“You are right, it’s all about me not you.”
“Yeah, I admit it, I DON’T have your best interests at heart.”
“I admit it. I was looking for ways to sabotage our friendship.”
“It’s true. I did give you bad advice on purpose.”
“I was looking for a way to hurt you. I’m so glad I succeeded.”
“Now that I’ve got your undivided attention, let me steer you in the wrong direction.”
“Your paranoia IS justified, I do talk about you behind your back.”
These are not the things normal people set out to do or say.
Paranoia can lead one to THINK that’s what people do or say.
Sometimes, no, a LOT of times, I think there are paranoid people who genuinely think those they are in a close relationship with are really plotting against them constantly and consistently. I mean, how do you really think that EVERYONE is out to get you? How do you believe that someone does not have your best interests at heart, at all, ever?
I’ve had people ask me if I, personally, thought they were paranoid. If you ask me my “opinion”, I do my best to not give my thoughts but to give you what the Word of God says regarding your situation. Even if I do give an opinion, I pray it is filled with wisdom from God. With that being said, HOW in God’s great Earth can one truly be upset when I give an affirmative and YES to the very question they just asked of themselves? How, I ask?
BECAUSE! They are operating in a position of hurt, rejection, fear, oppression, depression, no confidence and PARANOIA. If you can’t trust yourself to see yourself clearly, you ask for help. But when the help gives you an answer you don’t like, then what is left to believe? Most likely a lie, which then reinforces the paranoid thoughts that the solution awaits outside of yourself and never inside your heart.
I said all of that to say this: If the problem is always someone else and never you, then there is a problem with YOU. It can’t always be someone else and never you. There comes a time when you have to put up a mirror and look at yourself with a critical and impartial eye. You have to, at a certain point, do self inspection and say to yourself, “I am the common denominator in these situations. IS IT ME?”
NO this isn’t about a particular person or situation.
But.
If this has gone up your street, parked in front of your house and rang your bell, do you think maybe you should answer the door???
I bind the spirit of paranoia right now in the Name of Jesus Christ and command it to loose you and let you go!
Understand that people DO love you and want what’s best for you. They aren’t all out to get you, hate, misuse, abuse and mistreat you. God loves you and has placed people in your life to help you. Receive it.
