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25 April 2014
Dear God-tracker
God-tracking is overcoming the cancer of depression by the healing of
God’s word & PRAYER
Jenni fell back against the wall of the balcony of her
holiday apartment and slumped to her haunches, petrified and ashamed. It was
early hours of the morning and while her husband, Dave was asleep she’d stepped
out on the balcony to get some air. She and her husband had taken a few days
off to try and recoup their marriage. Jenni held a high powered job but her
career was collapsing. She and Dave were in deep debt and their marriage was crumbling.
Jenni had nowhere to turn. She’d been keeping it all in: all those feelings of
neglect, lack of self-worth and anxiety. She gazed back at the railing of their
11th floor apartment’s balcony. She’d come so close to ending it
all.
Depression! It’s safe to say that depression is
becoming as common as the common cold, these days. We’re told that 10 times
more people suffer from the disease today than 70 years ago. There are three
primary levels of depression: mild, moderate and severe. Often a doctor will
prescribe drugs to deal with the symptoms of depression but most doctors are
also now suggesting talking therapy. Talking out your problems is a very
powerful treatment. The Bible makes it clear that everyone has a spirit, a soul
and a body. The soul is the middle part of who are and, for the most part,
comprises your thoughts and emotions. Let’s call it the heart. Listen to what
Jesus said about the heart, “For out
of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.” If you’re suffering with
anxious and depressed emotions today then be encouraged to frequently pour out your
heart to a faithful and compassionate friend. But prayer is talking, too. So
pray. Talk to Jesus about your problems.
Depression often develops out of anxiety, sadness or low esteem.
Everyone experiences emotions like these from time to time but it’s when these
types of emotions become malignant that depression sets in. Depression is
cancer of the soul. But cancer can be healed and Jesus is the healer! It’s by
his word that Jesus healed. The Bible says that the word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates
even to dividing soul and spirit.
Talking out your problems to God and a friend will begin the healing process
but the word of God will complete it.
If you’re like Jenni and you feel as though you’re higher up and
closer to the edge of your problems in life then let me encourage you to read
the word, study the word, confess the word and live the word. And here’s an
example of what God’s word is saying to you today (from Psalm 139):
O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me. Before a word is on my tongue you know it
completely, O LORD. You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand
upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I say,
"Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around
me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like
the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I
am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full
well. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them
came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! Search me, O God, and
know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any
offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
God-tracking is overcoming
the cancer of depression by the healing of God’s word and prayer
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
Dudley
It’s all in the Book…
Luke 6:43-45
Hebrews 4:9-13
Psalm 119:105
Psalm 139
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Verse of the Week
Malachi 4:2
But for you who
revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing
in its wings. And you will go out and leap like
calves released from the stall.
Quote of the Week
A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes
“Have courage for the great
sorrows of life and have patience for the small ones...Go to sleep in peace.
God is awake” --- Victor Hugo
Don’t Give Up, Look Up!
Look up and Fix Your
Eyes on Jesus!
In the name of my Lord Jesus I make this my confession here today!
”Dear
Lord, I admit that I have suffered depression. Help me to find its root cause
and help me to root its lies out of my life. I am a child of God and not a
child of the father of lies, Satan. I confess Jesus as my Lord and master. I
confess that he made a spectacle of depression when he triumphed over it at the
cross. I confess that I need no longer be under the grips of the disease of
depression. I confess that I seek to daily renew my mind by your word… you are
familiar with all my ways; you hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your
hand upon me; your hand will guide me; you hold me fast; you knit me together
in my mother's womb; all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be; test me and know my anxious thoughts. In the name of my Lord Jesus I make this my
confession here today! Amen!”
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