How to Release 9 Blessings in Your Life {Blessing #2}

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"Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted."
Matthew 5:4

Blessing #2: we will be comforted in mourning

To Release This Blessing:   It begins with salvation.  Then invite the Holy Spirit to fill you with his presence. Holy Spirit is also known as The Comforter and he will comfort you in every situation.  If you are in a time of mourning, ask him to release comfort over you now.

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When we are in relationship with Jesus, the presence of the Holy Spirit is one of the indicators that you are in relationship with him.

This post is originally from 2011 and I've re-vamped it from it's original post.  To view the 2011 version click here.  

Post-Partum Depression & Spinning Plates {Part 2}

I cried out to Jesus for help.  He must have heard my cry, but it still felt impossible to sense his presence at all. 

All along this journey I had been spinning plates; trying to keep up appearances of the perfect mother and wife. 

It just all came crashing down so suddenly.  Then it happened.  I realized that I had fallen down the rabbit hole.  

I wanted out so desperately and as I cried out to God daily with my baby in arms and my toddler hanging on my knee I wondered if God could hear me at all.

I was so far down.  So very far down that hole.  Was I going to be able to come back?

At the urging of my husband I went to the Doctor and he gave me several months supply of samples of anti-depressants. 

I was on those pills for two months.  I didn’t cry, rage, or have suicidal thoughts but I also didn’t laugh, smile, and feel…anything.  I felt numb.

Then one day I just decided that I couldn’t live like that anymore.  I didn’t want to feel depressed but I also wanted to feel again. 

I stopped taking those pills cold turkey. 

A week had passed and I was feeling like my old self again; the self I once was before this post-partum had taken hold of me.

I distinctly remember what happened next.  I went to change my baby’s diaper just like I had done a dozen times before.  Everything felt normal until suddenly I started to feel anger and rage.  It felt like something hot climbing up from my feet and slowly rising up my legs.

I thought for a moment why would this be happening?  I don’t want to live like this anymore!  This is NOT who I am and who I am meant to be!

I whispered the only words I knew that would hopefully give me victory. 

“Get off of me in Jesus name!”

As suddenly as it had come on it had left. 

I felt joy again.

I felt freedom.

I was done spinning plates.  I was done with that rabbit hole.

From that moment on, I knew there was something more that I had personally experienced.  I experienced a tool for freedom from a spiritual enemy.

A tool that is also known as deliverance. 

This has been the path I’ve walked.  If you or someone you know is struggling with post-partum depression, I’d love to pray for you. 

Feel free to leave a comment or contact me through my Facebook page @Pathoftheblessing or Twitter @1BlessedPath 

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You are a Presence Carrier

When the enemies of God, the Philistines, captured the Ark of the Lord they thought they 

could use it as a weapon against their enemies. 

-Remember Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark?  

Same idea.  So they brought it into their temple and set it next to 

their god, Dagon.  The next day Dagon 

had fallen on his face before the Ark of the Lord.

Fast forward 2,000+ years and today believers in Jesus 

carry that very same Presence. 

The Ark of the Lord held the Presence of Almighty God before Jesus Christ had died on 

the cross at Calvary.  Since that day forward, the Presence of God now dwells within 

those who ask him to.  His Presence is also known as Holy Spirit. 

So the next time you go anywhere, if you are a believer 

in Jesus, remember you are carrying his Presence.

Stop for a minute and just think about that.  That is a powerful thought 

isn’t it?

One thing the Philistines got right is that the Presence of God is a weapon. - just not the 

type of weapon they were hoping for.

The Presence of God, Holy Spirit, is a spiritual weapon.  One 

that tears down the strongholds of the enemy, our adversary, the Devil and his demons.

Ask Holy Spirit to show you how you can partner with 

him demonstrating the power and the Presence of God in 

your life daily.

The rest of this story is found in 1 Samuel chapter 5.