Thank you for raising this subject, I think about it often but I'm too embarassed to bring it up myself. I pray every day asking God to take me away to heaven today. I can't talk about this with anyone around me in my own life, because they will think I'm crazy and have me committed. I feel strange even here, on a Christian message board, talking about wanting to go to heaven today. Even amongst Christians, I feel like an oddball for wanting to go to heaven today. All I know is that life in this world feels like a prison term, and I can't wait for the time when God lets me leave this life and come home to be with Him. So I understand how you feel completely.
Tom please listen!
You may go to Heaven and you may be with God right now! (Heb 3 & 4)
You don't have to kill yourself but let go of your hurting life in faith and let Jesus rebuild you with His loving truth.
Honestly true my friend! (Have you heard doubt and unbelief speak up yet?)
It are those forces that the enemy uses - let me list a few of their spiritual weapons against you!
The devil loves to pass on his crap! So can he make his life in us and have our good life - through the lies we believe - he brings bad life into us - for that is his true reality - devoid of God's good is his existence - that is why the evil rob good life from us as they terrorise us with things like these;
Fear, doubt, hopelessness, despair, misery, guilt, shame, self-pity, unbelief, rage, helplessness, weakness, judgement/wrath and the like - can you see such is the reward that sin has brought us - for the wicked have being in us - simply because we believe their lies.
If you are like me then this is your problem my friend you have been heeding the lies within you and eating the bad life that the wicked push upon you - because they can - for you are ill and your feelings are constantly lying to you - giving them ample opportunity to get you - (all mentally ill people fall prey to his evil schemes) - that is why suicide is so predominately among us - for evil always kills good life and bad life has surely existence in us when we're ill!)
This is the cycle Jesus taught me to break within my own inner being, when His truth visited me in my deepest pit - suicidally psychotic completely overcome by my self judgement, doubt and unbelief! Begging my wife to let me go!
Jesus said to me only eat God's LOVING GRACE when you fall or things have gone bad because of your illness - and only read the Bible, read it with your heart - holding onto love for God, yourself and your neighbour and do what it says firstly within yourself. So forgive you for being you! (it took me 3 1/2 years to learn to accept that from Him. (Daniel 9-12 talks about it in more detail)
So basically Jesus had told me to sow only the good seed in a receptive heart - (keep away those birds - Revelation uses thunders to do that )- and stop being receptive to the bad seed - dump all the rocks and dead weeds over in your bad life - where your control tower is (Babylon), so Jesus can burn it right before your eyes! For when you see that then you will know that He is truly in you and you will begin to know the Joy which cannot be explained with words - but sings a totally new song to God - the song of Moses - where with Jesus write God's love command onto your heart.)
So what Jesus told me I did and do!
And so over the years (about 4 or 5 now I think) I have slowly grown away from my weakness and inabilities. Day by day I eat God's Word - I surround myself with His truth also through music ( My favourite are The Sons Of Korah - they sing purely scriptural - great music as well.)
and you know what happened?
Firstly my doubt and unbelief Jesus threw down into the bottomless pit -
did I burn that - before I realised that I had died to feeling and hearing that within - for I surely seen and heard The Light within.
Grace, grace, grace..................
Oh what a wonderful diet this is!
And so Jesus grew in my heart as I ate the Word in love - though I understood very little about what was happening intellectually at the time.
I overcame my depressive spell of 7 years by learning to pray for others letting my pain and hurt drive me. It is wonderful now - even when I can't lift up my head I pray for those hurting, and I curse the wicked hurting us - and feel completely in control of my reality. Usually my depression doesn't last longer now than 4-5 day spells.
So ask yourself - Love, faith and hope my friend - what enemies do you have against these gifts within? So go and let The Word expose everything within. When the Bible accuses you - evil is in charge there - just repent and move on - never discuss or take on guilt or shame or plan to chance - to deal with your inner world - forgive and let it be - Jesus' loving truth will fix everything - all you have to do is learn to trust God completely to do that in His good timing.
So take note what talks you down and makes you doubt or forces you to heed lying lovelessness or worse unbelief always bringing the bottomless pit into view. What inside demands ruler-ship over the things you like, need and want? (and ponder on what is all that doing inside and if such would survive if Jesus came into your inner world right now!)
Here comes your chance to commit suicide!!!!
So love wrong life to death my friend! Feed yourself in your bad life God's good things and curse those forces bringing it about - and see what happens when you do that - for when Christ's love enters then the light goes on and then we can see what Satan and his mates have been upto in the dark, and we will see how they still try and keep us tied to them by firing bad life at us constantly when all we try to do is have faith and love and hope for and in God.
Indeed!
Lawlessness will be revealed right inside your own heart and mind as The harlot will tempt you to be unfaithful to love - through greed, lust and through socio-religious must.
The Dragon - the accuser you can hear within playing god over your life in lies - right inside of you - will rear up like never before and persecute good life within you - those things you love to have but can't because sin is in control there.
He will bring The Beasts around exploring your inner world and demanding you go the way of the world and follow the gods of this world - The beast always makes laws and rules to control sin inside of us - but in reality makes the most mileage out of it.
And of course the false prophet will speak to your heart and mind - for you will be surprised to see how intricate evil has placing within your inner world of being.
You will see how the wicked within get the frogs to croak - when our flesh is roasted - trying to make you believe all kind of ungodly things that have to do with good for you and no one else!
Yet The Loving Truth of Jesus will cut all that down -
time and again - and you will slowly break free from the darkness that is now still torturing you.
To read with your heart means that you look what awakens when you read the Word of God.
Please understand it is just for you - no one else - it is His private walk into your life - so He can be Your King of kings.
Honest my friend He is The Greatest - and you may really know Him and He will really be with you and in you together with our Heavenly Father - lovingly taking you up into Heaven sin after sin - He will make all your dreams come true, He will restore you - even though you may still remain ill (I'm still ill) but He give you ability and a joy within that doesn't make you go manic or psychotic but pure ecstasy in His Peace and Rest.
Heed only Jesus - The Living Word of God within your heart - trust no else!
peace
Is 63
Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?
"It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save."
Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?
"I have trodden the winepress alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;
their blood spattered my garments,
and I stained all my clothing.
For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and the year of my redemption has come.
I looked, but there was no one to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm worked salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.
I trampled the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk
and poured their blood on the ground."