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The good thing with Jesus is that He is faithful, even when I have been unfaithful He remains faithful still.

Such comfort!

Jesus (The Word in Spirit) finds the guilty one, no not the one who suffers it, but the ruler/essence/spirit of sinful life shall be condemned. We need to be saved from our sin. Only the Lord can safe us. Where the pattern, sin and then repent, dies and resilience is born instead. Glorious days such are. Where we rule beside Christ over our inner being meeting out peace , righteousness and justice. All because the King is on the Throne, The Son of David has a Kingdom that lasts forever and we may all join and be renewed.

The Word of God has such power. Think about it - the dead are raised spiritually taken means that parts of yourself which had died/ gone away. Such as past life, comes now back to life and rule an awesome Kingdom with Christ.

God's Love is like that. A life explored by His Love explores an fast universe inside each one of us and with what respect? No junk laying around! Everything perfectly ordered. All functioning optimally. I love being ruled by Jesus.

Matt 5:3-12

He said:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
 
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Always no matter what remember to have faith, hope and love.


So true Ruth! Faith in God's love will always bring us hope, just what we depressed people need.:thumbsup:
 
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Heeding whom?
I looked at my unhappiness and cried,
I wanted to be happy and I sure tried,
Yet my discontent spoke no inner joy
lonely times cruelly with me to toy.

I looked at all those others and I saw,
That their happiness made me feel raw,
Those thoughts making me feel so odd,
cut off from all my lonely and painful lot.

At first I tried to be just like the rest,
Succeeding among the very best.
Strangely I did not become excepted,
more and more I became dejected.

No one cared I was socially bound,
friends didn't seem to stick around,
and so feeling terribly isolated,
even suicide was contemplated.

Yet before death swallowed me alive,
God's truth explained my inner strife,
showing lies brought my daily misery,
bad thoughts speaking inside of me.

For listening to wicked and evil mob,
I myself from all inner love did rob,
where in my lonely hell I would burn,
the agonising reality I did earn.

A change of diet is what had to be,
Heeding loving truth inside of me,
following The Bible in its track,
now my misery will not come back.
 
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In Your Name I ask.

Oh Lord I’m fighting my sin so hard.
I don’t want to do any evil wrong.
Yet my own weakness burns my suffering heart.
Evil power is so incredibly strong.


My child please My Word do heed. (Ephesians 2:4-10)
Why are you still so busy with sin? (Revelation 1:4b-8)
Let My word your soul now feed. (Isaiah 55)
Let My peace enter you within. (John 14:15-29.)

Your Word tells me in You I win the battle.
Yet no heavenly being has come to my aid.
Dragon’s breath is surely no mere prattle.
Hell-fire still appears my gloomy fate.


My child please listen to what I say. (John 6:35-58)
Why do you heed accuser’s voice so sore? (Revelation 12.)
Only my sacrifice offers the glorious way. (Romans 8.)
Why are you still listen to that ugly harlot? (Revelation 17 and 18)


How can I hope to achieve victory?
Why do You make such harsh demands?
No way in the world can I from sin get free!
How can I get around Your commands?


My child when will you understand? (Galations 3:1-25)
My yoke is light not a heavy load at all. (Isaiah 60)
Yet you listen to so many a distorted demand. (Revelation 13:11-18.)
Is it a wonder that in misery you always fall? (Revelation 14:6-12.)


Oh Lord I’m fighting my sin so hard.
To do what is proper and right.
Yet gates of Heaven seem barred.
Inside my heart the darkness of the night.


My child please stop working in vain. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)
My Son Jesus is the One who has the might. (Colossians 1:15-23)
Why do you try and carry His pain? (Isaiah 52 and 53.)
Does your darkness bring you His redeeming light? (Jonah 2)


My conscience accuses me all day long.
Gloom and doom to face each day.
Yet don’t I in Your peace belong?
Why do I always go astray?


Oh My child in tears I implore you. (Hebrews 3:7-19)
Please heed Jesus My Son and your Lord. (Revelation 22:12-17.)
Will He not help you in all you do, (Isaiah 61.)
And kill the wicked with the power of His sword? (Revelation 19:11-21.)


