Defeating Mental Persecution | Alex Wilson
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- "Mental Persecution" is when your mind is running because you've been mistreated for following Jesus.
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INTRO 00:00
RUNNING 00:50
CUNNI NG 01:30
SONNING 02:58
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
-John 15:18
My mental persecution is how others form judgment upon looking at me before I’m giving the chance to speak and getting to know me. I’m treated differently because of this. Being that I’m aware and know, it is often that I smile and try to reach out before this opinion is solidified. We have to try and maintain our walk with Christ in spite of.
God bless you I pray you have a wonderful day today and don’t worry about any of them❤✝️
I have this identical problem presently.
@@_m-rxy_ thank you.
Same im one of 4 black people in a small town and everyone here treats me like I'm on the FBI's most wanted
@@thatscrazy5976 but God! As my mother used to say, “smile politely and speak”. I pray in my mind and often aloud asking God for forgive them and bless their souls.
Mind is always racing. Always wondering what others think. And wondering if im doing my best or if im forgiven and sometimes if im capable of achieving the goals i want to achieve
Hey brother, I also have problems with a racing mind. One truth that might help you is that most people won't be thinking about you, because we all are too preoccupied thinking about ourselves. So if you're worried about what others think, don't be, because even if they do, most of the time they'll forget and move on. Unless they're your friends and family and thinking about you in a positive light. God bless man.
@@luketabidze8175 thanks brother. I appreciate the words.
You are forgiven, you are justified in Christ. Watch Andrew Wommack series on the war is over. I declare the peace of God over your mind in JESUS name.
Same dude
I’ve been struggling a lot with lust and it’s been eating at me I pray to God that I overcome this and I pray for anyone else struggling with this to overcome it too
Praying for you man. God is going to build you up.
Fast and pray, cut out the temptations get off social media
Amen brother
Hey❤ Jesus see and knows it's hard. But remember lust is something that you long for and basically crave. And remember God has givin us self control. You can control want you do and want you watch. Pray and rea d your Bible on that topic and UA-cam some ways to fight that. Keep going and keep repenting. Lord, reavel to this one the self control you have givin them and help them over come this strong hold. Give them wisdom and the strength to keep going! In Jesus name. Amen Amen❤
I recommend a book called "unwanted" by jay stringer. genuinely one of the best books ive ever read. just finished it like 3 days ago. it gives a shocking amount of clarity to this issue. I got porn (not saying this is the problem your dealing with, but the book covers more than just porn) out of my life after 7-8 years, but didn't realize that i didn't address the underlying issues, so the problem just popped up in a different way (idolization, in my case). "unwanted" really helped me figure out what these problems were, so now I know where I need to let god work in me.
Someone close to me feels inferior to me in their faith. They tell me “all because you pray and read the Bible more doesn’t mean you’re better than me” idk why she says this to me. I just love God so much that I talk about him a lot. I hope God blesses her to realize it’s not a competition.
That’s the devil
He’s just trying to get you to separate yourself from God
Now you have to pursue God even more since the devil is attacking but at the same time I could be wrong so don’t trust me just go and ask God about it
Slow down with calling people the devil 😂 you’re giving him too much power. Honestly her friend may not know the harm she’s doing. But to the original post I hope you’ve openly communicated it’s not a competition and expressed how her comments make you feel. And maybe you should ask yourself are we equally yoked and really be honest and see if she’s growing with you or slowing you down. Because being equally yoked is important for all relationships.
i believe she or he has wounds in her heart that the Lord needs to heal
insecurities
your friend needs to know his/hee worth in Christ
she/he should meditate on verses about God’s love for us
and also
your friend shoyld fast from ppl who distract her/him
(not a offending way, but people can remind your friend of his/her pain yk?)
i’ve been there before
and God has to isolate me and work in my heart
i read the Word of God a lot more, I spent time with Him and more and more i felt more confident in my identity in Christ
i felt better and happier
i remembered Jesus is with me and gained more faith
and the jealousy and the insecurities took time to heal but they progressively left
it takes tine❤ but pressing into the Word of God helps to grow so much
that the spirit overcomes the flesh and the ebemies lis
the enemy is lying to your friend, telling your friend that she/he can’t make it
that your friend isn’t as good as you
the enemy is lying to your friend, telling your friend that you’re better
but what your friend needs
is prayer
and to spend time with God alone❤
it will get better and easier more faith in the Word
grows the love in our hearts and the confidence in God
here are bible verses i’d advise your friend to meditate on:
Romans 8:38-39
John 3:16
1 joshua 8
1 Corinthians 13:13
Psalm 91:11
isaiah 41:10
John 8:32
Endure and embrace the suffering because God sees your heart here! This is where we grow in intimacy with the Lord because we decide our only option is to trust in him.
