The enemy uses all sorts of tactics and tools to deceive us and draw us away from the truth about God's never ending love for us. One of which is the spirit of depression. He distracts us from the life that the Lord wants us to have by putting thoughts and pictures in our minds that cause fear, anxiety, and depression. Feelings of remorse about the mistakes we have made in the past can spring up and take control of our thoughts causing us to feel defeated and degraded to the point of tears and worse, causing us to spend our time in regret and have feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. We tend to forget that the Lord's plan for us is not, defeat, depression, and sadness. He desires us to be "above and not beneath", "the head and not the tail." He has plans to prosper us and give us peace and freedom and joy, and a future full of smiles and love and happiness. We can purge out those thoughts that can cause us to be depressed by replacing them with the thoughts of our God, and the Lord Jesus.
God gave us His thoughts in His Word to help us fight the enemy who attacks us in our minds and bodies with wrong thinking and disease, lack and poverty and every conceivable infirmity that will rear its ugly head in our lives to the point that it feels normal to live in depression, guilt, anxiety, defeat. So, we can fight back against that Spirit of depression using the Word as our weapon and we will defeat our enemy the same way Jesus did in the wilderness when He was tempted by the devil. He said, "It is written," and quoted scripture to the devil and defeated him there. The devil has already been beat, he is a defeated foe with only the power we give him. Fight back with the Word of God, submit to God and use His Word and that spirit of depression will lift and your joy will return.
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." James 4:7
"For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night. But joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5 (NKJV)
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father God, in Jesus name, thank You for Your Word that we can use in our fight against the enemy, the devil, who would like to destroy us and keep us from knowing the truth that is in Your Word. Help us to cast down those thoughts that creep into our minds that cause depression and anxiety and hopelessness. Help us to replace that spirit of depression with the spirit of joy, peace, and love and all the fruits of Your Holy Spirit. Help us to think on good things, noble things, things of beauty, happy things and the things of Your kingdom. Help us to train our minds to resist the "accuser" so that he flees from us and takes the evil spirits of depression and anxiety with him never to return. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, our Lord and King. Make it so
God gave us His thoughts in His Word to help us fight the enemy who attacks us in our minds and bodies with wrong thinking and disease, lack and poverty and every conceivable infirmity that will rear its ugly head in our lives to the point that it feels normal to live in depression, guilt, anxiety, defeat. So, we can fight back against that Spirit of depression using the Word as our weapon and we will defeat our enemy the same way Jesus did in the wilderness when He was tempted by the devil. He said, "It is written," and quoted scripture to the devil and defeated him there. The devil has already been beat, he is a defeated foe with only the power we give him. Fight back with the Word of God, submit to God and use His Word and that spirit of depression will lift and your joy will return.
SCRIPTURE FOR TODAY
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." James 4:7
"For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night. But joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5 (NKJV)
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father God, in Jesus name, thank You for Your Word that we can use in our fight against the enemy, the devil, who would like to destroy us and keep us from knowing the truth that is in Your Word. Help us to cast down those thoughts that creep into our minds that cause depression and anxiety and hopelessness. Help us to replace that spirit of depression with the spirit of joy, peace, and love and all the fruits of Your Holy Spirit. Help us to think on good things, noble things, things of beauty, happy things and the things of Your kingdom. Help us to train our minds to resist the "accuser" so that he flees from us and takes the evil spirits of depression and anxiety with him never to return. In the name of Jesus, Yeshua, our Lord and King. Make it so
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