Depression & Discouragement

Unstaggering Faith

Romans 4:19-21

… It may be that a sense of our own unworthiness is not our only discouragement, but that our sphere of Christian effort is remarkably unpromising. You did not …

Light for Those Who Sit in Darkness

Matthew 4:15-16

… I mean you that sit in darkness, you that are ignorant, you that are depressed, you that have no good thing of your own, you that cannot help …

Our Compassionate High Priest

Hebrews 5:2

… You cannot help others who are depressed unless you have been down in the depths yourself. You cannot lift others out of despondency and depression, unless you, yourself …

Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest

Zechariah 3:1-5

… I find that when I am in good physical health, I am not often tempted of Satan to despondency or doubt. But whenever I get depressed in spirit …

The Captain of Our Salvation

Hebrews 2:10

… Verily, you are "partakers of flesh and blood." Perhaps you are suffering from despondency and depression of spirit. If so, that reminds you that however much you may …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… We have our downs as well as our ups, our valleys as well as our hills! We are not always rejoicing—we are sometimes in heaviness through manifold …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… Death would be welcomed as a relief by those whose depressed spirits make their existence a living death. Are good men ever permitted to suffer thus? Indeed they …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… spirit of heaviness"! Ought we not to cultivate this blessed flower of true Scriptural happiness far more than we do? I find myself frequently depressed in spirit—perhaps …

Faith's Dawn and Its Clouds

Mark 9:24

… Oh, that is true faith which will not suffer itself to be any longer the slave of doubt and despondency now that it sees Jesus the Lord drawing …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… I hope there are many of us who are neither afraid and fretting about the future, nor depressed about the present, neither worn out with toil in the …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… heaviness. Strengthen You me according unto Your Word. Will not this prayer suit some that are in this house this evening who are very dull and depressed? Oh …

Paul's Persuasion

Romans 8:38

… down. "Things present." Even a depressed and desponding state of mind, whatever the cause of it is—whether weariness of brain or heaviness of heart—cannot separate us …

The Redeemer's Face Set Like a Flint

Isaiah 50:7

… Did you ever feel such exceeding sorrow or were you ever so terribly depressed in spirit that you wished, a thousand times over, that you had never been …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… It is true that heaviness of heart is worse than bodily suffering—"A wounded spirit who can bear?" Some persons, however, seem to endure terrible trouble without much …

The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble

John 14:27

… As his exaltation does not come from the world, so neither does his depression, if he lives near to God. So it is not trouble that troubles saints …

Causes and Cure of Fainting

Isaiah 40:29

… You can hardly tell why you are so depressed—if you could give a reason for your despondency, you might more easily get over it, but, like David …

Christ's Hospital

Psalm 147:3

… He said, "Reproach has broken My heart; and I am full of heaviness." He went as low as you have ever been and deeper than you can ever …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… Notice his first discouragement—no one prompted him to cry to Christ. No friend lovingly whispered in his ears, "Jesus of Nazareth passes by! Now is your opportunity …

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… I find myself too readily depressed with small matters, and I have a sense of unfitness for my future work. This shows that while rest has done much …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… but, "If need be, you are in heaviness through manifold trials," for the "need be" is as much for the depressed spirit as for the trials themselves. 7 …

The Minstrel

2 Kings 3:15

… I know that the height of the pulpit, the thinness of the audience, the sleepiness of a hearer, or the heaviness of the atmosphere, may put the preacher …

God's Love Shamefully Questioned

Malachi 1:2

… Sometimes this evil questioning happens when a true child of God gets sad and depressed. A man may be very brave and full of joy—and the hand …

Refined, But Not With Silver

Isaiah 48:10

… man so tempted, so tried and so frequently the victim of depression of spirits and dire despondency that he was often ready to die in despair! There were …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… The text, "Serve the Lord with gladness," may seem to be very difficult to those of a gloomy temperament, or depressed spirit, or those who are under trying …

Christ's Word with You

Matthew 11:28

… And if that vice has been carried on for many years—and if the entire man is now depressed and despondent, like one shut up in an iron …

The Best of All—god Is With Us

1 Chronicles 22:18

… And the Lord has said, "I will never leave you"—in poverty, in sickness, in slander and reproach, in depression of spirit, in the hour of death, in …

Peace—How Gained, How Broken

Psalm 85:8

… I do not excuse him for some of his despondency. There was a fault, undoubtedly, and there may also have been weakness of the brain. But he was …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… On the back of all this war has come depression in trade. Everywhere there is complaining and not without cause. Even the most cheerful of men who have …

Lacking Moisture

Luke 8:6

… They give us great encouragement, but, alas, they often cause us great discouragement. Then, again, this failure was not caused through lack of joy, for we are told …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… Mental depression tells upon the bodily frame; it is enough to create and foster every disease, and is in itself the most painful of all diseases. Soul sickness …

The Whole-Heartedness of God in Blessing His People

Jeremiah 32:41

… What a change He has worked! When you are very depressed you ought to recollect that change. The Lord has done for you already that which should make …

Morning, March 4

2Co 12:9

… Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring—that …

The Lord Chiding His People

Psalm 103:9

… Chastisements come to us through sickness of body and depression of spirit, losses in business or failures of enterprise. Trouble in the family or attacks from the outside …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… Promises praise in the anticipation of an answer, Ps 43:4, and chides himself for his despondency, Ps 43:5. EXPOSITION Verse 1. Judge me, O God. Others …

The Shank-bone Sermon—Or, True Believers and Their Helpers

Acts 18:27

… who are tempted to doubt, despondency and distress of mind. In the present congregation there are a number of persons so depressed in spirit they can hardly look …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… If it means deep depression of soul. If it entails the loss of property. If it involves the taking away of my dearest friends, yet I make no …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… Dear Friends, if you want to get out of diffidence, timidity and despondency, you must wake yourselves up. This is incumbent upon you, for the text puts it …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… He no sooner emerged from one season of despondency and alarm, than he was again brought into the lowest depths and all God's waves and billows rolled …

The Saint's Trials and the Divine Deliverances

Psalm 77:1-20

… THIS Psalm describes the condition of a child of God under deep depression of spirit. He is much tried and bowed, and yet, at the same time, the …

Eccentric Preachers

… Sermon XTTT . — The Christian's Heaviness and Mejoicing . 211 "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations …