I'm 56, yrs old. In 2014 I lost my son to suicide. In 2016 I lost my husband of 36 yrs. Most all my family and friends are gone. I felt so alone in my grief. If it were not for the Lord, I would not have made it. His Word is my strength and my light. I'm not alone, for He is with me. Glory to God.!!!
@@gordonmallary I guess I was speaking about how being a Christian is a difficult thing. Life doesn't become easy, but quite difficult. Being aware of you're sin is a sign of maturity but it comes with pain. Depression or the dark night of the soul, or just a malaise toward life, when we forget that prayer and reading God's word are the most important things we must do to grow spiritually at all. We all are so quick to forget all we have been promised.
@@surrealsupercell7217 9If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
You may not know me, but I know everything about you - *Psalm 139:1* I know when you sit down and when you rise up - *Psalm 139:2* I am familiar with all your ways - *Psalm 139:3* Even the very hairs on your head are numbered - *Matthew 10:30* For you were made in MY IMAGE - *Genesis 1:27* In me you live and move and have your being - *Acts 17:26-28* I knew you even before you were concieved - *Jeremiah 1:5* I chose you when I planned creation - *Ephesians 1:11-12* You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my Book - *Psalm 139:15-16* I determinate the exact time of your birth and where you would live - *Acts 17:26* You are fearfully and wonderfully made - *Psalm 139:14* I knit you together in your mother’s womb - *Psalm 139:13* And brough you forth on the day you were born - *Psalm 71:6* I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me - *John 8:41-44* I am not distant and angry but I am the complete expression of Love - *1John **4:16* And it is my desire to lavish my love on you. Simply, because you are my child and I am your Father - *1John 3:1* I offer you more than your earthly father ever could - *Matthew 7:11* For I AM THE PERFECT FATHER - *Matthew 5:48* Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand - *James 1:17* For I am your provider and I meet all your needs - *Matthew 6:31-33* My plan for your future has always been filled with hope - *Jeremiah 29:11* *BECAUSE I LOVE YOU WITH EVERLASTING LOVE* - *Jeremiah 31:3* My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore - *Psalm 139:17-18* And I rejoice over you with singing - *Zephaniah **3:17* I will never stop doing good to you - *Jeremiah 32:40* For you are my treasure possession - *Exodus 19:5* I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul - *Jeremiah 32:41* And I want to show you great and marvelous things - *Jeremiah 33:3* If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me - *Deuteronomy **4:29* Deligh in me and I will give you the desires of your heart - *Psalm 37:4* For it is I who gave you those desires - *Philippians 2:13* I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine - *Ephesians 3:20-21* For I am your greatest encourager - *2Thessalonians **2:16**-17* I am also Father who comforts you in all your troubles - *2Corinthians 1:3-4* When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you - *Psalm 34:18* As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart - *Isaiah 40:11* One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes and I will take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth - *Revelation 21:3-4* I am your Father and I love you even as I love my Son, Jesus Christ - *John 17:23* For in Jesus my Love for you is revealed - *John 17:26* He is the exact representation of my being - *Hebrews 1:3* He came to demonstate that I am for you, not against you - *Romans 8:31* And to tell you that I am not counting your sins. Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled - *2Corinthians 5:18-19* His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you - *1John **4:10* I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love - *Romans 8:31-32* If you receive the gift of my Son Jesus Christ, you receive ME - *1John **2:23* And nothing will ever separate you from my Love again - *Romans 8:38-39* Come Home and I will throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen - *Luke 15:7* I have always been Father and will always be Father - *Ephesians 3:14-15* Shalom and God bless you ❤️
I recently got out of a mental hospital. Diagnosed with major depressive disorder and obsessive thinking. I often dwell on thoughts that are scary. if I have denied Christ, am condemned etc. Somedays are bad. I’m really scared for when I have a “really bad” day. God is faithful and He always will be. I believe Jesus will make everything right one day. Please pray for me.
The word of God tells us, even when we don't believe HE ( GOD) Remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself...and if you ever believed you were saved and sealed until the day of redemption with the Boly spirit of promise... He is with you through it all!
Hey, I might not fully understand what you go through but I do have some scripture that has really helped me through trials and fear. I struggle with severe OCD, anxiety, and depression. Every day is a battle for me, It's good to know that none of us are alone though. The scripture that really helped me is Romans 8. It reminds Christians that there is no condemnation for them because God chooses to see them as if they were righteous. That means that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus and there is nothing that could separate us from God's love. I really hope this helps with the fear that you have, know that you are fully loved and fully saved by God. I'm here for you :)
I’ve struggled with self harm, suicide attempts, hallucinations and depression and anxiety. I’m thankful that the Lord is with me. Everyday is hard but God gives me the strength to get up out of bed.
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
I WAS IN BED FOR 3 YRS WITH DEPRESSION AND PTSD AFTER MY SON WAS MURDERED. AND I BEGGED GOD TO TAKE IT FROM ME FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND NOW HE HAS BEGUN TO DELIVER ME FROM THESE THINGS MY ENERGY IS BACK NOT A 100% BUT ITA GETTING THERE.THANK YOU JESUS.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the hell you went through. Praise god that he’s getting you out of it and helping you. I’d like to ask though, why do you think it took 3 years before you started seeing change?
Jack. I read your post, and when I heard your suffering. I cried. I am so, so sorry. I will be praying for you. Our fight is not with flesh, and blood but the principalities of darkness. When I testify to this in my walk with Jesus. I test this truth, and it always holds true. The hard part is that many times for me. It is my own sin, that keeps me in turmoil. Things that I do not fully surrender, come back and bite hard. I like to blame Satan everytime. But I am a wretch. A filthy, filthy rag. Surrender allows me to utilize God’s Grace in my walk on the narrow road. I can do nothing to bolster God’s Grace other than to Surrender to Him all things. Every sliver. It all is His. Especially the grace in Him choosing a wretch like me to live forever with my perfect King. The Lion of Judah. Jesus Christ The One. Matthew 1-3. Blessings and Peace to you Jack✝️🩸🙏🏻❤️
June 8th will be the one year anniversary of my daughter's murder at the hands of her fiance. The Lord has told me many times that she is safe in Heaven with Him and I will see her again one day. And although I rejoice in that, the day to dayness of my life is almost unbearable. I am 75. I suffer from chronic pain so I cannot exercise the way I used to. Even standing for more than a few minutes is difficult. I am grateful to be mobile at all, it hurts a great deal to move around. I used to manage my depressive mood swings with exercise, but that is no longer possible. Suggestions are welcome.
Please Pray I beat my depression. Whether you do our not, I will pray for you. Depression is scary but it will not last forever. Update 6/29/2021, 2 years later, I am in a happier place. Thank you for you're help God and loves💝 forever.
Instead of praying, try this: “In the Name of Jesus, I command the spirits of death, depression (“darkness”, or whatever name that comes to your mind that describes your condition) to be destroyed in Jesus Name. I speak Life into my life. I declare and decree in the Name of Jesus that The Life of Christ is manifested in me and my life in Jesus Name.”
I've been tired in this life...i'm just tired of everything 💔 thanks for this video it helps me to cope up with what I'm feeling right now ...going through right now, it lift up my spirit
If you are reading this, I know you're tired, I know things may seem hopeless, like this sorrow just won't end, and you want your joy back which has been robbed. Just know this, you are so deeply loved and you will get through this.
Charles Spurgeon had severe depression. Knowing this has helped me somehow. Thinking of my inheritance in the Lord gives me joy even when I'm severely depressed. Staying in God's word every day is a comfort, and I cherish it. Know that in depression we're still growing and learning endurance, a lot of endurance.
@@youssefabdelaal434 I'm depressed, and I used to be very very suicidal. Just because someone says "hang" doesn't make you think about hanging yourself if it's ment to encourage others.
One day God will show you the truth and it will set you free. Ive been there. Totally stoped functionjng as a mom of 3 , as a wife, daughter and friend. Depression had me flat in bed for 2.5 years. I'd wake up in the morning exhausted slready. I felt everything so gray, gloomy and purposeless. But one day I felt like God saying to me : It's ok. Even if you were 80% bad and filthy, you have 20% of good in you that I love and still can use that 20% for people around you. I felt light. Please, talk to God and keep asking Him questions. It might sound weird but there might be a purpose you are there where you are now.God wants you to see, feel and learn so you can be God's instrument for His other children. He really knows where you are. He loves you. He cares for you.
I’m sorry Yasmina your going through this. I understand because I’m going through it as well . Never will He leave nor forsake you. God is in control even when it doesn’t feel like it. ♥️
I had anxiety for 17 years. It was when i pray and claim the promises of God plus the determination not to entertain my anxiety and keep myself busy that made my life free from depression. Read your bible everyday with prayer. Ask God to help you not to entertain your depression. Mind control is needed.
35 years and counting (and it was probably there in a slightly different way in me as a child). It's not circumstances, but it's made worse by circumstances. It's chronic and debilitating. I would love the joy and peace that the Christian is supposed to feel (and I mean feel, despite feelings not being the whole story and not wholly trustworthy). Lacking it has made me question my salvation. In the end, I know that bodies and minds are broken in this sin-wrecked world, and we - and I - need to depend on the Lord. For those here who feel alone - finding a family of faith that will understand, that will continue to bear patiently in love, is centrally important. And I'm learning that the faithful life of the disciple of Jesus really amounts to this - persevere in faith. When confronted by the wretched difficulties, say with Peter when he said to Jesus, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
I don’t know where I will be when I come back to this but Lord help me to find joy in you again. Heal my heart and dissipate the darkness within and around me. Have mercy on me God and please don’t abandon me ❤️.
You will get through this sister, I'm currently dealing with negative emotions now but I'm just doing my best to keep my focus on Jesus and I know He will deliver me out of this. God will also use emotional pain to mold you into the person He wants you to be. I can say with 100% confidence my suffering has made me more like Jesus and helped me be more compassionate toward others. God bless you
I wish it on Jesus. He deserves it for purposely orchestrating and even contributing to the depression of countless believers. It's no coincidence that Christians are depressed. God won't allow you to have it any other way.
I am young and I know my life is ahead of me. I feel that I have messed up my life to the point where I don't know what makes me happy anymore. I deny jobs, get nervous for no reason, I have lost confidence in myself. I pray to God every day to show me His warm light. Depression is so hard. I pray all who struggle with it know that Christ is working in you, even if you feel broken. He wishes to heal you like he wishes to heal me. Let Him transform you.
Please pray for me. I’ve been going through depression for about 4 days now and I’m getting weaker and I really need help and reassurance. I need to get back to the way I used to be. Thank you ❤️🙏🏽
Alexandria Hamilton I am praying for you I too have been going through depression for 2 years this year Lord knows what happened I’ve been extremely depressed I feel your pain I will pray for you God bless you.
I've been there many times in my life, so my heart goes out to you. I've often said I would take physical pain over mental anguish any day. I listen to Christian podcasts like this and read the Bible. There are many good devotionals on the Bible App. They have devotions and encouragement on any and every topic. God be with you and comfort you in this valley.
Been feeling exactly like this for the past 1-2 months and had to take a week long break to keep myself from quitting my course. I know that God is trying to change me through this experience but I get physically and mentally burned out too often that I feel incapacitated from doing my work/completing my assignments. I feel so powerless that I'm not able to take care of myself physically. I feel bound to my bed and too overwhelmed to wake up and do what I need to. I had already given up in my mind. It's good to know that we are not alone in our struggles and that the escape from such overpowering feelings is by enduring the season - with Christ. And surely our darkness is not dark to God. Thank you pastor John for the timely word
@King of Iron Fist You can't degrade someone like that brother. Depression can come in my forms of circumstances that makes us have it. Depression is hard it's not just to "man up" it's another world of void.
I spend my time alone sobbing, begging God to take me home to Him. I'm broken over my sin, broken over my evil desires, and I'm giving up hope that I will ever be healed of the filth that's so ingrained into my mind and my heart. I go from sorrow over my sin, to sorrow that I haven't gained any ground in the fight to resist temptation, to grief that God keeps me here on earth to just keep going back to sinning over and over. I'm getting too weak to fight. Father, I know I believe, I can't help but believe after what I know you have done in others' lives, but you have yet to do the same for me, so forgive and help my unbelief.
@@jenniferb7719 thank you. I've gotten into therapy, I'm doing much better now. I've come to the realization that even if I am not delivered from the temptation to sin, I am delivered from sin's spiritual effect. Even though I hate the impulses I have so often, they are both a part of me and not a part of me: they are because they will never truly go away until He returns or calls me Home, and they are not because the Holy Spirit gives me the ability to resist temptation. Life still sucks often, but my outlook on it is healthier.
I gave my life to christ 5 months ago. Right after I got hit with an attack from the enemy on my mental health. This walk is not for the faint of heart. This is the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life and today I finally got angry with God. I won't deny him but I am just like why do you watch me suffer day in and day out and you let it keep happening. All I want is just to love him back but this makes it so hard.
I've been a Christian for 26 years. I've had to fight chronic depression since even before that time, and it has gotten steadily worse since then. You have no choice but to suffer. God won't take it away. This life is a torture test. Suicide is failure. I pray you find the strength to pass your test. I'm still here, making the demons angry because they can't kill me. They have to be so discouraged after all these years. We will look those demons in the eyes on judgement day and send them to hell for eternity. We will get to hear their terrified screams and anguish, and see them writhe in agony. I'll survive a few more decades of crushing depression just to see that. It will be worth it.
I hear you,.. this suffering is unbearable. To not even want to do anything, or go anywhere,... and to have no joy or pleasure doing activities you once loved. To not have any desires at all,.. and see no hope, or cure. And to be terrified to consider medication..... and, to pray, and pray... fir this to end, to stop, to be just a normal human again... I too feel discouraged, and weak in faith. I want this nightmare to end. This is no way to exist, to live.... even the homeless are happier than me,. .. o hope we both can be healed, and love life again 🙏
The Lord God WILL help me. Therefore I shall not be confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint and I KNOW that I shall not be ashamed. Isaiah 50:7
I suffered severe depression for 32 years! I could not get out of bed, take a shower, and felt sadness. (Believer me there were times I felt joy in suffering.) I offered my sufferings up for the souls in purgatory and suffering other persons. NOW, I go to adoration once a week, HOly Mass every day, and confession twice a month, and I volunteer for the less fortunate, and am a Eucharistic Minister in the hospital, so Yes, i do know pan and suffering, BUT God has cured me, and I have been depression-free for nine weeks plus! I am so greatful to God, that I have dedicated my life to him (not vocation wise) but body, and soul, and life I can in praising GOd the Almighty.
It’s so hard. But with EVERY ounce of energy that we have, we need to ask Jesus for help. One day at a time. One moment at a time. No one understands as much as we need them to. So we just need to say, “Jesus help. What is the next right thing to do in 5 minutes?”
I was just recently re-joined with my relationship in Christ and baptized about two weeks ago. Today I experienced one of my worst manic depressive episodes I can remember and I’m reaching for god I want this inner turmoil to end so badly. Please pray for me
For everyone listening. Sometimes this is a physiological factor but continue to fight and prevail. The Lord has your back, fall to him and him only. Study and learn the medical sides but trust God. Please you all!
Invest PH I understand. I’ve been there too. I thin your message hasn’t received likes and response because you associated with demonic darkness. It surely can feel like this but if you know Jesus is your Lord and Savior then you have the power to call on Jesus’s name to rebuke this! Don’t you ever doubt or forget it! Depression is dark enemy but use it to draw nearer to God. Our suffering is for a purpose. I wish I could quote the scriptures for you here but I fail. I think it is in Romans? Can someone please help me out here? Listen and listen again to Pipers message here. Know you are not alone. Jesus is with you and others here know your pain as well. Declare your allegiance to Jesus! Amen Seek medical help. I’m a believer that God gave us medications for a reason in some circumstances this is sometimes one of them. I’ve spent most of my life depressed. But dear, Invest PH , darkness is never our friend! The Light of the Lord is our only true friend! I’m praying for you.
Been there as well. My hang in there verse was and still is, God works ALL things together for good to those that love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose. Ive found that to be very true, even if I dont understand.
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
My true testimony is this. From the day I was baptized in His name through the Holy Spirit.. my depression and anxiety went from a lifetime of struggle (especially the past five horrific years) to … I have no depression and anxiety . It’s hard to describe because I just don’t feel it. There is only one reason and it is through His Holy Grace. I never thought I would be able to forgive a person for what they did to me, but through His Grace I have. Truly have! The peace and calm and genuine forgiveness that it has brought is heaven! My worries for things like money..gone He has filled my life with good after good after good after good. The mental anguish I used to have on a daily basis… gone. When I truly asked to be His child and actively trying to walk His path.. my depression gone. Put your entire faith on the Lord! He is the ONLY medicine we need to our minds. Christ Jesus!
I watched this last week in one of the deepest pits I've ever found myself. I couldn't stop crying and felt like I'd forgotten who I was. I'm a dental student and I still had to go to clinicals to see patients and tucked theses scriptures pastor John mentioned into my scrubs pocket. Holding on the God's promises and through reaching out to Godly community to pray. I have such a sense of lightness this week. God doesn't guarantee that He will take us out of the valley but that He will be in it every single step, behind,before and besides us. Praying for everyone watching this feeling at their lowest. "Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.”" - Deuteronomy 31:8 NLT
Due to family problems and bullying growing up, I plunged into depression in 2014, my first year of college. I couldn't keep up with normal human activities let alone normal human hygiene. I looked terrible and I felt terrible. Dreaded facing everyday. Thank goodness there was a fellowship where I studied cus without that I won't have been able to fight. Lots of prayers by God's people and intake of the Word of God, and I'm getting better. Some days, I still panic and fear grips my whole body, and there are low days too, but He lifts me up with His Word.
I take antidepressants and I feel guilty but I've tried not to and get very suicidal and I cry and cry non stop. However I do pray and listen to a lot of messages here on youtube through these men of God. I'm glad that I have not committed suicide because it passes. God keeps me going
Taking antidepressants shouldn't make you feel guilty, because God permitted that we have antidepressants. If you have diabetes, God allowed those people to create the right medication for you, so don't deprive yourself of the medication just because you think God doesn't want you to be treated
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
I’m envious of people who experience this late in life. I’ve felt hopelessness since I was a child and being in my 20’s still have a long road ahead of me. I pray for death each night and sink even deeper when I wake up each morning still breathing. It’s horrific.
I can relate, diagnosed around 12 and I’ll carry it to the grave. If you ever need a friend just let me know, damatonoah20@icloud.com is my email. God bless you
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES! “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest” “Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again” ruclips.net/video/EXQGTInPpZU/видео.html You have hope ALWAYS. The fight has already been won and the burden was never yours to carry. To be born again is second life. He has died so you can live.
Just kill me has come out of my mouth when praying thousands of times. Im done. Done with it all. God is nowhere near me while my circumstances in this crap hole of a world get worse. Im done.
Been going through clinical depression for 6 years now. God has shown me little mercy… Such useless suffering. My thoughts and prayers go to my fallen brothers and sisters who succumbed to gods endeavor.
This is your test, it's not useless. Your life tortures the demons that are sent to kill you. Every day you stay alive means another day of failure and punishment for them, that just gets worse and worse each time they fail. Because of you they heap up unimaginable wrath for themselves for their day of judgement. Their overlords abuse and torture them for failing to kill you, so let it be. You will be their judges and pronounce their sentences when their day comes. Your judgment will be the rod with which God will crush them and destroy them. It will make more sense then. But for now you are called to suffer, and so am I.
Indeed, like God loved and delivered the Israelite at the Red Sea as they Egyptians were rapidly approaching..but not before they were crapping their pants in fear, so He loves us and will deliver us even though we wallow on the brink of suicide for years. And as I'm writing this by the campfire at 8:15 p.m. central, no kidding, a bird flying over...craps on my shirt. Hallelujah.
Sometimes I don’t find comfort in getting out of bed and facing the day again. I don’t find comfort in knowing others are going through the “same” thing. I’m clinically depressed. Please don’t brush that off. I was diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder and sometimes there’s no telling if it’s symptoms of PDD or ADHD. I don’t readily find comfort in prayer. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do seeing as though the condition persists. This season of testing seems to have been my whole life, but throughout the last 3 months, it’s been a lot. Then I really went through it from 2007-2008 and then 2014-2019. During the time of 2014-2019 I was hospitalized twice and made several attempts on my life. I’m tired of fighting. I’m tired of working. I’m blessed to have a career… it’s a dream job… but to go back dreads me a bit. Times of testing. This is a good message. We are fragile… I know no desired change in my life will change this season. Oh, how I’ve cried and ached these last few weeks. What if this season, (the word “season” seems momentary) is my whole life? That’s rhetorical. Please don’t answer it. The last thing I want to hear is “It might be your whole life but God will be with you every step of the way”. It’s not that that’s not true- it just doesn’t seem helpful or caring to share. Seems dismissive.
I have clinical depression. It's been with me since my childhood and it has never gone away. I used to be a happy sociable child until my parents got divorced, my mother started to abuse me and I was getting bullied at school every day. Now that I'm almost 21, I have no hope for a good happy life on this Earth. I don't know what true happiness feels like anymore and I'm detached and trapped in a terrible world full of terrible people. All I want is rest and peace and to for once feel loved, but no one is able or willing to provide that for me even when I beg from my own husband to change. There is no escape and I can only hope in my Lord's Salvation and Kingdom, but now I feel like I don't even matter to Him. I feel so alone and broken. If only my Lord would come to me and be a friend to me and walk through this darkness with me, then I'd truly have hope and know He is my Light. I believe in Him, I've seen Him, but He doesn't come physically to provide words of comfort, encouragement or instruction. I beg for Him to come and save me. I beg Him to just tell me what I should do and guide me, but I'm always left with silence. Silence. I'm helpless and I'm hopeless. There is nothing new under the sun and my life here is meaningless and full of burdens. Everything I do is destroyed and nothing here satisfies the cries of my heart. I know what there is to die for, but what is there to live for? I could die for righteousness on this Earth, but what could I possibly live for on this Earth when everything on this Earth is continually evil? Am I also the very same as the world and too blind to see it? Or am I born from Heaven and suffer from the continuing darkness that never ends because I am the exact opposite? It is a paradox. Am I the darkness or am I the light who is suffering in darkness?
I go through depression all my life too been up and down but I have Jesus Christ as my friend ask God for the gift of the Holy Spirit then you will be able to hear him speak to you. He is my best friend Jesus Christ is the only one I'm living for for him I'm living for him so he be pleased with me that is what you can live for. Live for Jesus Christ 🙌🥰 He loves you.
Madison, The Lord is near to the oppressed and he is near to the brokenhearted... Read the book of Psalms and pray as you read. You will see others in Bible times who cried to the Lord and felt just as you do. You will also see the promises of the Lord. Stand on the Word and refuse to give in to the darkness. I am praying for you and many more will too. Be blessed.
I hope your doing better now , I feel the same . I feel like I must be evil or something cause no matter what I do or try nothing is getting better . I don’t feel normal and like god isn’t here , at least not for me . But I’m trying to stay here for some people and in the hopes that one day I’ll maybe ha e a normal life. But every second being alive is excruciating.
