Feeling Trapped

by Christina
(Beaumont, Texas, United States)

Trapped in a Box

I would like to discuss ...how in your life you can sometimes get in a box and feel trapped, and feel as if the walls are falling down around you.

Have you ever felt trapped?

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Hide in the Shadows of the Almighty
by: Anonymous

Of course, I too feel trapped. I have notice that if I stay in constant prayer with God, I don't feel so overwhelmed. The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy but God came to give us life. What I would recommend that you do is when you pray, remind God of His word. Quote scriptures when you pray. Just like rain can't return to the sky,God's word is not going to return back to Him null and void. What tends to happen is that when we are in our 'waiting' period we lose faith. Well, I must encourage you that our timing isn't God's timing. And sometimes God's answer to our prayer is simply, "no"! Without any explanation. I truly believe when God says no to me: 1. My motives are wrong, 2, He knows what's best for me. 3. What I am asking for isn't in His plans for my life. I was married and I truly loved my husband but he cheated on me and had a child. I was devastated, I prayed, cried, yelled all of the above. God still did not save my marriage. My ex husband married the other woman. I was angry at God but then I realized that had it not been for the divorce I would not have established my relationship with God. So in order for me to gain life, I truly had to lose what I thought was my life. God is a healer and He is truly a balm in Gildead. I would go thru the entire ordeal all over again just to get to where I am in Christ. In the midst of going thru a divorce, I lost my job, got in trouble with the law, church family turned their back on me and was completely lost. I am constantly reminded of the pain but I know that the devil tries to to remind me of the pain and hurt that I experienced. I totally depend on God because I know that I am not able to stand alone. I still go thru valley experiences but without them I would not appreciate God's grace and mercy. I am in a constant array of sistuations but I know that if I continue to focus on God and not the situations I will come out on top. I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bread. Low, I am with you even til the end of times. I will never leave you nor forsake you. The Lord is my fortess and my refuge. I truly trust God!!!!

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Of course, I too feel trapped. I have notice that if I stay in constant prayer with God, I don't feel so overwhelmed. The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy but God came to give us life. What I would recommend that you do is when you pray, remind God of His word. Quote scriptures when you pray. Just like rain can't return to the sky,God's word is not going to return back to Him null and void. What tends to happen is that when we are in our 'waiting' period we lose faith. Well, I must encourage you that our timing isn't God's timing. And sometimes God's answer to our prayer is simply, "no"! Without any explanation. I truly believe when God says no to me: 1. My motives are wrong, 2, He knows what's best for me. 3. What I am asking for isn't in His plans for my life. I was married and I truly loved my husband but he cheated on me and had a child. I was devastated, I prayed, cried, yelled all of the above. God still did not save my marriage. My ex husband married the other woman. I was angry at God but then I realized that had it not been for the divorce I would not have established my relationship with God. So in order for me to gain life, I truly had to lose what I thought was my life. God is a healer and He is truly a balm in Gildead. I would go thru the entire ordeal all over again just to get to where I am in Christ. In the midst of going thru a divorce, I lost my job, got in trouble with the law, church family turned their back on me and was completely lost. I am constantly reminded of the pain but I know that the devil tries to to remind me of the pain and hurt that I experienced. I totally depend on God because I know that I am not able to stand alone. I still go thru valley experiences but without them I would not appreciate God's grace and mercy. I am in a constant array of sistuations but I know that if I continue to focus on God and not the situations I will come out on top. I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their seed begging bread. Low, I am with you even til the end of times. I will never leave you nor forsake you. The Lord is my fortess and my refuge. I truly trust God!!!!

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thankyou
by: Anonymous

thank you so much for your insight about
looking at God vs. lookin at the problems.
I am feeling overwhelmed and i want to have faith that all will work out for the happiness of all involved, but right now, I just can't see that unless a miracle happens. But i want to desperately believe that a truly win-win situation can come to pass. It is just so hard to be patient and faithful with Satan murmuring around every corner, and there is no one that i can tell every thing too. certain people know parts of the situation, but only one person knows it all, and that person is hard to make contact with. So, its me and God. And i cry all the time in my prayers. I am at the end of my rope and about ready to have a breakdown. I need help.
your words are part of that help i think.