Didn’t Jesus die for me as well?
Where is this Kingdom of inner joy and peace?
Oh Lord in Heaven why wont You tell?
Lord Jesus forgive me please!


Faith my child is what makes you see. (Revelation 4.)
Come and handover your every need. (Matthew 11:28-29)
Trust in the forgiveness that comes from me. (Romans 7:7-25)
And in the joy of My salvation we will meet. (Revelation 19:1-10)
 
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The worst of depression is that dark bottomless pit we tumble down when things are really bad. I used to hate it that God seemed out of reach then, so isolated and alone - even a room full of loving people cannot lift you out of your depression when things are like that. The lies are at their worst then as our thoughts accuse and belittle us and we hate ourselves with an unholy passion. How small are we when things are like that? Seven long years is the worst I had it in one go. Seven years of falling down that hole in the floor, robbing all my good life and bringing me bad life.

How to receive help and support when things are like that? Apart of medication there are more good things we can do. Good food, regular exercise and a mind that clings to good life. The power of positive thinking!

I used to sow a good thought - such as I wish my life would be a little better - and pray to God to bring it about. Fighting my negative thoughts in the meantime so that the good thoughts would have the upper hand. Daily I did this. Everything good I saw I prayed to God to bring it back into my life, confessing my falls with hopelessness, despair and misery and asking God to abort such thoughts, so that they would no longer find life in me. Trusting in the forgiveness of sins when I fell.

When good times or better times cycled around - at first mere seconds - I would thank God and ask Him to make such times grow and fight of hopelessness and despair so that such times wouldn't get swallowed up again by the darkness of my soul

Oh dear struggling friends to battle like this is epic - and it takes ages before we can see some lasting improvement, but it is well worthwhile the exercise - for good life comes to those who seek it earnestly.

What really helped me was to write my misery down on paper. Just pour the negativity out of me so to speak and then sacrifice such life up to God. Over time I could see for myself where my weak points were and how God still brought good times around even though it often didn't seem like that at all.

One of the biggest realisation was that depression lies to our heart and mind and that those lies are designed to make us feel worse when we believe them. It made me angry with the devil for designing an illness that hurts people so incredible much and for so long. What a misery do his lies bring us, for the devil is the father of all lies, blaming God for our bad life while stealing our good life, the devil is a real creep. In the end I hated the devil with all the hatred I could find within myself. To hate evil wrong brings good life and destroys bad life.

What about God? Why doesn't He come down from Heaven and chase the depression away when we ask? I found out that God wanted me to beat the depression rather than take it away from me and indeed His loving Word grew me stronger than depression could bring to bear, though it was years in the making.

The trouble is that we are responsible for the thoughts that we believe, we build our mind with them. So if we believe all these negative thoughts and let them rule us then that is our own responsibility. This is why fighting the negativity with positivity is so important. For positive thoughts can rebuild our minds and set us free from the strongholds of the negativity.

What positive thoughts have the most power? Positive thoughts that are really true, such as the promises we can find in the bible.

Jesus overcame evil dominion and can give us the ability to do the same. Not only that we are dearly loved by God and all of Heaven rejoices in each battle we win against the lies of our depression - desolations are decreed so we can expect the darkness to have a go at us - but with faith in God's love it is impossible that the lies of the devil can overcome us no matter how severe our depression might be.

Be of good courage dear friends God's good has forever overcome bad life, so get God's good life into you. Sowing the good seeds of His loving truth right into your heart and mind and it will set you free from the power of depression.

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Psalm 34

I will extol the Lord at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
I will glory in the Lord;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the Lord with me;
let us exalt his name together.



I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.



Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
Fear the Lord, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from telling lies.
Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.



The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry;

but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.



The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.



The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all;
he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.



Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
The Lord will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
 
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From Wrong to Right

When I long wrongly,
I'll hurt for sure.
It will pollute my perspective
Causing wrong actions
bringing pain and misery.

Till I find The Truth of my situation
Jesus turns my wailing into joy
His truth setting me free
to be truthfully myself
be rid of the big ego in me.

