Psalm 42 | Oh My Soul

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Matt Hardy
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Psalm 42 | Oh My Soul

Why Are You Cast Down, Oh My Soul?

“We should, in general, reassure Christians suffering from depression that most often their damaged spiritual relationships and feelings are not the cause of the depression, but the consequence of it.”
“I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This”

Psalms 32:1-4
1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Psalms 52:3-5
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Philippians 1:6
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

John 10:27-30
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

Romans 9:10-13
10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Ephesians 2:1-5
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

C.H. Spurgeon
“Reader, never ridicule the nervous and hypochondriacal, their pain is real; though much of the malady lies in the imagination or thought processes it is not imaginary”

Martin Lloyd Jones
“Christians don’t understand how physical, physcological, and spiritual realms interrelate because Satan muddies the boundaries. Many of our troubles are caused because we think a problem is spiritual when it physical or we think a problem is physical when it is emotional or spiritual.

Broken Minds
“David and the other psalmist often found themselves deeply depressed for various reasons. They did not, however, apologize for what they are feeling, nor did they confess it as a sin. It was a legitimate part of their relationship with God. They interacted with Him through the context of his depression”

“Spiritual Depression” Martin Lloyd Jones
“The essence of this matter is to understand that this self of ours, this other man within us, has got to be handled. Do not listen to him; turn on him; speak to him; condemn him; upbraid him; exhort him; encourage him; remind him of what you know, instead of listening placidly to him and allowing him to drag you down and depress you.”

“Spiritual Depression” Martin Lloyd Jones
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?