Preach to Yourself

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Trusting God’s future grace comes by hearing the word. Therefore, preaching the word to ourselves is all-important in overcoming spiritual depression.

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0:00.0	July 22, preach to yourself.
0:04.4	Why are you cast down, O my soul?
0:07.7	And why are you in turmoil within me?
0:10.9	Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
0:15.0	my salvation, and my God, some 42, 11.
0:20.6	We must learn to fight despondency, the downcast spirit.
0:27.6	The fight is a fight of faith in future grace.
0:32.4	It is fought by preaching truth to ourselves about God and his promised future.
0:41.5	This is what the psalmist does in Psalm 42.
0:44.7	The psalmist preaches to his troubled soul.
0:48.5	He scolds himself and argues with himself.
0:53.6	And his main argument is future grace.
0:57.1	Hope in God.
0:59.2	Trust in what God will be for you in the future.
1:03.3	A day of praise is coming.
1:05.5	The presence of the Lord will be all the help you need.
1:09.5	And he has promised to be with us forever.
1:13.6	Martin Lloyd Jones believes this issue of preaching truth to ourselves about God's future grace
1:21.3	is all important in overcoming spiritual depression.
1:26.1	In his helpful book, spiritual depression, he writes,
1:31.2	have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening
1:38.3	to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
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