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• Depression
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• Pain
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• Your Hard Times
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• Dark Mood

Turbulence That Transforms - #6251
The shaking you're enduring, the hits you're taking, those are tools in God's hands to bring out an amazing beauty in you: a strength, a tenderness, a maturity, a confidence, a compassion that comes only from being beautified in God's tumbler. So don't wallow in the "why is this happening?" quagmire. Instead, keep asking, "How can God use this?"
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/turbulence-that-transforms-6251

Finding beauty amidst brokenness
Can beauty come out of brokenness? God has the startling ability to bring out moments of grace and beauty out of even the most wrenching despair.
http://gospel.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/23/todays-devotional-finding-beauty-amidst-bro...

The Garbage Miracle - #3010
Beauty from ashes - praise from despair - something very special from something very ugly. If you will let Jesus be the Lord of your life's pile of garbage, He can make of it a mountain from which many will be able to see Him.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-garbage-miracle-3010

Lifter of my head - a Christian perspective
God is described as the "lifter of my head"--the one who notices when we are sad and despairing, and gives us strength and hope so that we can hold our heads up high again.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%203:3&version=KJV

Despair - a Christian perspective
Christians can be beaten down and persecuted, but the Christian faith can never be destroyed--and suffering believers can take comfort in the fact that Christ suffers with them.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%204:8-10&version=KJV

Grief in the Bible: Psalm 31:8-10
Have you ever felt broken down and at your wit's end? The writer of this psalm can relate; in this passage, he appeals to God for help and relief from the grief and pain he's experiencing. God does not neglect such a cry, but provides safety and comfort.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2031:8-10&version=NIV

Depression in the Bible: Psalm 73:1-28
The writer of this psalm experiences deep, wrenching emotions that we might recognize as depression or despair: his heart was grieved and his spirit embittered; he could not break out of his bleak mood alone. He finds strength and encouragement only in God and His faithfulness.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2073.1-Psalm%2073.28&version=NIV

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Good News When You're Out of Gas - #8141
There was a time in my life when I was running on empty spiritually until someone told me were they got their empty tank filled; at the cross where Jesus died to remove the sin that makes possible a personal relationship with God, the relationship we were made for that leaves a hole in our heart until we know Him. Jesus said, “Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst” (John 4:13). For two thousand years, people have been pulling into that station and finding the answers they can find nowhere else.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Good-News-When-You-re-Out-of-Ga...

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