It is incredible how many
answers lay up for grabs
All I have to do is stay in His truth
and answer the call of love Himself
our Lord Jesus Christ.

When I begin to long after His love
wrong dies - and good springs up
a whole new life for sinner me
All wrong washed off
A clear conscience.

The gift of Eternal life
A loving heart in charge
A totally new perspective
Zion ruling me from Above
At Rest and in His Peace.
 
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We depressed people know all about bad life, but we don't often reflect on what good life would bring us, or how to obtain it. When we try then we usually do it in our own strength, to fail, which can then add to the burden of bad life hurting. The truth is that faith in Jesus Christ can re-unite us with our good life - He reunites us with God!

God is Spiritual we can meet we Him in S(s)irit (Heb 12:18-29,) become O(o)ne in thought and purpose. (1 Cor 2:16.) That is what having faith is all about. Becoming O(o)ne with the Spirit of God again. (Romans 8:1-17)

The Truth of God's Word
can connect us with our Heavenly Father, (Rev 4) or should I say re-connect us for we all started off life with Him. He shaped us in the womb (Psalm 139,) gave us life through our fathers and mothers. Originally we all come- proceed from Him (Psalm 82:6, John 10:34) and in Him we have our being.(Acts 17:28.)

This process is described with Spiritual words in the books of Daniel, Ezekiel, and above all Revelation. Where the personal greeting in Chapter one with Jesus Christ leads to the purification of our faith (Rev 1-3.) It also leads to the destruction of the worldly forces who got us captive (Rev 14-19) setting us free from our own sin and weaknesses and resurrect us to new life to reign with Him in His Kingdom of peace. (Rev 19-20) The whole Word of God is directed to our hearts, its words are spiritual words directed to our hearts and what lives there in. It is about our own inner world of being. (Rev 5-9) The truth of the Word of God alive in one's heart to have. (Zechariah 5)

Try and imagine what it would be like to rule with Christ in His Kingdom of peace? The prophet Daniel tells us that desolations have been degreed (Matthew 24:15,) so depression is part of the cleansing and shaping process, but in the end wrong cops it as good is rescued from the bad and put in charge. (Matthew 24:30)

Please do put your faith in Jesus and get the living word into you, so He can lead you out of your darkness into His light.
 
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You and I
In my suffering I meet You
in rejection I have life as well
despised, scorned and mocked
hated without a cause.

Either know what it feels like
to be alone and forsaken
misery filling our every sense
the darkness to know as well.

Please let us grow one Lord
share the wisdom learned
I in Your life and You in mine
a pair in oneness of purpose.
 
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Armageddon.

In my inner world life died everywhere,
famine taking what sword had left behind.
Brim and hailstones flattening what stood up,
no escape from the carnage I could find.

Awed I saw Jesus the evil fight,
turning my world into a battleground.
I saw billows of smoke rising up high,
rolling thunder through my world rebound.

I watched as scorpions paraded my soul,
stinging those godless in their lust.
Massive grasshoppers devouring all my good,
fierce horses trampling me to dust.

I saw much of my greenery burn-up,
fleets of cargo ships sadly perish.
Daily trade coming to an abrupt hold,
ungodly rulers wrong to cherish.

I saw the Dragon reigning his subjects,
watched the numbered die like flies.
I heard the false prophet's constant lying,
demons smearing God's love with lies.

It was the blood drinking prostitute,
which flabbergasted me the most.
Unfaithfulness killing God's chosen,
with fiery death she was deposed.

I saw my world's kingdom going down,
ruling Babylon fall in one day.
With two thirds of my world wiped out,
I watched true Peace coming to stay.

And so watching God's own safely at home,
I finally let my tears run dry.
Seeing Jesus arising on the clouds,
I joined the Hallelujah cry.


The biggest sin I so often do? I lie, especially about my illness. The problem is that Satan is the father of the lie, which in effect means that lie brings the devil's spirit into my hearts and mind - polluting and destroying me from within. (The best is not to lie, but fight the lie and learn the truth - the truth which sets you free to become a loving individual strong and able to deal with whatever life brings your way. At rest in God's loving truth.)

