DEFEATING DEPRESSION (5 OF 7)
Scripture: 1 Kings 19:1-21
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Title: Defeating Depression (5 of 7)
Series: The Chronicles of Elijah
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: 1 Kings 19
CIT - God reveals himself to Elijah during a time of depression and anxiety.
Proposition - God can bring healing and grace to defeat depression and anxiety.
Goals
INTRODUCTION:
What is depression?
A psychologist has described depression this way: a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that leads to sadness. I think that's a good definition. A person who is depressed has problems real or imagined and he doesn't seem to be able to get a handle on them. There's no help available and that's compounded by the fact that there doesn't seem to be any help on the horizon. It's helplessness plus hopelessness that leads to this deep despondency, this sadness. If you think perhaps that you're immune to depression and that it could never happen to you, I'm afraid your mistaken. Depression can hit anyone, even you.
Think of Winston Churchill, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, yet he said, "Depression followed me around like a black dog all of my life."
Or consider a young Midwestern lawyer who suffered such deep depression that his friends thought it wise to keep all knives and razors from him. During this time he wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not." Those words were written by Abraham Lincoln, who went
on to become the 16th president of the United States.5
God can bring peace and help to a depressed heart.
I) KNOW WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION -
Some feel that all depression is cause by sin. I do not believe that is true, nor do I believe it is the case here. Depression can come from man different factors in our lives.
I read about a fellow that went to see a psychiatrist. He said, "Doc, I am depressed. The doctor asked, "How depressed are you?" He answered, "I'm terribly depressed. I am so depressed that I can't func ...
Series: The Chronicles of Elijah
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: 1 Kings 19
CIT - God reveals himself to Elijah during a time of depression and anxiety.
Proposition - God can bring healing and grace to defeat depression and anxiety.
Goals
INTRODUCTION:
What is depression?
A psychologist has described depression this way: a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that leads to sadness. I think that's a good definition. A person who is depressed has problems real or imagined and he doesn't seem to be able to get a handle on them. There's no help available and that's compounded by the fact that there doesn't seem to be any help on the horizon. It's helplessness plus hopelessness that leads to this deep despondency, this sadness. If you think perhaps that you're immune to depression and that it could never happen to you, I'm afraid your mistaken. Depression can hit anyone, even you.
Think of Winston Churchill, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, yet he said, "Depression followed me around like a black dog all of my life."
Or consider a young Midwestern lawyer who suffered such deep depression that his friends thought it wise to keep all knives and razors from him. During this time he wrote, "I am now the most miserable man living. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not." Those words were written by Abraham Lincoln, who went
on to become the 16th president of the United States.5
God can bring peace and help to a depressed heart.
I) KNOW WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION -
Some feel that all depression is cause by sin. I do not believe that is true, nor do I believe it is the case here. Depression can come from man different factors in our lives.
I read about a fellow that went to see a psychiatrist. He said, "Doc, I am depressed. The doctor asked, "How depressed are you?" He answered, "I'm terribly depressed. I am so depressed that I can't func ...
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