By Z E N I T H A V I C T O R I A B A D A I celebrate you all. Its an honor and a previlege to be given the opportunity to be part of this great platform. I pray that as we look into today's area of concentration, the Holy Spirit will minister to us. Today by God's grace I'll be talking about a very rampant and life-threatening issue: DEPRESSION AND CHRISTIAN GROWTH. As simple as it sounds it has taken a lot of lives. First I'll like us to look into the meaning, using the Chrome dictionary. D epression is defined as a feeling of severe despondency(low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection). Its also a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. In other words depression is a feeling of sorrow or discouragement caused by ANXIETY, and this is a way the devil is ruining lives and turning people away from God. As the Bible says in John 10:10 "The thief(Satan) cometh not, bu