"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:32
Because of these and other issues, I began to suffer from anxiety, the attacks came for no apparent reason, one minute I was fine, the next my heart was racing, I had difficulty breathing…
As I didn't believe in the Word, I was convinced that a psychologist would completely cure me of this affliction. I had to wait a long time until I was successful in starting to go to a professional, it was good because I was finally able to vent to someone who wouldn't go around telling everyone and had knowledge to help me. After a few consultations, I saw that the psychologist's action was limited, he would help me to live with that, not completely get rid of the problem as I used to think.
All he could do for me was give me advice on how to deal with the crisis and reduce their frequency, for medicine anxiety has a treatment, not a cure.
So, I decided to risk believing in this God who does the impossible that I had heard about since I was a little girl. It was the best decision I ever made, I wasn't disappointed. Today, for the honor and glory of the Lord, I am free and healed.
I didn't know the truth, that's why I believed the enemy's lies, and by the way, they weren't one or another little lie, they were many.
'What do you mean lies from the enemy? Did you hear voices or what?' That must be what you're wondering and the answer is no, I never heard voices.
These lies manifested themselves in the form of thoughts sent to plague my mind. Here are some examples.
I'm such a bore! How do others put up with me? Nobody cares about me, if I disappeared nobody would care, they would be delighted!
Ugly, dumb and poor, it had to be me. I'm good for nothing, I can't even take care of myself on my own...
My life sucks, my family is horrible, why was I born!
I'm afraid to die, but I'm also afraid to live. I hate to be a coward, but what can I do? I've always been like this, I can't change. It's impossible.
For years these lies hammered in my head as if they were true, they were just a deception to trap me in sadness and loneliness. But God freed me, little by little I discovered the truth and it freed me through Joyce Meyer's preaching.
I'll warn you right away, don't think that in the blink of an eye everything was gone without any effort on my part to win my freedom, every time the enemy attacked my mind, I defended myself with the Word until he left.
Being freed means that what held you back and controlled you no longer has power over you, not that you will never face it again. When I was a captive, the moment the crisis came I would stop what I was doing, if I was standing up I would sit down and agonize waiting for the worst, fearing my heart would stop beating.
My fear of dying was so great that my only reaction was to surrender paralyzed, the stronger my heartbeat got the more scared I would become. Today, I send anxiety away with the Power of the Word of God, it no longer torments me. I rarely have a crisis. Compared to the past, practically every day I suffered from one or more, I can say with certainty I am freed.
Usually, my attacks were in public, during classes at school or in my computer course, so I didn't declare the Word aloud. In addition to disrupting class, others would question my sanity.
In my mind I kept repeating Isaiah 41:10 or quietly singing/humming praise to the Lord. The victory against the attack wasn't instantaneous but God gave me the strength to go through the storm and not sink, my boat shook and before bringing Jesus in it sank. Now Jesus is in my boat, whatever wave may come, I won't sink!
Whatever you do, don't accept the enemy's attacks in silence, I did before I knew God and things only got worse.
Jesus has already done everything necessary for us to have the blessings, victory and life in abundance that He promised. But, although, However and despite that, it is up to us to demand our rights.
Don't think that that loser is going to let you enjoy freedom without you having to impose yourself, he hates human beings because there's no other way for him, he's already condemned and doesn't want to let anyone find out or believe that he exists. No one fights what they think isn't real, right? It's a way of keeping people always at his hands, trapped in deception.
Don't be scared of this more than a loser, he can't do anything. Greater is what is in us than what is in the world and acting God, who can stop?
That defeated one cannot stop you, there is nothing he can do if you really surrender your life to God, because then you discover that the enemy never had authority over you, that loser took advantage of your lack of knowledge to make you suffer at his hands.
"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
Romans 8:37
In Christ, you are more than a winner! Take possession of what you are entitled to, you don't have to see if it will work, your victory is already guaranteed!
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