Characteristics of Depression

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Those who struggle in the darkness of depression have difficulty seeing good in their lives … especially in themselves. They often look at life through a “black filter.”

The photographer who takes a picture during the daytime, but the final photograph appears to be a night scene.

When the depressed see life through their black filter, they feel helpless about their situations, hatred toward themselves, and hopeless over their future.

If you are walking in the darkness of depression, you need to focus on the light of the Lord and know that He profoundly cares. In this psalm, you can see how David chose to change his focus …

Psalm 142:4–5 NKJV

4 Look on my right hand and see, For there is no one who acknowledges me; Refuge has failed me; No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried out to You, O Lord: I said, “You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.

Let’s talk about “Characteristics of Depression”

I. Characteristics of Depression

What Is the Dialogue of the Depressed?

Words are powerful. Words can change minds, hearts, and ultimately lives. When a painful situation causes us to react with negative emotions,

the thoughts that follow that reaction will determine whether those emotions will rule us or whether truth will rule us.

Why? We need to understand that God designed the human brain. At times, we all feel emotional pain.

If we activate the language center of the brain, this reduces the strength in the emotional center of the brain.

This means that our thoughts have power over our emotions … even overriding our emotions and bringing them into subjection.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NKJV)

5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

c. Since the spoken word has more power than the unspoken word, speaking words of truth and words of faith is vital so that truth and faith will be strengthened within us.

d. Ultimately, feelings follow thinking. Therefore, what you say to yourself … about yourself … about your life … about your future … even about God … will determine how you feel about yourself … about your life … about your future … and about God—and His relationship with you.

3. As you line up your thinking with God’s thinking, your words will bring life, not death.…

Proverbs 18:21 NKJV

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

II. What do you say about yourself?

“I can’t do anything right!”— “Why should I even try?”— “My usefulness is over!”— “I hate myself!”— “Look at so-and-so” (in comparison).— “I must have done something wrong!”— “Nobody loves me!”

What is the light of truth?

What does God say …

Isaiah 54:10 NKJV

10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,” Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

III. What do you say about your situation?

“I don’t see any way out!”— “It didn’t matter anyway!”— “This is intolerable!”— “It’s not fair!”— “I’m helpless to change it!”— “I can’t do anything about it!” -“I can’t bear it!”

ask yourself - What is the light of truth?

You can say with the apostle Paul …

Philippians 4:13 NKJV

13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

IV. What do you say about your future?

“So what!”— “Nothing will ever change.”— “No one will ever love me!”— “I’ll be too old.”— “That was my last chance for happiness!”— “I have nothing to live for.”— “It’s hopeless!” - Are you sounding like Donna Summers? it’s the last dance”

ask yourself - What is the light of truth?

God says …

Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

If you are walking in darkness, then cherish these words from the Lord …

Isaiah 42:16 NKJV

16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.

Conclusion

What Caused Elijah to Fall into Depression?

imagine one prophet of God courageously standing against 450 false prophets, and then afterwords becomes fearful of the threat of one woman

Elijah had just won a supernatural showdown on Mount Caramel. The contest centered around which God has the ability to set fire to a wood sacrifice

in the end this act would prove to all, who is the one true God. The odds are 450 to 1 it was 450 prophets of baal against the 1 and only prophet of the Lord - Elijah

The false prophets, after a full day of pleading could not get their false God to bring down fire. When it was Elijah turn he poured water on the wood to soak it, and then Elijah calls for fire from heaven. God sends fire from heaven and consumed the water soaked sacrifice.

As a result all of Israel

1 Kings 18:39 NKJV

39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

This miraculous act motivates wicked Queen Jezebel to deliver a death threat against Elijah.

He, in turn, flees into the desert. Discouraged and depressed, he wearily pleads.

1 Kings 19:4 NKJV

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

In spite of Elisha's despondent condition, the Lord ministers to him, meets his needs, and gives him new hope for his heart

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Rom 12:2)

1 Kings 19:5–8 ASV 1901

5 And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

With God there’s always a way out

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John 3:16 NKJV

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Romans 10:13 NKJV

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

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Proverbs 4:7 NKJV

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

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