{"id":64141,"date":"2023-05-21T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64141"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:58:50","slug":"moving-from-depression-to-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64141","title":{"rendered":"Moving from depression to explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression has become a global mental health challenge. <strong>The World Health Organization estimates that over 5% of the world is affected by this malady<\/strong>. Sadly, this figure includes believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is called The Prince of Peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Depression manifests itself in various ways<\/strong> &#8211; sadness, loss of excitement, motivation, appetite, and even sleep. The causes also vary from failure, disappointments, rejection, low self esteem to loss of purpose and meaning in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The real cause however is a disconnect with the Lord Jesus<\/strong> who is the only source of Peace, Joy, Love, Hope and life. To move from depression to a life exploding with joy therefore, <strong>we must seek a relationship with the Lord, and find our place in His presence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You will show me the path that leads to life; <strong>your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure for ever&#8221;. <\/strong>(Psalm 16:11, GNB)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 <strong>Buti Sam KPUTU<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression has become a global mental health challenge. The World Health Organization estimates that over 5% of the world is affected by this malady. Sadly, this figure includes believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is called The Prince of Peace. Depression manifests itself in various ways &#8211; sadness, loss of excitement, motivation, appetite, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[2392,159,4059],"class_list":["post-64141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","tag-depression","tag-jesus-christ","tag-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}