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    WELCOME TO CHRISTIAN FLOCK FORUMS 

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    BlessEwe /Admin
    Published on 05-10-2011 05:20 PM  Number of Views: 3996 
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    1. Mental Health Daily Inspirations

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    SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINES AND INFORMATION


    ANONYMOUSLY ASK A CHAPLAIN


    CHRISTIAN SOCIAL AREA


     TEEN AREA


    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINES AND INFORMATION


    CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP GAMES


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    The Enemy is at the Gate
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    By Susan Zipf / Forum Chaplain



    We are safe here in our churches. We are in the Kingdom of God. The hounds of Hell bark and claw at the doors, but cannot get in. And here we are, safe.

    But this isn’t where God wants us to be. You see, there are the hellhounds out there, but there are helpless victims out there, too. To leave them to the “mercies” of the enemy is to commit a grave sin. We have the Roman road that tells us how to win souls for God, but we need to make sure we go out those doors with our God-given sword in hand. Our Bibles are the sword that will protect us from the minions of the enemies. Our breast plate of HIS righteousness will keep our heart safe. Our helmet of salvation, purchased with the blood of our Lord, will keep our minds separate from worldly thoughts and lies. Our armor of God protects us.

    God never intended us to hole up in a safe place and just live. It is and will always be His intent for us to fight against the powers and principalities of the enemy. He has never intended us to sit back and wait for people to come to us. He said to go out, compel others to come in. Urge them to come in.

    And we must fight. If we spend our lives merely defending the siege of the enemy, we have lost an important battle. As big, and strong, and powerful as the enemy army seems, they have already lost the war – and they know it.

    And we will always have the name of the Lord as a strong tower, When we are afraid, or tired, or just confused, our Tower will be there as a refuge. But let us never get so comfortable in our refuge that we lose sight of the battle raging all around. Rest if you need to. Be comforted, be healed.

    But then get back out and take back the ground that the enemy has stolen from us. The first steps outside the gate are the hardest. The enemy will try to push you back inside. That’s because he knows that once you’re out, you cannot be stopped, because your shield is stronger than any weapon he has, and your sword cannot be stopped.

    If you don’t try to bring your friends, neighbors and family members to Christ, who will? And if they never come to Him, and go to Hell, will the God of Justice not hold us accountable? The Great Commission applies to each and every one of us. You have been commissioned by God. Have you fulfilled that commission?


    Be God-Intoxicated.
    There’s nothing like it.

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    Depressed Anonymous
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    Emotional Health Anonymous
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    Overeaters Anonymous
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    Emotional Anonymous
    http://www.emotionsanonymous.org/

    CHRISTIAN RECOVERY AND SUPPORT FELLOWSHIP FORUM 

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    BlessEwe /Admin
    Published on 05-10-2011 06:19 PM  Number of Views: 8608 


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    ADDICTION GET HELP NOW AND INFORMATION

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    Relapse Prevention: The Beginning of Recovery

    By Sandra Ventura/ Blessewe

    Visualize to yourself a burnt down forest, black and fried, really no resources at this moment to protect itself, open to problems with floods and other elements of life.

    After a long term addiction and with some drugs such as meth ect. your brain is now that burnt down forest, and you are without natural resorces and the balance of your brain is way off for a while. This is why it is called a brain disease

    The natural body relaxant called dopamine have been replaced with the chemicals, so basically they are burnt out.
    Just as it take a forest time to grow back to it natural beauty, this is what to expect from your body and brain.
    Many times people get discouraged when they first find sobriety and expect to feel great in a week.

    Depending on the length,strength, and the amount you were using will determine how long it will take to rebuild and feel better.



    Addiction and what it has done to your body/ and how to heal Link to full page


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    Understanding what your body and brain have been through (brief review quoted above)
    is important knowledge of understanding that it may take awhile to feel better, and out of the 1 stages of body detox. You may say well, I didn't need to go to a hospital to detox. Your body and brain have learned to function now using the drugs/alcohol, the body needs healing and the ability
    to function without them.

    The thing is now the brain will never forget what it has learned, so it is important to learn the tools and find the support especially in the beginning stages.

