Sunday, October 28, 2018
Monday, October 15, 2018
Dr. Caroline Leaf - "Overcoming Depression"
I discovered Dr. Caroline Leaf and her work after God woke me up from depression. I think it was the Holy Spirit's way of confirming to me what had taken place in my mind and body. I can't describe to you how excited I was when I began hearing and reading the work of a scientist who was saying all of the things that I'd been learning!
She's a Christian neuroscientist from South Africa, now based out of Dallas, TX. She talks a lot about the mind-body connection and how the Bible and science don't contradict each other but that science confirms the Bible. You can find lots of YouTube videos of her teaching and she also has a website and tv show.
In this particular video, she addresses very plainly the common misconceptions about depression and psychotropic drugs (these include antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications). I highly recommend that you watch it all the way through! You won't hear most of this anywhere else.
The really good parts start after the intro so keep watching.
(you can copy and paste the link below into your web browser to take you there)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEA6xnlJdw8
She's a Christian neuroscientist from South Africa, now based out of Dallas, TX. She talks a lot about the mind-body connection and how the Bible and science don't contradict each other but that science confirms the Bible. You can find lots of YouTube videos of her teaching and she also has a website and tv show.
In this particular video, she addresses very plainly the common misconceptions about depression and psychotropic drugs (these include antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications). I highly recommend that you watch it all the way through! You won't hear most of this anywhere else.
The really good parts start after the intro so keep watching.
(you can copy and paste the link below into your web browser to take you there)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEA6xnlJdw8
Saturday, October 13, 2018
In a Nutshell
If you haven't read "Out of the Pit", this is it in a nutshell: God freed me from 25 years of major clinical depression by the power of His Word. I was told it was genetic, I'd never work again and I needed to learn to "live" with it. None of that turned out to be true.
The medical community doesn't know everything and mental illness doesn't have to be a life sentence! We think we're so smart but we actually know very little about the brain. Through submitting to the Holy Spirit, He taught me that our thoughts create physical changes in our brains (and the rest of our bodies too) and that when we choose to think His thoughts, our brains are restored to how He originally intended them to be. This is the renewing of the mind that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:2.
He freed me and He can free anyone else. I'm not special, I just didn't give up.
If you want to hear all about how I got into the pit, what I went through there and then how God woke me up and walked me through the process of getting free, it's all in the book - all of the gorey details. I didn't gloss over the ugly parts so that you'd know I understand your pain and the depth of it. And I pray that you'll make the connection that you too can climb out of the pit.
It IS possible. I'm proof. Cry out to God with everything in you and don't give up.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,"
declares the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 55:8-9
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable
and perfect.
Romans 12:2
Amen, come Holy Spirit
The medical community doesn't know everything and mental illness doesn't have to be a life sentence! We think we're so smart but we actually know very little about the brain. Through submitting to the Holy Spirit, He taught me that our thoughts create physical changes in our brains (and the rest of our bodies too) and that when we choose to think His thoughts, our brains are restored to how He originally intended them to be. This is the renewing of the mind that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:2.
He freed me and He can free anyone else. I'm not special, I just didn't give up.
If you want to hear all about how I got into the pit, what I went through there and then how God woke me up and walked me through the process of getting free, it's all in the book - all of the gorey details. I didn't gloss over the ugly parts so that you'd know I understand your pain and the depth of it. And I pray that you'll make the connection that you too can climb out of the pit.
It IS possible. I'm proof. Cry out to God with everything in you and don't give up.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,"
declares the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 55:8-9
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable
and perfect.
Romans 12:2
Amen, come Holy Spirit
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Getting Alone With God
I've been reading Luke and, for the past couple of days, thinking about Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness by Himself. I couldn't make it through a 3-day fast with my sister and I don't like being by myself at home every day (I live alone). But what new level might I reach and what might I be able to hear because of disconnecting myself from the daily demands of my body and the cares of life?
It's kind of what I do on Saturday mornings. Even Sunday mornings start with getting out of the house to go to church. But Saturday mornings are for playing a few songs on my guitar, leisurely writing in my journal, thoughtfully reading my next Bible chapter, and listening. I listen for that one golden nugget from Him that hits me deep in my heart and gives me direction for my next step of faith; the one Word from Him that's full of life and truth and is what I need to survive. It always comes if I listen with an open heart.
And then I eat some breakfast (sometimes at noon) and set about my chores, carrying with me what I gained in that secret place.
And Jesus answered him, "It is written, man shall not live on bread alone."
Luke 4:4
It's kind of what I do on Saturday mornings. Even Sunday mornings start with getting out of the house to go to church. But Saturday mornings are for playing a few songs on my guitar, leisurely writing in my journal, thoughtfully reading my next Bible chapter, and listening. I listen for that one golden nugget from Him that hits me deep in my heart and gives me direction for my next step of faith; the one Word from Him that's full of life and truth and is what I need to survive. It always comes if I listen with an open heart.
And then I eat some breakfast (sometimes at noon) and set about my chores, carrying with me what I gained in that secret place.
And Jesus answered him, "It is written, man shall not live on bread alone."
Luke 4:4
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