Psalm 42:5 (NLT)
Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
“The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself…you must turn on yourself, unbraid yourself, condemn yourself, exhort yourself, and say to yourself, “Hope in GOD” -instead of muttering in this depressed, unhappy way, and then you must go remind yourself of GOD, Who GOD is, and…what GOD has done, and what GOD has pledged Himself to do. Then having done that, end on this great note: defy yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil and the whole world, and say with this man: “I will praise Him for the help of His countenance, who is also the health of my countenance and my GOD.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones from "Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures"
