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Boldness at the Throne
Hebrews 4:16
… Do you not remember many times when you were in deep trouble and prayer brought you deliverance from it? Do you not recollect some seasons of terrible depression …
SERMON • SERMON 3402The Nail in a Sure Place
Isaiah 22:23-25
… I will help you"! How again and again He says, "Fear not"! For despondency is deeply engraved in some spirits. There are some minds that seem to gravitate …
SERMON • SERMON 1923The Annual Atonement
Leviticus 16:30
… an execrable life! And you, too, who are crushed into the mire of despondency beneath the load of your guilt! Brothers and Sisters, sin which you are bound …
SERMON • SERMON 2705Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned
Job 7:21
… all that, we have been brought up out of the utmost depths of despondency into the topmost heights of joy. Therefore, be comforted, you poor prisoners. Through the …
SERMON • SERMON 724His Name—The Everlasting Father
Isaiah 9:6
… This day you may be much depressed in spirit and full of doubts and fears. A true father never ceases, if he is a father, to exercise his …
SERMON • SERMON 3052Christ's Loneliness and Ours
John 16:31
… even unto death"? He showed the greatness of His soul even in its depression when He lovingly excused them by saying, "The spirit indeed is willing, but the …
SERMON • SERMON 60Sovereignty and Salvation
Isaiah 45:22
… God teaches his people every day, by sickness, by affliction, by depression of spirits, by the forsakings of God, by the loss of the Spirit for a season …
SERMON • SERMON 1385Jesus Interceding For Transgressors
Isaiah 53:12
… Yet in the midst of that depression of spirit which might well have made Him forgetful of the wretched beings who were putting Him to death, He forgets …
SERMON • SERMON 2783A Worthy Theme for Thought
Psalm 48:9
… I have had plenty of trouble since then, and much pain of body and depression of spirit, but I can testify that my Master's service is the …
SERMON • SERMON 1168The Crown of Thorns
Matthew 27:29
… The sacred medicine which the good Physician brings to us in His thorny crown acts as a tonic and strengthens us to endure, without depression, whatever shame or …
SERMON • SERMON 1900Rejoice Evermore
1 Thessalonians 5:16
… you are to leap for joy! When are you to be wretched? Surely despondency is excluded. If slander is to make us dance, when are we to fret …
SERMON • SERMON 3179A Comprehensive Benediction
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… Or when his soul becomes a prey to despondency, he may turn over many a learned tome before he will find a cure for melancholy. His consolation is …
SERMON • SERMON 3426A Sore Grievance
Jeremiah 50:6
… I think some genuine Christians forget their resting place for a while through despondency of spirit. It is sometimes hard to remember our sweet rest in Jesus when …
SERMON • SERMON 2299Thorns and Thistles
Genesis 3:18
… is not naturally, still, the subject of grief? There will come times of depression, seasons of apprehension, nights when the Light of God's Countenance is withdrawn, or …
SERMON • SERMON 3098Needless Fears
Isaiah 51:12
… Did you ever question your fears, my dear Friends? I mean you, Miss Despondency over there, and you, Mr. Much-Afraid. Did you ever question your fear? If …
SERMON • SERMON 1213Faith, And The Witness Upon Which It Is Founded
1 John 5:9
… They have been put in prison for saying this and for declaring that faith in the crucified Savior had delivered them from the dominion of sin, from despondency …
SERMON • SERMON 1327Christ the Overcomer of the World
John 16:33
… about Himself—"/ have overcome the world." So then, Beloved, in all times of depression of spirit hasten away to the Lord Jesus Christ! Whenever the cares of this …
SERMON • SERMON 2014"As We Have Heard, So Have We Seen"
Psalm 48:8
… the dark into the sunlight? Prayed yourselves out of the low dungeon of despondency to the mountaintop of communion? Prayed yourselves out of the depths of despair up …
SERMON • SERMON 2894The Sinner's Only Alternative
2 Kings 7:4
… I know of no occupation that brings more awful despondency of spirit upon a man's mind than my ministry brings upon me. So, if God does not …
SERMON • SERMON 2407Feeding on a Whole Christ
Numbers 9:11
… who always went on his crutches, and for poor Little-Faith, and Mr. Despondency, and Miss Much Afraid, to get into such good company! It would have been …
