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[Sylvia]

I wanted to share this before I forget to. Since being diagnosed with MS
I find my mind is more and more forgetful. Good thing God is faithful!

For years I have battled with obsessive thoughts. I even have gone to therapy for it. They told me to think and concentrate on a stop sign. things
like that.
Since I did the counseling study here something has happened. This morning I had the old thought pattern come in my head. This is how it goes: I will have the thought that I said or did something wrong and someone is upset with me. I am not told what I did wrong. Just that I did something wrong. I obsess about this for days, sometimes weeks, sometimes longer. Finally when I do have contact with the person I have my guard up. This of course causes tension. The other person puts their guard up in defense. Pretty soon I have lost a friend. What started it??
NOTHING!!
Because I am not told exactly what I did, I can't go to the person and say "sorry for doing or saying this" Although that has been my escape in the past. I tell people that I am obsessing about hurting them, failing them, whatever. Almost always the person tells me there was nothing there. Nothing happened.
BUT this morning it started again. Something in the study - I think it was step 8, said to ask God for the truth. This is what I did this morning. The thought about asking God the truth popped into my head. So, I asked God for the truth. You know what He said? If there was something I would convict you. If the other person has something against you and hasn't talked to you about it, I will convict them. Let me handle it.
Let Him handle it!! How simple. But all this time I have spent so much of my time obsessing over something that wasn't even there I could not even think about asking the one who has all the answers!!
I want to thank Christianity Oasis for listening to God when He told him to write the Christian Counseling Study. It has helped me and today was proof of it.
God Bless You
Sylvia

[susidivah]

Amen, Sylvia! Whooo Hooo! Yes, God is in control! If you just turn to Him for guidance for His Will... amazing how our problems and behaviors can be changed...

I'm so glad you feel you got something out of the CCCC study! God bless you, sis

Susi

[Mackenaw]

Hello Sylvia,

I dance in the praises to our Lord, in celebration with you, Slyvia.

I have been following along with your entries and have been so blessed by them. Your spirit is lighter and brighter and now has found rest in our blessed Lord.

God bless you, Sylvia, for sharing your walk with us all. You are a witness to The Lord.

Love and hugs,
Sister Mack

[Sylvia]

I have had the symptoms for some time now. The first was in 2004 when I had a seizure. But it took until this past October to finally get the diagnoses of MS.
I have to state that I am not asking God to physically heal me. That part is not important to me right now. When I went on disability two years ago I asked the Lord "Why?" He told me this time was for "healing"
But it was not physical healing He was talking about. I needed healing in my heart. Oasis has helped me do this. There was some old baggage I kept carrying around with me and old thought patterns I kept using which were not healthy for me spiritually. I feel free of this now. I have had a lot of "bad" stuff happen to myself and my family. Previously I would have fallen apart and at times hit the bottle. I didn't feel God wanted me any more. I was so wrong. My grandson was just diagnosed with a type of autism just like my son has. But instead of dwelling on it as a type of punishment from God I now look at it as part of His Plan. Both my son and grandson are very special people. I was told my son would always be in an institution. He now lives in an apartment by himself. Cooks for himself and pays his own bills! He blesses me every time I see him. He looks at the world with different eyes then other people do. God made us all different for a reason. We are all individuals created by a loving Father.
My MS is part of His plan for me. If I had not been diagnosed I would not have found Oasis.
Praising the Lord
Sylvia