handling depression rightly

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SHE WORE A HALF LAP SKIRT
When I met her, I couldn’t recognize her for the way she was dressed; she wore a half lap skirt, sleeveless shirt and her face was grossly painted with several colors of facial paints (sorry I don’t know their names).
My friend noticed that I was carried away by her as I forgot myself while looking at her, when my friend tapped me, he was so surprised that I was carried away by a half nude girl but never knew what was going-on on my mind. Latter I explained to him who the girl used to be, that she was far decent than what I saw today that something must had happened to her.
After a while, I went to her house and sat her down and talked with her, I told her that I saw her indecently dressed unlike her and she broke down in tears and told me how depressed she is. She had believed God for something important in her life and when she expected to get it, she didn’t and thus out of depression she lost her decency.
When we are depressed, most young people turn to ponorgrpahic sites and becomes immoral, others becomes violent to their environment by been abusive and list goes on and on.
Depression is one of the great tools the devil uses to make the children of God backslide from their faith.
How then can we overcome depression? To be able to overcome depression you must first know the reason certain times things that should be fails to be; it’s because God is testing our heart to prove if we are following Him because all is going well with us or because we love Him deeply.
Doesn’t God know the result, why is He still testing us? (Lam 3:33) Well, He is testing us to prove not to Himself but to the devil that we are following Him not because we are getting all the results we want in life (God doesn’t delight in our pains) but because we love Him despite awkward outcomes in our lives (refer to Job’s case).
 How do we overcome depression? Its simple we just decide like Habakkuk in Hab. 3:17-18 ‘Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation’, yes you decide, though things am believeing God for doesnt show up, I will still trust and rejoice in the God of my salvation.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe
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