Reality of Mental Health Crisis and Biblical Examples | John Giftah | Podcast Excerpt

0:00 Sometimes when I'm walking on the road, enemy just wants to push me to

0:03 end my life. And now I've seen that, and I know, like

0:07 when I go through those swings of depression and all of those things. But

0:10 that's the truth. It's people were saying, you know, you're not praying

0:13 enough, you're not fit to be a preacher, and all of these things.

0:17 But then I'm open to share about it because I want people to be

0:20 blessed through that. Even in the scripture, people did go through things.

0:23 You know, whether it's Elijah the Mighty Prophet, he brought down rain and

0:26 fire from heaven. Next minute he was in a wilderness using depression Jonah.

0:31 At one point he said, I want to die. He went to that

0:34 suicidal depression. Who's the other one who the opposite Paul in Quarrinthians, he

0:39 said, things were so bad, I wanted to end my life. And

0:41 we keep saying about Job saying that Job was saying, you know, blessed

0:45 be the name of the Lord. But that does since happened too. But

0:48 then in Chapel, I said, you know, curse be the day I'm

0:52 you know, stuff like that, So you know they all did go through

0:55 this, you know, it's not just you,