Cured of Depression
Listening to God’s voice healed Sophie Dodd of her depression
At age seventeen, Sophie started antidepressants, which she would take for three years. For a period of time, she was on the max dose of sertraline. Convinced that her depression was “caused naturally” since there was no triggering circumstance, she believed she “would be just on medication for the rest of [her] life.”
At the times when her depression was bad, Sophie described her situation as “two voices in [her] head,” with a “depressed voice… in one ear and then a good voice in the other.”
Sophie “went to different therapies” and “tried everything basically to help [her] depression and nothing worked.”
An atheist, she began to wonder about God and if He existed – and she found Him. Afterward, she began to make the connection that thoughts can come from God and also from the devil. She realized that her depression was caused by abusive thoughts the devil put into her mind.
Sophie made a choice to listen to the affirming, loving thoughts from God and not the abusive ones from Satan. As a result, the evil thoughts quieted, while God’s voice became stronger.
Sophie’s daily prayers for God to heal her depression were granted. At the time of her testimony, Sophie said of God, “He one hundred percent healed my depression.” She no longer takes antidepressants, and she knows that her depression had been spiritual in origin, not biological.
Sarah Karlsen was saved from depression when she got baptized in Christ
Though sixteen-year-old Sarah was raised attending church, she “knew about Jesus Christ but [she] didn’t know Him.”
From a young age, Sarah possessed both passion and talent for dancing and singing. When she was maybe five, her family took a cruise, and she had an opportunity to perform on stage, drawing the attention of journalists that were present.
In her middle school years, Sarah grew lukewarm toward Christianity. Though she identified as Christian, she now recounts that her behaviors were not in line with those of a true Christian, as she was rebellious and given to cursing.
Sarah enjoyed social media, and she would post videos of herself dancing and singing. Then, she “blew up on TikTok.” Mulling over other types of content she could make, Sarah came close to creating an influencer career. She was getting attention from clothing brands and other content creators for collaborations, and she even did a number of commercials.
However, when Sarah got an “opportunity to study entertainment,” she drew back. Leery of the dark side of the entertainment industry and its non-Christian values, she veered her content toward more Christian-related topics.
In the aftermath of the pandemic, Sarah’s “life was completely torn apart,” and she experienced feelings of meaninglessness and an “empty void.” Thinking “there must be something else,” she began seeking God, praying, and reading the Bible. That marked “the end of [her] content creation career.”
Sarah stopped posting to social media. She became lonely. When she hit her mid-teens, she went into a “deep depression.”
Intent on finding God, she would “read [her] Bible day and night.” Then, Sarah and her brother went to be baptized. At the time of her testimony, she recounts, “[The] depression, the loneliness, the feeling of a meaningless life – once I got into that water, once I got baptized… it just disappeared.”
Jesus freed John from depression
John first experienced Jesus’ healing power for a seizure problem. In his mid-teens, he had first come down with seizures after sustaining a severe head injury. At some point, he received prayer from a pastor and was subsequently completely healed neurologically, as confirmed by his baffled neurologist. He had had an EEG taken and “the scar tissue and the seizure activity in [his] brain was gone,” even though he had been told he “was gonna live with that for the rest of [his] life.”
At a later point, he fell on ice and fractured his spine. He had to go on medical leave for 8 months, and his wife had to work extra during that time. John became depressed due to his situation and feelings of worthlessness.
Two months after he returned to work, he was once again on medical leave for almost half a year, due to breaking a foot. This “took [his] depression and [his] down time and put them on steroids.” In his sadness, he neglected and withdrew from his wife, and she ended up leaving him on the day his father died.
John plummeted into a severe depression. Unable to eat and unable to sleep for five days and hallucinating, he “ended up in the emergency room.” At the time of his testimony, he said that he couldn’t “see how anybody could be farther down than [he] was without being dead.”
One day, he was driving with no destination in mind when he passed a church and decided to ask for prayer. One of the pastors took him out to a coffee shop, prayed for him, and invited him to attend Sunday service. John did, and the sermon spoke to his situation. He went up at altar call and accepted Jesus as his savior.
When sharing his testimony, John said, “The Lord has taken a fraction of a man that I was during my depression and began to make me feel whole again.” At one point, he holds a poster stating, “He delivered me from depression.”
Eva Siguil’s depression came from not having a relationship with God
Eva was in her kindergarten years when she had her first exposure to a particularly perverse kind of pornography. Afterward, she felt shame and guilt. She liked the altar call at the mega church her family sometimes attended because she “felt like at such a young age [she] needed a savior.”
Years later, she came across more pornography and re-experienced the guilt and shame. Becoming boy-crazy, she attempted “to be promiscuous,” but her parents blocked opportunities for sex.