I am actually depressed in my menstrual cycle and have like one and a half normal weeks which sucks... I am still to find out what God has planned for me on this regard
I've started considering if this is the case for me. There's a pattern, I think. A week of feeling normal, even good and then about a week and a half of "I'm down but I can still keep going" followed by a week or 2 of what feels like deep despair. This is an old comment, I hope God has since helped you make sense of it/heal you.
I was having a huge depressive crisis right now, but this verses, this video, appear to me when i start crying, somehow, somewhat, i am not sad anymore 🙏
I realize that was posted about 2 years ago, but I also feel that there is no expiration date on healing and faith. I found comfort in these words. I wanted to express my gratitude to Pastor John and all those involved for sharing the scripture and helping me and others find the answers we may be looking for when we face our daily struggles. Thank you.
Hearing this makes me happy I’ve been going through depression since I was 10 I’m 20 now and it’s always been hard to win this battle there’s days were I feel like not waking up anymore I feel like god doesn’t listen I pray and nothing is changing. Even my loved ones notice that I’m going through things there’s days were I want to take my own life I’m going to. Continue to pray I’m not alone
Read.. Power of positive thinking.. By Norman Vincent Peale.. It made me more eager to dig out the nuggets of Truth from the scripture that influenced my psychology and perceptions of life.. All because my understanding about God became clearer.
Don't entertain suicidal thought instead celebrate Christ presence every moment, praise Him always for your victory. The crisis of today will become a joke for tomorrow. May Christ gave you courage to trust Him always.
Love whoever sent in this question and LOVE you Pastor, dear brother John. Christ bless you both. Depression IS one of Hell's heaviest artillery pieces. I have known this under the most besieged of circumstances for years. But Christ's love is the "atom bomb," (to stick with this poor analogy). Hold fast. His Spirit ALWAYS comes through. ALWAYS. Rom 8:28-31. SDG
Fresh out of bible school and in my first ministerial assignment and I’m going thru some dark times . Feeling pressured to perform and create a thriving ministry leads to me being overwhelmed. Pray for me!
you will be a prime target. Make no mistake on that. Its a war and its real. I would hope the school you went to taught you that? Not all depression is Spiritual attack, but dont rule it out.
Rayna I am dealing with depression and constant anxiety attacks also. I wish I knew the answer to your question. Some days is hard, but remember God promises to never forsake us. The sum of our suffering has not passed him by, it is not unknown to God, He knows every little painful moment that we endure. I find some hope in this promise. Praying for you.
@@fishingalot247 Hi I still deal with good and bad days. But one thing that has helped me. Is changing my diet. Theirs a product called Joy-Filled by Healthy Happy Hippie. Which is all natural no side effects. This is all new to me. Also I'm doing a gut cleanse. Because everything starts in our gut. I ordered a Viome gut testing kit. Also I'm 37 so I'm looking into my hormones. I also try to stay away from negative TV and Social Media.
Please pray to the Lord Jesus Christ. Confess any and every sinful ways to Him, then ask God the Father in Jesus name to remove this heaviness spirit from you. Ask the Almighty Father to fill you with Love, Joy and Peace and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Which are love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, meekness, gentleness, faith, and self control. Also ask the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of self Idolatry. Pray to the Father God to remove all self glory, self honor, and vanity from you heart and soul and thoughts. Be on your knees saying all of this with Faith in Jesus Christ and the Father God, asking this in spirit and in truth.
I’m literally drained. It’s to the point where I can’t sleep. I am so fed up with being single and being constantly haunted by what my ex did to me. I’m just not going to eat until God sends me someone. I’m done.
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES! “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest” “Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again” ruclips.net/video/EXQGTInPpZU/видео.html I know what its like to be betrayed. You can fall into that depression. Its important to guard your boundaries. Be the best you can and choose the next person wisely. Just remember "all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose" God knows whats best for you and he wants to use your life.
Please pray for me, I know if I keep. On trading his word ill be able to endure till the end, but the struggle is real. Of you are going thru depression, you are not alone, God bless you all.
I've has so many heartbreaks, when I love someone it's not returned, that makes me very depressed. My life is one of endurance it's so painful. It's not a season it's all my life.
Right. It's like telling Joni Eareckson Tada that her quadriplegia is just here for a season. No, it's here until her body wears out and dies. Is your brain damaged? Maybe God wants it that way until you die. Maybe it's not just a season.
Luckily for me I rarely have depression, I’m almost always happy, thank God🙏 I feel like my life is easier than most people’s lives, for now. I know that my way of living is very wrong but I gotta enjoy every moment of it until things change for the worse
I am right now in that situation. Nothing wrong happened. I didn't loose anyone. God has been my refuge and strength all the days of my life, but right now I am so paralysed in my thoughts, no interest in doing anything, feeling alone not able to involve with other people. My problem is I feel like I am in a wrong job. And some people of God are saying that it's the will of God for me to do that job. Kindly pray for me and please help me if you can.
Mt life has been horrible since senior year in high school. My life circumstances have beat me down emotionally and now AT 45 Years old here I am. I am so tired of this struggle and jus want to give up this fight that seems like nothing. I hate everything about my life. Everything
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES! “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest” “Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again” ruclips.net/video/EXQGTInPpZU/видео.html To be born again is second life. "Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life" When you experience true life all the pain and hate fades away. God can make all things new again.
@@GhostMonkey772 you say you were changed over night, yet you also say “turn from your sins “ which one is it ? Because I have been struggling for years and I can’t seem to “turn from my sins” I can’t even make it to work without drinking alcohol. I would love for it just to be as easy as me waking up in the morning new .
Same here. Being put to suffering non stop against one's own will is called torture, and it's very depressing to know that this is exactly what God does to his own kids. Worn down, drained and depressed is exactly how he wants us. Yet when you read the Bible the words seem to indicate he wants to bless you with happiness. Yes, we will go through hard times in this life, that's to be expected. What's not expected is that he will deliberately bring you to a place where you would rather be dead, and he leaves you there. What a total shame and disappointment. One may seem to be "blessed" on the outside, but inside their hurting because God won't let them have anything other than constant mental pain distress. Shame on you God! SHAME!!!
@@oswaldcobblepot502 Oswald my friend, the way i feel is like i dont really matter in this world & that i never really did, BUT we HAVE TO trust in God to do His Will in us, because our finite minds CANNOT understand God who is Infinite.the Holy Bible says: Without faith it is impossible to please God.God bless
I give praise and honor to our God Almighty; the king of the universe. I thank you for this message and the scripture shared. I too can relate to her questions . God Bless❤💯
Thank you so very much for this, I've been feeling at the end of my rope and I didn't know what else to do. I had had no fight left in me. Thank you, this has been a blessing
Keep fighting ur battle , as iam fighting . Give your most of time to Lord , if you are living unhealthy life change your lifestyle . Isaiah 40:29-31. Don't spend much time on social media ,movies , it greatly effect you in long run it's a way that demons use to corrupt our thoughts . This is all from my experience i hope this will help you . When the times come Our father in heaven will heal you , living a life of repentance is important.💐💐
This is precisely how I've felt the last year. I've been in a dark place, grasping for light and felt deep deep lows and great great hope simultaneously. This helps a lot. Also in a new place, new city, new country. Thank you.
@@spencer1854 There are times that problems are way too much and it is eating me up. I don’t know what to do but instead I prayed and talk to Him about all my worries and suddenly felt so light and warm. Thank you for your message! Keep safe 🙏🏻
I truly pray for everyone who hasn't come to God and repented through his son's name. I pray for those who are sick, suffering, addicted, grieving, lost, confused, etc. I was there in turmoil for years but I never lost my faith. I'm so grateful that God has answered my prayers and led me to freedom from my addiction, abusive marriage, and sinful ways. Some days I struggle emotionally but it's nothing like before in my past. It helps to change your outlook. Now, when I'm going through hard times, I tell myself that God is testing me to help make me stronger. It's better than wolloing in self pity, fear, or doubt. Stay blessed everyone!!
Ive been out of work for a year now. i have filled out thousands of online applications, had interviews and I interview very well.... For some reason I feel it would be better to not wake up in the morning than to face constant bill collector calls, having to lose my homes, car and everything... On top of that my child now has to stay with my sister... I have slept in my car for months before moving in with a male friend who actually wants to be my boyfriend but my mind can not even think about a relationship. Im sick of tests, enduring..... I have endured more than most could bare. I pray for death in my sleep. AMEN.
You're lucky my daughter because God Himself brought you here so that I can tell you: He loves you !! He does!! You're everything for Him. You don't see Him but He's holding you!! Check your life and how many situations you have cheated death, He wants hou here for a purpose and that means He trusts you!!
I can relate to much of what you've been going through. It's very tough. Let's hang in there. Our kids need us. Times are crazy and getting crazier. We need to remain strong. One day at a time.
K J believe u me I often pray for death in my sleep too, but when i awake the nxt morning i know i have no choice but just to press on, hoping & praying every step that Jahovah God will have mercy on me & deliver me out of my troubles.I cling desperately to verses like Psalms 91, but i know i'm not a perfect person so i sometimes wonder if God even hears me, let alone care about my great sufferings.still i press on tho, bcz God's Strength is made perfect in our weakness.God bless you.
I think God just want us to rest sometimes, when we’ve been too busy or pushing ourselves too hard, counting on our own. N maybe we shouldn’t fight that thinking we know btr. Simply obey n enjoy in his presence and just do nothing. Feel his love only and trust in him. And be rest assured HE will do HIS work. If we want joy and strength, don’t forget to pray continuously. Bc God has HIS plan. We shall not only focus on our expectations and want not what God want us to have. For HE knows your needs. Wait on the Lord. Till our hearts know so deeply of his endless and gracious love.
Keep going boys and girls, there Is nothing in this world that can satisfy us completely trust me i have tried everything. Only God and his rewards will do the job
I will soon be 80. I have had depression all my life, inherited from immigrant ancestors. Now the symptoms are showing up in my descendants. There are stories of suicide in my extended family, but not in my own line. Donna seems to have a similar problem. Some people, like Jack, have it only for a few years. It has been said that each one of us will hae an episode of depression at some time in our lives. I feel for you both. Depression is still poorly understood; I have it in my genes. My approach has been to treat it as a disability, not an illness. Like paralympians, I pushed myself as far as I could. Winston Churchill is supposed to be almost the "patron saint" of depression, but if he was depressed, he could not have carried on the War as he did. He mentioned his "black dog," apparently a nursery term. It appears too in Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson.
In 2024 the Lord allowed insomnia to overtake me because of my carnal living. The stress of that eventually led to chronic fatigue syndrome which I am still fighting. It is still very hard but I think the central truth that the Lord wants me to learn is, "Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not." I have had to stop preaching after 40 years, my brain fog prevents me from studying and often even reading anything. I am doing housework to keep my body moving and to try and improve my sleep. Both Joseph and Moses had great thoughts of themselves until Moses was driven to look after a few sheep and Joseph found himself in prison. If we will not do humble work, we are not fit to teach others. I find a great many pastors, so called, on RUclips, are only ministers of the dead letter. There is no more than a mere intellectual use of the scriptures. The Lord may find it necessary to humble some of them.
I felt almost a sick depression (physical) this morning. It feels like suffering. I had severe Covid-19 a year and a half ago and I am still not back. The Lord has been so very good to me.
