Encouragement that Calms Fears, Part 1

Dr. Tony evidences when problems like that start filing motions can start melting down. This is the alternative Tony have monitor speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative. There's a myth going around that spiritually healthy Christians live on an emotional even keel 100% of the time.

Dr. Evans has a dose of reality and store as he takes us to first Kings 19 and talks about what to do when our feelings don't measure up to our faith. October 24, 1929 the stock market crashed, giving way to the Great Depression.

The stock market crashed, people lost their life savings.

Homes were foreclosed on.

People bothered trolls were laid off because of the new economic reality folks jumped off of buildings and committed suicide. That was national and even global depression, but for many of us. We don't need October 24, 1929. We can look at today and we understand the Great Depression that is life has collapsed bringing about a great pain in our emotional well-being. The supernatural that some of us need have nothing to do with all circumstances. It has to do with being able to remain in our right mind because if I do something with a look at the circumstances you would look at what you're going through its mental collapse that is overwhelming.

You and that is debilitating, you and that is keeping you from functioning at the level that you need to for your well-being. So as we continue with the study of the life of Elijah, we want to look at now another kind of supernatural miracle. He needed this is not a miracle that had money and how land this was a miracle had to do with the need to be lifted out of depression. Most of us know at least discouragement. Discouragement typically is related to a loss of something you discouragement because you lost your job, you discouragement because you lost your help to discourage because the bills have climbed up and you've lost your financial freedom that brings about discouragement where things are not not going well in your sort of downcast right now you living under the foregoing overcast sky. But when discouragement continues and elongates itself. Discouragement devolves into depression. Depression is discouragement on steroids.

It's discouragement that now has produced an ongoing a level of gloom and ongoing level of emotional pain and when discouragement becomes depression. Depression unresolved becomes despair and when depression becomes despair that ongoing discouragement that is led to depression, which now results in despair produces a sense of hopelessness you say no way out. You see that there's going to be no exit sign. There's no way to get around the state has no way to beat this thing.

It will not go away and then when discouragement results in depression that leads into the spray out and you wind up considering the possibility of death because maybe that's my only way out because the hopelessness is gone on so long so that as a result of the spam due to continuing depression resulting from ongoing discouragement has placed me in a place where I see nothing else to live. So we know what it is all we know people who know what it is to have the need for an emotional miracle if nothing else ever changed in our lives with regard to circumstance or situation. If I could just get my mind straight if I could just talk and just get my thinking right if I could just get my mind straight. I can make it, but but no matter what actually happens is the demon in my head that I can't shake.

That's our situation today with Elijah the hand of the Lord was 115 miles nonstop and lightning speed because the hand of the Lord with all of these and some downgrade from heaven because the Lord was on and destroyed 400 of the Lord was on his profit on steroids. He got a go and he is doing but in less than 24 hours. His world changes his life collapses in less than a day. Everything is turned around and he is gone from the hilltop. The mountain peak three to the valley of despair.

Many of us knows that sometimes it's the things that turn on your pink slip that you didn't anticipate a person walking out of your life you were counting only diagnose in-store physical and that you didn't even know was waiting with your body in less than 24 need for miracle now dumping you. There is a need for a supernatural intervention into your emotional stability and well-being.

That's our situation with Elijah. He's going to find himself. What many of us have often found ourselves in a black hole is going to find themselves looking for light at the end of the tunnel, only to the Starbucks is the light of an oncoming train because his whole world turned upside down in a day will become the chapter 19 we find out what this urgency shifts in his emotions and expectations because when we finished chapter 18 told and drink because it's already made his way home. Elijah went home and told his wife even killed for my boys and said I will send a message to Elijah that if you don't town tomorrow you are dead not to control her life was running the show. Jezebel is calling the shots in Jezebel was telling him you are dead so we don't want to Jezebel. So we all work will Jezebel. So we all live with Jezebel.

Jezebel is in that comes your way is something all so is your well-being will be so in your life that comes your way that produces this guy was when depression this is Jezebel in your life. If something or someone Melanie of your mental well-being also threatens you, you, and it's not a legitimate reason he become just about when does a person who threatens you Jezebel in your life. They are waiting Lord over your emotions and your emotions is because that gets into your head gets into your affects your feelings is made up of three parts were made up of physical being when made up of slow psychology sold to study the soul so we made up of our personhood that we made up spiritually, which is all interconnected and interrelated. If you feel bad likely to think psychologically, which may function spiritually wipe you down spiritually. Ability to function physically your ability to be able reason psychologically psychologically committed want to go to bed place. They do not want to deal with something spent virtually all of these three connect with you in the story you will understand how to deal with what controls the understand emotions a part of the soul soul relates to the floor so that you can understand how to combat which discourages you emotionally. Your emotions are like the caboose on the train your mind, you'll likely engine when the train goes up the mountain. The caboose is going to fix the caboose is going to the engine when it goes down into the caboose's gold engine one of the caboose of your emotions.

