One of the major personal problems that we discover
in the lives of human beings today is that of
depression, discouragement, of glue. I am amazed
how many people write in and say, oh, Catherine
Kuhlman, I find that I awaken in the morning
so discouraged. How can I get victory over this
feeling of depression that I have in my life?
Today, you and I are going to have a little heart
-to -heart talk about something that sooner or
later affects each of our lives. I'm going to
give you a portion of the Word of God as found
in 1 Peter, the second chapter, the ninth verse.
It's a beautiful thing. I've always thought it
was such a beautiful description of what can
happen to anyone when faith dawns in his mind.
And this is it. Who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light. Let me repeat it again.
Who hath called you out of darkness You and I,
as God's children, have been called out of darkness
into his marvelous light. To think that the shadows,
to think that the bloom, to think that the obsession,
the hate, the sin, the lust, the grudges in a
human mind, these things which weigh a man down
and take the joy and take the happiness from
him. can all be dissipated by one, the one who
calls you out of darkness into his marvelous
light. These are the things that we have been
called out of. We've been called out of the shadows.
We have been called out of the gloom, out of
hate, out of sin. We have been called out. of
lust and jealousies and depression into his marvelous
light. For all of these things that I just named
are a pot of darkness. This terrible darkness
that throws us into a mental state of depression.
Hate will throw you into a mental state of depression.
Jealousy will throw you into a mental state of
depression. A grudge will throw you into a mental
state of depression. Hate. There's nothing that'll
throw you into a mental state of depression as
quickly as hate. You see, that's what's wrong
with the world today. We have been thrown into
this mental state of depression until we're literally
living in darkness. And in the final analysis,
it will cause fear. And the greatest enemy that
you can take into your life is the enemy of fear.
And all of these things are from... our state
of darkness in which we live. But when we become
God's children, when we accept that Christ is
our Savior, and God becomes our Heavenly Father,
and we become heirs of God and joined heirs with
Christ Jesus, a very part of His royalty, we
are called out of these things. We're called
out of this darkness and into his marvelous light.
Now you understand why I say to you that this
scripture that I've just given you is one of
the most beautiful descriptions of what can happen
to anyone when faith dawns in his mind. This
is the secret of finding a happy ending to your
gloomy feelings. This is the secret of finding
joy and happiness in your life of depression
and discouragement. When this wonderful experience
happens to you, one of its blessings is that
you get... A normal mind. And a normal, healthy,
wholesome mind is better than silver and gold.
Better than any material blessing in this world.
That's the truth. Better than any material blessing
in the whole world is a normal... wholesome,
undivided mind. And there's many a multimillionaire
who'd give anything in the world if he could
exchange all of the material wealth for a healthy,
normal mind. There's nothing like it. You're
rich. You're rich. If today you are the possessor,
of a healthy, wholesome, and I use that word
advisedly, wholesome mind. I've come to the conclusion
that there are very few people living today who
have a wholesome mind. It's another thing that's
wrong with the world today. Few people are thinking
straight. Few people have a healthy mind. If
men and women had a healthy, wholesome mind,
they couldn't read some of the things that they
read. They couldn't stand to see some of the
things that they feed their minds on. It's a
depraved mind that goes after the unhealthy things.
They feed on them. We've allowed our minds to
feed on things that are not wholesome. And then
we find ourselves sick mentally and physically.
I tell you the truth. I would no more permit
my eyes to look upon some of the things that
millions of people are watching today. I think
too much of my mind. I mean that. I would no
more. You could put a sizable check before me
and ask me in return for that check to read some
of the things that are on the market today. And
I would say to you, you take your check, all
the money in the world, would not be enough to
pay me to read and to take into my mind some
of the things that you can go down and buy for
less than a dollar today. Why? Because as soon
as you see these things and take these things
into your mind, you have allowed disease to enter
your mind. And things like these can destroy
you mentally and physically. It's like that.
One of the blessings and the greatest blessings
today is a normal, healthy wholesome mind. And
you fathers and you mothers, you are responsible
for your children. You are responsible for what
they take into their mind. You are responsible
for what that child sees, hears, reads. As a
man thinketh, so is he. That's scriptural. It's
the word of God. Mm -hmm. I'm sure that there
are people listening to me right now who are
having a perfectly terrible time with themselves
because forces play upon their minds over which
they seemingly have no control of whatsoever.
