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From The Grave Arise!

Do the dead praise God almighty,
heavy hearts enlighten souls?
Awaken, leave corrupt flesh rotting
anew God shall dress praising heart.

Why laying down in painful anguish?
Why all alone and down hearted be?
Deeply breath in Christ's love for you,
God's salvation freeing you Today.

Arise, arise, raise your voice on high!
Praise His glorious Name above all.
Adoring God who can tear you down?
Who dares interrupt Angels song?

Praising our Heavenly Father on high,
Heavenly abstinence from deepest low.
And so flying on Eagle wings means,
you're high above deepest valley!




I feel as someone who has got untreatable depression that God's Word has been the Very Best Support to fight my constant depressive bouts and loving support from others the next best thing.

Indeed God's Word is what keeps me going through the deepest Valleys of my life and because of the love of my family, especially my wife Yvonne, I survided a 7 year depressive stint almost 1 1/2 years of that time suicidal depression - so it is really true - truthfully loving will make us stronger than pain can bring to bear.

I hope all can benefit from God's loving truth on this thread tell us about things that help and/or share how people have found safety in their storms through God's truth or the loving care of others.

Be blessed beloved of The Lord, Jesus is there for you as well:thumbsup:


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Psalm 34

Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.

I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.

My soul will boast in the LORD;



let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
Glorify the LORD with me;
let us exalt his name together.





I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.

Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.




This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.

The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.

Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.





Fear the LORD, you his saints,
for those who fear him lack nothing.

The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.



Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,

keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking lies.

Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their cry;

the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.



The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

A righteous man may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;

he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.



Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.



The LORD redeems his servants;
no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him
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The biggest challenge for us depressed people is to fight the lies. I found that depression may just not be heeded, yet how to do that when feelings and thoughts of despair, hopelessness, lovelessness, shame, guilt and fear bring misery from day to day?

I found fighting the lies with God's Word is the very best way to overcome the darkness of our depressed existence.

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Song of Battle.

The arrows streak their flame.
I'm under attack again!
Opening the treasures of my defence,
His loving Word my only chance,
Of surviving the fiery weather.

"Do, don't, eat, abstain, go or stay."
Is what my inner attackers say.
Scornfully throwing their hate around.
My sins sissing at their sound.
With my own misery they surround.

Now one grabs me by the throat.
My life his scornful gloat.
"How can you trust in God's grace,
When I rub this dirt in your face?"
He demands in accuser's tone.

In humble voice I bow my head.
Lord can You hear what they said?
Yet who can charge Your elect?
Jesus sacrifice makes us perfect.
Please give me faith to stand.

His sword streaks its flame.
Attacking my enemies once again.
His loving Word fells them all.
In the fire of His love they fall,
A wonderful happy ending.

For Jesus is victorious over my sin.
Eternal life He for me did win.
Praises to Him from my heart swells.
As His Spirit of Truth in me dwells.
All glory to Him!
 
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One of The Biggest enemies of depressed people is those feeling of uselessness and hopelessness.

In Jesus however our Truth is very different.


This is what He taught me about our worth.


Our Soul's Worth In Jesus.

Our soul is worth more than all the wealth of the universe, as His Truth shapes our life. Our existence is worth a lot of love, and goodwill too. That's why God The Father sent Christ to lead us on The Way to true and lasting being. Caring so deeply for us especially when we slip and slide down that agonising decline sinful life so often brings.


Our soul is stronger than pain can bring to bear, for nothing can rob us of our life's reality. Good or bad, the Hand of Truth will always carry our existence. Even pain is subdued in the end by our inability to cease, even in the face of dying and death, it will serve just a memory, as a 'child' is born anew within us, time and again.


Our soul will endure for all eternity, harvesting that which we sow around, feeding from the abundance that wells from Being. We are individuals with a personal identity in Being, small images of truth in action, radiating around The Kernel, we exist, a quantum within The Universe, sprouting spiritually.


Our souls discovering immortality have many perspectives in sight, eyes rimmed all around the truth that is life's wheel, we cycle on. For why hasn't love got more to say than - 'I love you' - if that wasn't because nothing more or better could ever be said which hasn't already been spoken? And so the truth is our best Friend, even if our truth has not always been the most angelic, this fact remains, in His Loving Truth we genuinely exist. Let's trust in that! Hallelujah!

