antidepressants and other "chemicals"

There's a discussion board that I look at occasionally, even though it never fails to let me down. Some of these people choose to believe in medicine instead of in Jesus and our Father. Here's a gem: "Whatever keeps you alive is better than being dead." And another: "Anyone who has been touched by suicide understands how difficult it can be....If a pill can get you through that level of depression, a pill it should be."

Where is their faith in God? When you try to tell people like this that they can be healed, they deny it. They DENY Jesus. It drives me mad. People could be cured by Jesus, instead of relying on man and on drugs, which I believe are a pretty bad thing. I think drugs are an addiction and reliance that the devil gives us, so that we will not rely on God. They become so needed, such an addiction, that if we were to go off of them, we could possibly die. Yeah, only if you believe that, which is fear, instead of believing in God, which is love. There is no fear in love.

It is this simple. Ask God to cure you. Ask Him to relieve you of the curse and to deliver you from the spirits, from the sickness and then practice your faith. Do that by believing that he has helaed you. If you are healed, you will stop taking any medication that is supposed to "help" with those problems. You don't take medicine when you aren't sick. So stop taking the drugs. Next, and I am a firm believer that this is the most important thing to do with your faith....if you doubt even a little, just stop right there, tell God that you're sorry and ask Him to help you and strengthen you. Every time you doubt, do that. When someone that knows that you had whatever illness asks you about it, tell them, without fear, even if you have to say a prayer and ask for courage, that you aren't sick because you've been healed. NEVER deny it. If you have a moment of weakness, pray about it and keep going. I'm also a firm believer in this...God can take away a sickness. BUT if you aren't careful, your faith, if it isn't in God, but is in the medicine and sickness because maybe you start to get scared that it'll come back or someone steers you back to doubt, can bring the sickness back. Whatever your faith is, will happen. If you believe that God won't take it away, he won't. If you believe that pills will "help" you, they will, by enslaving you to dependancy on them. And then you aren't depending on God. You aren't allowing Jesus to heal you.