Prayers & Promises for Depression and Anxiety E-Book

BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Prayers & Promises
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 76

Beschreibung

Many people experience feelings of depression or anxiety at different times in life. For some, daily occurrences cause difficulties in carrying out what could be considered normal activities. You are not alone. When grief, loss, pain, worry, or frustration lead to discouragement a feeling of hopelessness, pick up this book. Prayers & Promises for Depression and Anxiety incorporates more than 70 themes to help you receive the assurance, joy, peace, and comfort found in the promises of God's Word. Uplifting prayers and journaling space offer the opportunity for deeper reflection. By staying connected to God, and believing the promises of his Word, you can live a fulfilling, blessed life in close relationship with your heavenly Father. 

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Abandonment

Acceptance

Adoption

Anxiety

Assurance

Beauty

Belief

Blessings

Boldness

Change

Compassion

Comfort

Confidence

Contentment

Courage

Delight

Deliverance

Depression

Encouragement

Eternity

Faith

Faithfulness

Fear

Freedom

Friendship

Goodness

Grace

Grief

Guidance

Guilt

Health

Hope

Identity

Inspiration

Joy

Kindness

Life

Loneliness

Loss

Love

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Praise

Prayer

Promises

Protection

Provision

Purpose

Refreshment

Relaxation

Reliability

Relief

Restoration

Reward

Safety

Salvation

Satisfaction

Strength

Stress

Support

Sustenance

Thankfulness

Trust

Truth

Understanding

Victory

Wholeness

Wisdom

Worry

Introduction

When life’s troubles overwhelm you and you feel yourself slipping into depression or filled with anxiety, find your peace in God. Take comfort in knowing that he cares deeply for you and he will be with you in your darkest moments.

Prayers & Promises for Depression and Anxiety is a topically organized collection that guides you through themes of compassion, confidence, courage, identity, inspiration, purpose, and more. Encouraging Scriptures, heartfelt prayers, and prompting questions give you an opportunity to think more deeply about the hope found in God’s Word.

Begin to experience underlying joy and peace as you dwell on the promises of God.

Abandonment

“The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

DEUTERONOMY 31:8 NIV

The LORD loves justice and fairness; he will never abandon his people. They will be kept safe forever.

PSALM 37:28 TLB

God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity.

PSALM 68:6 NASB

“I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.”

JOHN 14:18 NLT

God, you say over and over in your Word that you will not leave me. Give me eyes to see you when I feel alone. Let my heart know your nearness when I cry out to you. You never turn away from those who need you, and oh, how I need you!

I will cling to the truth that your ever-present help is at hand, especially when I’ve reached the end of my rope. Today, may the comfort of your presence melt away every fear and lead me into love.

Do you truly believe that God will never leave you?

Acceptance

“The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.”

JOHN 6:37 NCV

The LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

1 SAMUEL 16:7 NKJV

If God is for us, who can be against us?

ROMANS 8:31 ESV

Before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.

EPHESIANS 1:4 TLB

God, what a wonder that you see me in a way that no one else does. Not only did you choose me before the beginning of time as your own, but nothing can change your mind about me! Thank you for accepting me just as I am, not as how I should be.

Help me to accept myself as you do and to know that I don’t have to do anything to earn your love. As I learn to receive your love without condition, I pray that I will love the way you do.

How does God’s acceptance of you help you be more accepting of others?

Adoption

You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

ROMANS 8:15–16 NRSV

“I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things will I do for them, And not forsake them.”

ISAIAH 42:16 NKJV

The LORD will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the LORD has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

1 SAMUEL 12:22 NASB

Father, how amazing it is that you call me your child! You do not leave your children to be tormented by their fears, so when I am afraid, I will run to you. You are my safe place, a refuge and help in time of trouble. I never need to hesitate to come to you, my good Father.

Thank you for welcoming me into your family; it is better than anything I’ve known. Help me to remember today, and every day, what my rights and privileges are as your child.

How does knowing that God has adopted you into his family make you feel?

Anxiety

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.

ISAIAH 26:3 NIV

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.”

JOHN 14:1 NLT

Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you.

1 PETER 5:7 NCV

I call out to the LORD when I’m in trouble, and he answers me.

PSALM 120:1 NIRV

Lord, you know my heart and my every thought. You know when I sit and when I stand. You know my history and my future. There are no mysteries to you. When doubts and fears threaten to overwhelm my mind and body, be the peace that calms the storm.

I will remember who you are: Defender, Savior, the Good Shepherd. You are my hope. I will trust in you, even when it takes everything inside of me to choose it. I will remember that though I cannot see the way out, you see it all so clearly and you are never overwhelmed. I trust you, God.

What steps can you take to be less anxious and more trusting?

Assurance

To him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory…for ever and ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20–21 NIV

All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 NLT

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

HEBREWS 13:8 NASB

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 JOHN 5:13 NKJV

God, I believe that you are who you say you are. Jesus, in you is the fulfillment of God’s promise for salvation. Thank you for being faithful to your Word. In you I place my hope. I ask that you would do more than I can even think to imagine or ask for with my little life.

Help me to believe that you will come through even when it’s hard for me to see a silver lining. You are better than my best day and more faithful than the rising sun.

How does believing God’s promises cause you to feel reassured?

Beauty

You are altogether beautiful, my darling, beautiful in every way.

SONG OF SONGS 4:7 NLT

No, your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.

1 PETER 3:4 NCV

She puts on strength and honor as if they were her clothes.

PROVERBS 31:25 NIRV

I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.

PSALM 139:14 NCV

Lord, when I look at the abundance of diversity in the world around me, I remember that beauty comes in many forms. When you created me, you did it intentionally.

Thank you that you made me unique on purpose and that beauty is so much more than skin-deep. Let beauty first grow in my heart, spilling out into the rest of my being. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

How does it make you feel to think God sees you as beautiful?

Belief

He must have a strong belief in the trustworthy message he was taught; then he will be able to encourage others with wholesome teaching and show those who oppose it where they are wrong.

TITUS 1:9 NLT

If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

1 TIMOTHY 4:6 NKJV

“All things are possible to him who believes.”

MARK 9:23 NASB

Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

JOHN 20:29 ESV