Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #793, Season 8.
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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: 💥 Born-Again Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ DO NOT SUFFER FROM DEPRESSION!!!
Beloved, let us all be clear, we may be hard-pressed, perplexed, persecuted, or struck down on every side - but we are NEVER crushed, in despair, abandoned, and destroyed in our inner man! Depression is not part of our regenerated, born-again, renewed, transformed spirits!!
The Bible says we are not depressed people: 2 Corinthians 4:8-12
8 "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you."
DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE DEVIL WHO WHISPERS TO YOU THAT YOU ARE DEPRESSED! NO, YOU'RE NOT! What may be troubling you is willful sin and God is chastening and disciplining you and that doesn't make you feel good! Look over your life before you claim to be "depressed" to the point of considering removing yourself from the earth! Are you obeying James 4:7?
Are you obeying Philippians 4:8-9? What are you meditating on most days? Is it on Lord Jesus? Is it on eternal life? Or is it on your problems? Your cares? Your ups and downs? WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND MOST DAYS? Most likely your mind is on SELF!! Well, that's idolatry - YOU are at the center of your life rather than the Lord!
To keep from being "depressed," the Bible tells us succinctly what our minds should be kept on:
8 Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]. 9 The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you."
You keep giving the devil a foothold in your life, there will be no peace in your life. Just so we are clear:
THE DEVIL IS A LIAR!!
Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!