Can anyone recommend any sermons on the subjects of depression or other mental problems? I did a search of depression and found 2 but was wondering if there were any more that address this subject, or are addressed in another sermon. Thanks for any help.
Dear Swimmer,
May I recommend a book called 'Spiritual Depression' by Martyn Lloyd Jones ? I find Lloyd Jones writing to really focus on Christ as our ultimate hope, whatever the difficulty. If you look on Googlebooks, you can read a portion of it.
May it bless you, as it has blessed me !
In Jesus,
John
http://www.cfcindia.com/web/mainpages/topical_bible_study.php#The_Overcoming_Life
Click on "The Overcoming Life" and listen to "how our joy can be full"
its not silver bullet, but I find that sermons by Zac Poonen have helped me with depression.
Also a recent sermon by Zac Poonen titled "A Burning Bush" he states that some of the most depressed Christians are those who only speak about carrying the cross, and self denile daily. It needs to be balanced by also talking about "walking in the Spirit"
Maybe check out Jay Adams. He's spoken a lot on that and I have heard Paul Washer, whom I respect, recommend him. I have listened to 'Dealing with Depression' by him and found it edifying.
I just recently heard a really great song in Spanish about Depression:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBwfxiKevVk]Basta Ya, Depresion
(EDIT: when I posted the original link, I was in a hurry ... I didn't care for the pictures that it had ...)
I tried to do a hurried translation from a copy that I copied off the internet:
BASTA YA DEPRESION
Porque te acercas cuando menos yo te espero?
Porque te quedas sin tener invitación? Y haces dueña de las horas de mis sueños y me perturbas sin tenerme compasión.
Why do you come close when I least expect you?
Why do you stay without having an invitation?
And make yourself owner of the hours of my dreams and you disturb me with having any compassion on me.
Porque te empeñas en robarme todo el gozo y me arrebatas toda mi tranquilidad, me golpeas y me aíslas cual leproso, preso en la cárcel de esta horrible enfermedad…oye desgraciado estoy hablando contigo.
Why do you insist on robbing me of all the joy and you tear down all of my tranquility, you wound me and isolate me like a leper imprisoned in the jail of this horrible sickness … listen you ungraceful, I’m talking to you.
Te allegas silenciosamente con la intensión de derrumbar, mis esperanzas mis alegrías, me exprimes el alma hasta hacerme llorar, sacas ventaja de cualquier momento y mi haces sentir in merecedor de la paz, el gozo y las bendiciones que día a día me da el Señor.
You arrive silently with the intention of abolishing my hopes my gladness, you squeeze my soul until you make me cry, you take advantage of any moment and you make me feel undeserving of the peace, the joy and the blessings that each day the Lord gives me.
Basta ya esta casa se respeta, basta ya no te metas en mi hogar, basta ya, no tienes parte ni suerte, vete fuera con mi vida no podrás, basta ya, de causarme tanta angustia, basta ya, de afligir mi corazón, basta ya, te llamo por tu nombre y te reprendo en el nombre el Señor.
That’s enough! You will respect this house! That’s enough! Don’t come into this home again! That’s enough! You have no part nor lot. Get out. You can no longer deal with my life. That’s enough of causing me so much anguish! That’s enough of afflicting my heart! That’s enough, I’m calling you by your name, and I rebuke you in the name of the Lord.
Basta ya, recoge tus maletas, basta ya, Dios ha escuchado esta oración, por la sangre de Jesús tu estas vencida, yo se que te llamabas…. DEPRESION, (Y proque dije llamabas?)porque ya no existes mas estas fuera de mi vida, quiero que sepas que llegó Jesús y me hizo libre.
That’s enough! Get your suitcases together! That’s enough! God has heard this prayer. By the blood of Jesus you are conquered. I know that you called yourself … DEPRESSION, (and why do I say you called yourself?) because you don’t exist any more. You are out of my life! I want you to know that Jesus came and made me free.
Basta ya esta casa se respeta, basta ya no te metas en mi hogar, basta ya, no tienes parte ni suerte, vete fuera con mi vida no podrás, por la sangre de Jesús estas vencida, yo se que te llamabas…. DEPRESION.
That’s enough! You will respect this house! That’s enough! Don’t come into this home again! That’s enough! You have no part nor lot. Get out. You can no longer deal with my life. By the blood of Jesús you are conquered. I know that you called yourself DEPRESSION.
I have a message uploaded to my MSN SkyDrive, "Depression, What is it's Cause?" Preached by BH Clendennen. You can download it [url=http://cid-59d91a526d2983ad.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/BH%20Clendennen%20mp3%20files/Single%20Messages/Depression%20What%20is%20Its%20Cause.mp3]Here
Teresa Conlon of Times Square Church preached a message "We have been given a Sound Mind" You can download or listen to it [url=http://www.tscnyc.org/media_center.php?pg=sermons&ma=161]HERE
I trust God will minister hope and help to you...I read something this morning, written by Josephus, of all people, LOL, and he was recounting what happened at the Red Sea.
They had mountain ranges on each side. They had the Red Sea before them. They had a vengeful Egyptian army behind them, chasing them, intent on capturing them and doing them much harm. They were slaves who'd just been liberated. They had no weapons, no military training, no strategy, all they had was God-and HE was all they needed. They had no way out. It was humanly impossible.
Quoting Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2, Ch. 16.1 at the Red Sea
But when Moses was come to the sea-shore, he took his rod, and made supplication to God, and called upon him to be their helper and assistant; and said "Thou art not ignorant, O Lord, that it is beyond human strength and human contrivance to avoid the difficulties we are now under; but it must be thy work altogether to procure deliverance to this army, which has left Egypt at thy appointment. We despair of any other assistance or contrivance, and have recourse only to that hope we have in thee; and if there be any method that can promise us an escape by thy providence, we look up to thee for it. And let it come quickly, and manifest thy power to us; and do thou raise up this people unto good courage and hope of deliverance, who are deeply sunk into a disconsolate state of mind. We are in a helpless place, but still it is a place that thou possessest; still the sea is thine, the mountains also that enclose us are thine; so that these mountains will open themselves if thou commandest them, and the sea also, if thou commandest it, will become dry land. Nay, we might escape by a flight through the air, if thou shouldst determine we should have that way of salvation."
He said we are in a hopeless place but it's a place You possess. The mountains are Yours, the Sea is Yours, the laws of gravity must also bow to God's power and loose their grip on humanity when He says. Hallelujah! Are you in a hopeless place? Then don't look down, don't look around, look up. He is HOPE.
Rom 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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