Depression & Discouragement

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

Matthew 27:46

… A man may bear great depression of spirit about worldly matters if he feels that he has his God to go to. He is cast down, but not …

The Stronghold

Nahum 1:7

… This 77th Psalm is the song of a man in deep depression. Verse 1. Icried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; andHegave ear …

Girding on the Harness

1 Kings 20:11

… The young warrior may not boast, for he will need all the faith he has—and all the strength of God, also, to keep him from despondency. There …

Humility

Acts 20:19

… He is not willing to believe his God in the dark—he thinks, in fact, that God deals harshly with him, in allowing him to be in despondency …

All Joy in All Trials

James 1:2-4

… Calm resignation does not come all at once; often long years of physical pain, or mental depression, or disappointment in business, or multiplied bereavements, are needed to bring …

The Saints Blessing The Lord

Psalm 103:1

… On the other hand, some of you have a touch of despondency in your nature—take care to subdue it to the Lord's praise. You are the …

Rest As a Test

Jeremiah 6:16

… I know, perhaps, as well as anyone here, what deep depression of spirit means—and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower—yet, at the …

Spiritual Convalescence

Zechariah 10:12

… Perhaps you have fallen into such a state of despondency that you question your interest in Christ. Possibly you have almost begun to doubt the veracity of your …

A Sabbath Miracle

Luke 13:10-13

… Get up, then, my Soul, out of the dark places of your despondency! Rise, my drooping spirit, to something higher and better. If you cannot be glad in …

A Handkerchief

John 20:15

… often worked instantaneously! So you may be lifted up from the depths of despondency to the heights of sacred fellowship with your Lord before this present service closes …

Bonds Which Could Not Hold

Acts 2:24

… Perhaps, also, the devil, as well as your own depression, has tied you up. There is a diabolical temptation that has come to you— you are even afraid …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… In the time of depression of spirit it is hard to have one's faith questioned, or the ground on which it stands made a matter of dispute …

The Student's Prayer

Psalm 119:27

… Vehement passion and abject helplessness meeting together and struggling in the breast, often lead to despondency, but they ought far rather to stimulate prayer. As soon as we …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… illuminating rays. "Lest I sleep the sleep of death." Darkness engenders sleep, and despondency is not slow in making the eyes heavy. From this faintness and dimness of …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… He prays, "Deliver me from all my transgressions." "He needs to be delivered from that headache, that heartache, that pain in the limbs, that depression of spirit." Nothing …

A Sacred Solo

Psalm 28:7

… He consulted a physician and asked him for a prescription to relieve his lowness of spirits and habitual despondency. His physician gave him some medicine, but advised him …

Stand Fast

Colossians 1:23

… Do not be moved away, on the other hand, by despondency. Satan does not mind which way you get off the Rock— whether it is by jumping up …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Had the prodigal become inactive through despondency, or stolid through sullen grief, he must have perished, far away from his father’s home, as it is to be …

Questions of the Day and THE Question of the Day

Matthew 22:42

… Brother or Sister, I should not wonder but what the reason of your despondency may be mean, unworthy thoughts of Christ Jesus! If you knew more about your …

Secret Sins Driven Out By Stinging Hornets

Deuteronomy 7:20

… at the promise through unbelief," I should not wonder but what a little depression of spirits, perhaps weariness in God's service, might make you to be as …

Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts

Luke 24:38

… If there is no cause for the anxiety, let us get rid of it! Count it one of the wisest actions to battle with despondency. I do not …

The Best of All Sights

Hebrews 2:9

… Father when He shall divide the spoil! This is the antidote to all depression of spirit, the stimulus to hopeful perseverance, the assurance of joy unspeakable! II. Nor …

Despair Denounced and Grace Glorified

Ezekiel 37:11

… It is a grievous fault when mourners depreciate the power and fullness of God's Grace and when despondency casts a doubt upon the possibility of their salvation …

Later Sermonettes

… We have no ground for despondency or terror ; no bailiff can arrest us now, for our debt is fully paid. 4. Everlasting security. Our whole indebtedness is gone …

Mutual Love Between Pastor and People

… May He have you in His safe keeping, preserve you from lowness and depression of spirits, cheer you with the light of His countenance, strengthen and sustain you …

Are You Prepared To Die?

Jeremiah 12:5

… Many disciples live a life of depression, wretchedness, and discomfort which would be completely changed if they had faith in God and lived a higher life of devotedness …

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… You may bring them to the waters of the promise, but who shall make them drink if they will not do so? Many a daughter of despondency has …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… He used, at times, to feel that the burden became almost too great to be borne, for it seemed as if all who were suffering from depression of …

Reigning Grace

Romans 5:21

… oil ofjoy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. "Rise, rise," says Grace, "you are free, you are free! Shake yourself from the …

Jesus Asleep on a Pillow

… No matter how drear your despondency, nor how dread your despair, the Lord can at once create a great calm of confidence. What a door of hope this …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… If you go too fast, today, you will be out of breath before tomorrow! You are so very joyful, disappointment, I fear, will tame you into despondency! "Rest …

Expiation

Isaiah 53:10

… No more drops of blood; no more pangs of heart; no more bitterness and darkness, with exceeding heaviness, even unto death, are needed. “‘Tis done—the great transaction …

The Church of Christ

Ezekiel 34:26

… Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. What is your season this morning, business man? Lost money all …

How to Become Full of Joy

1 John 1:4

… You cannot always rejoice, but sometimes there is a necessity that you should be, "in heaviness through manifold temptations." None of us, I suppose, are so perfectly happy …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… much lamented, and which ought to make every Christian's heart break with heaviness—that universally and everywhere, in the very presence of the coming judgment and between …

Pleading With the Indifferent

Lamentations 1:12

… And I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I foundnone. They gave Me also …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… mourning and put on a garment of praise, instead of the spirit of heaviness. The day is coming, I hope, when Zion shall sit, not without her diadem …

An Urgent Necessity

Hosea 10:12

… By His Grace, I will never turn away!" And the morning came on which he was to be burned—and he awoke withsome heaviness of his spirit. There …

A Precious Drop Of Honey

Isaiah 49:16

… Take the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I am certain that the man who wears such a gold …

A Merry Christmas

Job 1:4

… We can say to the worldling that our heart, despite its sometimes heaviness, does rejoice in the Lord, and we have peace which is like a river, and …