My scripture that keeps me sane is: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power & of love and of a sound mind. Being raised in a home with a mentally ill mother, I was always afraid. When I found this verse, probably as a pre-teen, I held onto it & have continued to grow with this verse thru the years. Praise God!
Your "beloved one" is not yours,,. He is the child of God. You were created to prevent the manchildren from killing each other. God wanted lots of children(sons). So they had to have a scapegoat, a whipping boy to abuse. Otherwise they would kill each other. They were created in God's image. God knew that they would,. He created woman as a convience. Convenience. Pray that he allows us to dissappear at death. Otherwise we will rot in hell for their sins.
From the time I was a child I had an unhealthy fear of the supernatural. When I attended a Bible Study, I opened my Bible to 2 Timothy 1:7 and discovered that my fear was not from God, but an unnatural fear. I realized that God’s love provided me the power of a sound mind. I thereafter never had that fear again. God is wonderful!
@russellgallinat1541 me too. I really just saw this fear for what it was this year. I am still asking the Holy Spirit to help me and renew my mind. I always thought I was alone in that fear but since I recognized it, I have met so many people that also has the struggle. I'm so Grateful God is leading me out with the Word of God♡♡♡
God healed my severe anxiety and depression and I’m forever grateful!! 🙏🏼❤️✝️. God also gave me the spiritual discernment to keep me free from depression and anxiety. That includes being very intentional about what I do, what I listen to, what I read, what I watch, what I think, etc. Meditate on God’s word, read the Bible, read Christian books, attend Bible studies, attend church, watch or listen to online sermons, sing worship music, and fill your life with the good things of God. Also, be a servant to others, focus less on yourself and more on how you can help others. God bless!
@@Michelle-zz7no such good advice. All the things you mentioned help drive fear out and replaces it with God’s love for us in Christ Jesus. I love listening to “Christian Praise Worship Radio” at LIVE 365 online radio network. It lifts my spirit every time without the constant interruptions of DJs or commercials.
@@Michelle-zz7no Praise God. I'm struggling with the domino effect of supply shortages, everything going digital, and government not helping. I know God Is Always there!
Thank you for this great advice I will follow this as best I can I had already started to delete certain apps n things off my phone as they serves no purpose I will continue on
@@spiritman-em4qr Feel that, too. I knew the love but I just didn't see myself as loved by accepting I'm flawed but God Is Willingly to guide and fix me if I allow HIM.
I’m 60 years old and I’ve been saved for over 40 years (thank you Lord Jesus) but I’ve only recently begun to really view God as my Heavenly Father who loves me. I had a head knowledge of that but not a heart knowledge. This has made a huge impact upon my walk with Christ and my mental health!
I’m 57, I asked Jesus into my heart when I was 14. I’ve gone to church most of my adult life but didn’t really start building my relationship with Christ until the last couple of years. I’m praying for you brother!
Nothing is as rewarding and satisfying as knowing God is with you always. So you talking to and with Him, joy and sorrow, life is rapped up in Him because we are in love with each other. Wow!! So exciting
I was saved in 1989, but in the early hours of 4/19/17, I came to know the love of God. I was exploding with anxiety at 4 am, wrestling with the God I feared. The Holy Spirit came into my room in a special way, like nothing else I had experienced. It became a place of love and peace. The moment was very marked, very tangible. Anxiety completed flowed out, and God's love flowed in. I cried as I embraced my Father as I never knew Him before. It has changed my life to this very day. Praise and glory to God forever!
You're a blessed person to have that beautiful experience ✨️ i know that GOD HAS SAVED ME FROM ADDICTION AND A TERRIBLE RONG LIFE. IM TRYING TO GET 2 KNOW HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT DOING RONG OR FEAR, MY ANXIETY IS CALMING, I NEED TO GROW IN THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST MY LORD AND SAVOUR AMEN 🕊 ✝️.
I have no words how much this means to me!! I have thought about this so much lately. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE. The most powerful sentence in the whole bible.❤
Thank you brother I needed that word so much. I know God's loves me but I struggle with lots of anxiety, fear and troublesome thoughts. I guess I should consider the depths of God's unconditional love for Him. God knows that I love and still suffer so much. Very helpful lesson. God bless 🙏
Thank you dear brother and Christ mark!god also deeply impressed this verse on my heart when I decided to stop hearing marriage not being successful and I married my husband of now 24 years and we have 6 children now! This is the exact Bible verse that helped me to do it
I'm born again but have been suffering from severe panic attacks for year's. Since covid, it has been so so frequent. I take medication. I am so grateful for this eye opener! I'm tearing up! God bless you all
Anxiety meds make anxiety worse in the long haul. They do more damage than good. Perhaps see a holistic doctor to get to the root of it. Most importantly, ask God to bring you peace. Magnesium oil helps a lot. There are many natural ways.❤❤❤
Remember that Our Father in heaven is a wonderful Physician. In the same way as we must take all our medication to ensure our health, so in the same way we must be full of him to ensure our spiritual health. If you take half the medicine then whatever is plaguing you will come back, so it must be with our Heavenly Father. If you don’t fulfill yourself with him then you won’t have his full blessing and forgiveness that you receive in walk with the Holy Spirit. If you want to ensure your spiritual growth Jesus is the only way. He said I am the way the truth and the life nobody can see the father except through me. So we must as Christian’s take our spiritual medicine that our Father gives us through his word and through his son Jesus.
@@tina-mariecrocker5687 I agree with this comment 💯!! I suffered since childhood with depression and anxiety and since I had my encounter with the Holy Spirit, I have been drawn to read the Bible daily and focus on His promises!! I thought I'd never feel peace or true joy without medication or something external, but the WORD of God engrained into our mids literally and physically Heals us!!!!! We need to take in the word of God the same way we take in our food. God bless ❤️🙏❤️🙏
God bless you and everyone here. God first & Jesus loves you more than you'll ever know & I hope you see Him one day once you're up there, and also magnesium is a literal God-send and it helps with anxiety & body problems so much. Magnesium citrate is one good rendition of the stuff. God bless you.❤
I can't tell you how much this means to me. I am riddled with fear in all areas of my life. I'm a perfectionist with a rejection mindset. I live in almost constant anxiety and depression on some level. I feel like I am living in a horrible spiritual, emotional, and mental cage and it's taking away my will to live. Addictions have always been my escape. I read this verse, and I interpreted it as meaning "I need to have perfect love in my heart so that there's no more fear" or "I have to muster up all the love in my own heart myself in order to drive fear out". And my following thoughts were "I can't do this... There's no love in me. I can't generate it and drive fear out. I'm too weary, too worn out, too hurt, too skeptical". But now that I know the verse is about GOD'S love for me, I will work on this. I'm going to look into your other resources too. I just became a Father myself last week. And I, like God, loved my son before he was even born. I want to live in a place where I am safe and secure in God's love all the time. My sins and past life has made me reinforce these feelings like I'm a loser and I'll never do anything right. I try to think of things I can do to make myself better but I have no drove to do them because of fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection. I reject myself because I don't see what's lovable about me. And I don't see meaning in anything. I get so sick of everything and I am never at peace. It's so hard. I'm sorry I'm letting so much out and I don't ever do this but your video made such an impact and I need to keep exploring this. I know I need to evangelize too and I need to spread the Gospel, but I can't even do that because it turns out I don't even understand God's love because I don't even live in it - I live in fear. I know God is real and I do love him, I just hate my sinful nature and I hate this sinful world. Thank you so, so much for this. I will learn and grow into God's love. You may have just turned my entire life around brother. Hallelujah, praise God 🙏
God Bless you 'smoking crab'.... Your authenticity is precious! God Sees you, Hears you and Knows you~ HE pursues you relentlessly because He loves you! Praise and Rejoice in that ♥ It's no mistake He wanted you hear this teaching to help you receive His Love---You are worthy, because of the Cross. May the LOVE of Our Father flood your heart with His Peace as you trust in His Love for you always ~ Be Healed by His Love! In Jesus Mighty Powerful Name amen
You speak with such authenticity… you may even have spoken for others who are unable to voice their own thoughts ~ there is power and blessings in that. God already knows your fears AND about your sinful nature, AND YET ~ He directed you to hear this message so that you will know HE LOVES YOU. Sharing YOUR story together HIS WORD is indeed evangelization. Read, memorize, and repeat to yourself daily the message found in JEREMIAH 29:11 Your newborn child is relying on you… I lift you and your new family in prayer, in Jesus’ name, AMEN🙏🏽
I have a deep wound that is caused by religion and performance based Christianity. Every time when it comes to following Christ it stirred up fear, worry, unworthynes and a lot of pressure. It was not something that brought me nearer to god and made me love him more, instead it caused me to run away from him… I always thought that I had to give up my deepest needs and desires because that was the interpretation of taking up my cross and follow him. It was so toxic..
You’re not alone with the hiding part! I used to constantly run away when I faced issues… especially old ones. We simply need to receive his love and grace and not be afraid of Him. Reverential fear of God is what I’m clarifying. Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” I hope this helps! 🤍🤍
same, due to some misunderstandings, how we're expected to fast n pray, in which I, many times because I kept hearing that if I don't, I'll die, and it caused a lot of distrust because of it.
My dear brother or sister in Christ, I truly understand how you feel because I was that way too until the Spirit of God helped me to realize that it was not God’s requirement, it was the requirement imposed on me by my family, culture and religious people who also got it wrong. God is love. His only requirement is to love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul and to love our neighbors as ourselves. I am getting better and when that religious and performance thoughts start creeping up, I know it is not from God and I don’t have to give in to it. I remind myself that God loved me first even before I was born and I give all the burden to God in my quiet one minute pray. “ God because You created me, I only listen to you and nothing else, so align my thoughts and thinking with yours” May God bless you and hang on to hope.
