IS IT A REAL PROBLEM OR JUST A THREAT? 🛡️🕊️ | Elijah & Mental Health (Part 1) | John Giftah

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0:47 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:49 Speaker 2: the Soul with jo On Gifta podcast. All through this week,

0:52 Speaker 2: we're going to look at various lessons that we can

0:54 Speaker 2: take away from the life of Philita in One King

0:57 Speaker 2: Stepte nineteen and a lot revolving our around our lifestyle

1:01 Speaker 2: so that we can have a good mental health. In fact,

1:04 Speaker 2: I just did a recording with Rennie Jacob where we

1:09 Speaker 2: did a deep dive about mental health and how we

1:11 Speaker 2: can live that kind of life God wants us to live.

1:13 Speaker 2: Stay tuned for it. It's going to come out. It's

1:15 Speaker 2: going to be a great blessing for you. But this

1:17 Speaker 2: is going to help you with regard to your mind,

1:20 Speaker 2: with regard to your life, so that you can actually

1:22 Speaker 2: fulfill the purpose that God has in store for you

1:25 Speaker 2: as well. See. First thing I want you to understand

1:27 Speaker 2: is that I'm not going to focus too much on

1:30 Speaker 2: the specifics about what is mental health, because I want

1:33 Speaker 2: you to stay tuned for that special episode Paper Sword

1:35 Speaker 2: coming up. But I want to start off by talking

1:38 Speaker 2: to you from this verse, which says that now, heyh

1:42 Speaker 2: told Jeesebel all that Elijah had done, and how he

1:46 Speaker 2: had killed all the profits of bail with the sword,

1:50 Speaker 2: and listen to this carefully. Verse two. Then Jezebel sent

1:54 Speaker 2: a messenger to Elijah saying, so may the gods do

1:57 Speaker 2: to me even more this time tomorrow. I do not

2:02 Speaker 2: make your life like the life of one of them. Now,

2:05 Speaker 2: I want you to understand something here, Right, if you

2:09 Speaker 2: come across any thieves or robbers or somebody who's going

2:13 Speaker 2: to do something bad, what are they going to do?

2:17 Speaker 2: Are you going to get a knock at your door

2:19 Speaker 2: or a message or a call saying listen, we're gonna

2:23 Speaker 2: come and rob your house tonight. Are they going to

2:24 Speaker 2: do that? Or we're going to come and steal something

2:27 Speaker 2: from you tomorrow? Are they going to do that? No? Right,

2:31 Speaker 2: because they know if they send a message, you'll be prepared,

2:35 Speaker 2: you'll be cautious. What will they do If they really

2:38 Speaker 2: want to come and rob your house, They're going to

2:42 Speaker 2: do it without any attention, without any notice, just like

2:47 Speaker 2: that when you're least expecting. See, I want you to

2:51 Speaker 2: understand when Jesubel is saying to Elijah that you know what,

2:55 Speaker 2: I'm going to kill you by tomorrow, listen to this careful,

3:00 Speaker 2: like it's meaningless. If she really wanted to kill him,

3:03 Speaker 2: she should have first sent someone to directly kill him,

3:06 Speaker 2: not send a messenger saying I'm gonna kill you. Like,

3:09 Speaker 2: are you getting my point here? Right? See? Here's the thing.

3:12 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand that what Elijah got scared. The

3:15 Speaker 2: Bible says that Elijah was so scared that he rose

3:21 Speaker 2: and ran for his life. Okay, we're gonna look at

3:24 Speaker 2: various aspects in the days to come, but he was

3:27 Speaker 2: so scared when this queen Jezebel is saying, I'm going

3:31 Speaker 2: to kill you. But I wanted to think about this.

3:35 Speaker 2: If Jezebel really meant to kill him, she should have

3:38 Speaker 2: directly killed him instead of sending a messenger saying I'm

3:41 Speaker 2: gonna kill him. Are you getting what I'm saying? See,

3:44 Speaker 2: what Elijah got scared of was not an actual problem.

3:49 Speaker 2: It was only a threat. See a lot of us today.

3:53 Speaker 2: The reason why we are in that fear, in that anxiety,

3:57 Speaker 2: in that worry, in that place of uncertainty, is not

4:01 Speaker 2: because our problems are actually there. It's because we are

4:05 Speaker 2: just living in the fear of the possibility of something happening,

4:12 Speaker 2: just the threat of something going to happen, the threat

4:15 Speaker 2: that might happen in your life that is causing you

4:19 Speaker 2: to lose your sleep today, I want you to introspect

4:22 Speaker 2: the thing that is causing you to lose your sleep,

4:25 Speaker 2: the thing that's causing you to be worried, the thing

4:27 Speaker 2: that's causing you to be anxious, the thing that is

4:30 Speaker 2: causing you to be in a place of constantly running

4:34 Speaker 2: with fear and panic, is probably not a real problem

4:39 Speaker 2: at all. It's only a threat of the enemy. You're saying,

4:43 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, this symptom makes me think maybe it

