Dealing with Depression from the Biblical perspective

Depression usually manifest itself when we do not live up to our OWN expectations or if we don't live up to "SOCIETY" or our Family's EXPECTATIONS..BUT IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN the only expectations that truly matter is CHRIST'S. One of the things that may start to happen is You start to FEEL bad, THUS begins the maddening cycle of depression. FIRST you just feel bad but don't really feel like doing your daily chores/work thinking, "I will just REST today and get to my work later"..And then LATER comes and more and more work is PILED up because you failed to do or finish the work from before so now you feel OVERWHELMED by your work load and so again "YOU FEEL TO BAD TO DO ANYTHING" and over time it gets worse and worse and it becomes easier to AVOID it then to DO IT. Next thing you know you are stuck in your bed not wanting to get out. And so they call this depression...

you may ask yourself WHAT CAN I DO TO STOP/ AVOID THIS MADNESS?

DO IT ANYWAY! No matter how you 'FEEL' do your work ANYWAY and then once you accomplish your work the tide will turn, a sense of accomplishment will come your way and you will feel better that you actually got it done. Because if you stay in bed, your still going to be depressed at the end of that day. However, if you do what you were suppose to do from the beginning at the end of the day you will be happier with a sense of accomplishment.

If you find it HARD to NOT follow your feelings and to get to work..PRAY TO JESUS for STRENGTH.....

HE WILL GET YOU THROUGH ANY SITUATION.....

Sometimes, Depression is because of un-confessed sins in our life (we are not living up to God's expectations) If you DO the things GOD asks of you God will see you out of your pits of depression. YES life is not guaranteed to be a piece of cake or Heaven on EARTH. But the moment we can truly PRAISE JESUS in the STORMS of our LIFE is the moment we start to come out of the pit. And God will give us TASTES of heaven which will help us through the tough times too.


And remember this quote...(Given to me by the Lord to share with all)

"DEPRESSION IS NOT AN EXCUSE TO BE WEAK; ITS A REASON TO BECOME STRONGER IN THE LORD"



references: What to do when your depressed by Jay E. Adams

What is a Christian anyway? Part 2: LOVE

So What is a Christian anyway?

psalm 151 also known as Testify to Love

What a Wonderful Song.

And everyone will one day come to a place when they say it is Finished and stand before the Lord in all HIS glory but the question is Will you be Ready for that day? Are you ready for that Day?

To Be Christian Part 5 - Growth

Eph 5:1,2
1 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. 2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us^[a] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

1 Corinthians

We are who we are today because of the Struggles we have gone through in our lifetime up to this point. Those Struggles also Helped us to come to the FATHER and to say OH LORD I NEED YOU.

God's Desire is to take us to a place where he can use us to be a part of HIS blessing 1 Corinthians 13:11-12
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[a] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

God wants us to grow in Spiritual maturity everyday HE does not want us to remain the same for then nothing will happen and HE can not use us for HIS glory. Every Christian whether you are a day old Christian or 10 yr old Christian and so on and so forth continues to grow spiritually in maturity for we must continue to grow in Spiritual maturity to do what GOD has created us to do.



We must remember these things

1. Where We Came from
1 Corinthians 1:2-6

2. Who we are now.
1 Peter 1:2

3. Keep our eye on the prize
1 Corinthians 9:24-27

4. Remember the Journey is never ending it must be ongoing.

2 Peter 3:17

1.Learn from your past

2.Live in The Present

3. Look to the Future.

Always look at your Faith everyday ask yourself what is your spiritual life like right now and ask this every single day without fail. This question will tell you where you are and what you have to work towards.

Watch your thoughts they become your words

Watch your words they become your actions

Watch your actions they become your habits

Watch your Habits they become your character

Watch your Character for it becomes your Destiny.

We need to measure Spiritually where we are in Christ. Everyday. No one can judge the heart of others but for Jesus but we can judge the fruit but only our own fruit not that of someone elses. (How healthy is it?)

We need the fruit of the spirit we can make it look good even when it is not. Many People Many Christians come to church and when asked how they are they say I am fine and put on a happy face when truly inside they are not fine is just a word people use to cover up true emotions.

We don't want to burden others with reality sometimes so we say we are fine but we must talk to someone as this is not how it should be you Need to be real with others. Talk to someone so we can heal and bear healthy fruit and remain barren.

Remember They will know that we are Christians by our love.

And we are called to help bare the burden of our fellow sisters and Brothers in the Lord to make the load easier Sometimes God's arms and God's comfort come from fellow Believers.

Phil 2 says we are Called to be like Jesus.

We should try to encourage ourselves everyday as well.

Speak the word out loud then your whole body hears to build ourselves up in the Lord. Sometimes when you read the word out loud it will challange you and convict you of something within your soul and mind.

Remember to Encourage yourself

it may seem silly but say this

Sometimes I am not where I should be I am not perfect I am human. It's ok to not be perfect and it's ok to make mistakes.

Praise God I'm not where I used to be

And By GOD ALMIGHTY I will not stay where I am for GOD has plans for me.

Don't just go through the motions of Church live it in your everyday life.

The Challange this week is to continue to question yourself everyday of where you are spiritually right now..

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Stay Tuned!!

To Be Christian Part 4

Self Image

Eph 5:1, 2
1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Our Self Image is a very important thing now a days but be careful about who you think you are. We need to understand who we are in Christ Jesus
Exodus 3

Usually when we get God's calling in our lives we like Moses become afraid of it and doubt it and we do not think we are good enough because usually to us that calling is much bigger then what we are. But God says you can do it with HIM.

God Says I am who I am because in the hebrew language you just could not pronounce HIS name.

God is willing to go the distance with us too if we let HIM.

We Wrestle with the fact that we will be used by God because of our self image. We must be careful that it's not based on ourselves but make sure that it is based on God for that's what it has to do with.

Phil 4:13
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For Example
I can Change Any habit
I can practice Faith
I can start my day by saying I believe
I can choose to look at the positive instead of the negative.
I can Clean my home
I can Love those who do evil against me (like gossip)

And so on and so forth in fact you should make your own list of the things you know you can do through Christ. Because you can do all things.

The Word (bible) Says you have not because you ask not.
James 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

We can do all things in Christ regardless of our fear we need to ask, no matter how low you think you are or how you're feeling God Loves you and that will never change.

Eph 3:16-19
16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Self Image has very little to do with who you are in the flesh and everything to di with who you are in Christ.

God transforms you full of the spirit of God once you ask HIM into your heart.

We Are the temple of the Living God.

It's no Long I that liveth But
Christ that Liveth in Me

We as Christ followers must remember this fact.

Let Christ be in all of you all your actions and deeds all your life and words not just in your heart but in all of you.

Who we are is in Christ.

The challange this week is this

Don't put yourself down or think of who you are in the flesh but think of who you are in Christ.