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10 Bible Verses for Depression

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10 Bible Verses for Depression

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We think bible verses for depression are important. A friend of mine struggled with an eating disorder for a long time. The sad part is that she found little to no support from within the body of Christ. Depression is similar. It is a subject that has been rendered a taboo within the church. This makes it difficult to bring it up.

Those who suffer from it suffer in silence. If you have read our post on praying for pastors you will know that many pastors and church leaders struggle with these things. It is not easy to see the worst of human conditions and support everyone daily. Yet it is seldom addressed by Christians. This is a driving factor in suicide rates. A sense of hopelessness takes over people’s lives and drives them to the end.

Our prayer and hope in creating these bible verses for depression is that they would be a light at the end of someone’s tunnel. Use them as you pray for those who may be going through these things, as well as praying for yourself.

BIBLE VERSES FOR DEPRESSION

Bible Verses for Depression

John 3:16 New King James Version (NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 16:33 New King James Version (NKJV)

33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you [a]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Isaiah 40:30-31 New King James Version (NKJV)

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 43:5 New King James Version (NKJV)

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The [a]help of my countenance and my God.

Philippians 2:5-8 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it [a]robbery to be equal with God, 7 but [b]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Psalm 138:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 In the day when I cried out, You answered me,And made me bold with strength in my soul.

Psalm 91 New King James Version (NKJV)

Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God

91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the [a]fowler

And from the perilous pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and [b]buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day,6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand;

But it shall not come near you.8 Only with your eyes shall you look,

And see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.

12 In their hands they shall [c]bear you up, Lest you [d]dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will [e]set him on high, because he has known My name.

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With [f]long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”

Isaiah 26:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 You will keep him in perfect peace,Whose mind is stayed on You,Because he trusts in You.

Matthew 11:28 New King James Version (NKJV)

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Psalm 55:22 New King James Version (NKJV)

22 Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be [a]moved.

Prayer

Father, you are a God of hope. You are God to the hopeless, the widows, the orphans and the depressed. We pray for those going through a season of depression, dear Lord. We ask that you would cover them divinely in their coming in and their going out. Grant them peace of mind, and a heavenly perspective.

Show them grace in all that they set out to do. Surround them with an able support system. Raise them as a testimony for others that may find themselves in the same situation, in Jesus’ name. Depression will not be the end of them. They will rise! They will soar! They will see the goodness of the Lord and the land of the living! They will know joy in its fullness. Father, make them whole. Grant them fulfilment in all they seek to do. Amen

Originally posted 2019-03-18 07:06:57.

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Prayer Of Faith

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Prayer Of Faith

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What is the prayer of faith? It goes without saying that, there is no prayer without faith. At least not in its purest sense. By the same token, faith cannot and should not exist without prayer. A relationship with God is fostered and anchored on prayer.

Prayer of faith is the prayer that bears results that cannot be seen in any other situations or instances. Prayer that comes without faith lacks result. We are going to consider this idea in a lot more detail, as well as prescribe some ways that you and I can tap into the power of the prayer of faith.

If we want to take it back to the very basics. Hebrews 11 defines faith as “EVIDENCE”. It is said to be the evidence of things HOPED for. It is EVIDENCE of that which we desire but has yet to manifest.

Now if we take that even further, and consider the definition of evidence. Evidence is:

  • Proof
  • Confirmation
  • Verification
  • Authentication
  • Corroboration
  • Affirmation

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When you have evidence we can safely say that it is done! When your prayer is grounded on evidence, it is bold. Doubt is usually what slows us down. It is doubt that makes it more difficult for us to express our desires to God in an honest manner. Without doubt we can walk in more miraculous life. I challenge you to grab hold of that!

Prayer of Faith is Based on His Promises

Jeremiah 1:12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am [b]ready to perform My word.”

The prayer of faith is grounded in God’s own word. It is founded on his promises. We know the Lord’s promises to be yes and amen. What I love the most about our God is that he is not just a talker.

He backs it with action. The bible tells us that he watches his word to perform it. If he has said it, he is faithful to see it through until it is completed. 

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Isaiah 55:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me [a]void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

His word once sent out will be sure to accomplish that which it has been sent to. This all happens under his watchful eye. It shall not return void. Not that he would ever forget, seeing as he is watchful of his word, but we call on him to accomplish that which he has promised to. For him to not accomplish his promise would make him a liar. We know that this is not who he is.

Numbers 23:19 New King James Version (NKJV)

19 “God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

The scripture above serves as a reminder of this ancient truth. He is not a man that he would lie. God is truth. He is eternally truth. Even when he speaks what is not, it becomes. So when he speaks things that are not there, they manifest. So what is seeming false, out of his mouth becomes truth. 

Let me give you an example this point a little further. 

Mark 5:39 New King James Version (NKJV)

39 When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.”

The child in this case was clearly deceased. Mourners would have gathered after the physician had been and gone. For Jesus to come and say that the child was not dead was false. Yet, as soon as he said those word, it became truth. Death evacuated in obedience to his word. Sleep occupied as commanded.

