Your story is important in the communication of who you are. If you had to ask yourself the question, "Who are you?", what would be your answer? When you know yourself, you can better navigate how to present yourself to others, as well as accept who others are.

Would you put a bandaid on a broken arm? When we don't deal with trauma, it causes an infection in our soul that leads to further infection. What are you avoiding that you need to return to in order to be healed? In this Mental Health Monday, Pastor Jonathan challenges us to use grace to move forward, and grace to go backward to revisit those things that keep us from moving forward.

Mistakes aren't disqualifiers as long as we keep moving beyond the failures. When we're pursuing living in the abundant life that Jesus provided for us, there will be things that can trip us up. If you've started the process towards wholeness, don't let failure stop you. Have grace for yourself. It's okay to not be okay.

In God's presence we find deliverance - but what happens afterwards? Once deliverance takes place, there are habits that need to change so that we don't invite the same spiritual problems that we previously had. In this Mental Health Monday, Pastor Jonathan challenges us to live in freedom that lasts through habits that sustain our deliverance, not take us back to what we were delivered from.

It's not a sin to be emotional or display those emotions - they alert us to what is going on inside of us. It's not the emotions that are the problem - it's what we do with the emotions that often gets us in trouble. In this Mental Health Monday, Pastor Jonathan challenges us to consider where our emotions are directing us, and if they are leading us to places of freedom or coping.

When God provided manna for the Israelites, He also told them to only take what they needed for that day. Anything stored and left over would become moldy and spoil. In this Mental Health Monday, Pastor Jonathan challenges us to question whether we are still trying to grow and live on something that was only supposed to be a temporary provision.

What we allow into our lives will either make us sick or give us life. What are you taking in? This Mental Health Monday, Pastor Jonathan discusses rancid water, and the importance of making sure what we put into our souls is feeding us, not destroying us.