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I know for many years they work rather well.
Not only to Heaven...sleep aids are terrible from what i hear because they do not even put the brain into a real sleep.
most have no clue just how near to Jesus God makes us. the tree of knowledge of good and evil has messed the human race up mentally to a greater degree than they think it has. this world is probably still considered to be mentally insane to heaven.
"something changed"Interesting. I tend to believe it. I was not prescribed antidepressants till I was 34 but they helped significantly. Side effects were not good; almost as bad as the ailment itself.
Something changed and I have been off them for 6 months successfully. Maybe chemical changes, age or life circumstances played a played a part but I know there have been some long awaited spiritual breakthroughs.
In particular, I think the single biggest factor is that I really started to take the teachings of Jesus to heart, really believe they were meant for ME (us), apply them and make them relevant to life today. The source of true happiness and contentment when we believe in Jesus and live it out to the best of our ability and leave the failures and refining to Him to work out in us as we allow Him (sometimes with our human nature we resist this refining process by clinging to our pet sins).
Antidepressants have their place in some circumstances, like heart or BP medicines. I will return to them if needed. I still need sleep aids; proper rest is important.
Thanks for the post, Gerry.
sleep aids are terrible from what i hear because they do not even put the brain into a real sleep.
most have no clue just how near to Jesus God makes us. the tree of knowledge of good and evil has messed the human race up mentally to a greater degree than they think it has. this world is probably still considered to be mentally insane to heaven.
I dunno how many have tried it but one of my past friends said that he meditated right before sleep to help him sleep.
but I think some of the worst stuff i ever experienced is anger and stress and it just seems like human society accepts such situations as normal and part of the "job". there is a point where I just can't control the anger because imo you should not naturally be put into such situations of intense anger, it is satanic.
just because at a certain point you will start to feel pleasure when you are being tortured does not make being tortured acceptable. I wish we could all figure out how to control the feeling of pain to go into torture but it seem hard to do, though it seems that people who self harm start to figure it out at least in some small measure.
I think that part of the way to break the mind down is intense emotions but it is not like it always has to be bad and when you break, the mind is naturally made of many different sub parts of self.
a university psychoanalyst guy was really weary of drugs altering the mind because some of our chemical makeup is apparently millions of years old and to alter them so willy nilly is a very new thing. humans always seem to get themselves into way more trouble than they can get out of. if at all possible I prefer things closer to nature to help me. it is a relatively new thing for us to be as cut off from nature as we now are as well.
but heck, anything that gets me closer to God is worth it, even if I end up dying young. life should be about living rather than existing just to exist. and death should be something to rejoice in.
at least nature does not have ulterior motives, it just does what it does but humans might be controlled by this or that evil spirit. not to mention that nature has had to exist in some form of unity with us for such a long time so it has that going for it. I wish we could understand how it could help us more but we seem to for the most be part cut off from that kind of wisdom that was given to solomon. but science is in some ways bring that back but from the left side of the brain rather than the right. oh well humans have been going through various types of cycles for a while now.
I have always enjoyed your perspectives on reality a lot, a lot of it is my own, or has been. The best part I like of you is that you experience reality on so very similar to me, maybe that is because we both use weed, to escape the power of the lies ruling down here. I benefited greatly from medicating with weed in many ways, for I needed a mind altering drug, for I, like you yourself also know about, struggled all my life with evil spirituality. I never started using weed until the age of 29, after years of immense battle with the evil forces torturing me and without any help during times of psychosis, because I feared myself like that so much that I had always kept myself well hidden even from my wife. Life was often hellish then.
The word does promise us that the earth would come to our aid in the battle with evil. Weed, and the leaves of many other plants, as well as extracts from other fruits, nuts and flowers, through homeomorphic remedies, as well as, and above all during times of severe upheaval like psychosis, conventional medications. I have always thanked God for all of that, and fought the dragon accusing me, as well as unfaithfulness living within in me, (the great prostitute is behind all that,) trying to corrupt my usage of these God given aids and the false prophet lying to me about these two evil powers within me, and twisting God's word into meaning things that are not true at all, using religion but also worldly wisdom, like science, to do all that.
And so over the years I have learned to see everything from a spiritual perspective. The more I see the truth of the Word living in me, the more I rejoice in God as my saviour. It is amazing how accurate the Word speaks to us when we read it personally, its truths reveal the wicked hiding behind our enslavements, weaknesses and sins and controlling our decision making processes to such a degree that they can bring down their misery upon us, because we are children of God and they hated us with immense hatred. People who become evil often don't suffer like we do because they rejoice in evil. However any fascination, admiration or rejoicing in evil that may have lived in me in the past, has now perished within me, I hate the wicked with a Godly passion.
The total sum of sub parts in self I call my world of being ( all my offspring in life) - with my families of the earth (the nations) and my good and bad guys, (the sheep and the goat,) as you can see I believe we are very much in God's (the Truth) image.
I found for example that I had much self in me which had life in lies, which wasn't true self any more but formed all the nations that surrounded me, the one who loves the Lord and neighbour and tries to love himself, (the Jewish nation within me,) the sum total of my believing self. In my believing self I'm the inner descendants of my father 'Abraham' in me - when my faith in God first started and the promises of the Word began to take care of me as a believer in God.
