Prayer for everyone with anxiety and depression

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Permalink Reply by Eden Exile on May 21, 2009 at 5:18pm

As a fellow sufferer of anxiety symptoms I join you in thanking God for our healing and well being - may God continue to give us peace and security.

Amen!

Permalink Reply by Andrea on May 21, 2009 at 7:42pm

What a a timely message. I just had one of my worst anxiety attacks in a long time in the car this evening. I was hyperventilating, couldn't feel my hands, arms, legs or lips. I don't even know what brought it on. If I could figure that out, life would be so much easier and I would know what to work on. My husband gets so upset with me when it happens. All you see is anger in his face if I make him pull over. It is hard.
Thank you for listening

Permalink Reply by Mary O on May 23, 2009 at 12:38am

Hi Andrea, God bless!

I thank God for you that you are peaceful and blessed. And that you are filled with more and more joy. I thank God for showing you the cause of the anxiety attacks and for his help in overcoming them. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Sometimes anxiety is associated with a lack of faith. That's just not true for everyone suffering anxiety attacks. A friend of mine (Jan) has terrible anxiety in the morning. She's a wonderful Christian. She's suffered many physical traumas. She reminds me of Job. Please pray for Jan too, okay?

Love,
Mary O.

Permalink Reply by nnabugwu on May 24, 2009 at 3:35am

Re-Fire With Prayer!
It is clear from scriptures that the first Church, in the days of the apostles, stood on two pillars; prayer and the word. In Acts 6: 4 they said, "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." When you take away these two, the Church is bound to grow cold, dry and empty. The warmth of the Church is sustained mainly by prayer and the Word. Remember Jesus said, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first..." (Matthew 12:43-45). If we must keep the evil beast away therefore, we must fight dryness and emptiness, we must keep the fire burning with prayer and the word.

The apostles said, "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer...." Why? In Matthew 26:41 Jesus had earlier told them, "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation..." Temptations abound but it takes watching and praying to overcome. Satan's intention is to make you fall into temptation, it is your prayer exercise that guarantees your standing in the face of such temptations. You cannot be praying and falling at the same time. If you find yourself falling all the time, it means you are not praying. Those who pray don't fall.
Also, in Luke 22:32 Jesus looked at Peter and said, "I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not..." Faith failure is the root of all failure. But when we pray, faith is sustained and strengthened; failure gives way to victory. Jesus also meant to say, "The reason I have not failed is because I am praying."

Jesus told the parable of the importunate widow in Luke chapter 18 and the Bible says, "...He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint" (Luke 18:1). When you pray always, you don't faint any how. Faintheartedness results when men stop praying. When the apostles would have fainted because of the threatening of the council, they went to their own company and as they prayed together, the place where they were was shaken and they returned energized! The cheapest way to kill faintheartedness is to pray. It is in prayer that your fainting is converted into courage and boldness. After the apostles prayed, the Bible says, "...great grace was upon them all" and they spoke the word with boldness (Acts 4:33). When Jesus was almost fainting before His crucifixion, He went to the garden of Gethsemane to pray, and after that prayer He arose with boldness and said to His disciples, "Arise, let us go." That was a man who was going to face death.

So, in prayer we escape falling, we escape failing and fainting. Rather, we come out refined and re-fired because prayer is beholding the face of God. You can't behold His face and not reflects His glory.

Meditate on these: 2 Cor. 3:18, 1 Tim. 6:16

Permalink Reply by deedee310 on May 24, 2009 at 6:47pm

I am in need of prayer in Anxiety and Depression as well. Even though I am seeking God and trying to serve him, I am still attacked by depression and anxiety a whole lot. There are days when depression just takes over me and I try my hardest to fight it. I am praying for depression in myself and other's as well.