1. SCRIPTURE READING Psalm 42:3-5
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. 5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

2. SOUL THERAPY
DEPRESSION

3. KEY THOUGHT:
I will never change my life until I change the way I think.

4. WHO ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
1. The devil will lie to you.

5. JOHN 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

6. WHO ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
2. The world will pollute you.

7. EPHESIANS 4:17-18
17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

8. WHO ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
3. Your problems will confuse you.

9. PSALMS 10:1
1 Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

10. PSALMS 10:17
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry

11. LAMENTATIONS 3:19-23
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. 21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

12. OVERCOMING DEPRESSION:
I will never change the way I think until I renew my mind.

13. ROMANS 12:2
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

14. ROMANS 8:5-6
5 Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. 6 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

15. HEBREWS 4:12
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

16. OVERCOMING DEPRESSION:
Every day read God’s word.

17. SOUL THERAPY
DEPRESSION