Depression can sneak upon you and overtake you, but there are warnings. Once depression overtakes you it can become a way of life that completely takes over your personality and turns you into someone else. Someone that God never intended for you to be! Sickness, poverty and depression go hand in hand. I learned this by serving the community with a food pantry over the past five years. Sickness or pain comes upon the body, and this LIMITS your ability to make money and those to strikes often send people into a downward spiral of depression. And once you get there it is like a tide that holds you. Have you ever walked along the beech and stepped into the ocean and felt a current that was pulling you a direction that you did not want to go? This is how sickness, poverty and depression take over the life of an individual. It is like a downward current pulling you under. It can make you feel like you are at the mercy of the tides of life. That you are at the mercy of whatever life wants to throw your way. How can we pull up out of this pit?
You come up out of it the same way you got into it, you must fight the sickness, poverty and depression and WIN! To get out of a current that is pulling you under you must find a place to exit. Walking the opposite direction of the current will just wear you out and the current will pull you under through fatigue. And here we see the fourth chain of bondage that goes with Sickness, poverty and depression...and that is fatigue. Often the fatigue doesn't even have a medical reason to be there. It is there because you have been fighting off the currents of life that have been trying to pull you under and you are just so fatigued you no longer have the strength to stand or fight.
So what do you do when sickness and poverty have you limited? What do you do when depression and fatigue have wrapped themselves around your head and they are trying to push you under. You must fight! Not in the strength that you have inside, but in the strength of the LORD. For every issue in life, there is an anointing from God that causes us to rise above that issue and win the fight. If you have ever tried to get close to someone with an anointing you know this can be hard to do. People with an anointing upon their lives are often in high demand. Their time is limited. But the good news is that the Bible says that WE ALL HAVE A MEASURE OF THE ANOINTING!
1 John 2:20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
How important is that? Well it is the anointing that breaks the yoke of the enemy. It will take the anointing to break that sickness off your life. It will take the anointing to break poverty, depression and fatigue.
Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Even Jesus did what he did by the anointing of God
Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
Do you realize that YOU have an anointing upon your life. We teach at Praise Assembly of God that you don't need a priest or a preacher to lay hands upon you. That same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you! People in our church lay hands on the sick and THEY RECOVER! It isn't just the Pastor who has an anointing, you all have an anointing. You don't need a big name preacher to pray for that sickness to leave your body. You have an anointing, and the same God that dwells in them dwells in YOU!
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