21 Mental Health and Wellness Meditation Scriptures

WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL BY PATRICE TSAGUE

How is your mental health? 
Are you leading your life and business from a place of wholeness? 
Do you know which scriptures to meditate upon when you are facing trials and tests?

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”  – Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV)

21 Mental Health and Wellness Meditation Scriptures

Here are 21 key Bible verses specifically curated for Biblical Entrepreneurs and Kingdom Business owners that speak to various aspects of mental health – anxiety and worry, depression and sadness, peace of mind, renewal and restoration, strength in weakness, mental soundness, and healing. 

When you are seeking spiritual grounding while addressing emotional or mental challenges, we recommend that you meditate on these scriptures daily for seven days.

1. Anxiety and Worry

• Philippians 4:6–7 (NKJV)
  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
  
• Matthew 6:34 (ESV)
  “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
  
• Psalm 23:4 (NIV)
  Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

2. Depression and Sadness

• Psalm 34:18 (NIV)
  The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
  
• Psalm 42:11 (NIV)
  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
  
• Psalm 9:9 (NIV)
  The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

3. Peace of Mind

• Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV)
  You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
  
• John 14:27 (NIV)
  “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
  
• John 16:33 (NIV)
  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

4. Renewal and Restoration

• Romans 12:2 (NIV)
  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  
• 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV)
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
  
• Matthew 11:28-29 (NKJV)
  “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

 5. Strength in Weakness

• 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
  My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
  
• Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV)
  But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles …
  
• 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (NIV)
  God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.

6. Mental Soundness

• 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
  
• Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)
  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
  against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
  
• Colossians 3:2 (NIV)
  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

7. Healing

• Jeremiah 30:17 (NIV)
  But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the Lord.
  
• Psalm 147:3 (NIV)
  He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
  
• Isaiah 38:16b-17 (NIV)
  You restored me to health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.

My prayer for you today is that God will give you the grace and discipline to use scripture meditation to cast your cares upon God, so that you may overcome any trials and tests that you are going through.