The lies which we believe set themselves up against us and destroy - true self - and build untrue self within us. It is for this reason that the Bible is such a good book, for it describes our inner reality full well

When I looked inside of me when I was suicidally depressed I found that desert described my reality well - full of dangerous desert animals attacking me at night. Vaguely I remembered the curses on Babylon - for isn't that what Babylon does best - reasoning with the mind - but ignoring the things of God? The spiritual Babylon - is our worldly educated and informed mind - it attacks our faith in God and keeps us in exile - we want to be living in God's promised land instead - a Heart where Zion rules - a mind dedicated to lovingly serve our God - where God's loving truth lives and where there is safety from the enemy.

When I was suicidally depressed my Babylon had been destroyed, revelation 18 I lost my faith in humanity or in their ability to save the world - to much corruption permitted. I realised that the Bible knew it right and saw the Dragon destroy that spiritual harlot living inside of me - what a heavenly hallelujah that was. is and be forever inside of my heart. Revelation 19 :clap::clap::clap: I knew I had to move on back to the promised land. Rebuild the temple ( Ezekiel 40 ) and rebuild Jerusalem and await the messianic rule. Revelation 20

Water gushed from the rock while He led me to the promised land and into His Rest.

How different do I think and feel now compared to then? No mixing up of wines getting drunk, but rather dinning around the table with my Lord and saviour, King of kings and Lord of lords in my life. The Living Word is great friends! I love Him dearly and am so glad to have seen Him riding on His white horse through my life, spiritualising it. The Word is totally reliable to be able to rebuild us and set us free in His Kingdom of peace. His wisdom is beyond understanding and under the umbrella of His grace we find safety.

Is 13

A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:


Raise a banner on a bare hilltop,
shout to them;
beckon to them
to enter the gates of the nobles.
I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath—
those who rejoice in my triumph.


Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty is mustering
an army for war.
They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens—
the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.


Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Because of this, all hands will go limp,
every heart will melt with fear.
Terror will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.


See, the day of the Lord is coming
—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.
The rising sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light.
I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
I will make people scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.


Like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee to their native land.
Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.


See, I will stir up against them the Medes,
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.
Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.
Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
the pride and glory of the Babylonians,
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.
She will never be inhabited
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
But desert creatures will lie there,
jackals will fill her houses;
there the owls will dwell,
and there the wild goats will leap about.
Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds,
jackals her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,
and her days will not be prolonged.
 
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To know the true God is the big challenge of growing good life in Him. The God of The bible who is angry with the wicked living inside of our hearts. Now Satan and the world saturate us with evil forces that pollute our perspective and warp our view of God. We need to be liberated from the devil and the power of the world and find life in Him and rule with Him a kingdom of peace and love.

For example; for years I thought that that accusing voice in my conscience was the voice of God and that God thought and acted like that accusing voice in my conscience. Unbelievable what a misery has believing that caused in my heart. It wasn't until I understood that the book of Revelation talks about the forces we can find within our own inner world of being, that I realised that the voice in my conscience was not from God but from the devil. My own sins and the lies which I believed had given the devil the opportunity to conquer the affairs of my heart and mind and build his siege works within me.

Revelation 12:10-12

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:


“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”


Oh the joy that filled my heart when that dragon got hurled from his throne and The word taught me to understand that God is love - pure love - love that is so good that He is an consuming fire to all that is opposed to Him or contradicts Him - but comfort and strength to those who love and trust Him.

1 John 4:7-12

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Can you see the difference friends?

The accuser is a abominable god who tortures those who love good and right and keeps them under a heavy yoke of oppression and slavery. He doesn't forgive sins but wants us to serve him - Babylon to rule our hearts and minds while the worship of that dragon consists merely out of religious rules, dogmas morals and values steeped in the traditions of sinful history. Everything living in our hearts that belongs to the kingdom of darkness is numbered to die. Revelation 14:14-20

I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.

Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.


Our Heavenly Father is the Creator of heaven and earth - He judges justly, bringing woe on the wicked hiding within us, but saving His children and setting them free in His Kingdom of love and truth. Revelation 19 & 20


Revelation 20:1-6

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.


