Sound Mind Week 1
Seasons of Life
Exposure / Experiences
Threats / Tomorrow
1 Kings 18:1 — After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”
1 Kings 18:21-22
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word. Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.
1 Kings 18
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
I Kings 18:45-46
After a short time the sky was covered with dark clouds. The wind began to blow, and a heavy rain began to fall. Ahab got in his chariot and started back to Jezreel. The power of the Lord came to Elijah. He used his belt to hold up the bottom of his robe away from his feet. Then he ran ahead of King Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
1 Kings 19
1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”
3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Biological
Psychological
Social
Spiritual
I was crying and I was emotionally out of control. I called off of work, and I came in and talked to you. You shared some other stories that you were aware of and encouraged me to check into it.
I went to the emergency room and they made sure that I wasn’t having any thoughts to harm myself.
We made an appointment with my doctor and they found that my thyroid was under active, and diagnosed it as Hashimoto’s disease. The doctor prescribed a thyroid medication and I have been good since.
— Julie
Jeremiah 20:14 — Curse the day that I was born! Don’t bless the day my mother had me.
Job 3:11 — Why didn’t I die when I was born? Why didn’t I die as I came from my mother’s womb?
Even strong people struggle some times.
Seasons of Life
Highs
Lows
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
— Billy Graham
How do we handle our highs?
How do we live with our lows?
Exposure / Experiences
What have you watched in your life?
What have you walked through in your life?
Threats / Tomorrow
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can seemingly bear.
— George Macdonald
Matthew 6:33-34
What you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what he wants you to do. Then he will give you all these other things you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Tomorrow will have its own worries.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
— Author Scott Adams
1 Kings 19:5 — Then Elijah lay down under the tree and slept. Suddenly an angel came to him and touched him. The angel said, “Get up and eat.”
2 Timothy 1:7 — For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.