FELT THIS! You’re not alone with the mind being a battlefield. I suffered from distorted mindsets and it messed me up. Thanks be to God that he’s teaching me renewal of the mind day by day
@@tina-mariecrocker5687 me too ,been going such torment mentally sometimes I don’t think I can hold on ,failure as a wife as mother as a friend as a Christian it’s overwhelming
@@colleenjohnson1508 Hi I just read your comment and my heart goes out to you because I have struggled with feeling the same way at times. Hold on - if you’re a believer, hold on to the Lord’s promises that He will never leave you or forsake you. Read Isaiah 41:13 This scripture has comforted me this week and I pray you will allow it to give you hope, comfort, encouragement, and peace as well. Jesus really loves us.❤️🙏🏽
@@laurenort9237 try and go out helping people, stay busy, if you are able to help physically, then do it! There are a lot of people going thru hell from the hurricanes. Dont stay put.keep moving, that moves your mind also, and never stop calling out to Jesus
Ive been a Christian for 2 years and I never to have any peace, leading me to depression and fatigue. God has revealed himself to me in so many ways and has given me His promises and great verses. I need to cling to these more and more. I am constantly attacked with fearful thoughts. I compare myself to other Christians that seem to be so strong and this makes me more afraid. It is encouraging to read here about Christians who are struggling like me. Praying for us all🙏🙏🙏
Maybe see if you can find a deliverance ministry near you. Try worshipping the Lord too. Put on worship music and sing to him with gratitude in your heart praising him.
See Colossians 2:14-15, See it in King James Version & Amplified Classic or Amplified. The spirit of fear & its team of anxiety, worry ,doubt, unbelief who enforces pressure against us to get us to be emotional, leaning on our own strengths & power, trying to figure things out. Gods Heart The Word & Power is active working for you when you come to Him & say I need your help. Your Words speaks to me saying this I receive & believe it. This is FAITH WORKING & The Holy Spirit will now help you because you acknowledged your need to Them ( The Trinity) & They Will do what They Have spoken to us.This is where time & Trusting God comes in. All Believers need PATIENCE & ENDURANCE. When attacked acknowledge God ( The Trinity) then agree the enemy has been defeated at the Cross( remember Colossians 2:14-15) & Tell God you know He will deliver you, because you stand with Them against a lying, intimidating defeated enemy. We’re not trying to get victory THE CROSS & WHAT JESUS DID SOLIDIFYS THE ALREADY DONE VICTORY. Be Free Beloved Child of The Most High God.
Excuse me, I’m just like you. I got saved for like 2 years now and about a month and it was great but God allows things to happen in our lives like things that can steal our joy and peace to prune us, to show us His love, to reveal things in us. And I’m going through both deliverance in church but more so self deliverance. It takes courage, believe in the love of God, He has not rejected you, He only wants good things for you. Oh I have so much to say but you get the gist of it right? ♥️ Jesus loves you so much.
@@kemmygc I am aware that God wants us to go through things. It was good to come on here to realise that others are also going through things. Christians around me always seem to cope better than I do which doesnt help me. Have a good day.😀
Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm going through the healing journey and it's so tough. Thank you for sharing this, SO needed this Truth! Thank you, Lord, for your love!! Clinging to Him and learning that I'm safe in Him
Agreed. Battling depression and anxiety last year and is wake up around 3 and not be able to sleep, being tormented. I didn’t have the strength for much fighting but one night I just repeated this scripture over and over and it worked! Was relieved and grateful for the power of God’s Word!!!
Thank You, Abba Father, Abba Daddy, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, and Holy Spirit, Ruach, Breath of God, for Loving me Unconditionally the way that no human being can ever love me. You never disappoint me, Lord. You Keep Every Promise! I need not fear at all about anything! I love you, too, Lord!🙌🙏❤
Receiving Gods love is difficult when you didn’t have a loving father. It’s taken me a long time to realize this and forgive and see my human father like a child that experienced harshness from his own father. Jesus is my father now and He has taught me to love and forgive. This is the way to peace.
When my first wife left me, after 18 years of marriage, I was traumatized and searching for meaning. I opened the bible to a random page and found this passage. I couldn’t believe the profound nature of this message and have never forgotten it. It told me that I was suffering because I still had not learned to let go, trust God and to seek His love above all else. Once you learn to understand that God loves you, that eternal life is waiting for you, everything else in this earth becomes easier to bear. It doesn’t mean that you don’t mourn the loss of a wife, husband, child, etc. this will happen. But, with lots of prayer and focus on Christ, it means that you won’t be overcome with dread about the future.
@@filhodarosa7512 Divinely inspired words from God’s lips to my heart! ❤️ Ohhhh how I needed to read that at this very moment of sorrow in my life 😞 Thank you so much
Numbers 6:24-26 NIV 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.
@@ShinyDhas Hi Shine I pray for you in Jesus name that your husband and children will be made whole in Jesus name trust the love of Jesus for your family blessings.
@@MrsLeo2222 it is most of the time spychological . You need that time to figure out whats on your mind. It can something in your past. Or write it on paper. You see and feel it. Or to a spychologist . For EMDR. And pray! Your body get rest. Dont be afraid.
@@MrsLeo2222 Psalm 4:8 "In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety." Psalm 23 "The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me..."
I recently watched a video where they state scientists have found that the area that lights up in our brain when we appreciate something is the same area that lights up when we are anxious. They state that if we can be grateful, it helps curb anxiety.
Thanks for the explanation. I did not understand it at first. Towards the end I remember a childhood incident when I was 7 years old. Our house was destroyed by a storm and the insurance did not pay because it was an act of God. Since then I had this fear of god. When I miss going to church on a Sunday I thought he would punish me. So like you said I was always scared he punishes me . Wow this sure has cleared up something in my mind I’ve been carrying around for over 50 years. ❤❤❤I I’ve been up all night can’t sleep go on you tube and find this. Thank you Heavenly Father and Mark. Love was definitely missing in my life since I was small. I seemed to have a problem with receiving . I just realized my life has been a battle with fear because of missing love. ❤️ I am so blown away by what has just happened to me watching this video. I am good at giving and showing love but I have not felt or been able to receive. Sorry for the long text but I needed to get this out. Love and best wishes to everyone watching this❤
@@DJMikeron Thank you for sharing this. How may I best help a Christian person that is not receiving love? How can I quickly identify in a fellow Christian the characteristics that they aren't receiving love? What were you like when you weren't receiving love? What does that look like on a daily basis with a person struggling with this? I ask these questions to be able to learn about this, to help others out of this situation if I am able to identify it quickly in them, to help them recover from this. Thank you for your post.
I am saving Mark's videos. I have been a Christian for many years and Mark's videos have helped me so much. You know why? Because he can relate to us. What a blessing. I am seeing God as love and understanding it for really the first time. I know He loves us by giving us Jesus as Savior, but, toknow God as the epitome of Love is now so important to this old man.
You are my sibling in Christ and I love you and you matter. Give all of those 50 years to Jesus and lay your face at the foot of the Cross. His Grace and Love will heal you. He went through all that you've been through and took the punishment and wrath that was for you.... why? He did it all so you would See His Perfect Love as He called you by name. Your name. Your name He was whispering and focused on as He took every lash and laugh. There could never be a greater Love for you than that. He gave up everything so that you will have everything...and fear is under His feet. It doesn't exist in the spiritual world anymore for Believers. The demons will always throw 'thought' darts but have a Scripture handy on a note or phone to see quickly... it will get worse before it gets better... they see a change /move towards God and will fight you where you are vulnerable. Don't have to feel anything.... just repeat God's Word. He wants you to KNOW there is no fear in Him and if you are In Him... then He is In you. 😃😀. He experienced all of your fear so you never have to. Such perfect love. Hang in there. He will always complete what He starts. You.... are His. 😽😝😺🙏💜
Thank you so much! This very topic of ‘trying to love God’ has been on my heart all today and yesterday, weighing me down. I must rest and relax in HIS perfect love for me, and SLOWLY learn to receive it. ❤️❤️😊
This message came into my feed. Thank you for sharing it. I am 60 and have struggled with depression and rejection for the majority of my life. I have had trauma in childhood and in marriage. Been divorced for years. Although I have known God I have only been a Christian since 2008. I love the Lord and want to serve Him. Your message really hit me. I want to learn to accept His love knowing He loved me first! Thank you many Blessings🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
I understand because i’am going through the same things. Praying for you. I believe God will heal our wounds. I too want to serve Him and know Him with all my heart.❤️🙏
This was extremely helpful and just what I needed today. I was at church yesterday and felt the Lord speaking to me during worship and for the first time I really knew that I could trust him in my situation. Your expository teaching on this verse was excellent!! When you said, we know God has our back, that got me because I actually believe it now!! Thanks Mark 💜
Thanks Mark. I've recently returned to Christ but have developed a religious spirit based on performance and a fear of punishment. I want to receive God's love today.
May God bless you. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard what God has ready for those who love him. Speak, Talk to your Father brother. Just as you wrote it here. Open your heart, in all honesty to Him and just tell him everything. He loves you and wants Communion (communication with you). The good, the bad and the ugly; he desires to hear it all beloved. Be blessed 🤍🙏🏾
@nrtnrt6676 a lot better than better. I still struggling with bad thoughts but Jesus helps me. Btw I saw him twice in a dream last night. He was floating on a cloud. Thanks for checking on me. 🫂
What a NEEDED message in these days! The enemy is so busy keeping people in torment. I pray that everyone around this world will hear this message and that it will SINK IN and set them free.
I was sitting in my car when I started this video and the Holy Spirit poured out on me. I am so in love with God. Your words affirm what I have read from the scriptures. God bless you and your household. I pray a hedge of protection around you and your family. May God increase your annointing. May you be a voice of peace and love to many nations. ❤
I am renewing my mind, but not without medication, it is unfortunately that for some of us medication is part of our lives. I appreciated very much your teachings.
@@laurenmay2098 Well I was on Lexapro for 20 years. Once you start the antidepressants you cannot just get off them. I believe you have to take care of your diet to take care of your mind body and soul. It has taken me 8 most to stop 20 milligrams of Lexapro. Just took the Leap of faith today and stopped my last 5 milligrams of Lexapro. I will be emotional for about 2 weeks. I will have to check myself and emotions while going thru this last stage. God bless you. I hope you feel better.
@@laurenmay2098 my friend is under medication and I read he might not wean off after 3 months, it has been more than 2 years. I do keep hoping, LaurenMay. my church teaches God heals and I pray it is possible to go off medication.
