Spiritual Depression

Have you ever been spiritually depressed? I mean have you ever felt a spiritual winter? Feelings like God has left you? Well your in good company, the Psalmist, the Disciples, the Apostle Paul, and many men and women of God have felt this very thing. The Psalmist declared "why is my soul downcast?" Let me ask you another question, Do you ever talk to yourself ? What you say to yourself during these times is very important. Or is it? I would suggest evaluating your self-talking. Are your Talking to yourself or are you listening to yourself? This answer will be very important for the spiritual gloom to go away. Most of the time when we're talking to ourselves we're not talking we're listening to ourselves. Big difference! When you talk, talk to yourself God's truth, talk the Gospel to yourself, talk the Word of God to yourself. Tell yourself the times that scripture shows how God worked in the peoples lives to bring glory and honor to Himself. When we just listen to ourselves, it's mostly poor pitiful me. When we talk God's truth to ourselves, it will begin to turn into praise, read the Psalms 42-46, see what happens.