This is how I overcome difficulties each day. With God's help, of course. I continue to wait, sit, pray and listen to the silence and to the reality within the silence.
Thank you God for today. I give thanks with a grateful heart. Put faith in God and you will get through it if you persevere.
I had pleanty of problems, not financial but with people. Those verses in the bible, repeatitive prayers. God saved me.
I had a problem, financially and I did put deposit, my faith, in my account soooo...if you've been there before, you know what I mean.
Now that I have problems I know that nothing can ever get me down again. why? Because the strength I need, it doesn't come from me. It comes from God.
Pray without ceasing, like non-stop even silently. It gives me hope. It really does.
Be thankful for everything and everyone. Good or bad, doesn't matter.
I'm just thankful for everything, anything and nothing.
Let's pray and let God be God.
Special thanks:
To ssfchmd, for encouragement and understanding.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Toxic emotions that end with the love of Jesus.
What are toxic emotions, by the way? Anger, depression, shame, guilt, fear? Yes, they all are.
My counselor, Jesus Christ, my God has taught me for years, He has also healed me by giving me the opportunities to experience suffering, and pains. Life is difficult and not always fair, that kind of stuff I am talking about. He has given me choices to choose, to choose to forgive, to choose love, to choose to trust Him and have faith. Choose to believe that God is in control of all situations. Faith is believing that God is in charge and we can rely on Him to do what is best for us. Faith is a choice. No one can make this decision for us.
Seek first His Kingdom and these things will be added to you. ( Matt. 6:33) It means to be grateful for what He has given us, being determined to spend time with him alone and reflect on His Word. It is contrast with striving to control people and situations which is caused “stress”. Stress occurs when our perceptions don’t meet our expectations. Stress reactions release both emotions and negative physical elements we experience in life. When we encounter stresses, we express anger..,etc.
We often feel trapped at being caught or at having fallen victim to our own weaknesses. Guilt and shame create a circle of negative thinking endlessly. Chronic guilt and shame can lead to depression. (Be noted that many reasons can lead to depression) I need to forgive those who wronged me, difficult as it sounds and forgive myself for what parts I’ve played- I have to believe that God has forgiven me, if I can’t or I don’t, I will, however, have to stay with guilt and shame forever. I learned to have “hope, joy, peace”, learned to believe, to appreciate, and the most important one is to love. I received His merciful, and freedom from these toxic emotions.
Many times I don’t even know of what I am afraid of. Maybe fear of some type of loss, loss of control. Fear of abandonment and rejection. The cure for fear is faith. That’s what I learned. Now, it doesn’t matter what I am afraid of. It does matter to have faith in all circumstances.
Pain or hard times, I can never avoid but His promise assures that His presence will be with those who obey Him, at all times. Ps. 23 and John 14:1-4, He promises to bring us through the valley of shadow and to prepare for us the future He desires for us..
I recently read a book and there’s an essay it said about the attitude. “Attitude keeps me on going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”
My relationship with God is not in my head but heart.
This is the way I want to think and believe.
God is really big! and He can do all things.
(Dedicated this note to myself to reminding me that this is the reason I choose to study psychology. To my greatest counselor, My Lord, Jesus Christ.)
My counselor, Jesus Christ, my God has taught me for years, He has also healed me by giving me the opportunities to experience suffering, and pains. Life is difficult and not always fair, that kind of stuff I am talking about. He has given me choices to choose, to choose to forgive, to choose love, to choose to trust Him and have faith. Choose to believe that God is in control of all situations. Faith is believing that God is in charge and we can rely on Him to do what is best for us. Faith is a choice. No one can make this decision for us.
Seek first His Kingdom and these things will be added to you. ( Matt. 6:33) It means to be grateful for what He has given us, being determined to spend time with him alone and reflect on His Word. It is contrast with striving to control people and situations which is caused “stress”. Stress occurs when our perceptions don’t meet our expectations. Stress reactions release both emotions and negative physical elements we experience in life. When we encounter stresses, we express anger..,etc.
We often feel trapped at being caught or at having fallen victim to our own weaknesses. Guilt and shame create a circle of negative thinking endlessly. Chronic guilt and shame can lead to depression. (Be noted that many reasons can lead to depression) I need to forgive those who wronged me, difficult as it sounds and forgive myself for what parts I’ve played- I have to believe that God has forgiven me, if I can’t or I don’t, I will, however, have to stay with guilt and shame forever. I learned to have “hope, joy, peace”, learned to believe, to appreciate, and the most important one is to love. I received His merciful, and freedom from these toxic emotions.
Many times I don’t even know of what I am afraid of. Maybe fear of some type of loss, loss of control. Fear of abandonment and rejection. The cure for fear is faith. That’s what I learned. Now, it doesn’t matter what I am afraid of. It does matter to have faith in all circumstances.
Pain or hard times, I can never avoid but His promise assures that His presence will be with those who obey Him, at all times. Ps. 23 and John 14:1-4, He promises to bring us through the valley of shadow and to prepare for us the future He desires for us..
I recently read a book and there’s an essay it said about the attitude. “Attitude keeps me on going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”
My relationship with God is not in my head but heart.
This is the way I want to think and believe.
God is really big! and He can do all things.
(Dedicated this note to myself to reminding me that this is the reason I choose to study psychology. To my greatest counselor, My Lord, Jesus Christ.)
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