Mark, I don't know if you will still read this because this video was made a while ago. I came across it out of absolutely nowhere, it just popped up and I had not been watching any videos on mental health at all. I am suffering at the moment from crippling anxiety. I did not think God would see me as you described and I could never get anything right, my prayer, Mass attendance, anything. It is a torment. But now I will pray to feel Gods love and ask for His help. Before I thought my anxiety was a punishment for everything I had done wrong or had not done right. Thank you for this wonderful video, your descriptions was like everything I have felt. I don't feel as hopeless, I can ask God to help me now instead of feeling I deserved everything I was feeling.
@@LittleRobotNX01 same here. This just showed up and I was drawn to it. Four hours sleep and same experience as you, crippling anxiety 😥 I Pray this helps us 🙏
@@northcountrygirl4879 Thank you so much for your message, same here! Four hours sleep, really, really bad day and Mark's video pops up. My heart goes out to you too, we have to believe what Mark has explained and said, God loved us first. ♥ Just keep telling yourself that. I think Mark has other videos that will help too. 🙏
God doesn't punish those of us who are in Christ Jesus. The law was given by Moses, *grace* and truth came by Jesus Christ. Our Father will lovingly chastise us. Holy Spirit will guide and teach us, but those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior are redeemed from the curse of the law. Jesus tells us who are wearied and burdened to come to Him, to cast our cares on Him. Believers are highly favored, deeply loved, and irreversibly blessed!! Nothing can separate us from His love. Are there consequences to sin? Of course! Overeating and smoking will damage our bodies (the temples of Holy Spirit). Infidelity has natural consequences, and so on and so forth but God doesn't "punish" us for our sins. We are forgiven because of Jesus' death and resurrection. Jesus died so we can have life and *life abundant*!! Receive all the blessings that are yours as a co-heir with Christ Jesus. Read the Bible because you want to, because it's God's love letter to you, not because you feel like you must in order to gain His love. Jesus never told anyone He healed "Great is your scripture studying!" or "I heal you because you prayed every day for an hour last month!" or "Healing is yours because you sacrificed chocolate during lent!" Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace." Maybe ask Him to increase your faith. He wants you to enter into His rest because He loves you!
Wow Thanks for this Mark. I was just having an anxiety spiral about nothing, so this was right on time. I always thought I’m just not doing enough praying etc or even comparing myself to other believers who seem to just have no fear. As I reflect I can see It’s really hard for me to receive Gods love, and even the love of those around me. I’m praying I learn to soon, because it’s a bit rough. Anywho sorry for the long message, I appreciate these videos ☺️ they are always very helpful.
@@TequilaStandifer8888 yes we heard this message and the appointed time to receive it. I did. I so needed it. Anxiety can feel like your gut is on fire and bad enough, accompanied by dry heaves. Fear is behind anxiety like hurt is behind anger.
@@marlenelindsey7638 I am sorry you’re experiencing those things! keep this message as your reminder God did not give u a spirit of fear it and none of its relatives belongs to you Anytime they come in your mind remind yourself that there is no fear in Love I know those thoughts will flee from u and even if they come more than once or even a few times stay believing God and I promise you before u know anxiety etc won’t be there and when things happen that would have put u in a state of fear etc you will not react the same because when u believe God and Gods word there is no thought or feeling the so-called enemy can put on you to make u doubt Gods love anymore ❤️
Ive been suffering insomnia for the past 15 years and now the cause has resurfaced. (Fear of death)Am really glad i found this page where we pray and comfort one another. Its not really easy fighting fear. Tge torment is something else. God help us🙏🙏. Please pray for me
Praying for you…I understand because mine has been over 20yrs. Fear is the worse and not understanding Gods love makes it harder. Praying that we would be perfected in Gods love.❤️🙏
Thanks so much for this video! Love casts our fear, this is so true! I have issues with my emotions going up and down and when you mentioned about deep revelation of God’s love, it started to make sense! There’s no need for me to be so harsh on myself when I’m not feeling my best. I went thru so much torment with my emotions that I got stressed many times which caused seborrheic dermatitis. The less stress I have, the less worse my dermatitis is. Perfectionism is such a trap from the devil! I need to constantly receiving God’s grace, mercy, love, etc! Throughout my life, I practiced perfectionism and it was very toxic in my life. I’m slowly getting out of that rut, glory to God! God has been teaching me so much. You’ve been such a blessing in my life! Thanks so much for this wonderful teaching and yet beautiful reminder from this scripture. 🤍🤍
The smallest thing sets me off. I recover quickly, but I wish I could just skip the whole anxiety quick to get angry thing. I pray, but the first thing that rocks my boat my prayer is completely forgotten! I see I need to set myself free from everything having to go my way and being able to get my mind off myself and onto others. Seeing people through God's eyes would be a good start for me. God says without love we are nothing. I need to start my day with loving all those around me instead of waiting for them to disappoint me. Thank you for this reminder.
WOW! What an incredible presentation. He, the Mighty One, the God who IS love, delivered me years ago from this very theme-LOVE. His love did it for me. Yet years later in encountering a more severe bouts with so called anxiety and after seeking and applying many different and even helpful tools, the good Lord lead me to this video to cap it all and to put me back in remembrance that HIS grand, perfect love was and is the antidote. I’m so grateful for this video Mark. To God be the glory! May the Lord continue to bless and keep you and yours.👏🏾🙌🏾❤️
Thank you for this explanation. It came to me at just the right time when I was being tormented by anxiety and wondering why God didn't listen to me. I don't know what the near future holds for me, but I am now reassured that this is the right direction.
Thank you so much! I have wondered why I could not stop worrying and stop "performing" without feeling loved. After 85 years of life I can finally feel loved.
I had severe anxiety that was crippling. I spent months mostly in my bed. I would seldom go out of my house. Everything went crashing down. I told God, "I can't anymore. Please, send someone to talk to me." Someone got home, and gave me a book about anxiety. Right then, I understood what going on to me. He left the 99 and went for me. God loves you. I understood I had to work on my past problems, on my character and many other things to heal my anxiety. This message reached me in a new moment of anxiety.
Wow God is always on time! I needed to hear this. My thoughts are very self condemning. Could you touch on the verse Philippines 2:12 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. It's verses like these that keep my thoughts condemning.
@@ashleyodell3778 The words that follow that scripture says that "It is God who is at work in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure", that takes the burden off of you. That scripture shouldn't be condemning or crumbling, it should rather make you rejoice.
Love of God overcoming fear from any source is like light of faith & grace driving away the darkness of sin without overly obsessing & become anxious about it. 😊
The one that pulled me out of my depression was remembering Matthew 11:29-30 “take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
I've had this spirit of fear/worry for years. I have had for years the habit of religious ocd you spoke about in another video. I have the same tormenting relationship with God that you did. I have been passively suicidal for years and have been at the point where I hate life and myself and have absolutely zero interest in existing anymore. I believe that God loves me and I believe He's perfect, but I cannot bring myself to love myself or my life. I want out and every minute feels like a torment. I just don't understand what the heck love even is. Joy is an alien concept. I've tried to imagine how he might see me as he created me but I can't even begin to fathom it. Your videos are helping me though because now I know I'm not the only one who experience these kinds of things- even if my experiences are quite severe. I am aware that I am most in error/sin because I cannot give myself grace or mercy, cannot change my heart to begin easing off and giving myself the compassion I eagerly give others. There is a cold, rigid part of my heart that dominates my feelings and is consumed with self-hatred even when intellectually I can objectively see how unhealthy and self-destructive that is.
I will pray for you as I have also struggled with what you described so well. If God sat down with you tonight and just heard you and understood you and you felt he has been waiting to hear these words you have typed on here. Do you believe that he has? He is different than humans are in the sense that He has a love that abounds and is patient with us. He will go at your pace but ask Him if you feel the need to be healed. Sometimes we are not aware of how hurt we are and need a modeling to show us how compassion and help toward us feels. God is trustworthy and safe.
I struggle with severe depression and moderate anxiety due to ongoing, unrelenting life stressors. Major life stressors. I am FULL of fear. I am clearly trying to trust God for years yet am not able to. I certainly would not purposely choose fear.
Praying for you….i understand because I have been dealing with this for a long time. I pray that we can both learn to trust Him more and more. He deserves our trust.❤️🙏
Thank you so much. I realized that I don’t always remember to receive God’s love and that directly affects how I see and treat others. And I have been walking with Christ for 11 years. I really needed to hear this and this impacted me in a profound way. We all have something to learn. Thank you sooooo much!
I really needed to hear this today. I knew this and used to carry this in my heart and let it get away from me slowly by hanging around people who don’t know God reject him or have him in their life. Need my bible and need my Jesus to remind me of God’s love and that I’m made perfect in his Son not by what I do but by what he has already done for me. Just need to receive you again Jesus and receive an increase of the Holy Spirit. He’s right there in front of us, we just need to push away the spiritual cob webs to the unseen.
This comment helped me a lot when you stated, I’m made perfect in his Son, not by what I do but by what He has done for me. Why is this so hard to remember and receive? Lord, help me let go of the conditional love voices from the past telling me because you did this, my love for you changes.
I was such a doer and performance based person. God has been showing me his love by instructing me to rest. Boy, does your faith grow when God tells you to be still. Not doing has taken me some time, but I'm getting better. The anxiety of thinking God may not come through was so intense. I would tell God that my heart hurt.....it actually felt that way. Finding peace in resting is where I am. I pray for you reading this and your journey. God loves you, and so do I. 💜🙏🏾💐
Thank you for this video, when I was a kid I was full of fear, I could not sleep in peace bc of nightmares and fear of something evil happening to me, as I grew old, that fear went away and I did not know what happened in between, I asked God; what exactly happened, because I wanted to help others that suffer from this,but now, I inderstand. Lately, fear has tried to enter my Life again, and I have been struggling not to let that be part of me again, but this video just reminded me that the love of God casts out fear. I glorify God because his Word will keep showing New light in my Life, God bless you too
This is so good. I struggled with fear of God and hell that I’m now on medication to sooth me from the anxiety and torment. I need help receiving Gods Love. I need more on what that looks like.
