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AmeriLovesJesus

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I am STUCK!!! Seriously!!! I have fought this depression.. & yet my mind has been so consumed with negativity that I took the semester off only to find out I am even miserable. I am lost completely with which way to go in my life. My mental state is stuck on despair that I keep missing my opportunities. I am terrified of being or acting happy because I just go back to feeling sad. Maybe its the environment Im in but at the same time I dont have anywhere else to go right now. Mentally beaten down verbally to the point Im losing severe hope in life & God. I know that he cannot just beam me out of the situation that I have to find light in the darkness but every time I find light I either blow it out or some else does.

I have some big plans for my life that this is about the worst time for all these setbacks to happen. I feel like giving up. Infact I think I have already.. all I do is sleep. I make a decision to go ahead the next day and do something great.. than I just feel unmotivated. I want out of this scary mental situation. I know I can do better than this. I know I can find a door someway.. but Im getting very bitter & praying to God that he doesnt give up on me.

Im 2 months into the new year... I want this year to go GREAT!!! So far Ive overcome going to far into depression. When I feel like going back where I was I stop myself.. I now TRY to look at my situation that there is hope.. Even though I dont see anything happening or anything.. that life will change & all my opportunities & dreams in life will happen!!! But I dont feel it.. I dont know how.. I was so ready to start over for this year.. Start over with school.. To better this time.. But I scared away from school.. I do it online.. its a lot of work.. Im terrified of failing.. or even succeeding.. Suddenly Im not making any right choices.. at least to me dont feel to be the right choices but to God I dont know..


All I know is I cannot wait to have my own house someday.. where I can sleep peacefully & listen to him (God) but I know that God doesnt just want me to rush off into a hiding place he wants me to be still & strong even in the darkest environment but Im lost. Im scared that if I give anymore time to something other than my dreams... I will be a failure.

But then I tell myself who am I to run off and pursue those dreams w/o doing Gods work first.. After all god gave me those dreams.. He gave me the revelation of whats going to happen... Im tired of sleeping so much!!! My brain feels like it has been stretched beyond repair!!!


Could someone please tell me all this Im going through is worth it!!!!

Because I really dont want to run off like a rebellious teenager trying to prove something to someone again like I did a month ago... =P

BY THE WAY .. Its feels good to be home here again!!! I missed EVERYONE!!! I kinda isolated myself there for awhile!!! Ill be adding to my blog!!!
 
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It seems like more and more people are having issues, at least from what I've noticed about people around me.

I'm terrible at dealing with depression, but if you're already active in things I bet it will lift eventually and you'll feel just fine.

That's all I feel like doing when I'm depressed too, is sleeping. Sometimes exercise will lift my mood too. I deal with anxiety more than depression, but they're a package deal at times.

Just from reading here, it really sounds like you got things planned nicely, you know what you want to do and how to go about it. Sounds like you have a lot of ambition too. I don't think I have half as much ambition.

Know that most of us in today's world aren't getting everything we want, so many are struggling, but at least we're struggling together, so you're not alone.
 
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Thank you!!! I just responded to your post!!!

It is hard!! No we dont get everything we want in life.. but I DO know this that Ive gotten better than I ever dreamed or asked most of the time. Its certain people in my life that Im loyal to that bring a lot of pain to me that many times it over bears God.

I believe God is teaching me through this that there is only ONE God who I should be serving that way.

You should try to get more ambitious about life, uplift yourself.. break out of the sleep patterns. You will do it!!! I didnt think I would but I did.. Now I just have to overcome this situation I am in. It is very hard to look at my life as finding a way out right now as this has been the biggest obstacle Ive ever had in my adult life. But I know I will even if it takes me another year to do it. God RESTORES TIME!!
 
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Good to see you again, sweetie :hug:

It sounds as though things are going a little better.
I wonder, though, whether you are expecting a little too much of yourself. Recovery is a journey, and it takes time. It is wonderful that you want to do 'great things' for God, and I'm sure that in time you will do all he has planned for you. But.. maybe starting with little things is a good idea:) Find things you can do to help others, to move towards your life goals, and to give yourself a sense of succeeding and achieving something. You can build on that... but don't try to fly too high straight away, because that is likely to result in your getting burned, and becoming depressed again.
Remember, God asks us to be faithful in the small things first. (See Matthew 25)

Keep going sweetie, and know that God will never give up on you!
 
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Glad to hear you're having a better day. I just wanted to tell you something a pastor once told me. If you want God's will in your life, then you don't have to worry, He will see that it comes to pass. The only way you can miss God's will is if you know what He wants you to do and intentionally disobey.

I wrote that not just for those reading but for me to remember as well. It's so easy to get wrapped up in feeling things aren't moving fast enough and questioning if we've missed God's will or are on the way to missing it. If we are willing but goof up, He'll steer us back on the right path. "It is to your Father's glory that you bear much fruit." He's not going to let a bad day, a bad year, or a bad decade stop the fruit-bearing of a willing child.

