Depression & Discouragement

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… For God makes my heart soft and the Almighty troubles me"? Those of us who are subject to depression of spirit find much that is congenial in the …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… So have we seen melancholy persons in whom despondency, mistrust, numbing despair have raged at times with unconquerable fury. They have not so much entertained these evil guests …

The Exeter-Hall Sermon to Young Men

Psalm 116:16

… In times of deep depression—and I have had plenty of them—I have feared this and feared the other, but I have never had any suspicion of …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… Knock and it shall be opened unto you." Which will you believe—your unbelief—the long months of weariness and the anxieties which prompted you to discouragement? Or …

The Royal Prerogative

Psalm 68:20

… O that awakened sinners would believe this! I remember reading of an aged minister who had, for some years, fallen into deep despondency. He gave up his pulpit …

Fullness of Joy Our Privilege

1 John 1:4

… You cannot always rejoice, but sometimes there is a necessity that you should be in heaviness through manifold temptations. I suppose none of you are so perfectly happy …

Psalm 42

Psalm 42

… Perhaps the psalmist's dejection continued, the spasm of despondency returned; well, then, he will down with his harp again, and try again its power upon himself, as …

Particular Redemption

Matthew 20:28

… Emaciated by continual fastings, and depressed with agony of spirit He stumbles beneath His cross. Daughters of Jerusalem! He faints in your streets. They raise Him up; they …

If So—what Then?

1 Peter 4:18

… before." Well, the righteous are only saved with difficulty, so do not be depressed. "But I have been more tempted than I ever was before and it seems …

The Solar Eclipse

Isaiah 45:7

… Troubles must come; afflictions must befall; it must, needs be that for a season ye should be in heaviness, through manifold temptations. But I have said, that eclipses …

A Song and a Solace

Job 10:12

… We would have been carried away with pride, but we suffered from grievous depression of spirit and so could not afford to be proud. There have been times …

No Tears In Heaven

Revelation 7:17

… Sometimes, too, there are streams which arise from depressed spirits—spirits desponding because we have neglected the means of Divine Grace and the God of Grace. The consolations …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… You have knelt before the Lord at times when you have been weighed down with a heaviness which you could not explain—and none could remove—but you …

Angelic Interest in the Gospel

1 Peter 1:12

… THE Apostle Peter wrote his first Epistle to a persecuted people, many of whom were in great heaviness through manifold trials. The sufferings of the early Christians are …

The Intercession of Christ

… thee to thy soul’s delight, and thou art full of darkness and heaviness on account of this. “Look to Him, and be lightened.” If thou dost not …

A Seasonable Exhortation

1 Peter 1:13

… On the other hand, do not be too much depressed with passing troubles. There are some who are so far from sobriety that if a little goes wrong …

Salvation As It Is Now Received

1 Peter 1:8

… Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if necessary, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations [See Sermon #222, Volume 4—THE CHRISTIAN'S HEAVINESS AND …

The King Passing Over Kidron

2 Samuel 15:23

… To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called trees …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… I beseech my God and Master to suffer me first to wear my shroud, before I ever wear a garment of heaviness on account of your divisions. While …

Evening, September 24

Song 5:2

… When our renewed heart struggles against our natural heaviness, we should be grateful to sovereign grace for keeping a little vitality within the body of this death. Jesus …

Morning, December 1

Ps 74:17

… Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness, poverty, and a thousand other ills, are of the Lord’s sending, and come to us with wise design. Frosts kill noxious insects, and …

A Wafer of Honey

2 Corinthians 12:9

… You may be called to feel heaviness—your faith may be all but staggered and your soul may have to cry out from the depths because of the …

Waiting, Hoping, Watching

Psalm 130:5

… enters into our soul, when, "for a season, if necessary, we are in heaviness through manifold trials." God's people, too, are sometimes in the depths of spiritual …

Morning, April 11

Ps 22:14

… drink of his cup, that we may be strengthened for our hour of heaviness whenever it may come. In his natural body every member suffered, and so must …

Evening, February 23

Mk 10:21

… the thought of the coming weight of glory will greatly lighten the present heaviness of trouble. The Lord help you to bow your spirit in submission to the …

Evening, October 12

Jn 14:26

… of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Trust thou in him, and he will surely comfort thee till the house of …

Evening, July 16

Ps 102:13-14

… Try this receipt, O believer, whenever thou art sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget thyself and thy little concerns, and seek the welfare and prosperity …

Sonship Questioned

Matthew 4:3

… There is a necessity, then, that you should, at times, be "in heaviness through manifold temptations" and, though you may pray not to be led into temptation and …

Sheep Among Wolves

Matthew 10:16

… Those who are depressed in spirit, faint and feeble, broken-hearted and desponding, bruised and mangled by the assaults of the great enemy—we are to go forth …

Morning, February 24

Eze 34:26

… Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. “As thy days so shall thy strength be.” And here is …

Concerning the Consolations Of God

Job 15:11

… There is a need that we are in heaviness. "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… When he is overwhelmed, or sorely troubled, and depressed. The best of men are not always able to stem the torrent of sorrow. Even when Jesus is on …

The Shortest of the Seven Cries

John 19:28

… The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal …

Remembering God's Works

Psalm 111:4

… Let your eyelids no longer hang down with heaviness, but say in your soul, "The Lord has dealt well with His servants, according to His Word. Therefore will …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… Once get over that, that first season of spiritual depression, which is partly caused by the excessive exhilaration of our mental frame after conversion, and we shall go …

"How Good to Those Who Seek!"

Lamentations 3:25

… and that I had trusted Him—and though I went back, again, into despondency, yet I was not without hope of ultimately finding Him. You know what it …

The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed

Ezekiel 34:27

… They are, nevertheless, in heaviness through anxiety as to their state. Their faces shine to others, but they share not in the brightness. No one has a doubt …

To the Saddest of the Sad

Exodus 6:9

… Do not, therefore, because of the heaviness of your lot, refuse to hear about God, your Maker, your Benefactor. In that direction lies your only real hope. Have …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… We fall into such heaviness of spirit, and entanglement of thought, that the one remedy of prayer, which we have always found to be unfailing, appears to be …

Satan Considering the Saints

Job 1:8

… I believe the devil greatly delights in some ministers, whose tendency in their preaching is to multiply and foster doubts and fears, and grief, and despondency, as the …