Mental Illness

Ecclesiastes 2:12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?

 

The thoughts you think have a very close relationship with what you want in your heart.

Psalm 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Matthew 9:4 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?

  I believe if you do not know the truth about God it is possible to think something is true when it is not true about God making it harder for you to represent  God in your heart. 


Thinking something is true that is not true about God does not change God, as God is True and cannot change. Instead it lowers the value and worth of God that you perceive.  

Jonah 2:8 Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.


It is my belief that people with mental illness have a perception of the value and worth of God that is not truthful.

 Untrue valuation of God leads to thinking in the mind that the brain was never designed to think. 

A person can be located on a scale anywhere between complete misunderstanding of the value of God and complete understanding of the value of God. 

 

The intrinsic value and worth of God is also known as the glory of God. 

2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Therefore one of the ways to help you avoid and/or recover from mental illness is to help you know the truth about the value and worth of God.   

 Proverbs 4: 20-23 My son, pay attention to what I say;  turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart;  for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.

Thinking something is true that is not true about God is not from God. 

John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

  God wants to completely remove every thought that is not true.     

Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 

Matthew 15:13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

Matthew 13:40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 

One of the ways to help God help you know the truth about his value and worth , is to help represent  God to you. When you know there is nothing God wants more than you, it is my belief you will be a lot more able to want nothing more than Him,  . 

1 Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

 God in his heart wants nothing more than you. I believe that when in your heart you know God wants nothing more than you, you will be a lot more able to want nothing more than you want God, representing God in your heart. This will help you avoid and/ or recover from mental illness.

1 Chronicles 29:18 Lord, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you.

  Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

If you have misrepresented the truth, deciding to turn back from misrepresenting the truth helps you know the truth.

Isaiah 1:5 Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. 

Jeremiah 4:14 Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

 Proverbs 1:23 Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings.

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

God wants to help you know the truth about Him. 

1 John 3:8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

God wants to help you know him in your heart

John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

When you know God in your heart, you will be a lot more able to represent Him in your heart leading to correct thought (truth) in the mind. 

Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

Jeremiah 31:33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 

 

Acts 4:32  All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.

1 Peter 1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.