Losing Money Because of My Faith 

Delight yourself in The LORD and HE will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4

Healing hurts isn’t the same thing as research backed cognitive behavioral therapy or other methods of therapy by licensed psychotherapists. A distinction needs to be made here. Furthermore, why condone premarital counseling if faith in Jesus is enough? Just a few things to think about. ❤

Much of the issue is with the counseling these days. It can further exacerbate issues. That’s what they are learning now. “Your truth” but there is only one Truth!

@@christykuder1190 I’ve never heard a Christian counselor or therapist say “your truth”

Be In Health in Thomson Georgia is a great place to go for healing for mental health!! I speak from experience.

@@LouiseTiceGod works through the hands and feet of many, therapists included. I respect Granger’s commitment to honoring his convictions, but to ascertain that all mental illness can be treated with faith is a potentially dangerous message and one that is frequently shared by many believers that have had absolutely no personal experience with debilitating clinical mental illness. I cannot recommend Christian counseling by a licensed therapist or psychotherapist enough.

@@scroggsvlogs7687 I had major depression. The teachings in Georgia helped me. I’m not longer depressed. I do believe some people need meditation so they can deal with what’s causing their depression. Be in Health will NOT tell you to stop your meds!! I agree that there are some people who have never been there are telling people to stop taking meds, I’m not one of those. I like to encourage people to go to Be in Health so that they can live med free if possible. The side effects are nasty

I pray God restores to you what has been lost. I will pray for you today. Press on ❤️‍🩹

Praying for you. Sending you love and hope you read The New Testament and ask Jesus to give you understanding and discernment before reading it each day. He IS The Answer to all problems. Promise

Prayers for you, my friend

One way to help is to find ways to help others. When I get caught in sadness and waves of depression, helping others always pulls me out. Jesus first always. And then doing what He calls me to do for others.

I absolutely agree with you

who is Chad?

Pastor Chad Warren from the Take and Read Podcast, he is friends with Granger and family.

