{"id":3218,"date":"2026-02-15T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:54:45","slug":"jesus-and-our-mental-health-jesus-and-our-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and Our Depression (week 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/21526.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression is described as a lasting sense of sadness, emptiness, or lack of interest in things that used to bring joy which affects our mood, energy, and daily functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Kings 16:33<br>1 Kings 19:1-5<br>John Ortberg Quote<br>1 Kings 19:6-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression can affect your sleep, your appetite, and your ability to think clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 kings 19:8-9<br>1 Kings 19:9-10<br>We need to be sure we aren\u2019t self-sabotaging our mental health.<br>1 Kings 19:11-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elijah couldn\u2019t see a future ahead of him, but God did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are not alone.<br>You are not alone because God is with you.<br>Matthew 11:28-30<br>You are not alone because many are like you.<br>Galatians 6:2<br>You are not alone because we are with you.<br>Colossians 3:12-13 NIV<br>Jesus and Our Depression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-6aa8c63c-0aca-4a90-87c0-58b0e868149e\" href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/21526.mp3\">Jesus and Our Depression<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/21526.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6aa8c63c-0aca-4a90-87c0-58b0e868149e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression is described as a lasting sense of sadness, emptiness, or lack of interest in things that used to bring joy which affects our mood, energy, and daily functioning. 1 Kings 16:331 Kings 19:1-5John Ortberg Quote1 Kings 19:6-7 Depression can affect your sleep, your appetite, and your ability to think clearly. 1 kings 19:8-91 Kings &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/?p=3218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus and Our Depression (week 5)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jesus-and-our-mental-health","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/media.porticocommunity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}