Words Of Hope For The Hopeless.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". Jeremiah 29:11. God has a plan for us and it's a great plan because He is a great God. Plans to give you prosperity. It could be monetary, but I really think it's mostly prosperity of your mind body and soul.  He will give you hope and a future, a reason to live if we just believe in Jesus and trust Him as our Lord and Savior. When I first heard this verse it was in 1987, when I had just started attending church, it was a Spanish bible believing church. It was given to me by a brother written on a track. My life at that time was a real mess. In the infancy of my Illness and in the process of divorce. But there was something else going on at that time which no one knew about. And it was happening not because of the divorce but there was a growing seed in my mind for some time already and I felt my life had no meaning, it was worthless and not worth living. I had been contemplating on the real possibility of suicide. I was determined and was going to go through it. It was just a matter of time before it was going to happened. But when I read that verse that day, it changed my life forever. Because for some reason, call it truth, I believed what the verse said and I said to myself, God has a plan for me? I am worthless despised by the world, I am crazy, I'm mentally Ill. How can God use me. But I still believed the verse and to this day I do. We are worthless in the eyes of Satan but by no means in the eyes of Jesus our Lord. And the Bible says, But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before Him. 1Corinthians 1:27-29. We must believe His word, we are not worthless by no means. The doctors say some of us hear voices. But the voice or thought that tells you to kill yourself or others is most definitely not God Speaking to you. NEVER, NEVER follow that voice or thought. For starters we are not in our right mind if we have those thoughts and we must immediately seek professional help. God is the answer for everything in life. He knows especially how the human mind functions to it's best ability. He created the human being. And on top of it, He also created doctors and medicine. So trust in the Lord and listen to your doctor and/or counselor. May God bless you.