I want to speak to you about the cure for depression, and it is given to us in the Word of God

in chapter 42 or 43 in the book of Psalms, or Psalm 42 and 43. That is the biblical cure for

emotional downturn. That may be caused by economic downturn caused by any kind of other reasons

because there are a whole lot of reasons why people get down. The truth is that all of us at some point

get down at some time. Some of us stay down longer than others. And when you are down, you feel that God is so far, far, far away from you.

When you down, you feel that God has abandoned you, and he is no longer answering your prayers.

And when you're down, you feel isolated and you feel rejected by God.

And you feel that when you're being down and

discouraged and depressed and unmotivated and there's no way out. Turn with me please to Psalm 42

because here in this Psalm the Psalmist literally opens his heart to us and he shows us what's going on inside

of him.

Literally, this is his self-talk, but he decided to put it on paper so that we can learn the

cure of depression.

What is more important how to deal with those times of depression, those times of

discouragement in our lives.

You know, in modern culture, we've been taught since we're kids to bottle up, stuff our

problems, and not talk about them, and keep them secret.

They stay inside of us.

And often we try to not even retrace our steps and find out why we got here. Why did we get to this point? We don't even do that.

And others, thickly men immediately want to get on working, finding an answer, and finding a solution and a way to get out

of this. And many times they go for answers in all kinds of places except the only place.

And that is why I am, for one, deeply grateful to the Word of God. I'm so deeply grateful

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