How to Overcome Depression by Prayer
Depression can affect persons from any faith background. It's a disease that prevents people from being happy, regardless of their life situations. Understand that, just like any disease, prayer should be a supplement to medical help. It is not advisable to withhold physical treatment and attempt to overcome depression solely through prayer if you have become clinically diagnosed. But as long as it is understood that prayer is a help towards overcoming depression, there are a few steps that must be taken in order to move you towards mental health and happiness.
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Instructions
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Prayer for Depression
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Pray silently that God would have mercy. Some of the best prayers ever uttered were done so by the Psalmists, and most of the Psalms have a form of the prayer "have mercy on me God," because these prayers allow a person to give God total control of their outcomes. When a person has depression, it is a very dark place to be mentally, a place where they have no room to make demands of God.
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Ask God to bring you joy and happiness. This will locate the heart of the problem that is depression. Praying this essentially puts your depression up for exchange. Do not simply ask God to take away your depression, but be proactive and request positive attributes. Don't stop at personal joy and happiness. Pray that God would increase your compassion, your faith, love, hope and all the fruits of the Spirit.
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Take 30 minutes every day to pray these things to God. Meditate on him and the Bible, using this time to not only focus on the greater possibilities that shall come, but admitting your weakness to God. Praying that God heals you of your depression is an exercise in humility, and reminds you that you cannot be happy simply out of your own accord.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't be afraid to ask others to pray for you too. Depression is much easier to deal with if you have a community you can go to for love and help. Try finding a church or small group where you won't be embarrassed to ask for prayer.
Do not let your prayer become too focused on your depression. If your prayers are just as dreadful as anything else, ask a church leader or pastor to help you pray. This is important because you don't want prayer to become just another way of feeling bad for yourself. Prayer should always help you look ahead to something better.
