It's not time to give up!!
Listen to me and what the Lord has to tell you..
The Lord sent me here to tell you that it's not the end and that with him everything will be just fine.
So you blame God for all your problems or you think he has abandoned you, well knock it off.
!!!!THE LORD WOULD NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU, SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO GIVE UP ON HIM OR YOURSELF...!!!!!
Tough love the most difficult thing that anyone has to deal with, but to get through to someone they love or care about, then sometimes there are things that need to be said or done to get your attention. I don't know you, but I care and for goodness sakes the Lord Loves you and he wants you to love him and believe that he will fix what ever it is that is causing the downer feelings.
You have fallen so into yourself that you feel like you are six feet under and even possibly wishing you were there. Well let me tell you, that, is the furthest place you need to be.
God put you on this earth and he will be the one to take you off it.
Keep in mind that where you are could very well only be temporary and if not then why are you not seeking help from a doctor or someone who could listen to whats bothering you. Depression itself can take a while to get over and get adjusted but doesn't mean that your stuck with it forever.
Depression is a disease of sorts, a chemical imbalance in the brain that disturbs our thought processes and causes stinky thinking. There is far from anything to be ashamed of, millions of people deal with this everyday and function wonderful full lives with medication(if needed) or counseling(cause sometimes you just need someone to talk to).
Then there are ones like me who went through a bout of depression for about a year or more. I went to the doctors and the counselors, tried the medication that didn't work and talking wasn't a strong suit of mine but the counselor couldn't figure it out either plus I didn't feel that he "got me". Feelings of non purpose, gloom and doom, totally unhappy with anything and everything.
Thoughts of offing myself were there very frequently, but fortunately I loved the Lord too much to disappoint him with a stupid action of my own doing. But believe me everyday I prayed to him to do it for me, to leave me on the side of the road driving back and forth to work. I traveled far to work at that time and my only form of transportation was a motorcycle. The last thing a person with suicidal notions needs to be driving. A deer or another car or even a slick spot at the right time would have suited me just fine.
After months of wanting to give up, crying and praying all the time for the help i needed or the end to come. the feelings and the bad thoughts seemed to just slip away just as slowly as they crept up on me to begin with.
Not a depression drug on board or a psychiatrist to over pay the depression left and never returned.
A God thing? Definitely..
Truly depression, probably not. Time, new love and theories have profoundly opened my eyes to exactly what I was going through. Because less than a year after I was feeling better, I found my sole mate and turns out that it was him that I was hurting for not myself. The exact same time that I was hurting so badly for no apparent reason, he was hurting tremendously over a very apparent reason he was going through.
Depression comes on slow and goes away seemingly slower, but not any of it isn't fixable.
God and his son fixes it better than any doctor and he is the highest counselor of all, but do not go untreated if what you are feeling could be medical. Get the depression meds if needed, but continue to draw yourself closer to the Lord and pray to him to heel you and maybe you won't need the drugs to cope.(don't stop the drugs tho without doc approval, there are weaning thing that have to happen for the chemical aspects)
Always seek the Lord for any problem you have, you'd be amazed how he heals.
Seek professional help, as i did, and if this is just temporary and the Lord intends to take control then what the doc's have won't work, but don't give up on any of it or think it all fails you.
Find a pastor of a church, preferably a non denominational one, that way there aren't any traps of falling into bad religion rules and ideas. These guys are very good listeners and they especially can answer questions concerning God and his son and how they have not abandoned you, that they are carrying you.
If you think you have tried and nothing has worked, try again.
DON'T GIVE UP ON YOURSELF CAUSE GOD DOESN'T GIVE UP ON YOU!!!!!!!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
"Why am I here?"
Everyone asks the question sometime in there life, "why am I here?." "What is my purpose in life?" etc...
Some of us find out the answers to these and many similar questions, but most of us are just muddling through hoping we are getting it right.
Only God knows our purpose and works that we are meant to do, and sometimes its only after we have done the works that we realize that we didn't do it for ourselves, that there was a higher purpose or "power" involved with making it happen.
"Hind sight is better than 20/20 with the Lord leading the way!"
If you think that you are stuck in some kind of rut and aren't really sure why your here or what your purpose in life is, Look Back-Forward.
Looking Back-Forward means that if you really take the time to look at your life and where you have been and done, you can probably figure out where your life is headed forward.
Even the littlest thing that you have done in your life served some kind of purpose and most likely the Lord and his Father put you there to do it. Finding a task or good work that you have done before over and over may have been trying to tell you something. The task could have seemed the most mundane and something you've done a thousand times, but who's to say that maybe one day that you did this task, someone or something wasn't affected in a positive and good way.
I myself have been seriously wondering why I'm at my current employment. Its a job that has gone down the toilet for me, I started there with the prospects of staying for a long time and even thought at one point I could do it till I retired, but now, times have changed and the business has changed and they keeping "updating" things to the point that it's driving people away from the position, which is there goal because they eventually want to get rid of my job. Granted unless the whole world just up and starts only using plastic for spending all of a sudden, then there will always be someone needed to do what I do. Things are getting almost ridiculous to the point that its driving me mad and I am hating what the job does to me when I'm there.
The hardship that I face at work is probably more put upon by myself than the actual work place, but that I think is because I'm bored with the bureaucracy junkola that I'm faced with everyday and with co-workers who do nothing they don't absolutely have to and don't willingly learn anything to know anything more about their own job.
