THE DANGER OF ISOLATION | Elijah & Mental Health (Part 2) | John Giftah

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:46 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

0:53 Speaker 2: from the life of Elijah revolving around one King seventy nineteen,

0:58 Speaker 2: and we're specific also focusing on various aspects that we

1:03 Speaker 2: can look at with regard to having the right mental

1:05 Speaker 2: health right. Because I want you to understand that it

1:08 Speaker 2: just recorded a special episode with Reni Jacob on the

1:13 Speaker 2: actual aspects with regard to mental health. I want you

1:15 Speaker 2: to stay tuned for it because there's so much to unpack.

1:18 Speaker 2: But today we're going to look at some holistic stuff

1:20 Speaker 2: that we can learn from the life of Elijah, revolving

1:23 Speaker 2: this so that you can have the kind of life

1:25 Speaker 2: that God wants you to have. So one of the

1:27 Speaker 2: things I want you to understand is that there is

1:29 Speaker 2: a moment when Elijah, this mighty prophet who just brought

1:33 Speaker 2: fire from heaven, is now on the verge of a

1:36 Speaker 2: deep depression. And what I want you to get is

1:39 Speaker 2: that there's a moment where there's a threat from the enemy,

1:44 Speaker 2: Queen Jezebel, who's sending out a threat to Elijah, saying,

1:48 Speaker 2: you know what, by tomorrow, I'm going to make sure

1:51 Speaker 2: that you're dead. Right, She sends a threat, and he

1:54 Speaker 2: is so scared. And what happens is he gets up.

1:57 Speaker 2: He's so scared when you look at verse three, was

2:00 Speaker 2: afraid and rose and ran for his life. And he

2:03 Speaker 2: came to be Sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left

2:07 Speaker 2: a servant there. But he traveled a day's journey into

2:12 Speaker 2: the wilderness by himself, and he came down and sat

2:16 Speaker 2: down under a juniper tree. Now I wanted to understand

2:19 Speaker 2: something very important here, right one of the biggest things

2:22 Speaker 2: that you need to pay attention to when you're going

2:25 Speaker 2: through life. This may be in a place where you

2:27 Speaker 2: are maybe dealing with depression, or maybe it's just a

2:30 Speaker 2: practical thing that you need to remember that can prevent

2:33 Speaker 2: any form of negativity. It can be a prevention of depression, anxiety,

2:39 Speaker 2: wrong thought processes or temptations, or maybe it can be

2:42 Speaker 2: even panic attacks, or maybe fear or wrong influences over

2:47 Speaker 2: your mind, anything for that matter. The best thing I

2:50 Speaker 2: wanted to understand from the life of Elijah is not

2:53 Speaker 2: to do what he did when he was in that fear.

2:55 Speaker 2: You know what he did. He goes to this place

2:58 Speaker 2: called Beesba where he leaves his servant and he goes

3:02 Speaker 2: all by himself into the wilderness. Now we're going to

3:05 Speaker 2: look at what is the aspect of regard to the

3:08 Speaker 2: wilderness in tomorrow's episode. But I want you to understand

3:10 Speaker 2: something here. He goes into isolation mode. See, if you

3:15 Speaker 2: listen to anybody who teaches on therapy, anybody who is

3:19 Speaker 2: into the counseling space, one of the biggest things they

3:22 Speaker 2: will tell you to avoid when you are in the

3:24 Speaker 2: verge of depression or suicide or on the verge of

3:27 Speaker 2: panic attacks or on the worde of fear, or any

3:30 Speaker 2: time when you're not in the mental space that your

3:32 Speaker 2: need to be is to make sure that you're not

3:35 Speaker 2: in isolation, To make sure that you talk to somebody,

3:39 Speaker 2: to make sure that you are in the right community,

3:42 Speaker 2: to make sure that you are not just by yourself,

3:45 Speaker 2: because the minute you are by yourself, that's a very

3:50 Speaker 2: bad trap the enemy uses against you. Today, I want

3:55 Speaker 2: you to understand when you are in trouble, or when

3:58 Speaker 2: you are in that fear, or when you're having this

4:00 Speaker 2: approach through life, are you approaching life from a place

4:04 Speaker 2: of isolation where you're living like an island where it's

4:08 Speaker 2: just you and you, Or are you living from an

4:12 Speaker 2: approach where you're living in a community, community of believers,

4:18 Speaker 2: community of good people who have your good interest at heart,

4:22 Speaker 2: people who can mentor you correct you, show you the

4:25 Speaker 2: right way, people who can be there to encourage you,

4:28 Speaker 2: support you, stand by you. Because you see, the minute

4:31 Speaker 2: you try to live like an island, you can be

4:34 Speaker 2: washed away the minute a tsunami of attacks from the

4:37 Speaker 2: enemy comes. That is what happened with Elijah. The minute

4:43 Speaker 2: he was gripped with that fear. Instead of getting that community,

4:47 Speaker 2: what did he do? He got so scared he allowed

4:50 Speaker 2: himself to get into that wilderness where he said to

4:54 Speaker 2: his servant, you stay here, you don't come with me,

4:56 Speaker 2: and he went by himself. And what happened in that process?

