I wish in my depression I had the strength to take the advice here - to speak truth to myself rather than being overwhelmed by the rolling of those billowing seas. I'm dependent on God's intervention, and I'm waiting... waiting ever so long for him.
Good advice. When i start feeling down, i will do praise and worship and forget about myself. I hope Jesus comes this year 2021 and actually i want Jesus to come right now...it feels awkward here in this world....i want to go in the rapture and am ready....i am very very looking forward to 1 Thes.4:16....
I highly recommend just reading through the Psalms daily. Read 2 or 3, or more, per day. Get to the end and begin all over again. I just went through a painful season in my life and they sustained and comforted me in ways only God can provide. Keep the faith and keep praying. I continue to read two psalms minimum per day as part of my daily scripture reading.
@@JJvideoman I super appreciate the question and your asking. I will receive it as God's touch because otherwise, I still *feel* abandoned, merely tolerated by God from a distance. I'm still unable to bring myself to preach/speak the uplifting to myself. I far more cooperate with the circumstances - some of them permanent (in this life) - instead of working to be encouraged. And without a church now in which to worship, that most successful form of receiving encouragement is missing for over a year now. I see signs of opportunity to claw upwards, though. And again, I'm thankful you checked in.
I am praying through my grief, depression and lonliness. I have asked for prayers from others as well. It does help, though the depression still lingers. I just ask father GOD to see me through it.
Read Ephesians 1 and just think about what it says. Ask God to give you a bible verse for what your going through. Ask him also to show you how you got to that place. God never gives us more than what we can handle. The truth is Jesus also went through hard trial so we can go to him for advice so we to can get through this. My pray for you is that you would became strong in the Lord so much so that no matter what cames your ways you will sing to the Lord you will dance to the Lord. You will worship with thanks giving. God Bless you in Jesus name
I would ask for prayer and thank anyone praying for me in advance with love! I'm a 68 year old Grandmother who has battled 9 yrs of chronic pain that I am still believing for healing! I have been given such grace and mercy to deal with this and glorify my Heavenly Father and His love! I have been battling overwhelming depression and crippling anxiety for for years to the point I no longer want to lve. I have constant thoughts of suicide but that CANNOT EVER be an option for me. I KNOW that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is the only way to endure and persevere through this attack on me by Satan! If you would lift me and this despair, depression, and anxiety up in prayer my heart will be so grateful!
To anyone reading this, please pray for me. I don’t know what happened but I feel hopeless and like I’m drowning. It’s three years since I gave my life to Christ and my life in many ways has gotten worse than when I was a pagan. I don’t want to keep going
Life as a Christian is agonizing, but the fruit thereof is glorious, keep the faith brother, we are wrestling daily and our enemy is strong, but our Father and Teacher is stronger
Been in the same boat for years. “Who is among you who fears the Lord, Who obeys the voice of His servant, Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.” Isaiah 50:10 NASB2020 Keep at it, the dark times are all accounted for
I have found a couple of things true about being a disciple. It costs. The heaviness of this life doesn't compare with the life to come, so perseverance is at the top of the priorities for the believer. Satan wants to take you out of the game once you've left his team. So, the difficulty-within and from outside-testifies to you being a Son of God. And, depression is occasionally or even frequently a sign that you see the brokenness of life, of the world, of people, maybe of everything, with a touch of God's view-that it's all been rotted by sin and has become profoundly sick. That view-that positive ability, if you will-can serve to lift you to deeper prayer than others can have, to fuller empathy for others than the luxuriating believer is capable of. Anyway, I'm with you in that hopelessness more often than not. And more often than not, words like what I've just said here don't hit me the right way. But praying there's something novel here that provides perspective.
I’m feeling so crushed right now. I’m glad for this video. I need to find more Psalms and songs of mourning, because when I sing cheerful songs I feel like I’m lying.
Pastor Piper has passion for the Lord. I like that. He is not overly dramatic as I read on one comment. Also read Spiritual Depression by David Lloyd Jones. It's a good read. Depression within a Christian is a spiritual problem.
