Is it just me or, do you sometimes feel awesome about yourself! You feel like you are sailing on a boat on a beautiful sunny day! Sky is a deep, beautiful, rich blue. Clouds are white as snow! Temperature is perfect about 75-80 degrees! You feel confident and strong and you feel like you can do anything! Your happiness comes from the fact that you know your purpose and you are walking in the call of God on your life! Everything is good! But then, the winds of change come! A breeze of cool air comes, causes goosebumps and a little shiver. You look to your left and right and gray, gloomy, heavy clouds are headed your way. Worry comes from your heart, panic, anxiety. And as you look up the beautiful blues sky is being swallowed by the gray monsters in the sky. Sun, gone. Temperature is now 50, and the winds are picking up. Waves are growing, up and down you go in the middle of no where, alone, isolated, full of fear.
That's something I experience every once in a while. It's something I haven't quite overcame but I am making so much more progress than I have in the past. I am a very sensitive person at times, I play it off and act tough but later on that night, I lay in bed thinking about what someone said to me. Wondering if they were right. Sometimes that alone can send me in a boat to the Island of "I" as my Pastor calls it. Depression is nothing but a trap. It's a trap from satan to try and get you all alone. Away from people who can keep you accountable and help you.
Psalm 55:22 says- Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
We don't have to carry our cares around like a 100 pound ruck sack! Yes we are soldiers of the Lord but, we don't have to carry the weight of sin and depression on our shoulders. Those moments when you feel down, just speak God's word. Me, honestly, when I get in this wave of emotions, I watch Christian comedy and then speak His word over me, because I won't believe the words I speak if I am low. But when I am laughing and built up I will speak His word over myself and bind the enemy, and from that point on I am good!
Depression is not a part of you, its a wave that comes, and it's a choice to ride that wave or to allow God to calm the storm. In the past I use to ride that wave, trying to get over it and it would grow and grown and sometimes I would drown. But now, I overcome when ti comes around and I am believing for it to be gone for good soon! In Jesus Name!
I love to be open and share because we are all in this race together! No one is more holy than the other, no one is better than the other! We all are flawed in some way, shape or form, so why not be transparent and help one another!
Here are some scriptures to help you if you feel like you sometimes are being overcome but the waves of depression!
Philippians 4:8- 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Deuteronomy 31:8- 8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Psalm 40: 1-3 -I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in him.
Psalm 42:11- 11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
That's something I experience every once in a while. It's something I haven't quite overcame but I am making so much more progress than I have in the past. I am a very sensitive person at times, I play it off and act tough but later on that night, I lay in bed thinking about what someone said to me. Wondering if they were right. Sometimes that alone can send me in a boat to the Island of "I" as my Pastor calls it. Depression is nothing but a trap. It's a trap from satan to try and get you all alone. Away from people who can keep you accountable and help you.
Psalm 55:22 says- Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
We don't have to carry our cares around like a 100 pound ruck sack! Yes we are soldiers of the Lord but, we don't have to carry the weight of sin and depression on our shoulders. Those moments when you feel down, just speak God's word. Me, honestly, when I get in this wave of emotions, I watch Christian comedy and then speak His word over me, because I won't believe the words I speak if I am low. But when I am laughing and built up I will speak His word over myself and bind the enemy, and from that point on I am good!
Depression is not a part of you, its a wave that comes, and it's a choice to ride that wave or to allow God to calm the storm. In the past I use to ride that wave, trying to get over it and it would grow and grown and sometimes I would drown. But now, I overcome when ti comes around and I am believing for it to be gone for good soon! In Jesus Name!
I love to be open and share because we are all in this race together! No one is more holy than the other, no one is better than the other! We all are flawed in some way, shape or form, so why not be transparent and help one another!
Here are some scriptures to help you if you feel like you sometimes are being overcome but the waves of depression!
Philippians 4:8- 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Deuteronomy 31:8- 8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Psalm 40: 1-3 -I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in him.
Psalm 42:11- 11 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
