COMMON STRUGGLES MANY OF US EXPERIENCEHOPE CAN COUNTER WHAT IS TACTIC OF ENEMYNOBODY ELSE IS DEALING WITH THISCHRIST HAS HEALING FOR YOU/FOR MECOMMUNITY IS WHAT HELPS BRING HEALINGTODAY WE EXAMINE ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
I STUDY OFTEN ON TUESDAYS AT HOME- THE NEIGHBORHOOD WE LIVE IN
MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH
SCRIPTURE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3
3. PRAISE BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF COMPASSION AND THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT.
SCRIPTURE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4
4. WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR TROUBLES, SO THAT WE CAN COMFORT THOSE IN ANY TROUBLE WITH THE COMFORT WE OURSELVES RECEIVE FROM GOD.
SCRIPTURE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:5
5. FOR JUST AS WE SHARE ABUNDANTLY IN THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, SO ALSO OUR COMFORT ABOUNDS THROUGH CHRIST.
SCRIPTURE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:6
6. IF WE ARE DISTRESSED, IT IS FOR YOUR COMFORT AND SALVATION; IF WE ARE COMFORTED, IT IS FOR YOUR COMFORT, WHICH PRODUCES IN YOU PATIENT ENDURANCE OF THE SAME SUFERINGS WE SUFFER.
SCRIPTURE 2 CORINTHIANS 1:7
7. AND OUR HOPE FOR YOU IS FIRM, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT JUST AS YOU SHARE IN OUR SUFFERINGS, SO ALSO YOU SHARE IN OUR COMFORT.
TikTok, for example, launched in September 2016, and by mid-2018, it had already reached half a billion users. To put this in perspective: TikTok gained, on average, about 20 million new users per month over this period.
BIBLICAL CHARACTERS- BIBLE DOESN’T HIDE
KING DAVID WAS DEPRESSED. (PSALM 13:1)
JOB WAS HOPELESS. (JOB 3,4,7,15,16)
ELIJAH WAS SUICIDAL (I KINGS 19)
KING SOLOMON. HATED LIFE. (ECCLESIASTES 2:17)
JEREMIAH WISHED HED NEVER BEEN BORN (JER 15:10)
One of the crucial roles of the family of God is to offer comfort and support in times of suffering. According to Romans 12:15, we are to “Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.” This happens because “If one member suffers, all suffer together with it” (1 Corinthians 12:26).
DID ANYONE ON YOUR TEAM KNOW?
WHEN HAD YOU EVER FAILED? WAS THAT A BIG PART?
ELIJAH HAS MAJOR VICTORY VS 450 PROPHETS BAAL
3. ELIJAH WAS AFRAID AND FLED FOR HIS LIFE. HE WENT TO BEERSHEBA, A TOWN IN JUDAH, AND HE LEFT HIS SERVANT THERE. RAN 100 MILES
4. THEN HE WENT ON ALONE INTO THE WILDERNESS, TRAVEING ALL DAY. HE SAT DOWN UNDER A SOLITARY BROOM TREE AND PRAYED THAT HE MIGHT DIE.
5. “I HAVE HAD ENOUGH LORD, HE SAID. “TAKE MY LIFE, FOR I AM NO BETTER THAN MY ANCESTORS WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED.
14. HE REPLIED AGAIN, “I HAVE ZEALOUSLY SERVED THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. BUT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAVE BROKEN THEIR COVENANT WITH YOU, TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND KILLED EVERY ONE OF YOUR PROPHETS. I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT, AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL ME TOO.
I HAVE A SKEWED VIEW- BECAUSE OF WHAT I AM DEALING WITH
I HAVE ZEALOUSLY SERVED THE LORD GOD ALMIHTY. (TRUE) BUT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAVE BROKEN THEIR COVENANT WITH YOU (TRUE) TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS (TRUE) KILLED EVERYONE ONE OF YOUR PROPHETS (NOT TRUE)
3 Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. 4 So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.
5 Christ died, and we have been joined with him by dying too. So we will also be joined with him by rising from death as he did.6 We know that our old life was put to death on the cross with Christ. This happened so that our sinful selves would have no power over us. Then we would not be slaves to sin. 7 Anyone who has died is made free from sin’s control.
8 If we died with Christ, we know that we will also live with him.
