Question: Hallucinations

[Goodbook]

Shcrodingers cat lives. There are many factors in bipolar disorder, sinful life style, demonic influence possesion are just TWO factors. Others is testing our faith, past sins against us, unforgiveness etc. Also, try not to confuse demonic possession with demonic oppression.

Pauls thorn in the flesh was to keep him humble. His past as a Pharisee was one of religious pride. If God had taken away his thorn in the flesh he would have boasted that all his work(ministry) was of his own doing. It was not because he did not have enough faith. It was not blindness! When Paul had his conversion, he was blinded, but Annais laid hands on him and he received sight. So he could hardly have been not cured of his blindness!! If you read the context, Pauls thorn in the flesh was 'the messenger of Satan to buffet me and keep me from being proud'. It was all his harassment, persecutions, insults, distresses that he endured from others, his being weak, constantly bullied that showed he was strong because he counted on Christ to withstand them.

Note -Paul described this as a messenger from Satan. NOT a biological disorder that he needed to be healed from.

You need to let go of the idea that it takes great amounts of faith to be healed, or that I am judging you on your amount of faith. All I'm saying is I disagree with you making out that bipolar disorder is totally biological (and is caused by this, when it's only a symptom) when you totally ignore the emotional and spiritual and mental aspects of it that are caused by Satan. If you don't know your enemy, how can you ever know how to defeat him? How can you honestly read the bible and ignore all references to Satan and follow what 'scholars' say when a plain reading of the Bible totally refutes what they claim?

As you read in the Hosea, 'My people perish for lack of knowlege.' God gives us his word - If Jesus defeated Satan in the wilderness then we know there is adversary and that's who we have to deal with.

 

[schrodingers_cat_lives]

Shcrodingers cat lives. There are many factors in bipolar disorder, sinful life style, demonic influence possesion are just TWO factors. Others is testing our faith, past sins against us, unforgiveness etc. Also, try not to confuse demonic possession with demonic oppression.

Pauls thorn in the flesh was to keep him humble. His past as a Pharisee was one of religious pride. If God had taken away his thorn in the flesh he would have boasted that all his work(ministry) was of his own doing. It was not because he did not have enough faith. It was not blindness! When Paul had his conversion, he was blinded, but Annais laid hands on him and he received sight. So he could hardly have been not cured of his blindness!! If you read the context, Pauls thorn in the flesh was 'the messenger of Satan to buffet me and keep me from being proud'. It was all his harassment, persecutions, insults, distresses that he endured from others, his being weak, constantly bullied that showed he was strong because he counted on Christ to withstand them.

Note -Paul described this as a messenger from Satan. NOT a biological disorder that he needed to be healed from.

You need to let go of the idea that it takes great amounts of faith to be healed, or that I am judging you on your amount of faith. All I'm saying is I disagree with you making out that bipolar disorder is totally biological (and is caused by this, when it's only a symptom) when you totally ignore the emotional and spiritual and mental aspects of it that are caused by Satan. If you don't know your enemy, how can you ever know how to defeat him? How can you honestly read the bible and ignore all references to Satan and follow what 'scholars' say when a plain reading of the Bible totally refutes what they claim?

As you read in the Hosea, 'My people perish for lack of knowlege.' God gives us his word - If Jesus defeated Satan in the wilderness then we know there is adversary and that's who we have to deal with.

Question: Postpartum depression, pms and menopause.... biological in origin (cause and effect) or demonic "oppression"/sin/generational curse/warfare?

 

[schrodingers_cat_lives]

The doubt thing was what James was talking about in his letter. James 1. 6 -8 (KJV)
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."

Doesn't this describe bipolar???

NO, NOT AT ALL....READ CONTEXT...DON'T PLUG IN YOUR OWN THING JUST BECAUSE YOU hear the buzz WORDS "UNSTABLE, DOUBLE, WAVERING"...
IT IS HORRIFICALLY SAD AND TRAGIC TO ME THAT you have read into that and applied it to your life. I pray to god that you truly were misdiagnosed and that you never slip into clinical depression....what would happen to your construct then?

 

[Goodbook]

Thank you for your prayers, although I'm not sure you are being sincere. A diagnosis is just a label. It can change.

As a Christian what I do is read the bible and apply it my life, when James was talking about God's wisdom thats what I asked for, and I was set free from BP. The Holy Spirit led me to this verse, and I followed. Before I had too much doubts that all I got was wordly wisdom and that never helped at all, and I got nothing and nowhere. I asked God but I was also worshipping other things so I never got any peace. God wanted my full attention.

You will have to make up your own mind about the causes of sickness and suffering. I've already said what I believe the causes of them are.

There's no point in asking what-if questions, and if it seems sad and tragic to you then so be it. I said earlier I don't wish to start debates over treatments.

God's word aren't 'buzz words' or 'constructs' they are truth. I take them seriously. The Bible isn't just a book that has a couple of historical stories in it that we have to intellectually study. When reading the bible, trust God to reveal to you his truth in your life. One proverbs states 'the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom'. From that starting point, I made it my priority to read the Bible. This from a person who reads tonnes of books, who works in a library, thinking if I have knowledge, I'll be able to figure out things. Well all I have to show for that is a lot of knowledge of all kinds of things but hardly any wisdom that was useful for my life.

Remember I left a church because I felt it wasn't teaching from the Bible enough! I really needed God's word, not what someone's opionions of Gods word was.

I also found this verse useful for me when I was growing as a Christian, it helped me understand why I couldn't understand the Bible before I yielded to the Holy Spirit. It also helped me understand why an atheist like Richard Dawkins could read the entire Bible and yet not understand a thing.

1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

You must yield to the Holy Spirit, let him take over. Then you will grow and bear fruit. Trying to live your life on your own terms just won't work. Been there, done that.

 

[mommo9kids]

I was going to tell you just how much I loved your post, and how it blessed me, and then I look at the next post and someone beat me to it.
It was insightful, full of wisdom, caring, honesty and encouragement.
Thank You!