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How do I overcome this?

Asadour said:
i go back and forth with worry and then relief then worry. it just gets to be too much sometimes and i cannot cope very well.
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It's going to be very, very difficult. But the trials we have already experienced and are experiencing are preparing us. Remember that Jehovah never abandons his loyal ones!

"Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. Look! The Devil will keep on throwing some of you into prison so that you may be fully put to the test, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Prove yourself faithful even to death, and I will give you the crown of life. Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations: The one who conquers will by no means be harmed by the second death."

The second death is the only kind of death that is real in Jehovah's eyes. Even if we have to die temporarily, it will be okay!
 
@Watchman explains the scriptures about the glorification of the holy ones with Christ along side as demonstrated by the transfiguration. Where will we be?

here:

Ez 34:11 For this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: “Here I am, and I myself will search for my sheep, and I will care for them. I will care for my sheep like a shepherd who has found his scattered sheep and is feeding them. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered in the day of clouds and thick gloom.
 
Asadour said:
@Watchman explains the scriptures about the glorification of the holy ones with Christ along side as demonstrated by the transfiguration. Where will we be?

here:

Ez 34:11 For this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: “Here I am, and I myself will search for my sheep, and I will care for them. I will care for my sheep like a shepherd who has found his scattered sheep and is feeding them. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered in the day of clouds and thick gloom.
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That's a beautiful scripture that so accurately portrays what we are going through and what we can expect from Jehovah.
 
Dorothea said:
I think I underestimated the impact a lifetime of indoctrination has had on my mind and heart.

I no longer trust the GB after everything I've seen in the past couple years. That is a hard thing to admit and to go through. I now understand that we've been taught nonsense about prophecy right from the start, that the GB committed spiritual adultery by aligning itself with the UN in the 90s, that thousands of cases of child molestation have been covered up, and perhaps worst of all, that the GB has become blood-guilty by mandating unsafe vaccines.

Though I understand all of that, my heart will not stop condemning me for "disloyalty to the Faithful Slave." It has impacted my relationship with Jehovah so that sometimes I feel so guilty I avoid prayer, and when I do pray, I cry out about my feelings of confusion and beg for forgiveness if he sees me as disloyal. There is so much dissonance, and it's incredibly difficult to bear.

My whole life, I have looked for answers to my prayers in the talks at the KH, or in the publications. Sometimes I would accept as answers to my prayers the counsel I would get from my mother or a sister in the congregation. But now, I feel untethered from this line of communication. I don't trust those sources anymore as it seems they have been corrupted. But I find it extremely difficult to trust my ability to interpret the scriptures Jehovah seems to show me as his answers. He seems to have shown me some scary, unaccountable things in the past few months. I know that if I told my mother about it, she would tell me that I just need to read the publications and stop thinking I can interpret the scriptures, or that Jehovah could ever show me something directly from the Bible.
Have any of you gone through something like this? If so, how did you cope? Did you recover your spiritual equilibrium? Feeling like I really need some support here.
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Dorothea,
you are right the gb has and is making serious mistakes that Robert has clearly shown that they will face judgment at Jehovah’s time for it. Bear in mind Jehovah’s people have been spiritually fed, we still enjoy meetings sing songs of praise, preach the good news and 100000‘s are being baptisEd as Christ commanded. Now the kingdom message is available in over 1000 languages. Bear in mind that Jehovah has used his organisation to represent his name. Only Jehovah’s people have taken his name and reputation to the people of the world. Israel was his chosen nation. Saul was his chosen King, David had opportunity to kill Saul but he said ‘I will not kill Jehovah’s anointed’ . Different prophets warned Israel when it erred as Robert (like Jeremiah) has made to the GB as I have also anonymously, but remember his organisation is his, he will choose when to apply his discipline. 1914 is incorrect as the invisible presence that is due shortly as Robert has explained but it motivated Bro Russell and Rutherford to continue the preaching work up to date Jehovah wanted his people to do this work so the exact details may be incorrect but have worked to accomplish Jehovah’s will. Just remember your baptism vow and exclude ‘the organisation’ it’s still a vow to Jehovah and only him. So we must carry on serving Jehovah with our brotherhood who we share in service to our God despite the GB. Practically all JWs are going through the same issues as you are , enduring satan system and a GB that is getting above itself. Only Satan would want us to separate and give up. Christian Regards, Paz
 
Dorothea said:
That's a beautiful scripture that so accurately portrays what we are going through and what we can expect from Jehovah.
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it really comes down to the conversation that Jesus had with Martha when Lazarus died- Jesus asked Martha: Do you believe this? That is what faith is. it’s so simple. Do you believe it or don’t you. but then we have our imperfections to contend with. We just pray and hope
Jehovah takes up the slack. We have to put him to the test.

I think a lot of EX JWs like Lloyd Evans and others try to destroy faith by saying that Jehovah is not an interventionist God or else he would have stopped the Holocaust. But that wasn’t what Christ promised or obligated Jehovah’s name to at Matt 6. He also included our daily needs in the model prayer. the scriptures say that Jehovah will feed his sheep during this critical time.
 
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