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Look at my recent thread in here (anxiety). Life is so cruel mate.

We need to stick together whatever denomination etc we belong to. Life is so hard and especially so if one is suffering with mental issues as i know as i suffer with these big time!

Explain away as you may be surprised that you are not alone your suffering!
 
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Look at my recent thread in here (anxiety). Life is so cruel mate.

We need to stick together whatever denomination etc we belong to. Life is so hard and especially so if one is suffering with mental issues as i know as i suffer with these big time!

Explain away as you may be surprised that you are not alone your suffering!
I have explained it before. It would only offend you and would gain much criticism as it did before. I'm alone and must bear my pain alone. That makes it all the more difficult.
 
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Just dropping by to say how sweet of you to write this apology post.

I believe that the person you are addressing this thread to has already forgiven you, am I right? @Jeshu just in case you haven't seen this thread
I offended many people I think.
 
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I have explained it before. It would only offend you and would gain much criticism as it did before. I'm alone and must bear my pain alone. That makes it all the more difficult.

Ok, fair enough. But, i understand as i could jump on here and say a few things that would offend because of the way my life is at the moment as it sucks massively!!!

Yea, we have had issues but that happens when one does not know what is truly going on in someones life.

Just remember one thing. You may feel alone but you are not. Only tonight i thought i would write what is happening in my life (see my thread). Ok, people may scorn but its good to know we have CF to come to.

Here for you my friend.
 
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Ok, fair enough. But, i understand as i could jump on here and say a few things that would offend because of the way my life is at the moment as it sucks massively!!!

Yea, we have had issues but that happens when one does not know what is truly going on in someones life.

Just remember one thing. You may feel alone but you are not. Only tonight i thought i would write what is happening in my life (see my thread). Ok, people may scorn but its good to know we have CF to come to.

Here for you my friend.
Jesus is the only hop I see, but the sad state of religion grieves me. It kills my happiness. It wars against my hope. The pain I feel is overwhelming.
 
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Jesus is the only hop I see, but the sad state of religion grieves me. It kills my happiness. It wars against my hope. The pain I feel is overwhelming.

Yea, we all bickering and arguing who is right. We all think we have the answer.

I get sick of the CC.

Only thing that matters i guess is what 'you' believe. Life is so hard that i find it almost impossible to be a 'normal' Christian. Pressures of real life are immense.
 
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I have explained it so many times, but no one hears, or agrees. I can see it no other way though, so I am alone.

Ok, i not read it so no idea. You could pm me if you wanted. Up to you. If i can be of any help?
 
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Yea, we all bickering and arguing who is right. We all think we have the answer.

I get sick of the CC.

Only thing that matters i guess is what 'you' believe. Life is so hard that i find it almost impossible to be a 'normal' Christian. Pressures of real life are immense.
The damage is done. Once you reach this point there is no going back. No forgetting what you saw. All that's left is persevering, and enduring the pain. You can find times of happiness, but the battle is always there. Your enemy forever reminding you. So you wait for the end where you hope to find peace.
 
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The damage is done. Once you reach this point there is no going back. No forgetting what you saw. All that's left is persevering, and enduring the pain. You can find times of happiness, but the battle is always there. Your enemy forever reminding you. So you wait for the end where you hope to find peace.

Tell me about it!

The devil sits on my shoulder goading me daily. I gave in today to him!!!

Constant battle with good ver evil.

I fail all the time. But, i keep bouncing back! I am determined, in the long run, to beat the devil.
 
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Tell me about it!

The devil sits on my shoulder goading me daily. I gave in today to him!!!

Constant battle with good ver evil.

I fail all the time. But, i keep bouncing back! I am determined, in the long run, to beat the devil.
I'm not sure you can beat him. Once you see his face you realize you cant beat him. There is only perseverance. Maybe I'm wrong, but its how I see it.
 
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A true brother or sister in Christ will always forgive others' mistakes, so you don't have to be too hard on yourself.
My battle isnt one of contrition alone. Its much more than needing forgiveness. I cling to hope in a raging storm. Its as if the whole world is at war within my soul. Its an awful thing.
 
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I am sorry for my recent mental breakdown. I could explain but no one would understand. All i can say is im sorry. There is no excuse for having a breakdown. I was wrong.

