After you admit your depressed, face your emotions and uncover the root, the next step is:
Fourth You Have To Dethrone Your Feelings
Admit it or not most of us live life under the tyranny of our feelings. If we feel good, life is good, if we feel bad, life is bad. Even the way we treat one another (the quality of our relationships) is often determined by how we feel. We can cause a lot of problems when our feelings are running the show.
Notice what the discouraged Psalmist did after admitting his despair to God, “But you, O Lord, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures through all generation” (v.12). Can you believe this? To my knowledge his emotion had not changed. He still felt depressed and overwhelmed with life. But he did a strange thing. This discouraged believer stepped over his gloomy feelings and chose to bless the Lord. Was this hypocritical? NO! The psalmist revealed that God “will respond to the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their plea” (v.17).
God hears the praise of the depressed. He knows our hearts, he feels our pain, he understands our humanness. God never turns away from our praise even when it is filtered through a heavy heart. You have to dethrone your feelings, you cant allow your feelings to rule your life. You have to choose to praise God, you have to choose to offer up a sacrifice of praise. What makes it a sacrifice is that it is an act of the will not based on the emotions.
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