Depression & Discouragement

Jesus Knew What He Would Do

John 6:6

… For those pains of your body, for that depression of spirit, for that lack of success in business, even for the permission of the cruel tongue of slander …

The Plague of the Heart

1Kings 8:38-40

… others whom I meet pretty constantly who have a faintness of heart, a despondency of spirit which is their plague. They cannot believe that there is mercy for …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Some parts of that whole you will never learn, except upon a sick bed, or in deep depression of spirit, or in bereavement and adversity—while other Truths …

Unpurchasable Love

Solomon 8:7

… the love of Christ in the hour of pain, in the hour of depression of spirit—what can the strongboxes of the merchant do for man, then? But …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… objects, know that your whole body shall be full of darkness! Doubt and despondency shall cast its thick shadows over you now, and worse, you shall be presently …

Where Is the God of Elijah?

2 Kings 2:14

… brave! You remember how Mr. Bunyan says of poor Miss Much-Afraid, Mr. Despondency's daughter, that she went through the river singing! Some of God's Great …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… I believe that some of the Lord's holy ones have been worn down to sickness and depression by the passion of their hearts after God—their souls …

Jubilee Joy—or, Believers Joyful In Their King

Psalm 149:2

… May the beauties and glories of our King charm us into delightful praise! Away with care and sorrow! Away with doubt and despondency! Let us praise the Lord …

Choice Comfort for a Young Believer

Psalm 138:8

… This is all well, but as every state has its dangers, so the peril of religious concern is despondency. Thoughtfulness soon degenerates into distrust and holy anxiety easily …

Barriers Obliterated

Isaiah 44:22

… You may sit down under them in despondency and weep—and be almost in despair—but there they are and there they will remain. You may go to …

The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple

Revelation 1:17-18

… Seek the Holy Spirit's illumination, and the choice privilege of fellowship, and your despondency and distress will vanish as night birds fly to hide themselves when the …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… if they sin they smart—and if they wander they are whipped back. Despondency, sickness, bereavement, loss and even temporal death may fall upon the chosen as visitations …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… There is another kind of banishment which is produced not so much by sin primarily as by despondency. There are some true souls whom God loves, who yet …

First Things First

… As to the sun, they observe with pleasing despondency that he has spots. His light they hardly notice, but they dote upon his spots with amiable horror! Minds …

Testimony And Experience

John 4:39-42

… being not exempt from trouble, and especially not free from a tendency to despondency which is always with me, I yet rejoice and will rejoice, and am happy …

Ziklag—or David Encouraging Himself In God

1 Samuel 30:6

… Do not regard despondency as merely a loss of joy—view it as draining away your spiritual life. Struggle against it, for it often happens that when faith …

The Plain Man's Pathway To Peace

Matthew 9:27-30

… No doubt difficulties may arise from an extraordinary quality of mind with which God may have gifted some, or a depression of spirit natural to others—and these …

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… He was in great bodily pain; he was enduring great mental depression and, at the same time, he had been smitten with poverty and bereavement. He had, therefore …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… regal power He commands your fears to lie still and how obediently your despondency yields to His Word! Now, as it is with you, so is it on …

The Ministry Of Gratitude

Luke 4:39

… If through despair or depression of spirit you cannot pray for yourself, happy are you that there are compassionate friends who will speak unto the King on your …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… if you have not peace you would be a melancholy miracle of perverse despondency! But you must have rest when you have Jesus Christ, yes, and such a …

Shaved and Shorn, But Not Beyond Hope

Judges 16:22

… Occasionally he falls into a deep despondency and he utters strange words which they do not like to hear, partly denunciations of himself—and partly prophecies of evil …

Seeing And Not Seeing—Or, Men As Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-25

… Neither are they bowed down by grievous depression of spirit, as that daughter of Abraham who had been bowed down for many years. They are both cheerful and …

Dagon's Ups and Downs

1 Samuel 5:2-4

… no devil to tempt you, no worldly care, no lust, no envy, no depression of spirit, no unbelief—will not this be a very large part of the …

The Question Between the Plagues

Exodus 10:3

… And you can now look up with a cheerful countenance and remember times of great despondency and threatened distress. Will you not, then—won by this mercy, subdued …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… What else will do to live with but Christ? I do not find, in times of pain and depression of spirit, that I can keep up upon anything …

A Page From a Royal Diary

Psalm 119:132

… Again I say, Lord, if ever I should forget to look to You, or if ever I should be in such a state of despondency that I cannot …

Saints Guarded From Stumbling

… Long may your happiness continue! But there is another who has been, perhaps, in the way of the Lord for a few months, and suddenly a depression of …

Life's Need and Maintenance

Psalm 22:29

… When, through depression of spirit, through the assaults of Satan and through inability to see the work of the Spirit in their souls, they shall be brought so …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… Instead of the despondency which the Believer feels, when, day and night the hand of God is heavy upon him, he shall yet rejoice in the Lord. God …

The Hearing of Faith

Galatians 3:2

… the Father." By faith, to die is such sweet work as you, poor Despondency, and you, Much-Afraid, will be able to accomplish as safely as Valiant-for …

The 'Beau Ideal' of Life

Psalm 90:14

… when the whole world is ringing with their renown, they sit down in despondency, wring their hands in misery, and cry, with Solomon, "Vanity of vanities; all is …

Sealed and Open Evidences

Jeremiah 32:14

… Here one could expatiate at great length if time would permit. "Underneath are the everlasting arms." You are sustained when enduring awful pain, comforted under deep depression of …

The Two Builders And Their Houses

Matthew 7:24-27

… He knows how to cast clouds of despondency over the human spirit. He can attack the four corners of the house at once by his mysterious agency. He …

A String Of Pearls

1 Peter 1:3-5

… Now, my Brethren, to lead the mind to praise God is one of the surest ways of uplifting it from depression. The wild beasts of anxiety and discontent …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… The real work of the Spirit of God often follows upon an inward depression of spirit. Now you really begin to repent of sin! Now are you sorry …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… rid the minds of our dear trembling friends, Miss Much-Afraid and Mr. Despondency, of the ideas they have concerning some of us to whom they look up …

Strong Meat

Hebrews 5:14

… There are some who have run to the extreme of despondency, and others to the verge of levity through not knowing that strong meat is only for men …

Faith in Christ

Acts 16:31

… The man who is conscious of being guilty is usually possessed by a sort of sullen despondency as to better things. The old proverb that you may as …

The Search For Faith

Luke 18:8

… We have been sorely sick, full of pain, anguish and depression of spirit— yet we have been upheld, sustained and brought through! In great labors we have been …