Stop the Spiral: How One Wrong Thought Leads to Deep Depression | Mental Health Part 3 | 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 John gift of podcast. All through this week,

0:51 Speaker 2: we're looking at various lessons that we can take away

0:54 Speaker 2: from One King Step nineteen revolving around the story of

0:57 Speaker 2: Elijah who's going into a deep depression. And we're also

1:01 Speaker 2: looking at various aspects to look at and learn from

1:05 Speaker 2: this so that we can have the best mental health

1:08 Speaker 2: a lifestyle that God has intended for us. I really

1:11 Speaker 2: want you to just hold on because this week we're

1:14 Speaker 2: going to be releasing a special episode that I recorded

1:16 Speaker 2: with Rinnie Jacob, where we did a deep dive so

1:20 Speaker 2: that we can have the kind of mental life, that

1:23 Speaker 2: mental health filled life the God has intended for us.

1:27 Speaker 2: So I want you to hold on for that. But

1:29 Speaker 2: today one of the things I want to talk about

1:31 Speaker 2: is how Elijah, when he gets this threat from Queen

1:35 Speaker 2: Jezebel that she wants to kill him, he rose and

1:39 Speaker 2: he ran for his life. And yesterday I told about

1:42 Speaker 2: how he not only ran, he left a servant behind.

1:46 Speaker 2: Like one of the aspects that you need to keep

1:48 Speaker 2: in mind when you are in that more of getting

1:50 Speaker 2: into depression or anxiety or panic attacks or allowing the

1:54 Speaker 2: mental state to go in a bad fashion is to

1:58 Speaker 2: go into isolation. And so I want you against that yesterday.

2:02 Speaker 2: But today one of the things I wanted to understand

2:04 Speaker 2: what happens is he himself traveled in verse four all right,

2:09 Speaker 2: a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat

2:13 Speaker 2: in the junipiter under the juniper tree, and asked the

2:17 Speaker 2: Lord that he might die, and he says, in our Lord,

2:20 Speaker 2: I don't want to live anymore. Now, I want you

2:22 Speaker 2: to understand this important aspect about Elanja going into a

2:27 Speaker 2: day's journey into the wilderness. Okay, there is an aspect

2:31 Speaker 2: of wilderness where I was reminded of this, this funny

2:35 Speaker 2: Scooby Doo reference where Fred and Daphne are going into

2:40 Speaker 2: a wilderness a desert. And I know it's may not

2:45 Speaker 2: be child appropriate statement, but I've heard this where I

2:50 Speaker 2: think Fred says to Daphne, you know what this wilderness

2:53 Speaker 2: reminds me of? And she says, I don't know, and

2:55 Speaker 2: she he says, you know, it reminds me of a woman.

2:58 Speaker 2: And she's like, what do you mean? And she says,

3:01 Speaker 2: it keeps going on and on and on and on,

3:04 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, I know it's it's

3:07 Speaker 2: not a child appropriate for a kids show, but anyway,

3:10 Speaker 2: yus the message I wanted to understand, right, A wilderness

3:12 Speaker 2: is something that keeps going on and on. If you've

3:14 Speaker 2: been in a desert, if you've been in those icy places.

3:17 Speaker 2: Sometimes if you be whether it's a cold desert or

3:19 Speaker 2: a hot desert, it feels never ending. It keeps going

3:23 Speaker 2: on and on and on and on. Right, So Elijah

3:28 Speaker 2: spent the whole day going on and on and on

3:31 Speaker 2: into the wilderness, right, Like when he was giving this

3:35 Speaker 2: reference about like how wilderness is like a moment in

3:38 Speaker 2: the sense like this person is going on and on

3:40 Speaker 2: in the sense of overthinking and talking about this problem

3:43 Speaker 2: or this possibility. See, I want you to understand this, right.

3:47 Speaker 2: I hope you understand the filter village I'm talking about this.

3:50 Speaker 2: The point is when you're getting into that depression or

3:52 Speaker 2: when you're getting into the wrong mode of mental health status,

3:56 Speaker 2: what happens is you get to that place where your

3:58 Speaker 2: mind keeps going on and on and on and on,

4:01 Speaker 2: going from one thing, Oh, this is something that went wrong,

4:05 Speaker 2: and then from there you think about something else. That

4:07 Speaker 2: thought takes you to something else and makes you go

4:11 Speaker 2: from novel depression to deep depression to even wanting to

4:16 Speaker 2: end your life. Are you getting what I'm saying? Sometimes

4:19 Speaker 2: it gets me one wrong thought that you entertain, and

4:23 Speaker 2: you keep going into the wilderness of your mind, and

4:27 Speaker 2: that thought leads to another thought, and two thoughts getting together.

