LiV Free From Depression

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I wish to share with you my experience with depression.

Depression had affected my life for many years. I could not really put a finger on what caused it in the first place but at some point in my adult life I realised that I had an acute form of depression. I was not formally diagnosed but when I realised that I had it, I went into self-denial.

Looking back at my life now, I can see symptoms and reactions that were obvious telltale signs of depression.

I had uncontrollable weight gain from compulsive eating. I sought comfort from food! I also sought affection from casual affairs. I toyed with thoughts of self destruction. My mood swings could instantly change from extreme happiness to extreme anger, and lastly but not least, I based my happiness on sensory pleasure and material things.

I tried to get rid of depression by first packaging it as a social problem, and then by going through counselling. It didn’t work out as expected but I “wore” a “happy” face when in public and suffered silently in private.

The bible says in John 8:32 “…then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free…”

When the truth hit me, I put my mind into finding more about all causes of depression and how to get rid of it.

I came across many documented sources of depression ranging from personal inherited conditions, upbringing to social problems! Many people can trace their depression from sickness, relationship problems, separation or divorce of parents, personal issues that stem from socially toxic environments in homes or work places. Some people have depression that came from being bullied. Neglect by parents or guardians, insecurity, loss of control in their own lives, death of loved ones, and illness to mention but a few of the many causes of depression around us!

Depression can also be a spiritual problem

I then realised that depression can also be a spiritual problem and when it is, no amount of counselling, antidepressants can solve it! Fortunately, I didn’t reach this stage of taking medication.

This knowledge alone meant that my problem was half solved. I now know that if your problem has a spiritual origin, counselling or chemical treatment can only manage the symptoms but the root cause of depression will remain intact. There is a chance that a clinical condition of the brain may give similar symptoms as depression. This could be a physical injury, or brain infection that affects your moods! I am not a doctor but this is a different problem that may be solved clinically!

Spiritual depression in general comes from what your environment fed you. It can run along the family lineage as environmental conditions can be recycled through different generations within a family. If it is an ancestral problem, it simply means that there is a bad spirit attaching itself to yourself or family! The presence of an unclean spirit in you, contaminates your normal spiritual nature. When our spiritual environment is contaminated, a person losses peace, a state that triggers emotional issues. You then automatically develop unpleasantness to other people around you as a reaction to your literal “hell”. Believe you me, what comes out of your contaminated emotional self will be toxic. Matthew 15:11 (NIV) “..What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them…”.

I learned the hard way that a person who has a spiritual depression is most likely demonised. It sounds unfair that a smart looking person dedicated to good life like I was can have demons. I did and I was also smart looking!

By default, humans are demonised by all types of unclean spirits. There are a number or reasons for this, ranging from our own lifestyle to our ancestral heritage.

If the cause of your depression cannot be explained, please try to dig out if your parents, grandparents or your great grandparents were involved in occultism, acts of witchcraft, were members of organisations involved in mass murders, unholy rituals, false religious beliefs, or tribal killings. They may have committed generational sins of idolatry or murders even by association!

That is why we should be careful what groups we join! Some group activities have a direct or indirect roots of idolatry. It is clearly stated in the bible that these sins attract curses from God that flow down to their children, grandchildren or great grandchildren. You need to deal with such sins urgently by renouncing and repenting active sins in your life. Renounce sins on behalf of your ancestors. Acknowledge the work of Jesus on the cross to take away our ancestral curses! If you are not sure, you should still do it. Don’t take any chances.

Getting rid of depression through medication

You may be treated medically for physical symptoms but please note that if the root cause of depression is spiritual and not a clinical condition, it will not go away! If it is spiritual, and the spiritual threat has been eliminated by casting out the unclean spirit responsible, the affected body functions will heal themselves. You will respond to treatment quickly and will eventually cease to take medication. If the spiritual root of depression is not dealt with, then you may take medication for ever or invite other spiritual problems like self-harm or drugs abuse.

Getting rid of depression through counselling

If the source of the issue was a simple problem of forgiving of self, your spouse, parents or someone else, once you forgive, the issue is corrected spiritually, as your mindset changes through counselling! The unclean spirit leaves because it has no right to be in you, and loses a foothold on your thought pattern. The foothold here being the unforgiveness that was in you.

In such a case, any counselor will unknowingly help you get rid of a demon spirit without necessarily treating it as spiritual. This is not always the case. Since an unclean spirit uses two spiritual reasons to live in you, the presence of a foothold and the presence of a devil’s legal right or rights to inflict suffering on you.

The presence of legal rights in a person or family, breeds a curse. Ancestral curses may be out of your control if you don’t acknowledge the reasons why Jesus was crucified. Jesus was crucified to take away the legal rights that the devil has on us. Once the legal rights are taken from the devil, it’s then easier to deal with the curses!