The best part is that He raises our good life up to rule our inner being with Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords - a kingdom of peace, where justice and righteousness rules our inner being. A living faith with the living
Word within to guide us. The Word of God is a spiritual book, its truths judges the wicked, always causing us grief, but provides safety, strength and comfort to those who seek Christ.


So yes search for the true God of the bible, He must be the saviour of the entire human race, Psalms 22:27-29, Romans 5:18, 1 Timothy 4:9-10, you can find Him when you have faith in Jesus and His sacrifice for the sins of this world. John 3:16, Colossians 1:20, 1 John 2:2. Let the Rider of on the white horse destroy the wicked living within you and find safety in Him and let Him bring you before the throne of God to glory in Him.

 
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When you think about it suffering a life of sin is terrible. Each sin starts of with a lie. The lie grows into a wrong deed. Which then ensnares you, killing all inner opposition. The suggestion Satan makes to snare you has to do with your emotions and your desires but in the end effects your whole inner being. Satan is very clever, he hides in the darkness awaiting his chances.

The devil ensnares you with a lie, which burns your likes and desires, or fuels your dislikes or fears and you believing that lie kills a part of true you and turns it into untrue spirituality. Then the devil works the sin in you into more sin. Each time you do a deed in Satan's spirituality you grow another dark cancerous spots on your soul, which unhindered can overtake the whole of your inner being. Satan divides our heart and keeps parts of it in the power of his dark spells.

Spirituality from Satan is very good at giving you life in spirituality that either oppresses and hates you, or where you become like it. Satan's spirituality - the wicked - are good at oppressing, enslaving, degrading, being hateful, perverting, and being judgemental They are also gossipers, lustful, prideful, arrogant, dishonest, greedy, lovers of wrong, mean, cruel, unloving, selfish, lawless, reckless, murderous, and sexual immoral. They are lovers of money, not compassionate, generous, open, loving, caring or forgiving. You either suffer them or become like them or both. Things are never good in the spirituality of the lie.

So if you believe lies or speak lies then you give Satan entry into your heart.

Indeed each lie believed, or spoken a lie, meant you became a bit more untrue! (Unless you repented of it) Your true self is being slowly wiped out, before you know it you either murder true self and become evil in a part of yourself, or you suffer the wicked who surround you, hating you, belittling you, hurting you, despising you, accusing you, raping you, perverting you, enslaving you, imprisoning you, fooling you, robbing you, exploiting you, depressing you, lying to you and killing true you, bringing you darkness instead of light.

Please consider what your life in lies becomes like. When true you is dead and you have existence in lies. You will hate and fear the truth. You will pretend you're okay, but you will hide behind lies and you will have life in hypocritical, cruel, greedy, lustful, arrogant, prideful, a lover of wrong, judgemental, hateful, forceful, brutal, unjust, dishonest, and totally untrustworthy spirituality. You will hate the remnant that is true you within you and you will treat true you bad, imprisoning, enslaving, hating, exploiting, treating unjustly, hurting, oppressing, and killing true you. Honest if you have life in such spiritualities you best repent and ask for true life back otherwise Jesus will throw that part of you in the lake of fire on judgement day. However Jesus will resurrect true you and the chosen in you will rule with Christ in His Kingdom of love and peace.


Guess what? If you suffer evil - Jesus - will gladly set you free! He is the truth. He has overcome the lies of Satan, instead of death, He brings life - eternal life! He is The Truth and the life! With Him you will be safe and He will comfort you and look after you real well. I have found no better healer of souls than Jesus Christ, He can even make straight what is crooked and He rights what is wrong. He is totally just, loving and kind. Crown Him King of the heart today and let His loving truth reveal the wicked hiding in your heart. The Truth of God will set you free.

Here a piece where Isaiah mourns the loss of the righteous and the existence of the wicked within life. However the wicked are wiped out and those that suffered the wicked are comforted and healed from the curse of the lie.

Isaiah 57
The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.