 
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Is there hope when the pit is just so deep down?

For years I agonised my inner hell until I decided that following Jesus' truth was better than heeding those horrible lies dragging me down deeper all the time.

Giving our hurting life to Jesus assures us the ability to cope with a continuation of the pain of depression as an illness - even turning it productive and making it worthwhile.


The Bible knows those Wicked ones hurting us in our hearts while down deep and also knows what to do about them - so that at least illness doesn't have to be our constant agony.

This is what the Lord showed me about the truth within myself - The wicked lies I believed about God, myself and others - hurting me within so terribly badly.

Feelings and thoughts - such as hopelessness, despair, self-pity, doubting God, love and goodness, hating, raging, guilt, shame, fear hopelessness and all those bringing more misery alive within our already severely depressed hearts.

Psalm 58

For the director of music. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." Of David. A miktam .

Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Do you
judge uprightly among men?


No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence
on the earth.


Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. :o:o:o


Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

that will not heed the tune of the charmer,
however skillful the enchanter may be. :doh::doh::doh:


Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions!

Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.

Like a slug melting away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun. :thumbsup:


Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.

The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,
when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. :clap::clap::clap:


Then men will say,
"Surely the righteous still are rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the earth.":clap::clap::clap:
 
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Within four years from suicidal depression Jesus made me able to deal with my pain - though my depressive spells have proven to be basically untreatable - yet now it doesn't matter so much any more.


A poem a wrote about the time Jesus came and got me away from my misery.


:wave:


The Beggar Of My Existence

Begging I lay beside the road, unable to get-up or move on.
Paralysed after a viscous assault when I was just a little kid
bloodied I stared at my wretched existence for many years.
Hope had gone, pain throbbing, hungry and thirsty, cold and alone,
the inner demons dragging me deeper and deeper down the drain,
helpless the wicked abused my life, robbing me of all my possessions.

Most of my life I lay there beside the road alone
I don't know how I survived my miserable existence,
by-passers often bashed me, blaming me for their hate.
At first I was raped night after night for years,
lately mainly tortured for cruel fun and cheap thrills,
oh yes, those wicked ones have been hurting me!

Not often have peels been part of my diet,
weeds, grass, rotten fruit and insects,
that's what I ate, such meagre meals.
I was skin over bones and smelled like sewage.
Walking dead, longing for an early ending.
I didn't feel worthy to carry the name human.

Suddenly I became aware of a pleasant aroma,
a beautifully perfumed visitor, a rich stranger,
he knelt beside beside me and took hold of me
I thought, maybe he'll give me something worthwhile,
I'd better ask quickly before he goes on his way,
normally the rich don't ever stop to talk to me!

Facing the visitor I croaked through parched lips,
please? I am unable to move and very hungry,
my last visitor abused me and I'm hurting bad,
could you spare me some food or money,
a sip of water, I'm so thirsty right now?
Expectantly I looked up into the man's eyes.

Chewing delicious bread I stared at the stranger,
the young wine had refreshed me completely
where did all this come from I wonder?
My taste-buds were in Heaven and so was I
I couldn't believe what I was hearing
I remember his lips pronounce the words;

"Shalom... Beloved...

..You're most welcome, my child," he said,
"Eat your fill, here, have another sip of wine,
your clothes are all worn, dirty and broken.
At home I have some new clean garments your size,
a warm bath and a place of safety and rest,
awaiting my dwelling-place high-up New Eden street."

That's what he said, and that's what he did for me!
Amazed I watched as out of nowhere servants arrived,
gently lifting me out of my grime and of the street,
carrying me along an all together different route,
right to the top of a most beautiful mountain hill,
halting before a mansion I didn't know could exist.

A doctor came and tended my wounds and sores
ointments soothing, smelling like fragrant herbs
a massage, gently, carefully rejuvenating me.
Years long ache disappearing, well-being arriving,
heaven on earth how could all this be for me,
when did I do anything to deserve this treatment?

A gentle knock on my door, as I lay sleeping
in a massive bedroom, adorned for royalty.
"You've been invited at The Feast tonight."
I recall this loving moment fleetingly pass by,
how lovely he looked standing there,
"and Dad said he likes to meet you as well."

