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Dealing with the Spirit of Heaviness (depression)

Derek Prince (1915-2003) was a Bible teacher with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He discovered that the more highly refined and cultivated a person’s mind is, the more vulnerable that person can be to the adversary. That is because the intellectual trusts his mind which can be used against him but the spiritual man has the mind of Christ to be guided by his thoughts and purposes.  So in my random theological studies, I came across his testimony regarding how he overcame depression. His story began in the mid-1950s when God was a manifold blessing in his ministry. But almost day and night during this period of his life, he was surrounded by an awful sense of depression. It took the form of a dark, heavy cloud that would descend over him—pressing him down, closing in on him, and shutting him off from normal communication with other people including his family. Ironically, the more successful he became in his ministry, the worse the oppression grew.  The Breakthrough  Th...

Brother is the Highest Accolade

The highest accolade you can give to somebody is call them brother because the original people don't have really many schools that really bestow these degrees and things on people. There are people who exist in the community who can literally tell those people who have earned those degrees in some of those places where they bestow those degrees; they can tell them to take those degrees and make them into toilet papers. There are people who don't have degrees themselves who can tell other people who are in their same fields to take their same degrees and make them into toilet paper. For instance, Professor John Henry Clarke. He is the world's foremost African scholar and he did not graduate from high school. He was an autodidact who slightly learnt under shaker and if he can't be called Dr then we are crazy. Alot of our black minds don't have these white man's credentials because they're incharge of giving them

Culture; The Preventive Factor Against Schizophrenia

It is lonely at the top (Ferriss, 2012). To the degree that someone is out of touch with reality, it is to that degree that they are out of their mind. Conjestina Achieng’s son, Charlton Otieno, has opened up about his mother's struggle with mental illness that adversely affected her well-being. She was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, or paranoid schizophrenia, a chronic mental illness in which a person loses touch with reality.  The boxer's son speculated that his mother's illness could have been the result of loneliness and not a concussion because her X-ray tests revealed that she had no brain damage that could have been caused by punches she might have received while boxing (Oduor, 2022). "Culture is identity made flesh." - Dr. Amos Wilson In this society, we emphasize individualism, but in reality, there is no such thing as an individual. That is a social fiction that does not exist in reality. Individuals are a synthesis of social experiences; they ...