Out of the Wells of Depression

When depression hits, it can take a person to the unbelievable lows, sometimes to even take one's own life.  When we know depression is drowning us in its hungry river, we need help and should seek it immediately, never ignore it.

Anyone can become depressed.  Often the most successful people in life suffer from depression!  Sometimes with counseling and medications, (due to low serotonin levels in the brain) people become better and sometimes, it can be a spiritual attack.

Like any other illness, when we are ill, we take medicines, depression is the same.  It often is caused by low serotonin levels in the brain which can be corrected by take medicines for a year or a few years, and then the serotonin levels in the brain normalize.  It is not a psychotic illness at all, and it really never means a depressed person is an abnormal person.  There are many wrong concepts about depression and people are afraid to admit they are depressed for fear of judgment that they are not good enough or they are abnormal!  Well, nothing could be further than the truth.  

I had a friend for many years who often even as a teenager was hit with waves of unbearable depression.  She would drown into sinking sands of depression in those seasons.  I met her many years ago and never found her speaking about her depression, so I finally asked her what happened about her depression spells.  She told me that a few years back she went for a large conference in the United States and met a known pastor, a family friend in the conference, and he had prayed over her with his hands on her head.  She suddenly saw something very black fly out of her and immediately felt a great release and lightness.  From that time on wards, she never got a depression attack again.  It was a spiritual oppression.

When I was a teenager and was hit by depression. I do believe that at that time, it was a spiritual attack because it literally flew away with no counseling or medications and I got delivered from it instantly overnight.  The Lord can heal us supernaturally or some of us need to go through the medication pathway, just like any other illness.

One more thing, if someone wants to commit suicide, they will only take the torment with them when they go to the next life...so it is really not worth the effort.  I did try it when I was a teenager and when I was slipping from life to death and on the edge of that transition, I did see a gray kind of place with rats and burning red hot iron kind of cages.  It was a miserable place without God.  I can say today that this was a kind of hell, separation from God.  I did cry to Jesus to save my life and I would serve Him!  (which I did not fulfill until maybe many, many years later!)  He did get me out of the mess and I became alright within a few minutes and the depression left me and the next morning on wards, I had this amazing, wonderful, supernatural peace.  I share this because I want all to know that suicide takes the torment along with it to the other side, we cannot escape our problems with suicide.

- When depression drowns, get help, try to find something you really love to do, and do it, surround yourself with positive people, read inspiring books, listen to powerful preachers and teachers, but most important, run to the Lord.

-  Nature has a way of healing.  Get close to nature.  God, the Creator of nature breaths His breath and refreshing upon nature, which in turn brings healing and calm to our soul and centers our soul to be more connected to Him.

- Run to the Lord, call on Him – pray  - Jeremiah 33:3 "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not."  As we call on Jesus, He will start to deliver us and show us mighty amazing things, revealing great things to us, to help in our deliverance process.

- Bind and cast out the spirit of depression.   Matthew 16:19, "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."  When we take up our spiritual authority in Christ and rebuke depression, anger or anything within us in Jesus' name, Jesus will loosen its hold over us and cast it out.  This has worked time and time again, it is very powerful.  Depression many times is a spirit, and it can claim a legal right to our soul unless we challenge and reject its authority over us and it has to depart in Jesus' name.  We never think of rebuking it, so it happily remains within to torment our emotions and mind, which is the seat of our soul.

- Surround yourself with songs of worship and start worshipping the Lord yourself.  In the presence of worship, that spirit will leave, and also your spirit will start to rise in joy over time.  It may not happen immediately, but be consistent and you will be rewarded.

- Abide in Christ, in the Holy Spirit:  In the presence of the Lord, joy returns.  Psalm 16:11 "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."  We experience wonderful joy in the Presence of the Lord, and the more we commune with the Lord and listen to Him, the greater our joy will be.

Indeed, we will experience a great deliverance from drowning in the wells of depression and actually rise to ecstasy and joy when we simply practice the above.  Psalm 32:7:  You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance."

Rita Farhat Kurian

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