Depression & Discouragement

Thy Redeemer

Isaiah 41:14

… said that, he catches a sight of you and of me, poor and depressed, and he says, “Fear not, worm Jacob; I will help thee; I helped the …

Meditation on God

Psalm 104:34

… the place of mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Moreover, it can light up the face that is joyous with a heavenly gladness …

The Exodus

Exodus 12:41

… We shall have “the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness;” the sackcloth shall be removed from our loins, and the ashes from our head, and we …

Not Now, But Hereafter!

Job 21:29-31

… bring you? If guilt that was not his own brought him an exceeding heaviness, “even unto death,” what will your sins bring you, sins remember which are your …

Titles of Honor

… you should rejoice in Him whatever there may be to cause you present heaviness of spirit! You have been struggling with inbred sin and the fight has been …

The Savior's Precious Blood

1 Peter 1:19

… Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations. This is your life. This is like a rainbow …

A Visit to Bethlehem

Luke 2:15

… The heart of the Jewish people made gross, the heaviness of their eyes and the dullness of their ears are not more striking as an exact fulfillment of …

COME AND WELCOME

John 6:37

… could truly say, "Reproach has broken My heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for …

All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… From its toiling and raging, feeling is apt to drop to lukewarmness, despondency, despair and all the kindred evils! Feelings are a set of cloudy, windy phenomena which …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… the place of mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Moreover, it can light up the face that is joyous with a heavenly gladness …

Looking Unto Jesus

Psalm 34:5

… and he hath shut out thy prayer, thou art full of darkness and heaviness on account of this,” Look to him, and be lightened.” If thou dost not …

The Importunate Widow

Luke 18:1-8

… when our soul draws near unto the gates of death by reason of heaviness. We should pray in all transactions, whether secular or religious. Prayer should sanctify everything …

A Challenge and a Shield

Romans 8:34

… pierced with nails and thorns, but in soul He was overwhelmed by exceeding heaviness and by the desertion of His God. To atone for the sin of my …

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… As I read this passage, I wondered that God had not struck me deaf and dumb when I have spoken unbelieving words—when I have been depressed in …

The Pearl of Patience

James 5:11

… is dead because of sin" and, therefore, come those aches and pains, that heaviness, that weariness, that decay, those infirmities of age which we experience as long as …

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… oil ofjoy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness! Believe now, and you shall be comforted now—for the time of faith is …

Good News for Seekers

Psalm 22:26

… sickness and sing the Lord's high praises there! Since Jesus died, our heaviness is dead, our murmuring is buried in His tomb. Since Jesus endured the wrath …

The Heart Of Jesus

Matthew 11:29

… There are several passages in the Old Testament which refer to our Divine Lord, such as— "Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness." And …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… Long delay, temptations, wealth, rank, discouragement, scepticism, all tend to drive it from the altar. 3. To what is it bound? To the doctrine of atonement. To Jesus …

A Timely Expostulation

Luke 24:5

… I tell the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in …

Psalm 120

Psalm 120

… yet when once mischief is done it proves most mischievous to the doers of it; and while they hold their brethren's heaviness a profit, though they are …

Royal Emblems for Loyal Subjects

2 Samuel 23:4

… oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." Christ brings joy to cheer and comfort the disconsolate, for He is like the …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… there is a needs be not only for manifold temptations, but that we be in heaviness through them. The design of the rod is only answered by making …

Consolation In The Furnace

Daniel 3:25

… trouble in which afterwards they can rejoice—for the present fills them with heaviness and they fall down bound into the midst of the furnace. Pretty plight to …

A Holy and Homely Resolve

Psalm 101:2

… You never took us when we were little and you need never expect us to go now.'" That was the trouble that bowed her down with heaviness when …

The Witness of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Now remember that Jesus Christ, though not a bone of Him could be broken, was broken in spirit—"Reproach has broken My heart; I am full of heaviness …

'Prisoners of Hope'

Zechariah 9:11

… Are any of you in great heaviness because of your sin? Are you obliged to confess that your lives have been such that you could always weep over …

Joy in Place of Sorrow

John 16:22

… outwards! He puts on a merry look, yet all the while there is heaviness in his heart. His wine vats are full to bursting and the sound of …

Bochim—Or, the Weepers

Judges 2:4

… goes, the statement is that all unanimously lifted up their voice and wept. Heaviness was upon them! Their souls were exceedingly sorrowful! They expressed their sorrow in a …

The Great Physician And His Patients

Matthew 9:12

… When sin becomes exceedingly sinful before the eyes, then there is a gloom and a heaviness of spirit which crushes the soul into despair, making life bitter, as …

Faith Tried and Triumphing

Job 13:15

… more than is necessary. "Though for a season, if necessary, we are in heaviness through manifold temptations," we know and are convinced that there is a necessity for …

Trembling at the Word of the Lord

Isaiah 66:2

… has been a special stay to my own heart in time of great heaviness of spirit. I know I call upon the name of the Lord and I …

Young Man! A Prayer For You

2 Kings 6:17

… certain of you for whom I long in my heart and have great heaviness of spirit. I am praying, in the secret of my soul, "Lord, open his …

A Question for Hard-hearted Hearers

Amos 6:12

… The very same that he had done in other places with abounding success and with a sense of joyous ease, he was now doing in heaviness of spirit …

Letters to Father and Mother, January to June, 1850

… Blessed be the name of the Lord, despondency has vanished, like a mist, before the Sun of righteousness, who has shone into my heart! ‘Truly, God is good …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… I have been very sick and full of pain and depressed in spirit and I have judged myself to be, of all men, most unworthy and I judged …

God's Remembrance of His Covenant

Psalm 106:44

… which has grown dull through grief, a heart that is forgetful because of heaviness. Do not men even forget to eat bread in the hour of dire calamity …

Paul's Doxology

Ephesians 3:20

… Do you never experience groans which cannot be uttered, deep and terrible, like the moving of an earthquake, as though everything were loosed within you with extreme heaviness …

Heavenly Lovesickness!

Solomon 5:8

… Her soul has melted for heaviness and she pours out her heart within her as she pines after Her Lord. "No Love but my Love, no Lord but …

The Evidence of Our Lord's Wounds

John 20:27

… Look up, poor depressed one! he knows what a broken heart means. Canst thou not perceive this? Those prints upon his hands, these sacred stigmata, declare that he …