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from Jesus:
My beloved friend, even
though I am an unlimited spiritual being, my messenger is a human being
just like you. He only has 24 hours each day and consequently cannot
answer every question sent to this website, especially since I have
given him many other assignments that must be fulfilled in a timely
manner. Therefore, there is a backlog of questions for which he has
not had the time to get my answers. You are not the only one who has
had to wait for outer answers. Yet all have the option of listening
for inner answers that are always available.
When you are struggling with depression, it is always an attack on your
soul by dark forces. I have talked more about this in the answer to
another question
and you need to study my answers. However, the biggest problem with
depression is that it can become a downward spiral that causes people
to isolate themselves more and more, until they are completely overwhelmed
by the situation. You need to make a sincere effort to break that downward
spiral, and you can do so in two ways:
- One way is that you reach
out to other people, be it family, friends, a church community, social
services or a trained professional. It is essential that you reach
out to someone who can help you break free of the sense of being isolated.
I am fully aware that interacting with other people can often be disappointing,
especially when you are depressed. Nevertheless, you MUST reach out
to someone!!! Writing to me is clearly a sign that your soul wants
to reach out. God is perfectly willing to help you, but in many cases
God’s help does not take the form of a miracle. God’s
help comes through other people who will be there for you—if
you are willing to open your mind and heart to what they have to offer.
You say the illness is beyond your abilities, and that should make
it obvious that you need help from other people.
- Another efficient way
to reach out is to give a spiritual ritual. In your situation, it
is essential for you to invoke spiritual protection, and the most
efficient spiritual protection available on planet Earth today is
to give Archangel
Michael’s Rosary. I understand that you feel like your mind
is so chaotic that you cannot employ a spiritual technique. Yet it
is not a complicated task to print Archangel Michael’s Rosary,
to set aside time and to sit down and force yourself to read the rosary
from one end to the other. If you can write an e-mail, you can certainly
read that rosary, even if you do so in a somewhat mechanical manner.
I can assure you, that if you will give this rosary every day, you
WILL begin to feel better.
Let me say again that while
it is good to pray for help from Above, it is essential to be open to
the fact that God will often answer your prayers through people or other
worldly means. The reason is simple. I have already attempted to answer
your prayers by giving you direction through the still, small voice
within you. Yet in many cases people are not able to hear that voice
or they are not willing to heed its directions. Your remark, "You
say we can’t expect God to save us but we have to do the work
ourselves. I hate hearing that.” gives me great concern because
it shows that you have so far been unwilling to heed the inner voice.
The reason is that you already know that in order to improve your situation,
you need to make some changes in your life, yet so far you have not
been willing to make those changes. This is a common occurrence for
people in a state of depression. The psychological cause of depression
is that you feel stuck, yet the reason you feel stuck is that you are
not willing to make the changes that could improve your situation. Therefore,
people are in a spiritual catch-22, a stalemate that seems impossible
to break. Yet it only seems impossible because you are not willing to
do what is necessary, such as seeking professional help or making certain
changes.
Obviously, you are not the only person ever to be in this situation.
Yet I hope you will realize than when you do not follow the inner voice,
my next option is to seek to help you through a worldly voice that you
can hear. If you reject even that voice, what options do I have left?
I know there is nothing funny about your situation, yet there is an
old joke which has bearing on this matter.
A severe flood occurs, and a man is forced to climb on top of his house.
The water keeps rising, and the man prays fervently for God to save
him. A rowboat comes by, but the man refuses to get in because he believes
God will save him any minute. As the water continues to rise, he prays
even more fervently. A motorboat comes by, and again the man refuses
to get in. As the floodwaters reach the top of the roof, the man prays
again and this time a helicopter comes by. The man still refuses to
climb the ladder into the helicopter because he is expecting God to
save him. The water continues to rise and the man drowns. When his soul
enters the spiritual realm, he meets an angel, and he indignantly asks,
“I prayed for God to save me, where were you?” The angel
answers, “What do you mean, I sent you a rowboat, a motorboat
and a helicopter, what more did you want?”
The moral of the story is, of course, that even though it is not wrong
to pray for a miracle, you need to be open to the fact that the miracle
might occur in a worldly disguise. If you expect an angel to appear
in the sky and save you, you might overlook the angel in disguise who
is standing right next to you. Incidentally, some angels have taken
on the disguise of professional healthcare practitioners, and when you
are faced with severe depression, it is no shame to recognize that you
need professional help. Imagine that you had broken an arm; would you
pray for a miracle or go to the hospital? So why not seek help with
a mental illness? It is no shame to ask for help, but it would be a
shame to refuse to take advantage of the help that is available in this
world.
Do you think it was a coincidence that you found this website? No, it
was an answer to your prayers! I have directed you to a place that has
the tools and the guidance you need to turn your life around. So make
a firm decision that you will use the tools that are right in front
of you instead of praying for a miracle from the sky. And make the decision
to seek the help of professionals who can also be an answer to your
prayer.
As I explain throughout this website, everything in your life is subject
to your free will. Your soul wants to learn certain lessons in this
life, and even though it can be very difficult to go through a crises,
God will not simply take away the lessons that your soul wanted to take
on before you came into embodiment. That is why God often cannot give
you a miraculous solution to a difficult situation. Doing so would violate
the free will of your soul, even though your conscious mind currently
wants to escape.
I have great compassion for your situation, but you must realize that
I cannot help you against the free will of your soul. When you make
use of spiritual and practical tools to relieve the pressure of the
situation, you will begin to get more in touch with your soul and the
lessons you came here to learn. You can then begin to look for those
lessons, and when you learn what you came here to learn, you can be
completely free of your current limitations.
You will then find that an entirely new world of spiritual growth will
open up to you. However, the missing ingredient is your willingness
to take the first step and to continue to make use of every tool available
in order to break the current stalemate and move on with life. God can
only help those who are willing to help themselves. If you will keep
taking one small step at a time, you will one day look back at your
current situation and be amazed at how much your life has improved.
Because you have free will, any improvement in your life must start
with a decision. I understand that many people who are caught in depression
need to be jolted out of their stalemate before they can make the decision
to change. For one such jolt, listen
to my entire dictation and allow the vibrations of my Presence to
consume the forces of depression in your being!
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