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ladyjazz

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I have tried everything I can think of to be healed and free in Jesus name and Ive come up empty handed. Ive fasted, prayed, had others pray, worshiped, praised, tried to move 1000 miles, tried to get into two different ministries, rebuked and renounced everything evil etc and etc.

I feel very finished and hopeless in my journey. if anyone has a word or is led to pray, plz do, because a broken spirit, who can bear?

My spirit is tired. my hope deferred. I feel failed as a Christian. I need a healing and deliverance and it all eludes me. no doctors can heal what I have.

so ty, CF. God Bless You all!
 

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[FONT=Century Schoolbook L, serif]I think it might be good for you to get back to basics and start to thank and praise God for the blessings and good things you have in Him. That would quicken your faith and lay a foundation to move on from.[/FONT]


[FONT=Century Schoolbook L, serif]You might like to check out this book, ' Strengthen yourself in the Lord' by Bill Johnson.

Blessings,
Tee:)
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Hi, sounds like you are doing a lot on your own. Have you ever sought out a good Christian counselor or friend to discuss these feelings with face to face? If not, consider doing so. Be encouraged that God will point you in the right direction to the right person..as a result of prayers for that Someimes it is a lot easier to pray for and help others than to seek that for yourself outside your own prayer and other efforts to get passed your down feelings.

Blessings...:angel:

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Stick in there, better times are ahead. I don't believe God would ever look at one of His children as a failure.

Isa 43:1-2 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Praying for your speedy deliverance.
 
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I was in a bad state when i wrote that!! Lol...thank God He renews. Future thats awesome scripture and i do need a Christian counselor. But that was part of my frustration, my insurance doesn't cover any, but I serve a big God. Maybe today if i call, i can find a Christian counselor.

I do count my blessings, but boy-0-boy, i really need deliverance!! Im so weary of my illness. So tired. Lets never give up hope!

Ty guys!! Hugz
 
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I have tried everything I can think of to be healed and free in Jesus name and Ive come up empty handed. Ive fasted, prayed, had others pray, worshiped, praised, tried to move 1000 miles, tried to get into two different ministries, rebuked and renounced everything evil etc and etc.

I feel very finished and hopeless in my journey. if anyone has a word or is led to pray, plz do, because a broken spirit, who can bear?

My spirit is tired. my hope deferred. I feel failed as a Christian. I need a healing and deliverance and it all eludes me. no doctors can heal what I have.

so ty, CF. God Bless You all!

Don't trust your feelings. They are deceptive and unreliable. Faith in feelings invites the devil to come along and give you all sorts of negative emotions. Faith is trusting what the Bible says about you. Here is what the Bible says about you.

You are a child of God
You are a new creature in Christ
Your life is hid in Christ with God
The devil cannot get anywhere near you
You have eternal life
You have the Holy Spirit living inside of you
Jesus is not ashamed to be your brother
God is your Father, you are a member of His family
You always have the victory in Christ.

Do you believe this? Then start living like it regardless of how you feel.
The devil is using your feelings to tell you the lie that you are defeated and empty. But God's word says that you are filled with the fullness of Christ. Start doing the things that the Bible says that you are in Christ.

Remember, you do what you believe.
If you believe that you are defeated, then you don't believe in your own salvation and you still need to get saved.

But if you believe that you are saved and are in Christ, then act and live in accordance with that belief and you will be victorious in spite of how you feel. Faith comes before feelings. It is not dependent on feelings, but on what the Bible says about you.
 
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I was in a bad state when i wrote that!! Lol...thank God He renews. Future thats awesome scripture and i do need a Christian counselor. But that was part of my frustration, my insurance doesn't cover any, but I serve a big God. Maybe today if i call, i can find a Christian counselor.

I do count my blessings, but boy-0-boy, i really need deliverance!! Im so weary of my illness. So tired. Lets never give up hope!

Ty guys!! Hugz

In the desperate situation that you find yourself into, you can find great comfort in knowing that is in control no matter what happens. You should press forward until God moves on your behalf as you're battling with your current issue.
 
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I have tried everything I can think of to be healed and free in Jesus name and Ive come up empty handed. Ive fasted, prayed, had others pray, worshiped, praised, tried to move 1000 miles, tried to get into two different ministries, rebuked and renounced everything evil etc and etc.

I feel very finished and hopeless in my journey. if anyone has a word or is led to pray, plz do, because a broken spirit, who can bear?

My spirit is tired. my hope deferred. I feel failed as a Christian. I need a healing and deliverance and it all eludes me. no doctors can heal what I have.

so ty, CF. God Bless You all!



2 Corinthians: 4. 8. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9. Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 13. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 14. Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
 
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I have tried everything I can think of to be healed and free in Jesus name and Ive come up empty handed. Ive fasted, prayed, had others pray, worshiped, praised, tried to move 1000 miles, tried to get into two different ministries, rebuked and renounced everything evil etc and etc.

I feel very finished and hopeless in my journey. if anyone has a word or is led to pray, plz do, because a broken spirit, who can bear?

My spirit is tired. my hope deferred. I feel failed as a Christian. I need a healing and deliverance and it all eludes me. no doctors can heal what I have.

so ty, CF. God Bless You all!

Please don't feel like a failed Christian, remember that we have no power to do or change anything by and in ourselves, He has the power to use us. We need to remain open to being used by Him, put our full trust in Him and pray for patience and endurance to act only when He wills it. He made you, He has a plan for you, You will be a part of His plan to prepare the Kingdom. Be courageous and steadfast!
 
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Ladyjazz I know all to well what it's like to need to be healed and pray and pray and and do all you can and yet not receive it. I am someone who knows pain more than I know myself I know sadness and weariness more than I know my own heart, My life has been nothing but gruesome and unfair the things I had to deal with belong in a horror movie.

It is because I know pain because I know deep sadness and because I know what being weary both physically mentally and spiritually that I am able to understand and connect to those who have known the same. I don't know what your sickness is that you need healing from but when he never healed me I knew that I was to trust him and that he was surely allowing me to bear this burden for a good reason or else he would have healed me that instant. I trust God I believe in him I don't know why exactly he does and doesn't do certain things but regardless he knows the bigger picture and he knows what is best for me.

Perhaps this sickness you have is more of an opportunity than anything. for instance if my cancer came back and they said I was going to die and there is no hope for me I would see it as an opportunity to show my faith and trust in God. Whether I die or he heals me by a miracle I surrender to his will, if I died people would remember the great faith and trust I had in him even unto death if he healed me by some miracle then through my terrible hopeless situation his power and his love was shown
 
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