SERMON • SERMON 3198What Christians Were and Are
Ephesians 2:3
… if children, then heirs." Does not this Truth of God encourage poor Miss Despondency over there, and you, Mr. Fearing, and friend Little-Faith over yonder?" If children …
SERMON • SERMON 2363Comfort and Constancy
2 Thessalonians 2:16
… I do not find much about depression of spirit in the journals of Mr. Wesley or Mr. Whitefield and men of that sort who spent themselves in the …
SERMON • SERMON 2935Christ's Joy and Ours
John 15:11
… Pain, sickness, depression of spirit—all seem to have been taken right away and the man has had so clear a view of Christ and his mind has …
SERMON • SERMON 3171A Voice With Four Messages
1 Kings 19:11-13
… reaction—and the heroic Prophet was to sink into the lowest state of despondency. He left his servant at Beersheba. 4. But he himself went a day's …
COMMENTARYPsalm 116
Psalm 116
… Though reduced in circumstances, slandered in character, depressed in spirit, and sick in body, the Lord helped me. There are many ways in which the child of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1626The Principal Wheat
Isaiah 28:25
… But, alas, how soon do spirits become soiled by self, or pride, or despondency, or sloth, or some other earthly taint! But what a grand thing it is …
SERMON • SERMON 2021Nathanael—Or, the Ready Believer and His Reward
John 1:50
… In this Church a considerable number of us, beginning with the pastor, came to Christ after an awful amount of conviction and despondency. We are none the better …
SERMON • SERMON 572Laus Deo
Romans 11:36
… by wild beasts or live in comfort—whether I shall be full of despondency or full of hope. If God is glorified in my mortal body, my soul …
SERMON • SERMON 829The Perfuming of the Heart
Romans 5:5
… music! It has come to some of us in nights of the deepest depression through which the human mind could pass—and it has lifted us right up …
SERMON • SERMON 1480Constant, Instant, Expectant
Romans 12:12
… men of old always sustained themselves in their worst times of grief and depression by betaking themselves to prayer? Mind that you do the same. Impatience will be …
SERMON • SERMON 1844Israel And Britain. A Note of Warning
John 12:37-41
… At this moment we are rich, and despite depression in business, we are less tried by it than any other nation. And what comes of all this mercy …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… but the mind! Their hilarity so natural to them has given place to despondency, and the natural effervescence of their spirits has at last died out into oneness …
SERMON • SERMON 1954The Breaker and the Flock
Micah 2:12
… Another is down below in the despondency of his disappointment. One wanders in the pastures of worldliness, sporting himself in the plenty, thereof, and hard to be brought …
SERMON • SERMON 2679Christ's Indwelling Word
Colossians 3:16
… Oftentimes, depression of spirit that will not yield to a whole night of wrestling, would yield to ten minutes of thanksgiving before God! Praying is the stalk of …
SERMON • SERMON 915Sinners Bound with the Cords of Sin
Proverbs 5:22
… We have had our afflictions, we have suffered grievous bodily pain, we have endured mental depression, we have been heavily burdened, we have borne many trials; but we …
SERMON • SERMON 2140A Homily for Humble Folks
Proverbs 30:2
… Why will you envy such a person? Do you want to feel his despondency? Do you really desire disease? Do you think you could trust God better if …
SERMON • SERMON 2182Jehovah-Shammah—a Glorious Name for the New Year
Ezekiel 48:35
… our souls in times of intolerable pain and even in seasons of intense depression of spirit as to earthly things. "I was brought low, and the Lord helped …
SERMON • SERMON 2150"All the Day Long"
Proverbs 23:17
… It may be, also, that you suffer from a mental sickness in the form of depression of spirit. Things look very dark and your heart is very heavy …
SERMON • SERMON 2134The Rough Hewer
Hosea 6:4
… by his pains, especially when he had to lie awake night after night. Depression of spirit followed upon weakness of body and suddenly the curtain seemed to lift …
SERMON • SERMON 3315Joy in Harvest
Isaiah 9:3
… Alas, a frost of doubt came—some snow of fears fell! Cold winds of despondency blew on you and you said, "There can be no hope for me …