The Holy Spirit Rebukes Depression

By Stacy Mixon

Are you tired of being weighed down physically by depression?

Have the methods you've been using gotten you any closer to how you want to feel? Well, if you said yes and no to these questions, then the answer is you can achieve a lighter, healthier you.

Just know that you are not alone in this battle against depression. You will find

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685564452

Stacy Mixon

STACY MIXON is an evangelist who received her ordination in 2010. Prior to being ordained, she was a minister and steward of fellowship for well over twenty-five years, serving the people of God. She holds a master's degree in Business Administration, which she used for Christ's Kingdom. She has a love for God's people and also encourages them to grow in His Word and purpose for their life.

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Dedication

To my family:

Charity starts in the home before it can flow out to the community. I know that some of you struggle with depression. It is a battle that makes you feel like you are alone in your fight, but you are not. Some of you have a hard time reaching out for help in your time of need. This word is for you and others who feel as if there is no one who can help. Just know that you are first loved by God, the creator of heaven and earth. Also, by those around you and see the suffering that you go through. I hope that this shines a light in your dark place and know that you have victory over depression. Let God take up residence in your heart and activate the power that is within you. There is nothing too hard for Him, and He already knows your every need. May His grace and mercy be upon you in all that you say and do.

Chapter One

The Breakdown of Depression’s Origin

Depression is based on mood disorders that are brought about by negative emotions, like sadness and loss of interest in those things once enjoyed. There are several degrees of depression; however, two are referred to as major depressive or clinical. They directly affect the way a person feels, thinks, or reacts to situations in life. When looking at the meaning of depression and its representation, it represents everything that is temporal. Temporal—everything that is wrapped up in the cares of living everyday life and all aspects that come with our existence. Our existence stems from relationships and/or interactions that are experienced through life circumstances with one another and/or ourselves.

In reviewing the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), they have defined one type of depression, which is a major depressive disorder. It states that it is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how a person feels, thinks, and how they act. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems that can decrease a person’s ability to function at work, home, or in society. This disorder alters their interactions with co-workers or family members while performing normal routine roles or expectations of whatever is required of them.

Symptoms of depression can vary from mild to severe or even be disabling. It can also affect a person’s eating habits, as well as trouble with sleeping (not enough or too much). It reduces or causes a lack of focus or interactions with others, as stated before. It can bring about insurmountable fear and anxiety with just coping with daily issues or functions. It can give a false feeling of self-awareness, like untruths and misbeliefs about past and present circumstances.

The breakdown of depression is to understand the effects of how it works in the individual minds and how it stems from the heart or vice versa. Why? Because these two body parts are so closely connected, they both work as portals, which lets in and process temporal experiences that translate into feelings and emotions. We must also learn the power of these feelings and emotions because they cultivate moods. Then the moods become labels that are often used to identify how a person acts.

This is called the foundation of depression, and the structure is based on temporal things, which are here today and gone tomorrow. Temporal are things that can be seen by the naked eye, touched, smelled, heard, or even tasted. All of these are forever changing moving parts of living life. It is how we were created to experience our surrounding environment. Since they are forever changing means that they will eventually go away.

This is part of our natural environment, which we know to be physical. Just think about it for a minute; our five senses help us to function physically and naturally. Our minds were designed to process physical data, just like computers process in-put. Our hearts, just like a computer mainframe, process everything that is entered into it and render an output. When we process our environment, it makes deposits into our heart; then, our mind will pay dividends. Our actions will dictate what is in the heart through our thought processes.

This is because our natural attributes are based on things that are formed from physical objects. What are these physical objects? It is material things that can be seen and/or touched. Objects are considered a person, place, or thing to which a specified action or feeling is directed. So this confirms that objects are driven by our five senses and the surroundings that we experience. Just think, everything in this world is made temporal because nothing in the life cycle lives forever.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever (Isaiah 40:8). Everything in life is natural and has a pointed season (figuratively), like the grass and flowers. For instance, in the spring, the grass and flowers begin to come alive as they spring up through the ground. Flowers have a way of going wild in the fields, and the only nourishment they receive is rain and sunlight. The grass is the same way; however, if they are not watered enough, or they receive too much sunlight, then they can be scorched by the very thing that is needed for them to survive. But no matter what the process is, once they have reached the end of their season, they too fadeth away.

This cycle is also true for life; take humans, for example. Our lifecycle, if we are blessed, is this. We are born as infants, then we become adolescents, into adulthood, onto senior citizens. Mankind will possibly go through four stages of life before becoming absent in the body and present with Christ (2 Corinthians 5:8). Just like the flowers and grass that are here in the spring, summer, and fall, but go in the winter. All creation is based on a lifecycle; just like the season, all things have an expected time (Ecclesiastes 3).

Life was not meant to stay the same; it is ever-evolving into the next stage. By design, we were meant to evolve and experience feelings and emotions in each lifecycle. Evolution is measured by the level of maturity and/or immaturity that are exhibited through our moods developed in that specific periodical stage. Knowing the seasons of life that we are in will allow us to fully develop our abilities to handle and grow from each cycle of life. However, sometimes we might have experienced things in a cycle that we cannot let go of and carry them onto the next cycle.

Even though our lives are based on temporal things, it does not mean that our feelings and emotions are here today and gone tomorrow. All this means that eventually, one day, our life will come to an expected end. But what we experience can stay with us for a lifetime, even though the act has gone. Our senses are always true to themselves, but how it is processed can be misconstrued by perception. Perception is based on what we tell ourselves.

Going back to examine the foundation of depression and the components that affect our mental stability as we go through life. As stated before, depression’s main driver is directly related to moods.

The mood is defined as a noun:

a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion: feeling;

a fit of anger: rage; and

a prevailing attitude.

Moods are definitely considered temporal because the feelings are felt one minute and gone the next but can return at any time. This is referred to as mood swings.

In Proverbs 23:7, For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. A person’s mood is a direct correlation to the atmosphere of the state of processing the things happening around them. The process is the what is or the what has happened to us. Emotions are the driving force that frames our mood. The Word says that whatever is carried in the heart will also be in his mind. This will be reflected in the display of his interactions.

This is the main reason why Proverbs 4:23 tells us to Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. What we experience in life will develop our feelings and emotions; that will create our mood. This is the foretelling of what was stated in the earlier statement, the importance of guarding the heart will determine how we think. Most of us have always thought that the mind is what guides the body, but it is actually the heart. The heart is the most powerful organ in the body that it even directs the head. This is why the Word of God says that The LORD looketh on the heart (1 Samuel 16:7).

The second point to address with depression is the disorder and how it functions. The disorder is defined as a verb and a noun. The transitive verb, which is:

to disturb the order of; or

to disturb the regular or normal functions of.

The transitive meaning is:

characterized by having or containing a direct object a transitive verb;

being or relating to a relation with the property that if the relation holds between a first element and a second and between the second element and a third, it holds between the first and third elements; or

of, relating to, or characterized