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  1. H

    Prayers for those considering suicide

    Heavenly Father, I come before You today to pray for our brothers and sisters around the world who are finding it hard to hold on in this life. I pray that they feel Your presence and become filled with Your peace -- a peace that passes all understanding. I also pray that sadness and despair...
  2. Christsfreeservant

    He's Got It Handled

    Do you ever feel afraid? Do you ever begin to feel anxious over circumstances in your life? Do you ever get trapped in the “What ifs”? When someone does or says something to hurt you, do you worry about the repercussions? Do you fear what he or she might do next? Do you fear what someone might...
  3. cingolani_c

    To a Despondent Boy ~

    To a Despondent Boy Has anyone ever told you a time is coming when, without your doing, something great will happen to you? A waking experience, that will shake you to the depths of your being. Know that it is coming, so that when it does you will not run away...
  4. Ashley755

    I need prayer for a couple of things

    Hi brothers and sisters, Not quite sure where to begin, but truthfully I just need prayer for my doubts, and my OCD, and the fears I've been experiencing as of late. I'm hoping to return to a place of confidence and right-mindedness soon. I'm hoping for deliverance from a lot of things. Thanks...
  5. I

    Did I not understand when God was trying to bless me?

    I’ve been working on a new skill for the last 1.5 years. Back in November 2018 I had a great opportunity to apply all my new knowledge and skills and possibly quit the miserable job and work for myself. I was super cautious, trying to have perfect timing, and due to some circumstances, I’ve...
  6. pantingdeer

    Struggling a lot with my mental health and desperate for help

    Hi my name is Andrew and I’m 20. In the past 3-4 years my life has fallen apart due to my mental health. When I was growing up I took my christian faith seriously and believed 100% in God, Jesus, bible etc. When I was 15 I was friends with an atheist at my school and he never tried to discourage...
  7. Christsfreeservant

    Exercising Wisdom

    Proverbs 24:1-2 ESV Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. We, who are believers in Jesus Christ, have been given the heart and mind of Christ, because Christ dwells within us by his Spirit. And, the...
  8. T

    From Struck with Fear to Freedom

    When I was 4 or 5, I experienced my first grief. My mother's best friend died of a heart attack. I came home to find my mom crying at the top of the stairs uncontrollably. I did all I could to soothe her, but I didn't realize what death really was. Later, in school, the kids at the lunch table...
  9. F

    Pray for healing

    Hello brothers and sisters. Please keep my mother in your prayers. She has had a lump on her chest for awhile now, it doesn't hurt, but she came to me the other day in tears and told me that she was afraid. I comforted her and reminded her of Jeremiah 29:11 ..For I know the thoughts that I...
  10. Lulav

    Is Lying inherited from the Garden?

    Between the news and everyday life one thing I've seen that is a common denominator among both non Christians and Christians is lying. Not saying all of course, but the point is that it doesn't seem to be marker of those who know the truth and believe in upholding it. In the garden when both...
  11. Christsfreeservant

    Be a Beacon

    Joshua 1:5-8 ESV “…I will not leave you or forsake you.” V. 5b (cf. Matt. 28:20; Heb. 13:5-6) Moses had died. So, the Lord spoke to Joshua. He told him to take the people across the Jordan into the Promised Land that he was giving them for their possession. And, he told him that just as he was...
  12. step_by_step

    I Am Not Afraid

    It's hard to need something so badly, to feel so very desperate and to only be able to beg God to deliver. It's hard to be down here while He's up there, feeling so very far away. It's even harder to just let go and trust that He's got it. Sometimes I start to feel like He's forgotten me or...
  13. Rosesandthorns

    My unique testimony. Consumed by existential fear of life without God and the Holy Spirit.

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  14. H

    To all who Need Hope and Help with OCD/Instrusive thoughts/fear/anxiety

    HELLO ALL. So i have been delivered from all of these terrible struggles regarding instrusive thoughts, ocd, fear of blasphemy, etc. all the stuff that you all post about and currently struggle with. I was the worst of the worst just about. I am here to tell you there is hope and healing and...
  15. Srom

    Isolation Is My Problem

    Isolation has become a problem for me, and I'm trying to stop it, but I don't have many friends or people I can hangout with. I have a problem with stepping out of my comfort zone and putting myself out there. I literally have to force myself to put the effort into actually doing something and...
  16. Christsfreeservant

    Hindsight

    Isaiah 7:1-2 ESV In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. When the house of David was told, “Syria is...
  17. H

    Crisis

    To start, I suffer from severe anxiety/panic and depression, I also have a really bad case of OCD. I took it upon myself with some help from my doctor to go off of any antidepressants and benzo's this last year. I was fine for months, I could handle one panic attack every once in awhile. I truly...
  18. step_by_step

    When The Devil Gets A Foot Hold

    I have a problem with fear, this is no surprise to me. I have to work hard to trust the Lord and put my faith in him because the devil WILL take whatever he can get when it comes to fear. Today I did a foolish thing and intentionally read something that would freak me out. Man, the devil opened...
  19. -GodsGirl-

    I NEED JESUS!!

    I NEED JESUS! Lol no but really. I’ve been through a lot this year. Good and bad. And I think about God a lot. And for some reason I still struggle with the fact that it’s not our works that get us into heaven. It’s like even thought I know it, I hear it all the time. I don’t think I know it in...
  20. Ashley755

    Is caring if people criticize your interests a sin?

    Can not saying something for the purpose of avoiding someone’s criticism be sin? What if it isn’t nessesary? Should you still do it in that knowledge that, in not doing it, you would be avoiding your initial fear and perhaps sinning as a result?