Psalm 42 - "Overcomer"

I woke up this morning and started praying for a young lady who has dealt with depression for many years. I thought about the things I knew about her life and about how we both were dealt with dealing with a tramatic incident in our childhood. I thought about how the Lord eenabled me to be an overcomer with the situation and started praying He would do the same for her. The words to Mandisa's song "Overcomer" are so true for one dealing with depression...

You might be down for the moment...feeling like your hopeless...

Oh my, there were so many times in life where I felt like life was hopeless yet the Lord was always there to lift me up! He was always ready to encourage me and give me exactly what I needed to fight my way through the times of depression. As I prayed for this young lady, the Lord guided me to Psalm 42. I remember so many times having the enemy put doubt in my mind that the Lord didn't love me because if He did He wouldn't allow me to be depressed. I also remember being told "If you're a Christian, you should be able to pray depression away instead of taking medication." I remember those times as being some of the darkest times of my life. I was blessed when I finally realized the Lord makes medication to take care of some of our problems. Depression did not have anything to do with my spiritual life. I depended upon the Lord to get me through the dark days and He did. I pray the same for this young lady.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
    so my soul pants for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
    under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
    among the festive throng.

5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.

6 My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
    the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.

8 By day the Lord directs his love,
    at night his song is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God my Rock,
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
    oppressed by the enemy?”
10 My bones suffer mortal agony
    as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”

11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.

Dear Jesus
I praise You for who You are in my life. I praise You for being so very real to me in some very dark days. You, Lord, are the Only One to get me through. Lord, would You please come down upon this young lady? Would You bless her with a healing in her mental being? Would You also encourage her spiritual being? Please put someone before her that will say something to make a difference in her life. I pray the issues from her past would be just that....her past. I pray the issue of molestation would not define her being. I pray You will enable her to be an "Overcomer" just as I have been. My hope is in You Lord and I pray she would pu her hope in You too. I praise You for being so great in my life. I praise You for giving me hope, especially during the dark days of depression. I also thank You for my husband who encourages me through tough times. What a blessing he is to me! Thank You Father for being My Hope! Amen.