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I didn't even watch the superbowl, but I dislike (American) football.

I like GaGa tbh. At least she didn't try to ban the word "bossy".

People do put too much stock into celeberties to the point they almost seem on a pedastel. Until they have a breakdown, and then they're jokes and then someone dies. From suicide. And then they aaallll go, "LETS TALK ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS I WAS SAD ONCE <3" wash, rinse, repeat.
Ain't it the truth? I don't know how I got on the John Lennon rabbit trail. I'm a Beatle trivia guy and I guess it just reminded me of the hero worship thing.

BTW, for those interested in exactly what Lennon said during the press conference defending himself, there is a 1:06 YouTube snippet. Type "Beatles popular Jesus" or something similar.
 
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Jeshu, I hope that you get some sleep somehow. May be taking naps during the day might help. Sleep is restorative for the body and mind. Without sleep for days and weeks, one's health may be compromised.

Dear Lord, please be with Jeshu now! He needs you so much. He cannot sleep each night and needs some rest. We ask you to be with him and bless him with sleep. He is in need of rest for his mind, body, and soul. As you know my Lord, you are the greatest physician who cured the incurable and raised the dead. Please show Jeshu mercy for he is suffering now. He believes in you with all of his heart, mind, and soul. He is asking for you to soothe and comfort him somehow. He wants to be given peace of mind with rest of mind and body. Please dear Lord restore this man's ability to sleep through the night without waking up. We ask of you to be with Jeshu and let him rest. He has worries too which bother him. Please allow him to forget about such worries while he is sleeping and let him sleep with comfort and peace of mind. We all need you Lord. Please answer these prayers for him for each night he suffers with no respite. God, we know you are there. Please show us your presence in this man's life. We love you so much, dear Lord. Thank you! In God's name I pray. Amen.

We should trade places, Jeshu. I sleep like a log at times. I want to sleep less. I know when I don't sleep I feel irritated and not myself. If you really can't sleep with natural remedies and prayers, you should get a sleep study done and find out the reasons for your lack of sleep. You may find out that there is a physical reason for your lack of sleep. God bless!

Thank you for saying a prayer for me that was very nice of you. The doctors say that my insomnia comes from my mental illness, I have struggled with sleep for years already. I fall asleep easily enough but awake far to soon and can't get back to sleep. It is 3.20 am now, I've been awake since 12 midnight, I'm not sure when sleep will come again.

I do try to catch some sleep whenever I can, when I get a tired spell then I'm in bed within minutes and usually catch an extra hour or two, but when my insomnia is bad then I find it very hard to get more than 4-5 hours sleep a day. Once I averaged 3 hours a day for 14 months and then I went psychotic, no wonder really anyone deprived of sleep for so long would go of the handle I reckon.

Sleep medication only works a few times and then becomes ineffective, the only thing that works is tons of psych medications but that turns me into a zombie and isn't much fun or an long term option either.

Have a blessed Weekend
 
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Jeshu, I hope that you get some sleep somehow. May be taking naps during the day might help. Sleep is restorative for the body and mind. Without sleep for days and weeks, one's health may be compromised.

Dear Lord, please be with Jeshu now! He needs you so much. He cannot sleep each night and needs some rest. We ask you to be with him and bless him with sleep. He is in need of rest for his mind, body, and soul. As you know my Lord, you are the greatest physician who cured the incurable and raised the dead. Please show Jeshu mercy for he is suffering now. He believes in you with all of his heart, mind, and soul. He is asking for you to soothe and comfort him somehow. He wants to be given peace of mind with rest of mind and body. Please dear Lord restore this man's ability to sleep through the night without waking up. We ask of you to be with Jeshu and let him rest. He has worries too which bother him. Please allow him to forget about such worries while he is sleeping and let him sleep with comfort and peace of mind. We all need you Lord. Please answer these prayers for him for each night he suffers with no respite. God, we know you are there. Please show us your presence in this man's life. We love you so much, dear Lord. Thank you! In God's name I pray. Amen.

We should trade places, Jeshu. I sleep like a log at times. I want to sleep less. I know when I don't sleep I feel irritated and not myself. If you really can't sleep with natural remedies and prayers, you should get a sleep study done and find out the reasons for your lack of sleep. You may find out that there is a physical reason for your lack of sleep. God bless!

Beautiful prayer and sentiment.
 
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I want to apologize for yesterday's post, and thank God, Jeshu, and Extraneous for setting me straight

Glad you dedicate yourself back into Jesus' care. No need to apologise we've all been through the same or similar thing I'm sure.
 
