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
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