Thanks for posting and helping me to remember that. A
 
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This world is pain and lost dreams wrapped in sickness and death.

There is however a reason why it is here and why you have to go through this.

God wants to know the real determination of your heart. Does your heart point true north like a good compass, or are you pointing in all sorts of directions? The purpose of this world is so that everyone can reveal (to God not always themselves) the true inclination of the heart. God could write in the sky, "I am God, do good or else", but then He would be forcing people to follow Him from fear. These are not the kind of followers He wants. To let people be who they decide to be, is why God made this neutral place. Where God's nature and existence is neither clearly evident nor hidden to those who wish to see.

Unfortunately this world is necessary, and it is a painful place, but it is serving a purpose. The desires you have, some may come from God and some may not. What is most important to understand is the complete futility of all earthly ambition. Therefore if you have a desire for worldly gains, these are not of God because they cannot be permanent as He is. For the betterment of your soul God puts opportunities in the world, but his opportunities are rarely opportunities to make a fortune or have your dreams realized but to enlarge your soul.

This weekend for instance I had the opportunity to be patient and kind with a person who would normally drive me right out of my skull, through no fault of his. He wanted me to find a pawn shop so he could pawn his sunglasses, on a Sunday when pawn shops are generally closed. He has brain damage and cannot drive, and does not know where anything is except in the most foggy of terms. He might say a place is on "main street", but main street runs 20 miles in either direction through Dallas traffic. He didn't even know where he lived except in very vague terms. And here I was driving for 2 hours straight through Dallas traffic to find this guy a pawn shop. ;)

I am as certain as I am of anything that this was a God thing. He was testing my patience and gentleness. These are the kinds of "opportunities" you can expect from God. :) They are to refine something greater than gold: your soul. :)

Peace, and glad to have you back Ameri. :) :hug:
 
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Thank you all for you replies!! Yes I have put myself through a lot. Since moving in with my mother my old ways of thinking had come back & I allowed her the negative power she put on me to really bring me down but I know God put me here for a reason to learn to overcome her. She has been my BIGGEST obstacle in my life. She has never EVER allowed me my own life. My intentions of moving in here were not to be in the place that I am at physically and mentally but again is a good lesson for me. I had to teach myself when I got out of high school how to better maintain my life & how not to put so much on myself but I had felt it all went out the window when things got chaotic here.

But Im using this experience as an opportunity to pursue bigger things in my life. The challenge has stressed me very much but it has also pushed me to pursue bigger things in my life. Im learning through though it is crazy.. How to love myself.. how to pick myself up ALONE. Sometimes God doesnt show us the way because he wants us to learn to find there is also strength in ourselves to stand up through & find the door that he has open for us.

Its been a crucial experience.. but when I gave my life to God this is something I knew one day would come but I had thought a different purpose would come out of it. I didnt know that Id learn that my family was a very HUGE OBSTACLE in my life.

My mother becomes the center of everything in my life.. and she expects that to the point even my bills suffer but they never did because God has provided in some way each time. Its a shame for her that she is the block in my purpose because my determination to succeed with my passion would definitely lift her out of the financial mess she is in but I came to a point where I was obsessed with death.. I feared it terribly before the new year... that it woke me up .. & I realized this is MY LIFE. Not hers anymore.. I can be anything & everything I ever wanted to be and they only reason not all of it has happened yet was because of the mental block I had in my mind & the doubt placed on me by her... it became a part of who I was..

I pray that God takes this away.. Ive ran in circles my entire life trying to be someone I am not because Im terrified of being made fun of... or abandoned for making a mistake .. That its gotten to the point that Ill RISK IT!! I never cared when I was younger only did when my mother reminded that I needed to care what others thought. Too bad shes chasing everybody elses opinion and glorifying everybody elses kids and not her own... Honestly I dont need it anymore because God made me not her. Her children were a GIFT from God.

God had to teach me about the severe loyalty I had towards my mother. That even he had to suffer... I learned this I didnt know at all before that I always put her above him (God)...

I had to take a step back from school because I was more obsessed with doing it to make money than doing it out of passion. I needed to have a break & find out if this is what he wants me to do... but I needed a different perspective! As of now it seems to be a yes... But you know how God works everything is always another door to another door... =)
 
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Grace and peace to you for each new day is my prayer to you and me and us all.

I cannot sleep for more than a couple hours for couple years. Some people sleep a lot and others little while depressed..

And God does not give up on us, take heart as He does renew our strenght each new day, when we are weak than we are strong in Him and He in us. He never leave us or forsake us, ever, even when is very dark in the valley of life, He is with us all the way to the end and new beginings.

Hug and blessings.
 
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Our relationship with Christ is very much conditional. I don't think I'd say He ever gives up but it can feel that way when we don't obey His commands. It's more that He turns His face away from us until we come to our senses.
 
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