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I sympathize with you, I really do. I've been involved with a couple of people who have schitzoeffective disorder. What you should know is that God is not limited by our weaknesses. God gave us a Spirit of a sound mind, which means He can help you overcome your sin regardless of your issues. If you see yourself as simply a victim of your condition then how will you ever change? It all comes down to surrender to Christ. God promises to set us free from sin when we are willing to surrender it to Him. You say you're not holding on to sin and have done everything you can, and you blame your condition. Who is right, you or God?
 
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May the Holy Spirit give LIFE to Christowns me with your words of life, in Jesus holy name, AMEN!
 
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Have you characterized God accurately?--"shaking His head and not happy with anything I do";

You have Jesus making intercession for you, Heb 7:25. He says He'll never leave you or forsake you (at least three different verses). If you have received the Holy Spirit, you have God in you. You don't need anything more.

When you say you are trying hard to believe, does that mean you are gaining faith by hearing the Word. See Rom 10:17; Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

I would say, just get into the Word and meditate on it; see Joshua 1:8. The Word is living and powerful. It can change you if you let it.
 
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If your His child you are never defeated. People can say or do whatever they want and even through the darkest of circumstance He will always be with you. Actually He is never closer then when your at your lowest so that's a special secret blessing.

Don't let it get you down (or do) but a child of His is never defeated.
 
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Ephesians 3:14-21 is one of the main passages and probably the one I refer to the most in life when healing / struggling / trying to understand God's love. It expresses so very many important things. That God is love, that together with other Christian people we can be edified and we don't need to be in our struggle alone. That with God's love and faith we can persevere. It also tells me that inner strength is important to God and he desires we heal. I think the vast majority of times healing is a process. It's also so beneficial to get help and support from safe people who understand.

14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Psalm 139 is also very helpful and insightful when it comes to God's love and my relationship with Him. The whole passage is wonderful but I've only included a couple verses below:

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
 
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