Historically, diagnoses of bipolar disorder have been handed out like candy by inpatient providers, making a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder one of the main complaints among private practice mental health providers. If you or a loved one have ever been admitted to an inpatient facility, chances are you’ve received the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In fact, I don’t remember a time when someone has come to me from an inpatient facility who did not have bipolar disorder listed among their documented  paperwork. The purpose of this article is to cover the most common myths about bipolar di ..read more

Editor’s Note: Part 1 of this series (find it here) covered the fourth and third most common mental-health causes for insomnia. In today’s article, you will learn about the second and first most common mental health reasons you experience insomnia. When it comes to the top factors causing insomnia, mental health has taken the lead over the past decade, outpacing other reasons for you not being able to fall asleep or stay asleep. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how unprocessed grief and PTSD (unprocessed trauma) can disrupt your sleep. In this article, we focus on the other two leading ..read more

Watch for Part 2 of this article, coming soon to Charisma Magazine online. Do you ever find yourself staring at the ceiling fan, trying to fall asleep? Or perhaps spend the first hour or so of the night tossing and turning, hoping to catch some shuteye? Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and find yourself calculating how many hours of sleep you can still get if you could just fall back asleep? Or do you perhaps wake up in the middle of the night, unable to fall back asleep, only to doze off just in time for your alarm to sound? If these scenarios resonate with you, you are not alo ..read more

Is it possible to fast and the Lord not hear your plea? God said of Israel, “You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high,” (Isa. 58:4, NIV). What were they doing wrong? Israel was unrepentant and had forsaken the ordinances of God. Though they appeared to be seeking God and delighting in His ways, their sin was all God could see. Instead of truly humbling themselves before God, fasting had become just another faithless mechanical performance full of strife, anger and lashing out. Breaking News. Spirit-Filled Stories. Subscribe to Charisma on YouTube now! Though ..read more

I am more excited about fasting than I have ever been. Don’t get me wrong—I enjoy eating! Though I enjoy eating, I cannot say I enjoy watching people as they cut into a big, steaming, juicy steak while I’m crunching on steamed broccoli. I have found that hungering and thirsting for God brings with it a much greater reward than satisfying the temporary hunger I may be experiencing in my body. Do you remember Anna? Her story only fills a few lines in Luke’s Gospel, but I believe God saw much more in the life of this precious saint. She is called a prophetess, and her simple testimony is that ..read more

God said, “Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar,” (Joel 2:17). On a house, the “porch” is the part everybody can see; it represents the more public aspects of your ministry. The altar represents private ministry. In the life of a believer, there should always be more private than public ministry to God. When you read about Jesus, you do not see Him praying in public nearly as much as you see Him praying in private. The Bible says He would often pray through the night and have intimate times alone with His Father. Out of those times in private devoti ..read more

If we are not careful we can allow life to get us into the same old ruts and routines without even realizing it. Our relationship with the Lord can suffer the same fate. When we don’t do what it takes to stay sharp and sensitive to the Holy Spirit, our praise, worship, offerings and even preaching can become heartless routines to God. As a believer, you can pray, read your Bible and go to church week after week and still be losing sight of your first love. It is not that you don’t love the Lord, but the busyness of life can bring you to the point of losing your freshness, your enthusiasm, an ..read more

We begin each New Year at Free Chapel with a 21-day corporate fast. Everyone participates in some measure. Some may fast one day, others three days, some a week, some even the full 21 days. As a body, when we all fast together over that 21-day period, God is honored, and He rewards that sacrifice corporately and individually. But some people are never satisfied. I’ve had people testify that only three days into a fast for a loved one suffering with cancer, the cancer was completely cured! Another lady’s son was dying from a 107-degree fever associated with his leukemia. The very first day of ..read more

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