I remember how confused I had been, Dad?
A party tonight, seeing Dad, who and what else?
Why is he looking after me so fantastically well?
My mind was in turmoil after all these events,
several hours ago I still lay dying in my filth,
and now..? now I was so alive and so fulfilled!

Gratitude arose like paradise restored within,
never before did I feel so much thankfulness,
I'd been rescued from a life of painful misery,
saved from the wretchedness of my existence,
restored to human dignity, loved and cared for,
deep down I knew Life had found me for good.
 
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:hug:((((Jeshu)))):hug:


Within four years from suicidal depression Jesus made me able to deal with my pain - though my depressive spells have proven to be basically untreatable - yet now it doesn't matter so much any more.


A poem a wrote about the time Jesus came and got me away from my misery.


:wave:


The Beggar Of My Existence
(........)
Gratitude arose like paradise restored within,
never before did I feel so much thankfulness,
I'd been rescued from a life of painful misery,
saved from the wretchedness of my existence,
restored to human dignity, loved and cared for,
deep down I knew Life had found me for good.

Thank You!:wave:

Thanks for all your poems on this thread, but especially I thank you for "The Beggar Of My Existence". I am going "to place it" right under my heart.


Blessings!

:amen:
 
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:hug:((((Jeshu)))):hug:




Thank You!:wave:

Thanks for all your poems on this thread, but especially I thank you for "The Beggar Of My Existence". I am going "to place it" right under my heart.


Blessings!

:amen:


Thank you dear isn't it great that we are allowed to praise Jesus?:clap::clap::clap:


God Calls each one of us to be His beloved - that is the greatest thing about Jesus - He made Heaven available once more.




An invitation to The Chosen.

God's Love will not take or will
you to conform to rules or demand
which imprison, enslave, burn or kill you.

God's Love will not pervert what's good
or otherwise love other then The Truth always said
True Love was, is and always will be Good!

In God's Love you are free to be right!
For in His love everything is good proper and kind
He loves all who love good and true to rule!

His Love is caring, providing, and sharing.
His Love always enjoys and protects good life.
His love rules even when bad life has being in us!

Hear Jesus call - Come join up with us all!
Leave whatever ties you down and be free
and love good life with all God's own.

To the rest in your heart God's asks
how long will you tarry in the darkness?
Please leave such bad existence within.

For life must not, no never should, or would, or could,
be forceful, rude, prideful, arrogant, selfish, lustful
or otherwise be untrue to God's loving truth.

Neither should life be hurting or ill,
hungry, oppressed, despised, hated
or otherwise have existence in wrong.

The Church knows that Jesus is coming soon
All bad life will be our shameful past then,
so please leave your bad life while you can!

Love



 
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Thank you dear isn't it great that we are allowed to praise Jesus?:clap::clap::clap:


God Calls each one of us to be His beloved - that is the greatest thing about Jesus - He made Heaven available once more.






Yes, it's wonderful! Thanks also for the poem "An invitation to The Chosen".

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I reckon depression, particular as an illness, is a weapon designed by our enemy the devil to rob us blind and keep us down and out. Constant lies, guilt, shame, fear and confusion which robs our Good Life and brings us the pit.

However Jesus is the truth and the life this is what we truly need to be able to survive - truly able life over against our untrue unable one.

To fight the constant lies with His truth takes away the guilt and the shame, and brings us His loving truth to fight our fears and confusion.

To pass our bad thoughts and feelings over to Him and accept His loving promises back in - is what breaks us free from our inabilities when we are unwell once more, though such a process does last awhile before we can grow good life back within, it is foolproof in its ultimate outcome, and a nice spiritual garden will eventuate at the end of it.


I wanted to share a poem I wrote many years ago after God's Word in Spirit showed me what my inner reality would be like with God's truth safely on-board

Now I talk from vision to reality - for all I saw then He has made true today - for I have no evil voices left at all - though I suffered from them since I was a toddler.


Enjoy


Spirit's Comfort.

The Spirit wind whispers His presence in me.
"Do not fear the claws of evil misery,
Christ's blood has set you free,
come walk with Me into eternity."

"Though the evil slash their hate in envy,
You walk the highway of God's love decree.
So once more you shall see,
your enemies final destiny,
for that is your Saviour's victory!"

(my response.)