Feeling trapped. Big Time.
by: Natalie

Hello Ladies,

I stumbled onto this site late Saturday night and I am very glad. I am 25 years old, and a series of events have lead me to a point in my life that I realize that I am totally powerless over the webs that I have woven. Because of many bad choices, I live with my grandmother because I cannot support myself. I am also addicted to prescription pain killers. I was presented with information about a program a few states away from my own that lasts for a year. It is a Christian organization that helps addicts face the problems that caused them to use in the first place. I am in the process of attempting to gain acceptance into this place. As I said, it will last for a year. I am leaving behind a boyfriend of two years (who is very supportive about this), and my grandmother who has no other family around. It was a difficult decision but I know it is the right one.

In the meantime, daily life has become a struggle in itself. I have terrible insomnia due to a constant anxious feeling in my stomach. I wake up very early and once that happens, I can literally feel my pulse in my stomach. My mind turns on and all of these terrible things fill it which in turn keeps me awake.

It is important for me to get my mind off of myself and turn it to helping other people, especially during this hard time. It is hard for me to do because I feel so bad most of the time. I hate this because I don't want to be pre-occupied with my own problems, and I know for a fact that God doesn't want that either. Some days when I wake up and can't turn off the madness, I go ahead and take more pills just to feel better for a while. It doesn't last, in fact it wears off pretty quickly, and then I am right back where I was- except now I have the added feeling of defeat for having given in to temptation.

My email address is sweetvelvetrage@hotmail.com.
Anyone who has advice or a comment, please feel free to write me.

Blessings to you all.

Natalie

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Hello Ladies, I stumbled onto this site late Saturday night and I am very glad. I am 25 years old, and a series of events have lead me to a point in my life that I realize that I am totally powerless over the webs that I have woven. Because of many bad choices, I live with my grandmother because I cannot support myself. I am also addicted to prescription pain killers. I was presented with information about a program a few states away from my own that lasts for a year. It is a Christian organization that helps addicts face the problems that caused them to use in the first place. I am in the process of attempting to gain acceptance into this place. As I said, it will last for a year. I am leaving behind a boyfriend of two years (who is very supportive about this), and my grandmother who has no other family around. It was a difficult decision but I know it is the right one. In the meantime, daily life has become a struggle in itself. I have terrible insomnia due to a constant anxious feeling in my stomach. I wake up very early and once that happens, I can literally feel my pulse in my stomach. My mind turns on and all of these terrible things fill it which in turn keeps me awake. It is important for me to get my mind off of myself and turn it to helping other people, especially during this hard time. It is hard for me to do because I feel so bad most of the time. I hate this because I don't want to be pre-occupied with my own problems, and I know for a fact that God doesn't want that either. Some days when I wake up and can't turn off the madness, I go ahead and take more pills just to feel better for a while. It doesn't last, in fact it wears off pretty quickly, and then I am right back where I was- except now I have the added feeling of defeat for having given in to temptation. My email address is sweetvelvetrage@hotmail.com. Anyone who has advice or a comment, please feel free to write me. Blessings to you all. Natalie

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"in response to feeling trapped"
by: Monaid

I can definitely relate to your comments about feeling trapped. It is a feeling that I am very familiar with myself. Not because I've heard alot about it, but because it is what I live myself. I've wriggled, squirmed,ducked, dodged, read my daily devotionals, prayed, cried, exercised positive thinking, etc. It seems that I've tried it all only to keep returning to the same old bad scene. Sometimes I honestly think that I've totally forgotten how to really live life. How to really feel vital and alive. I feel that I've learned to exist. To put one foot in front of the other and to appear to others to be alive. I'm sorry that I can't offer good constructive advice. But I'd like to thank you for inspiring me and giving me the courage to speak out on something that I've been keeping to myself for way to long. Maybe admitting it will turn out to be my first step in really confronting it and start doing something about it. I look forward to joining this group of women and pray that I get to talk to you again soon. May God bless you and keep you is my prayer for you and yours.

struggles
by: KIM

I have felt this way and feel it often in my marriage. I am struggling with this.