It's almost like you & I were identical twins in the wombs of different Mothers. I have never said out loud a lot of the things you talk about in your videos I have watched in the past 2 days, so I feel less & less alone after watching each one, God is definitely using you & your precious wife in my journey through God's Healing for such a time as this. God Bless you, my brother & sister In Christ Jesus!🙌🙏❤
This video was 2 years ago. I just came upon it! This is exactly where I am. Came out of a highly charismatic church that was all about performance and exceeding God's (Pastors) expectations. That along with Complex Trauma brought me to a place of shame and despair and brokenness, an emotional breakdown actually. This....THIS scripture you discussed is one I've looked at but didn't really understand. I knew it was important, huge piece of the puzzle but I had to learn who God truly is before I could understand it. It's a game changer! Glad I found your podcast. Blessings ❤
The concept of "God as our Father" is something that I struggled with. Part of the problem for me was that my own father dealt with me using fear. -- You do that again and you get the strap. If I did something wrong as a young child I would get slapped with a belt, coils of extension cord or garden hose, or even lariat rope. Whatever was close available in the moment. The punishment was done in immediate anger, rather than with long-term guidance as a goal. My favorite uncle had a lot of problems with his children going in the wrong way. He told me one time something that helped him the most with his troubled 12 year old child whom he had adopted. He had done something wicked and rebellious. He sat down by the child and asked what he thought the parent should do. And the child said "ground me for a week, don't let me watch TV. Take away my computer privileges." And my uncle told him. "No, I am going to forgive you." It is hard not to transfer what we see in our earthy father to how we view our heavenly father.
This is so true, I can relate! I’ve forgiven my abusive father and I have an ok relationship with him now ( he lives in Germany and I in the US), but my upbringing makes it so difficult for me to see God in the proper way. I’ve been calling myself a Christian for over 30 years and still struggling to grow in Christ.😟
@@prairiemark4084 God the father is the epitome of love. He gave Adam the complete set of choice to make and gave a wonderful partner and made sure he wasn't going to be alone. Even in punishment that Adam and Eve received from God, it was only out of His love he blessed them and not punished them for what they deserved! He made sure to mention they are going to give birth to kids though He made it painful for the woman.. He did make sure Adam had a means of living though He drove them out of Eden, more importantly He said to Satan, with woman did you start the game and the seed from the woman has a war against you, the game is on and in that war..He made sure you and I are redeemed out of the curse of death through Jesus'blood, the son of Heavens and the woman! We are loved beyond imagination
I have experienced similar. God has taught me so much about his care and love for me as i train my dog. She was fearful, distrustful and more. It helped me to consider that God was as patient and loving toward me as i was to my dog who couldn't yet understand. She slowly began to trust and experience confidence and agency. It took investment on my part and she gave me tremendous joy during a time when thoughts of how i could unalive myself violently crashed into my thoughts about every 15 minutes. I wish i could chat with you over coffee and encourage you. I relate so much to what you said. I've watched a video of an extremely vicious Belgian malinois named prince being rehabbed. His trainers brought him from his place of hatred for everyone and everything to a place of peace, trust and enjoyment of life. God can do the same with you. Imagine him as your trainer maybe. Prince was in a cage and acted like he would tear anyone to shreds who approached him. The end of the video shows him happily playing in a stream with another mali and his trainer. Whole different life. This could be you too. Don't give up.
Hey mark. I'm about halfway through your book, I Will not fear. I'm still struggling with shutting down my compulsions but I'm trying to learn how to be settled in God's love and take my peace back. It's definitely a journey but I feel God working on me your work is helping me understand things more clearly. Thanks buddy, from North Carolina
I think this is the answer I have been searching for since my youth. I turned forty this past August and this is what I have needed this whole time. I have had a complete misunderstanding of my feelings and shame from God.
What's interesting to me is that the various paths that come out of this-including perfectionism and scrupulosity or licentiousness and liberalizing, all of which sound like they're missing God's real love and its implications-define the ways different churches and denominations operate. Each says "this is what you ought to feel or do." But it's as simple as a child knowing God's true character of love. Something like that? Like the good father looking eagerly for his prodigal son to return, then greeting him with lavish love?
Thank you for your teaching. I pray to receive God's perfect love and fully experience it no matter circumstances. We are living in troubling times where, truly, our safety is being threatened.
Somehow I read the verse and instead of making feel good and hopeful I feel judged and not worthy. I am not perfect in love because I worry and I fear indeed. And I just know He loves me and loved me first, but reading this doesn’t make me feel better. I rather feel accused and judged of doing something wrong, but feeling depressed is not something I can always control. Sometimes it really shows up out of nowhere while all I do is try to be positive and kind to others. I feel defeated every time that happens.
I was floxed and brain damaged. I've had chemical terrors and CPTSD from trauma, all while growing up. I still have anxiety and panic. I was floxed by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic a second time in 2022, and that's when I realized what had happened that first time. I cant wait another 15 years for my brain and nervous system to heal again. 😢 Im very upset by this, but I also trust God to do His perfect will in my life, I just wish I didn't have to start over and go through it again. I must have missed things the first time through. Yikes. I hope I get it right faster this time. I also face the punishment based relationship with God because of the highly abusive nature of the relationship with my parents. Very profound video. Thank you. I've NEVER truly felt loved in my life until I learned of Jesus and our Heavenly Father. Still, I feel that very harsh side that my earthly parents had with me and project that onto God too often. Im trying to stop because of people like you! Very good. Again, thank you!!!
I don’t normally comment on TH-cam but I came across this video a few days ago and I’m coming back to say this was life changing for me. Thank you for sharing. Learning to receive his love.. you naturally begin to love and begins a closer relationship with him.
My scripture that keeps me sane is:
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power & of love and of a sound mind. Being raised in a home with a mentally ill mother, I was always afraid. When I found this verse, probably as a pre-teen, I held onto it & have continued to grow with this verse thru the years. Praise God!
Amen. Thank you Jesus
One of my Go twos! also..LOL Im an adrenaline Junkie, When my Tummy starts to turn, this is what I try to remember.. God did not make me a Woosie! LOL
My beloved husband and me chose this one for our marriage ❤- sooo encouraging and positive.
Your "beloved one" is not yours,,. He is the child of God. You were created to prevent the manchildren from killing each other. God wanted lots of children(sons). So they had to have a scapegoat, a whipping boy to abuse. Otherwise they would kill each other. They were created in God's image. God knew that they would,. He created woman as a convience. Convenience. Pray that he allows us to dissappear at death. Otherwise we will rot in hell for their sins.
@@NormaShaffer-q3xHave you been binge-watching the Handmaid's Tale again?
From the time I was a child I had an unhealthy fear of the supernatural. When I attended a Bible Study, I opened my Bible to 2 Timothy 1:7 and discovered that my fear was not from God, but an unnatural fear. I realized that God’s love provided me the power of a sound mind. I thereafter never had that fear again. God is wonderful!
@@russellgallinat1541 Amen
@@russellgallinat1541 Amen!
Your comment really helped me. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Great testimony! Thank you for sharing.
@russellgallinat1541 me too. I really just saw this fear for what it was this year. I am still asking the Holy Spirit to help me and renew my mind. I always thought I was alone in that fear but since I recognized it, I have met so many people that also has the struggle. I'm so Grateful God is leading me out with the Word of God♡♡♡
God healed my severe anxiety and depression and I’m forever grateful!! 🙏🏼❤️✝️. God also gave me the spiritual discernment to keep me free from depression and anxiety. That includes being very intentional about what I do, what I listen to, what I read, what I watch, what I think, etc. Meditate on God’s word, read the Bible, read Christian books, attend Bible studies, attend church, watch or listen to online sermons, sing worship music, and fill your life with the good things of God. Also, be a servant to others, focus less on yourself and more on how you can help others. God bless!
@@Michelle-zz7no such good advice. All the things you mentioned help drive fear out and replaces it with God’s love for us in Christ Jesus. I love listening to “Christian Praise Worship Radio” at LIVE 365 online radio network. It lifts my spirit every time without the constant interruptions of DJs or commercials.
@@Michelle-zz7no Praise God. I'm struggling with the domino effect of supply shortages, everything going digital, and government not helping. I know God Is Always there!
Thank you for this great advice I will follow this as best I can I had already started to delete certain apps n things off my phone as they serves no purpose I will continue on
@@spiritman-em4qr Feel that, too. I knew the love but I just didn't see myself as loved by accepting I'm flawed but God Is Willingly to guide and fix me if I allow HIM.
If anything, I've been far too focused on serving others, and not looked after myself properly.
“Do not fear “ is in the Bible 365 times ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Not a coincidence 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Enough for 365 days!!!perfect!!!
For each day one time. God know His children. Thank God for it. ❤
Wow! Great indeed
@@marilynjhew amazing.
Amen 🙏🏻
I’m 60 years old and I’ve been saved for over 40 years (thank you Lord Jesus) but I’ve only recently begun to really view God as my Heavenly Father who loves me. I had a head knowledge of that but not a heart knowledge. This has made a huge impact upon my walk with Christ and my mental health!
@@patrickbrowne4606 Well said. I truly believe God is calling us into REAL relationship with Him.
I’m 57, I asked Jesus into my heart when I was 14. I’ve gone to church most of my adult life but didn’t really start building my relationship with Christ until the last couple of years. I’m praying for you brother!
@@TheValiantForgePodcast Thank you brother. I’m praying for as well.
Nothing is as rewarding and satisfying as knowing God is with you always. So you talking to and with Him, joy and sorrow, life is rapped up in Him because we are in love with each other. Wow!! So exciting
THANKYOU
I was saved in 1989, but in the early hours of 4/19/17, I came to know the love of God. I was exploding with anxiety at 4 am, wrestling with the God I feared. The Holy Spirit came into my room in a special way, like nothing else I had experienced. It became a place of love and peace. The moment was very marked, very tangible. Anxiety completed flowed out, and God's love flowed in. I cried as I embraced my Father as I never knew Him before. It has changed my life to this very day. Praise and glory to God forever!
