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Originally Posted by ThankfulForever777
I've observed a trend among many young and middle-aged men within the Lord's Recovery. Many struggle to maintain steady employment or adequately provide for their families. It's disheartening to see a pattern of passivity, where instead of actively pursuing solutions, they resort to complaining about adverse circumstances such as a tough economy or unfair employers. Rather than taking responsibility, they wait passively for someone else to intervene. They won't even adequately pray, fast or have faith in God's promises in his Holy Scriptures.
It's clear to me that these men in the Lord's recovery got damaged by confusing teachings and philosophy of Lord's Recovery.
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ThankfulForever777 your assessment is an accurate observation.
I recognized this "learned helplessness" personally after my 10 years in the
LORD's RECOVERY. I started meeting just before I turned 30 and left just before I turned 40. (I drank Lee's whole cup while at his table).
Since I have left the LR I slowly but surely identified the deep phycological derailment I incurred while under the non-stop indoctrination of
GODS's UNIQUE ORACLE. Under
THE TOP APOSTLE's speaking your whole identity outside of the LR is reduced to ZERO. The aftermath is that the real world outside of the LR bubble becomes largely inaccessible to the indoctrinated individual. Your whole mind has been programmed to believe that everything and EVERYONE outside of
THE WISE MASTER BUILDER's house is WRONG (somehow).
I do absolutely believe that the world is an evil place and that believers must be set apart unto Christ and His purpose, but one should still be able to navigate this current age with a sober mind under Spirit-lead conviction and revelation. The fact that I relinquished so much of my (God-given) personality during the time in
GOD's MOVE ON THE EARTH TODAY uprooted many necessary social skills I developed before my time in
THE ONLY GENUINE CHURCH.
But praise be to God, who always leads us
unto triumph through Jesus Christ. It has been 5 years since I have left the LR. During these 5 years I became painfully aware of the fact that I could no longer relate in a proper way to:
1. my parents
2. my larger family
3. other believers (BABYLON)
4. unsaved people
5. work colleagues
Yes - practically all of society outside of
GOD's BEST.
In all of these environments I experienced a sense of internal "
helplessness" that I could directly attribute to my
learning under
THE MINISTRY OF THE AGE.
Today I can testify that the Lord has brought about a work of restoration (in me) wrt all of those 5 categories listed above.
The Lord emptied Himself and took the form of a slave to serve an evil and contrary world. Only in this way could he be exalted by the Father to be higher than the heavens.
The Lord still has much shining, healing and re-building to do in my heart (emotion, mind and wil) after the deconstruction that took place in
THE LORD's ARMY.
Of course I am barely scraping the surface of what I identified as "learned helplessness" in my own personal life experience since I have left
PHILADELPHIA, but I hope this is a fitting contribution to this thread.