Amen
My mental persecution is about bad and wrong thoughts that I really don't want to have about faith. I have to stay strong in Christ, God is always with me.
Stay strong sister! I have gone through this, as well as a lot of others I know. It’s common scheme of the enemy. It may take time, but it will pass. “Resist and he will flee”. Sometimes the resisting takes a bit before he does but he always does!
@@mariocosta1451 yes!!! Thanks for the words
Was going thru some serious mental persecution trying to read the Word right before I watched this video, I felt like the enemy's voice was so loud and deceptive. But thank u Lord for the way that your word teaches us to view our trials. Teach us to see them as a pure joy and blessing! Let us make most of the opportunity to rejoice and be glad as we share in the fellowship of your sufferings. In Jesus name.
I struggle deeply with feeling unwanted. Not just by people, but even by God. Nothing I’ve ever done in life has been right or good enough for anyone. I grew up with a mother who never was proud of me, and constantly ridiculed me for everything. So I struggle with feeling wanted, which leads to a struggle with reading the word and praying and everything. Because in my head what I get is “if God doesn’t want me what good would it do someone like me to read his word?”, “if God doesn’t want me, then he’s definitely not going to listen to me. I can’t blame him. I wouldn’t either”…and so on.
When I’ve tried to follow God, my mother has condemned me in one way or another. If I feel under attack from the enemy, and I tell her, she immediately begins questioning why I think that or why we are under attack, etc. As if we are to blame for the enemies attacks. And it gets in my head, and I start questioning and wondering if maybe she has a point, what if she’s right. She’s my mother she knows more than I do right? (Even though I’m in my 30’s, and not a child anymore). And it’s very very difficult to counter these thoughts and arguments, even when I know they aren’t true.
My dear, i battle with the same thing but one thing you should know is that what you do or don’t do doesn’t make God to love you less, because you’re already chosen, just know that one of Satan tricks is to use our emotions and manipulate our feelings and mind so that we will think contrary to what God has said in his word.
Read the word of God but first take this fears into God’s hands because he won’t and never will he condemn you ,ask him and be honest,God loves it when we are honest to him.
Love you 🫂❣️
The devil is after the righteous once❤Isaiah 5:20 woe to those who call evil good and good evil
My mental persecution is all the overwhelming thoughts of “losing out” on all the “fun” of the world. Another mental persecution is comparing myself to other believers in Christ and feeling inferior, thinking that I need to do more in my life as a child of God. However, the truth is it was all finished on the cross, Jesus paid it all, and He offers us the gift of eternal life if we just believe in Him. My dad says the perspective us believers should have is not “do” or “doing” but “done”, because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice for us. Amen!
my mental persecution is that whenever I sin or do something I shouldn't have done the enemy uses it tormenting me with it & I find it hard to forgive myself
You are forgiven my dear,take it to the Lord and be sincere, you are already a child of God, God’s love for you doesn’t depend on what you have done or what you did not do but his love is confidential and unconditional.
Through the blood of Jesus we receive have received redemption,the forgiveness of our sins. I battle with this too but God helped me yesterday with Ephesians 1. He showed me that I’m forever saved as his child ❣️.
One time I was spreading the gospel online and a lot of people were coming at me calling the Bible a “fairytale” and calling God “sky daddy” and overall mocking which hurt me and made me anxious. It felt like everyone was against me and I felt isolated. Sometimes I feel scared to speak about my faith and Jesus but it’s a matter of setting our minds on Christ and renewing our minds through his word :)
That happens a lot. But you come back at their insults where you’re steeping down to their level but logically come back at their worldview. Athiest can’t explain how the world came to be. 🤨??? That’s literally insane for them to walk around like they’re smarter than everybody😂 nothing created something that exploded into everything and here we are->>🦠🧬🐟🦍 👫
I’m persecuted by my own family
My Dad God bless him!! I have such a good relationship with my dad!! Thank you GOD!! However he thinks I NEED!!! To make money, like full time just sell myself completely for the gain of money. At my young age!? That’s hard for mentally.
