Depression & Discouragement

The Lesson of the Almond Tree

Jeremiah 1:11

… In times of deep depression, God can lift up the heart very speedily. So can He bless His Word. As neither snow nor rain returns to Him void …

A Catechism for the Proud

1 Corinthians 4:7

… us, how natural levity would carry others of us off our feet—how depression of spirit would lead some to despair and carelessness would draw others to presume …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… Despite the times of depression and of sorrow, days of refreshing must come from the Presence of the Lord. The spring must follow the winter—"As the earth …

The Danger Of Doubting

1 Samuel 27:1

… If the excitement of delight has been followed by depression, that excitement itself, if you seek it again, will be the best cure. And finally, your mind, made …

Love's Birth and Parentage

1 John 4:19

… Hall sat down and there came over him a fit of depression out of which he strove to rise by conversation with his host. "Ah, Sir," said the …

Clearing the Road to Heaven

Isaiah 62:10

… not happen to be hunted about by the hell hounds of remorse and despondency, you quite as much need the Good Shepherd and are quite as welcome to …

Advance!

Deuteronomy 1:6

… one who was to be a public teacher, that he should have more depression of spirit and more trials than anybody else—so that he might know the …

Howling Changed To Singing

Psalm 13:1

… You are ready to perish with despondency and you think that God forgets you! That is how it looks to you, but it is not so, and cannot …

A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted

Psalm 31:22

… They have come from me in serious pain and depression of spirit and now I pray the Lord, in His great mercy, to look at them as though …

God-Guided Men

Galatians 1:16

… Is it bodily weakness? Is it the infirmity of old age? Is it depression of spirit? Is it losses and crosses at home? Is it crooked things that …

Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope

Lamentations 3:21

… MEMORY is very often the servant of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past and every gloomy feature in the present. Memory stands …

Faith Essential to Pleasing God

Hebrews 11:6

… It creates hesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. "Believe!" is the word which speaks life into a man—doubt nails …

The Everlasting Counselor

Micah 4:9

… My servant be." Then trust Him and give no quarter to fear or despondency. Your life is secure! He will preserve you! O my Friends, my Friends, how …

The Blessed Guest Detained

Luke 24:28

… Or it may be that some of you are falling into depression of spirit through the loss of the Light of God's Countenance. You are not as …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… When a Church gets dull and cold—and it is very apt to do so at times— and a kind of ignoble despondency steals over the servants of …

Christ and His Table Companions

Luke 22:14

… And in all times of trial, depression and temptation, I will be at your right hand and you shall not be moved—and to the very last you …

The Essence of Simplicity

John 9:35

… best means of bringing joy to souls which sit in the dungeons of despondency. Our Lord began by saying to the cast-out one, "Do you believe on …

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… larger number of persons than formerly, or even when he is bemoaning the depression of his trade and his heart is aching because he has only half as …

Offended Because of Christ?

Matthew 11:6

… offended because of Me," for, after all, notwithstanding his severe trial and deep depression, John was not really offended because of Christ. He was not actually scandalized because …

Essential Points In Prayer

1 Kings 9:2

… He may have been in peril of pride, if not of depression—in either case it was a remarkable season and its need must have been remarkable, also …

A Far-reaching Promise

Acts 2:39

… this! What a window, letting the light of Heaven shine into the darkest despondency! Whoever shall address himself to God by repentance, by faith, by prayer, shall be …

The Happy Duty of Daily Praise

Psalm 114:1

… There will come depression of spirit and then you must say, "I will extol You, my God, O King." Poverty, sickness, losses and crosses may assail you—and …

Following the Risen Christ

Colossians 3:1

… In your sickness delight much in the land where the inhabitants shall no more say, "I am sick." In the midst of depression of spirit comfort your heart …

The Prince of Life

Acts 3:15

… of Job, "I know that my Redeemer lives"! In an hour of great depression of spirit Luther was seen to write on the table before him these two …

The Wide-open Mouth Filled

Psalm 81:10

… this Conference, I have seen no traces of doubt and no signs of despondency. Every Brother has seemed to have confidence in God and to have hope, like …

The Rainbow

Genesis 9:16

… When he suffers depression of spirits—then how sweet it is to behold the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ! To see Him bleeding for us, offered up …

A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace

Psalm 37:39

… Salvation must be of the Lord with me, I know, or else my inward lusts, my proud spirit, my rebellious will and my natural despondency will surely ruin …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… Doubt? It is banished! Distress? Despondency? She has left them all behind. She is a Believer! She has received Jesus and she has power to be a child …

The Safeguards of Forgiveness

2 Samuel 12:13

… With some persons there is a check which operates throughout the rest of their lives as the result of that long period of depression of spirit and despair …

Jesus No Phantom

Matthew 14:26

… If your Savior does not actually and practically support you in times of need, and supply your wants and console you under depression, then in what respects are …

"A People Prepared for the Lord"

Luke 1:17

… Christ has! Nothing needed in any hour of temptation, in any time of depression—nothing needed in any moment of sickness, or in the article of death, itself …

Number Two-thousand—Healing by the Stripes of Jesus

Isaiah 53:5

… That was His heart driving out its life-floods to the surface through the terrible depression of spirit which was upon Him. He said, "My soul is exceedingly …

Jesus Declining the Legions

Matthew 26:53

… If any of you do not believe in the predestination of God, you will, probably, in some hour of depression, ascribe your sorrows to a cruel fate. The …

The Unbroken Line Of True Nobles

Psalm 45:16

… Let us not yield to despondency. If the line of battle wavers, or our ranks are broken by the enemy, remember the reserves, the grand reserves which our …

A Traveller’s Letters Home (Continued)

… These have been brought down by the depression of the land upon which they stood, owing to earthquakes. We crossed a lava torrent which had come from Monte …

Holding Fast the Faith

Revelation 2:12

… Oh for grace to persevere to the end! Oh for fidelity and constancy so that neither gain nor loss, exaltation nor depression may induce us to quit our …

A Great Sermon by the Greatest Preacher

Matthew 3:17

… very, very, very weary and possibly, all of a sudden, a spirit of depression will come over me. It often does when one is very weary. And then …

Trials Expected and Conquered

Isaiah 43:2

… saints on their deathbeds—yes, seen them in excruciating pain and in deep depression of spirit! Yet they have never been ashamed of staying themselves upon their God …

The Seed Upon a Rock

Matthew 13:5

… Sometimes, it is in the form of great depression of spirit The woman professed to be converted and she felt oh, so happy. But, after about a week …

Unmitigated Prosperity

Isaiah 53:10

… They have been tried in the furnace of temporal distress, of bereavement, of mental despondency. They have been forsaken by friends and often been subjected to labor too …