God Unlocking Your Chains

[I-Need-Hope_2020]

Hello, I’m just curious if there are any individuals on this forum that ever felt as if they were chained down in their lives, and felt completely hopeless, but then experienced a miraculous intervention from god, and wound up having their hopes, dreams, and desires come true. I’m looking for some real life examples if you can provide them, as it would provide me with great encouragement.

My reasoning is that I feel completely chained down right now. I’d rather not go into specifics, but I feel completely stuck where I currently am in life. I’ve been stuck in my perdicament for a while now (years upon years) and I just don’t see an end in sight. This is not in reference to one particular area, but rather, everything about my life in general. I know the bible has many stories of god miraculously intervening into people’s lives and blessing them. However, it’s practically become impossible for me to physically feel as if I can be granted such a turnaround. I truly try to stay hopeful, and believe that god can bring about such a turnaround in my life at any moment. However, I am just so beat down, that I can’t physically feel that way anymore. It’s almost like a feeling of “those kinds of miracles were things that happened for other people, but its just not meant for you”. Instead, I feel like the meaning of my life has strictly become to endure pain and suffering, and that for me to even hope for turnarounds in my desired areas would almost be a form of me rejecting god’s plan for me. And, to be very clear, I’m not criticizing god if that’s the path he’s chosen for me, because I really haven’t been a good person for the majority of my life, so I pretty much deserve everything that has happened, or continues to happen, to me. That being said though, it does depress me that this is how I could conceivably feel every day for the rest of my life.

And before anyone asks, yes, I go to mass every week, pray daily, and frequent the sacraments. However, it just feels as if I’ll never be able to do enough to get to a point in my life where the turnarounds I’m looking for will occur. I just feel so powerless, because quite frankly, I am. I can’t do any more than what I’ve attempted to do. Only god himself can reach into my life and choose to change things. I’ve tried, and tried, and tried, but to no avail. That’s why I suppose I wish to hear of some real life examples of miraculous turnarounds that some of you have experienced. Therefore, if some of you can maybe share such stories, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[I-Need-Hope_2020]

Also, one last thing. Please don’t give me an explanation about how it’s possible that god has “placed me in a situation in my life where I have to be completely dependent on him, which is thus reaping long term spiritual benefits, even if I’m not aware of it”. I have heard this many times before, and am aware that this could be the case. However, stating that will do nothing for my misery in the here and now, and it will not help me to believe that my current life will turnaround, because the bottom line is, it is entirely possible that my life here on earth might never actually improve. Again, I’m not saying that I don’t deserve that if that’s the case. Rather, I’m just hoping that despite all my significant shortcomings, god may still choose to turn things around for me. Therefore, only real life examples of such turnarounds will serve what I’m looking for here.

Thank you.

 

[drac16]

In early 2008, I attempted suicide. I tried to overdose on anti-depressants. After I had swallowed them, I closed my eyes and saw a light. It was like someone was shining a flashlight in my face. It was dark in my room, so this was not a lamp or anything like that – it was an unexplainable light. This was nine years before I became a christian, so I don’t know why God saved me from suicide.

I guess I’ll never know in this life. I’ll ask Him when I get into the Kingdom of Heaven, it will be a very revealing conversation.

 

[EndTimes]

Hello, I’m just curious if there are any individuals on this forum that ever felt as if they were chained down in their lives, and felt completely hopeless, but then experienced a miraculous intervention from god, and wound up having their hopes, dreams, and desires come true. I’m looking for some real life examples if you can provide them, as it would provide me with great encouragement.

IF you don’t mind - God should be remembered to be capitalized

What is/are your chain/chains?

If you fully believe God can assist you away from SIN - Ask Him in FAITH

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[Athanasiy]

Hopefully, after Corona Virus is over, you can go to divine service, as often as possible.
Prayer life and communication with God is extremely important like oxygen to get out of such situations.

 

[goodguy2342]

If you are a follower of Christ, I guess it goes with the territory. We all have stories, but its as if no one has empathy or we are not suppossed to speak about them because that’s how Jesus carried his cross.

In my private intentions, I have been confined in a nearly impossible situation among other sufferings. Every time I have taken the yolk, life intervened showing me my powerlessness even under intense suffering. Still haven’t figured it out.

Persevere.

 

[Gab123]

This fellow’s experience of being chained and unchained is quite inspiring:

 

[JGD]

Your name - “I-Need-Hope” - brought to mind a period in my life. (I also don’t care to explain further.) When the point came that I realized it was never going to change, depression set in. One day, feeling particularly despondent/unhappy, I recall saying to the Lord, “there’s just no hope anymore”. For some reason, the word “hope” got bolded, so to speak, in my mind. I had a topical Bible, looked up “Hope”, and read all the Bible verses. As I read those verses it made me examine the reason/cause of my loss of hope. I recognized I had been placing my hope and dependency for joy/happiness on _____ instead of on God.
It’s been quite a few years since that happened; the situation is still the same, but when I took God as the SOLID foundation of my hope, the depression and sadness faded away.

If you would like to check out some Bible verses for hope, here is a link to BibleGateway’s word search on hope. Listings by book are on the right hand side. You might just try the Psalm links to start with.

 

[Gab123]

here’s his incredible full testimony;

 

[catholiclala]

My reasoning is that I feel completely chained down right now. I’d rather not go into specifics, but I feel completely stuck where I currently am in life. I’ve been stuck in my perdicament for a while now (years upon years) and I just don’t see an end in sight. This is not in reference to one particular area, but rather, everything about my life in general. I know the bible has many stories of god miraculously intervening into people’s lives and blessing them. However, it’s practically become impossible for me to physically feel as if I can be granted such a turnaround. I truly try to stay hopeful, and believe that god can bring about such a turnaround in my life at any moment. However, I am just so beat down, that I can’t physically feel that way anymore. It’s almost like a feeling of “those kinds of miracles were things that happened for other people, but its just not meant for you”. Instead, I feel like the meaning of my life has strictly become to endure pain and suffering, and that for me to even hope for turnarounds in my desired areas would almost be a form of me rejecting god’s plan for me. And, to be very clear, I’m not criticizing god if that’s the path he’s chosen for me, because I really haven’t been a good person for the majority of my life, so I pretty much deserve everything that has happened, or continues to happen, to me. That being said though, it does depress me that this is how I could conceivably feel every day for the rest of my life.

God unlocked my chains. I converted to Catholicism first but that was not the end of my story. I sought psychological therapy with a Catholic counselor. Finding God was step one, step two was healing my mental wounds. If God had not given me hope and self worth I would not have sought the help I needed. Perhaps you need therapy. Prayer is amazing but sometimes we need medical help for mental distress.