Managing Your Emotions: Instead of Your Emotions Managing You by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religion, Self Help, Inspirational, Spirituality
ISBN: 9781577940265
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 1996-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING DEPRESSION

I almost titled this chapter "Uppers and Downers." In fact, I had written that title in my notes, but I changed my mind. I thought you might think this chapter is about drugs, but it is not about drugs at all.

There are a lot of "uppers and "downers in this life besides those induced by drugs. In this chapter I intend to show Satan is the one who brings the "downers, and Jesus is the One Who brings the "uppers."

DOWN IN THE PIT

I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. Psalm 40:1,2

When the Bible speaks of "the pit," as in this passage from the book of Psalms, I always think of the depths of depression.

As we will see later, David often spoke of feeling as though he was going down into a pit and calling out to the Lord to rescue him and set his feet on solid, level ground.

Like David, nobody wants to be in the pit of depression. It is a terrible place. I cannot think of a worse place to be. Besides the depression itself, there are the horrible thoughts that Satan calls back to the memory while in that low state.

When we are deeply depressed, we feel bad enough as it is. Then the devil comes along to add to our misery by reminding us of all the horrible things we have ever thought or said or done. His goal is to keep us so miserable and hopeless that we will never rise up to cause him any problems or to fulfill the call of God on our lives.

We must learn to resist descending into the pit of depression where we are at the mercy of the tormentor of our souls who is out to totally destroy us and our witness for Christ.

LEVEL GROUND

Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies; I flee to You to hide me.

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; let Your good Spirit lead me into a level country and into the land of uprightness. Psalm 143:9,10

As we saw in the last chapter, if we are to avoid extreme lows, one thing we must do is to avoid extreme highs. We must learn to come into balance. When we get too emotionally high, inevitably we must come down. When we do, often we do not stop at the normal level of emotions — what David called "the level country — but we continue to plummet into the depths of depression.

I really believe that what David was talking about in Psalm 143 was not actual level ground, but level emotions.

A lady who works with manic-depressives once told me that, in dealing with these types, mental health officials have to not

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