What About Christianity and Depression?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Do Christians suffer from depression? Did you know that Charles Haddon Spurgeon, known as "The Prince of Preachers" suffered from crippling depression or "Fog" as he called it. Which left him unable to preach for sometimes months at a time. However, there is HOPE and it is found in JESUS.
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I will have to say living with a person who struggles with depression is also very challenging. That person must also stay close to God. Prayers for those spouses also...
Kc2befree yes I agree
I always says I would hate to live with myself
God bless all the people who support us
And please remember never take it personal
God bless you ❤️
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As a person who has suffered from this illness for years
Reading some comments proves it still has such a stigma in society
It is an illness same as a physical illness
We ARE NOT demon possessed
WE CANT just move on
Would you say that to someone with a broken leg ???
Well our brains have been broken and it is a struggle to heal
So please be kind with the comments
If you don’t understand depression and mental illness
Please don’t comment
❤️
Joanne M, I've had people,in the church,say horrible things to me about my depression. The battle is real. 🤗
How can depression be a real thing if we think our thoughts come from our soul
Nathan Genesee
So your saying depression is our imagination ?
Nicely put. Thank you.
Holy Spirit guidance is key.
That is a subject that either is not talked much about in the church or it's mishandled. Thanks for mentioning it Pastor.
Thanks Pastor Laurie. This was really helpful! Here in Australia we have the privilege of hearing your sermons through vision media. Grateful for how God is using you. All glory be Jesus Christ, our saviour in all things
Thank you Pastor Greg. I do suffer from depression. I needed to hear your message today ♥️
Laura Rice Depression is from Satan
Be careful on what worldly things you do. Your going to have to surrender 100% to Jesus Christ
Listening to Biblical sermons on RUclips
Listening to nothing but worship music
Praying without ceasing
Lord I ask you forgive me of my selfishness
My disobedience
And any unrighteousness in my thought and deed. I ask that you fill me with your Holy Spirit. I ask that you place your Armor on me
I ask that you remove my baggage, and give me Joy!
Fill me Lord with your Holy Spirit.
Amen
Something like that. Everyday
Multiple times a day.
Speak of Jesus Christ to your friends, family, co workers. Remind yourself of Him and His holiness. Work towards that same Holiness day by day all day,
More you think of that, the less time you will think about being depressed. God will give you a new heart and mind.
James 4:7
Humble yourself before God
Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.
Takes a lot of spiritual sweat though. Can’t be one foot in the world and one foot in the Word. Won’t work.
Jesus says I wish you were Hot or Cold, but because your lukewarm, I’ll spit you out
When your lukewarm, Satan is there roaming like a lion seeking to kill steal and destroy you.
My advice
@@OQUINN83Depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain. Smh
Thank you pastor Greg! As a believer that live in the West with strong ties to my root, the Orientals as a whole view depression and most other mental health issues as "shame" and not to be discussed openly. I grew up in Taiwan with severe struggle with depression and suicide through most of my adult life... To make my case worse, I then married into a Western Christian (so they stated) family that believe depression and all mental health issues are rooted in sin and rebellion against God, my in-laws believe Christians should NOT take medications for mental health purpose and condemn and judge other Christians that do. To my in-laws, these "weaker Christians" lack faith and must repent before anything else.
It is refreshing to hear from you pastor Greg that many "Hall of fame" Christians suffer depression and they are no less a Christian than the "perfect Christian" image portrayed by my Christian in-laws as well as the Western Christian value that my in-laws embrace.
My in-laws also believe that our current Bible is NOT complete with out the "Book of Enoch", which teaches Earth is flat and Jesus is NOT sufficient to redeem us without an archangel named "Panha" that intercede for us..
for our salvation.
Not one of those in the holy Scripture who struggled with depression and felt like dying actually killed themself, except for Judas; a man living a lie, a secret life of sin who turned back to the world and we know him as the son of perdition.
DON'T BE A THIEF!
1 Corinthians 6:19-20, ...You are not your own...For you were bought at a
price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are
God’s.
DO NOT DESTROY GOD'S TEMPLE BY KILLING YOURSELF
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Do you not know that you are the temple of God and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will DESTROY him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple
you are.
DO NOT LIE TO SAY THAT ANYONE WHO MURDERS THEMSELF WILL GAIN ETERNAL LIFE
Matthew 19, One came and said unto him, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
Jesus said, You shall do no murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal you shall not lie,..."
