CJM - - Confusion and depression are two signs of demonic oppression. It usually is aimed at our strongest weakness (just from my experience), and has the ability (if we allow it) to enslave us, keeping us from relief. I've been there and done that....it's not a pleasant experience, I know. For you to post your distress in the manner in which you did, shows that you may feel like you are at the end of your rope. Been there also. Now lets talk about getting you out of this, so you can worship and praise the Lord, your God, as He intended you to:
1. What ever problem you have, Jesus Christ ALREADY has the victory. He won it for You!! [Isa 53:4-5] [1 Cor 15:57] So set your problems at His feet, and let Him take control. [Psalm 55:22]
2. All Christians go through severe hardship...but its good because it keeps us from depending on ourselves...and causes us to set our eyes on Him. [2 Cor 1:8-10]
3. We have to- Fellowship with Christians(if you are not in it - get into it) Paul spoke about the community of believers and the body of Christ. [Acts 2:42]
4. We have to- Get into the Word. The Word is living, powerful..and it comes from the God who LOVES you and CREATED you. Natually, He wants YOU to read what He has said, and not rely on someone to read it TO you and FOR you. [2 Tim 3:16]
5. We have to- Pray. You are doing that just by being here...but NEVER stop. Don't worry about buying a book on how to pray. A lot of Christians--including me, have fallen into that trap of thinking that God doesn't respond unless you learn to pray PERFECTLY). We are not perfect...but we can pray in truth and spirit...which is what God wants anyway. [John 4:23] Are we to believe that our Master has not already taught us to pray in a way sufficient to intercede for us and to have communion with us? [Matt 6:5-18].
6. We have to- Never give up because He never gives up on us. [Heb 7:24-25] and [John 6:37].
7. Email me if you need a brother to lean on, have a question, need a prayer, whatever it takes. Remember, He wants you to dump everything at his feet, and let him take control. Joy and Peace in the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always.
mike d.
Pray with me.
Father, my strength, my provider, my Creator, my all-sufficient God. I sing praise to you. My heart dances with joy knowing you are just, righteous, and loving towards your children who call upon you. I lift my voice knowing the powers of Your hand stand ready the moment you receive a supplication that is desperate, in truth and spirit. I pray that you might bring forth your peace that brings comfort in our duresses, and for your abundance of grace, that is perfectly able to reach us no matter where we are, or how much we have fallen. I pray that Your Word becomes life in our hearts. I boldly confess and believe in my heart, before all men, that you have provided the only way for our salvation and way for eternal life, through Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Who suffered and died on the cross for ALL of our transgressions, and on the third day, was risen to be seated at Your right hand, to one day judge the living and the dead. The King of all Kings. The Lord of Lords. The King I freely bow to. The same One who stands at the door, waiting for us to call upon Him, waiting to intercede for us, because of our inequities and sinful nature. The One in whom asks us to walk with him daily, not just in times of hardship. Father, I rebuke the evil spirits that have come against this person, in the name of Jesus. I pray that this person may be brought under the perfect, cleansing, healing and protective blood of our Lord and Saviour, in which no evil can penetrate or rise against. His name is above all names. Lord, I ask for your angels to protect, and the Holy Spirit to move in defense of this individual, to minister unto him, so that your powerful might and perfect love be revealed. I ask that our hearts be filled with a thirst and desire to seek You first in all of our dealings in the temporal life, so that your complete, perfect, and permanent blessings will be ours, as you have promised in Your word, and by the Word. To your Glory in the Highest, I exalt your name, my Lord God, in the name of Christ Jesus, I pray. Amen.
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