Depression & Discouragement

Help for Your Sickness

Matthew 8:16

… Hours after, I have been myself depressed and I have felt an inability to shake it off. You and I have not a thousandth part of the sympathy …

The First Beatitude

Matthew 5:3

… It would have been a grievous discouragement to struggling faith if the first blessing had been given to the pure in heart—to that excellence the young beginner …

"The King Can Do No Wrong"

2 Samuel 3:36

… Oftentimes we are permitted to work hard and yet to meet with great discouragement. The congregation gets smaller or grows careless. The district seems as if it refused …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… What a bad example it is! This disease of doubt and discouragement is an epidemic that soon spreads among the Lord's flock. One downcast Believer makes twenty …

Peter's Restoration

Luke 22:60-62

… Only to think that Peter, under temporary discouragement, should play the coward! Yet cowardice treads upon the heels of boasting—he that thinks he can fight the world …

Faith's Firm Resolve

Psalm 71:16

… says Unbelief! But it is a grand thing if, in the moment of discouragement, the child of God can gather himself up again, gird up the loins of …

Night-and Jesus Not There!

John 6:17

… evil and what should be to your encouragement becomes often a source of discouragement! Have any of you ever been in that condition? If you have, and if …

Smoking Flax

Isaiah 42:3

… He will keep you alight with Grace. "Oh," but you say, "I am so depressed in spirit!" Yes, some of God's best servants have been of a …

The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:7

… There would be no discouragement to the Church in her work of faith and labor of love, for the Presence of Christ would be the end of all …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… Out of the depths of all poverty, all sorrow, all mental depression, all sin, cry unto God! — From "The Study and the Pulpit", 1877. Verse 1. Out of …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:131

… Yet, let no tinge of discouragement mingle with your dissatisfaction—this man is hopeful of better things. He opens his mouth because he looks for something to fill …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… Beloved, let us fall back upon this Truth of God in our times of worst discouragement. And if any say, "This is not a practical truth, but calculated …

Behold The Lamb!

John 1:36

… an age as this! But for all that, there is no room for discouragement, for the Truth of God will win the day! It is in the hands …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… A frequent form of weakness is despondency which is so common in English Churches as to be as much a national disorder as consumption. It is not so …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure. Discouragement and despair will not purify you. Doubt and darkness will only make you worse …

A Sense of Pardoned Sin

Isaiah 38:17

… The strangest story I ever remembered to have read, with regard to peace given after a long season of despondency, was the ease of Mrs. Honeywood, whom you …

A Sermon for the Time Present

Zephaniah 3:16-18

… the more discouragement, the more confidence. Splendid was the courage of Alexander when they told him that there were hundreds of thousands of Persians. "Yet," he said, "one …

The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus

John 7:46

… Keep good heart, then, O you soldiers of the Cross! Let no thought of discouragement ever flit across your spirits. Greater is He that is for us than …

The Baptist's Message

John 1:29

… of my subject be a lesson in self-examination—not by way of discouragement, but rather of encouragement, I hope, to those whom I am addressing. Who are …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… Yes! And such discouragement is much needed now-a-days. If I saw a man trying to climb to the top of a mountain by a path which …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… Many are afflicted in another way, which is perhaps as bad as anything else,—by a deep depression of spirit. They are always melancholy; they know not why …

Victor Emmanuel, Emancipator

Isaiah 42:7

… This we will refer to those who are truly emancipated, and yet by reason of despondency sit down in the dark dungeon. We have in our pastoral duties …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… skull of its bearer, he will strike a heavy blow and cause deep discouragement. Press around us, then, you men at arms! Knights of the red cross rally …

Helps

1 Corinthians 12:28

… This is the kind of man the soul wants when it is shivering in the cold winter of despondency. Such men I know—may God train many more …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… Suffice it to say, patience saves a man from great discouragement. If I expect that God will bless my labors to a large extent the first month, and …

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… If, in the course of your endeavors, you are brought into sadness and depression, you shall then find it sweetly true that the Lord stands by you. Did …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… show that they are not very great admirers, we may be tempted to discouragement if not to anger: herein lies a snare. When I was about to leave …

New Uses for Old Trophies

2 Kings 11:10

… Often their misery and despondency, aggravated, as it commonly is by a feeling of solitariness, will be greatly relieved before it is effectually driven out when they find …

Prayer 24 — "Deliver Us from Evil"

… Deliver us, we pray Thee, from doubts within and fears without, from depression of spirit, and from the outward assaults of the world. Make us and keep us …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… As a rebuke to despondency: see Isa 40:28. 3. As the stay of a soul oppressed by mysteries. 4. As indicating a subject for our everlasting study …

Comfort From Christ's Omniscience

John 21:17

… God can! When you are brought into such a state of diffidence and despondency that you are half afraid there is not any real love to Christ in …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… Many of God's people are harassed with questions as to their interest in Christ, or are afflicted with deep depression of spirit. And when it is so …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… The wise men rose superior to this serious discouragement. If the clergy would not help them they would go to Jesus by themselves. Oh, dear friend, if you …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… I long to witness more of that dogged perseverance among Christians which would make them work on and on, even without success, and persevere under every discouragement, until …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… Let no discouragement weaken you. "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might," for He is able to give you the victory through Jesus …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… O glorious victory of all-conquering Love, sin's iron yoke of dark despondency is broken and the captives lead their captivity captive. Hallelujah! III. But now, thirdly …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… His life also was a very busy one, so he could not often come ; but, every now and then, when he was more than usually depressed and troubled …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… From such a man as the psalmist, the utterance which his discontent suggested would have been a heavy blow and deep discouragement to the whole brotherhood. He dared …

Our Motto

Ephesians 6:7

… tarnish the pure silver of my service." This would lift you above the discouragement which sometimes comes of human censure. If you seek the praise of men you …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… But, at last, Jacob rose out of his despondency and doubt. According to our text, "Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive: I will …