I was forced out of my family home by my mums new boyfriend - constant mocking, it felt uncomfortable to be in the same room as him and he wanted it to. He would constantly try to domineer and degrade. Any attempt I made to appeal to my mother was met with a similar opinion.
I really relate to what you say about how it makes one “run” and that it is cunning. It’s often in the withholding of common decency rather than any explicit offence lest they be found out and rightly accused.
He was convinced that he was “in the right” and a “good person” because he had a conventional 9-5 job.
There was one occasion where he got drunk and had an outburst, thankfully one of the neighbours called the police and he spent a night in jail - still didn’t learn though.
He has sabotaged my business and left me with so much anxiety around work.
Now I’ve bought my own house but it’s in a very rough area, my motorbike has been stolen already and as a result I have no avenue for work.
Thank you brother Alex for your prompt encouragements from the Living and Life Giving Word Of God. May LORD Jesus bless your family and use you for His glory! ❤️
My mental persecution is my mind. It’s constantly telling me that God doesn’t love me, that I should quit, that this isn’t worth it. Only the grace of God will carry me through this one 🙃
The truth about you is written in the Bible: God loves you. Begin to believe this word more and more each day. Everything He has done shows His love for us. God loves the world so much that He sent His only Son to die for us in our place. He suffered out of love for you. All this was done so that one day we could all meet with Father and be totally filled with His love for all eternity. He has chosen you, He will never desist of you, choose today never to desist of Him. True life is to be in the arms of God, and anything outside of that is like being lifeless. Christ is worth fighting for, His love is always worth it! You don't have to be perfect to get to God, but have 100% trust in Christ and what He has done for you.
Romans 8:38-39: "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
You are loved and I know the feeling. But God has a plan for you. Jeremiah 29:11❤ it's not useless your efforts are not useless. He sees . He knows . Take it one day at a time. Focus on Jesus. Fall in love with Him. Seek first the kingdom of God, live righousely and everything else will BE Added. Stay strong our Bridegroom is almost here. Read in the Bible about Paul finishing the race
❤ strong.
This ^
My mental persecution right now is at work.
Last week they probably tried to isolate me from my quit close coworker.
Then I fought back. Laughed to their faces(talking did not help, I tried it months). I play mind games and staff. Takes a LOT of energy:)
Today was already good, they backed off, they scared now.
Thank god!!❤
Mine is that my classmates look down upon me and lie about me because. I dont
smoke like them and i dont go to clubs ,that i pray to Jesus and they look at it loke its uncool to pray toJesus like before i eat i pray at school .And they dont want to be friends with me ,they gossiping about me and bully and tease me .Sometimes its for their personal reasons but most of the time its for Christianity.Thanks,this made understand some things God bless you!😇😊
Remain steadfast, my friend! Praying Gods sends you a group of Godly friends in school.
Thank you Alex for making these. These videos always feel very warm, but make you think. My mental persecution is constantly mentally persecuting Christians close to me, and focusing on every little thing they do wrong. It's a war, but I'm praying that these thoughts are defeated.
Intrusive thoughts, depression and anxiety. Also battling thoughts of not being good enough, fears associating with work and social-anxiety. It stops me from truly living for God’s calling in my life
I feel like I’ve been in paranoia about every decision I make being perfectly holy/God lead or not. If anyone has any advice that can help me I’d thank you 🙏🏽
Hey, i have that too :( if someone has any advice please help me too😅
I go through the same thing. But one thing I'm learning. Is that you will not be perfect because there is sin in the world. If you don't know what the right decision is, pray about it, worship the Lord, even in the difficult times and in the best times, and if it's a big decision, seek godly counseling. And if the Holy Spirit tells you to do something, do it. Follow your authorities above you. Pastors, your spouse, and if your still living with your parents, then them. God is your ultimate authority. And most of all, don't stay stuck. Make a decision, even if you don't know if it's right or wrong. Just do what you know is right. If it's wrong, the Lord will guide you and steer you back. He will make it right. Romans 8:28 says: "For we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose."
And proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."
