CALLED TO CARE – WHETHER THEY REMEMBER OR NOT

•    oriental caring spouse: model for the married

SPIRITUAL ROOTS OF SAUL’S MALAISE

•    an “evil spirit” not just physical condition
•    Saul’s disobedience, impatience, arrogance
•    dishonours God by greedily pouncing on plunder
•    pride setting up monument to himself
•    rebellion like the sin of divination

A SLIPPERY SLIDE INTO SAVAGE INSANITY

•    outperformance -> anger, bitterness, self-pity, jealousy
•    violence toward David, alienation from own son & daughter

DEALING WITH THE DELUSIONAL

•    1) TRUTH OF REALITY & REVELATION: “What do I hear? What did God say?”
•    2) TREATMENT: David’s skilled playing ‘music therapy’
•    3) TRAINING & TALENT: ways we can pitch in to help
•    4) TIME: patience – buckets of it
•    5) TRUSTED TEAM: David needed Michal, Jonathan, Samuel

MANAGING DEPRESSION – WITH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

•    MeierClinics.com: nearly 100% of depressions managed
•    No grudges (Eph. 4:26, 27)
•    Confession to other humans (James 5:16)
•    More fellowship (Hebrews 10:24, etc.)
•    More assertive confrontation of people who take advantage of us (Leviticus 19, Matthew 18, etc.)
•    The Great Commandment (learning to love God, others as well as yourself)
•    Spiritual warfare (the epistles)
•    Grieving past losses or abuses (sexual, physical, verbal, or even religious abuses)
•    applying such Biblical principles has been shown to reduce depression level