Separate to my another post I would like to emphasis the comments of others that mental illness exists and it does affect Christians. The difficulty is that you don't know which people with mild depression will progress to medium or severe depression and connecting with health professionals early will serve you better if this is the case, many people with depression don't see their doctor and don't seek help until they are severely unwell or in crisis. I would always treat mild depression, just not with drugs if there is no history of worse depression, but so many things Pastor John mentioned are treatments, like getting exercise, eating well, having good sleep habits. The danger of making it entirely about your faith is that if it does get worse and potentially even threaten your life is that you've created a barrier to treatments, you've determined that faith alone is sufficient and are likely to be less objective about your worsening condition. New onset depression is possible at any age, depression can be a feature of other mental illnesses, but women in their twenties are possibly one of the more vulnerable groups for this being the beginning of something more troublesome. I don't reject Pastor John's experiences, 1 in 5 of us are thought to experience this, but I've found that people who have experienced what would clinically be labelled mild depression whether they got medical diagnosis or not actually seem to find it harder to identify and accept more significant depression and recognise that more intervention is needed. I've been so ill that I've not eaten for days on end, not spoken for days on end, barely consumed enough fluids to survive and not be able to relate to anyone, God included. That means there is great joy when finally I can say to God "You know me and you love me", but again, sometimes that's been all I've been able to do for weeks on end. Depression is real and depression is dangerous and I've lived through the immense pain of a believer taking their own life, fortunately the pastor is a wise man and recognises depression for what it is, though I'm sure he is very challenged when it seems many in his flock are suffering and suffering in a way that hospital admissions are necessary.
I have a mental condition too but I do have to argue on the point just to say pray about going to dr. It is not faith alone but I'm banking 70 persent of any mental condition does not exist on own and of that over 50 percent cannot be genetic. Again I can say this cuz I'm depressed now and have as and my faith alone did keep me going. I have reason to suspect based on stuff God told me, the root of lots of stuff is environmental. Sure once you have it, pray go to dr etc. But when God told me how I got as I wanted to murder of few drs. Do you know how bad they actually treat the mentally disabled? I have mild as, my dentist once told me they had to drill 13 cavities, I went to a better dentist said I had 2 if not 3. I got mild as, I'm not a total vegetable. I'm just saying do nothing without prayer because there are drs etc that will honestly help. Although last time I got I'll they made me jump through hoops for medication. Sorry I'm passionate on issue, its personal stuff, stuff God told me, and I'd kinda believed a lie from the medics that I'd lived my life around. I just pray others dont do the same, as for me, I'm working on forgiving the liars and changing other stuff in my life
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. The Good News: While depression can make you feel lonely, God is still there with you. And he's not going anywhere. Deuteronomy 31:8
I have struggled since the day I was born. I’m 50 now. I’ve come to the conclusion that God wants me to suffer. I just cannot believe that he would love me and allow me to suffer and struggle as I have. I’m told he has good things for me but I don’t really believe it. I used to love him but I don’t any more. I always asked him to lead me where he wanted me to go and I’m sorry now that I did because he’s led me on this unbearably painful path. All I see for whatever future I might have is struggling alone.
I want to get out of this pain and torture. I lost a 16 week pregnancy and after that a spirit of fear, panic, anxiety and depression has taken over my spirit and body. I’m not hungry, I think of the worst scenarios, negative outcomes, or fear and panic about going through it again. I fear that the Lord has closed my womb and that this is a punishment from him, I fear I won’t be a mother again. These feelings are weighing me down and I can’t take it anymore. Help !!!
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES! “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest” “Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again” ruclips.net/video/lWsSkL8SMjo/видео.html&loop=0 I'm very sorry for your loss. Whatever anguish is happening in your mind God can heal you from it. I know because I've been there. I was severely depressed and had suicidal ideation. Jesus broke those chains over me. 100% I am healed because of him I don't even remember what it was like to be in that place. God sees and knows. He is not punishing you. God knows the circumstances and whatever has happened God will make work for good. He loves you Brenda and he loved your baby. Everything that is life is found in him. He always has your best interest at heart no matter whats happening. "All things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose." Right now the enemy is trying to steal away from you. It wont happen. Even in the deepest pit he is here. Dont lose hope. People are praying for you.
Piper's first point of investigation is very important: don't assume depression is CAUSED by emotional response to circumstances. Most often this extreme emotional state is caused by weakness in the body whose major organ is the brain. Most counselors miss or ignore this-Piper didn't. I agree that physical wellness should be investigated first. If the person is healthy and not impaired by lack of physical fitness, nutrition, exposure to toxins, drugs, etc., then work on faith and knowledge of God's word. Often, as it appears in the case of this women, faith in God is strong, (there are no pressing tribulations in the life apart from the negative emotional state,) these facts cause me to expect the former causes. I find this Doc. helpful on this subject: ruclips.net/video/JtCiA95dzHI/видео.html
TO ALL WHO ARE HURTING AND DESPERATE - PLEASE READ ALL* - this is for you. It is a matter of life & death. It has been said, “That the darkest hour is just before dawn”. When you have lost all hope, and all you see is darkness, remember, never let your life be defined by desperation and hopelessness, grasp this one moment in time, reach out to Jesus, He does His best work in dark places. Lay your broken heart at the foot of the cross and let the light of Christ shine within you. The very fact that you exist is God’s testimony of His love for you, you were created in His own image. A song by the group Mercy Me called flawless says, “no matter the bumps, no matter the bruises, no matter the scars, no matter the pain, still the truth is, THE CROSS HAS MADE YOU FLAWLESS. Let me introduce you to grace, God’s grace. Never give up, your finest day is yet to come, Receive Christ now, He is the caretaker of your soul. The Gospel message was created for you. The simplicity of the Gospel, - Here it is Romans 10:9 “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved” Christ Alone is your salvation. There is Nothing you can do to add to it. The Holy Spirit dwells within you. *He bled and died so you could live. The devil wants to destroy you, Jesus wants to rescue and restore you. Jesus is calling your name, please come home to me, I am your Father waiting with open arms to receive you. Read: (Isaiah 41:10), always remember that your Prayers’ Matter to God, He honors them. My prayer today for each one of you who reads these words, is that God would remove from you all feelings of despair and hopelessness’, and restore you into the loving arms of Christ Jesus, and surround each one of you with the sacred Blood of Christ Jesus as a living, healing, protective shield, from the evil one and all the powers of darkness. *Remember the devil is a defeated foe, and you are never alone, Christ is always, and I do mean always, by your side. During the storms of life that you will go through from time to time, remember God is right there with you, hold on to Him. Did you know that when you have a hard time praying the Holy Spirit intercedes on your behalf (Romans 8:26-27), take comfort in that as well. I send you my personal invitation to receive Christ now. AMEN. The true God of Christianity (Jesus) is the only one who became flesh, and suffered and died for you on the cross, He rose again 3 days later, conquering death, and providing a bridge to the Father, and He did this for you. There are only two choices that you have, Jesus Christ or Satan (and hell). *Someone once said. “I would not walk across the room to tell you about my religion of Christianity, but I will crawl on my hands and knees through broken glass to hell and back to tell you about the love of my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.” *IT’S NOT A RELIGION, IT’S A RELATIONSHIP. He wants that relationship with you now.* LISTEN ruclips.net/video/wjLlLPZderk/видео.html&start_radio=1
Broken is the road we all travel. Some will veer towards healing and some will stay in their personal hell. Deciding to heal and reach for more can be a difficult and challenging decision to make because it's hard and it's gonna hurt there's no escaping that. You'll be dragged thru painful memories of the past and visit places that you had long buried because all you wanted to do was forget and not hurt anymore. The ups and downs of healing will make you sick, some days forward and some days back. Some days angry, but some days complete peace, but in the end the pain of healing far outweighs continuing to live in your own personal hell and sacrifice all that you can be simply because your scared. You see, fear can make you believe some really messed up stuff. That your not enough or not smart enough or talented enough or pretty enough, that your person is all wrong for you when in reality, that person is exactly who you've been looking for all your life, but we throw it all away because of fear. A four letter word just brings us to our knees and causes us to sacrifice it all. Taking us an imprisoning us in lies. For me, I choose healing no matter how long it takes, no matter what it drags me thru because I deserve to heal and I'm reaching for it and I'm not letting go. I'm gripping on tight with ever ounce of tenacity in my mortal body because for me the sky's the limit and I'm going for it. The time for me has come. A brighter future awaits us all and we're all worth it and we all deserve it. Let NO ONE tell your otherwise. We are all beautiful, strong and amazing people and it's time for all of us to let go of oue shatted past ....and heal.
I'm 56, yrs old. In 2014 I lost my son to suicide. In 2016 I lost my husband of 36 yrs. Most all my family and friends are gone. I felt so alone in my grief. If it were not for the Lord, I would not have made it. His Word is my strength and my light. I'm not alone, for He is with me. Glory to God.!!!
Donna Wheeler God bless you, Donna
Donna Wheeler God bless you, it is well.
Im reminded of Joel 2:25-27, may God restore the things you have lost.
Hello Donna
How did you do it pls, I get that Jesus gave you strength but how did you practically take that strength
I go from singing hymns one week to wishing I didn't wake up the next week. Its amazing how quickly we forget his promises
What do you mean by this?
@@gordonmallary I guess I was speaking about how being a Christian is a difficult thing. Life doesn't become easy, but quite difficult. Being aware of you're sin is a sign of maturity but it comes with pain. Depression or the dark night of the soul, or just a malaise toward life, when we forget that prayer and reading God's word are the most important things we must do to grow spiritually at all. We all are so quick to forget all we have been promised.
@@djentile7773 Yeah... been going through a very similar thing as well.
@@surrealsupercell7217 9If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
@@djentile7773 yeah bro, I just want God.
The Lord is nearest to the Brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit
most of them commit suicide mate
@@lukeshirtliff7861 What do you mean by this?
😭💔
Trying to hold on to this word these days with all my might.
@@aleahmaki9641 This is from Psalm 34:18. A reassurance that God is near to the brokenhearted and close to those who feel crushed.
You may not know me, but I know everything about you - *Psalm 139:1*
I know when you sit down and when you rise up - *Psalm 139:2*
I am familiar with all your ways - *Psalm 139:3*
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered - *Matthew 10:30*
For you were made in MY IMAGE - *Genesis 1:27*
In me you live and move and have your being - *Acts 17:26-28*
I knew you even before you were concieved - *Jeremiah 1:5*
I chose you when I planned creation - *Ephesians 1:11-12*
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my Book - *Psalm 139:15-16*
I determinate the exact time of your birth and where you would live - *Acts 17:26*
You are fearfully and wonderfully made - *Psalm 139:14*
I knit you together in your mother’s womb - *Psalm 139:13*
And brough you forth on the day you were born - *Psalm 71:6*
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me - *John 8:41-44*
I am not distant and angry but I am the complete expression of Love - *1John **4:16*
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you. Simply, because you are my child and I am your Father - *1John 3:1*
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could - *Matthew 7:11*
For I AM THE PERFECT FATHER - *Matthew 5:48*
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand - *James 1:17*
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs - *Matthew 6:31-33*
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope - *Jeremiah 29:11*
*BECAUSE I LOVE YOU WITH EVERLASTING LOVE* - *Jeremiah 31:3*
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore - *Psalm 139:17-18*
And I rejoice over you with singing - *Zephaniah **3:17*
I will never stop doing good to you - *Jeremiah 32:40*
For you are my treasure possession - *Exodus 19:5*
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul - *Jeremiah 32:41*
And I want to show you great and marvelous things - *Jeremiah 33:3*
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me - *Deuteronomy **4:29*
Deligh in me and I will give you the desires of your heart - *Psalm 37:4*
For it is I who gave you those desires - *Philippians 2:13*
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine - *Ephesians 3:20-21*
For I am your greatest encourager - *2Thessalonians **2:16**-17*
I am also Father who comforts you in all your troubles - *2Corinthians 1:3-4*
When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you - *Psalm 34:18*
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart - *Isaiah 40:11*
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes and I will take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth - *Revelation 21:3-4*
I am your Father and I love you even as I love my Son, Jesus Christ - *John 17:23*
For in Jesus my Love for you is revealed - *John 17:26*
He is the exact representation of my being - *Hebrews 1:3*
He came to demonstate that I am for you, not against you - *Romans 8:31*
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins. Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled - *2Corinthians 5:18-19*
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you - *1John **4:10*
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love - *Romans 8:31-32*
If you receive the gift of my Son Jesus Christ, you receive ME - *1John **2:23*
And nothing will ever separate you from my Love again - *Romans 8:38-39*
Come Home and I will throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen - *Luke 15:7*
I have always been Father and will always be Father - *Ephesians 3:14-15*
Shalom and God bless you ❤️
I love you please❤ thanks for thesee
God bless you for this. Thank you 💕😊
Thank you.
