The July 2025 Refreshing Daily in God’s Word will be the last issue of the devotional. Pastor Michael Rouse retired June 29, 2025. At the present time, Mountain View Baptist Church does not have anyone to continue this ministry.
We appreciate all the support and prayers that you have given for this ministry since 2007 when it first began. We pray the devotionals have been a blessing and have brought you closer in your walk with the Lord.
In the future, the Lord may allow the devotional to return. In the meantime, we are asking for your prayers for the man that God chooses for our church.
Thank you and God bless you!
Key Words: my soul refused to be comforted
Strangely enough, even David battled with depression...yes, King David, the apple of God’s eye.
Would it surprise you to know that some of the greatest pastors of our day, and days gone by, battled with depression?
One pastor said it well when he said, “Candidly, of all the groups I minister to, few are more depressed and exhausted than a group of pastors. They are overworked, usually underpaid, and almost without exception underappreciated, though most of them are doing a remarkable piece of work. Mild depressions can come on us unexpectedly and erode our willingness. Often, we can’t explain such depression at the time.
“Though writing more than a hundred years ago, Charles Spurgeon described in a chapter of his book, Lectures to My Students, exactly some of the reasons we suffer from burnout in ministry today. He even admitted to depression in his own life, often before a great success, sometimes after a great success, and usually because of something he couldn’t explain. He called this chapter “The Minister’s Fainting Fits.” Listen to his candid remarks.
“’Fits of depression come over most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy. There may be here and there men of iron...but surely the rust frets even these.’”
What to do:
✞Pray for those in places of spiritual leadership. They are always under attack.
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