When we pray in faith, we pray with the understanding that, what is impossible is impossible until God says otherwise. We know him to be a God that makes a way where there seems to be none!

Surrenders All

We exist in such a fast paced world. It is Go Go Go. Then it becomes Do Do Do! There is little or no time left to just be still in God’s presence. It takes faith to be able to let God of things and trust in God’s sovereignty to take care of said things. 

The harder we try to hold on to things, the more they tend to slip away from us. Letting go and letting God be God is the best way to hold onto the things that we treasure. Prayer of faith surrenders. It lays it all before God. We come before his throne of grace, admitting that even when we do all we can do, things may fail. 

King David understood this, as did Moses. They refused to go ahead with anything without God’s presence. Total surrender allows God to steer it all. This is genius because he is omniscient. What is to come is already known to him. When he steers, there is a sense of inevitable glory that is set to come.

Dr Myles Munroe once said that God is not obligated to finish what he does not start. Surrendering all puts us in place where we start everything in him and through him. We all know what happens when we start things in the Lord? He is faithful to see it to completion. God will never leave things half done!

Burden is no longer on you

A few years ago I found myself completely burned out in ministry. I had never realised how draining it can all be. We were exactly where God wanted us to be, but instead of playing my part, I was starting to try to play his part as well.

When I realised I was starting to crawl into a place of depression due to how much I was broken at the suffering that I was seeing others go through across the world, I sought his counsel.

His response is one that I will never forget. It was simply, “You are not God!” It shook me to the core because all along I had not realised that this is what I had been doing.

You see, it is God who has shoulders that are broad enough to carry the burden of the world. It is no longer on us! 

Matthew 11:28 New King James Version (NKJV)

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

It is Jesus who said to come to him when we are heavy laden. Rest is found in him. It is not in our pastors, prophets or anyone else for that matter.

This is the truth that I was starting to lose sight of. I was weary and heavy laden, yet still trying to be the source of rest for others. 

That burden is not on us when we stand on prayer of faith. We are able to direct it into his capable handles, fully knowing that he will take care of it.

Women with the issue of blood

What can we learn about the prayer of faith from the woman with the issue of blood? We know that she had been bleeding for so long it would have become her norm. She would have tried everything and everyone to get her healing, yet this had remained.

  1. If only I touch him were her words. Our prayer of faith is based on a stubbornness in knowing that all it take is one touch from God and all will be well.
  2. It takes action. Had she not taken action and pushed herself through the crowd, nothing would have come of it. She saw God and reached out to him.
  3. The prayer of faith draws power out of God. We know that Jesus was touched by 100s of other people on this day, but only one was significant. She was standing on that faith.

Luke 8:43-47 New King James Version (NKJV)

43 Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, 44 came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.

45 And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”
When all denied it, Peter [a]and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, [b]and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”

46 But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” 

47 Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.

The Centurion

The centurion was singled out by Jesus for having incredible faith. I have always wondered what would have happened if Mary and Martha had this same level of faith while Lazarus was dying.

Where they said, “if you had been here our brother would not have died.” The centurion said, “Just say the word and my servant will be healed.”

In a sense, the prayer of faith understands the authority of God over everything. He is not bound by time or any other of the world’s elements. This is what the Lord had to say about the Centurion.

Matthew 8:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!

Without Ceasing

When you pray in faith you do it continually. Jesus referred to this as “abiding”. Prayer of faith abides in Christ entirely. Your walk is governed by who he is.

The aim is, therefore, to be in constant communication with the Lord at all times. There is not a thing that you cannot pray about. At the very core of prayer is a RELATIONSHIP.

Think about everyone that you speak with regularly. Unless there is something that you want from them, you speak with them because you care about the relationship.

Summary

There is not much that can be added. I challenge you to press in pursuit of that prayer of faith.

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10 Powerful Prayers to Pray for your husband

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10 Powerful Prayers to Pray for your husband

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Why YOU must pray for your husband

Here is why you should pray for your husband. We are connected to our spouses. Their challenges invariably become ours as well. A prayer is a place of great vulnerability. You are laying yourself bare before God.

To be able to pray effectually, you need to have love and honesty. There is no lie that hides from God’s searching eye. The bible tells us that he looks at the state of our hearts. When your heart is not right, you cannot pray effectively.

Pray for your husband

When you pray for your husband. In that state of your vulnerability, God will begin to open your eyes to his need. Prayer allows you to see things about him that you would otherwise never considered. Praying for your husband eliminates strife within your heart.

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We know from Proverbs 31 that this is a role that the wife ought to play. You propel his success in the prayer closet, before he even steps out to chase his dream. This is something that will certainly transform your home and shake up your marriage. This post will cover prayer points and declarations that you can make for your husband.

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Priest of the House

Ephesians 5

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.

Declaration: 

My husband loves me as Christ loves the church. He cares for me physically and spiritually. He brings no stain or blemish onto me. He supports and guides in pursuit of holiness. He loves me as he loves his own body!

In a world in which the roles have been largely reversed, it is refreshing to see that the view that God has for marriage is not one of suppression or oppression. It is one of co-labouring. 