“But you—come here, you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Who are you mocking?
At whom do you sneer
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not a brood of rebels,
the offspring of liars?
You burn with lust among the oaks
and under every spreading tree;
you sacrifice your children in the ravines
and under the overhanging crags.
The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings
and offered grain offerings.
In view of all this, should I relent?
You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;
there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
Behind your doors and your doorposts
you have put your pagan symbols.
Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,
you climbed into it and opened it wide;
you made a pact with those whose beds you love,
and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.
You went to Molek with olive oil
and increased your perfumes.
You sent your ambassadors far away;
you descended to the very realm of the dead!
You wearied yourself by such going about,
but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’
You found renewal of your strength,
and so you did not faint.



“Whom have you so dreaded and feared
that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered me
nor taken this to heart?
Is it not because I have long been silent
that you do not fear me?
I will expose your righteousness and your works,
and they will not benefit you.
When you cry out for help,
let your collection of idols save you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
a mere breath will blow them away.
But whoever takes refuge in me
will inherit the land
and possess my holy mountain.”




And it will be said:

“Build up, build up, prepare the road!
Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”
For this is what the high and exalted One says—
he who lives forever, whose name is holy:
“I live in a high and holy place,
but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
I will not accuse them forever,
nor will I always be angry,
for then they would faint away because of me—
the very people I have created.
I was enraged by their sinful greed;
I punished them, and hid my face in anger,
yet they kept on in their willful ways.
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;
I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,
creating praise on their lips.
Peace, peace, to those far and near,”
says the Lord. “And I will heal them.”
But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
which cannot rest,
whose waves cast up mire and mud.
“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
 
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One thing that I really noticed was that in my life of sin I don't walk in the truth of God and consequently produce bad thoughts and feelings - bad life to grow inside of me.

Now I can I can let bad life go on unhindered, where the lies dwelling within me continue to destroy good life and fill me with more and more bad life, or I can take my bad life to Christ - all the bad within me - one by one - and let the truth of His love put things straight. Renewing me and shaping me into a new creation, day by day some more.

I can let The Word of God go through me in The Spirit of love, or I can let the letter kill me, where loveless realities dwell within me killing, imprisoning, torturing, oppressing, enslaving, and hurting me right within.

Oh how true it is that Jesus sets me free. The truth of God overcomes the wicked, the very wicked who get me so often in their grip. The truth is that when I dwell (return) in His loving truth then I escape their grip.

Please my dear friends read the bible with a loving heart. It is God's message to all of His Children, only a loving heart can read the bible true for The Word has been written by The Spirit of God.

Always know that all of humanity is His offspring. (Acts 17:28) and love all people both good and bad. Love them all to be true people again. All of us set free by Christ loving truth living within us.

The truth is we all inherited our lives from God and are a reward to existing life - however lies rob us of our Godly inheritance, were true us is killed, imprisoned, oppressed, enslaved, tortured, belittled, ridiculed, mocked, scorned and hated because untrue us rules our hearts and minds. Bringing about bad life, instead of good, because our deeds are evil.

When the truth of Jesus walks into our hearts then the power of the wicked ruling us crumbles and a new kingdom of love and peace begins to rule our hearts instead. His truth setting us free from the power of the flesh and the forces of darkness.

The first resurrection is completely spiritual.

Let us all strive after this,

JESUS CHRIST RULING OUR LIVES. Everyone's heart. That not one of God's offspring will be missing!:prayer::prayer::prayer:

John 10:27-30
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”:clap::clap::clap::bow::bow::bow:
 
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I am thankful for your ministry here. I've had a hard life, like so many, I'm sure. Keeping this brief, I struggled so hard to raise our five children after my physically abusive husband left while I was pregnant with our fifth. I have always loved our LORD and tried to raise my children in the faith. They are all adults now. Three sons suffer from addictions and my only daughter has become very critical of me. I have been dealing with my sons addictions for the past 10 years ( when they were living with me). Two of them did go to rehab, one has relapsed. This all has taken a toll on my mental health and I have curtailed some of my family activities ( Sunday dinners, frequency of out of state visits ) because of increasing anxiety and depression. I still babysit quite a bit and help as best as I can. My daughter has become very critical of me. She moved out of state to marry and is expecting her second. I reassure her of my unconditional love for her and family and I do drive out to visit about once a month. She refuses to talk to me because I cancelled my last trip out there because of bad weather.

