26 Mar When Depression Descends

What is Depression?

Depression isn’t just feeling sad. It’s very psycological and physical pressures; feeling fatigued in mind/body/soul, restless, unmotivated, & uninterested in life.

It is demonic power to destroy our faith and hope in God.

 

Penyebab DEPRESI

1. Jauh dari TUHAN, walaupun ada dan melayani di Rumah Tuhan. 1 Samuel 2:22-25 : 22) Eli telah sangat tua. Apabila didengarnya segala sesuatu yang dilakukan anak-anaknya terhadap semua orang Israel dan bahwa mereka itu tidur dengan perempuan-perempuan yang melayani di depan pintu Kemah Pertemuan, 23) berkatalah ia kepada mereka: “Mengapa kamu melakukan hal-hal yang begitu, sehingga kudengar dari segenap bangsa ini tentang perbuatan-perbuatanmu yang jahat itu? 24)Janganlah begitu, anak-anakku. Bukan kabar baik yang kudengar itu bahwa kamu menyebabkan umat TUHAN melakukan pelanggaran. 25)Jika seseorang berdosa terhadap seorang yang lain, maka Allah yang akan mengadili; tetapi jika seseorang berdosa terhadap TUHAN, siapakah yang menjadi perantara baginya?” Tetapi tidaklah didengarkan mereka perkataan ayahnya itu, sebab TUHAN hendak mematikan mereka.
2. Tabut PERJANJIAN TUHAN DIRAMPAS. Kehilangan kuasa penyertaan Tuhan dalam hidup kita. 1 SAMUEL 4 seluruh nya.
3. Tabut Perjanjian Tuhan di kuil dagon orang Filistine, sepertinya kekuasaan Tuhan dikalahkan oleh dewa orang Filistine.

Keadaan inilah yang menjadikan kita mengalami DEPRESI, yaitu kehilangan hadirat Tuhan dalam hidup kita dan mengalami tekanan-tekanan dari kekuatan dunia dan keadaan sekitar kita. Sepertinya Tuhan dikalahkan oleh keadaan hidup kita!

What should we DO when the darkness of spiritual depression descends into our lives?

Here are some directives draws from the Bible for you:

1. SING

The psalmist sings to the Lord at night, pleading for his life.

Psalm 42:8 says, “By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.”

PSALM 42:1-11 + 1 SAMUEL 4:21-22: IKABOD, telah lenyap kemuliaan Allah.

1. Untuk pemimpin biduan. Nyanyian pengajaran bani Korah.
2. (42-2) Seperti rusa yang merindukan sungai yang berair, demikianlah jiwaku merindukan Engkau, ya Allah.
3. (42-3) Jiwaku haus kepada Allah, kepada Allah yang hidup. Bilakah aku boleh datang melihat Allah?
4. (42-4) Air mataku menjadi makananku siang dan malam, karena sepanjang hari orang berkata kepadaku: “Di mana Allahmu?”
5. (42-5) Inilah yang hendak kuingat, sementara jiwaku gundah-gulana; bagaimana aku berjalan maju dalam kepadatan manusia, mendahului mereka melangkah ke rumah Allah dengan suara sorak-sorai dan nyanyian syukur, dalam keramaian orang-orang yang mengadakan perayaan.
6. (42-6) Mengapa engkau tertekan, hai jiwaku, dan gelisah di dalam diriku? Berharaplah kepada Allah! Sebab aku akan bersyukur lagi kepada-Nya, penolongku dan Allahku!
7. (42-7) Jiwaku tertekan dalam diriku, sebab itu aku teringat kepada-Mu dari tanah sungai Yordan dan pegunungan Hermon, dari gunung Mizar.
8. (42-8) Samudera raya berpanggil-panggilan dengan deru air terjun-Mu; segala gelora dan gelombang-Mu bergulung melingkupi aku.
9. (42-9) TUHAN memerintahkan kasih setia-Nya pada siang hari, dan pada malam hari aku menyanyikan nyanyian, suatu doa kepada Allah kehidupanku.
10. (42-10) Aku berkata kepada Allah, gunung batuku: “Mengapa Engkau melupakan aku? Mengapa aku harus hidup berkabung di bawah impitan musuh?”
11. (42-11) Seperti tikaman maut ke dalam tulangku lawanku mencela aku, sambil berkata kepadaku sepanjang hari: “Di mana Allahmu?”
12. (42-12) Mengapa engkau tertekan, hai jiwaku, dan mengapa engkau gelisah di dalam diriku? Berharaplah kepada Allah! Sebab aku bersyukur lagi kepada-Nya, penolongku dan Allahku!

Lagu 1: SERTI RUSA RINDU SUNGAIMU JIWAKU RINDU ENGKAU

KAULAH TUHAN HASRAT HATIKU KURINDU MENYEMBAHMU

ENGKAU KEKUATAN DAN PERISAIKU KEPADAMU ROHKU BERSERAH

KAULAH TUHAN HASRAT HATIKU KURINDU MENYEMBAHMU

This is not a song of jubilant hope. He doesn’t feel jubilant hope.

