When Everything Goes Wrong.

Have you ever felt sadness, despair and pessimism regarding the future? Maybe all your dreams never materialized, your dog dies or all that you hoped for that you thought for sure was going to happen never came to pass. You might feel God has abandoned you and there is nothing worth while to move forward towards. But there is. " Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31." and, " Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:5. " God will never abandon us. He will never leave us. We must always be aware that God knows whats best for us. We must always trust in Him and not in ourselves, thinking we know what is best for our lives. He knows the recipe and the ingredients we need to do His will, and I repeat, His will, not ours, in our lives. He knows what will overpower us and make us fall. He knows what is just too much for us and probably destroy us in the process. But sometimes we must wait much more than we expect, His timing is always precise. In all instances though, we are serving the almighty God and as much as we might not want to, It must be His will not ours. Things will work out for the best when we do things His way, it will be much more fulfilling, even if you do not see or experience it right away. You must keep going, trusting in Him always like a good servant and soldier of God. And if medical attention is needed, that must be done too. He is always working for your good in the background and even in front of our eyes. He will never, never let you down.  

Sin Can Be Deadly.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity and my bones waste away. Psalm 31:10. Sin is not a thing we should practice. It can make you go in a vicious circle and not have any power to get out of it, until you give your life to Jesus Christ and make Him your Lord and Savior. Not only will you be forgiven of all your sins, but have the power from God's Holy Spirit to overcome and have victory over sin. Sin can grab a hold of you and not let go. You must feed the Spirit and not the flesh to have victory. It can separate us from God. " But your iniquities have separated you from God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear." Isiah 59:2. Confess your sins as a believer and God will forgive you. you will not lose your salvation for sinning, but maintain fellowship with Him when we don't sin. But sin can have serious consequences too. It can cause many things like, sickness, depression, anxiety, shame, loss of self control, loneliness, a constant need to upgrade your sin, bad relationships, spiritual blindness and many much more undesirable things even death. It may feel good at first, but it is a lie from the deadliest pit known. We must push to grow in Christ always. "For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil." 1Peter 3:17. We will suffer at times for doing God's will, but the outcome is far much better than sinning. Sin is a problem for anybody, no matter who you are. But for the mentally Ill, and those who take medication for it, sin is still sin and we must pray for our medication to be right and be stable. But remember one thing, we are not perfect and we will never be sinless, but we can sin less in Christ. Because constant sin, especially sin that is not confessed, does not help the process of getting better. And sin does not please God.  

Don't Quit On The Lord.

Trust in the Lord, and do good, dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:3-4. We always dream of something we want to achieve in life. Maybe its fame or recognition, status, to be influential. Be somebody. But the only way to be someone of significance is to be a child of the one and only true God and savior, Jesus Christ. To be His servant, to follow His every way with much delight in obeying His every command. To follow Him even if you don't feel like it. Trusting that all things as you obey Him will work for your good. Even the bad things, He will turn around and make it work for your favor. He is preparing you and molding you for what He has for you to do. Now following God is no easy task. Sometimes you will need to posses much courage. Like the word says, Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9. Sometimes God will take you and present things in your path that will be difficult to do. They must be things that are Biblical. God will not lead you to sin. Or to disobey your doctors orders on what medication to take or not take, for example. But we may have to face our fears, or try our hardest to stop a sin in our life. We may have to forgive the unforgivable in you mind, or let go of your pride and do things God's way. You may also have to do the things that go against your selfish ways. As men for example, especially in marriage. We must be the example. You want a wife, first pray for one, don't make her your God and lead as men should, by loving her and if you want something to happen in your marriage, like peace for example, you must be the first to create peace and be the servant leader God created you to be. Going where God wants you to go is not easy. But the rewards are greater than you could ever imagine. Its not what I feel like doing but what I must do to obey God.     

Never Give Up !

God is working in our lives everyday. Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1: 6. God has a plan for our lives, that is for sure. "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29: 11. He created us For His purposes only. " For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. " Colossians 1: 16.
God definitely has a plan and purpose for our lives and we know it's not our plan but His. And whatever His will is for our lives is what we should be praying for. So that in any direction that we go, it must line up with God's word, it must be Biblical. For example, God does not direct us to do things that bring disunity, but directs us into genuine unity, peace, love, hope, and many more things, but the one thing I like the best of the many things Jesus gives us is a sound mind. Following Jesus with the help of many mature brothers or sisters depending if you are a man or female, being counciled  buy the same sex preferably. God will heal our minds. We may need medication in the process. But in any case we must follow our doctors orders too. So the plan He has for us must be Biblical and if it is we must not give up as we wait too. there is a process for God's work in us. God does not do things in a sloppy and disorganized way. God is a God of Order and does things perfectly. Sometimes we must wait to do what we are called to do as God determines the perfect time. Joseph waited 13 years, Abraham waited 25 years, Moses waited 40 years and Jesus waited 30 years. So if God is making you wait, you are definitely in good company. So remember we were created for Him to do His will and not ours, and wait on His time for the plan He has for us, no matter how long it takes. It's a process and God has the perfect recipe of events and preparations to make it happen His way, the correct way.

LOVE.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind; love does does not envy; love does not parade itself, it is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek it's own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13. Love is really not that complicated if you follow it God's way. The verse says Love is patient and is kind. what it doesn't say is if you feel like, love is patient and is kind. You see throughout these verses, it's telling you what love is. And if you notice they are all actions and have nothing to do with feelings, actually the feelings come after the action if you can grasp this. The way God tell us to love, is in this manner. Giving 100% and not the world's 50/50 which is love with conditions. God's love is without conditions. Loving believe it or not, even when you don't feel like it. But you must be a believer in Christ to achieve this. you won't do it perfectly but will eventually do it genuinely. Without Christ love is the opposite of what we read here. It becomes selfish, thinking whats in it for me and me and me. And when we love God's way, we should never ask for nothing in return. Giving always. Always depending on God for what we need in our lives. When we depend on each other, we will always end up disappointed. But remember it's not easy loving God's way if you don't have Jesus in your heart. All things are possible with God. And God is love.      

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.  

What do we do at the end of our rope.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7. Sometimes we are overcome by situations that try to bring us down. Our heart beat increases and we begin to panic and sin begins to maybe be a reality in the near future. We try many ways to get out of the stressful situation and fix the problem ourselves. But in most cases like these, when we cannot do anything about the situation and arrive at the end of our rope, there is something we can do. I have been in these situations many a times. First I have to make sure my medication is right and maybe see my doctor if the situation is overwhelming. If the medication is right, what I do is I give my anxiety to God first, I tell Him exactly what is bothering me in detail. Sometimes though in doing this we give Him the anxiety and we take it back. You have to keep giving Him the anxiety until you see you have given it completely to Him. Then after that, just start to give Him thanks over and over. What will probably happen then is He will reveal to you why you should be thankful, He will give you an insight with incredible peace behind it. While you give thanks you will probably see He has been fixing something in you too. You will lose your pain in the mist of your genuine praise and you will lose sight of your selfish needs. Wait on the lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your hearts; wait I say, on the Lord! Psalms 27:14. In all this we must remember that the Lord will answer us and save us from our anxieties. But sometimes we must wait. He will say yes, no or wait. but in all cases we must be strong and wait on the Lord. Wait, wait on the Lord!