You were great brother in your true self, and thank you for apologizing, the horrible wicked left me awhile back already, so I knew you had been to our Lord about this and have been restored to sanity again. Please don't think I'm mad or anything, I've been just like you, to my own family and all, so I know how bad it is to wake up to the destruction evil spirituality in us turns us into.

Please remember that satan will come and try and shame you for all that happened, however let Christ's grace shame him and put all his loveless lies into the fire of our Lord's love over you - until the liar in you is totally dead. For a fresh water spring can't produce clean and dirty water at the same time, so not until you are drinking living waters - His gracious love streaming in you have you reach Heaven's above.

Please don't isolate yourself for then you will never ever heal, I know that from experience, rather humbly ask Jesus to show/teach you how to stay free from such spiritual madness, by delivering any loveless lies.

And so when you want to cut someone off from God's salvation because of their sins and wrongdoings, give grace instead, like you need yourself, and so Jesus will also have grace on you.

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us. Such a pity it had to go this way isn't brother? I reckon that this is because you hide your sin instead of let Jesus set you free from them. If you feel the need to hide sin, or blame others for your wrongs, or judge others or yourself then you are in evil spirituality and have to stop being like that and burn unfaithful love there and then - time and again!!! Only then you can go on with life after that a free man and easily talk about your past sin for they no longer hurt but are examples of God's grace instead and bring more loving grace around than ever in the hearts of those till stuck with such wrongs in their lives.

I found that when we willingly stop doing it wrong because we mourn our Lord Jesus, then we have reached our goal, not before. If you have sinned a lot, like in your judgmental one, then the bad spirituality is not killed straightaway but rather pesters until you are totally dead being like that and hate judgmental spirit and love to give grace.

So once you are able to accept ever human being who has ever lived or will ever live as God's own lost Children who need to be saved, especially those who did really bad things, like Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and all those horrific serial killers, and other people gone wicked, because the lies they believed, letting in satan killing their true and good life. Some people kill all their good life and then die suicide, this means that the true person is with our Lord long before the final person is, for a murderer has no eternal life in them, so in the part where we let in satan to do the killing we loose our eternal life. Suicide is not advisable from this perspective because in the one we do the deed we are utterly doomed for how can we repent of murder after we are dead? A really bad trap to be for those who do bad.

The idea is not killing ourselves sinful people ,but letting Christ save us sinful people by dying to being bad because we love Jesus so much more. We can only do that after we have come in in all our sin in such parts of our lives, so if we sinned badly for a long time then our cleansing a evildoer will also take a long time, where slowly one by one we get free from the sinful spirituality that imprisons us until the last chosen has come in - and then FIREWORKS on wicked spirituality - not before. This alls for patient endurance of the chosen that's for sure.

Now I'm sure the liar has been saying really bad things about me, or others, or God, or yourself while you were reading all this. For satan hates the truth of love and grace, so when you see this alive in you then you know who the real culprit was - the one I have been speaking to, and the one who hurt you so badly because you believed the lie and not God's loving truth - but not you who loves The Lord, and also not you who was overcome by wrong, though you are in deep trouble now for satan's spirit has stolen all your good life while you were running a muck doing his bidding in this part of yourself and you need God's grace big time (no problem though if you have faith in is love,) so please keep drinking His blood brother until you wail your loveless sin and meet Christ on the bottom of all of that and die to sinful spirit and are restored in true life again.


Please bro watch the accuser as you read the Word below without taking your eyes of Jesus, and you will find it very liberating indeed. I love this piece for it made me understand who lived in me doing the evil wrong - namely our loveless (which is lawless,) egocentric spirit - this is what we need to get rid of and in that part of our selves we are place right on the bottom, like I tried to share with you, so glad you be with there soon. For then we have 2 witness to the lawless one to demonstrate instead of only one.

2 Thessalonians 2

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.



But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.


May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.


So happy you came back, so incredible happy I hope you will soon be completely restored to us and we can keep grow in His loving truth together bro, also in the parts of your life where you have been hiding in the darkness.

Much love
 
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St Padre Pio came face to face with the devil. He had years of torment. In the end he won. I am sure Gods prefers someone who is in it for the long haul. However hard it gets.

I have have been struggling for 1.5 years now with this same 'problem'. Every day it lives in my mind, eating away at me.
 
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