IF YOU JUSTIFY SUICIDE AND SOMEONE BELIEVES YOU A KILLS THEMSELF, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
Ezekiel 3:20, “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand."
Thanks Pastor Greg.
One of the funniest comedians is Mark Lowery. He has had depression for years, made it public in hopes it would help others.
I have a chronic illness been suffering for many years from depression! Heavy cross
I just want to go home to be with Jesus 😢
Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing this message.
have mercy on me I have been tormented for years ,reading the word of God always accepted Christ at greg laurie web site please pray for me I am tormented all the time .maybe if pray for me god will heal me .cause after 45 years of suffering cant take any more my name is jim
Hello Jim, please contact us here so that we can pray with you (Harvest.org/contact-us) If you are having thoughts of self-harm please call 1-800-273-8255
I am glad I came across this video about Spurgeon. I am trying to obey God. I really have made a commitment to obedience. But, the darkness will not lift. I fell into alcoholism. But I have three years of sobriety. I am no longer willing to turn to sinful behaviors to provide relief and distraction. So, I sit in it, praying but mostly soldiering on for as long as I can. Medicines did more harm than good.
I’m so glad you’re touching on these subjects lately especially after losing someone close to you from suicide. About a week and a half ago my twin daughters friend since middle school committed suicide and she was eight weeks pregnant. people don’t realize that once they hit rock bottom the only way they can go is up and things do get better we all go through horrible things in life
My husband died two months ago. I don’t know how to not be depressed.
So sorry.. Condolences and prayers ❤️
Safe in the arms of Jesus.
Thank you ❤
Bless you Pastor Greg. I pray God strengthens you to minister to the body of Christ with even more boldness. Jezebel is the spirit to pray against for depression. She made mighty Jeremiah want to run away and die but God is greater and Jezebel was fed to dogs! Every time we overcome depression we are going forward not backward x
Good news for his congregation and the Lord delivered him! Like Paul and David! Just learning who Spurgeon is!!
Some Christians look at depression through clinical eyes. Other believers see it as a form of "oppression" from the enemy. Depending on what camp you belong to, you will treat it accordingly.
approvedofGod it can be both
From a born again sufferer ❤️
Yea sir it's the real world not the fake one people portray on social media. Jesus said in this world we will have trials and such but to be happy He has overcome this world and in Him so have we fellow Christians! Let's keep on in the face of adversity which we all have to some degree.👍😁
Jesus promise, "To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” Revelation 2:7
So good thanks you
Great message that I agree with.
The part about Winston Churchill I don't agree with as much. Winston Churchill, was, in that period probably one of the more hated individuals of my people (my people were thrown in concentration camps by the British just before world war 1, Churchill was a reporter, and later a soldier for the British in my country at the time, and a supporter of the British onslaught and scorched earth policies). Thousands of women and children died in those camps, and thousands upon thousands were left destitute. Whether he saved Western civilization, is speculative, and perhaps a bit exaggerated. Germany would never have won the war regardless. With the addition of the United States to the war, being the most powerful industrial nation, and with Stalin having had his eyes on Europe, and having had plans to himself, invade Europe, the idea of Germany, with their limited resources, being able to win outright, and keep that power, is somewhat speculative at best. Besides, Germany also was and is a Western nation. So either way, the West would have won.
I will add that my people are also of Western origin at that.
I will add that my people are also of Western origin at that.
Wat about wen depression wont let u pray? I have a hard time making myself pray daily?
Check out doctor Barbara O’Neill on healing depression on RUclips. AaahhMazing lecture!
Depression is a spirit sent by the enemy....We as believers have the authority to cast it out...Command it over yourself or loved one to leave in the name of Jesus! Then ask God to fill your spirit up with joy, peace, love and his strength and holiness.
Angelique P your wrong
Yes it can be but some depression is due to hormonal imbalances etc
@@joannem8734 That would be gone fast then when discovered.
Hello. I am an atheist. I define atheism as the practice of suspending the acknowledgement of the existence of gods until sufficient evidence can be presented. My position is that *_I have no good reason to acknowledge the existence of gods._*
And here is the evidence as to why I currently take such a position.
1. I personally have never observed a god.
2. I have have never encountered a first person account in which that person has observed a god.
3. I have found no accounts of persons claiming to have observed a god that can be verified for authenticity, accuracy, or validity.
4. I have have never been presented a valid logical argument which employed rationally sound premises that lead deductively to a conclusion that gods exist.
5. All of the 46 logical arguments I have encountered all have been demonstrated to have multiple fallacious or unsubstantiated premises.