Eva’s high school years had a rocky start, with the family home being foreclosed and Eva’s mother receiving a cancer diagnosis. Eva and her mother briefly stayed with her grandparents and father before an apartment was secured. It was an abusive situation, and Eva delved more into porn and masturbation and even started cutting.
In high school, Eva began drinking and associating with a bad crowd. She dated an abusive boy and tried to have sex with him. However, whenever the act was about to take place, the Holy Spirit would put pressure on her to stop. She would respond by shooing her confused boyfriend away.
They were evicted from their apartment when her mother was unable to pay rent, and Eva ended up living with a friend’s family until her senior year of high school. Her friend helped her value herself more and introduced her to worship music. Unfortunately, Eva was also introduced to lesbian internet porn, which turned into an addiction. Wondering if she was gay or not, Eva became “so lost and confused” and “had no idea who [she] was.”
Eva next lived with an ex at his mother’s place. There, through her ex’s mother, Eva experienced having a “present parent” who showed unconditional love. The relationship with her ex, however, was characterized with “drinking, smoking, and being out all the time.” Her grades tanked and she sank into a deep depression. Eventually, her ex’s mother asked her to leave, more out of kindness than anything else.
Again at her mother’s place, Eva got a job at Burger King. She also befriended the man who would become her husband.
More than a year later, she got pregnant and began drawing nearer to God, even giving her “life to Christ again, this time knowing what it all meant,” and getting baptized. Afterward, she quit pornography, smoking, drinking, and masturbation – and the temptation left permanently.
However, she found replacement pleasure in binging TV shows. It took up all her spare time, causing separation from God, her husband, and her child. She repented when God convicted her to stop, but upon landing a career she loved, she promptly replaced her TV-addiction with a career-addiction. Again, she had no time for God or family.
Falling into a depression again, she wondered why, because she had repented of her past sins. Understanding that she “had replaced God with [her] career,” she repented once more.
Then, the depression returned. This time, she began binging religious podcasts and sermons, which did not help. Eventually, she realized that “even though it came from the Bible… it wasn’t me and God’s connection, it was them and God’s connection; so, I knew about Him, but I didn’t actually know Him.”
At the time of her testimony, Eva said, “My relationship with God is what fulfills me.” She shared her realization that God has always been with her and always will be and she was “never alone,” adding, “If you ever feel as if He’s not there, just take a look again and ask Him to reveal it.”
Upon being born again, Danny was freed by Jesus from 35 years of depression
If you want to watch Danny’s original testimony, you will need to follow this link to Youtube, as the embed option was disabled.
Danny had a difficult childhood, as he grew up with a violent father who was physically and verbally abusive. At school, he also had to deal with bullies, but he “eventually got them.”
By the time he moved out of his father’s house, he was seventeen years old and using marijuana. At twenty-four years of age, when his mother died, he was selling drugs around town and taking cocaine. He would suffer from depression “all the time” and sometimes would lock himself home for five days in a row due to the depression and also anxiety and paranoia. Around thirty years of age, he was using a variety of drugs, including steroids.
At one point, he became afraid that his brother wanted to kill him. He fled his home for a period, staying at a hostel and the YMCA. When he returned, his apartment had been robbed. This didn’t help Danny’s paranoia, and he was eventually hospitalized for over two months after he visited his dying uncle at the hospital, saying over and over, “They tried to kill me.” When his brother came to take him at discharge, a staff member said that Danny’s mind would never be fixed due to all the drugs he had used.
Danny set about fixing his life and even went to college. He landed a job that he loved but unfortunately was laid off. Bitter and angry, he spent his time playing video games and descended into depression again. He did some more cocaine but decided to stop.
Then, he turned to the internet and “started looking into everything.” This ranged from the New World Order to the Rothschilds to giant skeletons to ancient megaliths.
Danny did some sort of cleansing prayer in his bedroom; a bit over a couple of weeks later, he found his bedroom filled with some kind of frightening electrifying mist. He sought refuge with family for a few days, and when he returned to his place, he started looking into ways to get rid of the mist, even getting a vicar to bless the place with holy water. That didn’t work, but a girl who was able to “see spirits” saw a spirit in the room that was masquerading as Danny’s aunt.
A man invited Danny to attend his church. At the church, Danny was asked if he had given his life to Jesus, and he responded that he didn’t know. He was directed to say the sinner’s prayer. When he had done so, he “physically” saw “the Holy Spirit coming in.” His “eyes lit up like a beacon,” as confirmed by the person next to him. When returning home, Danny asked God to rid his apartment of whatever was there. Not only was there “nothing in that flat whatsoever” when he arrived, the next morning he awakened to find his depression of 35 years gone, along with his paranoia, anxiety, sadness, and darkness!
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