This was such a blessing to me, you have no idea how much i needed to hear this🙌😊
Screen-shotting this 🤝🏽🙏🏽
I recently got out of a mental hospital. Diagnosed with major depressive disorder and obsessive thinking. I often dwell on thoughts that are scary. if I have denied Christ, am condemned etc. Somedays are bad. I’m really scared for when I have a “really bad” day. God is faithful and He always will be. I believe Jesus will make everything right one day. Please pray for me.
The word of God tells us, even when we don't believe HE ( GOD) Remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself...and if you ever believed you were saved and sealed until the day of redemption with the Boly spirit of promise... He is with you through it all!
Hey, I might not fully understand what you go through but I do have some scripture that has really helped me through trials and fear. I struggle with severe OCD, anxiety, and depression. Every day is a battle for me, It's good to know that none of us are alone though. The scripture that really helped me is Romans 8. It reminds Christians that there is no condemnation for them because God chooses to see them as if they were righteous. That means that we are cleansed by the blood of Jesus and there is nothing that could separate us from God's love. I really hope this helps with the fear that you have, know that you are fully loved and fully saved by God. I'm here for you :)
This sounds like me
how are you today? I hope blessed
Prayers✝️
I’ve struggled with self harm, suicide attempts, hallucinations and depression and anxiety. I’m thankful that the Lord is with me. Everyday is hard but God gives me the strength to get up out of bed.
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
Demons will whisper. Say no to suicide with conviction. The Lord is with you.
You are so deeply loved, dear sister
How are you now Talia?
BRILLIANT CONTENT!! 👍👍👍😊
I WAS IN BED FOR 3 YRS WITH DEPRESSION AND PTSD AFTER MY SON WAS MURDERED. AND I BEGGED GOD TO TAKE IT FROM ME FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND NOW HE HAS BEGUN TO DELIVER ME FROM THESE THINGS MY ENERGY IS BACK NOT A 100% BUT ITA GETTING THERE.THANK YOU JESUS.
I'm sorry brother, I love you.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine the hell you went through. Praise god that he’s getting you out of it and helping you. I’d like to ask though, why do you think it took 3 years before you started seeing change?
Jack. I read your post, and when I heard your suffering. I cried. I am so, so sorry. I will be praying for you. Our fight is not with flesh, and blood but the principalities of darkness. When I testify to this in my walk with Jesus. I test this truth, and it always holds true. The hard part is that many times for me. It is my own sin, that keeps me in turmoil. Things that I do not fully surrender, come back and bite hard. I like to blame Satan everytime. But I am a wretch. A filthy, filthy rag. Surrender allows me to utilize God’s Grace in my walk on the narrow road. I can do nothing to bolster God’s Grace other than to
Surrender to Him all things. Every sliver. It all is His. Especially the grace in Him choosing a wretch like me to live forever with my perfect King. The Lion of Judah. Jesus Christ The One. Matthew 1-3.
Blessings and Peace to you Jack✝️🩸🙏🏻❤️
June 8th will be the one year anniversary of my daughter's murder at the hands of her fiance. The Lord has told me many times that she is safe in Heaven with Him and I will see her again one day. And although I rejoice in that, the day to dayness of my life is almost unbearable. I am 75. I suffer from chronic pain so I cannot exercise the way I used to. Even standing for more than a few minutes is difficult. I am grateful to be mobile at all, it hurts a great deal to move around. I used to manage my depressive mood swings with exercise, but that is no longer possible. Suggestions are welcome.
Hi Jack, i hsve just seen yr entry - how r u. can i pray for u.
Please Pray I beat my depression. Whether you do our not, I will pray for you. Depression is scary but it will not last forever. Update 6/29/2021, 2 years later, I am in a happier place. Thank you for you're help God and loves💝 forever.
Instead of praying, try this:
“In the Name of Jesus, I command the spirits of death, depression (“darkness”, or whatever name that comes to your mind that describes your condition) to be destroyed in Jesus Name. I speak Life into my life. I declare and decree in the Name of Jesus that The Life of Christ is manifested in me and my life in Jesus Name.”
@@DaigoParry you did not finish
Please pray for me. I had post partum depression since 2010..struggling
@@shibudominic I Will!❤🙏
so are you still depressed?
I've been tired in this life...i'm just tired of everything 💔 thanks for this video it helps me to cope up with what I'm feeling right now ...going through right now, it lift up my spirit
If you are reading this, I know you're tired, I know things may seem hopeless, like this sorrow just won't end, and you want your joy back which has been robbed. Just know this, you are so deeply loved and you will get through this.
Thank you for this, I have been feeling like this lately and this is really encouraging.
Loved by who? God ? lol
Amen with prayers 🙏✝️🙏
Charles Spurgeon had severe depression. Knowing this has helped me somehow. Thinking of my inheritance in the Lord gives me joy even when I'm severely depressed. Staying in God's word every day is a comfort, and I cherish it. Know that in depression we're still growing and learning endurance, a lot of endurance.
I remember reading this too and weirdly I found it comforting to know even Spurgeon suffered from depression
Worst feeling EVER, im so tired
Hang in there buddy
@@poobiepuff "HANG" bro you are encourging him to commit suicide don't say it to a person who is depressed/suicidal/tired
@@youssefabdelaal434 I'm depressed, and I used to be very very suicidal. Just because someone says "hang" doesn't make you think about hanging yourself if it's ment to encourage others.
One day God will show you the truth and it will set you free. Ive been there. Totally stoped functionjng as a mom of 3 , as a wife, daughter and friend. Depression had me flat in bed for 2.5 years. I'd wake up in the morning exhausted slready. I felt everything so gray, gloomy and purposeless. But one day I felt like God saying to me : It's ok. Even if you were 80% bad and filthy, you have 20% of good in you that I love and still can use that 20% for people around you. I felt light.
Please, talk to God and keep asking Him questions. It might sound weird but there might be a purpose you are there where you are now.God wants you to see, feel and learn so you can be God's instrument for His other children.
He really knows where you are. He loves you. He cares for you.
@@Gumpa7619 thanks for the encouragement i need it
Can u guys pray for me. I’ve been dealing with depression for 5 years now and it’s getting worse. My name is Yasmina.❤️
I’m sorry Yasmina your going through this. I understand because I’m going through it as well . Never will He leave nor forsake you. God is in control even when it doesn’t feel like it. ♥️
Dear Yasmina, I just prayed for you. You are loved ❤️
@@eulabergado6927 Thank you. This means a lot to me. God bless you.
Who is the one that walks in darkness and has no light. Let her trust in the Name of YHWH and rely upon her God.
I had anxiety for 17 years. It was when i pray and claim the promises of God plus the determination not to entertain my anxiety and keep myself busy that made my life free from depression. Read your bible everyday with prayer. Ask God to help you not to entertain your depression. Mind control is needed.
35 years and counting (and it was probably there in a slightly different way in me as a child). It's not circumstances, but it's made worse by circumstances. It's chronic and debilitating. I would love the joy and peace that the Christian is supposed to feel (and I mean feel, despite feelings not being the whole story and not wholly trustworthy). Lacking it has made me question my salvation. In the end, I know that bodies and minds are broken in this sin-wrecked world, and we - and I - need to depend on the Lord. For those here who feel alone - finding a family of faith that will understand, that will continue to bear patiently in love, is centrally important. And I'm learning that the faithful life of the disciple of Jesus really amounts to this - persevere in faith. When confronted by the wretched difficulties, say with Peter when he said to Jesus, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."
I don’t know where I will be when I come back to this but Lord help me to find joy in you again. Heal my heart and dissipate the darkness within and around me. Have mercy on me God and please don’t abandon me ❤️.
He will never abandon you
✝️
I truly hope you’re healed.
You will get through this sister, I'm currently dealing with negative emotions now but I'm just doing my best to keep my focus on Jesus and I know He will deliver me out of this. God will also use emotional pain to mold you into the person He wants you to be. I can say with 100% confidence my suffering has made me more like Jesus and helped me be more compassionate toward others. God bless you
I trust that your joy in Christ has been restored. 🙌🏽
I wouldn’t wish depression on my worst enemy
How are you John?
@@vincebeyer6786 I'm fine. Leaning on Christ as much as I can.
Thank you so much for asking
@@bigkoo1925 Ok just checking. If you ever need support. I provide peer support to people who need it.
I wish it on Jesus. He deserves it for purposely orchestrating and even contributing to the depression of countless believers. It's no coincidence that Christians are depressed. God won't allow you to have it any other way.
60 years of depression so far I have a great amount of endurance
Rest in Christ with endurance and patience from God. May Our Lady give you all the graces from her hands❤
I am young and I know my life is ahead of me. I feel that I have messed up my life to the point where I don't know what makes me happy anymore. I deny jobs, get nervous for no reason, I have lost confidence in myself. I pray to God every day to show me His warm light. Depression is so hard. I pray all who struggle with it know that Christ is working in you, even if you feel broken. He wishes to heal you like he wishes to heal me. Let Him transform you.
How how are you feeling ?
Please pray for me. I’ve been going through depression for about 4 days now and I’m getting weaker and I really need help and reassurance. I need to get back to the way I used to be. Thank you ❤️🙏🏽
Alexandria Hamilton I am praying for you I too have been going through depression for 2 years this year Lord knows what happened I’ve been extremely depressed I feel your pain I will pray for you God bless you.
Michelle Mukarakate thank you!! I’ll be praying for you as well. God bless you
I've been there many times in my life, so my heart goes out to you. I've often said I would take physical pain over mental anguish any day. I listen to Christian podcasts like this and read the Bible. There are many good devotionals on the Bible App. They have devotions and encouragement on any and every topic. God be with you and comfort you in this valley.
How are you Alexandria?
I am just now rising from these sort of ashes; from ground zero, through Jesus, I rise again!!🥰😍🥳
Been feeling exactly like this for the past 1-2 months and had to take a week long break to keep myself from quitting my course. I know that God is trying to change me through this experience but I get physically and mentally burned out too often that I feel incapacitated from doing my work/completing my assignments. I feel so powerless that I'm not able to take care of myself physically.
I feel bound to my bed and too overwhelmed to wake up and do what I need to. I had already given up in my mind.
It's good to know that we are not alone in our struggles and that the escape from such overpowering feelings is by enduring the season - with Christ. And surely our darkness is not dark to God. Thank you pastor John for the timely word
Betty Jacob Checkyour thyroid and keep praying never give up
Nothing wrong with seeking out help. Ask God to lead you. Medication might be helpful.
I hear ya, 12yrs now. I'm ready to go home. God Bless you Betty and brothers and sisters
I am beginning to feel this same feeling. I know you posted this 8 months ago, but I really hope you are doing well now.
@King of Iron Fist You can't degrade someone like that brother. Depression can come in my forms of circumstances that makes us have it. Depression is hard it's not just to "man up" it's another world of void.
I spend my time alone sobbing, begging God to take me home to Him. I'm broken over my sin, broken over my evil desires, and I'm giving up hope that I will ever be healed of the filth that's so ingrained into my mind and my heart. I go from sorrow over my sin, to sorrow that I haven't gained any ground in the fight to resist temptation, to grief that God keeps me here on earth to just keep going back to sinning over and over. I'm getting too weak to fight.
Father, I know I believe, I can't help but believe after what I know you have done in others' lives, but you have yet to do the same for me, so forgive and help my unbelief.
