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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"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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