Prayer Against Depression
Heavenly Father,
I thank You for making me in your image and giving me a new identity through Christ. I thank you that you created me to be whole and healthy in mind, body, and spirit. I thank you that You are my mind regulator and that my mind can be renewed by your word and your Spirit (Romans 12:2). I thank you for taking everything from my past and crucifying it with Christ so that now He lives in me (Galatians 2:20). Your word promises that every old thing has passed away and that now all things are new (2 Corinthians 5:17). I understand that in this fallen world, I will face tribulations, trials, and tests, but you have given me authority over the enemy and the power to overcome every obstacle and opposition that comes my way (Luke 10:19).
Lord, I come to You asking for relief and for Your peace to rule in my heart and mind. Your word declares that I now have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16) and that You have not given me the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). Jesus, You are the prince of peace, and as an heir with You, I fully receive my inheritance of abundant peace. Your word says that You will keep me in perfect peace when I keep my focused on You (Isaiah 26:3). Help me, Lord, to fix my eyes on You through every battle in my mind and in my life.
Lord, I ask that you would help me to overcome the thoughts, feelings, and circumstances that have come to crush and weary my soul. Father, I ask that by Your Holy Spirit, You Comfort me and bring healing to my mind, my emotions, and to every part of my being that is affected by my current emotional, spiritual, and mental state. I ask you, that as my Good Shepherd, You restore my soul and lead me to quiet waters where I may be refreshed (Psalm 23:2-3). Father, help me to be built up in the spirit so that I can walk in your joy, peace, and goodness. Help me to discern that You are with me through everything and to see Your faithfulness, beyond my circumstance. Help me to walk by faith and not by the challenges, setbacks, or unpleasant circumstances I see (2 Corinthians 5:7). Your word promises that you will never leave me nor forsake me (Deuteronomy 31:8, Hebrews 13:5), so I trust that You are with me, and that through You I will overcome!
Right now, I take my authority in Christ and call back to myself my right mind. I call back to myself a softened heart. I call back joy. I call back peace that surpasses all understanding, which You sent Your spirit to fill me with. In Jesus name, I declare that I have a sound mind! In Jesus name, I speak peace to every neuron, every chemical imbalance, every mental strain and stressor, and command them to be restored to your perfect design. I speak to every trauma living in my soul and body and command it to go now! I command every agent of evil working against me in the spiritual realm to oppress, depress, and destroy me to leave now in the name of Jesus!
In Jesus' mighty name, I take every negative, evil, dark, depressing, and suicidal thought captive and submit it to Christ. I plead the blood of Jesus over my mind, thoughts, body, my life, my soul, and everything pertaining to me. May Your blood cover, protect, preserve, and revive me with new life. Father, Your word says that every knee will bow, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord, so I command the knee of depression to bow now in the name of Jesus! Depression, leave now! You have no authority here! I repent and break every legal right that allowed depression in and cancel every assignment of the enemy to spiral me into darkness and away from Your light. Father, give me practical and spiritual strategies to fight the darkness seeking to steal, kill, and destroy me, my relationship with You and others, and Your promises for my life.
Holy Spirit, grace me with the mental, emotional, and spiritual resilience I need to walk out my healing with You and not get weary. Lord, help me to take authority over the enemy and over my flesh so that I might not sink into a well of depression. Help me to live in the abundance of Your joy, peace, goodness, faithfulness, and grace. I declare today that depression is not my portion; Peace is my portion. Joy is my portion, and I will surely see it made manifest in my life. In Jesus’ mighty and matchless name I pray, amen!