My purpose there I thought was coming to an end soon and I could move on to something else the Lord needed me to do, but I'm still stuck there. This job has served multiple purposes and to me has nothing left for me but heartache and big hook for the devil to keep hold on me.
This job came when I really needed one and it has been a link to people that I have helped in many ways outside the realm of the workplace. I met people that needed spiritual help and was very aware after the fact, what I had done was the Lord's work through me. This job has also enabled me to move to different locations that led me to living with the most wonderful man God could have ever dropped in my lap to marry.
The past though is why I feel that I need to move on, because looking back all the jobs and places I've been were for reasons and I performed my duty and He led me on to something else. He put me in jobs that I never would have chosen for myself without Him putting the idea in my head, but He needed me there for something or someone and He gave me what I needed to accomplish his goal.
I guess that is why I feel that this can't be it, He has used me in so many capacities that served others that I just can't believe that I'm through. There are things I do outside of work that I truly enjoy giving myself or what ever is needed to, but for some reason I feel there could be something I could do all the time to do more for the Lord and his Father.
Looking Back-Forward for me, is trying to find the next place I'm needed to help someone else, the people at my current work won't help themselves much less be available for help from anyone else.
So I guess I have shown you that your not alone in the pondering questions that probably keep people up most nights. We are all here for a reason and we are all needed for different jobs and works for God. The littlest thing can make a big difference in so many lives.
Don't get discouraged, even though its very easy to do so, especially if you don't feel that you have done anything with you life for him or yourself. You have probably done great things and our stinky thinking that we put on ourselves prevent you from seeing the good parts and chapters of your life. If, there really aren't any good chapter, then you only have yourself to blame if you don't break out and make things better the way God intended.
No good work or act of kindness toward the sourest, unappreciative or even grateful creature goes unseen and unrewarded by our Father.
Some of us find out the answers to these and many similar questions, but most of us are just muddling through hoping we are getting it right.
Only God knows our purpose and works that we are meant to do, and sometimes its only after we have done the works that we realize that we didn't do it for ourselves, that there was a higher purpose or "power" involved with making it happen.
"Hind sight is better than 20/20 with the Lord leading the way!"
If you think that you are stuck in some kind of rut and aren't really sure why your here or what your purpose in life is, Look Back-Forward.
Looking Back-Forward means that if you really take the time to look at your life and where you have been and done, you can probably figure out where your life is headed forward.
Even the littlest thing that you have done in your life served some kind of purpose and most likely the Lord and his Father put you there to do it. Finding a task or good work that you have done before over and over may have been trying to tell you something. The task could have seemed the most mundane and something you've done a thousand times, but who's to say that maybe one day that you did this task, someone or something wasn't affected in a positive and good way.
I myself have been seriously wondering why I'm at my current employment. Its a job that has gone down the toilet for me, I started there with the prospects of staying for a long time and even thought at one point I could do it till I retired, but now, times have changed and the business has changed and they keeping "updating" things to the point that it's driving people away from the position, which is there goal because they eventually want to get rid of my job. Granted unless the whole world just up and starts only using plastic for spending all of a sudden, then there will always be someone needed to do what I do. Things are getting almost ridiculous to the point that its driving me mad and I am hating what the job does to me when I'm there.
The hardship that I face at work is probably more put upon by myself than the actual work place, but that I think is because I'm bored with the bureaucracy junkola that I'm faced with everyday and with co-workers who do nothing they don't absolutely have to and don't willingly learn anything to know anything more about their own job.
My purpose there I thought was coming to an end soon and I could move on to something else the Lord needed me to do, but I'm still stuck there. This job has served multiple purposes and to me has nothing left for me but heartache and big hook for the devil to keep hold on me.
This job came when I really needed one and it has been a link to people that I have helped in many ways outside the realm of the workplace. I met people that needed spiritual help and was very aware after the fact, what I had done was the Lord's work through me. This job has also enabled me to move to different locations that led me to living with the most wonderful man God could have ever dropped in my lap to marry.
The past though is why I feel that I need to move on, because looking back all the jobs and places I've been were for reasons and I performed my duty and He led me on to something else. He put me in jobs that I never would have chosen for myself without Him putting the idea in my head, but He needed me there for something or someone and He gave me what I needed to accomplish his goal.
I guess that is why I feel that this can't be it, He has used me in so many capacities that served others that I just can't believe that I'm through. There are things I do outside of work that I truly enjoy giving myself or what ever is needed to, but for some reason I feel there could be something I could do all the time to do more for the Lord and his Father.
Looking Back-Forward for me, is trying to find the next place I'm needed to help someone else, the people at my current work won't help themselves much less be available for help from anyone else.
So I guess I have shown you that your not alone in the pondering questions that probably keep people up most nights. We are all here for a reason and we are all needed for different jobs and works for God. The littlest thing can make a big difference in so many lives.
Don't get discouraged, even though its very easy to do so, especially if you don't feel that you have done anything with you life for him or yourself. You have probably done great things and our stinky thinking that we put on ourselves prevent you from seeing the good parts and chapters of your life. If, there really aren't any good chapter, then you only have yourself to blame if you don't break out and make things better the way God intended.
No good work or act of kindness toward the sourest, unappreciative or even grateful creature goes unseen and unrewarded by our Father.
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