Some of what you talked about was people saying that they fear God and her God-fearing and trying to be good but really religious and don’t really seek God. That kinda goes to what the Bible says about not relying on your own understanding. Means if you ignore God and try to figure everything out yourself. You’re gonna spend a lot of time disappointed because the truth is we live in a flawed world full of flaws and shortcomings, and sometimes you can study and know and learn everything completely and everything is still fall apart and the world will always let you down and you will always let yourself down because we’re not perfect and we’re old and we’ve studied and lived our lives well and learned an experienced and matured, we’re still kind of idiots. God made it pretty simple. He created this universe and told us how everything worked and told us how to live in and prosper and benefit in it. But most of us would rather sit around and complain that God never speaks to us, but we won’t sit there and read his word where he’s already spoken to us. He already took the lies of millions of people and experiences examples and put it into a book simply to us most of us don’t really read it. I’ve been a Christian for 39 years this year. I’m forcing myself to read the entire Bible from cover to cover, I started with the new Testament finished. It started with page one of Genesis and I’m going to read through the entire Old Testament and I just finished Ezra. I’ve done the Bible in the year thing where I kind of fumbled and force myself to read through it so I could say I read it all I’ve done bible studies and listen to endless sermon for decades on this stuff and every day I read I learned something new after 39 years and God speaks to me every day simply by reading. The New Testament to read the Old Testament is a struggle and a lot of it’s incredibly repetitive and incredibly boring a bunch of names and genealogies, but in reading it, you learn the nature of God and the nature of his word and it’s accuracy and everything that went into making it for us. Adam was born on a Monday. I believe it was September 26, 3760 BC going by the Hebrew calendar. Most people don’t realize that all those genealogies were it talks about somebody was 112 when he had his son and he died at 309 etc. etc. and it just goes on for pages and pages and pages, it list history from the date of creation. The reason why it doesn’t cover every single one of the brothers and sons. These people had it because that’s not what it’s telling us. It’s telling us how this was created and how long it’s been and shows how the Bible unlike any piece of literature or record system in history is infallibly accurate to the day. When Jesus was on the cross, we can tell that he died at 3 PM on Passover. The same time that he said it is finished, if you understand the sacrifice of the final Lamb on Passover simultaneously in the temples, the priest were looking out to the sky and saying it is finished because that was the end of the ceremony and sacrifice of the lambs on Passover, when Jesus was on the cross, there was an eclipse, NASA confirms 2000 years later there was an eclipse on that day 3000 years ago. All these little details are God speaking to us and the more you learn the more you realize how infallible and accurate it is and when you learn and understand it and let God speak to you, all of a sudden, things in life start to make sense and our lives start to come together the things that make us happy become different because we start to line our wheels and desires with God’s will. When we do this, our expectations and once and desires change and become less material and less worldly and less based in self, and this, we find happiness and peace. Even the psychologists and psychiatrist will tell you these things about realistic expectations and managing that to avoid constant disappointment, which leads to Depression and as it repeated cycle leads to anxiety and all these titles we give these feelings that’s great but the way they tell you to have better expectations, more realistic expectations, but they can’t really tell you what that is, God has already found a way to do that And it’s part of becoming a mature Christian studies and see God who repent and turns away from our old sinful life of following sins, nature and learning to seek and follow God and align our desires with his will because the things he will happen has not because we make them happen. He will make them happen with her without us, but if we’re smart enough, the tagalong get to be part of that ride, it’s a pretty glorious thing. Or motorcycle or is ever gonna give you the same feeling as when you go out and follow God‘s will and get to be part of some thing changes somebody’s life and you see that person understand and no Jesus, and start to believe and be saved. That’s part of what we get when we follow God‘s will. There’s also Providence answered prayers comfort and rest and peace. We’re also busy trying to figure out how to get that on her own when he’s already told us how to do it running around thinking, God ignoring us, when he’s already been speaking to us for thousands of years, we just need to listen. Pray for eyes to see and ears to hear the spirit to fill you and guide you and give you discernment and seek God and when you do and your priorities that you’re doing what you need to do to find happiness and comfort and rest to get rid of the depression and the anxiety And the strength you need to get through this life. Granger Smith got to go out and sing and have a huge audience and be popular and get tons of attention and have fun and have a very successful great life in most respects, but God led him someplace else and he walked away from that to seek the Lord‘s face and This is his podcast, Granger are you happier now or were you happier a few years ago touring and singing? Some of us might think he’s crazy for doing what he’s doing, but the reality is he’s seeking God‘s face. He’s loving and living with God as his focus and is aligning his expectations and desires with God‘s will, and seeing the fruits of those decisions. For those of us sitting around wanting to be Rockstars or musicians or actors or whatever we may think that’s crazy but the reality is that will lead you to true joy and peace, and the world may not view as successful, but the truth is, it will be so successful that, God is willing to die for you and to take your messed up, screwed up. Sin filled corrupt life, and forgive you to be merciful and not give us the punishment we deserve and to be gracious and give it to us freely because he loves us not because we deserve it And thousand years now when we barely remember our time in this world, Officer gonna care about those things, we were devastated by and disappointed by and sad over in this lifetime. People can gas it things you should do in your life to make it better, but only one thing is guaranteed, seek to know God, intimately follow him and align your desires with his will, and spend as much time with an interact with him as much as you possibly can and this is what makes people Happy and brings peace. Is the only thing that’s guaranteed. We see a lot of Rich, famous Rockstars and musicians and actors and actresses who take their own lives because they hate this world and living in it, they may have been successful in the eyes of the world, but it was worth nothing to them Because they were chasing something that wasn’t real. God‘s will is going to be done when you learn to align your desires with it and prioritize, your relation with and seeking and following him your life starts to align with reality and that’s when things start to get fixed and it may not get fixed in the way you expect it to or want it to But someday you’ll realize that it was the right way and the way that really works. Granger right, when you seek God when you follow him when you merge yourself in his word when you pray to the spirit to guide you and give you discernment when you focus your desires and once and wishes on the will of God and align your will with his to live and experience and grow in him this is how you develop that faith. Faith develops as we grow in mature as we follow him and see him succeed over and over and over. With that faith, we eliminate things like depression and anxiety and fear.

@worthybookjourney3231 the one thing that I did not see in your email was that confessed and asked for forgiven for your sins seen and unseen.

@@saida1007 Great thought. I do ask for the Father to forgive me all the time. I think I fail at pleasing HIM all the time. I even feel as if I am not pleasing HIM when I pray because I am likely focusing on the wrong things or have wrong motives or etc. Maybe Satan is just tying me up in a mess of confusion to discourage me or maybe I am not saved or maybe something else. I am certainly an easy target for Satan to confuse apparently. Your observation is certainly an important one.

Sin? “Now when evening had come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given to him. When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.” Matthew 27:57-60

See, even you religious nuts can't agree on anything