PSALM 42 & 43 - A QUESTION OF DEPRESSION
Psalm 42:5, 11 & 43:5 - Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me?

PSALM 42 & 43 - RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION
Psalm 42:5,11 & 43:5 - Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm 42:1-4 - As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

Psalm 42:5-11 - Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. 6 I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. 8 The Lord will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night—a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God, my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?” 10 My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?” 11 Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Psalm 43 - Vindicate me, God, and defend my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression? 3 Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, to Your dwelling place. 4 Then I will come to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the lyre, God, my God. 5 Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.

AS JESUS FOLLOWERS WE MAY EXPERIENCE DEPRESSION BUT WE AREN'T MEANT TO DWELL IN IT.

PSALMS OF PROGRESSION: (42-43)
FROM DESPERATION TO HOPE.
FROM DEPRESSION TO PRAISE.
FROM OPPRESSION TO PROTECTION & PROVISION.**

Psalm 55:16-18,22 - But I call to God, and the Lord will save me. 17 I complain and groan morning, noon, and night, and He hears my voice. 18 Though many are against me, He will redeem me from my battle unharmed. 22 - Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you.

DEPRESSION DESIRES TO DRAIN YOU, CASTING YOUR BURDENS UPON GOD WILL SUSTAIN YOU.

PSALM 56 PROMISE:
This I know: God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

Psalm 56:1-11 - Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me; he fights and oppresses me all day long. 2 My adversaries trample me all day, for many arrogantly fight against me. 3 When I am afraid, I will trust in You. 4 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not fear. What can man do to me? 5 They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts against me are evil. 6 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps while they wait to take my life. 7 Will they escape in spite of such sin? God, bring down the nations in wrath. 8 You Yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your records? 9 Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call. This I know: God is for me. 10 In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, 11 in God I trust; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

Psalm 58:6 - God, knock the teeth out of their mouths.

GOD'S TRUTH IS GREATER THAN ANY TAUNT.
GOD'S SALVATION CAST ASIDE ANY SLANDER.
GOD'S LOVE OVERSHADOWS EVERY LIE.

Psalm 54:1-7 - God, save me by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might! 2 God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God. 4 God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life. 5 He will repay my adversaries for their evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them. 6 …I will praise Your name, Yahweh, because it is good. 7 For He has delivered me from every trouble.