When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant. I was like a beast toward thee.

Nevertheless, I am continually with thee. Thou dost hold my right hand.

Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.

Whom have I in heaven but thee?

And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart

and my heart may fail because that's the definition of despondency that I want us to work with.

You see the three parts to that little phrase, my flesh and my heart may

fail. My flesh, that means there's a physical component to despondency, isn't there?

The body weakens, there's fatigue, there's a sense of listlessness and sluggishness.

Secondly, and my heart, that means there's this emotional

spiritual dimension to despondency. Our hearts are discouraged, dejected, gloomy, burned out.

Third, fail.

The word means come to an end, run out, be exhausted of resources.

It's like your life is a tank and in it is water that you need for

refreshment and somebody pulls a plug at the bottom and it just all runs out. And this word in Hebrew,

Kala means just come to an end, be exhausted, depleted of resources to handle problems and life.

Now the question is, is unbelief the root of that experience of despondency?

And with 10 minutes to preach here, I'm passing over a lot. The answer is yes and no. It's not simple in

other words so I'm going to pick a simple sentence to get from scripture.

Because we need clear, simple things to live by.

Here's the sentence that I think is simple and true. Unbelief is the root of yielding to

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