The ONE Scripture Saved My Mental Health

The ONE Scripture Saved My Mental Health

i want to take a moment and share with you today a scripture that is very near and dear to my heart and has truly helped me in so many areas of my life but especially in healing and overcoming in areas of mental health this passage of scripture saved my sanity i’m so grateful to god and i’m grateful to the apostle john for his writings and the revelation that’s been documented here in the scriptures because this is so important it was always there in the scriptures but one day it dawned on me what i really needed in my mental health healing journey is tucked right into this passage of scripture first john 4 18 and 19. there’s so much more within john 4 that brings out and just really the whole book of first john that brings out amazing insights but right here john says this there is no fear in love and so we understand the context of relating to god john says god is love he doesn’t just have love he is love it’s the very nature of love so as you learn what true love is you learn that god is love and how to relate to him and i needed to learn how to relate to god in his love and really rebuild the foundation of my life and journey and helping me to understand as we’re relating to god in his love there’s no fear in that that helped me to understand that when it comes to relating to god god is not using fear as a mechanism debilitating chronic fear to speak to you or to relate to you in your life and in your journey and and the word fear can be an umbrella to many words it can be anxiety it can be panic it can be phobias it can be aspects of obsession it can be paranoia it can be hyper vigilance it can be stress there’s so many words that umbrella off of this word fear that we often use even words like worry or i’m over concerned or i’m spinning right most of the things in our mental health journey have some form of the fear factor at work in our lives and god’s establishing here and when we’re relating to him in his love and we’re learning to experience love there’s no fear there when love pours in it actually has a work to remove fear’s effect in our life and journey i first had to realize okay this anxiety i’m feeling god’s not trying to tell me something that i had to work through that i i would sense that feeling and i would associate that with the god voice that that knot in my stomach that feeling of like right there right oh god must be trying to tell me something because the way i related to god was in a bandwidth that was actually fear-based and not love-based so john brings out here perfect love and this perfect love you and i are struggling in in our how we process love and what love looks like right we see imperfect love all the time right but there is a perfect love who does it come from it comes from god god as our father through the work of jesus christ demonstrates his love sees us through the lens of love and here’s what the love of god is designed to do this is amazing is this perfect love will actually cast out fear and this word casts out it speaks of like even in the new testament when jesus would cast out an evil spirit he would he would displace the works of the enemy and one of the works of the enemy is to keep us under the influence of chronic fear and he had to first realize there’s no fear in how god’s operating with us tim uh paul said this to timothy in second timothy 1 7 he said god has not given you the spirit of fear this fear stuff that people are struggling struggling with all around the world is not from god but it’s wanting to come against us and steal our peace so this perfect love and this is interesting because a lot of times when we talk about our spiritual battles and spiritual warfare and the struggles that we have and seeking to overcome fear many people don’t realize that in your fight to overcome fear what we actually need to do is let the love of god engage our hearts in such a way that it displaces fear it drives it out to help someone overcome their fear all they need to do is be filled with a deeper revelation of the love of god to experience that to walk in that to practice that then we can face our fears and we’re empowered to face our fears because that love reminds us god’s got our back he’s our father he’s with us he’s never going to leave us hanging he walks with us through this and then we begin practicing renewing of the mind renewing our emotions and even the physiology of our bodies can shift and change love has that kind of power and i realized this next sentence in my life because fear involves torment it’s not of god because god’s not trying to torment you this word torment also can be translated punishment and many of us including myself i had to realize i struggled with anxiety because i had a punishment-based relationship with god i had a tormenting base relationship with god not a love-based relationship with god and i had to learn to let my journey get a new foundation because this is exactly the mission of fear anxiety worry panic all those words that i express what does it do it steals our peace keeps us in a place of torment right and so perfect love comes in and wants to remove this work of torment this punishment base this fear of punishment in our lives in our journey and i landed myself into a profound statement that helped me to realize the areas of anxiety obsession and all these these thought patterns and emotions i struggle with he who fears this is your prescription and this was my prescription he who fears has not been made perfect in reading your bible enough praying enough doing all the right things making sure you never sin making sure all your thoughts are perfect making sure your church attendance and your giving and all the stuff is lined up just right no it doesn’t say that your issue with fear anxiety stress worry panic phobias hyper vigilance all the stuff that comes out of trauma and and and neglect and the pain and emptiness and ill-equipped of our emotions right not feeling safe is not been made perfect in drum roll love and for many perfectionists they go how does it make sense because they’ve been they’ve been taught to make sure everything’s just right be made perfect in making sure everything’s just right and it it it drives us away from what we really need which is love the beautiful amazing divine love of god so i realized when anxiety would rise up whether it was pointing to something because i could have an anxiety that would point to a specific thing i would obsess and spin about or what they call generalized anxiety which is just this feeling of doom and gloom and anxiousness doesn’t have a specific target it’s just there whatever it is it’s showing an area of my life that needs a deeper revelation and experience of god’s love and i reminded myself on a continual basis to understand this is a love issue because many of us go into all kinds of tangents you think it’s maybe because i haven’t repented enough i haven’t prayed enough or maybe i asked christ into my life but i i mean i’m not saved enough and people spin about their assurance a spin about making sure this is right or making sure my thoughts are right making sure all we spin in all these areas and john says you fear it’s a love issue we are a generation as many generations before us have needed but like never before we are in need to recognize a major aspect of our mental health healing a core central place is learning to experience the relational depth and power of what it means to truly be loved to experience that love relationship with god to see that love and how you see yourself and experience that in loving relationship with others but john again does an amazing job before your performance kicks up you go i need to learn love okay so i got to work hard on loving god make sure i love god make sure i love him just right okay i got to do all these things to love god john calls a quick timeout and says you need to understand something you love him because he first loved you he first loved us so i realized this fear thing is not of god all this this what i what i actually need is perfect love because this fear is just driving me into further torment and i can’t i’m not going to make friends with fear anymore and my prescription my divine prescription is actually i need to learn and grow and what the the power of love is so where do i begin this is the classic question everyone asks where do i begin how how mark i’m learning to receive the love that god has for me to say yes to it to discover to learn what does it look like to look at me through the eyes of how god sees me as i read the scriptures as as as i learn to process out what love is and learn to realize god sees me that way one of the things that really helped me i have a resource on it experiencing god’s love as your father is i realize god is a father and i had to learn how to relate to him as a father then it led me into exposing the rejection mindset which realized i have rejection wounds in my life because i didn’t learn to experience that kind of powerful love so it caused me to be a performer and then the next phase in my journey led me to god loves me and i love myself i needed to learn how to see myself through the love that god has for me and actively receive that love those resources helped me in my life in my journey and i document my process in that and so it starts with realizing before i was even born he loved me he saw me and he loved me this didn’t start with me it started with him and so before you get into trying to love god and trying to love god remember he first loved you it’s time to learn how to receive that i pray this is a blessing to your life and your journey if it is share it with someone you care about who could benefit from this take advantage of resources and you can also support the work of these videos by going to mark to jesus dot com appraise adds love and grace to your journey god bless you

This one passage of Scripture helped save my mental health and lead me into a whole new way of experiencing healing and freedom in my life. I pray that what I discovered and experienced will bless and encourage your journey.

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