Depression & Discouragement

Christ Our Life—Soon To Appear

Colossians 3:4

… rising hopes within us this morning which show their golden flowers above our heaviness and assure us with joyful accents that Christ is coming to cheer our hearts …

Intercessory Prayer

Psalm 141:5

… on their behalf? Can I observe their poverty, their tribulation, their temptation, their heaviness of heart and yet forget them in my supplications? Can I see their work …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… And he who was in heaviness of heart is now a joyful Christian, as I firmly believe, though I have never seen him. The money he had taken …

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… They suffer great heaviness and continual sorrow in heart for perishing sinners; they travail in birth for souls. I have happened to become the centre of certain brethren …

Love at Its Utmost

John 15:9

… He loveth me; he loveth me, O joyous thought! Such an assurance creates a Paradise in a prison, and a heaven in heaviness. Now I invite you, in …

Christ—Perfect Through Sufferings

Hebrews 2:10

… fever which the wounds produced, and in his soul there was an exceeding heaviness even unto death, and an agony which no tongue can tell, for we have …

Following Christ

2 Samuel 15:21

… You may expect to have great depression of spirit within. Some of us know what this is very, very frequently. There are times when the joy of religion …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… flesh to drag you back! There shall be no sluggishness of spirit, no heaviness of heart—you shall come eternally, then—you shall not mount to descend again …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… He had heaviness of heart, he says, for his Brethren, his kinsmen according to the flesh. There was no man more anxious to convert souls than Paul, though …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… But I had since become cold and indifferent to the things of God; seasons of darkness, despondency, and doubt, had passed over me, but I had kept all …

The Holy Spirit Compared To The Wind

John 3:8

… And how blessedly the wind purifies the atmosphere! In the Swiss valleys there is a heaviness in the air which makes the inhabitants unhealthy. They take quinine and …

Faith Among Mockers

Psalm 22:8

… else they would not fare so roughly or be found in so much heaviness." Faith and feeling are in contrast. Outward circumstances must never be made the tests …

The Use of the Bow

2 Samuel 1:17

… The way to raise the people out of their despondency was to teach them the use of the bow— their own arrows would slay their grief—and the …

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… Men breathe more freely and Heaven smiles more serenely now that the heaviness of the death-damp is gone, and the poisonous vapor clings no longer to the …

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

… This memorable ode may be sung in times of great depression, when prayer has performed her errand at the mercyseat, and when faith is watching for speedy deliverance …

The Old Man Crucified

Romans 6:6

… bitter regret that ever they should have fallen into it and they are depressed with great fear and horror lest they should fall into it again. Along the …

God Fighting Sin

Isaiah 63:10

… An awful depression has come upon you and you cannot look up. It may have been through a sermon—or you were all alone, thinking—and you began …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… I felt thankful to the last degree that I had been dragged through all my depression because I was able to help him. Sometimes our experience is for …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… I SHALL SPEAK this morning to those that are discouraged, depressed in spirit, and sore troubled in the Christian life. There are certain nights of exceeding great darkness …

In the Sunny South

… The Earl of Shaftesbury was another of the notable Mentone visitors whom the Pastor tried to cheer when he was depressed about the state of religious and social …

The Joy of Harvest

… Alas, a frost of doubt came; snow of fear fell; cold winds of despondency blew on you, and you said, “There can be no hope for me.” But …

At School

Psalm 143:10

… He will restrain us by affliction and infirmity and sometimes chasten us very sorely with losses, bereavements, depression of spirit and the like—in some way or other …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… corruption! You foresee so many trials awaiting you that the pale shadow of despondency falls on your heart and fitful doubts and questions vex your brain. You have …

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

… Or depressed by a fear of failure, how shall we be comforted but in moaning out our complaint before our God. How often have some of us tossed …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… name—it may be Little-Faith, or Feeble-Mind. Or is it Mr. Despondency I am thinking of? Or am I talking of Miss Much-Afraid? Or is …

Two Good Things

Psalm 119:71

… Sunday-keeping faith, meeting-going faith! If it ends there, it is a pretty piece of confectionery—but faith about my pain, my poverty, my despondency, my old …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… There are some of quite another temperament who are inclined to despondency, perhaps to suspicion—they may fall into mistrust, or various forms of unbelief and even into …

A Word in Season

Job 22:29

… early dew, yet there are frequent times when our hearers are impressed and depressed. They sit in the pew and begin to think it is all wrong with …

"Noli Me Tangere" ("Touch Me Not")

John 20:17

… I was reading, in the life of the famous Thomas Boston, the author of The Fourfold State, that one day he was very burdened and depressed in spirit …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… are healed, we do not return to give thanks, being soon overtaken with heaviness and security. And yet David did endeavour to watch in the night, that he …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… never leave you, come what may, and in all times of trial, and depression, and temptation, I will be at your right hand, and you shall not be …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… If a diseased person would come to a physician, and only lament the heaviness of his sickness, he would say, God help thee; or an oppressed person come …

A Double Silver Wedding

… It lifted me out of despondency, but it cast me down with exceeding gratitude. I scarcely like to speak upon the subject, because it has been a rule …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… The rivers of pleasure freeze to icy despondency. The buds of hope are suddenly nipped and the soul finds no comfort. It was satisfied once to grow rich …

Frost and Thaw

… The rivers of pleasure freeze to icy despondency. The buds of hope are suddenly nipped, and the soul finds no comfort. It was satisfied once to grow rich …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… is called self-reliance —a disposition to meet difficulties with determination, not with despondency:— "To take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them." Still …

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… You have nothing to do today with attainments and experiences—it is not even desirable to practice self-examinations while you are in despondency—these are to be …

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

… Now we have but a dram, but a scruple, but a grain of happiness, to an ounce, to a pound, to a thousand weight of heaviness; now we …

My Last Letters from Mentone

… Dull and dreary days depressed him ; but when they came, they were welcomed, for he would then turn to his literary work with redoubled energy, and get through …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… Many have watched their own feelings till they have become blind with despondency, and others have watched the feelings of the young till they have done them rather …