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Re: spiritual healing?? » rjlockhart37

Posted by hyperfocus on December 15, 2012, at 7:18:18

In reply to spiritual healing...??, posted by rjlockhart37 on December 11, 2012, at 16:54:30

Can't really say much except to echo what has been said already:

What do you believe salvation and healing will be like for you?
Until quite recently and in the midst of affliction and loneliness, I used to think that salvation and healing would grant me a life like portrayed on Jersey Shore. I doubt those kids know anything about social phobia or depression or bipolar or psychosis...and they certainly seem quite happy. So is that the life you want?

We all pray every day to have our infirmities lifted but there are many many times of the day when I realize that I might actually be a lot better off than if I had my health and be able to function and act the way we see other people do. Maybe God, if He or She exists, is trying to speak to you rj and answer your prayers, but you might not be listening as yet.

Christians say that when Jesus was on earth he didn't pay any visits to the rich or powerful or those with satisfaction in their life. He didn't even seem interested too much in those who were considered good or upstanding or even wise. He went about seeking the poor, sick, downcast, known sinners and people of ill-repute. He had a peculiar viewpoint: that the lowest people in society -- the suffering and unhappy and afflicted and rejected and foolish -- were the closest to God.

It is very hard for people like us to live in this world. It's extremely difficult not to desire after the things of this world. Our minds are wired for pleasure, satisfaction, achievement, comfort, physical and emotional intimacy, companionship, loving and being loved by others. It is not that there is anything wrong with these things, but these things are not necessarily important to God.

It's said in the bible is that pride is pretty much the starting point of losing your way. When you have everything you want in this world you start to think that nothing else matters, that you can do whatever you want in life and it doesn't matter. People who are poor and sick lack many, many things but one thing they have in abundance is humility. The thing that most religions teach is that blessings come from God. He can make a poor man rich or a sick man well with just a thought. Anybody who believes he is rich or powerful or satisfied through his own efforts isn't very smart. A lot of bad things we see people do might stem from the conviction that power in this world is the sole arbiter of what can and can't be done.

Satan or Lucifer or whoever is very very powerful and can afflict us and deprive us of many things, but his power extends only to things in this world. If you're not part of this world then there really isn't much he or she can do to you. Job had everything taken from him, even the ability to rest comfortably on his bed, but his heart belonged to God and that is what mattered. The Bible talks a lot about healing and redemption, but it also talks a lot about enduring trials and hardship suffering to ultimately get to a better place. Maybe you are being spiritually healed rj -- you could be getting healed and not even know it. One of the duties of any father is to discipline his kids - make them endure hardship and push them to go far beyond what they believe their limits are. Maybe Somebody does care a great deal about you? You know like kids with the billionaire parents whose fathers make them wash cars and do their own chores and never give them anything, so that they work as hard as they can and find their own way in life. Maybe something similar is happening to you.


C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation.
Asperger's Syndrome.
Currently: 50mg amitriptyline single dose at night. 75mg Lyrica occasionally.
Significantly improving.


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