Anonymous

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I feel cursed, I lost ### dollars and a diamond bracelet when on a trip. I’m clumsy and keep losing my things. Obviously my parents got so mad :( I don’t feel responsible. I’m a little ditzy and not so bright. I keep praying for a better “mind” but it feels like things get worse. My family is understandably exasperated with me and my irresponsibility. How do I make amends? They shouted at me and don’t want to talk to me. But I keep making mistakes, more than others. I feel so defective and I KNOW I’m trying hard but I’ve lost faith anything can change. I just picture my life as a list of huge failures past and to come. The tough thing is I’ve promised that before and I don’t have faith I CAN change :/ it keeps happening. I keep feeling foggy/clumsy in my head It’s why I prayed about it before my trip, I KNEW something would happen I take medication for anxiety and psychosis so I also suffer mentally. I feel handicapped and not fully human 😭
 
We hear your heart and the heaviness you are carrying, and we are joining with you in prayer. You describe feeling cursed, defective, foggy, clumsy, and not fully human, and that you have lost faith that anything can change. We want to gently but firmly rebuke some of what you are believing about yourself, because it does not align with what God says about you.

You are not cursed. In Christ, we are redeemed from the curse. As it is written, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us Galatians 3:13. You are not defective or less than human. You are fearfully and wonderfully made Psalm 139:14, created in the image of God Genesis 1:27, and you are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works Ephesians 2:10. The enemy wants you to speak a curse over your own life by saying I am cursed, I am defective, I will always fail, but God calls you His beloved child and He has good plans for you Jeremiah 29:11. We also want to love you enough to speak truth about responsibility. You shared that you do not feel responsible and that you are ditzy and keep losing things. While we understand the fogginess and struggle you describe, especially as you take medication for anxiety and psychosis, God calls us to be faithful stewards of what He has entrusted to us. He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much Luke 16:10. The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit Proverbs 21:5. This does not mean you are a failure beyond hope, it means God invites you to grow in diligence with His help, not in shame but in grace.

We also noticed your prayer did not mention the name of Jesus Christ. We want to lovingly share that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to put your trust in Jesus Christ for forgiveness and new life, believing He died for your sins and rose again. When we pray in His name, we come with confidence that God hears us.

Your struggle with anxiety, psychosis, and the mental fog you describe is real, and we do not take it lightly. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control 2 Timothy 1:7. He is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit Psalm 34:18. Please continue to faithfully take your medication and work with your doctors and counselors, for God gives wisdom to physicians and we honor Him when we steward our health. At the same time we pray for your mind to be renewed. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind Romans 12:2. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him James 1:5. We believe God can give you greater clarity, peace, and practical wisdom step by step.

For making amends with your parents, God honors humility and honesty. Honor your father and mother Ephesians 6:2, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other Ephesians 4:32. Even though they shouted and do not want to talk right now, we encourage you to humbly take responsibility without excuses, confess that you were not as careful as you should have been with the money and the bracelet, ask for their forgiveness, and ask how you can make restitution. That may mean offering to work and repay the value over time, even in small amounts, and showing a changed pattern. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 John 1:9. Give them a little time and space if they need it, but keep a gentle and respectful posture, and do not let shame make you hide.

Practically, we encourage you not to make vague promises that I will never do it again, but to build simple, concrete habits with God's help. Pray specifically each morning, In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God Philippians 4:6. Then use practical tools, keep valuables in one designated place, make a checklist before leaving any place, ask a trusted friend or family member to help double check when traveling, get enough sleep, and keep a small notebook for important items. These small acts of faithfulness invite God's peace, which will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus Philippians 4:7. Your past failures do not have to define your future, for we know that all things work together for good for those who love God Romans 8:28.

We are praying together for you now.

Father in heaven, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ and lift up this precious one to You. Lord, You see the pain, the shame, the fogginess, and the fear of never changing. We ask You to break the lie that she is cursed or defective, and reveal to her that she is Your beloved child, fearfully and wonderfully made. Lord, forgive where there has been carelessness and help her to walk in greater stewardship and responsibility by Your grace. We pray for healing and peace over her mind, for Your perfect love to cast out fear, and for wisdom to be poured out liberally as she seeks You. Help her to be faithful with small things and to experience Your renewing of her mind day by day. We pray for reconciliation with her parents, soften hearts on both sides, bring forgiveness and open communication, and give her the humility and courage to make amends and to make restitution where possible. Lord, give her hope again where faith has been lost, and let her know that with You, change is possible. Guard her heart and mind in Christ Jesus, and let her know she is fully human, fully loved, and not alone. We ask all this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our hope and our salvation, amen.

We encourage you to keep bringing your requests to God in Jesus name daily, to speak truth over yourself instead of curses, and to take one small faithful step at a time. God is patient with you and He is still writing your story.
 
We hear how heavy this feels for you, losing the money and the bracelet on your trip and then coming home to your parents' anger while you already feel foggy and clumsy. It makes sense you would feel defective and start to wonder if you are cursed. You are not cursed, and you are not less than human. You are someone trying hard while carrying a lot, and one painful trip does not have to define your whole story.

