How to Prevent Depression at Christmastime

1) Don't focus on what you get. Don't let your worth or happiness be attached to what you get.

Luke 12:15 Then He said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

2) Don't just think about God on Christmas Day then forget Him the rest of the year. Think about God everyday of the year. Worship Him continually. Listen diligently and follow His voice all year round.


Deuteronomy 8:11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.

Ps 63:6 On my bed I remember You; I think of You through the watches of the night.

3)Don't think about what you don't have.


Matt hew6:25,28-29, 31-32
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?... "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these... So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

4)Don't covet things. Covet means to be so consumed by a thing that it occupies all your thoughts and all you want is to get that thing to make you happy.

James 4:2-3 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.


5) Don't just be generous at Christmas then be stingy and miserly the rest of the year.


Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Romans 12:13 Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.