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Ain't it the truth? I don't know how I got on the John Lennon rabbit trail. I'm a Beatle trivia guy and I guess it just reminded me of the hero worship thing.

BTW, for those interested in exactly what Lennon said during the press conference defending himself, there is a 1:06 YouTube snippet. Type "Beatles popular Jesus" or something similar.

Wasn't it John Lennon who wrote "Imagine"? (One of my few favorite songs, actually!) Hero worship, in my books, is okay. But if you forget that they're also humans, and have their own (and are allowed) opinions or say what they think, then you're just setting yourself up for massive disappointment.

Off topic but when I was in fourth (?) grade or fifth, I always thought John Lennon was Vladimir Lenin's nicer brother.
 
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Chaoticfirefly, that is too bad that it is cold there. I know how you feel. Is there any way you can message your therapist and tell this person how you are doing? I used to go to one once a month and never missed my appointments. I always looked forward to talking to my therapist. I had many problems and worked them out. I hope the weather warms up in order for you to see your therapist. Therapy was life-saving for me. I am where I am today because of it. I hope you manage to see your therapist soon and work through your issues.

Thank you! My therapist is my only sane lifeline.

Unfortunately, the only other way is through talking on the phone but I'm awful at that.

She never called me back today but I think that may be because I might have forgotten to leave my number.

It's supposed to warm up next week but who knows.
 
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I'm a bit mad at myself. I looked at more dirty, nude images again. I know nudity isn't really dirty but the way I look at it is.

Yes doing wrong burns up true and right and ends up twisting true you into untrue you and casting you forlorn in the gutter of life with no one caring for you one bit. I've been there, done that and know how terrible it is when our heart are perverted by inappropriate content, (or any other wrong for that matter.) The way that I escaped inappropriate content is like this,

I acknowledge to God who I was - what happens to me when I watched inappropriate content - time and again - and who and what ruled my heart.
I praised God for making beautiful people.
I prayed for the inappropriate content stars themselves.
I asked God to forgive the wrong in me lusting after wrong.
I asked God to talk to me during wrong times. (I read the Word or let the truth of the word speak its thing.)

This way the wicked captivating died, the you who are captive will be are freed (you don't watch inappropriate content any more but if you do you feel sorry for the inappropriate content stars and pray for them and don't dream of lusting after them any more,) the good thing is that the inappropriate content stars themselves are surrounded by forgiving love. Jesus is awesome at cleansing corrupted hearts you can be assured of this.

Your job in this;
  • Fight the dragon accuser with all you got! (He, the harlot and false prophet are behind all his.)
  • Don't try to stop watching inappropriate content in your own strength, do it through faith, hope and love - stop fighting. (no genocide within yourself.)
  • Watch the lawless one being revealed in your heart. This self in you who uses God's grace to do wrong and saying that God doesn't mind it any longer. (please brother get one your knees when you do, and wait for Christ to come and cut him down. If after that you still have life in sexual wrong then continue to let the wicked be wicked still and the righteous be righteous still and start on the next habit in wrong within your sex life. (Arrive in Ezekiel 24 for yourself and then you will acknowledge that sin is lewdness and that it is very hard to stop doing wrong once you have life in it. However as Ezekiel 25-33 explain in smallest detail, the Lord Himself will fight your enemies. Rulers within your world of being will be punished and the nations that surround you will be punished. While you yourself will be be visited by God and redeemed from your sin, Matthew 24:40-44 and resurrected in your faith life, and allowed to dwell in your own land, with the prince (love for God) doing the ruling and the sacrifices at the same time in a brand new temple within the kingdom of Jesus. He rules from Zion. That's were you want to be!!!)
  • Fight the great prostitute with all you got and see Revelation 2:20-29 come true inside of your own heart. Especially the verse 22-23 are not to be scorned or under estimated. Jesus has a two edged sword!!!
When you begin to do good during what used to be sinful time then you will see that the Dragon himself will destroy the great prostitute for God will put it in his heart to do so and your hallelujah song will start playing its melody as well.

Honest brother Jesus is awesome at saving us from our sins.

Understand the whole process as wheels within wheels for that is how God reveals Himself to us. Ezekiel 1

(The book of Ezekiel and Revelation are very useful fighting sexual sin.)

Peace.
 