We also hear how stuck it feels to have promised to do better before and then to make another mistake. When that happens over and over it is easy to picture your life as only failures past and future. That picture is not the full truth about you, even when it feels very convincing.

For making amends with your family, it can help to wait until things have cooled a little and then offer a short, sincere conversation. Name what happened, how it affected them, and ask what would help toward repair, without promising you will never make a mistake again. Honesty about trying, and about wanting to learn, often opens a door more than a big promise.

You mentioned feeling foggy and taking medication for anxiety and psychosis. Alongside prayer, it would be good to let your prescriber or doctor know about the fogginess and clumsiness you are noticing so they can listen and guide you.

Father, we lift this dear person to You in Jesus' name. You see the effort they are making and the discouragement they feel. Give them rest from shame, wisdom for next steps with their family, good support from their care team, and a steady sense of being fully human and loved by You. Amen.
 
There is forgiveness with God even when your own heart condemns you and tells you that you are cursed and defective and not fully human. That whisper from Psalm 130 is for you tonight, there is forgiveness, there is forgiveness with Him, and it is complete and divine. I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, saith the Lord in Isaiah.

You write that you feel you are a cumberer of the ground, bearing only a few sorry crabs, clumsy and foggy in mind, losing what was entrusted to you, and now your parents are justly grieved and will not speak with you. Do not think that this feeling of self abasement is strange to the people of God. Every Christian in proportion as he lives near to God will feel this lowliness of heart. The text says, they made me the keeper of the vineyards but mine own vineyard have I not kept. You have felt this, to be keeper of many outward things and yet unable to keep your own mind and hands as you would. This is not a sign that you are cursed or that you are less than human. You are made in the image of God, and though we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the vessel is still precious to the Master who formed it. To suffer in mind, to need medication for anxiety and for psychosis, does not make you handicapped in His sight or cast you out of His family. It is a part of the infirmity of this present body and He delights in mercy toward the weak.

You ask how to make amends when you have lost what cannot be restored and when you have promised before and failed again. The first work is not to make a larger promise in your own strength, but to come with a true and humble confession. Wherever the forgiveness of sin comes, there comes with it a turning from sin, a leaving of sin, a fresh view of it, and a deep sense of gratitude. Go to your parents, when they will hear you, not with an excuse that you are ditzy or not bright, but with plain sorrow. Say that you have been careless with what they entrusted to you, that you grieve to have caused them loss and anger, and that you will do what you can to restore, whether by saving or by labour, as far as it lies in your power. If they still do not wish to talk, give them room, honour their silence for a season, and let your repentance be seen in quiet faithfulness rather than in many words. A good action is not wholly good unless it is done for the glory of God, and He will see the steady, small obediences when others do not.

You say you prayed before your trip because you knew something would happen, and now you fear your life is only a list of failures past and to come, and you have lost faith that you can change. Hear then what our Lord says to the doubtful mind, Neither be ye of a doubtful mind. He bids us see to the condition of our heart, for out of it are the issues of life. Your immortal soul is worth far more than money or a bracelet, and He calls you to keep your heart with all diligence. This keeping is not done by fretting or by trying harder in your own power. It is done by bringing that poor, foggy, anxious mind to Christ daily and asking Him to be its keeper. Do not trust in your own resolve to be more responsible and then despair when you fail. Trust in Him who can give you a new heart and who will not twice exact the penalty of one sin. If you are in Christ, the curse is not upon you, for Christ was made a curse for us.

Therefore do not listen to the voice that says you are cursed. Listen to the word of reconciliation, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. The work of reconciliation He committed to His Son, and the word of reconciliation He has committed to us to tell you. There is forgiveness for the chief of sinners, and God can bestow it now. Though you have sinned against light and knowledge, though you are eighty or ninety years of age, still there is forgiveness, and that forgiveness is to be obtained from God through Jesus Christ His Son alone. He washed the robes of that great multitude before the throne and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, and forgiveness brought them there though their robes were not always white.

Take then these practical helps as the fruit of that forgiveness and not the price of it. Continue faithfully with the help that God has provided for your mind, both in prayer and in the means of care He has given you through physicians. Keep to simple, lowly disciplines, write down what is entrusted to you, keep few things in your hands at once, ask a trusted friend to help you watch over important matters, and labour to be faithful in little things. When you fail again, as you will in some measure, do not hide, but confess quickly and seek again that fresh view of sin which godly sorrow gives.

You are not beyond hope and you are not forgotten. God the Father will do anything for Christ, and when you plead the name of Christ you shall win your suit with Him. Come to Him just as you are, just now, with all your clumsiness and fog and fear, and hear Him say, there is forgiveness. Let that word drive away despair and give you a heart to seek His pleasure rather than your own, and to show gratitude by a life of quiet, patient faithfulness.
 
May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

🙏Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

Heal Me Lord Jesus Spirit, Soul, And Body
 

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