❤
The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushes in spirit. Psalm 34:18
I am going along this with you. Same fight. You are not alone among other Christians and God is with you even when we don’t feel it.
@@jenniferb7719 thank you. I've gotten into therapy, I'm doing much better now. I've come to the realization that even if I am not delivered from the temptation to sin, I am delivered from sin's spiritual effect. Even though I hate the impulses I have so often, they are both a part of me and not a part of me: they are because they will never truly go away until He returns or calls me Home, and they are not because the Holy Spirit gives me the ability to resist temptation. Life still sucks often, but my outlook on it is healthier.
Thanks for being so honest. I can relate to your struggle
I gave my life to christ 5 months ago. Right after I got hit with an attack from the enemy on my mental health. This walk is not for the faint of heart. This is the hardest thing I've ever been through in my life and today I finally got angry with God. I won't deny him but I am just like why do you watch me suffer day in and day out and you let it keep happening. All I want is just to love him back but this makes it so hard.
I've been a Christian for 26 years. I've had to fight chronic depression since even before that time, and it has gotten steadily worse since then. You have no choice but to suffer. God won't take it away. This life is a torture test. Suicide is failure. I pray you find the strength to pass your test. I'm still here, making the demons angry because they can't kill me. They have to be so discouraged after all these years. We will look those demons in the eyes on judgement day and send them to hell for eternity. We will get to hear their terrified screams and anguish, and see them writhe in agony. I'll survive a few more decades of crushing depression just to see that. It will be worth it.
I hear you,.. this suffering is unbearable. To not even want to do anything, or go anywhere,... and to have no joy or pleasure doing activities you once loved. To not have any desires at all,.. and see no hope, or cure. And to be terrified to consider medication..... and, to pray, and pray... fir this to end, to stop, to be just a normal human again... I too feel discouraged, and weak in faith. I want this nightmare to end. This is no way to exist, to live.... even the homeless are happier than me,. .. o hope we both can be healed, and love life again 🙏
The Lord God WILL help me.
Therefore I shall not be confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a flint and I KNOW that I shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:7
I suffered severe depression for 32 years!
I could not get out of bed, take a shower, and felt sadness. (Believer me there were times I felt joy in suffering.) I offered my sufferings up for the souls in purgatory and suffering other persons. NOW, I go to adoration once a week, HOly Mass every day, and confession twice a month, and I volunteer for the less fortunate, and am a Eucharistic Minister in the hospital, so Yes, i do know pan and suffering, BUT God has cured me, and I have been depression-free for nine weeks plus! I am so greatful to God, that I have dedicated my life to him (not vocation wise) but body, and soul, and life I can in praising GOd the Almighty.
It’s so hard. But with EVERY ounce of energy that we have, we need to ask Jesus for help. One day at a time. One moment at a time. No one understands as much as we need them to.
So we just need to say, “Jesus help. What is the next right thing to do in 5 minutes?”
i love that
Thank you
We’re going to be ok. ❤️
I was just recently re-joined with my relationship in Christ and baptized about two weeks ago. Today I experienced one of my worst manic depressive episodes I can remember and I’m reaching for god I want this inner turmoil to end so badly. Please pray for me
I prayed for you. How have you been doing?
@@josesevinelevin9262 I’ve been doing better. Thanks for the prayers God is good.
For everyone listening. Sometimes this is a physiological factor but continue to fight and prevail. The Lord has your back, fall to him and him only. Study and learn the medical sides but trust God. Please you all!
Darkness is my closest friend. I'm in demonic darkness and sadness and worry. I pray to overcome in Jesus name and support group. Yeshua help pls!
Invest PH
I understand. I’ve been there too. I thin your message hasn’t received likes and response because you associated with demonic darkness.
It surely can feel like this but if you know Jesus is your Lord and Savior then you have the power to call on Jesus’s name to rebuke this! Don’t you ever doubt or forget it!
Depression is dark enemy but use it to draw nearer to God. Our suffering is for a purpose. I wish I could quote the scriptures for you here but I fail. I think it is in Romans? Can someone please help me out here?
Listen and listen again to Pipers message here.
Know you are not alone. Jesus is with you and others here know your pain as well.
Declare your allegiance to Jesus! Amen
Seek medical help. I’m a believer that God gave us medications for a reason in some circumstances this is sometimes one of them.
I’ve spent most of my life depressed. But dear, Invest PH , darkness is never our friend! The Light of the Lord is our only true friend!
I’m praying for you.
Been there as well. My hang in there verse was and still is, God works ALL things together for good to those that love the Lord and are the called according to His purpose. Ive found that to be very true, even if I dont understand.
Suffering the same way bro you maybe way ahead and out when you see th is give me some tips
@@keneilrichards3014 The truth of Jesus Christ will get you through..may be painful but stand in Christ and rebuke Satan daily
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
My true testimony is this. From the day I was baptized in His name through the Holy Spirit.. my depression and anxiety went from a lifetime of struggle (especially the past five horrific years) to … I have no depression and anxiety .
It’s hard to describe because I just don’t feel it. There is only one reason and it is through His Holy Grace.
I never thought I would be able to forgive a person for what they did to me, but through His Grace I have.
Truly have!
The peace and calm and genuine forgiveness that it has brought is heaven!
My worries for things like money..gone
He has filled my life with good after good after good after good.
The mental anguish I used to have on a daily basis… gone.
When I truly asked to be His child and actively trying to walk His path.. my depression gone.
Put your entire faith on the Lord! He is the ONLY medicine we need to our minds.
Christ Jesus!
I watched this last week in one of the deepest pits I've ever found myself. I couldn't stop crying and felt like I'd forgotten who I was. I'm a dental student and I still had to go to clinicals to see patients and tucked theses scriptures pastor John mentioned into my scrubs pocket. Holding on the God's promises and through reaching out to Godly community to pray. I have such a sense of lightness this week. God doesn't guarantee that He will take us out of the valley but that He will be in it every single step, behind,before and besides us. Praying for everyone watching this feeling at their lowest. "Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you.”"
- Deuteronomy 31:8 NLT
I have had depression for many years. I lost my sister, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my husband.
Hello sorry to hear , how are you now?
😢❤
Due to family problems and bullying growing up, I plunged into depression in 2014, my first year of college. I couldn't keep up with normal human activities let alone normal human hygiene. I looked terrible and I felt terrible. Dreaded facing everyday. Thank goodness there was a fellowship where I studied cus without that I won't have been able to fight. Lots of prayers by God's people and intake of the Word of God, and I'm getting better. Some days, I still panic and fear grips my whole body, and there are low days too, but He lifts me up with His Word.
Jeremiah 29:11 has been helping me with my depression
^ what do you mean things blew up in your face?
@Barbara Freeman this life is temporary you aren't really saving anything so I hope you seek Jesus again
truthseeker89 for life thanks bro
Awesome. Read in the book of Psalms everyday as well.
Honestly im bursting in tears @truthseeker89 my instagram is willfitpr11 contact me asap
I can hear God's compassion & tenderness through your voice Pastor John & it is such a comfort to hear Him, to know He is kind & has mercy on us 🌟
I suffer from depression right now but God has showed me that antidepressents isnt the answer..
I take antidepressants and I feel guilty but I've tried not to and get very suicidal and I cry and cry non stop. However I do pray and listen to a lot of messages here on youtube through these men of God. I'm glad that I have not committed suicide because it passes. God keeps me going
Taking antidepressants shouldn't make you feel guilty, because God permitted that we have antidepressants. If you have diabetes, God allowed those people to create the right medication for you, so don't deprive yourself of the medication just because you think God doesn't want you to be treated
Try AMare GLOBEL it's a natural mental wellness supplement company. Buy the AMare fundamental pack plus. It will get rid of depression.
You are not alone. We are many. Jesus also suffered but He overcame. We overcame. We cannot do it ourselves but it is only realizing and understanding God's love for us through Jesus. Jesus is coming soon. Hold on to His promises... :)
CBD is a better option. Thc or non thc
I’m envious of people who experience this late in life. I’ve felt hopelessness since I was a child and being in my 20’s still have a long road ahead of me. I pray for death each night and sink even deeper when I wake up each morning still breathing. It’s horrific.
I can relate, diagnosed around 12 and I’ll carry it to the grave. If you ever need a friend just let me know, damatonoah20@icloud.com is my email. God bless you
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest”
“Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again”
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You have hope ALWAYS. The fight has already been won and the burden was never yours to carry. To be born again is second life. He has died so you can live.
Just kill me has come out of my mouth when praying thousands of times. Im done. Done with it all. God is nowhere near me while my circumstances in this crap hole of a world get worse. Im done.
Been going through clinical depression for 6 years now. God has shown me little mercy… Such useless suffering. My thoughts and prayers go to my fallen brothers and sisters who succumbed to gods endeavor.
This is your test, it's not useless. Your life tortures the demons that are sent to kill you. Every day you stay alive means another day of failure and punishment for them, that just gets worse and worse each time they fail. Because of you they heap up unimaginable wrath for themselves for their day of judgement. Their overlords abuse and torture them for failing to kill you, so let it be. You will be their judges and pronounce their sentences when their day comes. Your judgment will be the rod with which God will crush them and destroy them. It will make more sense then. But for now you are called to suffer, and so am I.
Indeed, like God loved and delivered the Israelite at the Red Sea as they Egyptians were rapidly approaching..but not before they were crapping their pants in fear, so He loves us and will deliver us even though we wallow on the brink of suicide for years. And as I'm writing this by the campfire at 8:15 p.m. central, no kidding, a bird flying over...craps on my shirt. Hallelujah.
Your post brought joy to me tonight especially the ending lol God bless!
Sometimes I don’t find comfort in getting out of bed and facing the day again. I don’t find comfort in knowing others are going through the “same” thing. I’m clinically depressed. Please don’t brush that off. I was diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder and sometimes there’s no telling if it’s symptoms of PDD or ADHD.
I don’t readily find comfort in prayer. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do seeing as though the condition persists. This season of testing seems to have been my whole life, but throughout the last 3 months, it’s been a lot. Then I really went through it from 2007-2008 and then 2014-2019. During the time of 2014-2019 I was hospitalized twice and made several attempts on my life. I’m tired of fighting. I’m tired of working. I’m blessed to have a career… it’s a dream job… but to go back dreads me a bit.
Times of testing. This is a good message. We are fragile… I know no desired change in my life will change this season. Oh, how I’ve cried and ached these last few weeks.
What if this season, (the word “season” seems momentary) is my whole life? That’s rhetorical. Please don’t answer it. The last thing I want to hear is “It might be your whole life but God will be with you every step of the way”. It’s not that that’s not true- it just doesn’t seem helpful or caring to share. Seems dismissive.
I have clinical depression. It's been with me since my childhood and it has never gone away. I used to be a happy sociable child until my parents got divorced, my mother started to abuse me and I was getting bullied at school every day. Now that I'm almost 21, I have no hope for a good happy life on this Earth. I don't know what true happiness feels like anymore and I'm detached and trapped in a terrible world full of terrible people. All I want is rest and peace and to for once feel loved, but no one is able or willing to provide that for me even when I beg from my own husband to change. There is no escape and I can only hope in my Lord's Salvation and Kingdom, but now I feel like I don't even matter to Him. I feel so alone and broken. If only my Lord would come to me and be a friend to me and walk through this darkness with me, then I'd truly have hope and know He is my Light. I believe in Him, I've seen Him, but He doesn't come physically to provide words of comfort, encouragement or instruction. I beg for Him to come and save me. I beg Him to just tell me what I should do and guide me, but I'm always left with silence. Silence. I'm helpless and I'm hopeless. There is nothing new under the sun and my life here is meaningless and full of burdens. Everything I do is destroyed and nothing here satisfies the cries of my heart. I know what there is to die for, but what is there to live for? I could die for righteousness on this Earth, but what could I possibly live for on this Earth when everything on this Earth is continually evil? Am I also the very same as the world and too blind to see it? Or am I born from Heaven and suffer from the continuing darkness that never ends because I am the exact opposite? It is a paradox. Am I the darkness or am I the light who is suffering in darkness?