5:00 Speaker 2: He was lost in isolation. He starts crying to the Lord, enough, Lord,

5:07 Speaker 2: take my life. I'm no better than my father's. He's

5:11 Speaker 2: in that mode where he's lost it at life. He

5:15 Speaker 2: wants to just end his life. Is he he wishes

5:17 Speaker 2: his life was over? He was in that suicidal depression.

5:21 Speaker 2: See sometimes we look at somebody and say, how can

5:24 Speaker 2: this person end their life? How can this person be so.

5:29 Speaker 1: Weak?

5:30 Speaker 2: How can they not care about their family and this

5:34 Speaker 2: end their life? Can I tell you someone take the

5:36 Speaker 2: mighty Prophet. Elijah went through that suicidal depression to say

5:41 Speaker 2: enough is enough. I want to die. He said, I

5:44 Speaker 2: want to die today. I don't know if you're watching, saying,

5:47 Speaker 2: you know what, my life is in a very bad place.

5:50 Speaker 2: Nothing is working out, nothing is happening, and I think

5:53 Speaker 2: I'm not a good Christian because I just feel like

5:57 Speaker 2: ending my life. I just feel like I just don't

6:00 Speaker 2: have the will to live. Anymore. Don't allow the guilt

6:05 Speaker 2: to grip over. You. Don't feel guilty for feeling like

6:11 Speaker 2: you don't want to live anymore because the Mighty profit

6:14 Speaker 2: Elijah himself went through that. But one of the things

6:18 Speaker 2: to look at what allowed him to go through that

6:21 Speaker 2: is because instead of going through that place, going through

6:25 Speaker 2: that difficult face with the help of community, with the

6:29 Speaker 2: help of his close ones who can encourage him and

6:32 Speaker 2: build him and support him and stand by him, he

6:36 Speaker 2: went all by himself. Today, I want to ask you

6:41 Speaker 2: this question. Are you approaching life by yourself? Or are

6:47 Speaker 2: you approaching life with the help of God given friends

6:52 Speaker 2: and family and community who can actually encourage you, build

6:58 Speaker 2: you up, support you, stand by you, and make sure

7:03 Speaker 2: that you fulfill the purpose that God has s in

7:06 Speaker 2: stuff for you. But if you are living by yourself,

7:10 Speaker 2: I want you to be cautious because that is an

7:13 Speaker 2: enemy trap through which he will make sure that it's

7:17 Speaker 2: all you. You face things alone, you have no strength

7:22 Speaker 2: to fight certain things because you need community to stand

7:26 Speaker 2: by you at certain points of time, and you need

7:28 Speaker 2: to be sure that you know what I'm just not

7:32 Speaker 2: going into this wilderness of my mind over and over

7:36 Speaker 2: wondering about life. See when when Elijah was feeling like this,

7:42 Speaker 2: he said, you know what, I just want to die. No,

7:46 Speaker 2: you might have heard this phrase. You know, an idle

7:48 Speaker 2: mind is the devil's workshop. But can I tell you

7:50 Speaker 2: something when you are by yourself, when you have nobody

7:55 Speaker 2: with you, when you are just going into that, into

7:59 Speaker 2: that isolation, you know what happens. The enemy is using

8:03 Speaker 2: that to make sure that you're just cut off from

8:06 Speaker 2: all sources of help that God wants to bring into

8:09 Speaker 2: your life. And that can actually prevent you from getting

8:14 Speaker 2: the healing and the deliverance and the wholeness that you

8:19 Speaker 2: need over your life. God, I want to pray in

8:21 Speaker 2: Jesus Name those who attempted to go into the mode

8:23 Speaker 2: of isolation because of maybe depression or whatever they're dealing

8:27 Speaker 2: with or they're dealt with. I pray that this will

8:30 Speaker 2: be a wake up call for them to give a

8:33 Speaker 2: call to someone, to send a message to someone, to

8:37 Speaker 2: reach out to someone and say hey, I need help,

8:41 Speaker 2: I need help, and let help come their way in

8:45 Speaker 2: Jesus name, if you want help, if you're in that

8:48 Speaker 2: place of desperation, reach out to me through social media

8:51 Speaker 2: or any means that you can see through YouTube or

8:55 Speaker 2: Facebook or whatever. I want to pray for you and

8:58 Speaker 2: stand by you through the season. Well, I want to

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