Good morning, Lord Jesus. Arise in my heart and shine through my life today. ...
“Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad” (Proverbs 12:25).
As I begin my day, fill my heart with Your Good Word. Let Your Word be a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path (Psalm 119:105). The Good News of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God will make me glad, as I hear it and as I share it (Luke 4:43).
Anxiety and depression fill the hearts and minds of so many people I talk to today. They cause fear, paradise the soul, and are ay the root and cause of many sins and disorders like hoarding, drug addiction, alcoholism, cutting, anorexia, suicide and others. As the root of anxiety bears the fruit of depression, we need to let the root of Jesus’s good words, rooted and grounded and springing forth from the Word of God, bear the fruit of gladness and peace and joy.
Your words are Truth; Your words are Spirit; Your words are Life (John 6:63).
You are Love (1 John 4:8). And Your words are expressions of Your love. And they are better than life.
“I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and Your glory. Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You. I will praise you as long as I live, and in Your name I will lift up my hands” (Psalm 63:1).
So let Your words of Spirit and Life fill my heart. Let Your words of Love and Life cast out all fear, all anxiety and lift off all depression, all discouragement, all heaviness of heart. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). “For (You have) not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7). So we can cast all our cares, all our anxieties upon You, for You care for us (1 Peter 5:7).
Jesus, uproot from within us all that bear the fruit of depression, discouragement, and heaviness of heart. In its place, comfort all who mourn in sadness or weariness or sorrow:
“To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified” (Isaiah 61:3).
Let it be so in me. And let it be so in every heart who would receive any words You would speak through me today on my journey of faith with You.
My family, I pray you may be filled with gladness and peace and joy as God's Good Words are rooted in your spirit, uprooting any anxieties, washing away depression, and casting out any fear, in Jesus' name. God bless you my friends!