Later when the Word came and began to dwell within me, Revelation chapter 1 began to speak and the Love of God was revealed within my own inner being where I had love and faith in God. The Word took me through chapter 2-7 over a period of three years and then through a period of desolation for 7 more years. However during this time Revelation 12 came true, (time and again,) and I started to rule from on high beside Christ, while the dragon persecuted me in my faith and drove me into the desert and persecuted my other offspring (the multitude in self no one can count and dressed in white robes,) through the great persecution.
We are all in the image of God, the closest to understanding what that all means is understanding the word as spoken to yourself, where in all ourself we come to faith in God and all the nations attacking are overcome by the power of God's loving truth working within through the power of The Holy Spirit who builds us into the truth of God's Word. It is an amazing journey and I know that it is for forever and rejoice greatly in that.
Though I often wonder why God would deal with sinners such as me, He is faithful and true and takes me up into His kingdom one by one, and makes ever prophecy written in the Word of God come true, and in all myself where I suffer the wicked, even if I'm badly stained by them, He comes and brings faith, hope and freedom from satan's tyranny. Jesus is an most awesome King! Who rides on a white Horse and out of His mouth comes a two edge sword, to cut free those oppressed by the wicked with one side, but to slay the wicked doing the capturing on the other side. The flying scroll of Zechariah 5 is an amazing thing to behold that is for sure.
Anyway I'm rambling on and on. I suppose I could talk for many years about the truths of the Scripture as revealed within. I know that the word's accuracy rate is 100 percent, though it seems very much more than that to us to whom His kingdom is revealed within. To be allowed to behold His kingdom is mind boggling stuff and so far above the sinful reality we dwell in down here that it seems like His loving truth is out of this universe when it comes to His glorious reign from above.
What people need to understand is that spiritual is not physical but dwells within it. So in the pain and suffering of this World God is best displayed to us, not comely, or desired, but down trodden, oppressed, enslaved, perverted, rejected, imprisoned and killed - crucified - as Jesus demonstrated to us all. I know that when we find the crucified God then we have found true God and not the god of this world, that abomination has stuffed everything up through our sins is ruling this planet, a cruel loveless monster is he! (Job 41 explains satan's reptile heart very accurately I reckon.)
It is the the downtrodden self in us who will be feasting long before the rich religious selves in us will. As a matter of fact those invited didn't come at all to the party, they were to scared to follow a heretic (that is what they branded me when the living word began to speak to me,) and stayed behind with the dragon and the false prophet and died a miserable ending being like that, being eaten and burned with fire.
Great to get rid of that mob though, in that self I was just as bad and hypocritical as all those other religious people pushing their ways and views onto people.
Now only the weak, poor and mistreated in me feast with my faith in God and the remnant sinners in me long for the day of their redemption of sinful spirituality torturing them and finding renewed life with Christ.
It is a winning battle a least. Our Lord is a great Warrior that is for sure, my King of kings and Lord of lords, the Ruler of my heart and mind.
Do you find yourself using the word like that or do you experience the Word working differently?
Peace.
Zion Descending
At first I heard Dad say,
"Son let us make tracks,
its near getting dark now,
the chosen are all asleep,
now would be best,
as darkness reigns its peak,
for arrogance has him blinded,
to what is really going on."
I saw the sunlight darkened,
the moon turn to blood,
and the stars falling from Heaven.
I felt everything shaking in its boots.
I heard about wars and rumours of wars.
I experienced famine and drought,
grand scale living in wantonness,
rulers making a living out of sin,
Satan's forces installed everywhere,
loveless forces ruling untruthfully.
I heard my inner world crying out in her dying pain,
"What is going on?
The Father is leaving us without the Son,
this can only evil mean."
I heard the angels blow the trumpets!
"Woe to the inhabitants of this soul!"
I heard the agonising cries,
coming from underneath the altar,
the dead in God's love, longingly,
awaiting newness of life!
"Yes, oh Lord, pour out their blood as they did ours!"
I heard the thunders rolling throughout my being,
"Let evil brood fear The Truth of God almighty!
Let judgement begin in The House of God!"
I knew judgement had already began,
when I beheld those massive hails stones,
tumbling down on the heads of the wicked.
I watched my enemies flee in terror!
Scorpion stings burning wrong,
horse hooves kicking up dirt,
truthfulness uncovering shame,
honesty baring nakedness,
the dung of the earth warring,
lies sores causing agony,
pestilence threatening,
as grasshoppers devoured,
my enemies food and good life!
It was fascinating to see,
how weak those are...,
.....so strong in lies!
Yes, honest!
Loving truth is like that!
The freedom to be,
true to yourself,
both in good and bad,
in His love to be.
Oh the release of faith!
Heart rendering awe!
Shouts of glorious praise!
Jumping joy - pure ecstasy!
Glorying in God almighty,
my life's tormentors died,
perishing one after the other.
Seeing Jesus on His white horse,
a blazing sword coming out of His mouth,
His all conquering loving truth
my inner world of being to reap.
Casting dead what is so good to have gone,
raising alive that which I had lost,
bringing new life at each dawn,
His kingdom ruling my world of being,
His presence bringing rest and peace.
Time and again He comes past like this,
(terrorising the wicked agonising their mates demise,)
as all His wheels turn into place.
The Word alive in heavenly love.
Costly gifts descending from above.
beholding the temple of the most high,
the truth of His love Himself my Zion.
I can't add much to that but I agree. yeah, it must be happening in us and life happens to us all. recently this came out
honestly I would rather die than to have to have someone above me forever.