Amen!+
@@GeorgeCartagenaTube Hallelujah ❣️🔥❤️☝️❤️✝️❤️🕊❤️
You're a blessed person to have that beautiful experience ✨️ i know that GOD HAS SAVED ME FROM ADDICTION AND A TERRIBLE RONG LIFE. IM TRYING TO GET 2 KNOW HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT DOING RONG OR FEAR, MY ANXIETY IS CALMING, I NEED TO GROW IN THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST MY LORD AND SAVOUR AMEN 🕊 ✝️.
I praise the Lord for your healing and this wonderful experience.
Amen! Wish I could experience Him that way!
I have no words how much this means to me!! I have thought about this so much lately. THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE. The most powerful sentence in the whole bible.❤
I know, right!
Thank you brother I needed that word so much. I know God's loves me but I struggle with lots of anxiety, fear and troublesome thoughts. I guess I should consider the depths of God's unconditional love for Him. God knows that I love and still suffer so much. Very helpful lesson. God bless 🙏
@@MaureenLabrooy the helmet of salvation is the armour for our mind, we need to preach to ourselves the gospel of salvation everyday 💕
Thank you dear brother and Christ mark!god also deeply impressed this verse on my heart when I decided to stop hearing marriage not being successful and I married my husband of now 24 years and we have 6 children now! This is the exact Bible verse that helped me to do it
I just thought of this scripture today and then find this video. I’ve been fearful most of my life. I hope I can change it to love ❤
I'm born again but have been suffering from severe panic attacks for year's. Since covid, it has been so so frequent. I take medication. I am so grateful for this eye opener! I'm tearing up! God bless you all
Anxiety meds make anxiety worse in the long haul. They do more damage than good. Perhaps see a holistic doctor to get to the root of it. Most importantly, ask God to bring you peace. Magnesium oil helps a lot. There are many natural ways.❤❤❤
Remember that Our Father in heaven is a wonderful Physician. In the same way as we must take all our medication to ensure our health, so in the same way we must be full of him to ensure our spiritual health. If you take half the medicine then whatever is plaguing you will come back, so it must be with our Heavenly Father. If you don’t fulfill yourself with him then you won’t have his full blessing and forgiveness that you receive in walk with the Holy Spirit. If you want to ensure your spiritual growth Jesus is the only way. He said I am the way the truth and the life nobody can see the father except through me. So we must as Christian’s take our spiritual medicine that our Father gives us through his word and through his son Jesus.
@@tina-mariecrocker5687 I agree with this comment 💯!! I suffered since childhood with depression and anxiety and since I had my encounter with the Holy Spirit, I have been drawn to read the Bible daily and focus on His promises!! I thought I'd never feel peace or true joy without medication or something external, but the WORD of God engrained into our mids literally and physically Heals us!!!!! We need to take in the word of God the same way we take in our food. God bless ❤️🙏❤️🙏
@@ninamarise237 Amen!
God bless you and everyone here. God first & Jesus loves you more than you'll ever know & I hope you see Him one day once you're up there, and also magnesium is a literal God-send and it helps with anxiety & body problems so much. Magnesium citrate is one good rendition of the stuff. God bless you.❤
I can't tell you how much this means to me. I am riddled with fear in all areas of my life. I'm a perfectionist with a rejection mindset. I live in almost constant anxiety and depression on some level. I feel like I am living in a horrible spiritual, emotional, and mental cage and it's taking away my will to live. Addictions have always been my escape. I read this verse, and I interpreted it as meaning "I need to have perfect love in my heart so that there's no more fear" or "I have to muster up all the love in my own heart myself in order to drive fear out". And my following thoughts were "I can't do this... There's no love in me. I can't generate it and drive fear out. I'm too weary, too worn out, too hurt, too skeptical". But now that I know the verse is about GOD'S love for me, I will work on this. I'm going to look into your other resources too. I just became a Father myself last week. And I, like God, loved my son before he was even born. I want to live in a place where I am safe and secure in God's love all the time. My sins and past life has made me reinforce these feelings like I'm a loser and I'll never do anything right. I try to think of things I can do to make myself better but I have no drove to do them because of fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection. I reject myself because I don't see what's lovable about me. And I don't see meaning in anything. I get so sick of everything and I am never at peace. It's so hard. I'm sorry I'm letting so much out and I don't ever do this but your video made such an impact and I need to keep exploring this. I know I need to evangelize too and I need to spread the Gospel, but I can't even do that because it turns out I don't even understand God's love because I don't even live in it - I live in fear. I know God is real and I do love him, I just hate my sinful nature and I hate this sinful world. Thank you so, so much for this. I will learn and grow into God's love. You may have just turned my entire life around brother. Hallelujah, praise God 🙏
God Bless you 'smoking crab'....
Your authenticity is precious!
God Sees you, Hears you and Knows you~ HE pursues you relentlessly because He loves you!
Praise and Rejoice in that ♥
It's no mistake He wanted you hear this teaching to help you receive His Love---You are worthy, because of the Cross.
May the LOVE of Our Father flood your heart with His Peace as you trust in His Love for you always ~
Be Healed by His Love! In Jesus Mighty Powerful Name amen
Hi, I have the same life long struggles you described here. How are you doing now?
Hey Smoking Crab
How are you now Aug 2024?
You speak with such authenticity… you may even have spoken for others who are unable to voice their own thoughts ~ there is power and blessings in that. God already knows your fears AND about your sinful nature, AND YET ~ He directed you to hear this message so that you will know HE LOVES YOU. Sharing YOUR story together HIS WORD is indeed evangelization. Read, memorize, and repeat to yourself daily the message found in JEREMIAH 29:11
Your newborn child is relying on you… I lift you and your new family in prayer, in Jesus’ name, AMEN🙏🏽
Thank you for sharing. Consistency in Jesus upon us all searching and seeking.
I have a deep wound that is caused by religion and performance based Christianity. Every time when it comes to following Christ it stirred up fear, worry, unworthynes and a lot of pressure. It was not something that brought me nearer to god and made me love him more, instead it caused me to run away from him…
I always thought that I had to give up my deepest needs and desires because that was the interpretation of taking up my cross and follow him. It was so toxic..
I can relate to what you're saying.
You’re not alone with the hiding part! I used to constantly run away when I faced issues… especially old ones.
We simply need to receive his love and grace and not be afraid of Him. Reverential fear of God is what I’m clarifying. Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
I hope this helps! 🤍🤍
same, due to some misunderstandings, how we're expected to fast n pray, in which I, many times because I kept hearing that if I don't, I'll die, and it caused a lot of distrust because of it.
My dear brother or sister in Christ, I truly understand how you feel because I was that way too until the Spirit of God helped me to realize that it was not God’s requirement, it was the requirement imposed on me by my family, culture and religious people who also got it wrong. God is love. His only requirement is to love Him with all our heart, mind, and soul and to love our neighbors as ourselves. I am getting better and when that religious and performance thoughts start creeping up, I know it is not from God and I don’t have to give in to it. I remind myself that God loved me first even before I was born and I give all the burden to God in my quiet one minute pray. “ God because You created me, I only listen to you and nothing else, so align my thoughts and thinking with yours” May God bless you and hang on to hope.
@@Chichi-oy3klthank you! that was so helpful. God bless you!
This is a breath of fresh air... I hate my mind sometimes. I want so desperately to understand Gods love for me and believe it
FELT THIS! You’re not alone with the mind being a battlefield. I suffered from distorted mindsets and it messed me up. Thanks be to God that he’s teaching me renewal of the mind day by day
Wow! I feel the same way; wanting to truly know God's love.❤❤❤
@@tina-mariecrocker5687 me too ,been going such torment mentally sometimes I don’t think I can hold on ,failure as a wife as mother as a friend as a Christian it’s overwhelming
@@colleenjohnson1508 Hi I just read your comment and my heart goes out to you because I have struggled with feeling the same way at times. Hold on - if you’re a believer, hold on to the Lord’s promises that He will never leave you or forsake you.
Read Isaiah 41:13 This scripture has comforted me this week and I pray you will allow it to give you hope, comfort, encouragement, and peace as well. Jesus really loves us.❤️🙏🏽
So tired of the torment. We need to enter into the rest of God
I’m dealing with anxiety depression thoughts please pray for me brothers and sisters 🙏🏻
@@laurenort9237 Try reading “The Untethered Sole” by Michael A Singer
The helmet of salvation is the armour of God for his children, we need to remind ourselves , preach the gospel of salvation to ourselves everyday ❤
@@judithdabrow9843Amen.
🙏
@@laurenort9237 try and go out helping people, stay busy, if you are able to help physically, then do it! There are a lot of people going thru hell from the hurricanes. Dont stay put.keep moving, that moves your mind also, and never stop calling out to Jesus
Ive been a Christian for 2 years and I never to have any peace, leading me to depression and fatigue. God has revealed himself to me in so many ways and has given me His promises and great verses. I need to cling to these more and more. I am constantly attacked with fearful thoughts. I compare myself to other Christians that seem to be so strong and this makes me more afraid. It is encouraging to read here about Christians who are struggling like me. Praying for us all🙏🙏🙏
Maybe see if you can find a deliverance ministry near you. Try worshipping the Lord too. Put on worship music and sing to him with gratitude in your heart praising him.
@@Adrien_broner thank you 🙂
See Colossians 2:14-15, See it in King James Version & Amplified Classic or Amplified. The spirit of fear & its team of anxiety, worry ,doubt, unbelief who enforces pressure against us to get us to be emotional, leaning on our own strengths & power, trying to figure things out. Gods Heart The Word & Power is active working for you when you come to Him & say I need your help. Your Words speaks to me saying this I receive & believe it. This is FAITH WORKING & The Holy Spirit will now help you because you acknowledged your need to Them ( The Trinity) & They Will do what They Have spoken to us.This is where time & Trusting God comes in. All Believers need PATIENCE & ENDURANCE. When attacked acknowledge God ( The Trinity) then agree the enemy has been defeated at the Cross( remember Colossians 2:14-15) & Tell God you know He will deliver you, because you stand with Them against a lying, intimidating defeated enemy. We’re not trying to get victory THE CROSS & WHAT JESUS DID SOLIDIFYS THE ALREADY DONE VICTORY. Be Free Beloved Child of The Most High God.