I tremble and I shake.
My lips quiver and I quake.
What can I say to Him my Lord?
The wicked shall die by His sword.
For what can I do but kneel in awe.
All evil gone - is what I saw.


 
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A poem about me learning to cope with my depressive illness through faith in
Jesus.




Forsaking The Pit.

As I climb over the rim, I clearly see,
Involuntary I shudder the sight in me,
Down without a bottom the pit below,
Yes this fiery hole within me on show!

Hear voices of darkness pressing hard on must.
Those 'speaking guilt, shame, unbelief, and distrust,
All together pushing, yes, pressing me deep,
Resisting my climb to the top so steep.

See those guilty feelings still tug my feet,
I can feel flames searing, my toes they meet!
Electrifying my soul, no mercy on show.
Why ever did I take this hell-hole in tow?

Above me the Light, Jesus, the Truth so high!
How long before I will meet up with Him in the sky?
He knows I will come after Him without a doubt,
As true nourishing goodness He is all about.

My bloodied fingers scraped by rock,
For how many years did they mock?
Those hard places within my very being,
Those fiery stones of my own seeing!

I climbed after the Light right above me,
The only truth that truly leaves me be,
Never will I stop seeking after The Light.
As Jesus Christ is my very soul's delight!

Soon the 'resting place' of my enemy,
Bottomless pit shall forever be!
For the ones without Love or Grace.
Those who with their lies made this place.

 
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I don't know about you, but self-pity really grilled me before I realised that it was really amplifying my pain and I could do easily without.

After my psychosis it was one of the first major prunings of my ego.:thumbsup:

Consequently once I managed to dump self-pity I finally began to fight back at my up to then ever deepening depression.


A really tough customer to deal with when down deep.:hug:



Jesus or Self-Pity.

Your lies isolate Me in your pain.
Yet who can find Me over there?
Good Life in that miserable pit again,
hurting agony with no one to care?

Are you so important to your life?
Eating misery instead of My Bread?
Why continue all that painful strife?
Let go of bad life for Good instead!
 
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About Faith - “Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Heb 11:1)

Do you ever wish that you were born to have great faith, to have a faith like Martin Luther King, Bishop Desmond Tutu or mother Teresa for that matter. You do? Well have I got some great news for you. Anyone who has faith in Jesus Christ has the potential for such a great and active belief life, a faith which will produce beautiful fruits for the soul who keeps it and of course for the Lord who reaps it.
Indeed a believing commitment in Jesus Christ could be called the cornerstone of our belief system. Without faith we are but empty shells and will be unlikely to be drawn into a happy service of our loving God. In other words without faith our religious beliefs become useless and even burdensome to the soul.

Many people, younger ones in particular, often go through an intense struggle for the faith, I know I did, for many years even. It can be so hard to grasp this belief in God. Belief that He is true, that He loves me, that He died for me. So often it would seem easier to follow what the world has to offer rather than have faith in the unseen. Take for example when we deliberately sin, how can we then put our trust in a God who doesn't approve of what we are doing? It would be much easier to let go of God, who cares how we live, and follow the world who say 'do what you want'. At such times we question if He is true or if we can just keep on sinning, as He doesn't care or exist anyway.

The biggest thing that convinced me of the truth of God, in my struggle for the faith was, that in faith truth would stand strongest and truest. In our life we often have struggles, some small, but others that really drag us down. In Faith however there is always a way out. God is true, He loves us, He cares, He is there also in our darkest moments. In Faith we have hope. What I mean to say is this - faith makes truth stand out, it speaks loud and clear and never contradicts the truth of the Bible or any other truth for that matter. Not only does faith make truth stand out but Divine love also becomes available through faith. “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” (Galatians 5:6b)
When we have faith in God's love our own hearts become more loving as well, love grows. Trialled by everything the Prince of Darkness can throw at us, faith still produces truth and love, no wonder really because Jesus is the truth of God's love.

Faith in Jesus is in my opinion the most radical stand anyone can take in this godless world. Jesus promised that whosoever put their trust in Him will not perish but have eternal life. I see faith as a personal galaxy, everything that is contained within my life shapes me - my spiritual self. Indeed faith is very important to me for the Spirit of God is building a new me, within the confides of my faith, where I receive a personality which no longer greedily and selfishly seeks for his own good, but rather I become a person who seeks to love God and my neighbour.

