By Gayle Darhower
VERSES TO TUCK INTO OUR HEARTS
This section is included to provide a snapshot of scriptures that will hopefully encourage you during times of despair and loss. By embracing these words while we are stable, we will be stronger for the battle. You will notice that I have included II Cor 10:5 in each section. I feel that it is one of the most important verses that we as bipolars' can claim and use as a foundation in our relationship with Christ. During relapse, our thoughts become our enemy and need to be compared to what God has to say about us and to us.
CONFUSION
John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
I Cor 6:17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
I Cor 14:33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
II Cor 5:18, 19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. (19) that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Eph 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.
2 Tim 1:7 For God does not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self discipline.
Ja 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up.
FEAR
Ps 4:8 I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord make me dwell in safety.
Pr 29:25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Rom 8:14, 15 Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (15) For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.
Rom 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ..
Gal 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out "Abba, Father".
Eph 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Phil 1:6 Being confident in this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ.
I Thess 5:5 You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
INABILITY TO "FEEL" GOD
John 15:1, 5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. (5) I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Gal 3:26, 28 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, (28) there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ..
I Thess 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
I Thess 5: 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Heb 8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
Heb 10:10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ for all.
INADEQUATE
John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Rom 6:18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Rom 8:17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
I Cor 3:16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you?
II Cor10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
II Cor 13:4 For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you.
Eph 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
WORTHLESSNESS
Matt 5:13 You are the salt of the earth.
Matt 5:14 You are the light of the world
John 15:16 You did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Eph 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
Col 1:10 And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord, and may please him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.
VERSES TO TUCK INTO OUR HEARTS
This section is included to provide a snapshot of scriptures that will hopefully encourage you during times of despair and loss. By embracing these words while we are stable, we will be stronger for the battle. You will notice that I have included II Cor 10:5 in each section. I feel that it is one of the most important verses that we as bipolars' can claim and use as a foundation in our relationship with Christ. During relapse, our thoughts become our enemy and need to be compared to what God has to say about us and to us.
CONFUSION
John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God
I Cor 6:17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
I Cor 14:33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
II Cor 5:18, 19 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. (19) that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Eph 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world.
2 Tim 1:7 For God does not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self discipline.
Ja 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up.
FEAR
Ps 4:8 I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord make me dwell in safety.
Pr 29:25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Rom 8:14, 15 Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (15) For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.
Rom 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ..
Gal 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out "Abba, Father".
Eph 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Phil 1:6 Being confident in this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ.
I Thess 5:5 You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
INABILITY TO "FEEL" GOD
John 15:1, 5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. (5) I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Gal 3:26, 28 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, (28) there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ..
I Thess 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
I Thess 5: 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Heb 8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people.
Heb 10:10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ for all.
INADEQUATE
John 15:15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Rom 6:18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Rom 8:17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
I Cor 3:16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you?
II Cor10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
II Cor 13:4 For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you.
Eph 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Eph 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
WORTHLESSNESS
Matt 5:13 You are the salt of the earth.
Matt 5:14 You are the light of the world
John 15:16 You did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last.
II Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Eph 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
Col 1:10 And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord, and may please him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.
