Need someone to talk to sometimes

My name is Rick... I have anxiety and depression. Sometimes I am okay, but sometimes it really hits me hard.

I am a believer in Jesus and I always have for as long as I can remember. I still worry if I have done enough as a Christian. I worry a lot about death. I don't want to die. There's a lot of living I still want to do. I get really afraid I would go to Hell. I am a believer so I don't think I will. I have this fear that I would get to Heaven and be told I hadn't done enough or I had sinned too much.

I have limited mobility so I don't go out much. I sit and think about these things most of the time and don't have a lot of people to talk to. It would really help me to have someone I could talk about me feelings with.

Rick

Precious friend, I will pray for you; please be Encouraged and Comforted in:

God's Simple Will!
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God's Grace Word for our infirmities!

Amen.

worrying may be the cause of your anxiety. Christians should not worry but be concerned. the Christian definition of anxiety is "misplaced priorities in life". worrying is a negative outlook & thought on something, someone or somewhere. concern is a positive outlook on the same. example: a mother lets her child outside to play for the 1st time without mothers supervision. she will be looking out the window every 5 minutes to check for safety trusting nothing bad will happen while trusting in God's protection. worrying is something the devil wants you in & it compounds, building up in your brain. the catholics worry about doing enough to get to heaven. we can "never do enough". no amount of works is enough. are you a born again christian believer? if not, seriously consider becoming one. the Holy Spirit will lead & guide you into all truths & Jesus will remove your worries. you can't be sent to heaven & told you didn't do enough. it's either hell or heaven immediately. i am sorry to hear of your immobile issue. James 4:7 teaches, "submit yourselves to God, resist the devil & he will will FLEE FROM YOU"! never be in a fight with the devil, just flee him. Jesus can remove anyone's problems & sometimes, quite quickly. blessings to you.

Welcome!

Happy New Year 2024

Philippians 4:8 will give you a good idea about what to spend your time thinking about. This will bring with it not only the peace of God, but also the God of peace nigh unto you.

Thank you so much... that is a good verse.

Hi RickA welcome and so glad the Lord led you here! The thing about worry is it's useless and is the opposite of faith. There is a Scripture promise for any worrisome thing that tries to deceive us. Here's another bit of wisdom, 'Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done' Phil 4:6-7. God bless you🙏

Hi Rick
Keep in mind God isn't about your works. God provides grace because works can't save you.
Works are an extension of what's in your heart. An evidence of God in you. If you're going around doing good works to earn your way into heaven it will never happens. It's not possible.

We're actually very similar. I have depression and sometimes anxiety. I have mobility issues. Not a lot of people to talk to. And some of the same concerns you have.

i've noticed it is a huge issue people not having anyone to talk to. partly that is because people don't have the respect they had decades ago when for example if 2 people are talking on the phone & one says bye, the other hears it & says bye. now-a-days, you're left waiting on messenger, f.b., tiktok, computer, everything. someone quits a conversation & you never know when they're coming back, that's a gigantic turn-off! i actually talk to less people because of that. truthfully, i made a new resolution this year: people who put me on hold because they want to take another call, i hang up. my brother, who i've been putting up with for decades putting me on hold, i no longer play his game. i called him on his vacation & he put me on hold, can you believe that? & because people leave you waiting, you get less respect & courtesy from people too.

"From all the "events' taking place across the land, it is conceivable that anxiety and depression
has become a disturbing social ailment. By all accounts, it is not going away, and is intensifying.
'And in a nutshell..."There are no political, economic, 'religious' or military solutions to what is
primarily a spiritual problem in the world today."

'Soul sickness may surely be considered a serious mental and physical ailment. And I believe
the solution to be found in the most unlikely place...I leave for each to come to their own conclusion.'

Hi Rick, and welcome.

Believing is great. But I'm curious, have you ever been baptized by immersion since you believed? Baptism doesn't save us; only faith can do that. But it's the first step to becoming a true disciple of the Lord. If you haven't taken this important step I'd encourage you to do so. He wants us to lay all our cares on Him and trust Him as a child would.

Dear Rick, please do not worry nothing good comes out of it. Our Lord Jesus said;

Mat 6:25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Mat 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Mat 6:27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Mat 6:28 And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
Mat 6:29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
Mat 6:30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Mat 6:32 For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
Mat 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

These words always comforted me. I hope they will comfort you also
Peace

This! This happens too much these days. It seems to be all age groups too, from what I've experienced/observed.

ain't gonna" happen in Heaven!!!!!!!!!

Hey Rick. I'm here to talk anytime if you'd like. I have always had severe anxiety w black out panic attacks, even when I was a kid. I took anxiety medicine for a couple of decades and functioned that way. Basically this whole War on Drugs sort of a thing has caught up the anxiety meds that I take into it. So I'm like basically out here for the first time in my life at 48 years old trying to figure out how to function with the anxiety problem that I have.

Top that off I had a psychiatrist change of dose and yank me off of another one and it caused the condition called akathisia. Google would say it's just a movement disorder but there's so much more to it than that. The anxiety that comes with it is like indescribable. Maybe like your worst anxiety moment you can think of on some sort of horrible illicit amp you up type of drug.

So I have very few friends. I mean there's like a slight handful on Facebook that still interact with me and will pray for me and stuff. But it's like everybody else vanished. People were super supportive when I first started having problems like physical ones disability type ones. But it's like once it becomes a chronic thing everybody just vanished. It's really sad.

It reminds me of the lord of the flies. I mean they had this poor pilot that was injured from the crash and he would moan and groan at night because he was in a lot of pain obviously. And the camp was like split where there was a handful of them that wanted to try to save the guy's life at all costs and the rest of them just wanted to kill him just shut him up because he was inconvenient.

I feel inconvenient. So I feel you.

Different denominations feel different about different things but I don't think that there's any sin that just can't be forgiven at all. I feel like that was the point of Jesus dying on the cross to begin with. I don't think that you could get to heaven and be told you send too much and have that be an actual reason for not getting in so to speak because all sin is equal in the eyes of God and you're forgiven. Saying a prayer for you.

May the word of God bring encouragement to your heart.

1 John 3:1-3 KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
[2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
[3] And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

It’s going to be okay. Your Father loves you.
The enemy is the one that whispers to you that you aren’t good enough, sin too much, aren’t forgiven. These are lies.

He hates you, and wants you living in a state of fear. That’s how you know it’s from him. Don’t believe him.

God doesn’t give us fear. He may correct us in love, but He doesn’t give us a spirit of fear.
2 Timothy 1:7
New King James Version
7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of
power and of love and of a sound mind.

Holy Father, please manifest Your loving Presence in unmistakable ways. Remove any anxiety the world his flesh and the devil attack Rick with. Bless him, and use him to help others who feel as he does.

In Jesus Name I pray.

I'm here for you buddy--

Jas 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Jas 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Jas 2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

Or--I have a problem-care if I share? Christian: No mate-I'll pray for you-but busy at the moment.

You know where to find me.
J.

Come on in, brother. Come chat with us about anything, especially about the good Lord above and all of His promises.