  • Be led by God (earthly wisdom/Unless the builder)
  • Raise him as a man of prayer
  • Spiritual growth

Prayer

Father I thank you for my husband. I thank you because you are making him a man of great faith. He is a man of prayer. Lord I pray that you would lead him as he leads his household. May he be a leader that is a servant to you and to those he serves, as Christ was to the church. We pray for spiritual growth oh Lord. He will not be stagnant, but progress from milk to meat and continue to grow in spirit. In Jesus’ name. Amen

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He Constantly Seeks You

Declaration:

My husband seeks the Lord at all time and in things. He will not walk in paths that you have not ordered. 

Isaiah 55:6-7 King James Version (KJV)

6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • Placing your will before his and mine.
  • May he always seek your face, and find you.
  • He shall not be moved unless you ordain it.

Prayer

Lord I bless your name for my husband. Thank you for allowing him to seek you, while you can still be found. May my needs and my will never be placed ahead of yours in his life. May his needs and desires never be placed ahead of your will for his life. He will be a rock for me and for his family. We are building on the rock that is Christ. In Jesus’ name. Amen

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By understanding it is established

Proverbs 24:3-6 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 Through wisdom a house is built,
And by understanding it is established;

4 By knowledge the rooms are filled
With all precious and pleasant riches.

5 A wise man is strong,
Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength;

6 For by wise counsel you will wage your own war,
And in a multitude of counselors there is safety.

Declaration

My husband is filled with the wisdom of the Lord. He seeks counsel from God, and has understanding. He is established. By wisdom, he is strong. He has strength in Christ. 

  • Wisdom to build our house
  • Understanding to establish it
  • Knowledge to fill the rooms with pleasant riches
  • Increase him in strength
  • He goes into battle only with God’s counsel.

Prayer

Dear Lord, 

I pray that you would give my husband the wisdom to build our house. Grant him understanding to establish our home. Give him the understanding to propel his family to establishment. Grant him the knowledge to create wealth. Make him strong, oh Lord. May his strength increase with every challenge that he faces. Surround him with Godly counsel. In Jesus’ name. Amen

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Health

Lord, good health is a gift from you. Grant my husband the gift of good health. Give him health in body, in mind and in spirit. May he not be consumed by the things of this world. Let his mind be focused on things above.

  • Pray for his physical health
  • Pray for specific conditions if he suffers from any

Vision

Proverbs 29:18 King James Version (KJV)

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Declaration

My husband actively pursues Godly wisdom. He has a vision from up above. He shall not perish, for he keeps the law of God.

  • Give him a vision for himself, for the family.
  • Position me to support his vision while he supports mine.
  • Provision for his vision.

Prayer

Father bless my husband with vision at every turn. Give him a vision for anything that he would ever set out to do. Give him vision even in areas that he does not even know he needs vision. May his vision shape our home. In Jesus’ name. Amen

pray for your husband to have vision

Fatherhood

Declaration:

My husband is a wonderful father to our children, and a wonderful husband to me.

  • Teach him to raise our children the Lord’s way.
  • Search his heart and show the error of his ways.
  • He leads by example 

Father, I thank you for my husband, I thank you that he is an incredible father to our children. Raise him to be a pillar within the family and the community at large. Teach him to raise our children in the way of the Lord, so they may never depart from it. Make of him an exemplary leader, someone his children look up to. In Jesus’ name.

Workplace

Declaration:

My husband is hardworking. He makes progress in the workplace.

  • Bless the works of his hands
  • Make room for him to grow
  • Enlarge his territory

Father bless the works of my husband’s hands. As he works hard, may he see fruit. Whatever seed he sows, will bear fruit in Jesus’ name! Reveal his gifts oh Lord. May those gifts make room for him. Enlarge his territory.

pray for your husband in his workplace

Peace

Suicide Rates are particularly high among men. Some of whom no one would have seen it coming. Let that not be the case for my husband! God forbid!

Declaration:

My husband has peace of mind. He walks in and by God’s grace. He will live long and prosper.

  • Lay it on your shoulders
  • Openness to speak and seek help

Prayer for my husband

Father, I speak your peace that surpasses all understanding over my husband. I pray that he would know you grace, your mercy and walk with you at all times. Premature death is not his portion. He will live a long and fulfilling life. He will live to fulfil his calling. His purpose will come to pass. In Jesus’ name. Amen 

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Good Counsel

1 Corinthians 15:33 New International Version (NIV)

33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”[a]

Our upliftment and downfall are often tied to the company we keep. 

Declaration

My husband is surrounded by good Godly counsel. He is wise, and walks in the Lord’s way. 

  • Give him good friends
  • Raise mentors to guide him on his way
  • Use him to raise and lead others to you

Prayer

Father, I pray that you would raise my husband as a soul winner. Surround him with Godly friends that will walk faithfully with him in this journey of life, and hold him accountable. Use him to be good counsel for others who may need him. In Jesus’ name! Amen.

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Conclusion: Praying for your husband

Lord teach me to support my husband’s vision as he supports mine. Show me how to best position myself to propel him to greater heights. In Jesus’ name! Amen

Originally posted 2019-01-18 17:50:15.

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