He is seeking jubilant hope.

This is a prayer song and pleading song — a song “to the God of my life”; that is, a song pleading for his life.

But isn’t it amazing that he is singing his prayer!

My guess is that this is where Psalm 42 came from.

This very psalm may be that nighttime prayer-song.

Lagu 2: YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE,

YOU ALWAYS FILLS MY WITH PSALM OF DELIFERENCE

WHENEVER I AM AFRAID I WILL TRUST IN YOU

I WILL TRUST IN YOU, I WILL TRUST IN YOU

LET THE WEAK SAY I AM STRONG IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD

I WILL TRUST IN YOU

Not many of us can compose songs when we are discouraged and weeping day and night. That’s why a singable psalter is good to keep around — or a hymnbook with the whole array of emotions.

For example, HORATIO G. SPAFFORD wrote these verses to be sung:

Lagu 3:

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

1. WHEN PEACE LIKE A RIVER, ATTENDETH MY WAY,

WHEN SORROWS LIKE SEA BILLOW ROLL,

WHATEVER MY LOT! THOU HAS TAUGHT ME TO SAY,

IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

REFF: IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL,

IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

1. THOUGH SATAN SHOULD BUFFET, THOUGH TRIALS SHOULD COME.

LET THIS BLEST ASSURANCE CONTROL,

THAT CHRIST HATH REGARDED MY HELPLESS ESTATE,

AND HATH SHED HIS OWN BLOOD FOR MY SOUL

1. MY SIN OH, THE BLISS OF THIS GLORIOUS THOUGHT!

MY SIN, NOT IN PART BUT THE WHOLE,

IS NAIL TO THE CROSS, AND I BEAR IT NO MORE,

PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD, OH MY SOUL!

The Psalter of old time contains these verses to be sung the way the psalmist of PSALM 42: 4 : “Air mataku menjadi makananku siang dan malam, karena sepanjang hari orang berkata kepadaku: “Di mana Allahmu?”

The SONG IN THE NIGHT:

Lagu 4: IN THE GARDEN

1. I COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE,                                                                                                                    WHILE THE DEWS IS STILL ON THE ROSSES.

AND THE VOICE I HEAR FALLING ON MY EAR,

THE SON OF GOD DISCLOSURE

REFF: AND HE WALK WITH ME, AND HE TALK WITH ME

AND HE TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN

AND THE JOY HE SHARE AS WE TARRY THARE

NON OTHERS HAS EVER KNOW

HE SPEAK AT THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE

IS SO SWEET THE BIRD AS A SINGING

AND THE MELODY THAT HE GAVE TO ME

WITH IN MY HEART IS RINGING

These are not jubilant songs. But they are songs of faith. And they are shaped by thinking and feeling with God in the PSALM 42:5: ”

” Inilah yang hendak kuingat, sementara jiwaku gundah-gulana; bagaimana aku berjalan maju dalam kepadatan manusia, mendahului mereka melangkah ke rumah Allah dengan suara sorak-sorai dan nyanyian syukur, dalam keramaian orang-orang yang mengadakan perayaan.

Lagu 5: HE TOUCH ME

SACLE BY A HEAVY BURDEN,

NEED THE LORD OF GIVE AND CHANGE,

THAN THE HAND OF JESUS TOUCH ME!

AND NOW I AM NO LONGER THE SAME

REFF: HE TOUCH ME, OOHHH HE TOUCH ME

AND OH THE JOY THAT FLOOG MY SOUL

SOMETHING HAPPEN, AND NOW I KNOW

HE TOUCH ME AND MAKE ME WHOLE

SINCE I MET THIS BLESSED SAVIOR

AND SINCE HE CLEANCE AND MADE ME HOPE

I NOW SEEK TO PRAISE HIM

I SHALL HAVE ETERNITY HOPE

In PSALM 42:6-8

1. Mengapa engkau tertekan, hai jiwaku, dan gelisah di dalam diriku? Berharaplah kepada Allah! Sebab aku akan bersyukur lagi kepada-Nya, penolongku dan Allahku!
2. Jiwaku tertekan dalam diriku, sebab itu aku teringat kepada-Mu dari tanah sungai Yordan dan pegunungan Hermon, dari gunung Mizar.
3. Samudera raya berpanggil-panggilan dengan deru air terjun-Mu; segala gelora dan gelombang-Mu bergulung melingkupi aku.

Lagu 6: ONLY BELIVE

ONLY BELIEVE, ONLY BELIEVE,

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE,

IF YOU ONLY BELIEVE

ONLY BELIEVE, ONLY BELIEVE,

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE,

IF YOU ONLY BELIEVE

Verses: I MET GOD ONE MORNING, I AM SO FEELLING BAD

I HEAVY LADDEN, I FELT DROWNING

YOU LIFT ALL MY BURDEN, NOW I AM FELLING GLAD

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, IF YOU ONLY BELIEVE

I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE

All THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

IF I ONLY BELIEVE

PSALM 42:9 : TUHAN memerintahkan kasih setia-Nya pada siang hari, dan pada malam hari aku menyanyikan nyanyian, suatu doa kepada Allah kehidupanku.

