Dealing with Despondency

Our faith needs to be placed in facts, not feelings. 

David on His Face – Verses 1-2

• God has forgotten me
  • Isaiah 49:14-16
• God doesn’t care about me
  • 1 Peter 5:7
• I’m going to have to work things out myself
  • Proverbs 3:5-6; 16:3, 7
• I resent this trial

David on His Knees – Verses 3-4

• Instead of viewing God as removed, he requests God to consider and hear
• Instead of despondency and distress, he now asks the Lord to “lighten” his eyes
  • Numbers 6:24-26
• Instead of worrying about his enemy, David now mentally releases his enemy to the Lord

David on His Feet – Verses 5-6

• Psalm 119:71
• Psalm 119:75
• 2 Corinthians 12:9-10