Excuse me, I’m just like you. I got saved for like 2 years now and about a month and it was great but God allows things to happen in our lives like things that can steal our joy and peace to prune us, to show us His love, to reveal things in us. And I’m going through both deliverance in church but more so self deliverance. It takes courage, believe in the love of God, He has not rejected you, He only wants good things for you. Oh I have so much to say but you get the gist of it right? ♥️ Jesus loves you so much.
@@kemmygc I am aware that God wants us to go through things. It was good to come on here to realise that others are also going through things. Christians around me always seem to cope better than I do which doesnt help me. Have a good day.😀
Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm going through the healing journey and it's so tough. Thank you for sharing this, SO needed this Truth! Thank you, Lord, for your love!! Clinging to Him and learning that I'm safe in Him
me too. hope your doing better
The Lord just used you to speak to me. God bless you richly. God bless you
Agreed. Battling depression and anxiety last year and is wake up around 3 and not be able to sleep, being tormented. I didn’t have the strength for much fighting but one night I just repeated this scripture over and over and it worked! Was relieved and grateful for the power of God’s Word!!!
❤❤❤
This is honestly so important for those of us who have experienced abuse our whole lives, even from parents
Healing needed.😮😢❤
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Isaiah 26:3
God did NOT Give us the Spirit of FEAR He Gave us LOVE, POWER, And a SOUND Mind.
"Us" is not referring to everyone.
@@WhosWho-rg7fd people DO have a fearful spirit
Thank You, Abba Father, Abba Daddy, Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, and Holy Spirit, Ruach, Breath of God, for Loving me Unconditionally the way that no human being can ever love me. You never disappoint me, Lord. You Keep Every Promise! I need not fear at all about anything! I love you, too, Lord!🙌🙏❤
Receiving Gods love is difficult when you didn’t have a loving father. It’s taken me a long time to realize this and forgive and see my human father like a child that experienced harshness from his own father. Jesus is my father now and He has taught me to love and forgive. This is the way to peace.
When my first wife left me, after 18 years of marriage, I was traumatized and searching for meaning. I opened the bible to a random page and found this passage. I couldn’t believe the profound nature of this message and have never forgotten it. It told me that I was suffering because I still had not learned to let go, trust God and to seek His love above all else. Once you learn to understand that God loves you, that eternal life is waiting for you, everything else in this earth becomes easier to bear. It doesn’t mean that you don’t mourn the loss of a wife, husband, child, etc. this will happen. But, with lots of prayer and focus on Christ, it means that you won’t be overcome with dread about the future.
this is so true
Very comforting words! Thankyou
God Bless us ALL Brothers&Sisters in Christ whose LOVE IS PERFECT!! We just have to Remember he Loved Us First!!! Hallelujah 🙏 AMEN
@@filhodarosa7512
Divinely inspired words from God’s lips to my heart! ❤️
Ohhhh how I needed to read that at this very moment of sorrow in my life 😞
Thank you so much
I am an Indian,going through lots of worries due to my kids health issues and ma husband..please pray for me…my name is SHINE.
Numbers 6:24-26 NIV
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.
@@ShinyDhas Hi Shine I pray for you in Jesus name that your husband and children will be made whole in Jesus name trust the love of Jesus for your family blessings.
@@ShinyDhas I prayed for you. May the Lord comfort you.
@@ShinyDhas what a beautiful name...smile shine and SHINE for Jesus...praying now....
My GOD JESUS will help you,believe me. Give every thing to HIM ,you will see what happens🙏🙏🙏 JESUS will protect you and you're family.
I fear sleep time as I have been suffering insomnia,, LORD Rest my body.
@@MrsLeo2222 I hear you and can relate 😓 hope we overcome as we pray for each other 🙏
@@normamcdonald8572 I will pray now,Bless you
@@MrsLeo2222 it is most of the time spychological . You need that time to figure out whats on your mind. It can something in your past. Or write it on paper. You see and feel it. Or to a spychologist . For EMDR.
And pray! Your body get rest. Dont be afraid.
@@MrsLeo2222 Psalm 4:8
"In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety."
Psalm 23
"The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me..."
@@ingela_injeela Amen thank you for this reminder,I have been doing better with the thought patterns the enemy tries to brake me with .
I recently watched a video where they state scientists have found that the area that lights up in our brain when we appreciate something is the same area that lights up when we are anxious. They state that if we can be grateful, it helps curb anxiety.
Thanks for the explanation. I did not understand it at first. Towards the end I remember a childhood incident when I was 7 years old. Our house was destroyed by a storm and the insurance did not pay because it was an act of God. Since then I had this fear of god. When I miss going to church on a Sunday I thought he would punish me. So like you said I was always scared he punishes me . Wow this sure has cleared up something in my mind I’ve been carrying around for over 50 years. ❤❤❤I I’ve been up all night can’t sleep go on you tube and find this. Thank you Heavenly Father and Mark. Love was definitely missing in my life since I was small. I seemed to have a problem with receiving . I just realized my life has been a battle with fear because of missing love. ❤️ I am so blown away by what has just happened to me watching this video. I am good at giving and showing love but I have not felt or been able to receive. Sorry for the long text but I needed to get this out. Love and best wishes to everyone watching this❤
@@DJMikeron Thank you for sharing this. How may I best help a Christian person that is not receiving love? How can I quickly identify in a fellow Christian the characteristics that they aren't receiving love? What were you like when you weren't receiving love? What does that look like on a daily basis with a person struggling with this? I ask these questions to be able to learn about this, to help others out of this situation if I am able to identify it quickly in them, to help them recover from this. Thank you for your post.
I am saving Mark's videos. I have been a Christian for many years and Mark's videos have helped me so much. You know why? Because he can relate to us. What a blessing. I am seeing God as love and understanding it for really the first time. I know He loves us by giving us Jesus as Savior, but, toknow God as the epitome of Love is now so important to this old man.
You are my sibling in Christ and I love you and you matter. Give all of those 50 years to Jesus and lay your face at the foot of the Cross. His Grace and Love will heal you. He went through all that you've been through and took the punishment and wrath that was for you.... why? He did it all so you would See His Perfect Love as He called you by name. Your name. Your name He was whispering and focused on as He took every lash and laugh. There could never be a greater Love for you than that. He gave up everything so that you will have everything...and fear is under His feet. It doesn't exist in the spiritual world anymore for Believers. The demons will always throw 'thought' darts but have a Scripture handy on a note or phone to see quickly... it will get worse before it gets better... they see a change /move towards God and will fight you where you are vulnerable. Don't have to feel anything.... just repeat God's Word. He wants you to KNOW there is no fear in Him and if you are In Him... then He is In you. 😃😀. He experienced all of your fear so you never have to. Such perfect love. Hang in there. He will always complete what He starts. You.... are His. 😽😝😺🙏💜
I still don't fully understand how much GOD loves. Its unfathomable that HE loves me despite
The Greatest WEAPON Against FEAR Is:
PRAYER MEDITATION, WORSHIP, PRAISE,
Spending Time ALONE With God.
@@glendaduncan7089 = peace.
Thank you so much! This very topic of ‘trying to love God’ has been on my heart all today and yesterday, weighing me down. I must rest and relax in HIS perfect love for me, and SLOWLY learn to receive it.
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Yes, amen!
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This message came into my feed. Thank you for sharing it.
I am 60 and have struggled with depression and rejection for the majority of my life. I have had trauma in childhood and in marriage. Been divorced for years. Although I have known God I have only been a Christian since 2008. I love the Lord and want to serve Him.
Your message really hit me. I want to learn to accept His love knowing He loved me first!
Thank you many Blessings🙏🏻🙏🏻💕
Have you ever had DV or a***e counseling?
@@AngelinaParker1what's DV or a***e? There's many acronyms I don't know
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@@GodIsLove1John416 domestic violence and abuse
I understand because i’am going through the same things. Praying for you. I believe God will heal our wounds. I too want to serve Him and know Him with all my heart.❤️🙏
This was extremely helpful and just what I needed today. I was at church yesterday and felt the Lord speaking to me during worship and for the first time I really knew that I could trust him in my situation. Your expository teaching on this verse was excellent!! When you said, we know God has our back, that got me because I actually believe it now!! Thanks Mark 💜
Keep hanging on sister. And remember if you do fall Jesus will be right there to catch you.
@@tonypino5415 Thanks for the encouragement!! 💙
@@lindsaygraham9115 We're all battling. I've been through a lot and I'm sure you have too but the Lord is always faithful.
I hear very few things on TH-cam that really resonate with me but this message of love did it for me. Thank you.
Same here…👍
Displace fear with the love of God. ❤
One my favorite quotes is, “Fear is the thief of dreams.”
"He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world."
Ephesians 1:4
I am a new christian. This video just changed my perception completely.
Thanks Mark. I've recently returned to Christ but have developed a religious spirit based on performance and a fear of punishment. I want to receive God's love today.
May God bless you. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard what God has ready for those who love him. Speak, Talk to your Father brother. Just as you wrote it here. Open your heart, in all honesty to Him and just tell him everything. He loves you and wants Communion (communication with you). The good, the bad and the ugly; he desires to hear it all beloved. Be blessed 🤍🙏🏾
I am in mental pain it's major anxiety and fear. Please pray for me. My name is Jennifer. 🙏🏻
I’m praying 🙏 for you Jennifer.
@@oklartse How are you doing now?
@nrtnrt6676 a lot better than better. I still struggling with bad thoughts but Jesus helps me. Btw I saw him twice in a dream last night. He was floating on a cloud. Thanks for checking on me. 🫂
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Praying for you!
What a NEEDED message in these days! The enemy is so busy keeping people in torment. I pray that everyone around this world will hear this message and that it will SINK IN and set them free.
Praying for all who are going through it and to be set free…I need this also.🙏
"He who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it." 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤ Thank you for teaching and encouraging us, dear Brother.