Some people try to deal with the footholds before the legal rights! That is now religion and you won’t be able to live in victory!

A foothold is the area of spiritual darkness that you are operating in. Unforgiveness is a form of darkness and so is hatred or sexual immorality to mention but a few footholds!

It is easier to get rid of the footholds once the legal rights that demons have on you have been removed! What removes the legal rights? Genuine salvation! Salvation that acknowledges the meaning of the cross! The cross is there to cancel the legal rights!

Depression can be overcome spiritually through the Holy Spirit

Where the source of depression is complex, and say it is ancestral or is a result of a curse, then you need the help of the Holy Spirit.

King Saul disobeyed God and ended up with a tormenting spirit that gave him depression and fear.

1 Samuel 16:14(NLT) Now the Spirit of the LORD had left Saul, and the LORD sent a tormenting spirit that filled him with depression and fear.

Around that time in a different location, a young lad by the name of David received the Holy Spirit after he was anointed by a prophet Samuel.

1 Samuel 16:13 (NIV) So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David…

The anointing of the Holy Spirit did not go unnoticed. People around David noticed that he was different from the others.

God was with David and when king Saul started being tormented by an evil spirit, they recommended the services of David.

1 Samuel 16:18 (NIV) One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre… He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him.”

King Saul sought help from the only Person Who could help and that was not David but the Holy Spirit living in David.

The services of the Holy Spirit

Please note that spiritual issues which include depression can only be resolved by the Holy Spirit in us or in other people, once the legal rights have been dealt with!

Unless the legal rights are revoked, the resolution through worship is always temporary! That’s why humans feel good when in church but go back home to their emotional traumas!

King Soul’s legal rights had not been dealt with! He was proud and unrepentant but when David worshipped in his presence, the demon left but still came back once worship stopped!

1 Samuel 16:23 (NIV) Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

This experience must have inspired David to later compose the following hymn.

Psalm 51:10 (kjv) Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

It’s not a surprise that David knew about what it is to struggle with an unclean spirit. He saw it firsthand in king Saul and I am sure in his own life too.

David also knew that unclean spirits leave us alone when we obey God, allow the Holy Spirit to dwell with us and constantly worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

Jesus confirmed this in John 4:23 (NIV) Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

Prophet Joel prophesied about the Holy Spirit coming to all people and not for the selected few like David, Moses, King Soul, the Prophets or the Judges of that time!

Joel 2:28 (NIV) “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people…”

He said that it will be for all people. So, we have no shortage of persons to pray for us because there are many who are filled with the Holy Ghost in our world today.

The birth of Jesus was the beginning of the fulfillment of this promise.

Luke 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and … to set the oppressed free…“

Unlike David who was only able to relieve Saul from the torments of the unclean spirit, Jesus came not only to set us free but to prepare us for the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Just like David, if we embrace the Holy Spirit and worship God in Spirit and in truth, then we shall overcome all spiritual oppression.

God is willing to remove that spirit of desperation and fill us with a garment of praise that comes through the infilling of the Holy Spirit. This will make us shine for Him.

Isaiah 61:3 (NIV) and provide for those who grieve in Zion– to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

Let’s start by doing first things first; repent our sins, repent the sins of our ancestors and unconditionally forgive those that have wronged us.

When we’ve done this, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for His salvation and desire to be filled by the Holy Spirit.

Let’s be filled with the Holy Spirit

If you’ve never heard of the Holy Spirit, you are not alone. Many people don’t know about Him. Acts 19:2 (NIV) and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

The Holy Spirit gives us power against the enemy.

When we have this power, we are able to worship God and fight unclean spirits in other people or in us without fear or despair.

1 Samuel 16:23 (NIV) Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

David was full of divine courage and the unclean spirit in Saul left their presence whenever David started worshiping God with music.

Acts 1:8 (NIV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you…”

It’s biblical to ask someone who is living right and who has the Holy Spirit in them to lay hands on you to receive the infilling. This is not just anybody in the street and certainly not persons who waste other peoples time by bubbling nonsense. These are people who manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit and certainly not the sexually immoral or gossipers or idolaters. It’s all clear in Galatians 5:13-26

Acts 19:6 (NIV) When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

Once you are filled with the Holy Spirit, ask the unclean spirit of depression to leave your presence for ever. You don’t need to shout, demons are not deaf. You can quote scriptures as you do it.

Mark 16:7 (NIV) And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons…

You can read more in this site on how to be filled by the Holy Spirit.

I believe that you’ve been blessed by this article!

Remember, the scripture says that the devil came to steal, destroy and eventually kill!

Don’t let the devil steal your peace, joy and life through depression!

Let it not destroy you or your family!

Depression should not kill you or your future!

May God richly bless you!

[Article Author: Joseph GM]