I can defintely relate
by: Ameerah

Christina, I can definitely relate to the feelings you are describing here. I have felt trapped before. I wondered if the feelings were ever going to end, or if I was going to be going through this forever.

I actually explain a little bit about my valley experience in the Becomming a Living Sacrifice Bible study. I talk more in depth about what my particular "box" was, and how I could see everything falling apart around me.

I do not know your personal situation. But, something that God spoke to me about when I felt trapped and totally powerless to my life falling apart around me was to decide what I was going to look at. Was I going to look at my circumstances or my God?

It may sound silly, but that is what I felt the Holy Spirit was saying to me personally when I went through that valley. I kept looking at my situation and the more I looked at it, the worse it got - literally. And the worse it got, the more it dominated my thoughts. It really got to a point where I could barely see God because my problems looked so big.

I had to change my viewing angle.

I knew that God had promised me that "My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP) and I was surely weak! So, I could either believe Him who I couldn't see, or believe my circumstances which I could see.

I had to make a conscious decision to look at the Lord's strength and power instead of looking at my current circumstance. I started searching out what God's Word said about the problems that seemed to be closing in on me, and consciously made His promises bigger to me than the things that I could see happening before my eyes.

This did not come naturally to me so I started writing out the scriptures and reading them to myself several times each day to try and make them seem more real. I knew God's Word said that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17), so I would record myself reading the scriptures about what God had to say, and play them over and over to myself. It sounds radical, but I was at the end of my rope hanging on for dear life!

A few days ago I was watching Joyce Meyer and she said that one of Satan's biggest tricks is convincing us that a temporary situation is our permanent destiny. But, when you have a God that is working on your side, your problems are no where near permanent.

Those are just my two cents on feeling trapped. I hope other women come in and share their perspectives on it.

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Christina, I can definitely relate to the feelings you are describing here. I have felt trapped before. I wondered if the feelings were ever going to end, or if I was going to be going through this forever. I actually explain a little bit about my valley experience in the <a href="http://www.hem-of-his-garment-bible-study.org/thanksgiving-Bible-study.html">Becomming a Living Sacrifice Bible study.</a> I talk more in depth about what my particular "box" was, and how I could see everything falling apart around me. I do not know your personal situation. But, something that God spoke to me about when I felt trapped and totally powerless to my life falling apart around me was to decide what I was going to look at. Was I going to look at my circumstances or my God? It may sound silly, but that is what I felt the Holy Spirit was saying to me personally when I went through that valley. I kept looking at my situation and the more I looked at it, the worse it got - literally. And the worse it got, the more it dominated my thoughts. It really got to a point where I could barely see God because my problems looked so big. I had to change my viewing angle. I knew that God had promised me that "My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP) and I was surely weak! So, I could either believe Him who I couldn't see, or believe my circumstances which I could see. I had to make a conscious decision to look at the Lord's strength and power instead of looking at my current circumstance. I started searching out what God's Word said about the problems that seemed to be closing in on me, and consciously made His promises bigger to me than the things that I could see happening before my eyes. This did not come naturally to me so I started writing out the scriptures and reading them to myself several times each day to try and make them seem more real. I knew God's Word said that "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17), so I would record myself reading the scriptures about what God had to say, and play them over and over to myself. It sounds radical, but I was at the end of my rope hanging on for dear life! A few days ago I was watching Joyce Meyer and she said that one of Satan's biggest tricks is convincing us that a temporary situation is our permanent destiny. But, when you have a God that is working on your side, your problems are no where near permanent. Those are just my two cents on feeling trapped. I hope other women come in and share their perspectives on it.

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