Lastly, Romans 13:1 says, "Let every soul be subject to governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God." Of course, if this authority is above you but they go against the Bible or the Holy Spirit (God), then and only then, do you not listen to them. God bless all who read this, and, "The Lord bless you, and keep you; The Lord make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; the Lord turn His face toward you, and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26
So do I..and in addition, literally before I say ANYTHING, I am constantly getting bombarded by thoughts and fears that I cannot speak my words, but I should be willing to speak God's only. I feel so bound by these thoughts, because I am second-guessing everything I say and do, even things like checking Facebook (not excessively), buying a coffee, watching an innocent video or sharing jokes with friends..
@@anastazjamalczyk7683 GGGG me FOURTHHHH.I didn't feel comfortable sharing the gospel because I worried about saying the wrong thing or not knowing if it was what God wanted. I also hesitated to join prayer calls because I would overthink it. Thoughts like "Don't be prideful," "Don't talk too much or too little," and "Focus on others, not yourself" overwhelmed me. This constant overthinking led to depression and HEAVINESS over time, as a weight was on me. I thought these thoughts were from God. It made me lose confidence in my relationship with God. I want to clarify that this overthinking and feeling CONSTANTLY PUT DOWN AND overwhelmed is not from God. It's important to understand that God doesn't want us burdened this way.
Hey guys, I definitely experience these thoughts of trying to perfectly do His will, even if I try to convince myself otherwise. I have not really found any sort of method or fix to this but something that I’ve been trying to keep in mind more is His grace, grace for others and grace for ourselves to make our own decisions and grow. Confusion and bondage is from satan, and anything that feels controlling/manipulative is not from God. My mom always says there is definitely good and bad but lots of gray area for God to let us choose. No real answer here but 100% empathize with you guys. Hope we can all be easier on ourselves and give ourselves room to grow, ultimately closer to Jesus.
Schizophrenia, autism, and demon possession here. Please pray for me.
not mental persecution but in general i am currently struggling with heartbreak from love as well as grieving from a loss of a loved one. so please keep me in your prayers. But overall, i am giving it to God & trying my best🙌🏽
Thank you for sharing this! This video came at the perfect time as I was just praying about this. I was dating someone whose parents are followers of Christ. His parents are also not married and they have a lot of control over him but he’s an adult. I always did my best to honor them and push their son to be what God calls us to be but they were intimidated by my faith and rejected me from the beginning. They tried to play “nice” but their actions showed their true colors. I love them I do but once my friends heard what was happening, they rejected me as well. But my friends are Christian. It just hurts because I feel like everyone is living life like nothing happened but I’m left with the pain and heartbreak. I miss them I do. I know God cares for me it’s just hard to see the betrayal from people who were once my closest friends.
I'm sorry. I can only imagine the pain you are feeling 😞. We love you and God loves you infinitely more!!! ❤❤❤
Psalms 119:89
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
when i’m watching with my cousins/siblings and the video makes fun of Jesus; that’s when i get anxious, because it seems all eyes are on me.
because of this, i’ve been quiet about Jesus and changing the way i act around them.
Hey, dont let them get you down. Jesus is the salvation, we will be persecuted either way. Stand strong God is with you❤
@@ann.gg. thank u :)
Ahh, the same thing used to happen to me. I used to have a movie night with my sib, but when I got saved, I realised these shows were not the things that I'd invite JESUS to watch with me, so I slowly broke it to them tht I couldn't watch what they watched. Don't dim your light, man; let your light that comes from JESUS shine on them. Sometimes, when we mingle in the affairs of the world, that will dim our lights, so I pray for GOD's strength and guidance for you to separate yourself from among them because one thing I noticed is if you fellowship const with the things of the world, you'll start to take on their interest ( this literally happened to me) so I began to set certain boundaries, ofc still have fun but ask the Holy Spirit for wisdommmm.
@@whatsnextnora i appreciate this, thank you
I went though break up from a sinful relationship. I want to change and break from the thoughts of her and from the sin, but I just cannot forget and it’s crushing me. The last few weeks have been torture mentally about stuff we did and I cannot seem to get over it or her. Please pray for me I desperately need it.
😢This helped me alot; maybe this will help you too.
Every time you think of her speak the words or in your mind say "I forgive you".
My thoughts was so bad I had to ask Jesus to give me the forgiveness to those who deeply hurt me; because I could not do it on my own too.
By me doing this the thoughts gradually went away. It always ended with "I forgive you.
Agape!