I go through depression all my life too been up and down but I have Jesus Christ as my friend ask God for the gift of the Holy Spirit then you will be able to hear him speak to you. He is my best friend Jesus Christ is the only one I'm living for for him I'm living for him so he be pleased with me that is what you can live for. Live for Jesus Christ 🙌🥰 He loves you.
Madison, The Lord is near to the oppressed and he is near to the brokenhearted... Read the book of Psalms and pray as you read. You will see others in Bible times who cried to the Lord and felt just as you do. You will also see the promises of the Lord. Stand on the Word and refuse to give in to the darkness. I am praying for you and many more will too. Be blessed.
You shouldn’t feel this way, God is with you even through hard times, I hope things get better for you!
I hope your doing better now , I feel the same . I feel like I must be evil or something cause no matter what I do or try nothing is getting better . I don’t feel normal and like god isn’t here , at least not for me . But I’m trying to stay here for some people and in the hopes that one day I’ll maybe ha e a normal life. But every second being alive is excruciating.
I am actually depressed in my menstrual cycle and have like one and a half normal weeks which sucks... I am still to find out what God has planned for me on this regard
I've started considering if this is the case for me. There's a pattern, I think. A week of feeling normal, even good and then about a week and a half of "I'm down but I can still keep going" followed by a week or 2 of what feels like deep despair. This is an old comment, I hope God has since helped you make sense of it/heal you.
I was having a huge depressive crisis right now, but this verses, this video, appear to me when i start crying, somehow, somewhat, i am not sad anymore 🙏
I realize that was posted about 2 years ago, but I also feel that there is no expiration date on healing and faith. I found comfort in these words. I wanted to express my gratitude to Pastor John and all those involved for sharing the scripture and helping me and others find the answers we may be looking for when we face our daily struggles. Thank you.
Hearing this makes me happy I’ve been going through depression since I was 10 I’m 20 now and it’s always been hard to win this battle there’s days were I feel like not waking up anymore I feel like god doesn’t listen I pray and nothing is changing. Even my loved ones notice that I’m going through things there’s days were I want to take my own life I’m going to. Continue to pray I’m not alone
Read.. Power of positive thinking.. By Norman Vincent Peale.. It made me more eager to dig out the nuggets of Truth from the scripture that influenced my psychology and perceptions of life.. All because my understanding about God became clearer.
Don't entertain suicidal thought instead celebrate Christ presence every moment, praise Him always for your victory. The crisis of today will become a joke for tomorrow. May Christ gave you courage to trust Him always.
Love whoever sent in this question and LOVE you Pastor, dear brother John. Christ bless you both. Depression IS one of Hell's heaviest artillery pieces. I have known this under the most besieged of circumstances for years. But Christ's love is the "atom bomb," (to stick with this poor analogy). Hold fast. His Spirit ALWAYS comes through. ALWAYS. Rom 8:28-31. SDG
Fresh out of bible school and in my first ministerial assignment and I’m going thru some dark times . Feeling pressured to perform and create a thriving ministry leads to me being overwhelmed. Pray for me!
you will be a prime target. Make no mistake on that. Its a war and its real. I would hope the school you went to taught you that? Not all depression is Spiritual attack, but dont rule it out.
How’s it going now?, 3 years later
How long does this last. I'm exhausted.
RaynaReyna I’m praying for you. I’ve been struggling as well. But we just have to trust in Jesus, he has a plan.
Keep fighting please❤❤ can you share it with me ??im here to listen❤💛😊💜
Rayna I am dealing with depression and constant anxiety attacks also. I wish I knew the answer to your question. Some days is hard, but remember God promises to never forsake us. The sum of our suffering has not passed him by, it is not unknown to God, He knows every little painful moment that we endure. I find some hope in this promise. Praying for you.
@@fishingalot247 Hi I still deal with good and bad days. But one thing that has helped me. Is changing my diet. Theirs a product called Joy-Filled by Healthy Happy Hippie. Which is all natural no side effects. This is all new to me. Also I'm doing a gut cleanse. Because everything starts in our gut. I ordered a Viome gut testing kit. Also I'm 37 so I'm looking into my hormones. I also try to stay away from negative TV and Social Media.
Keep praying I promise
Lord, let it go away from me. Let me be free after these some 10 years.
Please pray to the Lord Jesus Christ. Confess any and every sinful ways to Him, then ask God the Father in Jesus name to remove this heaviness spirit from you. Ask the Almighty Father to fill you with Love, Joy and Peace and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Which are love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, meekness, gentleness, faith, and self control. Also ask the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of self Idolatry. Pray to the Father God to remove all self glory, self honor, and vanity from you heart and soul and thoughts. Be on your knees saying all of this with Faith in Jesus Christ and the Father God, asking this in spirit and in truth.
I’m literally drained. It’s to the point where I can’t sleep. I am so fed up with being single and being constantly haunted by what my ex did to me. I’m just not going to eat until God sends me someone. I’m done.
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest”
“Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again”
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I know what its like to be betrayed. You can fall into that depression. Its important to guard your boundaries. Be the best you can and choose the next person wisely. Just remember "all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose" God knows whats best for you and he wants to use your life.
Please pray for me, I know if I keep. On trading his word ill be able to endure till the end, but the struggle is real. Of you are going thru depression, you are not alone, God bless you all.
I've has so many heartbreaks, when I love someone it's not returned, that makes me very depressed. My life is one of endurance it's so painful. It's not a season it's all my life.
Felt
Right. It's like telling Joni Eareckson Tada that her quadriplegia is just here for a season. No, it's here until her body wears out and dies. Is your brain damaged? Maybe God wants it that way until you die. Maybe it's not just a season.
Amen! God's strength is made perfect in weakness. I trust in you Lord Jesus! All Praise and glory be to the Holy Father in heaven!!!
Luckily for me I rarely have depression, I’m almost always happy, thank God🙏 I feel like my life is easier than most people’s lives, for now. I know that my way of living is very wrong but I gotta enjoy every moment of it until things change for the worse
Thank you pastor John im currently battling depression and seeing a psychologist please pray for me
Thank you so much for this i live in Depression on and off since i was 9 years old now i am 36 its Hard sometimes please pray for me
I am right now in that situation.
Nothing wrong happened.
I didn't loose anyone.
God has been my refuge and strength all the days of my life, but right now I am so paralysed in my thoughts, no interest in doing anything, feeling alone not able to involve with other people.
My problem is I feel like I am in a wrong job.
And some people of God are saying that it's the will of God for me to do that job.
Kindly pray for me and please help me if you can.
Mt life has been horrible since senior year in high school. My life circumstances have beat me down emotionally and now AT 45 Years old here I am. I am so tired of this struggle and jus want to give up this fight that seems like nothing. I hate everything about my life. Everything
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest”
“Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again”
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To be born again is second life. "Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life" When you experience true life all the pain and hate fades away. God can make all things new again.
I'm sorry- hang in there. Jesus loves you and is with you always, just cry out to him. God bless you
@@GhostMonkey772 you say you were changed over night, yet you also say “turn from your sins “ which one is it ? Because I have been struggling for years and I can’t seem to “turn from my sins” I can’t even make it to work without drinking alcohol. I would love for it just to be as easy as me waking up in the morning new .
Hey you! God hears you and will bring you your healing miracle very soon!
I would rather sleep than fight. I no longer want to have my endurance or patience tested.
reg4321 I sympathize with your pain. My husband is going through severe depression himself. May the Lord give you peace and joy. God bless.
Same here. Being put to suffering non stop against one's own will is called torture, and it's very depressing to know that this is exactly what God does to his own kids. Worn down, drained and depressed is exactly how he wants us. Yet when you read the Bible the words seem to indicate he wants to bless you with happiness. Yes, we will go through hard times in this life, that's to be expected. What's not expected is that he will deliberately bring you to a place where you would rather be dead, and he leaves you there. What a total shame and disappointment. One may seem to be "blessed" on the outside, but inside their hurting because God won't let them have anything other than constant mental pain distress. Shame on you God! SHAME!!!
Good is not testing you
Regardless of what this guy says
@@oswaldcobblepot502 Oswald my friend, the way i feel is like i dont really matter in this world & that i never really did, BUT we HAVE TO trust in God to do His Will in us, because our finite minds CANNOT understand God who is Infinite.the Holy Bible says: Without faith it is impossible to please God.God bless
I give praise and honor to our God Almighty; the king of the universe. I thank you for this message and the scripture shared. I too can relate to her questions . God Bless❤💯
Pastor John hits from all angles. I.love this guy
Thank you so very much for this, I've been feeling at the end of my rope and I didn't know what else to do. I had had no fight left in me. Thank you, this has been a blessing
Thank God for leading me to this 💕🙏🏾
Keep fighting ur battle , as iam fighting . Give your most of time to Lord , if you are living unhealthy life change your lifestyle .
Isaiah 40:29-31.
Don't spend much time on social media ,movies , it greatly effect you in long run it's a way that demons use to corrupt our thoughts .
This is all from my experience i hope this will help you . When the times come Our father in heaven will heal you , living a life of repentance is important.💐💐
This is precisely how I've felt the last year. I've been in a dark place, grasping for light and felt deep deep lows and great great hope simultaneously. This helps a lot. Also in a new place, new city, new country. Thank you.
I feels like disappearing would be a great solution to what I feel right now but I know a better way and it is God.
I hear you- I've been there also. Hang in there, it's going to get better. You're not alone. Remember that Jesus' love for you
@@spencer1854 There are times that problems are way too much and it is eating me up. I don’t know what to do but instead I prayed and talk to Him about all my worries and suddenly felt so light and warm. Thank you for your message! Keep safe 🙏🏻
Amen!! This helped me overcome my drepression!!
I truly pray for everyone who hasn't come to God and repented through his son's name. I pray for those who are sick, suffering, addicted, grieving, lost, confused, etc. I was there in turmoil for years but I never lost my faith. I'm so grateful that God has answered my prayers and led me to freedom from my addiction, abusive marriage, and sinful ways. Some days I struggle emotionally but it's nothing like before in my past. It helps to change your outlook. Now, when I'm going through hard times, I tell myself that God is testing me to help make me stronger. It's better than wolloing in self pity, fear, or doubt. Stay blessed everyone!!
Ive been out of work for a year now. i have filled out thousands of online applications, had interviews and I interview very well.... For some reason I feel it would be better to not wake up in the morning than to face constant bill collector calls, having to lose my homes, car and everything... On top of that my child now has to stay with my sister... I have slept in my car for months before moving in with a male friend who actually wants to be my boyfriend but my mind can not even think about a relationship. Im sick of tests, enduring..... I have endured more than most could bare. I pray for death in my sleep. AMEN.
You're lucky my daughter because God Himself brought you here so that I can tell you: He loves you !! He does!! You're everything for Him. You don't see Him but He's holding you!! Check your life and how many situations you have cheated death, He wants hou here for a purpose and that means He trusts you!!
You're not the only one who feels that way. I too am weary of God's endless "tests and trials" and I despise them all.
I can relate to much of what you've been going through. It's very tough. Let's hang in there. Our kids need us. Times are crazy and getting crazier. We need to remain strong. One day at a time.
Prayers for you and your family. I hope you have regained strength and your life.
K J believe u me I often pray for death in my sleep too, but when i awake the nxt morning i know i have no choice but just to press on, hoping & praying every step that Jahovah God will have mercy on me & deliver me out of my troubles.I cling desperately to verses like Psalms 91, but i know i'm not a perfect person so i sometimes wonder if God even hears me, let alone care about my great sufferings.still i press on tho, bcz God's Strength is made perfect in our weakness.God bless you.