"KNOW God no fear, NO God know FEAR"
I was sitting in my car when I started this video and the Holy Spirit poured out on me. I am so in love with God. Your words affirm what I have read from the scriptures. God bless you and your household. I pray a hedge of protection around you and your family. May God increase your annointing. May you be a voice of peace and love to many nations. ❤
I am renewing my mind, but not without medication, it is unfortunately that for some of us medication is part of our lives. I appreciated very much your teachings.
@@laurenmay2098 Well I was on Lexapro for 20 years. Once you start the antidepressants you cannot just get off them. I believe you have to take care of your diet to take care of your mind body and soul. It has taken me 8 most to stop 20 milligrams of Lexapro. Just took the Leap of faith today and stopped my last 5 milligrams of Lexapro. I will be emotional for about 2 weeks. I will have to check myself and emotions while going thru this last stage. God bless you. I hope you feel better.
@@laurenmay2098 my friend is under medication and I read he might not wean off after 3 months, it has been more than 2 years. I do keep hoping, LaurenMay. my church teaches God heals and I pray it is possible to go off medication.
Mark, I don't know if you will still read this because this video was made a while ago. I came across it out of absolutely nowhere, it just popped up and I had not been watching any videos on mental health at all. I am suffering at the moment from crippling anxiety. I did not think God would see me as you described and I could never get anything right, my prayer, Mass attendance, anything. It is a torment. But now I will pray to feel Gods love and ask for His help. Before I thought my anxiety was a punishment for everything I had done wrong or had not done right. Thank you for this wonderful video, your descriptions was like everything I have felt. I don't feel as hopeless, I can ask God to help me now instead of feeling I deserved everything I was feeling.
@@LittleRobotNX01 same here. This just showed up and I was drawn to it. Four hours sleep and same experience as you, crippling anxiety 😥 I Pray this helps us 🙏
@@northcountrygirl4879 Thank you so much for your message, same here! Four hours sleep, really, really bad day and Mark's video pops up. My heart goes out to you too, we have to believe what Mark has explained and said, God loved us first. ♥ Just keep telling yourself that. I think Mark has other videos that will help too. 🙏
@@LittleRobotNX01 stay strong 💪 all the very best to you 🥰
@@northcountrygirl4879same here need sleep!!!😓
God doesn't punish those of us who are in Christ Jesus. The law was given by Moses, *grace* and truth came by Jesus Christ. Our Father will lovingly chastise us. Holy Spirit will guide and teach us, but those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior are redeemed from the curse of the law. Jesus tells us who are wearied and burdened to come to Him, to cast our cares on Him. Believers are highly favored, deeply loved, and irreversibly blessed!! Nothing can separate us from His love. Are there consequences to sin? Of course! Overeating and smoking will damage our bodies (the temples of Holy Spirit). Infidelity has natural consequences, and so on and so forth but God doesn't "punish" us for our sins. We are forgiven because of Jesus' death and resurrection. Jesus died so we can have life and *life abundant*!! Receive all the blessings that are yours as a co-heir with Christ Jesus. Read the Bible because you want to, because it's God's love letter to you, not because you feel like you must in order to gain His love. Jesus never told anyone He healed "Great is your scripture studying!" or "I heal you because you prayed every day for an hour last month!" or "Healing is yours because you sacrificed chocolate during lent!" Jesus told the woman with the issue of blood, "Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace." Maybe ask Him to increase your faith. He wants you to enter into His rest because He loves you!
Thank you so much for this. God bless you and anyone who reads this❤️His love is perfect, and through Him we can do all things!!
Wow Thanks for this Mark. I was just having an anxiety spiral about nothing, so this was right on time. I always thought I’m just not doing enough praying etc or even comparing myself to other believers who seem to just have no fear. As I reflect I can see It’s really hard for me to receive Gods love, and even the love of those around me. I’m praying I learn to soon, because it’s a bit rough. Anywho sorry for the long message, I appreciate these videos ☺️ they are always very helpful.
This video on 1 John 4:18 was SO powerful and eye-opening for me too!! 💥
Two years later, yet you’re right on time! Thank you so much ❤
@@TequilaStandifer8888 yes we heard this message and the appointed time to receive it. I did. I so needed it. Anxiety can feel like your gut is on fire and bad enough, accompanied by dry heaves. Fear is behind anxiety like hurt is behind anger.
Same 🫶
Me too. This timing is actually kind of jaw dropping to be honest.
GOD'S timing is always, 'PERFECT!' 😊 ❤
@@marlenelindsey7638 I am sorry you’re experiencing those things! keep this message as your reminder God did not give u a spirit of fear it and none of its relatives belongs to you Anytime they come in your mind remind yourself that there is no fear in Love I know those thoughts will flee from u and even if they come more than once or even a few times stay believing God and I promise you before u know anxiety etc won’t be there and when things happen that would have put u in a state of fear etc you will not react the same because when u believe God and Gods word there is no thought or feeling the so-called enemy can put on you to make u doubt Gods love anymore ❤️
LORD PLEASE HELP ME.. i need YOUR WORD OF HEALING.. please touch each and everyone of us.. please please LORD🙏❤️🙏
This didn’t start with me. It started with him. Powerful
Yessss!! Thank you, Jesus!! The perfect love of God has completely transformed everything about me - EVERYTHING!!! ❤️✝️❤️✝️❤️✝️
Woke up today with this scripture repeating in my head.
So weird.
Big hugs, very very grateful for your videos!
Ive been suffering insomnia for the past 15 years and now the cause has resurfaced. (Fear of death)Am really glad i found this page where we pray and comfort one another. Its not really easy fighting fear. Tge torment is something else. God help us🙏🙏. Please pray for me
@@patonyema2641 I can relate and will keep you in prayer, learn PSALM 23 and keep it on repeat in your mind before going to sleep. 🇨🇦
Praying for you…I understand because mine has been over 20yrs. Fear is the worse and not understanding Gods love makes it harder. Praying that we would be perfected in Gods love.❤️🙏
Thanks so much for this video! Love casts our fear, this is so true!
I have issues with my emotions going up and down and when you mentioned about deep revelation of God’s love, it started to make sense! There’s no need for me to be so harsh on myself when I’m not feeling my best.
I went thru so much torment with my emotions that I got stressed many times which caused seborrheic dermatitis. The less stress I have, the less worse my dermatitis is. Perfectionism is such a trap from the devil! I need to constantly receiving God’s grace, mercy, love, etc!
Throughout my life, I practiced perfectionism and it was very toxic in my life. I’m slowly getting out of that rut, glory to God! God has been teaching me so much. You’ve been such a blessing in my life! Thanks so much for this wonderful teaching and yet beautiful reminder from this scripture. 🤍🤍
The smallest thing sets me off. I recover quickly, but I wish I could just skip the whole anxiety quick to get angry thing. I pray, but the first thing that rocks my boat my prayer is completely forgotten! I see I need to set myself free from everything having to go my way and being able to get my mind off myself and onto others. Seeing people through God's eyes would be a good start for me. God says without love we are nothing. I need to start my day with loving all those around me instead of waiting for them to disappoint me. Thank you for this reminder.
I know this scripture. People often remind me of it. I still struggle with depression, anxiety, and fear.
@@margrose5 Yes. You have not cut out toxic people from your life. That is my problem, too. Do you have a healthy lifestyle?
This is incredible! Thank you so much, I’ve been dealing exactly with this! Thank you ❤️❤️
WOW! What an incredible presentation. He, the Mighty One, the God who IS love, delivered me years ago from this very theme-LOVE. His love did it for me. Yet years later in encountering a more severe bouts with so called anxiety and after seeking and applying many different and even helpful tools, the good Lord lead me to this video to cap it all and to put me back in remembrance that HIS grand, perfect love was and is the antidote. I’m so grateful for this video Mark. To God be the glory! May the Lord continue to bless and keep you and yours.👏🏾🙌🏾❤️
Thank you for this explanation. It came to me at just the right time when I was being tormented by anxiety and wondering why God didn't listen to me. I don't know what the near future holds for me, but I am now reassured that this is the right direction.
God took away my obsessive tormenting thoughts. Hallelujah 🙌🏻 🙏🏻 Praise our wonderful Father, Our Lord and Saviour.
Thank you so much! I have wondered why I could not stop worrying and stop "performing" without feeling loved. After 85 years of life I can finally feel loved.
My hubby walked in and wanted to know what I was smiling about. This video. That's what. 😊
I can only say amen. This passage helps me every time when I just feel fear or anxiety.
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I had severe anxiety that was crippling. I spent months mostly in my bed. I would seldom go out of my house. Everything went crashing down. I told God, "I can't anymore. Please, send someone to talk to me." Someone got home, and gave me a book about anxiety. Right then, I understood what going on to me. He left the 99 and went for me. God loves you. I understood I had to work on my past problems, on my character and many other things to heal my anxiety. This message reached me in a new moment of anxiety.
@@janelysdesantiago4770 what’s the book about anxiety called?
He left the 99? What is this in relation to
@@rickspalding3047A lot. Jesus went after the one LOST sheep, He is our shepherd and we are His sheep.
At last, the teaching I've needed but didn't know was out there. God's heard my cry for help with things like hyper vigilance. PTSD and OCD.
Wow God is always on time! I needed to hear this. My thoughts are very self condemning. Could you touch on the verse Philippines 2:12 work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. It's verses like these that keep my thoughts condemning.
Me too
Exactly! There’s always a verse like this that keeps me stumbling!
Unfortunately, I don’t think the author of this video responds to comments.😢
@@ashleyodell3778 The words that follow that scripture says that "It is God who is at work in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure", that takes the burden off of you. That scripture shouldn't be condemning or crumbling, it should rather make you rejoice.