My Mental persecution is centered around lust, Masturbation and feeling very perverted. Also, it has intensified signicantly since moved on my own. I am even thinking that i dont love God because of my thoughts. Its crazy, sometimes i font even know how i am still alive. This then affects my job and my relationships. I feeling like there is a demonic spirit is messing with my mind, i feel afflicted. However, despite of my feelings i am grateful to be alive no joke. Thanks for sharing this video, it has been impactful thus far. I will rewatch a coiple more times.
Praising the Lord helps me a lot with mental turbulation. Hope that helps you too!
The same thing happened to me, I'd get perverse thoughts of JESUS like sexually explicit, and I'd be so ashamed; I'd be like, GOD, I want NOTHING to do with these thoughts !!! Even thoughts of harsh words like F GOD, I HATE you. I began to understand these thoughts were definitely not from me because they started suddenly when I started getting serious about the things of GOD; you're definitely not alone.
@@whatsnextnora wow, i can relate, as soon as you want to begin the journey with Christ serious. God presents a way of escape, however trouble still lurks around, so walking that path with the confidence of Christ and His word in us the finish line is inevitable. Keep pressing on in Jesus Name.
Wow. I needed this today!! PRAISE BE TO JESUS.
All I want is JESUS.
Ecclesiastes 5:19
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Jesus loves you so much and is with you forever, no matter what ❤
My mental persecution is anxiety and fear during the day mostly at night that really tests my faith in Jesus.
Spiritual Warfare over my mind
Hey Alex, thank you for your ministry God bless you. My mental persecution is an overwhelming feeling of not being good enough, I’ve been faithfully serving God for 3 years now and would say going from strength to strength however at times the enemy creeps in with these thoughts of not being good enough.
I thank God every day though because I know he is renewing my mind to his ways ❤
I love to write but I am constantly terrified that I will make some mistake in my writing that is heresy/blasphemy, and that by doing so I will be beyond God’s love, even though this is not my intention at all. I’ve also been undergoing constant panic attacks last month and this month so far, and I have been feeling incredibly lonely too. I don’t know why all of this is happening but it has been incredibly tiring. Please pray for me. Please.
I praise God for your ministry and this community of people that God has cultivated through you! My mental persecution is overthinking every little thing and wanting to change things immediately when I feel they are wrong (which may not be a bad thing but then I end up taking on a lot at once) and also just caring a lot what others think and saying too much. The Bible mentions it's better to listen more and speak less. And also chains regarding finances considering my family was really poor growing up and did not teach me anything about finances Any tips/advice are welcomed.
LOOK TOWARDS THE REWARD🗣🗣
This beautifuly links to when Peter was walking on water and Jesus told him to focus on Him.
How in life we will come across obstacles that will feel like WALKING ON WATER IN THE MIDST OF A STORM. But God says to keep our eyes on him for in the end HE IS THE REWARD.
Thank you so much for this video 🌸🥹
My mental persecution right now is forgiveness even though I know Jesus is pleased with me wanting to forgive others still may hold grudges around me or against me.
Jesus Christ loves you!
This hits home so hard for me! 🙏✝️
Recently, my mental persecution has been coming from an inside source. I dont know if this is even possible, but I feel like sometimes I am persecuting myself for so many reasons, but my main reason lately has been gluttony. Since I was little, I have had a bad habit of eating too much and not knowing when to stop. This has effected me when I am stressed and after surviving my first year of college...lets just say ive definitely gained my freshman-15...Im at a point where I don't know what to do other than to mentally punish myself and tell myself to do better.
my mental persecution is mainly me fighting my porn adiction but also my mind sometimes feels like a storm , and mainly lately that so many good things have been hapening to me and i cant wrap my head around that , so its been very dificult for my heart , but im giving those emotions and thoughts to him so that he brings me peace everytime
also fighting with my need of wanting to have a girlfriend , and a partner for life. I need to learn how to wait on Christ with this things
Thank you for this! Mine is probably dealing with idolizing relationships and feeling the enemy trying to attack me by reminding me of my life before Christ, even though I know I am forgiven and a new being by the grace of God
Doubts,Anxiety,Worry, Obidience
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jesus does the work, But Family not being saved nor feeling the Love of Christ!
I watch one of these every morning.. (usually I just scroll to the old videos) but this just got uploaded 7 minutes ago..
Literally perfect timing.
I’ve been trying to eat healthy according to the principles revealed in the Seventh day Adventist church health message. It is a huge mental and physical challenge for me. But I can see how it’s a form of persecution in following Christ.
