Are you suffering from Bipolar Disorder? Do you know Jesus? A relationship with Jesus is the first step towards sanity. Then, pray the Prayers for Bipolar Disorder to God to help you overcome rapid cycling and mood swings.
This is my story. I have left out some of the details to protect my loved ones, but have outlined the important points that can save you from certain danger and ultimate devastation! Please read on and then pray the Prayers for Bipolar Disorder for yourself, or a loved one who suffers from Bipolar Disorder.
I used to experience tumultuous ups and downs with my mood. I was either so extremely excited that I felt I could do anything, or so sad and depressed that I loathed my life and wished for death.
When I was manic, it was very hard to sleep. I'd have racing thoughts and think I was on top of the world.
I would also behave in very impulsive and dangerous ways. I’d have ideas like, “I’m going to run down the street in the middle of the night and find someone who needs help!”, or “I’m going to give everything I have away and quit my job because I don’t need anything!”
But those high moments were always quickly followed by a deep, treacherous dive into a pit of despair when I would wake up the next morning and realize that I had absolutely NO SAFETY NET! I ended up in hospitals many times after such incidents, and was given heavy doses of antipsychotic medications with terrible side-effects.
But each time I was released from the hospital, it wasn’t long before I fell back into similar magical thinking and impulsive behaviors. Ultimately, I believed that my loved ones were holding me back from living my life the way that I wanted to.
I was angry and belligerent, and thought I would be better off on my own or with people who understood me better!
Tragically, I pushed the people who loved me the most away from me until they weren’t able to help me anymore.
I thought I knew what was best for me, but I ended up COMPLETELY and UTTERLY ALONE! I finally realized that I was on my way to a place that no one in their right mind wants to go...
Please believe that rapid mood-swings and impulsive behaviors are dangerous to you and your loved ones! It took me a very long time to realize this! I caused a lot of pain and unnecessary heartbreak.
It wasn’t until I gave my life to Jesus that I started to find TRUE Contentment and Peace! Jesus helped me begin the process of healing my broken relationships. He restored my sanity, stopped my mood swings, and gave me something truly worthwhile to live for: loving others and bringing as many people as possible to the One True God.
My doctor helped me to SLOWLY and SAFELY eliminate all but one medication that helps me to sleep. I still take this medication to this day and I haven’t been hospitalized in over 8 years. Furthermore, I must have my blood drawn every month to ensure my white blood cell count is at a safe level for this medication. God always helps me by getting this level where it needs to be.
CAUTION: Do NOT Stop taking your medications without the help of your doctor. Stopping your meds without a doctor's supervision is a sure way to end up in the hospital. DON'T DO IT!
If you suffer from bipolar disorder, please become a child of God right now and diligently pray these Prayers for Bipolar Disorder! You will be forever grateful that you did!
Prayers for Bipolar Disorder
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for this day, O LORD! I’m alive even though I’ve been on a dangerous path!
Please forgive me for impulsive behaviors!
Dear Jesus, there are dreams that have led me down a dangerous road. (See Matthew 7:13 NIV) I’ve desired things that You don’t want for me. I’ve allowed my emotions to dictate my actions and I’ve found myself in trouble.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9 KJV)
I'm in over my head!!!
Please help me, God! I need Your help!
I’m up and down, up and down and It’s hard to stop this rollercoaster that I’m on.
Please help me, LORD!
I can’t sleep at night, my thoughts race and I can’t sleep! Please slow my mind down, O LORD! Help me to have better mental functioning! I get so excited and then I crash into deep, overwhelming sadness! It’s a terrible feeling when I crash emotionally, O LORD!
When I fall, I can’t stop from crying because my soul is so very depressed. It’s a terrible feeling, O Jesus!
Help me to accept help from others. I have thoughts that my family is trying to hold me back from living MY LIFE, but I know when I am so saddened that I need people who love me!
But, LORD, I get so angry!!! I don’t want anyone to tell me what to do!!
Please help me, O LORD! Help me to not be so angry!! (See Psalm 37:8 NIV)
Please help me to slow down naturally! I hate the side effects of the medications that I have to take. Please HELP ME, GOD! Every Time I’ve gone off my medications, I end up in more trouble! Please reduce the side effects of these medications, O LORD!
