These are things I felt God telling me to write, please don't get mad at me if you don't agree with what I wrote, thank you :)
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Alot of you have probably noticed that people are having depression. It could even be you going through depression. I want to help those people going through that right now. And encourage those who are helping them also.
Depression is not from God. It's something from the devil, that draws you away from God. But when you have Godly people in your life, it helps you. Depression can draw you away from God, but it can also draw you closer to God than you ever have been. (But I'm most definitely not saying that depression is good) Remember when I posted about life being a tightrope? Well, depression is something that will make you slip. It will make you unbalanced. But once you get back on by God's help, you feel closer to God, and you put a tighter grip on his hand.
Why is there depression and things in the world? Well, it started with Adam and Eve sinning. It came with the curse. Of course, God did not create that. You don't hear alot about depression in the bible, but I'm pretty sure people had depression in the bible, they just didn't call it that. The bible doesn't directly talk about depression but there are many verses that apply to depression. I want to show you some and talk about them.
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Philippians 4:8, "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Alot of times, depression starts when the person says untrue things about themselves. Even other people telling them those things, such as, "You were an accident; you should be dead; why are loved, ha, you're the last person that should be loved, or even God doesn't love you no one does so get used to it you'll never be loved." Anything like that. Once those things go into their head they don't go out, they get bigger and bigger, taking over. The person starts to believe those things said to them. They are letting Satan take them over. They get stressed, start failing school, and they can start cutting. Cutting alot of times make them feel as if they're letting out stress, but God didn't create us to just to hurt ourselves or for people to hurt us. I say again, God created us for a purpose and a reason!!
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Deuteronomy 31:8, "The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."
Just like the verse says, God will never leave you. People her have depression also sometimes think that God has forgotten them. Or that they're not important enough to be known by God. Each and everyone is important to God. God will never ever leave one of you out. He knitted us together in our mother's womb. Of course, he didn't really knit us together. But they are saying that God knew what we were going to look like, do, and love. He knows what's ahead of us and he knows what's behind us. He leads us on a straight path, but we don't always listen. We can take another road, and that leads to where we are, depression. But then God comes and saves us, he redirects us.
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Psalm 34:17, "
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles."
When God hears your prayers, your cries for help, he will answer them. I know, "But I have been calling, he still hasn't answered," you say. God doesn't always answer right after your cries. God's timing is perfect, not like our timing. God knows what time your prayers need to be answered, it could be soon after, or in time. We just have to be patience and trust in God, he knows what we need and when we need it. It might seem like years, and it might be years. He wants your trust to grow in him. Your love for him to grow, and he wants you to grow in his image, and grow to be more like him. He tells us in the bible that no one is perfect, but his children must grow in his image, to become like him.
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John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
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Romans 8:38-39,"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
These two verses have similar meanings. God is telling us that nothing can take us away from him. We can fall away from him, but there will never be anything that will take us away from God forever. The Lord is the ruler of the whole universe. He can do anything, nothing is impossible for God; and there is no one who can stop him. This is hard for us to believe, because, on earth, people have limitations. We can be afraid of many things, but nothing can make God afraid. He will take care of his children, he is the Shepherd and we are the Lambs. The Shepherd will never leave his Lamb to be eaten by the wolf. Christians get hurt, killed, and many other things from the evil people. But do you know what happen to the people are get hurt? They get to help others going through the same situation, their trust grows in the Lord. What happens to the killed? They go to the perfect place, Heaven. There is no evil there, no sickness, sadness, madness, or anything like that. God is there, and Heaven is perfect. We will live there for forever, which is also hard for us to understand. On earth, there is an end to everything. There is no end to heaven, and there is no end to the people who go up to Heaven. Everything happens for a reason.
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Well, that's all I have for this post. I hope this has touched you guys. Please comment if you have any suggestions on what I should write about, or have questions. :)
Thanks for reading!