Having severe clinical depression episode 5 in life for nearly 3 years. And it’s just getting worse. Now even when I just wake up, I thinking all the time to end up life. Now I see that I getting disconnected from friends. I stay in friends house and obviously they have changed they attitude towards me. Feel extremely lonely and empty. I kick myself from home and most of the time spend in the car sitting. I live in hell on the Earth.
so thankful to God for these resources! Without good material, or wholesome teaching, from those who have gone on with God and learned His ways, who have passed through the shadow of death, who have mined treasures from the darkness, and committed to gracing the world with their discoveries- i would have been swallowed up in darkness! The Truth sometimes feels like a faint light in the darkness, but fresh discovery of it always lights the way. The light may seem small from where you are, but if you keep going towards it, continue to seek will all your heart and trust, you will be delighted to find that the faint light is actually the extraordinarily vast light of heaven in the distance!(maybe like a star) We are called to “magnify Jesus”. His life is the light of men
My wife died from breast cancer on Dec. 3, 2016. Today (Sep. 4, 2023) even though I am planning to propose to my girlfriend I still have moments of sadness. God showed this video to me at exactly the right moment.
Thank u doc for this teach I pray for those struggling with depression during this covid that God will give us his strength and peace we cannot make it on our own God's way is the only way
When depression seems to be drowning me in darkness……the song that comes out of my heart and mouth is “ You are my Hiding Place”. …… I will trust in you……..
I ask myself this often. My personal answer is: To give glory to God. I'm sorry you see no reason for your being here. I understand, truly. I pray that you can hold on until God takes away the pain.
Im so sorry to here this man. God may let us go through some terrible times in our life possibly to help others who are there too. I hope this Bible verse gives encouragement. Jeremiah 29:11-13 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
The words of Jeremiah the Prophet after witnessing the destruction of Jerusalem and his people because of their iniquity! Lamentations 3:21-26 KJV This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. [22] It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. [23] They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. [24] The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. [25] The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. [26] It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. There is hope, his name is Jesus Christ. Amen!
This is quite on point. I don’t believe in the AA/NA way, but they have a saying which kept I hearing for the one week I was attending that translates quite well, their version is "Do the next right thing", which I took to heart and The Lord has used to help direct me. After that week I left as it was becoming pointedly obvious how their Way and THE Way (Jesus) were diverging. But the lesson remains. Thank you for the confirmation ❤
Nobody is There for me Where and How can I Pray I cannot pray like I want to. The Devil is Destroying my walk I need Peace with God Why do I Beg the Body of Christ to help Me,???!
Rachel Martin praying for you. Look to the scriptures and pray as Jesus commanded us to pray. By listening to what Jesus has instructed us to do in the Word, you will find peace. The devil has no power over you when you find your strength in Jesus. I pray that you are connected with a great group of believers in a biblically based church and you are shown love, mercy, grace, instruction, examples, and support. Keep the faith, sister!
Rachel Martin Are you connected to the body, a local church? If so, contact the elders/deacons ask them for prayer......I also found crying out Psalm 40 to Jesus when I was in my pit. He really did hear my cry for mercy. He held my hand and gave me hope. Psalm 27 says, Even if my mother and father forsake me, the Lord WILL receive me. I am confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord. Trust Him, He is amazing, He is faithful, He will hear you when you cry out to Him. He will lift you out of the slimy pit you can't climb out of yourself. He did it for me. Praying for you. God bless you
1fanofhockey I am homeless where I live they only care for their own kind including these churches here They are most retirement and don't care for outsiders could I get your email in case I need to confide in you for support?
I never got any help from God either. I was savagely physically and verbally abused for 18 years. All I got from God was "lay there and suffer ya little prick."
