The Word of God says that we can have mental health if we follow the principles that the Lord gave for our well-being.  We must heed the words of Christ:

*  "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men" (Romans 12:18).

*  "Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21).

*  "Be ye angry, and sin not:  let not the sun go down upon your wrath" (Ephesians 4:26).

*  "Neither give place to the devil" (Ephesians 4:27).

*  "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" (Ephesians 4:29).

*  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice" (Ephesians 4:31).

*  "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you" (Ephesians 4:32).

The Word of God shows that we can have spiritual and mental wholeness.  Mark 5:15 gives the end results of the Lord's ministry to the Gadarene demoniac.  "And they came to Jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind..."

Luke 5:11-32 also shows a man who was oppressed by the devil and yet would not be considered as a "mental case" by today's standard.  Yet he was oppressed and tempted by spirits of lust, greed, and rebellion.  Verse 17, 18 states, "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!  I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,..."

The Word of God says that we can have mental health if we follow the principles that the Lord gave for our well-being.  We must heed the words of Christ:

1.  "Don't worry, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known unto God..." (Philippians 4:6).

2. "That ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Romans 12:1).

3.  "And be not conformed to this world:  but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accectable, and perfect will of God" (Romans 12:2).

What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who can be against us?  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?  Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?  It is God that justifieth.  Who is he that condemneth?  It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is ever at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.