Depression & Discouragement

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… In man there is no help in times of mental depression, in the day of sore bereavement, in the night of conviction of sin, or in the hour …

How To Meet the Evils of the Age

… Have you not found it so—that your sick-bed—your bereavement—your depression of spirit, has instructed you in many matters which tranquillity and delight have never …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… Praising and singing are our armour against the idolatries of heresy, our comfort under the depression caused by insolent attacks upon the truth, and our weapons for defending …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… Providence is on our side, and it "has servants everywhere." There is no room for a shade of doubt or discouragement, but every reason for exultation and confidence …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… day, — the reflection upon it had such a power of comfort on my depressed spirit. It is this : — ' Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… They know that he spoke that sentence which could not be mistaken, "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness." Proverbs …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… So that your fear, or your despondency, or your anxiety, in circumstances of perplexity, or peril, are nothing less than the calling upon God to depart from his …

Psalm 40

Psalm 40

… Mark the figure of inclining, as though the suppliant cried out of the lowest depression, and condescending love stooped to hear his feeble moans. What a marvel is …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… Lord and you shall have double as much joy! Have you had deep depression of spirit? You shall have double as much of holy exultation and delight! Has …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

… And why should this temper of spirit in the clearer light of the gospel be looked upon as an unattainable thing! A lazy despondency, and the mean conceit …

Psalm 51

Psalm 51

… adoption, that for their present consolation, lest they should be swallowed up of heaviness through continual temptations. Though he speak not to all his children as he did …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… Our state was once so low as to be at hell's mouth; since then it has been low in poverty, bereavement, despondency, sickness, and heart sorrow, and …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… And afflict thine heritage, causing them sorrowful humiliation and deep depression of heart. The term, "thine heritage, "marks out the election of the saints, God's peculiar interest …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… must be a check upon our fear, to keep that from sinking into despondency. This balance must, I say, by a wise and steady hand, be kept even …

Psalm 31

Psalm 31

… He does not misjudge them and cast them off when their faces are lean with sickness, or their hearts heavy with despondency. Moreover, the Lord Jesus knows us …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… He heals the guilt, habit, depression, and evil results of sin. For every form of malady Christ has healing; hence preachers should preach him much, and all meditate …

Psalm 103

Psalm 103

… fixed backsliding?—and then, with our hearts at last sinking into too natural depression, might we not have seemed to hear him saying to us this day, "Thine …

Psalm 19

Psalm 19

… The Hebrew terms properly mean, "bringing back the spirit," when it is depressed by adversity, by refreshing and consoling it; like food, it restores the faint, and communicates …

The Soul Winner

… Some are very depressed, you will have to comfort them. Per- haps you will comfort them too much, and make them unbelieving; and, therefore, possibly, instead of com …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… By the Lord's righteous dealings the saints are uplifted in due time, however great may have been the oppression and the depression from which they may have …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… So that your fear, or your despondency, or your anxiety in circumstances of perplexity, or of peril, is nothing less than a call upon God to depart from …