Written by Thomas Miller

I was experiencing some of the most incredible successes of my life.My wife Mary Beth and I had been blessed with our first child, our church was experiencing an amazing amount of growth, my ministry was reaching new levels of influence and effectiveness. On top of it all, I was (at that very moment) relaxing on a month-long sabbatical. Truly everything was great, except everything wasn’t great.

I was depressed.

Actually, I was more than depressed - I was devastated. And for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why. Everything on the outside was so fantastic, overflowing with God’s blessing. And yet, I was utterly overcome. Mary Beth and I felt helpless. It was beginning to take a major toll on our relationship. Although I was trying to give my best emotionally to her and to my son, I was falling very short of success. In the middle of our desperation, we cried out to God, “Save us!” And He answered our prayer.

Throughout the next year, God took us on an incredible journey where we discovered that I was going through a deep level of emotional exhaustion and burnout. The Lord showed me that although I kept a close eye on my physical and spiritual health, I had all but ignored my emotional well-being. Through a series of answered prayers and obedience in my day-to-day life, I received God’s complete freedom and salvation.

Mary Beth and I have since discovered that we need God’s salvation in our lives every day. His salvation goes so far beyond the initial prayer of faith for spiritual salvation. Whether the prayer is for a healing, an emotional deliverance, a relational hardship, a business decision or any other situation, we can rely on His salvation every point of every day.

David consistently cried out to God for salvation from his emotional hardships and from his enemies. Blind Bartimaeus cried out to God for his physical healing. Paul reminded us that God’s salvation is simply believing in Christ and calling on His name (Romans 10:9, 10, 13).

Today, I’ve developed a new level of dependence on God. Although I’m a couple of years removed from that hard time in my life, I now more fully trust in God’s daily salvation to sustain me through every day and every season of life. I know that at any time I can call on the Lord to save me.

I wanted to take a couple of excerpts from this bulletin on MySpace from Gateway Worship on their new album, Wake Up The World, which is released this week nationwide. Lyrics, tabs, chords are available for download at Gateway Worship. A muxtape will accompanying this series of perspectives. - Ed.