Posted: 4/16/2012 1:12:46 AM EDT
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I've been feeling really depressed lately. I have a few reasons why...
But today was just a really bad day. Had a tough day at work, my leg really cramped up a lot at work, and it just feels like torture to do simple things. That and... other life circumstances have been really weighing down on me. They've weighed down on me for a long time. But at least once a month.. or ... every few months or something... it just all hits me like a ton of bricks, and I just come home and just feel like crying non-stop. Usually I wake up the next day and feel slightly better... having "gotten it out of my system". It's not a "chemical imbalance". It's just life circumstances. Really today, I think it was just the pain I was feeling in my injured leg (Injured 8ish years ago) from walking on it pretty hard at work. That and... other things. Feelings of loneliness, feelings of inadaquacy, feelings of being a complete failure at life and everything I do... But the physical pain seemed to act as a sort of catalyst for me. I know coming out with this is... probably going to open me up to a mountain of ridicule... but I just felt I needed to express it. If anyone wants to pray for me, please do. My faith has really been taking a huge hit lately. 
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Prayers coming your way.
I know what you mean, the end of last year and start of this year where bad here for me and my family. I felt I was letting them down, but we have been enaged at church more these last two months, and there has been a world of change in my kids, and me. I everything is turning around, and doors are really opening. Feel free to IM or PM or what ever you need, I can listen and help where I can. Bless you and thoughts and prayers are with you. |
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It seems we all get tested at sometime in our lives. God knows how much we can take. You have to let it all fall on His shoulders.
Our Sun. evening service was on Genesis Ch. 22 verses 1-13. It's about when Abraham was asked to give his son Isaac as a burnt offering, that is a true test. Our pastor put it well when he said that God is omniscient and knows just how much we can take and sometimes we are tested so that we can learn how faithful we are to him. Prayers sent for you and whoever else may going through this with you. Keep your head up. Ryan |
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Never forget that Jesus died for men who understand that they are failures. The entire point of the Cross is hope for the hopeless.
Jesus Christ gave himself to make the inadequate adequate to take failures and turn them into his success. The Bible tells us that we can take our problems directly to God because of Jesus Christ. There is never ridicule talking to your Father in Heaven man!….tell him you sins and sorrows open his word and read his message written for you. Many men in the Bible found themselves in circumstance very similar to yours and all of them who believed in the promises of God point to Him as their peace, hope and future. If you are looking to God the Father through Jesus Christ you do have a future indeed! |
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Dear Lord help our brother work things out in his life and free him of his physical pain...Prayers sent.
No ridicule whatsoever, I can definitely relate my life has been real tuff challenge for about 4 years now with no end in sight, hard to not get depressed. Our enemy/liar is out to make us depressed and live a life with no hope no dreams no happiness and that ends the prayer then that pos wins. Stay strong for those who love you, I know that's harder to do than to say. Hang in there reach out anytime, I am glad to help in anyway I can. God Bless Michael |
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I know where your coming from, I dealt with a similar situation not too long ago.
I broke my ankle about a year ago and couldn't work, with me making the majority of our household income it was hard to look at my family and not feel a little discouraged because I wasn't doing my job. And about the time I was able to start walking on my leg, I started to wonder when would I be able to work again because of the pain and instability of my ankle: this is when my emotional problems started to set in. I've worked hard in my field to get to a management level and then nothing I'm sitting at home on the couch trying not to take pain pills - I don't like drugs. (One of the things that makes it worse is I wanted aflac a few months before I broke my ankle ,but my wife started a fight with me just for saying we should look in to it...) When it comes to a man that doesn't work it's just a certain stigma that I never wanted associated with me, I always worked, I helped my parents with their paper route from 5th grade to after high school, had my first job at 13, worked seven days a week on my job while going to school, played football ,and powerlifting. I bought my first car, paid for my own clothes, going out etc, for most of High School ,and sometimes worked 2-3 jobs at a time as a young adult. Then one day I notice that I may have been getting a little depressed, So I looked at my life and realized I was also dealing with condemnation, because it was a spiritual separation that I began to feel. Knowing that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1) (I like the KJV cause it has ,who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, that is missing from some translations). Since Christ came not to condemn us ,I began to rebuke that accuser from my life and pray for strength & forgiveness because like Peter I took my eyes off Jesus and made it about me. But when you look at verse 30,31 of Matt. when Peter began to sink he cried out Lord save me, then Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him. A minister had brought this up in church not long before I went through this, guess it stuck with me. Even though I knew these scriptures, I re-read them to help built me up even more ,Isaiah 26:3, John 5:24, Ephesians 3:14-21, Ephesians 5:18-20. We have the victory. The week that I went through this, there was a Revival that Friday that I had forgot about ,but my sister reminded me, last minute and my wife happen to be sick that night so, I almost didn't go but my wife insisted, so I went. At the revival the speaker began to call people up so they could be prayed for (I don't know what kind of church background you come from and I don't know if you ever seen a minister call people out of a audience for prayer but it's very selective) and here I'am sitting on a pew, in a way knowing I'm going to be called kinda hoping I wouldn't because