Eu cuido de ti (I take care of you) th-cam.com/video/ck0El_LusFw/w-d-xo.html When all my fears surround me and leap out of my heart When heavens above are bronze and it seems it is all lost When violent winds scare me, and the sea won't calm down When time is passing slowly and my seconds turn to hours Often times your plans are just too much for me to comprehend But I'd rather trust you than understand I believe in you I believe in you I look at you I'll wait on you When you are scared and hurt, I'm by your side And you'd better know that I feel your pain with you all times Never ever should you forget that I can calm sea And I know when it's time to provide your victory All this pain is just enough to make you closer to me But there are good news for you, out of this You are with me You are with me Just rest within me And smile indeed What I planned for you, is way better For only I can see tomorrow Then, receive my embrace For your battles I will face You are with me You are with me Just rest within me And smile indeed
This guy has never had depression. They say that it comes to everybody at some time in their life. John's time must still be coming. Then we will see how he handles it. I have had major depression for 80 years. It is in my genes. A Protestant minister is similar. It can run in families. My psychiatrist says that quick-fix quacks like John never get to see the cases that she sees. The other preacher who appeared then disappeared, was more human; maybe that was why he was taken off. Before quoting the Bible, he looked around the real world, to make his message relevant. John can see no need for that step. He starts with his "cure," then looks for something to apply it to, putting the cart before the horse. "By their fruits you shall know them."
I wish in my depression I had the strength to take the advice here - to speak truth to myself rather than being overwhelmed by the rolling of those billowing seas. I'm dependent on God's intervention, and I'm waiting... waiting ever so long for him.
Hope you feel better. Praying 🧎
Good advice. When i start feeling down, i will do praise and worship and forget about myself. I hope Jesus comes this year 2021 and actually i want Jesus to come right now...it feels awkward here in this world....i want to go in the rapture and am ready....i am very very looking forward to 1 Thes.4:16....
I highly recommend just reading through the Psalms daily. Read 2 or 3, or more, per day. Get to the end and begin all over again. I just went through a painful season in my life and they sustained and comforted me in ways only God can provide. Keep the faith and keep praying. I continue to read two psalms minimum per day as part of my daily scripture reading.
how're you doing now 9 months on?
@@JJvideoman I super appreciate the question and your asking. I will receive it as God's touch because otherwise, I still *feel* abandoned, merely tolerated by God from a distance. I'm still unable to bring myself to preach/speak the uplifting to myself. I far more cooperate with the circumstances - some of them permanent (in this life) - instead of working to be encouraged. And without a church now in which to worship, that most successful form of receiving encouragement is missing for over a year now. I see signs of opportunity to claw upwards, though. And again, I'm thankful you checked in.
I am praying through my grief, depression and lonliness. I have asked for prayers from others as well. It does help, though the depression still lingers. I just ask father GOD to see me through it.
Read Ephesians 1 and just think about what it says. Ask God to give you a bible verse for what your going through. Ask him also to show you how you got to that place. God never gives us more than what we can handle. The truth is Jesus also went through hard trial so we can go to him for advice so we to can get through this. My pray for you is that you would became strong in the Lord so much so that no matter what cames your ways you will sing to the Lord you will dance to the Lord. You will worship with thanks giving. God Bless you in Jesus name
I would ask for prayer and thank anyone praying for me in advance with love! I'm a 68 year old Grandmother who has battled 9 yrs of chronic pain that I am still believing for healing! I have been given such grace and mercy to deal with this and glorify my Heavenly Father and His love! I have been battling overwhelming depression and crippling anxiety for for years to the point I no longer want to lve. I have constant thoughts of suicide but that CANNOT EVER be an option for me. I KNOW that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is the only way to endure and persevere through this attack on me by Satan! If you would lift me and this despair, depression, and anxiety up in prayer my heart will be so grateful!
Praying for you Linda
God bless you Linda
Praying for you Linda
Praying Jesus loves you
I'm praying for you Linda
The title alone for this video is very important. When you're crushed, do the next thing. Whether it's doing the dishes, walking the dog, whatever.