@@oluwabusayoayodeji1386 Thank you!! 🙏
Love of God overcoming fear from any source is like light of faith & grace driving away the darkness of sin without overly obsessing & become anxious about it. 😊
The one that pulled me out of my depression was remembering Matthew 11:29-30 “take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Amen. Thank you LORD for this beautiful timely message 🙏
I've had this spirit of fear/worry for years. I have had for years the habit of religious ocd you spoke about in another video. I have the same tormenting relationship with God that you did. I have been passively suicidal for years and have been at the point where I hate life and myself and have absolutely zero interest in existing anymore. I believe that God loves me and I believe He's perfect, but I cannot bring myself to love myself or my life. I want out and every minute feels like a torment. I just don't understand what the heck love even is. Joy is an alien concept. I've tried to imagine how he might see me as he created me but I can't even begin to fathom it. Your videos are helping me though because now I know I'm not the only one who experience these kinds of things- even if my experiences are quite severe.
I am aware that I am most in error/sin because I cannot give myself grace or mercy, cannot change my heart to begin easing off and giving myself the compassion I eagerly give others. There is a cold, rigid part of my heart that dominates my feelings and is consumed with self-hatred even when intellectually I can objectively see how unhealthy and self-destructive that is.
I will pray for you as I have also struggled with what you described so well. If God sat down with you tonight and just heard you and understood you and you felt he has been waiting to hear these words you have typed on here. Do you believe that he has? He is different than humans are in the sense that He has a love that abounds and is patient with us. He will go at your pace but ask Him if you feel the need to be healed. Sometimes we are not aware of how hurt we are and need a modeling to show us how compassion and help toward us feels. God is trustworthy and safe.
Tried to reply to you but it went to general comments
I struggle with severe depression and moderate anxiety due to ongoing, unrelenting life stressors. Major life stressors. I am
FULL of fear. I am clearly trying to trust God for years yet am not able to. I certainly would not purposely choose fear.
Praying for you….i understand because I have been dealing with this for a long time. I pray that we can both learn to trust Him more and more. He deserves our trust.❤️🙏
I pray God for Your Love and Peace in my life.
Thank you so much. I realized that I don’t always remember to receive God’s love and that directly affects how I see and treat others. And I have been walking with Christ for 11 years. I really needed to hear this and this impacted me in a profound way. We all have something to learn. Thank you sooooo much!
just me popping back 11 days later for a reminder watch
Thank you so very much.
Right on word. No performance. Just see him through his perspective.
Recieve his love.
Yessss to The Father.
I really needed to hear this today. I knew this and used to carry this in my heart and let it get away from me slowly by hanging around people who don’t know God reject him or have him in their life. Need my bible and need my Jesus to remind me of God’s love and that I’m made perfect in his Son not by what I do but by what he has already done for me. Just need to receive you again Jesus and receive an increase of the Holy Spirit. He’s right there in front of us, we just need to push away the spiritual cob webs to the unseen.
This comment helped me a lot when you stated, I’m made perfect in his Son, not by what I do but by what He has done for me. Why is this so hard to remember and receive? Lord, help me let go of the conditional love voices from the past telling me because you did this, my love for you changes.
I was such a doer and performance based person. God has been showing me his love by instructing me to rest. Boy, does your faith grow when God tells you to be still. Not doing has taken me some time, but I'm getting better. The anxiety of thinking God may not come through was so intense. I would tell God that my heart hurt.....it actually felt that way. Finding peace in resting is where I am. I pray for you reading this and your journey. God loves you, and so do I. 💜🙏🏾💐
Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for this video, when I was a kid I was full of fear, I could not sleep in peace bc of nightmares and fear of something evil happening to me, as I grew old, that fear went away and I did not know what happened in between, I asked God; what exactly happened, because I wanted to help others that suffer from this,but now, I inderstand.
Lately, fear has tried to enter my Life again, and I have been struggling not to let that be part of me again, but this video just reminded me that the love of God casts out fear. I glorify God because his Word will keep showing New light in my Life, God bless you too
This is so good. I struggled with fear of God and hell that I’m now on medication to sooth me from the anxiety and torment. I need help receiving Gods Love. I need more on what that looks like.
It's almost like you & I were identical twins in the wombs of different Mothers. I have never said out loud a lot of the things you talk about in your videos I have watched in the past 2 days, so I feel less & less alone after watching each one, God is definitely using you & your precious wife in my journey through God's Healing for such a time as this. God Bless you, my brother & sister In Christ Jesus!🙌🙏❤
This video was 2 years ago. I just came upon it! This is exactly where I am. Came out of a highly charismatic church that was all about performance and exceeding God's (Pastors) expectations. That along with Complex Trauma brought me to a place of shame and despair and brokenness, an emotional breakdown actually. This....THIS scripture you discussed is one I've looked at but didn't really understand. I knew it was important, huge piece of the puzzle but I had to learn who God truly is before I could understand it. It's a game changer! Glad I found your podcast. Blessings ❤
Hope you're doing well,God bless you ❤
This is the TRUTH
GOD IS LOVE
PERFECT LOVE
To all those who have suffered from fear Mark's video explains how wonderful God's love is
The concept of "God as our Father" is something that I struggled with. Part of the problem for me was that my own father dealt with me using fear. -- You do that again and you get the strap. If I did something wrong as a young child I would get slapped with a belt, coils of extension cord or garden hose, or even lariat rope. Whatever was close available in the moment. The punishment was done in immediate anger, rather than with long-term guidance as a goal. My favorite uncle had a lot of problems with his children going in the wrong way. He told me one time something that helped him the most with his troubled 12 year old child whom he had adopted. He had done something wicked and rebellious. He sat down by the child and asked what he thought the parent should do. And the child said "ground me for a week, don't let me watch TV. Take away my computer privileges." And my uncle told him. "No, I am going to forgive you." It is hard not to transfer what we see in our earthy father to how we view our heavenly father.
This is so true, I can relate! I’ve forgiven my abusive father and I have an ok relationship with him now ( he lives in Germany and I in the US), but my upbringing makes it so difficult for me to see God in the proper way. I’ve been calling myself a Christian for over 30 years and still struggling to grow in Christ.😟
@@prairiemark4084 God the father is the epitome of love. He gave Adam the complete set of choice to make and gave a wonderful partner and made sure he wasn't going to be alone. Even in punishment that Adam and Eve received from God, it was only out of His love he blessed them and not punished them for what they deserved! He made sure to mention they are going to give birth to kids though He made it painful for the woman.. He did make sure Adam had a means of living though He drove them out of Eden, more importantly He said to Satan, with woman did you start the game and the seed from the woman has a war against you, the game is on and in that war..He made sure you and I are redeemed out of the curse of death through Jesus'blood, the son of Heavens and the woman! We are loved beyond imagination
I have experienced similar. God has taught me so much about his care and love for me as i train my dog. She was fearful, distrustful and more. It helped me to consider that God was as patient and loving toward me as i was to my dog who couldn't yet understand. She slowly began to trust and experience confidence and agency. It took investment on my part and she gave me tremendous joy during a time when thoughts of how i could unalive myself violently crashed into my thoughts about every 15 minutes. I wish i could chat with you over coffee and encourage you. I relate so much to what you said. I've watched a video of an extremely vicious Belgian malinois named prince being rehabbed. His trainers brought him from his place of hatred for everyone and everything to a place of peace, trust and enjoyment of life. God can do the same with you. Imagine him as your trainer maybe. Prince was in a cage and acted like he would tear anyone to shreds who approached him. The end of the video shows him happily playing in a stream with another mali and his trainer. Whole different life. This could be you too. Don't give up.
Hey mark. I'm about halfway through your book, I Will not fear. I'm still struggling with shutting down my compulsions but I'm trying to learn how to be settled in God's love and take my peace back. It's definitely a journey but I feel God working on me your work is helping me understand things more clearly. Thanks buddy, from North Carolina
This video is just what God intended me to see and experience. Revelation through this.
Fantastic job explaining the meaning of this verse
I think this is the answer I have been searching for since my youth. I turned forty this past August and this is what I have needed this whole time. I have had a complete misunderstanding of my feelings and shame from God.
One Lord…One Spirit…I received this same message a few months ago. Praise God for this anointed teaching. 🙏🏽❤️
What's interesting to me is that the various paths that come out of this-including perfectionism and scrupulosity or licentiousness and liberalizing, all of which sound like they're missing God's real love and its implications-define the ways different churches and denominations operate. Each says "this is what you ought to feel or do." But it's as simple as a child knowing God's true character of love. Something like that? Like the good father looking eagerly for his prodigal son to return, then greeting him with lavish love?
I’m so thankful for you and this ministry. Thank you for this timely message
Thank You Excellent Message
God is GOOD ~ God is LOVE!
I'll put this on frequent repeat until it fully sinks in! Thank you. 😊
Try reading “The Untethered Sole”
Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN
Thank you for your teaching. I pray to receive God's perfect love and fully experience it no matter circumstances. We are living in troubling times where, truly, our safety is being threatened.
Somehow I read the verse and instead of making feel good and hopeful I feel judged and not worthy.
I am not perfect in love because I worry and I fear indeed.
And I just know He loves me and loved me first, but reading this doesn’t make me feel better.
I rather feel accused and judged of doing something wrong, but feeling depressed is not something I can always control.
Sometimes it really shows up out of nowhere while all I do is try to be positive and kind to others.
I feel defeated every time that happens.
I was floxed and brain damaged.
I've had chemical terrors and CPTSD from trauma, all while growing up.
I still have anxiety and panic.
I was floxed by a fluoroquinolone antibiotic a second time in 2022, and that's when I realized what had happened that first time.
I cant wait another 15 years for my brain and nervous system to heal again. 😢 Im very upset by this, but I also trust God to do His perfect will in my life, I just wish I didn't have to start over and go through it again. I must have missed things the first time through. Yikes.
I hope I get it right faster this time.
I also face the punishment based relationship with God because of the highly abusive nature of the relationship with my parents.
Very profound video.
Thank you.
I've NEVER truly felt loved in my life until I learned of Jesus and our Heavenly Father. Still, I feel that very harsh side that my earthly parents had with me and project that onto God too often. Im trying to stop because of people like you!
Very good. Again, thank you!!!
I don’t normally comment on TH-cam but I came across this video a few days ago and I’m coming back to say this was life changing for me. Thank you for sharing. Learning to receive his love.. you naturally begin to love and begins a closer relationship with him.
spot on brother
WOW! Man, I have been struggling so hard! Thank you for this! Thank you God and Jesus!