As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?
Psalm 42:1-5 (NIV)
FOUR CAUSES OF DEPRESSION:
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All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.
1 Kings 19:5-6 (NKJV)
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I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:9-10 (NIV)
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Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
James 5:16 (NIV)
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Elijah replied, “I have zealously served the Lord God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant … and killed your prophets. I am the only one left.“
1 Kings 19:10 (NIV)