin into the world. And we ALL share in it at some point in some way.

Yet "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints", says the Bible the word of God.
And "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
 
Wrg1405 said:
Jesus is the truth, why then would someone whom beleives in him not be free, from anxiety, depression.
Someone who has to drag their backside out of bed in the morning to go to work to support their wife and kids, someone who feels they would be better of dead yet seeks God every day and prays "RELEASE ME PLEASE I BEG YOU"

Please don't respond with bible says go do go beleive. If that were the case then no anxiety, no depression no wishing death.

Any of you have experienced the above and are now free? If so why?
Was it healing, deliverance?
I can't believe such symptoms can be a thorn in the flesh.

Interested to hear your thoughts.
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Wrg1405 said:
Jesus is the truth, why then would someone whom beleives in him not be free, from anxiety, depression.
Someone who has to drag their backside out of bed in the morning to go to work to support their wife and kids, someone who feels they would be better of dead yet seeks God every day and prays "RELEASE ME PLEASE I BEG YOU"

Please don't respond with bible says go do go beleive. If that were the case then no anxiety, no depression no wishing death.

Any of you have experienced the above and are now free? If so why?
Was it healing, deliverance?
I can't believe such symptoms can be a thorn in the flesh.

Interested to hear your thoughts.
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I too have bad anxiety, with panic disorder which leads to depression for me. Two of my children (and my grandchildren) live 30 minutes from me and I cannot drive by myself to see them.

My thoughts have turned to... we all have things in this life to bear, and it is our reaction to them that matters. I try to not let it get the best of me and to not get angry or overly depressed about it.

I know you ask for no "go do, go believe" scripture and I understand that completely. But something I have found to calm me is to stop, relax, and remember Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God"

You will be in my prayers.
 
The flesh is weak, but the Spirit is stronger than the flesh. I've had two total knee replacements and a left hip replaced and now need my right hip replaced. I had my first knee replaced when I was 47 and now I am 61. Arthritis is my enemy and at times I do get depressed as I can no longer do the things I use to be able to do, but just as soon as I feel depression coming on I quickly give that over to the Lord and praise Him for the things I can still do.

Flesh will get sick and flesh will die as that is part of the sin nature found in us. We have a choice of what to dwell on as we can dwell on the sickness of the flesh or dwell on the mercy and grace of God. When this life is over and the Lord returns we will then receive our new glorified bodies and that is what I dwell on as there will be no more pain, no more sickness and no more tears, Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
 
for_his_glory said:
The flesh is weak, but the Spirit is stronger than the flesh. I've had two total knee replacements and a left hip replaced and now need my right hip replaced. I had my first knee replaced when I was 47 and now I am 61. Arthritis is my enemy and at times I do get depressed as I can no longer do the things I use to be able to do, but just as soon as I feel depression coming on I quickly give that over to the Lord and praise Him for the things I can still do.

Flesh will get sick and flesh will die as that is part of the sin nature found in us. We have a choice of what to dwell on as we can dwell on the sickness of the flesh or dwell on the mercy and grace of God. When this life is over and the Lord returns we will then receive our new glorified bodies and that is what I dwell on as there will be no more pain, no more sickness and no more tears, Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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A beautiful and heart-warming post and a blessing to read. Very encouraging to the Christian's soul.
 
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