Depression & Discouragement

Binding Up Broken Hearts

Isaiah 61:1

… He could say, with an emphasis that was not possible even with David, "Reproach has broken My heart and I am full of heaviness." The brokenhearted Savior is …

The Bird Escaped from the Snare

Psalm 124:7

… May you be neither exalted nor depressed, but preserved in the middle path of experience. If you are extremely needy, you may be tempted to do wrong to …

Why the Heavenly Robes are White

Revelation 7:14

… and then goes down into the abyss, it melts the soul because of heaviness and forces a man to cry out for mercy! Spiritual storms make a man …

Contentment

Philippians 4:11

… blessed to some far away in America,—“If needs be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.” Then I think I might very justly have said to you …

Shame Leading to Salvation

Psalm 83:16

… They cannot bear the thought of the sinner's awful doom—it brings continuous heartbreak and heaviness of spirit upon them. That men should eternally perish—that they …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… is not only that we have manifold trials, but that we are in heaviness through them. In the smart of the sorrow lies the blessing of the chastisement …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… It is not easy to lift a soul at all; it needs a strong shoulder at the wheel when a heart sticks in the miry clay of despondency …

“All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts

Genesis 42:36

… upon cross upon my galled shoulders and crush me into the dust with heaviness of sorrow?" Peace, child of God, peace! Your Father loves you—love Him in …

'That King Ahaz'

2 Chronicles 28:22

… Again his shaft flew and a second one was taken—and your soul was melted because of heaviness. There is one here who had four children taken away …

Power With God

Genesis 32:28

… illness when I had been racked with pain and brought very low with heaviness of spirit through the nature of the complaint from which I was suffering. I …

David Warned and Rewarded

Psalm 19:11

… when you can bless God for suffering, when you can praise Him for heaviness of spirit if He chooses to send it—when your will is entirely subject …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… were not worth the having, so great was my pain of body and heaviness of heart. And such times may come to you big burly men—and you …

Christ's Testimony Received

John 3:33

… With great heaviness we have now to NOTICE THE REJECTERS—"No man receives His testimony." You would have thought that the moment this testimony was delivered to the …

S. S.—or, the Sinner Saved

Romans 9:30-33

… It is concerning such as you that the Apostle Paul had great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart. Remember, you may be in the visible Church and yet …

To Workers with Slender Apparatus

… I would sooner give a young man an hour with inquirers and the mentally depressed than a week in the best of our classes, so far as practical …

"The Wedding Was Furnished with Guests"

Matthew 22:10

… But if sinners are not saved, if the preaching of the Gospel is in vain, if they will not come to Christ—then are saints full of heaviness …

Work in Us and Work by Us

Colossians 1:29

… Suppose it is your child, your unconverted husband, or your brother—and you are enabled to say in yourself, "I have continual heaviness for my kinsmen according to …

Man's Extremity, God's Opportunity

Deuteronomy 32:36

… Oh, the heaviness of a guilty conscience! Oh, the long, dark, dreary winter of the soul, when sin blots out the sun, turns even mercy into misery, and …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… It is sad that you should fall into this condition." The period of heaviness has passed away and then I have chided my heart in another way, saying …

What and Whence Are These?

Revelation 7:13-14

… Peter wept bitterly, and Paul had continued heaviness. Tribulations abounded and afflictions were multiplied to the first disciples, and we wrong both themselves and us if we dream …

The Church a Mother

Isaiah 49:20

… Days of slumber and heaviness have come over the Church, yes, and days of heresy, too, when her ministers were no more shining lights, but, like the flax …

Love's Complaining

Rev 2:4

… a human angel; for in the weakness of my flesh and in the heaviness of my spirit have I pursued my calling; but I have pursued it. By …

Seeing Jesus

Hebrews 2:9

… of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness! O Sinner, you can get at Christ in a moment of time! No sooner …

The Christian's Service and Honor

John 12:26

… shall be clothed with the garments of praise—instead of the spirit of heaviness—while all her enemies shall be covered with confusion of face and be ashamed …

Love's Transformations—a Communion Meditation

John 14:28

… self-conceit, self-trust, self-seeking! Go even though your going should cause despondency, so long as Christ is crowned! Sink, sink, Soul, if Jesus rises! If you …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… Did you come here with a heavy heart tonight? Leave the heaviness behind. Many a time a friend has come in on a Thursday evening, I mean a …

A Simple Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… He felt the stripes of poverty, stripes of weariness, stripes of sickness, stripes of heaviness, stripes of bereavement—above all others, He was a "Man of sorrows and …

Jesus Sitting on the Well

John 4:6

… He knows what is meant by all that heaviness and heat of the feet, that blistering of the soles, that drawing of the sinews, that testing of every …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… I do not know what it is I need, but I feel a heaviness of spirit. My mind is burdened and I feel that You only can unburden …

A Monument for the Dead, and a Voice to the Living

Romans 10:5-9

… In hours of dire distress and great heaviness of spirit, of which I know enough, I prove the power of faith in Jesus. Ah, my Lord, what should …

My Comfort In Affliction

Psalm 119:50

… Here is a person very low and depressed. What does a wise doctor do? He does not give strong drink to act as a temporary stimulus to his …

The Rising Sun

Malachi 4:2

… knew who never trusted in the Savior's atoning Sacrifice! Oh, come you depressed and distressed and despondent ones whose religion has been slavery and whose profession has …

The Principal Wheat

… Alas! how soon do spirits become soiled by self or pride, or despondency or sloth, or some earthly taint. But what a grand thing it is to live …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. And they ought to have had enough confidence in him to know …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… men.' He said, 'Reproach hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heaviness.' Now, brethren, in the very proportion in which we are conformed to the image …

The Double Drawing Near

James 4:8

… let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. If the previous verses have rightly accused you of sin, confess your guilt with shame and …

Heart Disease Curable

Isaiah 61:1

… They rest not day nor night—how can they? No pain of the flesh can equal heaviness of heart! Give me all the aches and pains which my …

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… and of fiery indignation." If your soul could be made to melt for heaviness because of the woes of lost spirits, and because so many of your fellow …

Receiving the Holy Spirit

Acts 19:2

… if you did but receive His power today, you would not mind the heaviness of the atmosphere, nor any other deadening surroundings, for the Spirit would triumph over …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… not be plowed with the Gospel plow shall be broken up with secret heaviness from the eternal God! We have but to pray! All things are possible to …