Know Your Enemy | Depression: When the Soul Feels Empty

Depression can be loud in your head and silent in your life. We call it what it is: an invisible killer of the soul that doesn’t show up on an X-ray, but can still drain your joy, blur your focus, wreck your sleep, and convince you that nothing will ever change.

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Depression As A Hidden Killer

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It's time for some soul food with your host, Bishop Beira Joshua.

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Depression has been a killer. That is the soul killer. God bless you, together once again with the podcast Soul Food. Talking about depression, we are talking about the soul. Depression is something that happens inside. No X-ray MRI can diagnose, identify or show depression. There is no pill injection to heal depression. What can be done is just some medications to numb the pain. But depression is not visible. It's an invisible disease, invisible killer. And today we are going to be discussing about this oppression, demonic oppression that becomes depression. Well, uh, we are together with this episode know your enemy, depression. Do you suffer from depression? Somebody in your family and loved one is suffering, facing depression. I want you to understand that depression is the disease exactly of the soul. Depression is within you. It is not outside, but over here, over here. But exactly inside of you. You are watching us, listening to this podcast right now, wherever you may be, do not ignore the uh signs of depression. How it starts, how it uh hits a person inside. We

Ten Warning Signs To Notice

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are going to be discussing about it, but right now I want to show 10 signs of depression. If you can please stop everything you are doing to understand this sign. Because if you have one, you need spiritual help right away. If you need more than one, two or three, you need this urgent help. But if you have this ten plus, my friend, you need the quick help just right now. We are going to help you to defeat uh depression.

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Pay very close attention. Ten signs to identify depression. You have no goals for life, you feel numb. Life has no color nor meaning due to the numbness you have inside. Change in appetite and energy level. Change in concentration. You can't focus on anything you do. Anxiety. You worry and fear about everyday situations, excessive anger and mood swings, suicidal thoughts and attempts, sleepless nights, sadness and loss of interest. You are constantly feeling lonely in severe sadness. Can you relate?

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If the answer is I can relate to these problems, so you need to contact us. Now, Pass Raphael, depression. What

Why Loss Triggers Deep Depression

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causes depression? Usually depression is caused by losses. The loss of someone like a family member, loss, the loss of a job, a car, a position, many losses in life. When a person loses, the soul feels it more than the body, the physical. And this is where a person goes into the pressure. The pressure is about the loss of something or someone. Let us talk about losing a family member, especially that the person that was attacted to you. And when this person dies, like a spouse, parents or children, this person uh misses, which is normal, right? Yes. It is so hard for a person uh to go to the viewing, to go to the funeral service, to go to the burial, and afterwards, after math, comes the depression, because you miss that loved one so much. Perhaps he passed, by the way, sorry for your loss. Uh he passed, she passed one year ago, five years, ten years, two decades, and the person is still depressed because the soul misses that person as well. And the person doesn't know how to cope. Some people are mourning until today. Others just go to work, work, work. They want to feed the time, they want to forget, but the soul is now depressed.

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Yes, the soul is screaming for for an answer or resolute or an answer to why, right? Sometimes the person does not understand why. Why did it happen? We see a lot of that, Bishop, where the person is asking, Why did this happen to me? Why did God allow this? Why am I going through this?

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And somebody goes to the cemetery grieving every week. They go there to talk to the tomb as if they are talking to the family member. They bring flowers, they uh they talk, they start to have a conversation, they act like crazy, a crazy person, mentally ill person, because of this emptiness inside of the soul.

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Yes, the emptiness. That person uh died, passed away, and left that void inside of them because God's not present in that person. Now there's a bigger whole emptiness in them, and nothing that they do uh is able to fill it. And one thing, Bishop, it doesn't matter the age, right? Depression does not, let's say, discriminate in real in regards to age. We've seen children depressed, we've seen older adults depressed. No matter what, the problem is not the age, there's no limits, it's there's an emptiness that depression will take place.