Indeed doing Jesus' will – loving our Father in Heaven above all, and neighbour as oneself – means that The Father and The Son in The Spirit will come and reside inside our hearts. This is radical material that needs a predominant spot in our faith life. The questions are – is more of God growing within me? Spiritually is my life sanctified by His Spirit? Do I have a spiritual temple inside of my own being with God as Supreme Ruler dwelling there?
In my opinion Faith in Jesus shapes the spiritual footings of the Zion from above, which descends out of Heaven into our hearts. A most wonderful reality in which Christ rules over our being in love and truth, setting us ever free from our own constrains and inabilities and restoring us anew.(Isaiah 61)

“ The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners..” (Verse 1)

We could see that faith is a two way street. God gifts us with faith – as faith is a gift of God – we use it, work with it, believing His word, trusting His mercy, receiving His love and working with the loving truth we have and are receiving. Indeed the apostle James states that faith without works is useless. (James 2:20) Nevertheless a living faith transforms us from the inside and works itself outwards from there. When we practice faith like that, then in loving gratitude we send back up praises, prayers and petitions to our Heavenly Father.
For faith sure sows a crop of wheat in our hearts, for those who work with their faith, holding on to the truth of God despite enormous opposition, even from within their own hearts. A harvest for God we grow at such times. Faith producing its Heavenly manna. Blessed is He who loved us first – let us all learn to have a living faith in Him.
 
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A powerful way to remain sane when down is to meditate.

Meditating on God's Word in the Spirit of love for God, myself and my neighbour - is what I use as my life line.

Below a poem reflecting the beauty such pondering within can bring.


Pondering Sweetly.

I'm pondering sweetly, reflecting God's graceful love,
Awakened by the voice of Father's loving grace,
Christ's caring truth seeking, deeper communion pleading,
Consoling love lifting my spirit before God's face.

I'm pondering sweetly, reflecting God's loving truth,
Jesus' love redeems my spirit from earthbound plights.
Where upon the peaks of the highest mountain summit,
The finger of God, in my heart His commandment writes.

I'm pondering sweetly, reflecting God's caring way,
Watching His holy seed of loving truth germinate.
Fields of Heavenly harvest ripening in the sun,
Cherubic thoughts, angels in the sky to celebrate.

I'm pondering sweetly, reflecting God's awesome might,
Seeing - I AM – our Heavenly Father - everywhere,
As I can not locate any place where He is not,
And most astonishingly - I'm also present there!
 
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Us mentally ill can suffer from some horrible thoughts and feelings - often we are forced to hear lies all day long. In our darkest hours we can be utterly faithless in God's love for us and/or be totally overcome by our fears, heeding loveless thoughts and feelings about God, ourself and others. Often when we are down we feel hopeless and can even be in utter despair. What misery does all this bring alive in us - and all because we are ill?

Not only this but also often mentally ill people are riddled with fleshly addictions to God's Good Creation - for we find it hard to reject feeling good in our - devoid of any good inner realities.

Consequently we
so often struggle with sins like lust, lack of control, selfishness, dishonesty, pretending, unfaithfulness - bringing us shame, guilt, confusion and fear - rewarding us with doubt and unbelief - bringing the bottomless pit - where our sufferings often cause us to raise our voice against God in angry and bitter accusation. (I know I have done that.:blush:)

And so stuck with bad life - we are forced to face the accuser of the brethren. That ugly Dragon playing god over our miserable lives - bringing living hell alive within when we are down in particularly. (While pride and arrogance and wanton living often pesters us in our up cycles. For those who got bi-polar that is.)


How we need Jesus to survive such horrific onslaughts?


And all because we are sick not because we are evil people or more sinful than others be default or anything like that. Mentally ill is one of the worst afflictions one can face that's for sure - for psychologically stability cannot be had - so spiritually unstable we will also often be.


Nevertheless though our realities are often so defiled with wrongful things - our Heavenly Father is His Almighty Grace loves us all and will remain faithful to us weak and sinful people. That is the Good News we may hear and believe!

Our Heavenly Father and Brother love us like anything and love to teach us to become stronger than pain can bring to bear - however weak we might be.:amen:



His loving truth in us all:wave:




A poem I like to share about the reality of God's grace upon us.


Grace.

