Bored of everything!

Yoko.52 said:

Man you need to understand something. Missionaries tried that with Native Americans hundreds of years ago. Telling them that what they have believed for thousands of years is false but that the best part was the disease that Europeans brought with them and the Native Americans were devastated buy diseases they brought. My grandfather was Cherokee and I can tell a great number of Native Americans despise Christians mainly cause they did not bring a better way with Christ. They brought the near destruction of there people. You can talk about your religion and if it sticks good. But looking at someone and telling them that what they believe and that there ancestors going back thousands of years believed is false does not work well. It is not that missionary work is not good...its that many times I see Christians preaching and they way many do is with total disrespect for the beliefs and cultures there trying to minister to. China Japan many Asian countries have a culture over 5000 years. You can talk about your religion to them but my best friend is Buddhist and when a Christian talks with him he sits and smiles and when they leave he says man there long winded lol.

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Romans 10:14-15

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

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Also, Japanese do have a passive interest in Christianity, they know OF it but don't really know it. Christian Imagery and ideas are littered throughout Japanese pop culture. They use a lot of terms out of the bible, it's part of their interest in western culture (they're as interested in western culture as some people are interested in their culture).. unfortunately they have a fascination with demons/fallen angels and their views on Christianity are not biblical, they're very distorted.
So they really, truly need the gospel. If I'm not sent, other people should be, because these people are quite literally perishing without it. Their population is in active decline because their birth rate is so low, and like I said, suicides killed more people in a month in the lockdowns than Coronavirus killed all year.
Japan needs the gospel just as much as Iran, China or North Korea, and scarily enough, unlike those 3 nations, it's not by any means illegal to practice Christianity in Japan. They have religious freedom, Churches can be out in the open, Japanese Christians can openly practice their faith (but due to their culture many keep their beliefs close to the chest). They had missionaries back in the 1600's but the Emperor made Christianity illegal and started persecuting Christians in the country for hundreds of years until the late 1800's, forcing the Church underground. It's allowed in public now but it just simmers, it doesn't grow much. Most Japanese congregations are very small, about 30 people, and many churches are like house churches. Most Japanese Christians are basically descendants of those converts back in the 1600's, keeping it within the family, or they traveled abroad to western nations and learned about it there.
So yeah, ultimately, they need people to share the gospel.

Bruce Leiter said:

I don't know what people do during a lockdown apart from my working on my media ministry.

However, I have a biblical suggestion for your prayers. There are six ingredients for prayers that are all in the Psalms and other passages:

Praise for God's qualities and actions (that you have read about in his Word)

Thanks for all the blessings that he has given you and people you know

Confession of your sins

Prayer for others

Prayer for yourself (perhaps, that you will find something useful to do)

Lament or complaining in faith and focus on God about your situation.

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I've always been taught by the acronym ACTS, Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication. So mostly the same thing but different order.

coffee4u said:

I'm someone else who is at home most of the time, before and after lock down.
I do housework, homeschool my youngest, sort things-we are planning a garage sale, cook, read and game. Gaming and making things for gaming has been my main hobby for some years. I create for the game that I play. I am using creating programing and a graphic design program. It keeps my brain active.

I don't see any physical activity in what you are doing. Not healthy.
Go for a walk. If need be get a dog and walk them. Just because you don't 'go out' doesn't mean you have to be at home 24/7. Personally I don't see how going out makes for 'non boredom' but I am a natural home buddy so ehh.
Get a Wii fit or something similar. Even just follow fitness videos on YouTube but get moving. Sluggish body = sluggish mind.

Are you doing any housework or is someone else doing this? Laundry, cleaning, sorting. learn how to cook or bake.

Take an online class

Take up a new hobby.

Check out the debate area on here that will get your mind fired up

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well a lot of physical activities are kind of hard for me to do, I get inflammation so quickly, even just going to a doctor's appointment a few days ago has inflammed a knee making it hard to walk.

Yoko.52 said:

Maybe I should say how the minister. Alot of preachers disrespect other cultures beliefs. Jesus preached by telling stories and being there friend.

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This is true, it shouldn't be done with the idea of condemning their culture or treating them as "savages" or "heathen".
I believe that every culture has something good in it that God wants to preserve.
Revelation 7:14-15

9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

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I believe that every culture that has ever been on this world will be represented, and that God will enjoy every culture on earth in its redeemed, God glorifying state. Traditional foods, traditional dress, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional art styles. Only the sin will be gone from them.
Traditional festivals and feasts from every culture will be on the new earth, I wouldn't be surprised if every day was a celebration of some kind, it's just WHAT they are celebrating will become God.