To anyone reading this, please pray for me. I don’t know what happened but I feel hopeless and like I’m drowning. It’s three years since I gave my life to Christ and my life in many ways has gotten worse than when I was a pagan. I don’t want to keep going
Praying for you.
Life as a Christian is agonizing, but the fruit thereof is glorious, keep the faith brother, we are wrestling daily and our enemy is strong, but our Father and Teacher is stronger
Been in the same boat for years.
“Who is among you who fears the Lord, Who obeys the voice of His servant, Who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.”
Isaiah 50:10 NASB2020
Keep at it, the dark times are all accounted for
Same, I gave my life to Christ 5 years ago, it's living hell. People don't even want to know anything about Jesus when they see how my life went.
I have found a couple of things true about being a disciple. It costs. The heaviness of this life doesn't compare with the life to come, so perseverance is at the top of the priorities for the believer. Satan wants to take you out of the game once you've left his team. So, the difficulty-within and from outside-testifies to you being a Son of God. And, depression is occasionally or even frequently a sign that you see the brokenness of life, of the world, of people, maybe of everything, with a touch of God's view-that it's all been rotted by sin and has become profoundly sick. That view-that positive ability, if you will-can serve to lift you to deeper prayer than others can have, to fuller empathy for others than the luxuriating believer is capable of. Anyway, I'm with you in that hopelessness more often than not. And more often than not, words like what I've just said here don't hit me the right way. But praying there's something novel here that provides perspective.
I’m feeling so crushed right now. I’m glad for this video. I need to find more Psalms and songs of mourning, because when I sing cheerful songs I feel like I’m lying.
Look to Psalm 38, 51, 73, and 88. These are so great to read in the midst of pain and suffering. I will be praying for you!
Thank You, John! In those dark seasons we can look to this video for hope IN Jesus' promises.
Pastor Piper has passion for the Lord. I like that. He is not overly dramatic as I read on one comment. Also read Spiritual Depression by David Lloyd Jones. It's a good read. Depression within a Christian is a spiritual problem.
Having severe clinical depression episode 5 in life for nearly 3 years. And it’s just getting worse. Now even when I just wake up, I thinking all the time to end up life. Now I see that I getting disconnected from friends. I stay in friends house and obviously they have changed they attitude towards me. Feel extremely lonely and empty. I kick myself from home and most of the time spend in the car sitting. I live in hell on the Earth.
so thankful to God for these resources!
Without good material, or wholesome teaching, from those who have gone on with God and learned His ways, who have passed through the shadow of death, who have mined treasures from the darkness, and committed to gracing the world with their discoveries- i would have been swallowed up in darkness! The Truth sometimes feels like a faint light in the darkness, but fresh discovery of it always lights the way. The light may seem small from where you are, but if you keep going towards it, continue to seek will all your heart and trust, you will be delighted to find that the faint light is actually the extraordinarily vast light of heaven in the distance!(maybe like a star) We are called to “magnify Jesus”. His life is the light of men
My wife died from breast cancer on Dec. 3, 2016. Today (Sep. 4, 2023) even though I am planning to propose to my girlfriend I still have moments of sadness. God showed this video to me at exactly the right moment.
Thank u doc for this teach I pray for those struggling with depression during this covid that God will give us his strength and peace we cannot make it on our own God's way is the only way
When depression seems to be drowning me in darkness……the song that comes out of my heart and mouth is “ You are my Hiding Place”. …… I will trust in you……..
I dont know why I am living 😞
I ask myself this often. My personal answer is: To give glory to God.
I'm sorry you see no reason for your being here. I understand, truly. I pray that you can hold on until God takes away the pain.
Im so sorry to here this man. God may let us go through some terrible times in our life possibly to help others who are there too. I hope this Bible verse gives encouragement.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Listen up,
SELF!
The words of Jeremiah the Prophet after witnessing the destruction of Jerusalem and his people because of their iniquity!