Grace is not a feeling or a thought,
Neither can it be sold or bought.

It cannot be swallowed like a pill,
Or cheaply ease some inner ill.

Grace does not enforce any demand,
Nor is anything personal banned.

Rather it is God's healing hand of Love,
His compassion descending from above,
Lifting us gently out of our inner pain,
So we can safely be ourselves again.


 
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Often depressed people find it hard to read The Bible for it seems to make them feel guilty.

It was like that for me very often even - especially when depressed and guilt, shame, confusion, uselessness and fear were pressed down on me. I also used to hate The Books of The Preacher at first - for I saw myself as a lazy person - for that is what my mum and dad always called me when I was depressed and didn't feel like doing anything.

However Jesus showed me a different way to deal with such - anti-Christ like feelings and thoughts - those moments which bring us dislike, shame or guilt when we read God's Word to ourselves - especially The Punishments of God on The Wicked - in The Old Testament or God's Wrath on The Wicked as revealed in The Book of Revelation in The New
Testament.

Yet in Truth
- it are The Wicked who makes us feel like that inside our hearts - (The Goats say you are the goat) - and us hurting those feelings are the ones who need to be freed from that -( The Sheep is scared he/she is the goat)

It is BEST to understand that for otherwise The Wicked will keep ruling
you with miseries lies - for The Bible - and in particular God's punishments on The wicked ruling your heart and mind - will free you who is suffering from underneath their yoke of oppression.

For you can repent of heeding/believing/eating lies and let The Love of God's Truth - Jesus Christ - set you free from them and have His Truthful Love rule you instead.:clap::clap::clap:

Be most blessed all those who must still suffer Bad Life - Please Know The Truth - BE READY TO LEAVE THE LIES RULING - follow The Truth of God's undying Love - our Lord Jesus - He can rescue you from your pain and misery - no matter how ill you are or still have to be in time ahead.

When we await Him, The Bible says,

Behold He is Coming Soon....:amen:

Peace.


Life's Lesson.

The one thing I learned in my life

Reality has more than one way
For The Truth can torch my soul
or through love take me to paradise.

The Bible accuses me when I seek wrong,

but His love guides me when I seek right.
His Love is so very gentle when I'm His,
but kindles a fire when I walk with the wicked.

At first I saw pain as a terrible liability,

yet suffering has made me a better person.
When young I burned-up my joy for pleasures,
now my joyous heart in thankfulness runs over.

Life gives whatever side you serve

Loving truth or running out of time
All for self means nothing will be left over
While sharing breeds more good for all.
 
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The worst part of battle is when we fall and let go of God's Loving Truth. Hopelessness strikes when hope is lost, lovelessness takes the place of Love's safety, despair takes over from cheerful and an optimistic spirit.

My depression can send me rock bottom in a few hours from stability to hellish anguish.

I wrote this poem of despair about such an event in my life - only just recently.


I'm sure those of you down deep will relate to this - but it is recognising and then letting go of such times - clinging to Jesus no matter what we hear and feel - what gets us through such times and away from it.:hug:



My Truth Down Here.

My truth is sore and ugly,
my truth is I hate my life.
The Truth is, truth is unwanted!
my truth is rotten to the core,
my truth stinks like sewage.

My truth is hard and mean,
My truth is without any good.
The Truth is, my truth burns!
My truth is a walk in darkness,
my truth kills my good life.

My truth lies to me continually
my truth isn't holy or blameless
The Truth is, my truth is the pits!
my truth is utterly godforsaken
my truth is irredeemable.

My truth is utterly rejected,
my truth hands out no mercy.
The Truth is, my truth is loveless!
My truth hotly desires good life,
my truth hurts like Hell.

My truth is not welcome,
my truth is not loved.
The Truth is, My God, my God,
why have I forsaken You?

Is that why I'm down here?
 
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Mental illness often destroys our life opportunities down here completely - I know my have been - yet faith, love and hope in Jesus will come to the rescue and safe us from our earthly plights - if we let God's loving truth bring us a new existence to make us stronger than suffering mental illness and peoples rejection to it can throw at us.:amen:


This is so because Jesus suffered all our pain and brought it to a good ending - which is our new beginning!:amen:

Isaiah 53:3-5

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.



