Now I may hurt some peoples feeling and I’m very sorry, but every person I have ever spoken to that has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder doesn’t accept Jesus as their lord and savior or didn’t before they were diagnosed or they have some crazy version of who Jesus is.
Can anyone help me out with this?
John 9:1-3
New King James Version (NKJV)
A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
9 Now as
Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
my question to you is who is born thinking they see and knowing who Jesus is and as a baby accepting Him as their Lord and savior, besides John the Baptist?
Was Saul/Paul with sight? any times when Peter not seeing clearly and actually rebuking Jesus? how about the men walking beside the ressurected Lord and not knowing who He was until what happened?
JESUS opened their EYES. mental illness is no different from any other physical ailment like blindness or not being able to walk. GOD is able to heal, but many do not like to hear what Jesus has to say...
My grace is enough...
2 Corinthians 12
8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
what the world counts as weakness it is because they do not see with spiritual eyes the strength that many with disablities live in FAITH and truth and love.
perhaps you can not see past the beam in your eye to see the light God has placed in their hearts. I know many people with mental illness that God heals and restores, but still struggles at times. its not the demons that we should be concerned with because God's angels will take care of the demons, but the damage the demons have done to the person's heart and soul and how we can help them heal and love and trust again. We are to help the PEOPLE who have been hurt.
demons torment anyone who is not protected by God. whether they are diagnosis mentally ill or completely sane it does not matter.
I believe in the power of prayer and anyone who is tormented by demons need only another with faith in Christ to pray over them and the demons flee. However the strongholds and lies remain in their mind and must be torn down and they need to learn God's laws and precept by going over the Bible and listening to the Holy Spirit.
For does not God say...
Isaiah 28
9 “Whom will he teach knowledge?
And whom will he make to understand the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just drawn from the breasts?
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little.”
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
He will speak to this people,
12 To whom He said, “This is the rest with which
You may cause the weary to rest,”
And, “This is the refreshing”;
why would anyone make fun of one who stutters if they speak God's truth? why would supposed Christians ridicule anyone with a disablility? Are they not made by God?
Even if you believed that bipolar people had demons, why do you not cast them out?
do you tell them the Gospel if you think they have the "wrong" Jesus?
demons are not the only negative influence in the world.
there is the pride of life, lust of the eye and other worldly fleshly desires that causes people to sin.
I don't concern myself with demons because I think if we pray, God will answer. If we pray that the demons be removed, God will send His angels and get rid of them.
that does not mean all problems will be gone though, there is still the strongholds and lies the person believes that must be address but as for demons? why worry if they are there or not, just pray and trust God to take care of that part and pray and ask what He wants you to do about anything else.