Lagu 7: WITHOUT HIM

WITHOUT HIM, I COULD DO NOTHING

WITHOUT HIM, I SHOULD BE VAIN

WITHOUT HIM, I WOULD BE DRIFTING

LIKE A SHIP WITHOUT A SAIL

WITHOUT HIM, I WOULD BE DYING

WITHOUT HIM, I WILL ANSLAVE

WITHOUT HIM, LIVE WILL BE WORTHLESS

BUT WITH JESUS THANK GOD I AM SAVE

REFF: JESUS OH JESUS

DO YOU KNOW HIM TODAY

PLEASE DON’T TURN HIM AWAy

OOHH JESUS MY JESUS

WITHOUT HIM I LOST I WOULD BE

PSALM 42:10-12

10, Aku berkata kepada Allah, gunung batuku: “Mengapa Engkau melupakan aku? Mengapa aku harus hidup berkabung di bawah impitan musuh?”

42-11) Seperti tikaman maut ke dalam tulangku lawanku mencela aku, sambil berkata kepadaku sepanjang hari: “Di mana Allahmu?”

42-12) Mengapa engkau tertekan, hai jiwaku, dan mengapa engkau gelisah di dalam diriku? Berharaplah kepada Allah! Sebab aku bersyukur lagi kepada-Nya, penolongku dan Allahku!

Lagu 8: HOW GREAT THOUGH ART

1. OH LORD MY GOD, WHEN I IN AWESOME WONDER

CONSIDER ALL THE WORLD THY HAND HAS MADE

1. I SEE THE STAR I HEARBTHE ROLLING THUNDER

THY POWER THROUGH OUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAY

1. WHEN CHRIST SHALL COME, WITH SHOUT OF ACCLAMATION

AND TAKE ME HOME, WHAT JOY SHALL FILLS MY HAERT

1. THAN I SHALL BOW IN HUMBLE ADORATION

AND THAN PROCLAIM, MY GOD HOW GREAT THOU ART

REFF: THAN SING MY SOUL, MY SAVIOR GOD TO THEE

HOW GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART

1. Preach

Next, the psalmist preaches to his own soul.

Verse 5: “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”

O, how crucial this is in the fight of faith. We must learn to preach the truth to ourselves.

Listen to Lloyd-Jones take hold of this verse:

“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”

Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning.

You have not originated them, but they are talking to you.

They bring back the problems, failed, hurts of yesterday, etc.

Sometings and Somebody is talking.

Who is talking to you?

Your self is talking to you. Your circumstances are talking to you!

And the devil is talking to you!

Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this:

Instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself.

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks.

His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen to me for a moment.

I will speak to you.”

On this side of the cross, we know the greatest ground for our hope: Jesus Christ crucified for our sins and triumphant over death. So the main thing we must learn is to preach or talk the gospel to ourselves:

Listen, self: If God is for you, who can be against you?

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for you, how will he not also with him graciously give you all things? Who shall bring any charge against you as God’s elect?

It is God who justifies.

Who is to condemn?

Christ Jesus is the one who died — more than that, who was raised — who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for you.

Who shall separate you from the love of Christ? (Romans 8:31–35).

Romans 8:31-35

1. Sebab itu apakah yang akan kita katakan tentang semuanya itu? Jika Allah di pihak kita, siapakah yang akan melawan kita?
2. Ia, yang tidak menyayangkan Anak-Nya sendiri, tetapi yang menyerahkan-Nya bagi kita semua, bagaimanakah mungkin Ia tidak mengaruniakan segala sesuatu kepada kita bersama-sama dengan Dia?
3. Siapakah yang akan menggugat orang-orang pilihan Allah? Allah, yang membenarkan mereka? Siapakah yang akan menghukum mereka?
4. Kristus Yesus, yang telah mati? Bahkan lebih lagi: yang telah bangkit, yang juga duduk di sebelah kanan Allah, yang malah menjadi Pembela bagi kita?
5. Siapakah yang akan memisahkan kita dari kasih Kristus? Penindasan atau kesesakan atau penganiayaan, atau kelaparan atau ketelanjangan, atau bahaya, atau pedang?

 

Lagu: SHOUT TO THE LORD

MY JESSUS, MY SAVIOR, LORD THERE IS NON LIKE YOU

ALL OF MY DAYS, I WANT TO PRAISE THE WONDER OF YOR

MIGHTY LOVE

MY COMFORT, MY SHERTER, TOWER OF REFUGE AND STRENGTH

LET EVERY BREATH ALL THAT I AM, NEVER CEASES TO WORSHIP YOU

Reff: SHOUT TO THE LORD ALL THE EARTH LET US SING

POWER AND MAJESTIC PRAISE TO THE KING

MOUNTAIN BOW DOWN AND THE SEAS WILL ROAR

AT THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME

I SING FOR JOY AT THE WORK OF YOUR HAND

FOREVER I LOVE YOU FOREVER I STAND

NOTHING COMPARES TO THE PROMISE I HAVE IN YOU

Amen. Jbu with His new heights!