4:30 Speaker 2: It's like a burger effect, and then another one over it,

4:33 Speaker 2: another layer over it, and these things getting started up

4:36 Speaker 2: over and over. It's like you can get into such

4:39 Speaker 2: a place where you're completely consumed by that. See. I

4:45 Speaker 2: want you to pay attention to this guys, you need

4:48 Speaker 2: to pay attention to the thoughts because the Bible says

4:51 Speaker 2: that some man think it, so is he. Your life

4:55 Speaker 2: goes in the direction of your thoughts. That's why you

4:58 Speaker 2: need to guard your thoughts. Because when you get into

5:01 Speaker 2: this mode of like how Elijah went into this wilderness,

5:05 Speaker 2: the thoughts keep going on and on and on, one

5:09 Speaker 2: thought leading to another, and another leading to another. And

5:12 Speaker 2: when they all get amplified and magnified, what happens. Elijah

5:16 Speaker 2: goes to a place where he says, God, you know

5:18 Speaker 2: what everybody else has compromised, I'm the only one standing

5:23 Speaker 2: up for you. In fact, later when God, you know,

5:27 Speaker 2: speaks to Elijah, he says, you're not the only one man.

5:30 Speaker 2: There are seven thousand people here who are not bowed

5:33 Speaker 2: down to bail. There are seven thousand people on this

5:36 Speaker 2: on board with us. But Elijah was in that mode

5:39 Speaker 2: where he felt like I'm the only one going through this.

5:43 Speaker 2: See what I want you to understand is when you

5:45 Speaker 2: go into this mode of depression, or you get into

5:48 Speaker 2: that mode of constantly, you know, meditating on the problem,

5:53 Speaker 2: meditating on these negative thoughts, what happens is it gets

5:56 Speaker 2: to a place where it starts magnifying. You feel like

6:00 Speaker 2: the whole world is against you. You feel like nobody

6:03 Speaker 2: cares for you. You feel like nothing is working in

6:06 Speaker 2: your life, even if nineteen nine things are working, and

6:08 Speaker 2: that one problem that you're facing is not working, and

6:11 Speaker 2: you think that nothing is working in your life. That's

6:14 Speaker 2: what happened to Elijah. He had just seen the mighty

6:17 Speaker 2: move of God. He had just seen that God enabled

6:20 Speaker 2: him to bring fire from heaven. But he has seen

6:23 Speaker 2: the hand of God, the power of God, and now

6:26 Speaker 2: he gets a threat from the enemy, and he's running

6:28 Speaker 2: for his life. And at this point, what he's saying

6:31 Speaker 2: is he's over magnifying the problem and saying, you know what,

6:34 Speaker 2: I'm the only one here God. Everybody els has compromised

6:41 Speaker 2: and God had to correct him, and saying, you are

6:43 Speaker 2: magnifying the problem. You're not the only one. There are

6:48 Speaker 2: seven thousand people who have not bound to pay. Sometimes,

6:53 Speaker 2: you know, we over magnify the problems to a point

6:56 Speaker 2: where we don't realize this was actually not even a problem.

7:03 Speaker 2: What you think as a problem. You keep thinking and oh,

7:06 Speaker 2: I'm magnifying it's actually not even a problem. Today. I

7:11 Speaker 2: want you to guard your thoughts instead of allowing it

7:16 Speaker 2: to go into that wilderness. I've shared this many times

7:20 Speaker 2: with you guys, that last year was one of the

7:22 Speaker 2: hardest years for me because I had a huge financial

7:25 Speaker 2: loss and a job loss, followed my attacks on my health,

7:28 Speaker 2: followed by close those in the ministry, so many, so

7:31 Speaker 2: much of oppositions, so many things that happened, you know,

7:34 Speaker 2: certain things. I can't even share it publicly yet. So

7:38 Speaker 2: it was her hard season. And one of the things

7:41 Speaker 2: that I remember was I knew God was showing me

7:44 Speaker 2: visions that I'll be traveling and ministering. And by the

7:49 Speaker 2: grace of God, now those have started opening up for

7:52 Speaker 2: me to travel and minister. But I wanted to understand

7:55 Speaker 2: I was getting these visions, these promises from God, and

7:59 Speaker 2: my life was like completely stuck. Nothing was working on.

8:02 Speaker 2: People were against me, people were saying, oh, you made

8:04 Speaker 2: some mistake and God is punishing you now. Like it

8:06 Speaker 2: was so hard to convince anybody that God was leading me,

8:09 Speaker 2: that God was still showing me his visions and leading me,

8:13 Speaker 2: carrying me, teaching me. It was a very hard phase.