If your mind is wrong you will be wrong.

If your mind is right.

Your emotions are going to be right. That's why change and you always change how you day today.

You want to make and you felt when you came and jump and flip and submit some new information engine. The movement of the caboose it's real. Always so Bell gets into your mind to control the caboose of your emotions. One of the reasons so many of the caboose is being controlled and so many of the French from Jezebel trying to control our reality to reflect Jezebel be able one is being his life trying to figure out now if you going to face this… His whole life is change because somebody has gotten to so what does is he goes on another day's journey to manage 115 miles on a whole another day's journey between verse four and he requests for himself that he might die.

Now, old Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my father's. He wants to dock 24 hours after the biggest Berkeley see this is a slippery slope. Okay, washes a carnal Christian. Elijah is not a spiritual person then called a man of God. We just saw the Lord was on him.

So what is possible for spiritual people to get depressed doctrines will come back in a moment to tell us about some incredibly spiritual people who struggled with depression when he continues this message from his current series called Elijah this six CD collection focuses on the lessons we can learn from one of the Bible's greatest prophets about waiting for God's provision understanding is perfect timing.

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Joel got depressed of all the thrill he was not one of the righteous will you take Paul's greatest Christian is the greatest person in the New Testament.

Second Corinthians chapter 1 verses 8 to 11 got so low he was at the point of death, spiritual man, so you can be spiritual and is ready to give up and throw in the town.

He lays down because he felt tired under a juniper tree which is only big enough one personally hundred Angel touching him and samurai verse five, he looked up, and behold a bread baking on hot stones.

A jar of water so that he ate and drank and laid down but the supernatural Angel for that is not natural. The show after honest conversation with God is God.

I want to tell God told God I told God and God sent an angel Angel we play and slightly play prayer God God so will conversations that conversations not real. If you feel like it's God who is disappointed you if you tell the truth and shame the devil somehow we not just mad at people and somehow we not just mad it sounds. Sometime we kicked off the you didn't answer me.

I beg you didn't respond doing things you nothing is going to me some truth telling prayers. His prayers respectfully. Once the real is what you going through no where her flesh. So when you when you know the religious activity. All God knows God you time to talk to me talk to you gives him a cake and water and the rest because some causes of discouragement or physical unless the physical is addressed psychological's will be all and the spirituals will be all because if you physically feel like praying, if you physically you don't feel like relating properly quickly off. We all know what it is. That's why people left chemical imbalances in the brain. Just need a Bible verse, because there is something likely going on that needs to be balanced going to church but it doesn't restore naturally and automatically chemical imbalances.

If you agree, James is just a prank to make you a sandwich when you're hungry because they reality going on.

So it is to examine whether there will to your emotional struggles called God supernaturally. Chapter 1 verse 14 says that every believer has been assigned an angel. Every Christian has an angel. So God has an angel and he knows your name. Now the problem with angels is visible because the spirit beings and best natural in nature because the heavenly beings. And so the job of an angel is your personal post office carrier whose job it is to deliver whatever God once delivered to you. That's what you angels job and every believer one but notice the angel doesn't come until the communication takes place between Elijah and his God, so God needs, honest communication, prayer, real preop, not fake paren I played on his prayer.

The angel in order to provide the physical health that he is meeting to deal with his reality of depression that he is going through. You have to be a perfect person living in a perfect world not to be discouraged. Okay point every week is 5 o'clock on Sunday and my anticipation of preaching the sermon for the day so I can bounce out of bed every morning and I am I am geek. I'm ready to go for two services.

So that's my point. My low point is 130 on Sunday afternoon second service service and I made my way home draining me because exertion psychological exertion and spiritual exertion, and there's nothing left because he says Elijah is like nature so he deals with the reality of exhaustion physically and emotionally, spiritually, and so does everybody else, but that's also the opportunity that the devil looks for to take it vantage went in the case of Jesus and Jesus didn't have a spiritual problem, but happy for 40 days and 40 nights in the says the devil came to tempt him. Why he was tired and he was hungry and he was weak. So being tired, hungry and weak gave the devil the opportunity to try to get to the most spiritual person separately so you know the devil is going on Jesus and sin, and he already know that you all day protection. Jesus offers against the devil's discouragement for you. Here's Dr. Evans to explain how that can happen for you right now if you been listening to our broadcast and you have not personally trusted Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins so that he can give you the gift of eternal life right now I want you to go to God and transfer your trust from any and everything else except the son of God, who died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead. In fact, I'm going to say little prayer and you can repeat after me just have to meet it for yourself. Heavenly father, I know I'm a sinner and that I can't save myself. I believe Jesus Christ your son died on the cross in my place four months and I know and trusting him alone to forgive me and to give me the gift of eternal life that he promised to give to anyone who came to him for it.

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