Depression

Question 1

Psalm 42:5

Depression

Answer 1

(Psalm 42:5)  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 (Psalm 42:5)

Question 2

Lamentations 3:19-23

Depression

Answer 2

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

Question 3

2 Corinthians 1:8b-9

Depression

Answer 3

(2 Corinthians 1:8b-9) We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:8b-9)

Question 4

Isaiah 43:1b-2

Depression

Answer 4

(Isaiah 43:1b-2) Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze (Isaiah 43:1b-2)

Question 5

Psalm 34:17-18

Depression

Answer 5

(Psalm 34:17-18) The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:17-18)

Question 6

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

Depression

Answer 6

(2 Corinthians 4:8-10) We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body (2 Corinthians 4:8-10)