• The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.

    If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.

    If you have spiritual issues related to a mental health and recovery issue, please use the Recovery Related Spiritual Advice forum. This forum is designed to be like Christian Advice, only for recovery type of issues. Recovery being like a family in many ways, allows us to support one another together. May you be blessed today and each day.

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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

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It is not God's will but it can happen. i knew someone who couldn't believe that Jesus loved him while he was still a sinner and constantly tried to perfect himself so he be good enough for Jesus, such believers miss out big time on the abundant life Jesus has in store for them.

Scripture says seek and you shall find, knock and its shall be opened unto you, if that doesn't happen, then ask yourself what father would give his children a snake when they asked him for a fish to eat? Then please go and find true God. The God who is The Truth and The Life and who is love at His core, you're Heavenly Father. He longs for us to come into communion with Him again through the blood of His Son Jesus. Washed and with a heart full of love and all kind of heavenly good things.

The God of the bible is a perfectly loving Being who doesn't want anyone to perish but all come to the knowledge of His salvation in and through Jesus Christ. Indeed it is His will that all who put their faith in Jesus will be saved from their sin. The abundant life grows through the thankfulness and the love that grows inside of our hearts because He saved us from our sins and can be experienced bereft of material goodies alone in the desert.

So please be of good courage and begin to cultivate His good life in your heart, seed after seed. Each time something beautiful or worthwhile comes past ask Jesus to add it to your heart. Ask for faith, love, hope, gentleness, long suffering, endurance, patience, kindness, self-control, all let all of these grow you a new reality.
 
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If we don't experience it here, we will experience it in a better place. Some of us have it harder than the others, there are many people who are in an almost constant state of sickness and melancholy. But we should never think God has abandoned them, He hasn't. Those who weep now, they are blessed according to Christ, and they will be comforted and they will get to laugh in the end.

But I don't think the abundant life, if we think of it in terms of this life on earth, is something that just happens. Perhaps for some it is, but for me it's just something I take by faith. By faith I can approach God in Christ and trust all my miserable burdens to Him, I don't have to dwell in that stuff anymore, no matter how much my mind throws that stuff at me. Good thoughts about God, instead of constant bad thoughts about myself. And even when I feel my faith is weak, I will count it as my weakness, not His. Christ is the well of living waters, we can take it by faith, no matter what our circumstances or feelings suggest. He has overcome all things, including our sin, our past, our "old man" and there is a reason He told us not to worry too much. Whatever renewing of our hearts needs to happen, it's good if we just keep turning to Him. We can only do so much ourselves, and so often we just get stuck with our own inability.
 
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