Depression is very real. It can cause us to feel isolated, alone, and hopeless…like everything around us is falling apart.
Satan uses depression to steal a person’s spiritual power and freedom—he seeks to fill our minds with darkness and gloom and bring us down emotionally. However, God wants to help us live free from depression. He wants to fill us with His joy, hope and expectation of good things for our lives.
An important part of battling depression is winning the war over our feelings. We will always have feelings…they will never go away. However, we can make our feelings line up with our decisions.
When depression attacks, what we feel like doing is giving up. However, the way we respond to depression makes all the difference.
1 Peter 5:8-9 says to resist the devil at his onset. It’s so important to resist the feeling of depression immediately, because the longer we allow it to remain, the harder it is to resist!
All of us will deal with disappointments from time to time—that’s a part of life. However, if we let it, our disappointment can lead to discouragement…and discouragement can lead to depression.
If you don't let the devil impress you with what he does, then he can't oppress you; and if he can't oppress you, then he can't depress you. One of the most important things we can do is resist the devil at his onset!
The first step to overcoming Depression is not allowing a devil an inch in your life. Resist the devil immediately he comes to you.
Tommorow, we continue to study how we can overcome depression.
Good Morning to you. TGIF 😊
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