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Prayer Request:
This really pulled on my heartstrings, and this is not something out of a storybook or anything like that. Please take the time to read the situation of a friend of mine,
To Anon, and anyone else who’s struggling with an addiction:
I also want to post this for all our other brothers and sisters. This is something that our fellow sister in Christ (thymesia) said about the ask that the anon gave me regarding his pornography addiction: ” It was just something that I realized for myself. Sometimes I’ve questions, struggles, etc that I try to find answers in books or people… Or I used to sometimes postpone prayer then ask someone to pray for me because I know I need prayers, that kind of thing. What anon was struggling with is kind of a very private issue that can be settled only between Him/Her and God, and I just thought that It’d be best to actually come to God and ask Him for help about it, since the more his mind makes up excuses for praying, the more he’s immersing himself on the sin. Besides, God already knows what we are all doing. “ — Angel Manica Raquel  Anonymous said: I'm struggling with this pornography addiction. I'm yet to go to God about it, and I know it's wrong. I just need prayers right now. I answered: I shall pray for you. :) I want to be honest with you. I’ve never actually encountered having to say something about pornography. I didn’t want to not be able to help you, but I’d rather do my best to help you in prayer than to stuff my reply with seemingly wise and flowery words, when in truth, I have no expertise on the subject at all. I didn’t want to take the risk and assume any advice I could give, because I’d rather not say things that might cause you to stumble even more. And after all, it says in 1 Corinthians 4:20 that, “For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.” However, I did gather a few links that, at best, would hopefully help you. Please take the time to read them. :) Before I made this reply, I already prayed for you, and I’ll definitely be keeping you in my prayers. And perhaps all I really have to say about this is that, I know you know it’s wrong, but it’s not simply just a matter of knowing whether this or that is right or wrong, now is it? A person can know which is right and which is wrong yet he would still choose what is wrong. People do that often out of ignorance or out of taking every day for granted, or out of many other reasons. I don’t know what your reason is, but what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s about to which of those two choices will you surrender to. Do you know the story of the prodigal son in the Bible? It’s in Luke 15:11-32. I have another link to give you that is in accordance with that story. “The Devil always makes the far country beautiful. He always paints it in glowing colors. I say, the Devil does have shined-up apples. They have glowing color and a pleasing aroma. And the first bite is sweet. But you see, when he bit down into the apple, he found a worm. That is what you always find when you bite into the Devil’s apples! Sometimes when you bite into the Devil’s apples, you will find half a worm! Some of it you will have already swallowed! That is not a joke when you apply it to sin, as I am applying it now. Lots of times when you bite in and do not find a worm, you have already swallowed it. The sin is committed and you can’t get done with it as easily as you think. You will find out the Devil is a liar when it is too late to retract some things, when it is too late to live over some things. Wait until you see the end! Do not judge by the beginning; judge by the end! Do not, I say, depend on how the Devil makes it look at the start. You had better see how God says it will end. The Devil’s apples look nice, smell nice, taste nice at first. But you will find out the truth when you bite into the worms of sin, sorrow, corruption, disappointments, broken hearts, smiting consciences, and torment in Hell.” —Evangelist John R. Rice And you see the best part about this is that you may have the wonderful fruit of God. Please read this: (It’s long, but it’ll be worth it) |link 3| I’ve also asked help from some of my sisters in Christ. These are the last parting words I have to quote for you: “No matter what bondage, stronghold, sin or addiction has held you captive in the past, when you receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, you receive His power—His burden-moving, yoke-destroying anointing. Sin can’t hold you back any longer because whom the Son sets free is free indeed! (See John 8:36) It all starts by believing and receiving this promise. The more you meditate on His Word, the more of His power becomes activated in you. Today, know that you are free and you have victory! Receive this truth and let it lead you to transform your being from the inside out!” —spiritualinspiration
Today, you can choose sadness and bitterness over anything else as much as you want. Today, you can be depressed as much as you can be. But as you do, don’t even dare think there’s no one out there who understands your pain or even your simple frustration; because the only One who does understand you is weaving time, in every heartbeat and every passing second, with all the most unimaginable opportunities of joy for you. The God of all the universe wants nothing else but to do good to you and to show you great things, and just remember that you’re the one choosing to close your doors to that. Just remember that a minute you spend sad, angry, or bitter is a minute of joy from the Lord that you can never take back. You can rob yourself of the joy that God wants to give to you as much as you want, but believe me, deep down, that’s really not what you want.
“Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!” “, Psalm 35:27 Prayer request:
Please pray for me. And for the prayer I had awhile ago. I was praying for the people out there who are planning to suicide this very moment, and just as I was pouring my heart out to God, my prayer was interrupted. This is quite serious. If you’ve noticed that whenever you pray, there are distractions all the time, it’s because the “enemy” is doing all the he can to stop you from praying. Interrupted prayers are the ones the ‘evil one’ steals. (e.g. the prayer you had when you accidentally fell asleep, the prayer you had before a distraction or interruption came along) And by ‘stealing them’, I mean he could use them for his evil and unrighteous schemes. I will by all means pray and pray again, but I’d also really appreciate your help. GOD BLESS all of you. People are now trying to put a stop to the world’s worst criminal but not the world’s worst criminal inside of them that keeps separating them from God.
Last night, while I was praying for the people around me, I suddenly thought of the people who are wanting to suicide at that very moment. It was as if the Holy Spirit told me to pray for them, and I did just that. Today, I received a message about a girl who got overdosed with pills out of the depression she’s been feeling.
Pray for Yannery. Pray for all the people who are attempting to suicide. Pray, even for those people who are merely and only having suicidal “thoughts”. Pray. The power of prayer is beyond our imagination because that power relies on Who answers our prayers. GOD BLESS you. YOU. Yes, you.
To any person who is reading this, whether you be a person who is bored at the moment, a person who is randomly scrolling through his or her dashboard, or someone who is under an intense situation right now, have you ever experienced someone close to you who attempted to suicide? Imagine how you would feel if a loved one of yours attempted to suicide, and much more God, to whom every soul is precious. Every soul is precious…including this one: Yannery Cabrera. Though I don’t know her personally, I’m holding on to God’s Love for her, and out of that love I’m doing what I can to reach out to others for her. More details about the story is here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yannery-Cabrera-Get-Well-Soon/190104051090552?sk=info I failed a test today. In fact I had the lowest score in our class. Here’s the thing. Recently, I keep declaring outright that nothing would take away my joy that is in the Lord. Nothing. I don’t care if the “enemy” thinks he’s brought me down by a thousand negative emotions awhile ago. I refuse, In Jesus’ name, to declare that I was giving in to that deception. What I would admit is that I was fighting. If ever my mood changed which was previously cheerful and free-spirited, that doesn’t mean it turned into a “bad mood” or “disturbed-and-depressed-mood-coz-i-just-failed-a-test” mood. It did turn however into a “spiritual battle mode”. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord for He has created a specific purpose and reason as to why he allowed a failing grade to happen. Praise the Lord for even if I would not ever be able to understand in my finite human knowledge why these things happened, it is through His grace that I am able to trust Him like this. It is through His grace that I trust in Him that even if I failed that test, God knows why it’s what should’ve happened instead of anything else. Praise the Lord that in my weakness, He is my victory! Praise the Lord! Though the “enemy” must really hate me right now, nothing would stop me from praising the Lord. Praise the Lord! I am nothing without Jesus, and when all I have is Him, I have all I’ll ever need!!! P.S., If there’s a test that I most certainly would not like to fail, it’s the testing of my faith. To God be all the glory; In Jesus’ name, Amen! 1
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