I am struggling spiritually. As much as I love God, deep down I cannot believe that He could love me. I really believed that I was a good, loving mom and I tried sooo hard! I love God's WORD and they are filled with comfort. I would delight in them but I feel that I do not deserve God's comfort...can I dare to receive His comfort when my family, whom I love with all of my heart, are so bitter and troubled? I have given my all to help them but they choose to remain in their anger. This has weighed me down terribly and I am despaired. Can God receive me though I failed? I know what Sciptures say but deep inside I feel unworthy. What would God have me do?
 
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I am thankful for your ministry here. I've had a hard life, like so many, I'm sure. Keeping this brief, I struggled so hard to raise our five children after my physically abusive husband left while I was pregnant with our fifth. I have always loved our LORD and tried to raise my children in the faith. They are all adults now. Three sons suffer from addictions and my only daughter has become very critical of me. I have been dealing with my sons addictions for the past 10 years ( when they were living with me). Two of them did go to rehab, one has relapsed. This all has taken a toll on my mental health and I have curtailed some of my family activities ( Sunday dinners, frequency of out of state visits ) because of increasing anxiety and depression. I still babysit quite a bit and help as best as I can. My daughter has become very critical of me. She moved out of state to marry and is expecting her second. I reassure her of my unconditional love for her and family and I do drive out to visit about once a month. She refuses to talk to me because I cancelled my last trip out there because of bad weather.

I am struggling spiritually. As much as I love God, deep down I cannot believe that He could love me. I really believed that I was a good, loving mom and I tried sooo hard! I love God's WORD and they are filled with comfort. I would delight in them but I feel that I do not deserve God's comfort...can I dare to receive His comfort when my family, whom I love with all of my heart, are so bitter and troubled? I have given my all to help them but they choose to remain in their anger. This has weighed me down terribly and I am despaired. Can God receive me though I failed? I know what Sciptures say but deep inside I feel unworthy. What would God have me do?

Dear sister,

Oh isn't sin dwelling in our hearts horrible? Sin keeps us away from God's loving truth and brings us torment. Please don't deny the loving truth of God in your life, rather use His Word to stay safe from the lies hurting you.

The truth is that nobody deserves God's grace, it is a free gift to all those who have faith in Christ's sacrifice. So confess your sins and shortcomings to God and ask Jesus to cover them with His blood and set you free from the torment of the lies hurting you and your children.

Please remember that love is from God, so you loving your children is from God - while your children not loving you is from the devil. So please don't let the lies/wrong dwelling in your children’s heart deny you the love and forgiveness of God. Keep loving them, but don't deny God's love towards yourself, rather find comfort, safety and forgiveness in His love.

Please know that when you stay in the truth of God He will protect you and make you stronger than lies that hurt.

So I advise you to give all your inner hurts to God - keep giving Him those feelings and thoughts as they come around to hurt you - and humbly ask Him to set you free in His loving truth.

Fight to believe God's Word and not the lies hurting you!

Romans 8:31-39
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:


“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.



No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
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Jeshu, I thank God for you and the Holy Spirit testifies to me that your words are true and that they were meant for me! Your words lifted my oppression immediately! They were exactly what I needed...that this oppression is sin and lies from darkness! I confess this sin of unbelief and allowing darkness in. God is good and today I choose to bask in His Love and Light!

May God continue to bless you, Jeshu!
 