A poem I wrote to witness to this Divine act of grace and good will in my life.:)

Oh Lamb of God!

I know for sure that Your Voice is You!
For The Living Word within is true
Right within my soul Your Spirit dwells
About God's Kingdom Your love tells.

Forgiving love is wonderful within
For it surely does away with sin.
Bringing thankfulness alive
Bringing an end to all my inner strife.

Keep teaching me The Way to go
Living Waters through me to flow.
A heart praising God each Day anew
His loving Word that ugly Dragon slew.

Slowly day after day You take me in
Onhigh with You and all God's kin
Praising Father for only He is good.
His loving Truth my constant food.

More and more The TRUTH reveals
As The Lamb of God opens all the seals
Angels beside themselves with glee
God's amazing Salvation I may see!

Oh Lamb of God - You alone I praise!
Oh Your loving truth bringing Grace!
Without Your Word I could not have known
What Your love in me has sown!
 
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To suffer mental illness/depression = to suffer The wicked!

Our illness brings those lying evildoers by the droves through NO FAULT of our own!:hug::hug::hug:

The Word of God exposes the evil ones - heeding Jesus - will set us free from the wicked hurting us - even if our physical illness remains - making our illness so much easier to bear. :thumbsup:

God's Loving Truth - The Voice of Jesus Christ - is who we need to replace those of lying tongues bringing us our misery. :amen:

A poem describing the nuclear explosion God's loving truth caused in my inner being:clap::clap::clap:

Hey Evil Ones!

See.., hear.., feel..?

Do, do, do is what you always yell,
have, have, have is what you always want,
take, take, take is what you always do,
permanently silencing those arising in opposition,
in darkness your evil deeds committing.
Yet what is it all for?
Your realities - the nucleus of wickedness - ruling life?
Who paid for the construction of your daily selves?
Knowing that you are not realising time as you should?
To be the ones after the making of your own waylaid egos?
(Yet perhaps, in retrospect, perishing the morning after,
each time some more - (Oh such a wonderful sight!))

Yet for now - rule.., rule.., rule..,

arrogance decreeing the moments,
inviting evil into being!
Fear.., guilt.., shame!
Much good is forced into hiding!
Innocence is perpetually raped!
Honesty has been imprisoned!
Malefic murderers stalk the night!
Cruel addictions dominate life's needs and desires,
threatening torture and grand scale genocide,
constantly striving for yet more mastery over life,
a great job at being free you are making of it.
Please tell - any excuse to validate your lives of dominant ascendency?
Will deceiving, hurting, robbing and killing life keep going unpunished?

Run.., hide.., mask..,so many lies!

Captivating souls in reigns that scourge,
spoofing perceptions into untrue opinions,
stealthy hypocrisy masques true intent,
turning peaceful good into evil lusts,
Pulling strings creating conforming puppets,
becharming, abducting, and imprisoning,
cowardly hiding behind the bushes along the route,
waiting for the innocent to come walking past.
Hey yellow - changed your colour as of late?
Any of your unveilings been upfront and honest?
Which fictitious identity are you using now?
Still hiding in the same shrouded place?
Hidden headquarters far below the surface?
Billing the cost of your power trip to whom?
How are you planning to abscond all that at The End?
Why will you not respond to any of these questions?
Or do your answers hate the Truth of Life's Light?

Curse.., swear.., yell..,

yes always huffing and puffing,
denying that serving Jesus is Loving Truth.
Tightening values even enforcing moral belts,
yet feasting on the lusts ensuing human flesh.
Flaming rebellion and holier-than-thou attitudes,
destructiveness trying good to accomplish bad,
securing guiltless hearts out of God's existence.
No love for truth is the rule behind wicked lies,
self exultation snaring human ego-centricness,
suffocating, strangling, throttling,
till honest to God is out of breath, prayer faltering into a deadening hold, deception giving rise to lovelessness, judgement towering over everything.


Twist, swerve, duck, jump,

and then into the attack,
with a cutting tongue to nuke.
getting it out in just one moment, those lying voices of contempt and defilement, cultivating dishonesty and lovelessness, threatening disgrace, using guilty feelings, dimming internal lights - dulling comprehension, conquering and captivating, even the young, twisting straight paths into covering-up tracks, how long before these devilish tongues will still?

You steal the goodness life has on offer!

