Medication and Faith

They say the anti anxiety meds for serotonin will help with erp so I would consider using the medication. GOD can still work in your healing.

Hi fellow Christian here 👋🏻: God provides resources for us such as medication to help us in our struggles here on Earth. God can heal you multiple ways, one of which is through medicine. He created the plants/natural stuff and gave them properties that could do these things for healing. He has allowed us to discover these properties and be able to concentrate them and combine them to create a stronger effect. Medicine at its source comes from God’s creation. We just call it artificial/synthetic because we’ve isolated or combined things enough that we can’t say it’s the specific plant anymore, but the root of it (of all those chemicals) comes from the Creation God has gifted us! God gave us the gift of discovery and learning and allows us to learn and create from His good creation for good. We are His image bearers, of course He should want us to be able to create like Him for good and healing purposes! Just think, is God mad at us for creating shelters for ourselves? No, right? This is similar good creation from the Creation. We have created stronger medicine inspired by the hints God left for us, so we could join in His acts of creation as image bearers. God gifted us these resources and we should accept His gifts in whatever form they present. God works through people. It is why the church is compared to the body of Christ. Think about the Good Samaritan: ”Jesus replied with a story: “A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road. “By chance a priest came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A Temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side. “Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins, telling him, ‘Take care of this man. If his bill runs higher than this, I’ll pay you the next time I’m here.’ “Now which of these three would you say was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by bandits?” Jesus asked. The man replied, “The one who showed him mercy.” Then Jesus said, “Yes, now go and do the same.”“ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭30‬-‭37‬ ‭NLT‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/116/luk.10.30-37.NLT The good samaritan did not miraculously heal the man. He bandaged and treated his wounds and got him somewhere safe. And Jesus uses him as an example of goodness and what should be done! How we should act towards one another! Think of it that your doctor is a good samaritan who saw your pain and is treating your wounds with this medication. It’s like bandages and olive oil for your brain. Yes this is not a Miracle healing where things are fixed immediately. But this is still a healing honored by and inspired by the goodness of God that leads people to help each other heal. He works through people, the resources He has created for us, and yes miracles. But none of these things should be denied because they’re not the other. They’re all good and from God with the purpose of healing you from this. God works in unexpected ways, my friend, just look at the scriptures. It is possible that this medication is the answer to your prayers for healing. God is working everywhere. You wouldn’t deny the bandage if you had a bleeding wound. The medication is meant to be a mental bandage for your mind which has been hurt by this fallen world.

There is a story I think explains this concept well, it goes something like this: There was a man of great faith who stood on the top of his house which was being surrounded by rising flood waters. His neighbor had a boat and was able to stay afloat above the waters. The neighbor saw the man who was in danger, as the waters kept rising, and he paddled over to him to try to save him. But the man of great faith refused to board the boat, saying “no, God will save me from the flood” and so the neighbor reluctantly left. Another fellow had a motorboat and spotted the man on the roof and approached to try to help him, but the man said “no, God will save me from the flood” so the motorboat reluctantly left the man, as the waters rose further. Then a search and rescue helicopter saw the man and offered to lift him to safety, but the man said “no, God will save me from the flood.” So the helicopter rescuers reluctantly flew away. By this time the flood had risen so much that the man was swept away and drowned. When he went to heaven, he asked God why He had let him drown when he had had such great faith that God would save him. God replied “I did not ignore your pleas. I sent the neighbor in his paddle boat and you denied that help, I sent the motorboat and you denied his help, and I sent the helicopter to where you were and you denied that help.” The lesson is, yes God does work through miracles but He also works through people. The man was only found by those people because God had led them there. Using the resources God gave you is not a lack of faith in His miraculousness. Is it not amazing that we are able to have these resources at all? They come from Him :) I hope this helps, my friend and fellow believer. I say all this in good grace because I don’t want you to miss out on the healing God may be wanting to do for you through this medication. It is still of Him at its core, both in healing will and in ingredients sourced from what He’s given us through His Creation, and I believe it can be provided by Him through the hands of others. God helped rescue me through medication healing. It was a part of my healing process and journey with Him, and I know that it too was because of Him. I have faith that it was Him behind all my healing in the end.

Perhaps give thought to asking your physician for a prescription for a DNA mouth swab test . It can test your compatibility and lack of compatibility to various medications.

I think it's best to trust your doctor who has your recovery in their best interest. Medication is there to hopefully help you feel better and live a normal life. Not everyone can get "natural serotonin" and that's why these medicines are produced.

Through Christ, much love and prayers for your healing, in whatever form God deems appropriate. Just know medication and your doctors are a form God can act through. I’ve seen Him do it 😊