I was feeling good didn't want my bubble busted ,and I was feeling a little guilty for falling for the trick. And feeling a little guilty, for feeling guilty ,but I knew where that was coming from...when I got called up there were three pastors that were praying, after a short prayer one of them began to tell me things that dealt exactly with what I had just went through during that week, It was like someone told them what I had gone through ,and I had told no one at all in any manner anything. But looking back at that thing I know it was a test and I passed. Stay encouraged you can find your joy in the Lord, He is everything you need and more, I haven't worked in a year ,and we're still financially okay. We still have our house we just bought back in 09', two trucks (V8's love gas but there paid for), still been able to do things here and there with the family, still able to give decent offerings, I'm in my 2nd semester of school ,and still got money in the bank. God is still in the blessing business, if someone had told me this was going to happen to me while I was working I would have lost it because we are not rich ,but God. 2 Corinthians 10: 1-7 1.Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2.But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3.For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4.(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5.Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6.And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7.Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. |
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I've been feeling really depressed lately. I have a few reasons why... But today was just a really bad day. Had a tough day at work, my leg really cramped up a lot at work, and it just feels like torture to do simple things. That and... other life circumstances have been really weighing down on me. They've weighed down on me for a long time. But at least once a month.. or ... every few months or something... it just all hits me like a ton of bricks, and I just come home and just feel like crying non-stop. Usually I wake up the next day and feel slightly better... having "gotten it out of my system". It's not a "chemical imbalance". It's just life circumstances. Really today, I think it was just the pain I was feeling in my injured leg (Injured 8ish years ago) from walking on it pretty hard at work. That and... other things. Feelings of loneliness, feelings of inadaquacy, feelings of being a complete failure at life and everything I do... But the physical pain seemed to act as a sort of catalyst for me. I know coming out with this is... probably going to open me up to a mountain of ridicule... but I just felt I needed to express it. If anyone wants to pray for me, please do. My faith has really been taking a huge hit lately.
If there is something, anything, small or great that you have the power to change either right now or in stages, that being, the things that might mke you feel lonley, inadequate, or being a failure to some degree and begin to work on them! So how do we do this from a spirit of defeat in a time of active battle? Well, we as christians come into God's own pre-k classroom for the people called by election to start right here with God. It is in this classroom of sorts in where that you will realize that there is a definite reason that you have been ground down to this point so as to be humble before God as a man can only be at one point with his Maker at the proper time for God to inspect you in this way and for you to feel it in this way. For you! And by this God is activly calling you out of your old man to be somebody new in your inner-man. That man, being the man who has power and dominion over that old man who lives within us alI. And illegally in Christ Jesus. And ''in Him'' the Spirit says: ''Let that man know that he will not recieve anything lasting that is good from My bosom and into his lap as a sign between him and Me!,'' says the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts,'' who will not recieve My instruction and through My Spirit for service and the promotion of others.(the Lord's declaration)'' Thanks, SAE |
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No one here will ridicule you. I personally know how upsetting and discouraging pain can be. It is not an easy thing to live with. Do you have a significant other to help build you up when you are down? If so, have you discussed how you are feeling with her? Can you do something like visit a homeless shelter or cancer ward to show you how blessed you truly are? Bringing joy to others will bring a smile to your face. If you like animals, maybe volunteer at an animal shelter. Do you have a pastor you can talk to? If you ask Him too, Jesus can help you carry your burdens. Read about what Job had to go through. No matter how bad we feel at any given moment there is always someone else going through something way worse. Think of all the good things in life you have. Think about all of your good qualities. You are not a failure. You were created by Almighty God and you are very special to Him.
I hope things start looking up for you soon. 
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I've been feeling really depressed lately. I have a few reasons why... But today was just a really bad day. Had a tough day at work, my leg really cramped up a lot at work, and it just feels like torture to do simple things. That and... other life circumstances have been really weighing down on me. They've weighed down on me for a long time. But at least once a month.. or ... every few months or something... it just all hits me like a ton of bricks, and I just come home and just feel like crying non-stop. Usually I wake up the next day and feel slightly better... having "gotten it out of my system". It's not a "chemical imbalance". It's just life circumstances. Really today, I think it was just the pain I was feeling in my injured leg (Injured 8ish years ago) from walking on it pretty hard at work. That and... other things. Feelings of loneliness, feelings of inadaquacy, feelings of being a complete failure at life and everything I do... But the physical pain seemed to act as a sort of catalyst for me. I know coming out with this is... probably going to open me up to a mountain of ridicule... but I just felt I needed to express it. If anyone wants to pray for me, please do. My faith has really been taking a huge hit lately.
I have taken a ride in this same boat! I live in the East Mesa area if your anywhere close to me, we could get together and talk if you want. Send me a email or IM me if you need to get things off your chest, or just vent, talk. ETA: prayer sent! 
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