I am mentally persecuted by my friends who don’t believe in my relationship with God and shun me for it, telling me things and giving me advice that they think will help me but only lure me away from God. Even though I love them, I am confused now without their support and I don’t know how to speak God’s word to people who don’t truly know God. I am only 19
I understand you friend, I’ve been there and I doubted myself whenever I protected my boundaries and God’s word when conversing with my coworkers. The best advice I would give is, firstly don’t have a conversation about something unless you understand and believe what in you’re saying, that said these people are all gonna judge you and make you and Jesus feel small. The best weapon you have is the Word of God and The Holy Spirit. ”In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.“
John 1:1
Get into the Word of God and pray about it and whenever situations like these arise, stand firm in The Word of God. Your friends are gonna make you doubt it. When you start doubting thats when you know you have done right by Jesus. When people start doubting you and giving you dirty looks and not agreeing you are being mentally persecuted. I really hope I could help you. God bless you friend.
About the last part, reading the Bible helps you build a framework about God’s character and you start loving what he loves and hating what he hates. This inner reflection will be manifested into you daily life. Real life example is, you start being helpful around the house. Helping more, sacrifing for your friends, forgiving, loving people like Jesus would, honoring your parents, honoring your siblings, blessing you enemy. These changes are very noticeable, trust me. When people see these things, the one who are interested will stick around the one who arent will not. To summarise changing your heart is the way to getting people understand the source of our love, Jesus Christ.
My mental persecution is I think about my past a lot even tho I don’t want to and I’m always thinking if people remember by my past or by the new person god made me
My goodness this was the perfect video. I just got off the phone with my sister. She believes in the universe, angel numbers etc. We we're going back & forth about God & the universe.. anyway.. just wanted to say, God truly placed this video for me. Thank you.
I think my persecution is that my worship is not honest. I tend to spend time with God but then I just stop because in the back of my head I’m like “it’s not geniune”. Overthinking is my oppressor
This used to happen to me a lot. I hated myself for feeling like I'm not actually worshipping God with my all. That what is telling you, that you aren't genuine is the devil. Just push through the worship and pray and ask God before you start to be there with you in your worship, dedicate it to him. I know you know that HE said HE is always with us and he will never leave us. But when u pray this, its like telling yourself that he is there and your worship is heard and felt by Him. And by praying that and doing that more often, you'll realize that you don't feel like your worship is ingenuine anymore. Like James 4:7 "Submit to the lord, resist the devil and he will flee from you." So you keep submitting to God and in turn you are resisting the devil.
Whenever I listen to worship music I get the same voice questioning my beliefs.
but honestly if we get a reward for being persecuted for righteousness sake, those who are persecutING because of righteousness would get a terrible punishment for doing so… it kinda makes me sick and just feel bad for those who speak against Christ/Christians.
I'm recovering from a coma. Ever since I woke up I've had major mental and spiritual attacks about me being afraid of being in the position I was in while I was in the hospital. I always thought I was going to fall walking, because I was in a wheelchair for a while, but I thanks be to God I don't fall but just lose my balance. I think the enemy attacks me with this because I really don't want to be in a position where I can't be independent anymore. I thank God for restoring my body in ways I couldn't alone.
Pray for me. My mental persecution is that my wife will never come back with me and my kids. Please please please pray for them and pray for me. 😢
Alex, you’ve been lifting for sure! Thanks for all you do.
Jesus Christ is king
JESUS CHRIST is Lord......4eva 👍
Intrusive Thoughts, Doubt, and Fear
I have friends that sometimes 'mock' me or overall disregard my faith. It's truly sad. It's mentally persecuting because I love Jesus and to be around friends that fail to see that hurts me.
Life sucks all I want to do is be a good father to my child give her what I never had but it seems like everyone is trying to replace me in her life. I don’t care about a lot of things I pretty much let everything slide because I’d go crazy trying to defend myself against every attack. I have “Be Meek” tatted on myself as a daily reminder but man it’s hard. Fighting tho!
Amen🙏 currently in this situation. Along with enemies who are in the occults/ satanism. May we pray without ceasing🔥
How others are gonna think of me and how they want me to feel
I think my mental persecution would be my mind! I deal with overthinking pretty often! I sometimes think that it’s hard to believe this and it’s right, without me questioning if correct in a sense…
Amen
Amen ❤
I needed to hear this. Thanks. God is Great
I love this brother! Keep preaching the good news!
