In a time of famine, the Bible says he prospered, waxed great, made progress, and grew until he became very great (Genesis 26). To encourage the depressed, Bridge wrote this choice book and filled it with the kind of rich encouragement which our. Isaac prospered in the midst of harsh economic conditions. Your prosperity should be born of the Word in spite of circumstances. Learn the value of meditating on the Word of God it’ll give you an extraordinary mind-set, such that you’re unperturbed in austere times. Think about the whole world as yours, for it’s indeed yours: (1 Corinthians 3:21). With the Word in your mouth, you’ll blaze through every barrier in life.Īn important principle you need to learn that’ll help you grow bigger financially is letting your mind soar beyond the prevailing economic situation around you. Lifting up the downcast free#If you don’t talk the Word, the system of this world will overwhelm you, and you’ll be a victim in life. What follows is a very free summary of chapter six of A Lifting Up for the Downcast by William Bridge, one of my favourite Puritan authors. When you have sufficiently proclaimed the Word over your situation, those confessions will dominate your senses, such that when you’re asked, “How are you?” you’ll say, “Great things are happening! Good things are coming my way today!” Halleluiah. Proclaim that you’re the seed of Abraham an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ. Get into your closet and begin to declare your prosperity and abundance in Christ. The challenges of our day may be enormous, but amidst so much inflation, rising cost of living, you can still say, “When men are cast down, I am lifted up.” When you begin to feel the pressure and the economic squeeze, don’t complain that’s the time to make the Word work. God while facing a season of discouragement and despair. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up… (Job 22:29). He laboured there until 1662, when he was ejected by the Act of Uniformity. That same year he accepted a position as town preacher at Yarmouth, where he organized an Independent church, and formally became its pastor in autumn 1643. Returning to England in 1641, the following year he was appointed a member of the Westminster Assembly, and proved himself a noted Independent. In 1636 he was forced to flee to Rotterdam in Holland, because of Bishop Matthew Wren's campaign against nonconformity, and co-pastored a church there with John Ward and then Jeremiah Burroughs. Condition: Like New ISBN 10: 1952450063 ISBN 13: 9781952450068 Seller. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1627, and served in Saffron Walden and Colchester in Essex, then becoming rector of St. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īorn in Cambridgeshire around 1600, William Bridge entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1619, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1623 and a master's degree in 1626, before serving as a fellow at the college. Downcast Christians of the twenty-first century can find help here as surely as did past generations. The general causes of spiritual depression are the same in every age. For example in dealing with 'great sins' he says, 'If you would be truly humbled and not be discouraged not be discouraged and yet be humbled then beat and drive up all your sin to your unbelief, and lay the stress and weight of all your sorrow upon that sin. He gives directions for applying the remedy. A correct diagnosis is more than half the cure but Bridge does not leave his readers there. In dealing with believers' suffering from spiritual depression, Bridge manifests great insight into the causes of the saints' discouragements such as great sins, weak grace, failure in duties, want of assurance, temptation, desertion and affliction. These thirteen sermons on Psalm 42:11, preached at Stepney, London, in the year 1648 are the work of a true physician of souls.
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