The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.
There are two problems with this statement. One problem is the assumption that depression is caused by demonic oppression. The other problem is the assumption that joy and happiness are the same things. Blaming a “spirit of depression” can be a wonderful cop-out. Just cast out the spirit ...
For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” / To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has...
Treasury of Scripture A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones. merry Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the hea...
15For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. ...
My particular rope is bipolar depression.Everyday I mount up and walk out on to it, holding my breath. I still fall a lot, but have a good safety net, and the Holy Spirit is my strength. Losing my balance happens. I pick myself up and climb up the ladder for another go at it....
“And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and theyput them at his feet,and he healed them.” Matthew 15:30 “But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came andfell down...
There is a unique presence, that has saturated Jesus’ ministry. He is as full of the Spirit as you could possibly get. Jesus has been immersed and soaked in the Spirit. When you touch Him, He spills God all over you. These verses in Isaiah 61, funnel His presenceunto the most unfort...