Praise Anyway (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you for joining us today as we are spending time this week, talking about a few biblical insights to help us overcome depression. Like we said at the very beginning of this week, some of us may have momentary times of depression, we feel down or low, some of us may struggle with it over prolonged periods of time but regardless of our experiences, we can take these same biblical principles and apply them in our life. Things that God has taught us and given to us in His word to do when we are feeling down, low, depressed, hopeless and in despair. One of the things that we see in Isaiah chapter 61, verse 3, the bible says that God gives us the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. It is very interesting statement there. God, by His Holy Spirit, gives us the garment of praise, that is He clothes us, He wants us to put it on like a garment, a garment of praise that displaces and in place of the spirit of heaviness, something that weighs us down. So, the spirit or something that is causing us to be depressed, to feel low, weighed down, burdened, hopeless, despairing, that is overthrown or taken off of our lives when we put on the garment of praise. Think about putting on a garment, the garment doesn’t come on you, you intentionally put it on. So, praise is like that, that you put on praise, you intentionally decide to praise God and be happy in God, to celebrate God, to tell God how good He is. You may not feel like it, everything around you need not be necessarily conducive but God is a good God regardless. So, you and I can praise Him anyways. Praise Him because of who is, tell Him how much He means to you, tell Him how good He has been to you in times past. At this moment, things maybe bad but He has been good to you and you praise Him anyways. You praise Him for the mighty things He can do, you praise Him for His gracious promises, praise Him for what He has promised He will do, praise Him that He is mightier than your circumstance, greater than your difficulty, greater than your valley, praise Him He is brighter than your darkness; praise Him anyways. The bible says that we put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Do it and you will see the heaviness lift; this hopelessness, this despair, this depression lifts off your life because God has given that for us as a way to counter depression. Let’s pray, Father, we praise you, we worship you, we glorify you, we magnify you, we say you are a good God, gracious God, faithful God, wonder working, miracle working God in our lives and we praise you because you are always good and are worthy of our praise, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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