Do Not Mistake Burdens For Depression
Don Franklin
Florida USA
http://www.propheticroundtable.org
If you look around you, you would see what is happening in this earth right now. You would realize that even when the Lord Jesus was here the Roman army was in occupation of the nation. They were an oppressed people. He saw the day when the Romans would knock the temple flat and he warned them.
There is trouble coming. The blood will flow in the streets and what you have to realize and what you have to understand is you live in a world of trouble. You live in a world of problems. You live in a world of conflict. You live in a world that is fallen. You live in a world where the god of this world is Satan himself and he creates havoc all over the planet and the only safe place I tell you is in the Spirit. You must seal yourself in and cry onto God and cry onto God and cry onto God for you will see around you devastation and destruction.
Those of your elders who came before you prayed through WWI, prayed through WWII. They prayed through the Korean War. They saw great conflict upon the earth. It did not scare them. They ran into their prayer closets and communed with God. You will not live in Disney Land. This is not a fairytale world that you live in, children. It is a very real world and there are very real attacks. There are very real things that happen all around you everyday. You must learn to closet yourself in and cry unto God and cry unto God and cry unto God.
And do not mistake a burden for a depression. Depression is when you quit trying. Depression is when you stay in bed and do not come to prayer meetings. Depression is when you have given up and no longer even call on God. Burdens are something that you carry until God intercedes through you and they are lifted.
Moses lifted his hands before the people and he was so weary in the battle that he had to have help or the people would have lost. You will not do this alone. You will not be an island unto yourself. There will be times when you need the strength of those around you, when you come in so burdened by the things that have gone on around you, by the problems that you face that others face, even burdens that are dropped in you for nations and for people.
Hannah was burdened for the birth of Samuel that the nation could have a prophet. The priest thought she was drunk. She was not drunk; she was under a burden to give birth to one of the greatest prophets that ever lived.
Do not mistake your burdens for depression. There are times when you must come in and you will be weighted down by the things that you carry, but you will come in that you may be lifted up, saith the Lord. Do not stop coming because you are burdened. Come to the House of God and deliver your burden, saith the Lord. I will give you the Samuels that are to come in the future. I will give you the deliverance for the nations. Do not be afraid of your burden. Be afraid of depression, saith God, when you no longer even come to pray out the things that are troubling you to walk the floors of God.
Where are you supposed to go when you need help? Do you go to the bar and drink? Do you run back to someone who will feed you full of bitterness or do you come to the House of God, walk the floors of God, talk to God, talk to your Friend, call upon God, call upon God, call upon God? You will find strength and help in the House of God. You will find those who will lift your arms up. You will find those who will encourage you and help you carry the burden.
No man can carry the burden for a nation. Moses could not carry it without help. He had to have help. He had to have people come along side and lift those arms that were weary from warfare. Daniel fought a long time crying on God, crying on God, crying on God before finally the breakthrough came. Bring your tired weary self down to the House of God and walk the floors, saith the Lord, and I will send in help. I will send in those who are on top at the moment.
But if you would know the truth, those that are on top for a moment have been down before. Not everyone is up everyday. Not everyone is walking with Angels and hearing eagles speak to them and flying on the clouds of joy. It switches back and forth in this great battle, saith God. Many times you are so burdened you even think you're in depression but you are not. You are burdened for things and you don't understand it.
You've got to grow up and pray those things out, saith the Lord. There's no shame in it. There's no condemnation in it. There's no problem with it. You are simply under a mantle of intercession and prayer. Sometimes it is heavy. It is very heavy for the things you are crying for. Hannah was mistaken for being drunk it was so heavy. But you are not drunk. You are not a wild child. You are someone who is walking in the will and the purposes of Almighty God.
So come to the House of God and walk and talk and pray and intercede. Do not pull back because you are heavy in spirit. But come down and deliver your soul and God will refresh you and God will reward you for your faithfulness. The enemy would move and set up a trap. It is the hours of intercession that can spring those traps. That is why you are so burdened. You are praying for things that are coming in the future.
Oh, continue to walk and talk and encourage one another. Love one another. Lift one another up. Bear one another's burdens. One of you has a song; one of you has a word; one of you is in sorrow. Comfort one another; lift one another. You are a body, saith the Lord. You are a team. You need each other. Those that are up lift those up that are down. Put an arm around them. Hug them; kiss them; pray for them; lift them up, saith God. Bear one another's burdens in the Lord and you will be a victorious army and a unit that has power with God, power with God, power with God.
But lock yourselves in, in this coming day and learn to cry in God as this gentleman has spoken. Cry on God, cry on God, cry on God night and day no matter what is going on around you. You will walk in a wicked world but you can have communion with God in it.