Please heal me and help me go on Jesus
I think God just want us to rest sometimes, when we’ve been too busy or pushing ourselves too hard, counting on our own. N maybe we shouldn’t fight that thinking we know btr. Simply obey n enjoy in his presence and just do nothing. Feel his love only and trust in him. And be rest assured HE will do HIS work. If we want joy and strength, don’t forget to pray continuously. Bc God has HIS plan. We shall not only focus on our expectations and want not what God want us to have. For HE knows your needs. Wait on the Lord. Till our hearts know so deeply of his endless and gracious love.
Keep going boys and girls, there Is nothing in this world that can satisfy us completely trust me i have tried everything. Only God and his rewards will do the job
I am going through what this lady you are talking about. God Bless her.
I will soon be 80. I have had depression all my life, inherited from immigrant ancestors. Now the symptoms are showing up in my descendants. There are stories of suicide in my extended family, but not in my own line. Donna seems to have a similar problem. Some people, like Jack, have it only for a few years. It has been said that each one of us will hae an episode of depression at some time in our lives. I feel for you both. Depression is still poorly understood; I have it in my genes. My approach has been to treat it as a disability, not an illness. Like paralympians, I pushed myself as far as I could. Winston Churchill is supposed to be almost the "patron saint" of depression, but if he was depressed, he could not have carried on the War as he did. He mentioned his "black dog," apparently a nursery term. It appears too in Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson.
thanks be to GOD, to Whom be all the Glory
Soli Deo Gloria!
God bless you pastor John❤️❤️🙏🏽
In 2024 the Lord allowed insomnia to overtake me because of my carnal living. The stress of that eventually led to chronic fatigue syndrome which I am still fighting. It is still very hard but I think the central truth that the Lord wants me to learn is, "Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not." I have had to stop preaching after 40 years, my brain fog prevents me from studying and often even reading anything. I am doing housework to keep my body moving and to try and improve my sleep. Both Joseph and Moses had great thoughts of themselves until Moses was driven to look after a few sheep and Joseph found himself in prison. If we will not do humble work, we are not fit to teach others. I find a great many pastors, so called, on RUclips, are only ministers of the dead letter. There is no more than a mere intellectual use of the scriptures. The Lord may find it necessary to humble some of them.
That should have read 2020.
God will keep his eyes on you and me 👍
I felt almost a sick depression (physical) this morning. It feels like suffering. I had severe Covid-19 a year and a half ago and I am still not back.
The Lord has been so very good to me.
Did you mean for your last sentence to sound sarcastic?
Amen lord bless u pastor ❤️
I pray for the strength of the student from DCS. Amen
This is so encouraging thank you sir
This helped. Thank you.
Such a timely word for me. Thank you.
Thank you Pastor John.
Thank you for this message
Separate to my another post I would like to emphasis the comments of others that mental illness exists and it does affect Christians. The difficulty is that you don't know which people with mild depression will progress to medium or severe depression and connecting with health professionals early will serve you better if this is the case, many people with depression don't see their doctor and don't seek help until they are severely unwell or in crisis. I would always treat mild depression, just not with drugs if there is no history of worse depression, but so many things Pastor John mentioned are treatments, like getting exercise, eating well, having good sleep habits. The danger of making it entirely about your faith is that if it does get worse and potentially even threaten your life is that you've created a barrier to treatments, you've determined that faith alone is sufficient and are likely to be less objective about your worsening condition. New onset depression is possible at any age, depression can be a feature of other mental illnesses, but women in their twenties are possibly one of the more vulnerable groups for this being the beginning of something more troublesome. I don't reject Pastor John's experiences, 1 in 5 of us are thought to experience this, but I've found that people who have experienced what would clinically be labelled mild depression whether they got medical diagnosis or not actually seem to find it harder to identify and accept more significant depression and recognise that more intervention is needed. I've been so ill that I've not eaten for days on end, not spoken for days on end, barely consumed enough fluids to survive and not be able to relate to anyone, God included. That means there is great joy when finally I can say to God "You know me and you love me", but again, sometimes that's been all I've been able to do for weeks on end. Depression is real and depression is dangerous and I've lived through the immense pain of a believer taking their own life, fortunately the pastor is a wise man and recognises depression for what it is, though I'm sure he is very challenged when it seems many in his flock are suffering and suffering in a way that hospital admissions are necessary.
I have a mental condition too but I do have to argue on the point just to say pray about going to dr. It is not faith alone but I'm banking 70 persent of any mental condition does not exist on own and of that over 50 percent cannot be genetic. Again I can say this cuz I'm depressed now and have as and my faith alone did keep me going. I have reason to suspect based on stuff God told me, the root of lots of stuff is environmental. Sure once you have it, pray go to dr etc. But when God told me how I got as I wanted to murder of few drs. Do you know how bad they actually treat the mentally disabled? I have mild as, my dentist once told me they had to drill 13 cavities, I went to a better dentist said I had 2 if not 3. I got mild as, I'm not a total vegetable. I'm just saying do nothing without prayer because there are drs etc that will honestly help. Although last time I got I'll they made me jump through hoops for medication. Sorry I'm passionate on issue, its personal stuff, stuff God told me, and I'd kinda believed a lie from the medics that I'd lived my life around. I just pray others dont do the same, as for me, I'm working on forgiving the liars and changing other stuff in my life
Thank you so much. I'm struggling with depression after first delivery till now..10 years
I DONT WANT TO ENDURE this ANYMORE!!!! This is ridiculous!!!!! Ive been crying and praying and waiting what kind of God is this!!!!!
I have depression and anxiety, please pray for me
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. The Good News: While depression can make you feel lonely, God is still there with you. And he's not going anywhere.
Deuteronomy 31:8
I pray for this channel, in Jesus name. Amen.
I have struggled since the day I was born. I’m 50 now. I’ve come to the conclusion that God wants me to suffer. I just cannot believe that he would love me and allow me to suffer and struggle as I have. I’m told he has good things for me but I don’t really believe it. I used to love him but I don’t any more. I always asked him to lead me where he wanted me to go and I’m sorry now that I did because he’s led me on this unbearably painful path. All I see for whatever future I might have is struggling alone.
Please don’t give up in God! Praying for a breakthrough & joy for you 🙏🏾
50 years of depression, anxiety, anger, and constant attacks from the enemy, are about the limit for this Christian.
I want to get out of this pain and torture. I lost a 16 week pregnancy and after that a spirit of fear, panic, anxiety and depression has taken over my spirit and body. I’m not hungry, I think of the worst scenarios, negative outcomes, or fear and panic about going through it again. I fear that the Lord has closed my womb and that this is a punishment from him, I fear I won’t be a mother again. These feelings are weighing me down and I can’t take it anymore. Help !!!
I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back to my school. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real, it's impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me; it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest”
“Whoever drinks of the water I give them will never thirst again”
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I'm very sorry for your loss. Whatever anguish is happening in your mind God can heal you from it. I know because I've been there. I was severely depressed and had suicidal ideation. Jesus broke those chains over me. 100% I am healed because of him I don't even remember what it was like to be in that place.
God sees and knows. He is not punishing you. God knows the circumstances and whatever has happened God will make work for good. He loves you Brenda and he loved your baby. Everything that is life is found in him. He always has your best interest at heart no matter whats happening. "All things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose." Right now the enemy is trying to steal away from you. It wont happen. Even in the deepest pit he is here. Dont lose hope. People are praying for you.
Piper's first point of investigation is very important: don't assume depression is CAUSED by emotional response to circumstances. Most often this extreme emotional state is caused by weakness in the body whose major organ is the brain. Most counselors miss or ignore this-Piper didn't. I agree that physical wellness should be investigated first. If the person is healthy and not impaired by lack of physical fitness, nutrition, exposure to toxins, drugs, etc., then work on faith and knowledge of God's word.
Often, as it appears in the case of this women, faith in God is strong, (there are no pressing tribulations in the life apart from the negative emotional state,) these facts cause me to expect the former causes.
I find this Doc. helpful on this subject: ruclips.net/video/JtCiA95dzHI/видео.html
TO ALL WHO ARE HURTING AND DESPERATE - PLEASE READ ALL* - this is for you. It is a matter of life & death. It has been said, “That the darkest hour is just before dawn”. When you have lost all hope, and all you see is darkness, remember, never let your life be defined by desperation and hopelessness, grasp this one moment in time, reach out to Jesus, He does His best work in dark places. Lay your broken heart at the foot of the cross and let the light of Christ shine within you. The very fact that you exist is God’s testimony of His love for you, you were created in His own image. A song by the group Mercy Me called flawless says, “no matter the bumps, no matter the bruises, no matter the scars, no matter the pain, still the truth is, THE CROSS HAS MADE YOU FLAWLESS. Let me introduce you to grace, God’s grace.
Never give up, your finest day is yet to come, Receive Christ now, He is the caretaker of your soul. The Gospel message was created for you. The simplicity of the Gospel, - Here it is Romans 10:9 “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved”
Christ Alone is your salvation. There is Nothing you can do to add to it. The Holy Spirit dwells within you.
*He bled and died so you could live. The devil wants to destroy you, Jesus wants to rescue and restore you. Jesus is calling your name, please come home to me, I am your Father waiting with open arms to receive you. Read: (Isaiah 41:10), always remember that your Prayers’ Matter to God, He honors them. My prayer today for each one of you who reads these words, is that God would remove from you all feelings of despair and hopelessness’, and restore you into the loving arms of Christ Jesus, and surround each one of you with the sacred Blood of Christ Jesus as a living, healing, protective shield, from the evil one and all the powers of darkness.
*Remember the devil is a defeated foe, and you are never alone, Christ is always, and I do mean always, by your side. During the storms of life that you will go through from time to time, remember God is right there with you, hold on to Him. Did you know that when you have a hard time praying the Holy Spirit intercedes on your behalf (Romans 8:26-27), take comfort in that as well. I send you my personal invitation to receive Christ now. AMEN. The true God of Christianity (Jesus) is the only one who became flesh, and suffered and died for you on the cross, He rose again 3 days later, conquering death, and providing a bridge to the Father, and He did this for you. There are only two choices that you have, Jesus Christ or Satan (and hell).
*Someone once said. “I would not walk across the room to tell you about my religion of Christianity, but I will crawl on my hands and knees through broken glass to hell and back to tell you about the love of my Lord and savior Jesus Christ.”
*IT’S NOT A RELIGION, IT’S A RELATIONSHIP. He wants that relationship with you now.*
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Broken is the road we all travel. Some will veer towards healing and some will stay in their personal hell.
Deciding to heal and reach for more can be a difficult and challenging decision to make because it's hard and it's gonna hurt there's no escaping that. You'll be dragged thru painful memories of the past and visit places that you had long buried because all you wanted to do was forget and not hurt anymore. The ups and downs of healing will make you sick, some days forward and some days back. Some days angry, but some days complete peace, but in the end the pain of healing far outweighs continuing to live in your own personal hell and sacrifice all that you can be simply because your scared.
You see, fear can make you believe some really messed up stuff. That your not enough or not smart enough or talented enough or pretty enough, that your person is all wrong for you when in reality, that person is exactly who you've been looking for all your life, but we throw it all away because of fear. A four letter word just brings us to our knees and causes us to sacrifice it all. Taking us an imprisoning us in lies.
For me, I choose healing no matter how long it takes, no matter what it drags me thru because I deserve to heal and I'm reaching for it and I'm not letting go. I'm gripping on tight with ever ounce of tenacity in my mortal body because for me the sky's the limit and I'm going for it. The time for me has come.
A brighter future awaits us all and we're all worth it and we all deserve it. Let NO ONE tell your otherwise. We are all beautiful, strong and amazing people and it's time for all of us to let go of oue shatted past ....and heal.