I don’t want to go back to the hospital. I want to feel normal, Dear Father! Please help me to have calm mental wellbeing! Please stop the onslaught of racing and intrusive thoughts!
Please give me YOUR Peace, Dear Jesus! I’m overwhelmed with a Tornado of Emotions! When I get overly excited, I don’t want to come down! The highs always feel like I can do anything and so I don’t want to come down from those feelings.
PLEASE HELP, GOD!
Remove the mood swings, Dear Abba Father!
Please keep me safe, O LORD!
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7 KJV)
Thank YOU for Answering my prayers and for giving me relief!
In Jesus’ Mighty and Precious Name I pray. Amen!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I praise You for rescuing me, O LORD! You are a Good, Good Father!
Please forgive me for rebelling against You!
I don’t like being told what to do, Lord! It’s especially hard when I feel AMAZING, God! I don’t want anyone to tell me what to do!
But every time I’ve let my euphoric emotions dictate my actions, I end up in a place that I don’t want to be: in the hospital, or in a strange place with people who don’t care about me.
The day after a high is always filled with TREMENDOUS sadness, God! Please forgive me! (See 2 Corinthians 7:10 NIV)
Please help me, LORD. Help me to be OK!
I don’t like the tumultuous mood swings, O LORD! I feel OUT OF CONTROL when I have those mood swings!
I feel terrible the next day after I follow my euphoria and manic desires! I abruptly realize that I’ve caused my loved ones pain! Please help me, LORD, to be well. I NEED YOU!
I feel so alone, LORD! Like no one understands me!
When I get depressed, I don’t have any energy or desire in my body. People treat me differently, LORD! They think I’m STRANGE. I don’t like feeling STRANGE!
Please help me to be OK, Jesus! Please restore my desire to live, restore my mental wellness! Help me to live safely! Help me to take better care of myself!
I so need YOUR LOVE and PEACE!
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10 KJV)
Thank You for answering my prayers!
In Jesus’ Precious and Mighty Name I pray. Amen!
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank YOU for RESCUING me when I was LOST and WITHOUT Hope! (See Luke 19:10) How can You Love me, God?!?
Please forgive me for falling back into old habits!
Dear Jesus, when I am in stressful situations I’m tempted to fall back into unhelpful ways of dealing with my anxiety. I tend to binge. Please help me to come to You instead!
Help me to completely and wholly lean on You for STRENGTH, PROTECTION, COMFORT, and WISDOM!
I don’t like the way that I used to live! I know that I caused a lot of problems in my life before I came to YOU! You rescued me from a meaningless life! You restored my SANITY! (See Daniel 4:34 NIV)
Thank You, Jesus!
Please help me to have SAFE Boundaries! Please help me to not fall back into dangerous behaviors!
Please protect me from the enemy who wants me to fall! Protect me from people who don’t have the best intentions for me.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (1 Peter 5:8 KJV)
Help me to also lean on my loved ones when I get scared or stressed out. Help me to love my loved ones and to treat them well! For You encouraged them to not abandon me when I was at my worst!
Oh, how grateful I am for this day, O LORD! Because You did not allow the enemy to triumph over me! (See Psalm 41:11) PRAISE JESUS!
Thank You for Your beautiful care for me and my loved ones!
In Jesus’ Precious and Lovely Name I pray. Amen!
Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank You for trials, Abba Father! I know You are helping me because You give me Your peace!
Please forgive me for questioning You! You know what You're doing and my job is to listen and obey!
Please help me, LORD, to pray unceasingly. (See 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
Help me to desire PEACE and CONTENTMENT in YOU!
Remind me that this world is TEMPORARY and ALL the lusts of the flesh are NOT Worth my attention!
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV)
Help me to deny myself the things that YOU don't want for me! (See Matthew 16:24)
Help me to be patient and help me to not want the fleeting desires of my heart! I so need YOU, Jesus!
Please show me the way and guide me to YOUR SAFETY! (See Psalm 91)
This all I ask in Jesus' Mighty and Precious Name!
Amen!
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