Share your methods of dealing with frustration.

[airIam2worship]

Kristiann, please consider taking Brother BEP's advice, it is Biblical, loving, wise, and careing advice, we all love you dearly, but please understand that almost all of us at this forum have some kind of disability, including myself. I too have been disable for 8 years and I am still way too young to retire if I were able to work. God has provided all my needs, thank God I have not gone to bed hungry, nor have I been without housing. I thank God for every new day because it's another day I can praise Him and thank Him for all He's done for me.
Please let go of the past, and start lookinng towards the future. Please stop feeling sorry for yourself and all you've been through, I know God has been with you all along because, with all you've been through you would not have been able to do it without Him. Obviously He is taking care of you because if you haven't had an income in 2 years you are still with us, still have a place to live, food to eat.
Don't get me wrong Sister, I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ, and that includes you, but you would be amazed at how much better you would feel if you spent half the time you waste complaining and Praised and worshipped God instead, He would be moved. God inhabits the praises of His people, He does not want to hear all the murmuring and grumbling and complaining that He heard from the Isrealites when He delivered them from Egypt.
Ps 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Ps 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Ps 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
in just 3 verses look at all the promises we have from God
He will deliver us , set us on high, He will answer us,He will be with us in times of trouble, He will honour us, He will SATISFY us, He will show us His salvation.
I love you in Christ, but I must tell you these thing because of that love.
Please don't be upset, with me.

[nChrist]

AMEN TALKERCAT!

I feel the best when I know that God has given me something to do for Him. In fact, I feel extra strength and I'm happy when I'm doing something for the LORD. Perfectly healthy people can get down and depressed if they allow themselves to concentrate on the negative. There is a reason why instructions for Christian living in the Bible are many times accompanied by something like, "that your joy may be more full." Once a Christian has experienced the JOY in JESUS, they want that feeling more often or all of the time.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 11:33 NASB  Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

[Soldier4Christ]

Amen Brother. I know that helps me a lot. Some people say I can't help others because I have nothing. I have found that to not be true. A person, no matter how little they may have, can still help others. God provides a way for us to do His work.

After I had my open heart surgery I went without work and any income for a little over two years. My wife was also handicapped and was not able to work so there was no income at all. The Lord provided for us. A home, food on the table and sufficient medical. I have yet to figure out how we paid for the other bills such as utilities and phone. All I can say is that the Lord insured that they were paid, for there is no other explanation.

During that time my wife and I saw so many others that were less fortunate than we were. We were able to help them and it made us feel so good to be able to do things in that manner for the Lord and to trust in Him to take care of us.

[nChrist]

AMEN PASTOR ROGER,

Brother, I was just thinking that most of the best gifts that Christians give don't involve money at all. Maybe it was nothing more than a word or act of kindness in a time of great need. AND, the biggest gift is PRAYER. I think that our society many times is focused on money and material things.

I think that many of us have very little in the way of money, but I am positive that GOD has equipped us to give many things that are much more important than money. Love, Care, Compassion, and Prayer are priceless. So, if a Christian's pockets are empty, his or her heart contains the riches of Christ.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Revelation 21:23 NASB  And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

[airIam2worship]

Amen Brother. I know that helps me a lot. Some people say I can't help others because I have nothing. I have found that to not be true. A person, no matter how little they may have, can still help others. God provides a way for us to do His work.

After I had my open heart surgery I went without work and any income for a little over two years. My wife was also handicapped and was not able to work so there was no income at all. The Lord provided for us. A home, food on the table and sufficient medical. I have yet to figure out how we paid for the other bills such as utilities and phone. All I can say is that the Lord insured that they were paid, for there is no other explanation.

During that time my wife and I saw so many others that were less fortunate than we were. We were able to help them and it made us feel so good to be able to do things in that manner for the Lord and to trust in Him to take care of us.

Amen Pastor Roger,
First let me start by saying what I do when I'm frustrated, I turn on the TV to a Christian channel, it seems that they always have the right thing I need to hear at the right time, I take notes then I refer to my notes in the Bible. After that I know I am free from frustration when I turn on my Christian music and sing and rejoice in the Lord.
I want to share with you all something along the lines of what PR posted above, I am unable to work, so we live on only one income, and a  VERY small disability check once a month. A family friend of ours, who works with my husband is so amazed, he told my husband that he and his wife had been wondering how my husband and I are able to not just make ends meet but actually be able to live on just my husband's income. This man takes home more money than my husband does, his wife works, and brings home more money than he does, they have only one child, and they pay less rent than we do! He couldn't understand it so he finally asked my husband "How do you and Maria do it, you pay more for housing, your house is much bigger, so your utilities are more expensive, you take home less money, your wife can't work so you live on one income, and you have 2 children, How is that possible?"
My husband was caught of guard, he never expected to be asked such a question, much less to be under such observation, the words just rolled out of his mouth, "It's God, He takes care of it all," then after a few minutes my husband turned to his friend again and said "you know what, I never even thought about that, I guess it's because I have put my trust in God to supply all my needs, I just expect that from my Father." And that is how MY GOD is. HE certainly is our Provider. Glory to His Name.