Christian
Biblical Principles for Dealing with Depression teaches you how to manage
depression and depressing situations by using Biblical principles drawn from
people in the Bible who were depressed like Elijah and those who were in
depressing situations like Naomi when she returned home after having buried her
husband and her two sons.
Christian
Biblical Principles for Dealing with Depression also helps you answer the questions, “What is
depression?”, “What are the symptoms of depression?” and “What causes
depression?”
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Christian Biblical Principles for Dealing with Depression Book Excerpt
Prayer is the 1st
principle of Christian Depression Treatment.
James 5:13 tells us to pray if we
are suffering.
Therefore, cry out to God in prayer if you are suffering from
depression because God promises that if You call on Him, He will answer
you and He will be with you in trouble and He will deliver you. (Psalm
91:15)
Emulate Jonah because when
depression engulfed him, for he said, “When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered you God and my prayer went up to You in Your holy Temple.” (Jonah
2:7)
Jeremiah also called out to God
when he was inside the ditch of depression and God heard his voice from deep
inside the ditch and delivered him. (Lamentations 3:52-56)
Therefore, regardless of how deep
you have fallen into the pit of depression, cry out to God because He will
listen to your prayers and help you climb or crawl out of it. God can also
command the whale of depressing circumstances that has swallowed you to release
you just as He commanded the whale that had swallowed Jonah to release him when
he prayed.
Therefore, pray for yourself
whenever you begin to feel blue. The following is a simple sample prayer you
can pray to help you overcome depression:
Save me O my God!
For problems have come up to my neck.
I am sinking in deep depression,
I am in deep trouble and problems
overwhelm me.
I am tired of crying and my
prayer is to You.
O Lord, in the multitude of Your
mercy hear me.
Deliver me from this ditch of
depression and do not let me sink in it.
Deliver me from those who hate me
and out of these deep troubles.
Do not let problems overwhelm me
and do not let depression swallow me up.
(Adapted from Psalm 69)
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