    To make it in laymen terms, your brain functions with the Conscious (front lobe area of what we have control over) and the Subconscious ( back lobe area and this is our primal area which we have no control over) The Subconscious has been changed to accommodate the drug/drinking behavior, with out the drug/alcohol it is going to be in the survivor mode to get what it feels it needs. Especially in the beginning of recovery until the brain/body has time to heal, you are at the most vulnerable stage and need the most support/ educational tools possible. This is when support groups such as AA, Na, Rehap hospitals, out patient aftercare, sober living homes, counseling, journaling, reading recovery material, ect. is so important to keep the conscious part of the brain inline, until the
    subconscious part of the brain can heal.

    Many times we may go to a meeting like AA and feel we have no idea what they are talking about, for some everything clicks right away. Allow yourself the time to continue to go to these meeting and in time the information may click and go from your head to your heart. I do feel this is when it becomes a part of us, which go from the conscious to the subconscious and is now in our survival primal area.

    The burnt down forest ( of the subconscious) is now sprouting from the seeds that have been planted by the educational tools and support of others. Some are in the stage of acceptance and the seeds grow faster, some it needs a bit more fertilizer.

    The key is Not to Give up! Keep on Keeping on! This is the time to take baby steps and don't put too much on yourself.



    Not in your own power, but with the strength of Jesus Christ You Can Do This!




    Staying-Hydrated-With-God Our Daily Walk!
    By: Sandra Ventura ( BlessEwe)

    Daily life of getting back into the swing of things after finding recovery is finding our way. We feel lost and not really sure how to start, unless if we have had training in a rehap or a hospital. In these places they make it really the most important part of your day to start with some type of a reading.
    Bible, Daily Inspiration,Twenty-Four Hours A Day,Meditation For The Day .
    This sets the tone for the day and our attitude, and perhaps during the day when things get hard we can return to the readings of the day in our mind.

    Taking these few moments a day really begins a river of vital hydrating nourishment to many dry areas of your life that have been broken, neglected and impoverished from addiction, depression, or other situations in your life.

    Many of us who have lost our way due to depression, addictions or just plain life find that we feel alone, we may be searching for Christ or just find it hard some days to feel connected with His spirit. This is very common, and many times we may have found our self back in the drivers seat, putting God in the backseat.

    Take the time to be quiet with God while in your recovery. Go into your back yard and sit quiet and listen, close your eyes. Hopefully your in a quiet area away from all of the business of life. And just listen, do you hear just how beautiful God has made the world. How simple the birds live, they could care less about the next fashion, or who has the nicest house. They are just so simple and beautiful!
    Look at the simplicity and beauty of a flower, and just how perfect it is.
    Ask God to show you the truth of Him, and to give you the strength to stay out of the drivers seat, to allow Him to take over your life. He will!
    But it a daily turn over, sometime hourly thing to do in the beginning of recovery when we are so used to trying to control everything.

    God will show you the way and you we keep surrendering all to Him, we tend to start seeing a pattern of change in our inner being. Our life begins to become hydrated and we find that each step becomes stronger.

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    Not in your own power, but with the strength of Jesus Christ You Can Do This!

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    Positive-Quotes 

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    BlessEwe /Admin
    Published on 11-05-2009 11:00 PM



    May I sit comfortably in silence, so that I can hear Gods words.
    --SweetyZee

    Be thankful

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    Keep It Simple

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    Published on 11-01-2009 11:00 PM

    Walk in Dry Places

    Never withholding ourselves.
    Living Sober.
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    Prayer for the Day! Hurting, You are not alone 

    Published on 04-25-2010 10:50 PM  Number of Views: 963 
    Categories:
    1. Mental Health Daily Inspirations

    O Lord, you have searched us and known us

    You know when we sit down and when we rise up,

    and know our innermost thoughts.

    You search out our paths and know all our ways.

    Before we speak, you know our words.

    When we were knit together in our mother's womb

    You knew us as woman, as child, as man.

    Wherever we go, Your hand will lead us.

    So guide us along the pathways to hope,

    that night becomes bright as day.

    So lead us on our walk together,

    that darkness is lifted from our hearts.

    So encourage us that our sisters and brothers

    Who have mental illness shall know that

    they never walk alone.

    AmenHug