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In the universal church, we do not tell anybody to stop seeing the uh health professional people that can help you give you some tea prescribed medication as long as they are professional. There is nothing wrong to see them. But you have seen one, two, three many, and the depression is still there inside of you. That's why we bring to you these soul food to help you, to transform you, so that you can overcome this depression. Others

Heartbreak, Loneliness, And Repeating Pain

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are feeling depression, they are still depressed because they lost uh not uh physically person is still alive, but they lost like uh marriage, yeah, they lost the spouse, or due to their love life, their emptiness, this person is also depressed.

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They failed so many times in the love life, so many broken families, marriages that they feel like maybe they're not meant to be loved. I'll be right back. Yes, sir. They're not meant to be loved, they feel like you know they're they're alone in this world, and and and sometimes you grew up alone. Your whole life, you witnessed the destruction of your family, and you said to yourself, I'm never gonna go through this. My life will be different, but it's repeating itself over and over again in your life. Once again, your relationship is broken. It's not the first or third, it's second or third relationship, and the person starts to feel as if sometimes they even blame God, right? Because they blame everybody and blame God, and they don't know what to do, and they don't know what to how to find a solution to that emptiness.

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The pressure is inside of your soul, the pressure is killing you. That's why we bring it to you. This soul food, soul food podcast. Contact somebody right now, it's live. We are live right now, so you can contact somebody because, in a few, we are going to uh pray against the pressure. Know your enemy. I'm showing to you that the pressure is inside of your soul. Uh, the pressure does not regard um color, your family, your background, how much rich or poor you are. Depression is a killer. And after depression comes the suicide or thought. This is what happened.

The Signs Revisited With Urgency

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We are going to watch once again these signs of depression. I want you to pay attention. Ten signs of this spiritual disease.

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Pay very close attention. Ten signs to identify depression. You have no goals for life, you feel numb. Life has no color nor meaning due to the numbness you have inside. Change in appetite and energy level. Change in concentration. You can't focus on anything you do. Anxiety. You worry and fear about everyday situations, excessive anger and mood swings, suicidal thoughts and attempts, sleepless nights, sadness and loss of interest. You are constantly feeling lonely in severe sadness. Can you relate?

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If you can relate to it, so the spiritual killer is inside of you.

When Meds And Routines Do Not Heal

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I was saying that after depression comes the suicide of thoughts. Why? Because a person tried medications, tried pills, counselors, even going to churches, even going to church, a person tries so many things, but is still depressed. Why? Because it's not just reading the Bible, singing songs that will help you to overcome depression. There are many depressed people inside of the church.

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Many, Bishop. It's not uh just memorizing Bible verses, as you said, uh being part of a choir, right? Singing in actually in that moment when they're in the church, there is that emotional feeling, the songs, the music, the positivity. But when they leave the church, the problem is inside. That proves that the problem is inside because when they leave, they're still empty, and that feeling of emptiness comes back again. When they're in the place with their songs, they're happy. When they're out, they're back again. It's like they try to forget, right, Bishop? If I forget, I'll be fine.

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But so there comes the suicide thoughts because spills, medications, uh going to church, sing over there, uh praising, worshiping, taking medications, did not solve your problem. Now comes another problem. It's about suicide. We are going to have another topic to talk about suicide thoughts. But if you are suicidal, you don't need to take your life to solve your problem. Take these problems that you have, bring it to us, and we are going to help you spiritually. Jesus is the doctor of doctors.

Anxiety, God’s Word, And Inner Repair

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And now let me get this Bible verse which says that uh depression, anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression. But the good word of God heals the heart, the good word of the Lord heals the heart of a person. But it says, anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression. But a good word makes it glad. Which good word is that? It's not the word of the doctor, it's not the good word of the physician, but this good word is the word of God. Only his word is powerful to go inside. Let me say, to penetrate deep inside of a person's soul.

