Dealing with Spiritual Depression | Rapp Report Daily 0126 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity as we continue to look at issues with the church.
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- We'd like to take a look this week at, well, what's something that the Puritans used to refer to as melancholy, something that Dr.
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- Martin Lloyd -Jones referred to as spiritual depression. Have you had that time where you just don't feel like being at church?
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- You don't want to be doing things that you know you should.
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- You don't want to read your Bible. You don't want to pray. You just feel depressed. You don't feel that you should be worshiping
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- God. This is something that many Christians experience, and many don't have any idea how to deal with it.
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- Like any other type of depression, you first need to have hope that you will get out of this and be able to see a future where you won't be stuck in this rut.
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- Most of the time with any kind of depression, that's why I like that Dr. Martin Lloyd -Jones referred to it as a spiritual depression, because what it does is it talks about the fact that we are stuck in the past.
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- That's what happens with depression. You are stuck in the past thinking, and usually the cause of spiritual depression is either sin, that's number one, or there is some issue.
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- Maybe it's bitterness. Well, yeah, that's sin too, but more specific types of sins that you need to address.
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- I'd like to take a little bit of time this week to address some of the different things that can keep you from being spiritually vibrant and get you into a depression, and then what type of things to do to fix it.
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