I am the Lord that healeth thee.(Ex.15:26)

The healing power of The Great Physician, Jesus Christ, is still at work in the world today. I suffered from bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression, my entire life. But now I am FREE!!!!!

Let me explain to you what bipolar disorder is. It is a debilitating disease, a chemical imbalance in the brain. I will give you the example of my life. As a child I always felt out of place, unloved, unliked. I was different. I can't remember many times in my life when I was truly happy. There was always a dark empty feeling surrounding me. It was like being in a dense fog, and there seemed no way out.Occasionally there would be a break in the fog and I would swing to an unnatural high. In it things seemed greater than they actually were. I thought I could do things that were impossible. I usually ended up in trouble during these manic highs. For me they wouldn't last long, a few days usually, maybe a week, then the depression would come crashing back on me like a giant tidal wave and swallow me up into the darkness again.

The mental pain and anguish of the depression was so great that I would try to escape any way that I could think of. This led to numerous suicide attempts, the first one coming at the age of 16. It also led to sexual promiscuity trying to find someone to love me, something to fill the void that was deep within me. Along with that came drug abuse and alcoholism. I could not function as a normal human being, I was void of the true power or understanding of love. I had four bad marriages, was beaten, degraded, and mentally abused. Because of the disease of depression I felt unworthy of love, and felt I deserved everything I got. I looked to everyone and everything trying to find what it was I needed to make me happy. I looked everywhere but the one place I could find the love, peace and joy I now have. I believed all the lies of Satan, I bought into every lie that he put into my head. I even bought into the lie that I was too great a sinner to receive forgiveness and salvation from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I believed the doctors who told me that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain, and that I would be on medication for the rest of my life to feel "normal". The medications didn't work, I have at one time or another taken almost every antidepressant known to man, and none worked. Some would help a little for a month or so, but no medication took that feeling of gloom from me, the cloud was never lifted.

Then something happened. I heard about Jesus. I had always believed in God, I grew up in Sunday school, but I never knew Him as my personal Lord and Savior. I began reading the Bible again and watching Christian programming on television. I started to pray again. It was not an instant transformation with me. I was too stubborn and pig headed for that. I was really radical for the Lord for about 6 months in 1995, then my old fleshly ways came back. I found out that they had never gone. In November 1998 God started to gently prod me with His precious Holy Spirit to come back to Him. This time I heeded the call and surrendered all to Him. I started to REALLY Praise Him and give Him thanks for what He had done for me my entire life. I thanked Him for being with me even when I didn't know Him, I thanked Him for taking ALL my sins on the cross with Him. I thanked Him that none of my suicide attempts had been successful, for if they had been I would be in Hell right now and Satan would be happy. God has filled me with His precious Holy Spirit again and I have a fullness,joy and peace on my life that I have never known before. I have a fire burning inside me now for Jesus and the things of God. The love I feel is unlike anything I ever dreamed or imagined. My prayer now is that all will come to know His great love, peace and heeling power in thier lives, as I now do.

I am healed and I am free from the lies and deceptions of Satan, the master deceiver, the father of lies. I am living my life for Jesus. ALL THE GLORY GOES TO GOD!!!! He is the same healing Jesus He was in the times of the New Testament when he walked the earth as a man, so that he could die for OUR sins. Because there was no sin in Him. He came and walked the earth as a man so that after His death on the cross God the Father could raise Him from the dead to be the firstfruits of the resurrection. Jesus now sits on the right hand of the Father at the throne of Heaven, Jesus is alive and well!! He wants all to know Him that they might have life everlasting with Him in Heaven, He wishes none to perish but to come unto Him. Anyone who believes in Him, His death and resurection, and who asks Him into thier heart and life will be saved.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light to a hurt and dying world.

I give Him great Praise and Glory with Thanksgiving for all He has done for me. Not only am I free from my sins and on my way to Heaven, I am healed here on earth. Praise God!!! 1 Peter 2:24

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