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Penetrates and undoes all that depression has destroyed. It restores a person, it brings life, it brings hope. Because that person full of anxiety, hopeless, feeling lost, like we said, suicide thoughts have come, but the word of God brings the hope of a change, a hope of a transformation in her life.

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So

Jesus, Hannah, And Depression In Scripture

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you suffer from depression. When we read the Bible, we see many people that had depression, is deep inside. The Lord Jesus, when he was Gethsemane, he prayed to the Father and He said, My soul is in deep sorrow. So that is depression.

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Yes, that sorrow, the emptiness, the despair. Hold on, hold on.

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Because did you say Jesus had depression? Did you say just say it he had depression? Yes, he was betrayed, he was denied three times, he was left alone in Gethsemane because his disciples will sleep. So we are talking about three things: loneliness, betrayal, denial. Three things that affect the soul. And the person that is listening to us maybe was betrayed, abandoned, uh denied once, twice three times. Your applications that declined. Uh, you are abandoned by your family, and you are left alone, as Jesus was. That's why he cried over there. Remember, he was not there as God, but as a human being. And his soul, he said, is sorrowful.

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His soul is sorrowful, his soul was in pain in that moment. And he went through that bishop so that he understands the pain of those who are depressed. He knows the pain. If there's anyone that knows the pain of the person, that's why I said uh uh uh he's the uh uh soul's doctor. He's the exactly he's the soul's doctor because he went through it, he knows exactly what you feel, and he knows exactly what to do and what you need in order to solve that pain.

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So, what about Hanan? Hannah was a woman, she was not eating, she was not drinking, she was depressed. So we are breaking down, showing to you that in the past there was depression. Of course, the name was not the tyre, it was not that depression.

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There was no label, then nobody knew where it was named, they knew it was a deep emptiness.

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Now it became known all over the globe, all over the globe, it has been known as depression. That is the killer of the centuries. We are

Prayer For Healing And Deliverance

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going to pray, ask now the Lord to go inside of your soul and to remove this depression. So let us pray right now. Once again, the scripture says that anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression. But a good word or the word of God heals the heart. Close your eyes. In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Father. In this very moment, we pray to you, we call upon your name, knowing that you can answer us, assist us, knowing that you can transform this person's life. There is somebody listening to us, dispersing us over here on YouTube, Facebook, on this platform looking for a solution, or maybe just searched for the word the pressure for videos, and the hours popped up, and they are listening to us. Say it sounds like they are talking to me, Spirit of the Lord. I am asking you today. How many people killed themselves, even family members took their lives? Because before they took their lives, the soul was dying inside of them, a soul never dies. But the soul was weak, tired, empty, suffering from loneliness. Took his life or his body, but the soul is there now, even depressed, more and more in hell. Spirit of God, if you do not do something for this person right now, he's going to be, she's going to be one more in the list of those who took their lives and went to the grave. Lord, heal the soul that is sorrowful, bleeding, suffering, pain. Holy Spirit, you are the counselor. Disperses is still grieving for the loss of a family member. Oh Father God. But we are praying to you, we are asking you: enter this life, enter this soul, and revive, rejuvenate, and let this perserve, oh Lord, have this new life. This is what I am praying in the name of Jesus. Have your soul healed right now. You don't need to take your life to solve this problem. The Lord brings light, light inside of you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Praise God.

How To Reach Us And Share

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Amen. You are blessed right now. The Lord has blessed your life. You are going to see some ways you have on how to contact me. You can call the helpline number that is 1888 3324141. You can send me a text. That is my text number. It's a toll free 1-800-1888-3124141. Also, you can send me an email. This is my email address, bbf at universal.org. May the God of the Bible bless your life. We are going to be back soon with one more episode. Know your enemy. You are going to know your enemy, and we are going to be back with this um podcast, Soul Food. However, they can uh anytime share this podcast with a friend, a loved one.

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Yes, always share, you know, in social media. There's so many things being shared. Why not share something that's gonna bring food to the soul?

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That's right, food for the soul. God bless you. I'm going to see you soon.