For me it's the church, many, are stepping up for justice the true fast!!!
Thanks again bro! In Jesus’ name, Amen!! ✝️
Aloha & God Bless !
Lust, and intrusive thoughts that are my mental persecution.
My mental persecution is the fact that my parents do not like my boyfriend. He is the most Christ-like person I have ever met, but not of the same nationality as I am. It hurts me that my parents don't see beyond this (and some other things he can not change) and it makes me doubt if I am making the right decision....
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I’m persecuted by my own family. Trying my best to get through it, cause I feel like their opinion of me caused me to worry what others think of me when Evangelizing. Or maybe I’m just having trouble with fear of man
I’m mentally being destroyed right now with my overwhelming addiction to porn.. I don’t know what to do Jesus save me
A good message but I feel like we aren’t fully grasping the fact that Jesus was fully God and fully man. The pharisees weren’t tripping Him up with their little games. At all times Jesus knew their thoughts and motives
It’s my friends not following God when they don’t follow shod it makes sad and a little angry and most of the time I lad out at them and then I end up looking just like the person I avoid being but I know that some people just aren’t for me so I am just going to trust him because that is really the only thing I can do God bless w
This deep bro!
I see God in this!
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I will be honest this is not the message I expected but I still enjoyed it. I'm not sure if what im facing is mental persecution so I'll explain. In my mind, there is a voice that makes me feel like how I'm living for the Lord isn't enough. It's like a forceful and religious voice and sometimes I find it hard to separate that voice from God's
Fantastic, I needed this.
This can be applied to moments where I panic.
A year ago I was in a state of panic and broke down.
Irrational thoughts led me to try to work out the worst overthinking a man could face.
Reaching out for help was the start of a long journey to discovering compassion.
I want to give God thanks for his compassion on all of us and his love.
I had a blasphemous thought earlier, and I didn't rebuke it immediately, and I feel terrible about it because I feel like I knew it was coming, but didn't do anything about it, I know Christ is Holy and I know the Holy Spirit is Holy. Can someone help me? I already went to God about this, but I am also writing this out here as well, hopefully to help someone else too
I feel like I’m not being persecuted like I should be. Do you think that’s good conviction?
I just recently read I Peter 4, and verses 12-16 are really encouraging for this. It gives us hope, joy, and God's perspective on suffering for Christ's purpose. 🎉
Wow persecuted by the fallen once😮😮
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I avoid persecution. When I’m at work I don’t do things that are blatantly sinful. But I’m also not willing to go against the grain and be an outsider.
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I love that small Bible lol
Discarded
Run from sin
Intrusive thoughts coming out of no where because of sleep along with being mistreated by few people and those people influencing the flesh/intrusive thoughts (it’s annoying lol)
I am in Psychiatric Ward for the Gospel
My mental persecution is pretty much everything. Whenever I preach about the word, I just know for a fact they judge me. When I gave all my money because "sell all of your treasures on earth, so that you may have treasures on hevan" I was ridiculed by my family for doing this. I try my hardest, and it never seems like it's enough for God.
Wait, you gave ALLLLLLL your money?! Don't take certain things in the Holy Bible like this literally, just like when Jesus says something like if your eye or hand causes you to sin cut it off/gauge it out, The message behind these words is not to be taken literally but rather to convey the importance of radical measures in dealing with sin, urging believers to take drastic actions to avoid moral pitfalls. You need money to buy groceries, pay bills and even sow into other ministries GOD is calling you to sow into. I just pray that God will grant you more discernment/wisdom concerning such things. If you lack wisdom, GOD will grant it to you and guide your steps, amen. James 1:5
God doesn’t need our efforts, he already loves us, he said: you should rest on his love that alone is enough.
We’re nothing when he called us and he gave us everything ❣️.
His grace is sufficient for you❤
Remember it’s not by good works but by faith in Christ Jesus
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Your videos are always a great message but i am view 777 and have been dealing with some mental persecution myself! Coincidence? I think not.
I have a question. Is all mental persecution due to Jesus? When I started following Jesus more I realized the people that I thought were “cool” & Christians were now taunting me and leaving me for myself. In this case I don’t think I’m getting taunted for Jesus and more my appearance, but this is what I’m not sure on.
But if it’s when you started to follow Jesus more then it could’ve effected your appearance to them because now your identity is rooted in Christ (this is just what i think).