Depression & Discouragement

Crowding to Touch the Savior

Mark 3:10

… Here stands a man before you who by the space of five years was secretly bowed down with despondency and depression of spirits of an unusual sort—one …

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity

Job 27:10

… Equally trying is the opposite condition of depression and sorrow. There, too, we try the question, “Will he always call upon God?” No; the hypocrite will not pray …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… am unbelieving by constitution, frequently desponding, very often depressed. But I have never been in the depths of despondency without almost immediately coming up from them as soon …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… I often feel very grateful to God that I have undergone fearful depression of spirits. I know the borders of despair, and the horrible brink of that gulf …

Oct. 31 — IMMORTAL TILL WORK DONE

Ps. 118:17

… Is my case like that of David? Am I depressed because the enemy affronts me? Are there multitudes against me, and few on my side? Does unbelief bid …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… Believe that, notwithstanding every discouragement that checks our progress, the cause of God goes on; it must go on, and it shall go on, till King Jesus is …

Comfort From the Future

Job 11:16

… We are restored to health, or lifted up from depression of spirit and we wonder that we ever made so much of our former suffering or depression. We …

Morning, July 26

2Pe 1:5-6

… Array yourself with patience, that you may not murmur nor be depressed in your afflictions. When that grace is won look to godliness . Godliness is something more than …

The Weakened Christ Strengthened

Luke 22:43

… any sin—but in mental weakness, so as to be capable of great depression of spirit. And in physical weakness, so as to be exhausted to the last …

The Way

John 14:6

… There comes upon us in consequence of sin, when the Lord deals with us and makes us see sin, a deep and terrible depression of spirit. It is …

Morning, October 28

Jn 15:19

… When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who …

Evening, January 2

Is 41:1

… How depressed are our graces when means are neglected! What poor starvelings some saints are who live without the diligent use of the Word of God and secret …

Morning, October 7

Nu 11:11

… faithfulness when friends are gone, when the body is sick, when spirits are depressed, and the light of our Father’s countenance is hidden. A faith which can …

Weak Hands and Feeble Knees

Isaiah 35:8

… Go ye forth, and do to others as ye would that they should do to you; and as ye would that others should in your hours of despondency …

Evening, May 19

1Ki 19:4

… Strange was it that the lion-hearted Elijah should be so depressed by Jezebel’s threat as to ask to die, and blessedly kind was it on the …

Evening, April 25

Rev 3:20

… He will come with that love which you long to feel; he will come with that joy into which you cannot work your poor depressed spirit; he will …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… Your notion is that you can never believe in Jesus Christ till this depression is removed. But let me tell you your notion is wide of the truth …

To Die Or Not To Die!

2 Corinthians 5:8

… too, wish to get away from this world because there is some little discouragement that they have met with in laboring for Christ. Jonah thought he would rather …

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… Many persons feel very happy, but they must not, therefore, infer that God loves them! And while certain others are sadly depressed, it would be most cruel to …

May 5 — WHY REMAIN CAPTIVE?

Deut. 30:3

… Often depression of spirit and great misery of soul are removed as soon as we quit our idols and bow ourselves in obedience before the living God. We …

Dec. 19 — AFFLICTIONS, BUT NO BROKEN BONES

Ps. 34:20

… Many a bruise have I had by sickness, bereavement, depression, slander, and opposition; but the bruise has healed, and there has been no compound fracture of a bone …

March 10 — WALK IN LIGHT

John 12:46

… Shake off thy depression, dear brother. Abide not in the dark, but abide in the light. In Jesus is thy hope, thy joy, thy Heaven. Look to Him …

Aug. 14 — CHILD CHASTISEMENT NOT FOREVER

I Kings 11:39

… The sickness, the poverty, the depression of spirit, will pass away when they have had their intended effect. Remember, we are not under law, but under grace. The …

April 21 — GOD REPAYS

Prov. 19:17

… Are we running a little short through the depression of the times? We may venture humbly to present this bill at the Bank of Faith. Has any one …

April 22 — POWER TO RAISE

Ps. 146:8

… Is it a sense of sin, and a consequent depression of spirit, which now distresses me? Then the work of Jesus is, in this case, made and provided …

Nov. 26 — HEAVENLY ALCHEMY

John 16:20

… This depression of spirit is not for long, I shall soon be up among the happy ones who praise the Lord day and night, and there I shall …

Feb. 2 — GROW UP

Mal. 4:2

… Even thus, when we have conscious fellowship with our Lord, we leave the stall of despondency, and walk abroad in the fields of holy confidence. We ascend to …

Nov. 24 — PARDON AND FORGIVENESS

Ps. 103:9

… There is no reason for despair, nor even for despondency. Let us love a chiding God, and before long we shall sing: "Thine anger is turned away, and …

Oct. 20 — FROM EVERY SIN

Matt. 1:21

… Let me not give way to temper, or pride, or despondency, or any form of evil; but do thou save me unto holiness of life, that thy name …

Faith and Feeling

… the sear and yellow leaf of autumn; nay, sometimes the winter of our despondency and despair will strip away every leaf from the tree, and our poor faith …

Evening, August 17

Jn 11:4

… sicknesses; each throb is decreed, each sleepless hour predestinated, each relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown, and each sanctifying result eternally purposed. Nothing great or small escapes …

A Troubled Prayer

Psalm 25:18

… the Apostle, "we are in heaviness through manifold temptations"—as if not only the temptations were to be observed, but also the heaviness consequent thereof. So here we …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… read chapter by chapter, is a mixture of success and repulse, conquest and discouragement. And so I think it will be even to the last. We shall have …

Evening, April 24

Song 2:12

… After periods of depression of spirit, it is delightful to behold again the light of the Sun of Righteousness; then our slumbering graces rise from their lethargy, like …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… Up from the depths of heaviness to the very heights of ecstatic worship you may mount in a single moment if you can but touch Christ Crucified! View …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… I do believe that some fellows have a depression in their craniums where there ought to be a bump. I know one young man who tried hard to …

Morning, May 27

2Sa 9:13

… Bad nursing in their spiritual infancy often causes converts to fall into a despondency from which they never recover, and sin in other cases brings broken bones. Lord …

Evening, May 28

La 3:21

Evening, May 28 Go To Morning Reading “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.” Lamentations 3:21 Memory is frequently the bond slave of despondency …

Evening, October 7

Is 36:5

… my will, to enlighten my understanding, to check my passions, to comfort my despondency, to help my weakness, to illuminate my darkness; I trust him to dwell in …

Evening, May 21

Ge 42:2

… we must not sit still in despondency, but bestir ourselves. Prayer will bear us soon into the presence of our royal Brother: once before his throne we have …