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Thanks Jeshu for being you. Its not easy to be be yourself when you have such struggles in your life because most people just dont seem to understand it. What you said sounds pretty much like my own life. For years i kept hoping that some miracle would happen but things only got worse, and worse. I questioned my faith and i questioned myself more times than i can count, and i still do. Faith however is tested and purified, according to scripture. Maybe this is just faith being tested and purified, i don't really know for sure, and like other people i have seen here, i also feel unworthy and even though i know that no one is worthy i still feel more unworthy. I feel like dirt. Memories of my own failure and memories of how others treated me, or how i at least perceived them to treat me, are so haunting and very difficult to live with. Often i wake up from some nightmare from the past, and even in the daytime i find myself fighting against that darkness. I feel as if i am truly at Gods mercy and my soul is in His hands and there is nothing i can do to save myself from myself and from this world. I hope in the Lord because without him there is no hope. Its hard to find yourself in this difficult situation where battles of the mind are around every corner, the enemy seems bent on destroying you, and strength diminishes as hope seems to fade. This isnt just one battle, or two, no, instead its a multitude of battles that have no end in sight. Its a way of life, not just an experience that you have a few times. However, i thank God for the light of salvation which is promised to us through Christ. I fear God because i have seen the truth that is in me, that i am nothing without Christ. I fear that i may not be found in Him, but i fight the good fight of faith by hoping in mercy and by humbling myself before God with a contrite spirit. Im hoping that you will understand where im coming from. Its not good to feel alone in this struggle, and its far better to find others who share it, and share faith in Christ.
 
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Thanks Jeshu for being you. Its not easy to be be yourself when you have such struggles in your life because most people just dont seem to understand it. What you said sounds pretty much like my own life. For years i kept hoping that some miracle would happen but things only got worse, and worse. I questioned my faith and i questioned myself more times than i can count, and i still do. Faith however is tested and purified, according to scripture. Maybe this is just faith being tested and purified, i don't really know for sure, and like other people i have seen here, i also feel unworthy and even though i know that no one is worthy i still feel more unworthy. I feel like dirt. Memories of my own failure and memories of how others treated me, or how i at least perceived them to treat me, are so haunting and very difficult to live with. Often i wake up from some nightmare from the past, and even in the daytime i find myself fighting against that darkness. I feel as if i am truly at Gods mercy and my soul is in His hands and there is nothing i can do to save myself from myself and from this world. I hope in the Lord because without him there is no hope. Its hard to find yourself in this difficult situation where battles of the mind are around every corner, the enemy seems bent on destroying you, and strength diminishes as hope seems to fade. This isnt just one battle, or two, no, instead its a multitude of battles that have no end in sight. Its a way of life, not just an experience that you have a few times. However, i thank God for the light of salvation which is promised to us through Christ. I fear God because i have seen the truth that is in me, that i am nothing without Christ. I fear that i may not be found in Him, but i fight the good fight of faith by hoping in mercy and by humbling myself before God with a contrite spirit. Im hoping that you will understand where im coming from. Its not good to feel alone in this struggle, and its far better to find others who share it, and share faith in Christ.

Dear, dear brother,

Thank you so much for your reply. I recognise what you say straight away, that is how life has been for me most of my life. A great thing has happened in my life however that made all the difference. Jesus told me what you sow you shall harvest. So I began to sow the good seed - God's Word into my heart - trusting that God would set me free through the truth. And He did brother, be of good courage and let God's loving truth into your sinful life and it will transform you from the inside out. Honestly true. His Word is awesome when you take it personally and let Him expose all the lies ruling inside of your heart and mind and set you free from the power of the devil.

Keep fighting bro.
 
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Dear, dear brother,

Thank you so much for your reply. I recognise what you say straight away, that is how life has been for me most of my life. A great thing has happened in my life however that made all the difference. Jesus told me what you sow you shall harvest. So I began to sow the good seed - God's Word into my heart - trusting that God would set me free through the truth. And He did brother, be of good courage and let God's loving truth into your sinful life and it will transform you from the inside out. Honestly true. His Word is awesome when you take it personally and let Him expose all the lies ruling inside of your heart and mind and set you free from the power of the devil.

Keep fighting bro.
I find that many times waiting on the Lord is all that it needed to quiet those lies speaking inside, but im not very good at waiting and experience has shown me this. I also find it useful to let the Lord lead me rather than people, because many times people may mean well but they just do harm instead. The bible says that the truth will set us free, as you have also said. THe bible seems to lead us into a personal relationship with the Lord as apposed to being a follower of men. Sometimes i feel as if the Lord is my only friend, i cast all my anxieties and fears on him, and i try to bear my cross best i can. Not that i bear it well, just that i see that it is needed. Im grateful for simple things in life that God gives us. Its good to have a simple purpose that makes us happy. I think God has provided many simple things in life that can give us a lot of Joy.
 
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