WHERE IS YOUR HEAD AT?

WHERE IS YOUR HEAD AT?  

Excitement and shouting are wonderful but that's out in front near the stage, where the music is playing, and the dancing is taking place. Are you shouting and dancing because of the music in the auditorium or the music in your heart? What about in the back room, sitting at the desk, looking at the bills, do you have blessed assurance, and peace that passes all understanding then? Did you know that one truth in your heart equals more than the whole bible in your head? You must keep your head above your world in order to stay out of depression. However your head always follows your heart. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7 (AMP) 

Set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the material things that are on the earth. [3] For as far as this world is concerned you have died, and your new, real life is hidden with Me in My Father. [4] When I appear, the one who is your life,  then you also will appear with Me in the splendor of My glory." Colossians 3:2-4 (AMP) Keep your mind on the one who pays your bills rather than your bills. The only way your mind can be set above your bills, is by refusing to treasure material things.  "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew 6:21 (KJV) 

A mind following a heart that is set on earthly things, will end up in depression every time! "Guard yourselves and keep free from all covetousness (the desire for wealth, the greedy longing to have more); for a man's life does not consist in and is not derived from possessing overflowing abundance or that which is over and above his needs." Luke 12:15 (AMP) "And do not seek what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, and don't doubt for a moment, that I will take care of you. [30] For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

But rather fix your heart on the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. [32] Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. [33] Sell what you don't need, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupt." Luke 12:29-33 (KJV)

Let's make it simple: The earth is temporary and doomed, depression comes from a heart being fixed on something that is doomed, earth. All the money, land, houses, cars, and clothes you could possibly earn or possess is doomed, as part of earth. They require constant upkeep, and no matter how well you take care of them and build them up, they are still doomed along with the earth! "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole doomed world and forfeits his life, his blessed life in the kingdom of God? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his blessed life in the kingdom of God?" Matthew 16:26 (AMP) 

Herein is the source of depression; anything you exchange for the kingdom is doomed and will bring your destruction. Herein is your source of joy: "Happy are you that do My commandments, that you may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the eternal city. Revelation 22:14 (KJV) Let Me test you wisdom! Would it be wiser for you to spend the next 30 years working to pay for a doomed house that will be gone in a flash or dedicate the next 30 years building eternal souls, so that you have a house that will last eternally. In these two lie depression and joy, where is your head at?