4:46 Speaker 2: could mean something else, and I'm going to die. Maybe

4:50 Speaker 2: this particular problem is going to cause me to lose

4:53 Speaker 2: my job, Maybe this particular issue is going to bring

4:57 Speaker 2: a rupture to my relationship. The the thing is not

5:01 Speaker 2: the actual problem. The real problem is you just getting

5:05 Speaker 2: scared of a threat of the enemy. Today, I pray

5:08 Speaker 2: in Jesus name that you will be in a position

5:11 Speaker 2: where God gives you that discernment to discern when it

5:15 Speaker 2: is just a threat and not a real problem. It

5:19 Speaker 2: was not a real problem. It was a threat because

5:24 Speaker 2: if it was a real problem, Jezebel would have sent

5:26 Speaker 2: someone to kill Elijah immediately. But the fact that she

5:31 Speaker 2: could not do that because the enemy has no power

5:33 Speaker 2: of your life, over your life. The enemy has no

5:36 Speaker 2: power over your life. He can give you threats, he

5:39 Speaker 2: can try to scare you, he can try to do

5:42 Speaker 2: things to make you get discouraged and get scared and

5:45 Speaker 2: to quit and give up and run away, but he

5:49 Speaker 2: has no power over you. In fact, when you look

5:52 Speaker 2: at number twenty to twenty three, there's a moment where

5:57 Speaker 2: evil King wanted this prophet to and curse the people

6:01 Speaker 2: of God, the nation of Israel. And you know what,

6:07 Speaker 2: every time he tried, he just could not. He wanted

6:10 Speaker 2: to curse them, but he just could not. He said,

6:13 Speaker 2: how can I curse these people who have been blessed

6:16 Speaker 2: by the Lord. See, when God has blessed you, when

6:19 Speaker 2: God has called you, when God has chosen you, when

6:23 Speaker 2: God has created you for such a time as this,

6:25 Speaker 2: and when you're walking in accordance to the plan and

6:28 Speaker 2: purpose and will of God. Over your life, I'm here

6:30 Speaker 2: to announce to you. The enemy can come and threaten you.

6:34 Speaker 2: The enemy can come and give fear, and he can

6:37 Speaker 2: try to bring in some uncertainty and some troubles here

6:40 Speaker 2: and there, but he has no ultimate call call over

6:44 Speaker 2: your life. He has no say over your life. He

6:47 Speaker 2: doesn't have the power over your life. So today, when

6:54 Speaker 2: you hear something, when you are in the place of fear,

6:59 Speaker 2: I wanted to is this a real problem or is

7:02 Speaker 2: it just a threat that I should just ignore? Is

7:06 Speaker 2: this a real issue or should I just leave this

7:08 Speaker 2: and move on. I just want to close to this example.

7:11 Speaker 2: Right many many years ago, I think this was almost

7:14 Speaker 2: like eight years back. I was admitted in the hospital

7:18 Speaker 2: for some infection. And when I was completely fine and

7:24 Speaker 2: I was getting discharged, they had said that I had

7:27 Speaker 2: certain conditions that I need to come back and check

7:31 Speaker 2: after a week or two. And so when I went

7:34 Speaker 2: back back in the day, we didn't have CHATCHIBT and

7:37 Speaker 2: all of that. It was just Google. I googled about

7:39 Speaker 2: this particular condition, and what it said was this condition,

7:44 Speaker 2: you can never cure it. You have to live with

7:46 Speaker 2: it to the rest of your life. And these are

7:48 Speaker 2: the best ways how to make sure that you can

7:51 Speaker 2: live with it effectively. This is what it said. So

7:54 Speaker 2: the next time I had to go and meet with

7:56 Speaker 2: the doctor that I was prepared to say, see, I

7:59 Speaker 2: study about this condition and this is how I'm planning

8:02 Speaker 2: to live my life, you know, to be prepared. So

8:05 Speaker 2: I thought the doctor will actually appreciate me, saying, oh,

8:08 Speaker 2: you are taking things in a proactive manner and all

8:11 Speaker 2: of that stuff. So I go and meet with a doctor.

8:14 Speaker 2: He checks on me. When I tell him all this,

8:16 Speaker 2: he just gets baffled and he says, you know what,

8:19 Speaker 2: you didn't have to overanalyze this problem, man, And I

8:23 Speaker 2: was like, sure, what did it mean. Come to find out,

8:26 Speaker 2: it was actually a misdiagnosis. It was not even that

8:29 Speaker 2: particular issue. It was just another serious infection which got

8:33 Speaker 2: cured so I was thinking and planning and analyzing, you know,

8:38 Speaker 2: how to live my life with this condition for the

8:40 Speaker 2: rest of my life. Where the doctor said it was

8:42 Speaker 2: just a misanaly, it was just a misdiagnosis. It was

8:46 Speaker 2: just see, just the thing that was not even the

8:50 Speaker 2: reality of my life. I started analyzing so much, I

8:54 Speaker 2: started thinking so much, I started planning so much. I started,

8:57 Speaker 2: you know, allowing it to drive my life. See, that

9:01 Speaker 2: is what I'm trying to tell you. Before Elijah's life,

9:07 Speaker 2: even though Elijah has seen the part of God in

9:10 Speaker 2: amazing ways, Here's the thing about Elijah, he was even

9:14 Speaker 2: before his life was actually in danger by Jezebel, just

9:21 Speaker 2: that threat made him go into that deep analysis, the

9:25 Speaker 2: deep fear, the deep panic ward. But today I challenge

9:29 Speaker 2: each one of you understand that it's only a threat

9:32 Speaker 2: that you can let go of and move on and

9:35 Speaker 2: God will lead you and take care of you. I

9:39 Speaker 2: really challenge you to leave a comment and share this

9:41 Speaker 2: with someone. I will catch up with you very soon.

9:44 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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