Lamentations 3:21-26 KJV
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. [22] It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. [23] They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. [24] The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. [25] The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. [26] It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
There is hope, his name is Jesus Christ. Amen!
Awsome teachings!
This is quite on point. I don’t believe in the AA/NA way, but they have a saying which kept I hearing for the one week I was attending that translates quite well, their version is "Do the next right thing", which I took to heart and The Lord has used to help direct me. After that week I left as it was becoming pointedly obvious how their Way and THE Way (Jesus) were diverging. But the lesson remains. Thank you for the confirmation ❤
Love this!
Ty ! These end times are 🤦 just like the scriptures told us theyd be.
Amen
Good stuff.
Yesssss
Nobody is There for me Where and How can I Pray I cannot pray like I want to. The Devil is Destroying my walk I need Peace with God Why do I Beg the Body of Christ to help Me,???!
Rachel Martin praying for you. Look to the scriptures and pray as Jesus commanded us to pray. By listening to what Jesus has instructed us to do in the Word, you will find peace. The devil has no power over you when you find your strength in Jesus. I pray that you are connected with a great group of believers in a biblically based church and you are shown love, mercy, grace, instruction, examples, and support. Keep the faith, sister!
Rachel Martin Are you connected to the body, a local church? If so, contact the elders/deacons ask them for prayer......I also found crying out Psalm 40 to Jesus when I was in my pit. He really did hear my cry for mercy. He held my hand and gave me hope. Psalm 27 says, Even if my mother and father forsake me, the Lord WILL receive me. I am confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord.
Trust Him, He is amazing, He is faithful, He will hear you when you cry out to Him. He will lift you out of the slimy pit you can't climb out of yourself. He did it for me.
Praying for you. God bless you
1fanofhockey I am homeless where I live they only care for their own kind including these churches here They are most retirement and don't care for outsiders could I get your email in case I need to confide in you for support?
1fanofhockey Are you there? I would not be pleading for help or advice if I was getting help anywhere
Rachel Martin Rachel, which city/town do you live in?
I am crushed
How are you now?
And how about now?
I never got any help from God either. I was savagely physically and verbally abused for 18 years. All I got from God was "lay there and suffer ya little prick."
Eu cuido de ti (I take care of you)
th-cam.com/video/ck0El_LusFw/w-d-xo.html
When all my fears surround me and leap out of my heart
When heavens above are bronze and it seems it is all lost
When violent winds scare me, and the sea won't calm down
When time is passing slowly and my seconds turn to hours
Often times your plans are just too much for me to comprehend
But I'd rather trust you than understand
I believe in you
I believe in you
I look at you
I'll wait on you
When you are scared and hurt, I'm by your side
And you'd better know that I feel your pain with you all times
Never ever should you forget that I can calm sea
And I know when it's time to provide your victory
All this pain is just enough to make you closer to me
But there are good news for you, out of this
You are with me
You are with me
Just rest within me
And smile indeed
What I planned for you, is way better
For only I can see tomorrow
Then, receive my embrace
For your battles I will face
You are with me
You are with me
Just rest within me
And smile indeed
This guy has never had depression. They say that it comes to everybody at some time in their life. John's time must still be coming. Then we will see how he handles it. I have had major depression for 80 years. It is in my genes. A Protestant minister is similar. It can run in families. My psychiatrist says that quick-fix quacks like John never get to see the cases that she sees. The other preacher who appeared then disappeared, was more human; maybe that was why he was taken off. Before quoting the Bible, he looked around the real world, to make his message relevant. John can see no need for that step. He starts with his "cure," then looks for something to apply it to, putting the cart before the horse. "By their fruits you shall know them."
I also wonder if he’s ever had a ‘season of darkness’ as he usually calls it
He has several speeches about his own depression.
Rubbish...it all doesnt work...why?
Why does Piper always sound like he is overly dramatic?
Because the afterlife is a very serious thing.
Because of his zeal for God
It’s his style and passion
Try weed
The Bible says to be of sober mind CBD might help though.