For hey, that is what you must carry,
fading stars - falling meteorites of existence,
your woeful truths - evil self retaining - eternally!

For when The Truth comes,

His Light burning your lies,
how will you rule me then?
What power have you got?
Believing you, robs strength,
I myself believing your lies,
stealing my good life away.
You're the worst scum there is,
evil brood, vipers eggs hatching!
What else but to heed Jesus Christ,
our Heavenly Father's Loving Truth?
Jesus true God made Flesh and Blood!
He conquered all you evil ones!
I'll heed His truth instead of you,
how then can you hurt me any longer?


So hear me well

all you evildoers!
I tell you once, I tell you twice..,
I will never forgive wickedness
for being being evil!

OUT OF MY LIFE,

THE LOT OF YOU!!!!

I'll never again listen,

eat your crap,
or listen to beguiling lies!
God's love and peace
my truth instead!
Ruling with Jesus!

Hotter! Yes fry! Burn.., burn.., burn! What temperature

must the fire reach ere you loosen your deadly grip on humanity?

You controlling spirits,

ruling human beings,
defecating good
truth turning ugly.

Life's light within
is what you steal and murder
transforming our truth
into a most volatile fuel!

Can you escape

the flames you yourselves have lit?
The fact is - you always harmed life with your evil lies,
having no mercy on the sick, old, poor and weak ever.
Can you relent from all this
when you run out of time?
Those wicked thoroughfares
out of your back doors?
One big slide into the
gaping mouth called hell!
Your pained and hellish
anguish shall then be,
your thoughts
cashing your words
and evil deeds!

As for me?

I shall finally break free,
and come and go as I like,
no more fear inside of me to strike.
Free from cruel imprisonments inwardly,
truly be as I was always destined to be.
A clear conscious - speaks of paradise,
shining like a star at night - I shall arise.
Genuinely the Lord's servant I shall be,
exulting The Way Jesus is also teaches me.
Lambs beside beasts of prey graze the field,
snake bites no longer poison yield.
I shall pick up my bed and walk,
no evil to my heart and mind to talk.
Receiving a kingship from eternity,
ruling my being in peace and prosperity.
This is what I pray will happen to my soul;
that God - The Father of Life - BE - All in All!

Come Lord Jesus, please come and collect The Chosen!

 
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A real big struggle for us mentally ill is those friends we thought we had! Mine left me by the droves once my first psychosis hit - even my parents didn't contact me for years - though they came to visit at first.

(The Word says about our Saviour!)

Is 53:3-5

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

(we depressed people surely know Him like this! Don't we?:hug::hug::hug:)

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

(Though we may get to know Him like this!:clap::clap::clap:)


Love to all who struggle.:hug:


(A poem about the time rejection grills us - the answer is in bold in the last verse.)


Hurting Rejection

Your act of rejection
goes deep my friend!
t' fiery dishonest tongue
cutting my love down,
destroying my good life.

Why did you do that?
I trusted you to care,
not just pretending,
yet such wasn't to be,
why couldn't it be true?

Your friendly smiles
make it much worse,
for you dumped me
when I dared reveal
all wasn't fine.

Simply handing me over,
to those grinning wolves,
peace of mind devouring,
yellow-green eyes following,
stalking my very well-being.

Where does that leave me?
But to get up and walk
finding back The Truth,
safety in which to hide
,
as I'm hurting heaps!
 
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One of the most horrible experiences for me was when I became suicidal. I didn't realise how much I hated myself until suicidal depressions set in.

How could I be a Christian wanting to kill?


My struggle with death was horrific and bloody real! Yet Jesus is Life not death - could death safe us. Once exposed the lie is obvious though suicidal urges don't just cease.

Only recently did I began to understand that I had to repent of having life in suicidal urges just as much as all my other sin.

This is the poem I wrote today while suicidal needs were strong once more.



Suicidal

Why Oh Lord do I want to die?
Why is my Good Life up?
Why am I down in that pit?

You know I hate my life.
I'm sorry.
You know I want to kill.
I'm sorry
You know I don't want to heed You.
I'm sorry

Is it unfaithful love speaking in me?
Is that what You are trying to say?

My God, My God why have I forsaken You?
I still want to die!
Though I'm already in Hell!
Please Jesus Come and save!
 
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