Comments on: Your Refuge from Panic Attacks and Fear http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/ Finding hope from fear, depression, anxiety and panic attacks. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Omar http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8975 Omar Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:01:36 +0000 http://season.org/?p=587#comment-8975 Hi everyone, Today I struggle a lot with anxiety and I had a panic attack at the end of the day. Thank God I could stand up again and I feel much better right now. But some of the syntoms that used to provoke anxiety in me have come back and I got a little worried about it. I will go to the Lord since I am waiting for this anxiety to finish. I really want that. Blessings, Omar. Hi everyone,
Today I struggle a lot with anxiety and I had a panic attack at the end of the day. Thank God I could stand up again and I feel much better right now. But some of the syntoms that used to provoke anxiety in me have come back and I got a little worried about it. I will go to the Lord since I am waiting for this anxiety to finish. I really want that. Blessings,
Omar.

]]> By: Omar http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8973 Omar Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:03:19 +0000 http://season.org/?p=587#comment-8973 Jay, Thanks for your post, it encouraged me a lot. Today I was having the feeling of abandonment and it was very hard, I've realized that I feel God is with me when everything is going well but I feel abandoned by Him when my life is not the way I would like it to be and feeling abandoned by God is one of my great fears. I am afraid He will leave me because I am not acting the way He wants, (I easily forget about His Grace) those feelings are very confusing. I will meditate on God's grace, I am sure He is here with me with His Grace. Blessings, Omar. Jay,
Thanks for your post, it encouraged me a lot. Today I was having the feeling of abandonment and it was very hard, I’ve realized that I feel God is with me when everything is going well but I feel abandoned by Him when my life is not the way I would like it to be and feeling abandoned by God is one of my great fears. I am afraid He will leave me because I am not acting the way He wants, (I easily forget about His Grace) those feelings are very confusing.

I will meditate on God’s grace, I am sure He is here with me with His Grace. Blessings,

Omar.

]]> By: Jay http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8972 Jay Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:25:29 +0000 http://season.org/?p=587#comment-8972 Omar, As I read your post, I was reminded of the passage that has come to mind in my times of feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and its effects. It is 2 Cor 12:9-10, in which Paul says, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." I for one find it greatly difficult to delight in anxiety and its difficulties. But one thing I have been asking the Lord to do is teach me how to seek and recognize his grace in my life. It is so easy to see God's grace when all is well or easy in life. But is not so easy when we are in the middle of something that leaves us feeling weak and even helpless at times. However, and it is still a mystery to me, God's power is being perfected in our lives through all this. I would encourage you today to meditate on his grace and strength in your life. Ask him to reveal how they are working in your life today. He is present. In addition, I would encourage to not "add fear" to what you are experiencing right now with the sleeplessness. You are experiencing a lot of "nervous/adrenal fatigue". As we add worry and fear to what we are experiencing, it only multiplies the effect. To the best of your ability, meditate on the Lord's grace and strength in your life and in so doing allow your body and mind to rest from worry. Blessings Jay Omar,

As I read your post, I was reminded of the passage that has come to mind in my times of feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and its effects. It is 2 Cor 12:9-10, in which Paul says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

I for one find it greatly difficult to delight in anxiety and its difficulties. But one thing I have been asking the Lord to do is teach me how to seek and recognize his grace in my life. It is so easy to see God’s grace when all is well or easy in life. But is not so easy when we are in the middle of something that leaves us feeling weak and even helpless at times. However, and it is still a mystery to me, God’s power is being perfected in our lives through all this. I would encourage you today to meditate on his grace and strength in your life. Ask him to reveal how they are working in your life today. He is present. In addition, I would encourage to not “add fear” to what you are experiencing right now with the sleeplessness. You are experiencing a lot of “nervous/adrenal fatigue”. As we add worry and fear to what we are experiencing, it only multiplies the effect. To the best of your ability, meditate on the Lord’s grace and strength in your life and in so doing allow your body and mind to rest from worry.

Blessings

Jay

]]> By: Omar http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8971 Omar Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:49:14 +0000 http://season.org/?p=587#comment-8971 Hello Everyone, Last night wasn't a good night, the last seven days I've been sleeping a few hours and today I am discouraged, I have this feeling of not knowing what to do, I feel to cry, I am not working properly today and I have so much work to do. I feel weak and I don't like to feel this way, I want the Lord to do something when this happens I feel this is too much for me but at the same time deep inside of me there is hope in the fact that God is with me but the feelings of failiure and weakness are so strong. Thanks for hearing me, Omar. Hello Everyone,
Last night wasn’t a good night, the last seven days I’ve been sleeping a few hours and today I am discouraged, I have this feeling of not knowing what to do, I feel to cry, I am not working properly today and I have so much work to do. I feel weak and I don’t like to feel this way, I want the Lord to do something when this happens I feel this is too much for me but at the same time deep inside of me there is hope in the fact that God is with me but the feelings of failiure and weakness are so strong. Thanks for hearing me,

Omar.

]]> By: Jay http://season.org/your-refuge-from-panic-attacks-and-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8970 Jay Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:33:13 +0000 http://season.org/?p=587#comment-8970 Mary, You, myself and others who battle with anxiety, all struggle with the thought issues. However we got there by practicing wrong kinds of thinking over and over again. We kept giving these thoughts our attention, placing value on them, believing them to be true, when they are really a lie. Eventually we felt powerless to overcome them. I noticed you read Claire Weeks. She teaches what Russ is saying, Do Nothing. Do not engage these thoughts, recognize them for what they are, lies. Do not add fear to them, because that is what they feed on. Do not obey the fear as Russ states. God is present to give you the strength you need to do this each moment and each day. You and I got where we are at by practicing engaging and obeying the fear. But by practicing what Russ is teaching and receiving God's strength we will come out where our hearts desire. Mary,

You, myself and others who battle with anxiety, all struggle with the thought issues. However we got there by practicing wrong kinds of thinking over and over again. We kept giving these thoughts our attention, placing value on them, believing them to be true, when they are really a lie. Eventually we felt powerless to overcome them. I noticed you read Claire Weeks. She teaches what Russ is saying, Do Nothing. Do not engage these thoughts, recognize them for what they are, lies. Do not add fear to them, because that is what they feed on. Do not obey the fear as Russ states. God is present to give you the strength you need to do this each moment and each day. You and I got where we are at by practicing engaging and obeying the fear. But by practicing what Russ is teaching and receiving God’s strength we will come out where our hearts desire.

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