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1 Kings 19:1-9 NLT

Premise -In God, you don’t have permission to quit! Finding a solution and giving up are two different things and we must learn as believers to adjust, shift, and pivot rather than tapping out. The earth needs you! Why? Because you are a key player and component in the story of God and you quitting means we all lose. So allow Christ to pick you up, dust you off, and set you back on the path created for you. 

Scriptural Insight
 
1. Perspective is key, the enemy can paint what you have done right as if it is wrong to get you to crumble. How you choose to view what you have done dictates how you will handle your future.
1 Kings 19:1 NLT

2. The reason for the many attacks on your mental, emotional, and physical health is because of who you are and what you represent. Never allow a threat of the enemy to overpower the truth of God’s word over your life! God has marked you and separated you for His purpose. Tapping out gives automatic victory to the enemy! The only time you lose or fail in the kingdom of God is when you quit! 1 Kings 19:2 NLT

3. Fear of tapping out physically or spiritually will cause you to not only flee assignments, places, and people but purpose. Don’t let your faith waver because of a small threat of hell. Fortify your mind with God’s word and push! 1 Kings 19:3 NLT

4. Sometimes isolation breeds negative thoughts, emotions, and outlooks if not rooted in God and His word. At this point you will assume that tapping out physically, emotionally, and mentally is the only way. But YOU MUST LIVE! 1 Kings 19:4 NLT

5. Rest in God, that’s where your answers are. Your solutions are not in stressing, worrying, or fearing. The results you are anticipating are wrapped up in the rest you need to enter! 1 Kings 19:5 NLT

6. Look around, what you need for the journey is already provided! 1 Kings 19:6 NLT

7. Preparation is needed for the journey ahead. You must ensure that you receive all that you need from God. This may be the reason tapping out was an option. You didn’t get all you needed! Stay still long enough for God to fill you not tease you. 1 Kings 19:7 NLT

8. The strength you need for your life’s journey is coupled with your ability to rest in God and your passion to hunger for Him. In doing so you will end up at the place of divine encounter. 1 Kings 19:8 NLT

9. Never assume isolation has no benefits. There are times when God uses isolation to start a conversation. 1 Kings 19:9 NLT

Premise ⁃ I think it’s safe to assume that for the believer in Christ Jesus, anxiety is the souls signal indicating that doubt, worry, and fear has trumped faith because of the unknown being present. The very nature of our being is to have faith but because none of us want to feel, experience, or go through misfortune, pain, or suffering fear feeds the soul instead faith keeping the spirit. But how many of you know that today you will have victory over anxiety and anything alike because of you not only trusting Jesus but you gaining the necessary tools to conquer this thing once and for all.

For the believer anxiety is an indicator of a few things

1. We need to believe (Have faith)
Psalms 94:19 NIV

2. We have to know what we believe or else we run the risk of being weighed down consistently. (Study)
Proverbs 12:25 NIV

3. God is sovereign. (He’s in control)
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV

Anxiety definition ⁃ distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune

Scriptural insight

1. Anytime you are on your way to purpose you will encounter seasons and moments of intense fear and worry that must be handled with care. How you handle this destiny place isn’t by worry or fear but faith and prayer!
 Mark 14:32 NLT
Philippians 4:6-7 NLT

2. When destiny moments are happening the enemy will use anxiety to torment the soul to get you to forfeit your purpose and choose premature death physically or spiritually. You must learn to accept and harness the power that Jesus Christ has given you to not only discipline the mind but press towards the future!
Mark 14:33-34 NLT
2 Timothy 1:7 NLT

3. The Christian faith is not about God taking you out of the situation, circumstance, or even the trial. It’s about you fighting through it and accepting the will of God so that you may experience all of what God has for you! What you are going through is bigger than you think!
Mark 14:35-36 NLT
1 Peter 5:6-7 NIV

John 11:35 NLT

Premise ⁃The secret that the enemy never wants you to figure out, believe, and apply is that when you have put your faith in Jesus you’ve gained more than you could ever lose! Therefore grieving will happen but doesn’t have to last!

Grief definition: keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.

Fundamental truths concerning grief

1. Grief interrupts focus and causes vision to fade.

Psalms 6:7 NLT
But when in Christ Jesus…..
Psalms 146:8 NLT

2. At some point grief will come, but that doesn’t mean grief has to last.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4 NLT
But when in Christ Jesus…..
Romans 8:18 NLT
John 16:22 NIV
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NLT

3. If not dealt with properly grief will advance your years and wear you out by keeping you hostage in a prison of weeping.

Psalms 31:9 TPT
But when in Christ Jesus……
Psalms 34:18 NLT

4. Rejection births grief and trains the soul to be sorrowful by creating a constant cycle of loss.

Isaiah 53:3a NKJV
But when in Christ Jesus……
Isaiah 53:4 NKJV
Matthew 11:28-30 NLT

5. Grief can cause people to make emotional decisions that damage the next person. (Hurt people hurt people).

I Samuel 30:6 NKJV
But when in Christ Jesus…..
“But David strengthened (Encouraged) himself in the Lord his God.”

John 16:33 NLT

Premise ⁃  Although God promises us that there will be no sorrow or pain once we transition from this life to eternal life with Him, as believers we must grip the reality that this current life brings challenges, situations, and circumstances that produce sadness, harsh realities, and suffering and cannot be avoided. The good news is The Lord promises us that during such trials and sorrows that He has given us peace and overcome the world. Victory is available to those who believe!

Depression definition:  sadness; gloom; dejection. Psychiatry a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason. dullness or inactivity

Fundamental truths

1.  Depression if not tackled and dealt with visits frequently and steals time away from you.

Job 30:16 NLT
But….
Joel 2:25a NLT

2.  Depression causes constant sadness, weeping, and sobbing.

Psalms 6:6 NLT
But….
Psalms 30:5 NLT

3.  Depression establishes abandonment issues and always points the finger instead dealing with the root.

Psalms 88:5-7 NLT
But…..
Isaiah 41:10 NLT

4.  Depression feels like your suffering from constant heart break.

Lamentations 2:11 NLT
But…..
Psalms 147:3 NLT