Their minds are the playground of all manner
of emotional quirks. They're weighted down. They're
filled with gloom. Their energy is sapped. Misfortunes
come, and they can't take them because they can't
think straight. Oh, fortunate is the man, fortunate
is the woman who can think straight. There's
many a man today who's not thinking straight.
There's many a woman this hour. It's been a long
time since she's been able to think straight.
And then when misfortunes come, when troubles
come, they can't think straight. And that's a
pity. For if one has a good, normal, healthy
mind, He can handle these problems. If you have
a healthy mind, I don't care what you're confronted
with, that pain will not throw you. You'll not
be defeated. I'm saying something that's the
reason I'm talking very slowly and hesitate and
pause in some of these places. I want you to
think this thing through. You see, we've come
to the place where People no longer want to face
the real values of life. Sometimes I wonder if
people really do want to think straight. I really
wonder. Sometimes you see we're like the ostrich
who buried its head in the sand and thinking
that just because It didn't see the thing that
the thing didn't exist. And we're sort of like
that today. We don't want to face reality. We
just act as though it'll go away. The woman,
when her daughter was killed, was an accident
that I remember trying to comfort her. And all
she would say was, Tell me it isn't so. Miss
Kuhlman, tell me it isn't so. Tell me it isn't
true. And she grabbed me and said, tell me, Miss
Kuhlman, tell me it isn't true. Tell me it isn't
so. Tell me it didn't happen. She just didn't
want to. face reality. She wanted someone to
come along and say, it's just a bad dream. It'll
go away. Don't worry, honey. It'll go away. It's
like many folk today are trying to sweep all
the garbage under the rug. And just because it's
swept under the rug, Sooner or later, you know,
they feel it'll disintegrate, but it won't. Somebody
sooner or later will pull the rug right out from
under them, and there it is. It's right there.
We've got to face reality sooner or later. And
I still contend that if one has a good, normal...
healthy mind he can handle any problem but you
can only have a good healthy normal mind if you
have the mind of christ the mind of god And when
you have the mind of God, when you have the mind
of Christ, you will live according to God's laws
and God's rules. Oh, somebody said, I knew that
sooner or later you'd wind up with the word of
God. Of course. You can't get away from the Bible.
You cannot get away from God's laws. You live
contrary to God's laws and you can get yourself
into trouble. Your life will end up a mess. And
we bring most of our troubles on ourselves. We
just do. I was just thinking the other day, you
know. about the things that we're faced with
today. We're headed for a catastrophe as sure
as there's a god on his throne. We have evidence
available to show us that man is headed for catastrophe.
A climax in his long history. We're faced with
The pollution problem. We're faced with nuclear
threat. We're faced with the racial problems.
We're faced with the dope problem. And many have
spoken out freely expressing the fear that the
world will never survive to see the end of the
century. But all of these problems that we're
faced with today, man has brought on the pollution
problem. He can't blame God for it. We'd like
to put the blame on God. We'd like to put the
blame on somebody else. But you want to know
something? This pollution problem that we're
faced with, we brought it all on ourselves. Don't
blame God for it. Our government would like to
blame it on somebody else. Well, blame it on
the devil if you want to. He's a good one to
blame it on. Did you have to blame it on somebody?
Blame it on the devil because it all started
with him. It all started with sin. Go with the
nuclear threat. God will never destroy, man.
We talk about God destroying man? God will never
destroy man. Man is destroying himself just as
fast as he possibly can. That's right. We are
literally destroying ourselves. We talk about
the racial problems. Hate is not of God. Don't
put the racial problem today on God. God has
nothing to do whatsoever with the racial problem.
He's doing everything he has done, everything
in divine power to destroy hate in the mind and
in the lives of men and women. God is love. And
perfect love casts about all hate and all fear
and all jealousies. Man has brought on the racial
problem today, not God. And when Jesus comes
back the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, there'll
no longer be a racial problem. For he comes back
and brings peace and destroys the hate that's
in the heart of man. Talk about the dope problem.
We have no one to blame but ourselves. We brought
all of these problems on ourselves. Mm -hmm.
And we have evidence that's available to show
us in this very hour that man is headed for catastrophe.
And many have spoken out very freely. expressing
the fear that the world will never survive to
see the end of the century. And yet we brought
all of these things on ourselves. Man is destroying
himself just as quickly as he possibly can. But
beloved, God has the answer to all of these problems.
back to the Word of God. We need to come back
to God's way for man to live before it's too
late.