Sermon
How Does God Relate to the Depressed?
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
April 22, 2024 · 46 min
Summary
Using Elijah's depression in 1 Kings 19, the sermon explores how God responds to spiritual despair with physical care, spiritual refreshment, and renewed mission. The preacher identifies exhaustion, disappointment, isolation, and opposition as causes of depression, then demonstrates God's tender compassion through provision, power, intimacy, and purpose—offering hope that depression need not be final for those in Christ.
Highlights
You need to be very careful that you don't believe everything you think. Just because I think something doesn't mean it's true.
When you're spiritually depressed, you need to be reminded of God's power. We also need to be reminded of God's kindness.
Satan wants you to believe that you are defined by your greatest mistakes and your greatest regrets. But the truth of the gospel is you were defined by the scars of the Son of God.