How can I be happy?

Hey guys, lately I've been feeling really sad. I'm not sure if I'm depressed or what but I just get really sad for no good reason. I'll be fine for a few moments and then all of a sudden, I'll start thinking about what I don't like in my life and I get gloomy about it. For the past few weeks I have cried myself to sleep because I feel that my life isn't worth living and I wish I could be with the Lord already. Sometimes I wish I would have already died. I feel ugly, worthless and unsuccessful.

I know these are bad thoughts but how can I make them go away? I do read the word and I am trying to fellowship with others on here but those thoughts are still there.

It's gotten to the point where things that I used to enjoy are not fun anymore. Like my mom and I went to an antique shop recently (which I used to love) and I just wanted to leave. I used to draw and write poetry and I haven't done those things in a while because I feel I don't have energy for them. All I do is go to school and back. I don't mind school, I love it actually, but I just can't shake this melancholy.

Could you guys please pray for me to be happy? Any advice would be appreciated, too!

Abba Father, thank You for calling our beloved Sister Molly to You and putting your Holy Spirit in her heart. We pray that she know You more intimately and have a greater realization of how established she is in Your great abiding love. Precious Lord, let our sister Molly's mind be flooded with Your peace that surpasses our understanding. May Your joy be her strength, we ask in Your Holy name, Jesus! \/

Start writing down the qualities you do like about yourself. Read and repeat them to yourself maybe at night before going to bed and when you wake up in the morning before going to school. As far as focusing on things you don't like, try keeping yourself busy. Those times when we're by ourselves and left thinking are when we are vulnerable at these thoughts. Maybe talking to someone close could help as well. Find out why all of a sudden you are having these thoughts. No matter what though, don't give up! I pray you continue seeking God and that you are able to enjoy the things you had been doing prior!

It does sound like depression.

I agree with JSR's advice
Also,
- Get enough daylight
- Stay off sugar (in my personal experience it just makes it worse)
- Thank God for one thing every day. Even if it is a tiny, silly thing, like seeing a puppy

if you don't like something in your life, then if possible, change it..be proactive..it sounds like you have depression, which is something I know about all too well. Read my depression thread, it's stickied to page 1 of the miscellaneous forum. It's my own story of my battle with depression and what I did to overcome it. I also give suggestions for what others can do to help themselves, also. You are a beautiful child of God, precious in his sight.

Every great person I know of in the bible has had very very hard times... Some have been extremely depressed. Others have been covered in the most ugly things you could imagine. And others have suffered more pain then we could ever bear with the most advanced pain killers. And some have had all three.

But God has used it to build them up if they kept with it... If they kept strong and stood their ground to the best of their ability... And kept seeking Gods face... God would use it for their benefit.

Others have gone through hard times and crumbled... They curse Him, deny Him, blaspheme Him, or even hate Him...



God knows everything
And God loves you above all measure... No analogy will even attempt to scratch the surface.

Depression sucks, but Matthew 11 helped me out tremendously in my life.

25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”





Our God is amazing, we are truly blessed... Every second you are alive is a blessing, for we all deserve death.

Lord we pray for Mollyconnor, bring a change in her life, where she finds peace, Joy and enjoy everyday with you. Bless her hearts desire, and be a God to her, send things needed to her for your glory in her life, in Jesus name, Amen

He is a great motivational speaker. I applaud his confidence and uplifting spirit.

Life is not an easy trek, even with God. Perhaps there's some underlying thing that's causing you to feel this way. Whatever it is, I'll say a prayer for you Molly, and as with anyone else, my door is open to talk (or just to listen).

2 Cor 10:4-5
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

the lies we hear; the lies we tell ourselves.
no one is as good at lying to us as we ourselves are.

lock those lying thoughts up, little one, in an unbreakable prison.
if they try to escape to torture you again, send them back to jail.

tell yourself the Truth--you are accepted in the Beloved.
you are part of a holy priesthood.
you are seated in the heavenly places, blessed with every spiritual blessing.
you are a child of light.
you are part of the True Vine.
you are a new creation; a member of Christ's body,
and you are His friend.

praying for you, dear one. ♥

Thanks guys. I'm feeling a little better. I appreciate the replies. I haven't read them all yet because I was busy with school. But I will asap. I do feel guilty for feeling depressed though. Like I know that compared to other people, my life isn't so difficult. But I can't seem to be happy sometimes.

I just get really sad because I have a low self-esteem and that makes me really shy and socially awkward. I was teased a lot in school and I haven't really dealt with those issues yet. I don't really know how...
But yeah, I'm kind of afraid of people, especially those my age...I fear they will ridicule me again and so I stay in a bubble which makes me depressed because I miss out on a lot.

James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 12:25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

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Every time this world pushes me into depression and wanting to leave it, I think instead that I must be doing something right.

strictly Looooove
His Name Is Jesus Christ !

He The Way And The Truth And The Life.. run around! get moving! You're Holy! He's With You! GO! :*

Molly, honey....don't do that to yourself.

when my sister's husband died, and then 2 years later, her son died, she would do the comparison thing like that. she'd tell me about someone else who was 'really' suffering.
and i always told her that just because things weren't as bad as they could possibly be did not mean her suffering wasn't real.

your suffering is real, too! and i am so sorry for it.
but Jesus is right there with you, loving you through it.
He'll never leave you. never forsake you.
you belong to Him, and He will see you through all of this.

love,
ellie

Yeah, I've been there. When you learn how to cope, or even overcome that, your whole attitude changes. When I discovered that my self-esteem was largely a worldly and kind of a shallow thing, it made for a huge change of character. Hopefully you'll get there as well. Until then, you have us (CC)!

Lord I lift my sister Molly up to you. I pray that you bring her peace and joy. She is searching for happiness, but Lord we know that you are more concerned about her joy that she find in knowing you. Happiness is fleeting, you are eternal. Lord, we all look forward to the day we see you ace to face, but we know you have plans for our lives and we should focus on following your call. Satan will do all he can to stop us from fulfilling your call, so Lord I pray that you bind satan and his plans to do Molly harm in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. I pray that you help Molly get to a place where she can receive the help she needs to regain her strength in you. Be a blanket of peace around Molly and bring her closer to you. In Christ name I pray these things, Amen

seeing a puppy is a giant!

"where i got my glimpses - "not "where i grew up" - they were mainly devils."
not joking.
so strange.
"the more i share, the less people believe."
in bible we see O names three categories "unclean."
so they dance a loveless, filthy dance.
"way worse than movies."
"i tend to believe value around ent 2007."
focus CHRIST.
HE ETERNAL.
HIS KINGDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD.
"the werongtakers actually are the ones missing out. shame they made holes in us."
Christ did not mind the shame.
The Cross Is DONE.
LOVE
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