Isaiah 19:22-25

22 And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

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There are missionaries who did wrong by the Native Americans, you're absolutely right, but I believe that there will be recognizable parts of Native American culture on the New Earth and it will be celebrated and exalted by the Lord as it exalts Him. If Egypt and the Assyrians are God's people and the work of His hands, so are the Cherokee Nation.

Psalm 27 said:

How about Biblical Hebrew?
Or....
‘Be still for the presence of The Lord...’

Think everyone is bored at the moment though sweetie.

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yeah I imagine it's a common experience right now, so people are trying to find things to do.

Tropical Wilds said:

I was very briefly several years ago, but I went off of it due to an allergic reaction. I puffed up like a balloon and lost hair by the clump. I’ve been on Remicade instead, and as its efficiency is winding down (they expected it to work for 2-3 years and I’m on year 5, which has been a miracle), it triggered medication-induced MS as a side effect. I could go off the Remicade, but it is still working well enough to manage my Crohn’s that I elected to stay on it for as long as possible despite the MS.

Ultimately, finding a medication protocol that effectively manages Crohn’s is harder and has the potential to do way, way more long-term damage than MS does. Last time it took 14 months to find something that worked. In the meantime, my Crohn’s was so out of control, it nearly killed me. I had 3 hospital stays, 2 bouts of C-Diff, a case of toxic megacolon, and my intestinal ulcerations were so deep and bleeding so profusely that I nearly had to get an emergency ileostomy. It was awful; I thought I was going to die. I couldn’t stay conscious through the pain. The doctors and I agreed that the MS stinks, but if it still helps with the IBD it’s best to not rock the boat for now. When the medication shortages end and COVID is better managed, then we can see what we can do.

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Well the problem with MS is it's lasting nerve damage, particularly lasting brain damage. I was thinking about switching to something else, since the neurological problems have been getting pretty bad, but for me it's psoriatic arthritis, not life threatening, but bad enough to cause lasting joint damage and be bone to bone, but without methotrexate.. it's hard to manage. I have mehtotrexate, Humira, and a recommendation for medical cannabis. If I drop the humira it's just long term stiffness, drop the weed and I get flareups more often, drop the methotrexate and the flareups themselves become so intense that my skin starts to blister and turn purple and my whole body breaks into a fever.
Not sure if you're in a state with legal medical MJ but, moderate THC/High CBD strains really do help me for inflammation, it's like that final piece of the puzzle that can help put me in remission, it's just a delicate remission, where overexerting can cause a bit of a flareup for a few days.
So.. yeah, maybe have to find something to replace the methotrexate.. it's a bit scary! But I've been on Methotrexate for about 5 years.. hair falling out, rising liver tests (had to scale back my dose because of liver tests a bit over a year ago, and had a flareup that lasted for over 4 months, had maybe a 2 month break, and then another flareup that lasted 3-4 months.. finally got back on the higher dose of methotrexate and have been able to mostly stay in remission), and for the past few years, the pins and needles in the hands and feet, losing balance, going into a room and forgetting why, blurry eyes for hours or even days at a time, constant tinnitus, waves of cramps (including ones between the rib muscles that made me think I was having a heart attack at first) and painful muscle spasms that can last weeks or months at a time.

bmjackson said:

Jamdoc

Firstly, stop calling it my MS. There is plenty of info online about people who have conquered MS. One of them is a doctor called Dr Terry Wahl who is the best known one and here is another testimony:

I Healed My MS Naturally. Now I’m “Taking It To The Streets”

This means that they do not have any symptoms. As you know, it is an autoimmune condition, and the inflammation can be brought right down as in any autoimmune illness.

The mental symptoms you are experiencing will most likely be due to your illness. For example, it is highly probable that you are B1 deficient and correcting that will make a huge difference to you.

You need guidance though and I cannot do that but point you to others who can. You will need to do a whole lot of research or much more than you have already done. It is not just a matter of stopping your medications which you should not do until your healing is well established then with medical supervision.

You can do it.

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I'm not word of faith, I have MS, so it is a part of me for the time being. Denying I have it doesn't make it go away. That's a word of faith thing.
second. I wasn't going to quit the medication on my own, but rather ask my rheumatologist about a replacement for it because my primary care suggested maybe MS was caused by methotrexate, neurological symptoms are listed in its side effects. He told me that at my last appointment a few days ago and Tropical Wilds talking about medications causing MS for him made me think about that.
Third, yes, you can put MS into remission for long periods of time. But I have not successfully been able to do that, maybe changing medications for psoriatic arthritis may help.
I have prayed to God for healing, and others have prayed for my healing, and I have not been healed, so for the time being, it's a part of me, so.. it actually is my MS.