8:16 Speaker 2: And during that phase, I happened to scrawl on to

8:23 Speaker 2: social media and I saw three of my friends that

8:27 Speaker 2: I known through ministry, and they had posted a story

8:31 Speaker 2: or status saying, you know what, we are ministering in

8:34 Speaker 2: Singapore and pray for us, and that one status through

8:42 Speaker 2: me crazily. I'm being open with you, right, I'm being

8:45 Speaker 2: open with you. I was like, see, I was not

8:48 Speaker 2: jealous that day were traveling and ministering in Singapore. I

8:51 Speaker 2: was like, God, You're taking them to Singapore and I'm

8:55 Speaker 2: here stuck in Bangalore. You know, They're flying to Singapore

8:59 Speaker 2: and I'm sinking in my life like Titanic. You know.

9:02 Speaker 2: It was so bad. And I started fighting with God

9:06 Speaker 2: for three days, like I'm being honest with you, Like, God,

9:08 Speaker 2: how can this be the case? God, This doesn't make sense,

9:12 Speaker 2: Like why aren't you doing anything? I fought with God.

9:15 Speaker 2: I was so mad at God for three days. I

9:17 Speaker 2: went into this wilderness of like, you know, God is

9:20 Speaker 2: not opening doors for me, God is punishing me, or

9:23 Speaker 2: God is not answering my praise. I was so mad.

9:25 Speaker 2: I was fighting with God. At the same time. It

9:27 Speaker 2: was my relationship with God and I was going through

9:30 Speaker 2: all of these things turmoil on the inside. And one

9:34 Speaker 2: month later I happened to meet these guys and I

9:39 Speaker 2: met a how was your trip to Singapore and come

9:41 Speaker 2: to find out that they actually did not go to Singapore.

9:46 Speaker 2: They had just taken a photo in a prestigious small

9:49 Speaker 2: in Bangalore and put out a status as a prank

9:54 Speaker 2: saying that they were traveling to Singapore. And I was like, man,

9:59 Speaker 2: think about this. I fought with God. I had three

10:04 Speaker 2: days of sleepless nights and fights with God, so much

10:10 Speaker 2: of like a wilderness three like how elijahed spent an

10:13 Speaker 2: old day in the wilderness. I spent three days in

10:16 Speaker 2: the wilderness of her mind, like what is God doing?

10:18 Speaker 2: What is happening? And then I realized I fought with

10:22 Speaker 2: God for nothing. What I thought was not even the reality,

10:28 Speaker 2: like how Elijah thought He's the only one when God

10:31 Speaker 2: actually said that there was seven thousand others. When I

10:35 Speaker 2: was feeling like, why isn't God blessing me? And God

10:37 Speaker 2: is blessing others alone, and God was saying, listen, you're

10:43 Speaker 2: in a journey. They're in a journey. Can you come

10:47 Speaker 2: to a place of peace in the journey that I

10:50 Speaker 2: placed here? You see, guys, the reason I share these

10:54 Speaker 2: with you is telling you that you can be open

10:58 Speaker 2: with God about how you feel. I want you to

11:00 Speaker 2: be open, like if I feel upset, not again, like

11:05 Speaker 2: I said, even if I do feel jealous, I share

11:09 Speaker 2: that with God. So God I feel jealous, help me

11:12 Speaker 2: if you feel jealous, if you feel hurt, if you

11:15 Speaker 2: feel broken, be open with God. That's when he can

11:19 Speaker 2: heal you. But sometimes we fight with God over things.

11:24 Speaker 2: We get into that wilderness of the mind over things

11:28 Speaker 2: that are actually not even a problem. We just assume.

11:33 Speaker 2: We just think because we keep overthinking one thought or

11:37 Speaker 2: leads to another thought that leads to another thought, and

11:41 Speaker 2: one thought leads to five minutes of depression and then

11:45 Speaker 2: one hour, and then one day, and then five days,

11:48 Speaker 2: and some people for many months, and sadly for some

11:53 Speaker 2: many years. Don't let that be you today. I want

11:57 Speaker 2: to pray over you that if you're in that wilderness

12:00 Speaker 2: of depression in your mind, a wilderness of wrong thought process,

12:05 Speaker 2: a wilderness of world win in your mind that's affecting

12:08 Speaker 2: you where you're not in that mental state that you

12:11 Speaker 2: need to be. I pray in Jesus' name that you

12:14 Speaker 2: will receive the breakthrough, that you will see the deliverance

12:18 Speaker 2: in your mind, and you will be set free in

12:20 Speaker 2: Jesus name really challenge you to leave a comment and

12:24 Speaker 2: shat this with someone and I will see you backwy soon.

12:27 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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