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I am SO EXCITED about May 1st.... I am going to have my in depth initial pre counseling with a doc who specializes in Cognitive behavioral therapy for my coping issues. Yeah 8 weeks is a while but not really considering this woman is so good that she has a waiting list. You all cant imagine how happy I am! I pray that I do NOT miss this call I NEED THIS THERAPY and I can do it! I have already told my dear close friends about this news first and now i wanted to share this with you all, I am so excited I CAN GET ON with my life! I will keep u all posted! 's
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Congrats! I'm really happy for you! Keeping fingers crossed for you...
 
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Yes doing wrong burns up true and right and ends up twisting true you into untrue you and casting you forlorn in the gutter of life with no one caring for you one bit. I've been there, done that and know how terrible it is when our heart are perverted by inappropriate content, (or any other wrong for that matter.) The way that I escaped inappropriate content is like this,

I acknowledge to God who I was - what happens to me when I watched inappropriate content - time and again - and who and what ruled my heart.
I praised God for making beautiful people.
I prayed for the inappropriate content stars themselves.
I asked God to forgive the wrong in me lusting after wrong.
I asked God to talk to me during wrong times. (I read the Word or let the truth of the word speak its thing.)

This way the wicked captivating died, the you who are captive will be are freed (you don't watch inappropriate content any more but if you do you feel sorry for the inappropriate content stars and pray for them and don't dream of lusting after them any more,) the good thing is that the inappropriate content stars themselves are surrounded by forgiving love. Jesus is awesome at cleansing corrupted hearts you can be assured of this.

Your job in this;
  • Fight the dragon accuser with all you got! (He, the harlot and false prophet are behind all his.)
  • Don't try to stop watching inappropriate content in your own strength, do it through faith, hope and love - stop fighting. (no genocide within yourself.)
  • Watch the lawless one being revealed in your heart. This self in you who uses God's grace to do wrong and saying that God doesn't mind it any longer. (please brother get one your knees when you do, and wait for Christ to come and cut him down. If after that you still have life in sexual wrong then continue to let the wicked be wicked still and the righteous be righteous still and start on the next habit in wrong within your sex life. (Arrive in Ezekiel 24 for yourself and then you will acknowledge that sin is lewdness and that it is very hard to stop doing wrong once you have life in it. However as Ezekiel 25-33 explain in smallest detail, the Lord Himself will fight your enemies. Rulers within your world of being will be punished and the nations that surround you will be punished. While you yourself will be be visited by God and redeemed from your sin, Matthew 24:40-44 and resurrected in your faith life, and allowed to dwell in your own land, with the prince (love for God) doing the ruling and the sacrifices at the same time in a brand new temple within the kingdom of Jesus. He rules from Zion. That's were you want to be!!!)
  • Fight the great prostitute with all you got and see Revelation 2:20-29 come true inside of your own heart. Especially the verse 22-23 are not to be scorned or under estimated. Jesus has a two edged sword!!!
When you begin to do good during what used to be sinful time then you will see that the Dragon himself will destroy the great prostitute for God will put it in his heart to do so and your hallelujah song will start playing its melody as well.

Honest brother Jesus is awesome at saving us from our sins.

Understand the whole process as wheels within wheels for that is how God reveals Himself to us. Ezekiel 1

(The book of Ezekiel and Revelation are very useful fighting sexual sin.)

Peace.
Loved everything about this post...so encouraging. I have struggled with this and so many other sins. And the way you put everything makes it seem like there is a way out. I used to justify by thinking that we are all animals anyways but I realized when I looked at Jesus we have the capability of being so much more and should WANT to be more than animals. When I look at the animal kingdom like even cute cuddly penguins they are so ruthless and mean sometimes. It's just nature but the kindness and compassion that Jesus showed is what sets my heart ablaze and inspires me. Animals are still awesome but I feel like there should be so much more to life than eating and sex.

Also once in prayer it was revealed to me what sex is really meant for at it's highest and it inspired such a sense of awe in me that it really put me to shame for what I had made it into by saying that we are all animals.
So not true.
I never realized just how beautiful the act can be when it's shared with someone who you're very in love with. How unifying it can be...
 
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I think I may be becoming misanthropic again... I'm really scared...

Sister, i understand that feeling very well. WE have struggles but they wont last forever. Dont worry whether you are liking people or not. Just try to be happy, best you can, and wait on the Lord in times like this. The mood will change, you know it will. Experience will be your teacher.
 
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Sister, i understand that feeling very well. WE have struggles but they wont last forever. Dont worry whether you are liking people or not. Just try to be happy, best you can, and wait on the Lord in times like this. The mood will change, you know it will. Experience will be your teacher.

Easier said than done...
 
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