Clarissa Rojas

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Saved Not Soft · Spiritual Oppression, Battling Anxiety and Obedience w Clarissa Rojas · 5 Mar 2025 podcast

That's why Paul says, well, what a wretched man I am. Who will save me from this body of death? Thanks be to God in Jesus Christ. Because only he can truly rescue you out of whatever it is that you're going through. But you first have to recognize what a wretched man you are.

And I don't think for the longest time while I was battling my anxiety, I didn't think I was needy or tried to convince myself that I was okay because...

i'd be lying if i didn't say that there were moments where i'd be begging god literally i'm like do you not hear me i am in need god please save me from this like we're talking from first grade all the way up until my freshman year of college there were moments where i was literally like god why won't you rescue me and why aren't you showing up like why aren't you like coming in and in my case um and in a lot of people's cases who i've spoken to about this um the reason is is because we want a quick fix we don't really want

the work of jesus christ yeah you know the the building up the molding of the clay we don't really want him to snatch us up in the miry clay and then build us up and then put us through the fire like we just want it to be completely done with and all good and dandy like that's not how god works though and so all my prayers without me knowing but i know now is that i just wanted that quick fix i just want you to deliver me and that it be done yeah like i don't want to go through the fire after this

Yeah, but it would no longer make you needy of him. Exactly. And it's like one of those things where it's like God enjoys the process that you might hate because he's in it. Yeah. So it's like God enjoys our process that we have to go through because we need him through the process. So it's like as soon as we are not in a place of neediness, like we don't need God.

God then, like even when we was at the flea market and we were studying 2 Corinthians 12, where Paul is talking about the thorn of the flesh. Like he said, a messenger of Satan has afflicted me with this thorn so God could humble me.

And it's almost as if God has allowed you and I both to experience that anxiety for so long or all these areas and avenues of our lives to where it was very traumatic. God, why don't you snatch me up from this? God, why don't you fix it right away? Because it makes us dependent of him. It keeps us in a humble position. Yeah.

And it's like, there's been a lot of places where I've been dead wrong and I've been caught up in a lot of sin. Or I was tempted and accused and oppressed by a lot of things, whether it was my fault or not. But God allowed it to happen because he allowed to use that thing for me to need him.

And that, I will never take back any of those moments in my entire life because I'm like, I got to see the goodness of God. Yeah. I don't know. During the time you're like, dang, I don't want to go through this depression or I don't want to go through this anxiety or I don't want to go through the nightmares or seeing scary stuff in my bedroom. I don't know.

This is personal stuff that I would deal with, but I'm just being transparent. But I was like, dang, like, why is this stuff happening? And God's like, because you have to see my glory through it. And it's like, I would do those things over again if I knew I was going to seek such a big revelation from God.

He said, the reason as to why this message, this messenger of Satan is oppressing me so much is because God has given me such great revelation and he got to keep me humble. It's not God permitting evil because he doesn't want that, but it's almost as if God is allowing him. It's like God is sharing to an extent because he's so generous.

He's like, I'm going to share myself with you, but not too much. So we're to where like self-righteousness is birth and you make it all about you and you think we can share this platform.

like you're you're just my kid like you go out and you talk about me and you testify but it's like you don't you don't get to be me yeah so it's almost like god allows the consequences of the earth to like reside on his children sometimes not because he permits evil but because he wants us to just stay humble yeah and we could keep ourselves humble um or we even humble ourselves just by being in sin

Yeah. When it comes to humility, um, and how I humbled, um, humbled myself or practiced humbling myself, um, was because circling back to the fear of eating, I didn't want to fast because I was already like, I'm not eating. Like, why would I want to give up food? Like I need to eat. I'm, I look weak. I

It's kind of weird because, I mean, I could have sat there and been like, well, I'm already not eating. Might as well. But then that would have been wrong, too. Because then it's just like there's no like actual intention of humbling myself before the Lord. It's just like I'm already not eating, so I'm not going to do it. But I had this fear of not eating because I was already not eating.

So I was like, I'm going to die if I don't eat. Yeah.

you know so like what do you do so i'm like yeah i'm like i'm in this predicament because i'm like the lord is like i need you to humble yourself and i didn't really fully understand the need for fasting um but ultimately i mean it's just like you're taking your most basic need because humans need food to like or they need food to survive for sure like water to survive so you're taking those most basic need saying i don't need that i need your spirit more

Yep. Like you're prioritizing dependency on the spirit more than the food you depend on daily. You wake up. Well, I don't know about you. The first thing I do, I eat. Like I work out first, then I eat. Well, OK. Yeah. No, but I'll eat a snack before I go to the gym. But like that's my thing. Like I wake up and I eat. And then after the gym, I'm like, all right, big breakfast. Eat again. Yeah.

Eat again. And then it's like I do what I got to do throughout the day. Run errands for my parents, whatever it is I got to do. When's lunch? Yeah. Like and. Then I'm like, what's for dinner? Like, you know, we're so... Everything's about food. Even when you were in church, what am I going to eat after this? Right. Or what am I going to eat before this? What am I going to eat?

But we've become so dependent on it. Like, fasting truly taught me, like... That isn't as important as I am. I'm the daily bread that you need. It's like gluttonous. Yes.

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