6. I have never observed a phenomenon in which the existence of a god was an necessary antecedent for the known or probable explanation for the causation of that phenomenon.
7. Dozens of proposed and generally accepted explanations for observable phenomena based on the agency of a god(s), have subsequently been replaced with rational, natural explanations, each substantiated with evidence that excluded the agency of a god(s). I have never encountered vice versa.
8. I have never experienced the presence of gods through intercession of angels, answer to a petition, a presented truth by revelation, fulfillment of prophecy, the miraculous act of divinity, or any observation of a supernatural event.
9. Every phenomena that I have ever observed has emerged from necessary and sufficient antecedents over time without exception. In other words, I have never seen any phenomenon (entity, process, object, event, process, substance or being) that was created instantly by the solitary volition of a single deity.
ALL of these facts lead me to the only rational conclusion that concurs with the realities I have been presented - and that is the fact that there is no good reason for me to acknowledge the existence of gods.
I have heard often that atheism is the denial of the Christian god. But denial is the active rejection of a substantiated fact once credible evidence is presented them. Skepticism (atheism) is simply withholding such acknowledgement until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. It is natural, rational and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstatiated claims, especially extraordinary ones.
I welcome any cordial response. Peace.
@@breny3 You seem to be so CERTAIN that I've never attempted "to seek Jesus wholeheartedly". Let me share a secret IF you care to listen. Your smug arrogance overwhelms your effort to be kind. It is ALWAYS helpful to LISTEN to an individual and ASK them to share their convictions instead of projecting the tired old rhetoric you are hearing from other Christians. You will never understand the wisdom of employing rational deduction & inference, cognitive constructs of reasoning, learning, critical analysis, and even skepticism which leads to discovering truths, if you're wasting your time practicing apologetics and proselytizing. I, too, am only trying to help. Peace.
Problem is that you will not encounter God or experience His guidance when you reject Him. Also that is in the bible. Many will be able to testify, but of course you can reject all witness accounts, because you want the first hand experience. But did shut off that possibility.
Depression is not fruit of the Holy Spirit but from Satan spirit. The bible says because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
Depression is not a fruit or a work of flesh
JESUS PROMISED, "To him who OVERCOMES I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” (Revelation 2:7)
Of all the people in the Bible who felt so discouraged they wanted to die, none did and all were OVERCOMERS except Judas; a man living a secret life of sin, who did NOT stay faithful and trust Jesus with his life enough to endure unto the end.
BUT what does holy Scripture say about someone leaving the faith of trusting Jesus, of waiting on Jesus?
What does Scripture say about someone who kills themself?
IS IT STEALING TO TAKE YOUR LIFE?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20, ...You are not your own...For you were bought at a
price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are
God’s.
IS IT THE SIN OF MURDER TO COMMIT SUICIDE AND WILL IT DESTROY YOUR SOUL?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17, Do you not know that you are the temple of God and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will DESTROY him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple
you are.
IS IT AN EVIL LIE TO SAY THAT ANYONE WHO MURDERS THEMSELF WILL GAIN ETERNAL LIFE?
Matthew 19, One came and said unto him, "Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
Jesus said, You shall do no murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal you shall not lie,..."
SO, DO NOT FORFEIT BEING SAVED FOR ETERNITY BY KILLING YOURSELF!
Jesus said, "he who endures to the end shall be saved." (Matt. 24:13)
GREG, IF SOMEONE KILLS THEMSELF BECAUSE YOU PROMOTE SUICIDE AS ACCEPTABLE, YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE!!
Ezekiel 3:20, “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand."
you don't know what churchill was really about. as for depression, not at all discounting God's power over all health matters, it is often the result of a physical problem, thyroid dysfunction often from an easily correctable cause, nerve interference.
I'm no mental health expert but the best advice I can give to someone who is battling depression is to simply move on, let go of the past, and ask God to heal your emotional pain
Nathaniel R. Solis sadly it’s not that easy
I never understood depression until I got it
You just can’t move on
@@joannem8734 Maybe it's a trap or can feel like being trapped, prison like. I never had depression in which I got stuck. Would it help to study your prison thoroughly and identify what it is exactly that imprisons you?
hongry life I have had counselling 3 times and one year in therapy , and talking about things make me feel worse
You discernment not very hot. You think Alice Cooper is a Christian.
Winston Churchill was incredibly racist and called immigrants rodents. How can you have that much hate in your heart and be a Christian ?
Thank you for this message 🌻