If You Need Healing, You Need to Read This!
The mind is one important place. It is where ideas are born. It is a field so exceptional that amazing ideas and concepts are created.
It is a place where every branch of knowledge emerges.
However, it can also be a place where diseases are born--or cradled.
Let me share to you my story.
I was diagnosed with depression many years ago. I wouldn’t sleep. I would think and think and think until my head hurts.
I would constantly think about the show I watched on TV many hours ago. I would think about what people around me 'might be thinking of me'. I would think about ALL my worries--and I would go on for days.
When accumulated, these ‘thinking’ times became sleepless nights.
And due to these sleepless nights, I wouldn’t be functioning well at school.. (I was a college undergraduate then).
I could recall about a time when I was so nervous to report (in school), I thought to myself, “What if I forget the words?” and I actually did.
I kept thinking about the idea that my body followed it.
You see, the mind either works both for me or against me. During this time of my life, it was working against me and the plan that God had for me.
I was sick. I lost taste in seeing friends. I didn't want to interact with anyone. I kept blaming myself. It was really hard for me and my family, too. I was already ready to give up and give in.
During the time I was going through the 'disease' state, the psychiatrist would give me doses of medicine which would only make me sleep. Nothing more and nothing less.
Once I wake up, thoughts would still be occupying my mind. They were indeed persistent and relentless. I felt it was slowly but intensely overcoming my identity.
Then, during this difficult time in my life, I found the best support system. I met the Lord.
Here are three most effective ways that I found to be helping me heal(up to this day):
Word of God
I found the Bible as the ultimate and only source of strength, hope and motivation during this time, because the words written in it are exactly the words God wanted me to hear.
It has encouraged me and stabilized not only my mind, but also my heart.
"Do not conform to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may be able to test and approve what God’s will is: his good, pleasing and perfect will." -Romans 12:2
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. ” (Proverbs 23:7)
2. Seek a Biblical Counselor and Open Up
I learned communicating with people, most especially Christian leaders was very helpful.
Aside from being able to express myself, people around me were able to know what my concerns are---it created a sense of accountability between me and my leaders. They have strengthened me further throughout the fight and boosted my joyful spirit which had been very difficult for me to attain.
I also learned that negative arguments weaken your body and mind more. They are there! They are real! The counselors and Christian friends who prayed for me were able to counter these arguments which kept talking to me.
“Two are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.”-Ecclesiastes 4:9
3. Prayer Life
Communicating with God is the most important key to getting healed. I personally witnessed how prayer can open up the heavens.
As you open up to people, don’t forget that your Father in heaven wants to listen to you too. He is eager to know your thoughts and He is excited to listen to your stories. He wants to know more about you're feeling and also how you are faithing and believing in your healing.
“And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.”-1 John 5:15
As I was continuously doing these things, I was able to gain new strength every day and overtime, I experienced healing.
Now, I am healed and continuously challenging myself to rise above my daily circumstances. I am currently pursuing a degree in Engineering, handling one of our family's businesses and starting a support group in my school Adamson University. Surely, I won't take for granted how God healed me and it is my utmost mission to also tell others about the miracle I have received. I want to shout out to the whole world that Jesus heals!!!
“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”- Isaiah 53:4-5
Edited by: Anne Coleman-Precilla
