Sermon Outline:

How Do We Turn Our Depression to Celebration (Psalm 13)

• Pray to God (Psalm 13:1-4)

• • Pray Honestly (1-2)
    ​¹ How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?
    ² How long must I take counsel in my soul
    and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
    How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

• • Pray Fervently (3-4)
    ³ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God;
    light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
    ⁴ lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
    lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

• Preach truth to self (Psalm 13:5-6)

• • Trust in God's loving kindness (5)
  • Rejoice in God's salvation (5)

⁵ But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

• • Sing Praises unto God (6)
    ⁶ I will sing to the LORD,
    because he has dealt bountifully with me.