Will you pray for me, please?

Question

I just feel so depressed right now. I can't seem to get along with my mom no matter how hard i try, my friends have been acting different, i had anorexia for a little while and im trying to get better; and i just found out that my grandma is sick. Im trying to get better by reading my bible and reaching out to God, but I still feel depressed. I just want to be a normal happy teen like I use to be. Will you please pray for me?

Thank you to all the people who are praying for me. You guys helped me feel much better, and gave me hope :)

Im not going to chose a best answer because I loved all of them ♥

Answer 1

You will be in my prayers :)

I dont know if this is gonna help... Try to rediscover yourself by spending some alone time, and find out what you really like to do.... start doing it, get creative at it. Also, work out or take walks, jog, exercise! This is a way to get detoxify yourself!

Talk to your mom about this problem, tell her how you really feel and that you are trying to reach out, but you are going through rough times and that is the time when moms are needed the most! Make her feel how important she is to you.

Get to know who your real friends are! Get away from those who dont care about you!

Best treatment is time, with time you can heal.

I hope you get better.... your message really touched me :(

Answer 2

Certainly I will pray for you, as will many other people tonight. But also keep in mind that God helps those who help themselves. You have to realize that no life is ever "normal and happy". Life is good and life is bad all at once. You are a teenager and you are just now experiencing this. I am 45 years old and have experienced much happiness and grief this year. On the one hand, my two youngest children are very happy at camp, drug free teenagers, my oldest 23 yr old daughter is finally getting her life together, but I just found out tonight that my 53 yr old brother in law will likely die from cancer in the next few months. Life will always have it's ups and downs. You're just starting to have to deal with this. Faith in God can help in telling you that everything happens for a reason. A wise person once said, "Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end."

Answer 3

Just keep looking to and loving Jesus! Pray whenever you think of it and not just for yourself! Ask for all of your sins to be forgiven and express the need to forgive all who have wronged you! And keep it between yourself and God! Do not feel the need to tell anyone that you prayed for them! That way you will receive your reward in Heaven! Look up and read The Sermon On The Mount in the New Testament! I believe it is in the book of St. Matthew, but you can probably find it with a Google search! This will really show you insight on how to live your life according to Jesus! God bless you! Amen!

Answer 4

ON JOY AND SORROW

Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow." And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."

But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced. When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

- Kahlil Gibran

Answer 5

Yes sure Sonya. Everything will come good with your Mum, She loves you. I'll pray for your grandma too. There is an old saying it's often darkest just before the dawn.
I quess you are a teenager, its often a difficult time for lots of people, I've just got over it, I'm 64 now, (joke)
Sometimes we try to hard to sort things out, its often better to just let things take there course and look forward to better days (they always come).
Trust in God, he is better at sorting out our lives than we are.

Answer 6

Dear Sister
Please know that you will come through these difficulties. Keep your heart focused on God and when it is over your faith will have been strengthened. You will then be able to face similar hardships with ease. God didn't keep Daniel out of the lion's den. He didn't prevent the 3 Hebrew boys from being thrown into the fiery furnace. He allowed these things to happen to them. But he protected them from harm so that all could see his love for them. Think how great their faith must have been afterwards. Yours will grow in time. Remember you are loved.

Answer 7

You got it Sonya. Just remember God puts changes into our lives for a reason. We might not see why, but maybe later you will look back and understand.
There are still some things I do not understand, but I accept God has a purpose for all that happens on Earth. Just think, he wants you to experience different levels of "normal & happy".

Answer 8

Lord, continue to bless this child as she experiences some struggles with relationships right now, help her to realize that you would not put anything upon her that you felt she was unable to handle. Give her the strenghth to love her mother unconditionally and show her that love truly conquers all. Bless Grandma with the health issues that she is currently struggling with. Lord I ask that you walk with her and show her the way for she is but a child of God. I ask these blessings in your names sake, Amen


I hope that I have helped you in some form and may God continue to bless you.

Answer 9

Yes, I have been in a similar place when I was a teen. Remember the battle ground is in our minds! Learn who you are in Christ and let that knowledge guard your thinking(remember the helmet of salvation), cling to it.
Seek more and more of Jesus, seek out the fullness of the Holy Spirit, you need it!

This brought me out of a depression but it took time and much seeking. Look for those who need a Friend and reach out to them and invite them to your youth group, or reach out to the girl in your youth group who isn't very popular. This kind be a type of tithe. Tithe friendship and get more and better friends!

E-me if you need any more help-going to bed right now it's late here in the fly-over zone.....

Answer 10

Before I say this, let me caution you, that what I am saying is harder than the praying for you solution.

I am not saying that it is easy to do the word of God, but I am about to try to show you that your problem is not all out commitment to never have the wrong end result. James says be doers of the word and not hearers only.

I can't get along with my mom no matter how hard I try.

That is a false statement. What would be more accurate is this. I can't get along with my mom at the level of my present effort.

If arguments are ensuing with your mom, then you aren't trying hard enough. Instead of saying it is just to hard, or she is unreasonable, or whatever, raise the bar. Commit to getting along with your mom even when it is harder than what you would try.

There is a verse in scripture that says of Christ, "He shall not cry out nor raise his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street."

What is this referring to. It means quite simply that he won't be upset and argumentative about anything.

Cause his voice to be heard in the street?

Imagine an ancient middle eastern shopping district and somebody getting into an argument with a seller or buyer. And you hear them screaming at each other.

Christ was never irritated, or argumentative, nor did he ever take offense at anything.

Consider the example of Stephen, who was being stoned by innocent men. Stephen gives us an example of someone doing whatever they could to get along with people.

Even when they were vicious murdering tormenting men, he still did not raise his voice or arouse his anger against them.

Instead of talking about this vague I am trying to get closer to God stuff, consider the passage in the Psalms where David says "I have more understanding than all my teachers, because I keep your precepts."

"I KEEP YOUR PRECEPTS!"

If you are failing to get along with your mom, then it is because you are not turning the other cheek. Saul was trying to kill David and yet see how careful he is to never raise a hand against Saul.

God is seeking righteousness. Instead of reading you Bible as an continual act of devotion, read your Bible only enough to know what it says so that you can do what it says.

Don't be like the man whom James says looks in the mirror and then goes away and forgets what he saw.