God knows the truth.
People are often wrong.
At least i lead an interesting life.
namaste. :3
People are often wrong.
At least i lead an interesting life.
namaste. :3
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illness or anointing?
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Years ago me and a friend who is paranoid schizophrenic were talking about how there is "something" spiritual about mental illness and I'm not talking demonic either. We couldn't put our finger on it but we know there's "somthing" and that "something" is NOT a bad thing. I think those of us who are Saved are more attuned to it though...
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absolutely, guys :3
i really hear what you're saying, and i for one appreciate the fellowship of it all....
part of the gospel is being really real and vulnerable with one another and admitting that we are what we are is amazingly liberating. i know that i've met some really amazing people that have been deemed 'ill'.
i really hear what you're saying, and i for one appreciate the fellowship of it all....
part of the gospel is being really real and vulnerable with one another and admitting that we are what we are is amazingly liberating. i know that i've met some really amazing people that have been deemed 'ill'.
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In AA, they have the twelve promises.
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
1) We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
2) We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
3) We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
4) No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
5) That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
6) We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
7) Self-seeking will slip away.
8) Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
9) Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
10) We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
11) We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us-sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them.
The reason there are promises is that if we are reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, and we are totally honest with Him about everything and if we surrender our lives to Him, then these things come to pass. It may take awhile, but they do come to pass.
I'm not perfect and definitely far from "normal" and I have weaknesses that drive me to seek God. That being driven has really been a blessing and in a lot of ways I see/believe that I am more blessed than a lot of other Christians who seem to have a blase life.
In fact, I think that if a lot of Christians had to go through what I've been through they probably would have given up. So it's been a true blessing!
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through.
1) We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
2) We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
3) We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
4) No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
5) That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
6) We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
7) Self-seeking will slip away.
8) Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
9) Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
10) We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
11) We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us-sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them.
The reason there are promises is that if we are reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, and we are totally honest with Him about everything and if we surrender our lives to Him, then these things come to pass. It may take awhile, but they do come to pass.
I'm not perfect and definitely far from "normal" and I have weaknesses that drive me to seek God. That being driven has really been a blessing and in a lot of ways I see/believe that I am more blessed than a lot of other Christians who seem to have a blase life.
In fact, I think that if a lot of Christians had to go through what I've been through they probably would have given up. So it's been a true blessing!
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PBA
A grateful disciple of Christ's
Ludicrous wrote -The reason there are promises is that if we are reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, and we are totally honest with Him about everything and if we surrender our lives to Him, then these things come to pass. It may take awhile, but they do come to pass.
I'm not perfect and definitely far from "normal" and I have weaknesses that drive me to seek God. That being driven has really been a blessing and in a lot of ways I see/believe that I am more blessed than a lot of other Christians who seem to have a blase life.
I can relate to that. I'm a Christian and recovering Alky with Bi-Polar. I believe everything played in to bring me to my knees and surrender to Christ. I abide in Him. Best place I could have imagined being in or have ever obtained, in my own strength and abilities. I do the foot work and He continues to work the miracle which is my new life in Christ daily. Thanks everyone for posting - He works through you people, loving us into wellness.(that's not "normal" - that's a miracle)
I'm not perfect and definitely far from "normal" and I have weaknesses that drive me to seek God. That being driven has really been a blessing and in a lot of ways I see/believe that I am more blessed than a lot of other Christians who seem to have a blase life.
I can relate to that. I'm a Christian and recovering Alky with Bi-Polar. I believe everything played in to bring me to my knees and surrender to Christ. I abide in Him. Best place I could have imagined being in or have ever obtained, in my own strength and abilities. I do the foot work and He continues to work the miracle which is my new life in Christ daily. Thanks everyone for posting - He works through you people, loving us into wellness.(that's not "normal" - that's a miracle)
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I understand. God used the bipolar hypo manic high to get me thru a meth addiction.......It feels great but you often crash with no intervention. I just posted in some other forum saying Bipolar a blessing? And I got a lot of half glass empty people who hate what the disorder has done to them. But I and others where optimistic like believing that I had a spiritual experience rather then a manic episode that lasted two years.
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I posted this passage to the wrong thread earlier so I'll repost it here. Read this everyone and hide it in your heart for the future bad spots.
1 Corinthians 1:23-29 AMP
23 We preach Christ (the Messiah) crucified, [preaching which] to the Jews is a scandal and an offensive stumbling block [that springs a snare or trap], and to the Gentiles it is absurd and utterly unphilosophical nonsense.
24 But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.
25 [This is] because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.
26 For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.
27 [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.
28 And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,
29 So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.
1 Corinthians 1:23-29 AMP
23 We preach Christ (the Messiah) crucified, [preaching which] to the Jews is a scandal and an offensive stumbling block [that springs a snare or trap], and to the Gentiles it is absurd and utterly unphilosophical nonsense.
24 But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.
25 [This is] because the foolish thing [that has its source in] God is wiser than men, and the weak thing [that springs] from God is stronger than men.
26 For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.
27 [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.
28 And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,
29 So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.
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