Stop the Spiral: How One Wrong Thought Leads to Deep Depression | Mental Health Part 3 | John Giftah

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0:47 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast. All through this week, we're looking at various lessons that we can take away from One King Step nineteen revolving around the story of Elijah who's going into a deep depression. And we're also looking at various aspects to look at and learn from this so that we can have the best mental health a lifestyle that God has intended for us. I really want you to just hold on because this week we're going to be releasing a special episode that I recorded with Rinnie Jacob, where we did a deep dive so that we can have the kind of mental life, that mental health filled life the God has intended for us.

1:27 Speaker 2: So I want you to hold on for that. But today one of the things I want to talk about is how Elijah, when he gets this threat from Queen Jezebel that she wants to kill him, he rose and he ran for his life. And yesterday I told about how he not only ran, he left a servant behind. Like one of the aspects that you need to keep in mind when you are in that more of getting into depression or anxiety or panic attacks or allowing the mental state to go in a bad fashion is to go into isolation. And so I want you against that yesterday.

2:02 Speaker 2: But today one of the things I wanted to understand what happens is he himself traveled in verse four all right, a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat in the junipiter under the juniper tree, and asked the Lord that he might die, and he says, in our Lord, I don't want to live anymore. Now, I want you to understand this important aspect about Elanja going into a day's journey into the wilderness. Okay, there is an aspect of wilderness where I was reminded of this, this funny Scooby Doo reference where Fred and Daphne are going into a wilderness a desert.

2:42 Speaker 2: And I know it's may not be child appropriate statement, but I've heard this where I think Fred says to Daphne, you know what this wilderness reminds me of? And she says, I don't know, and she he says, you know, it reminds me of a woman. And she's like, what do you mean? And she says, it keeps going on and on and on and on, you know what I mean? Like, I know it's it's not a child appropriate for a kids show, but anyway, yus the message I wanted to understand, right, A wilderness is something that keeps going on and on.

3:14 Speaker 2: If you've been in a desert, if you've been in those icy places. Sometimes if you be whether it's a cold desert or a hot desert, it feels never ending. It keeps going on and on and on and on. Right, So Elijah spent the whole day going on and on and on into the wilderness, right, Like when he was giving this reference about like how wilderness is like a moment in the sense like this person is going on and on in the sense of overthinking and talking about this problem or this possibility. See, I want you to understand this, right.

3:47 Speaker 2: I hope you understand the filter village I'm talking about this. The point is when you're getting into that depression or when you're getting into the wrong mode of mental health status, what happens is you get to that place where your mind keeps going on and on and on and on, going from one thing, Oh, this is something that went wrong, and then from there you think about something else. That thought takes you to something else and makes you go from novel depression to deep depression to even wanting to end your life.

4:17 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying? Sometimes it gets me one wrong thought that you entertain, and you keep going into the wilderness of your mind, and that thought leads to another thought, and two thoughts getting together. It's like a burger effect, and then another one over it, another layer over it, and these things getting started up over and over. It's like you can get into such a place where you're completely consumed by that. See. I want you to pay attention to this guys, you need to pay attention to the thoughts because the Bible says that some man think it, so is he.

4:54 Speaker 2: Your life goes in the direction of your thoughts. That's why you need to guard your thoughts. Because when you get into this mode of like how Elijah went into this wilderness, the thoughts keep going on and on and on, one thought leading to another, and another leading to another. And when they all get amplified and magnified, what happens. Elijah goes to a place where he says, God, you know what everybody else has compromised, I'm the only one standing up for you. In fact, later when God, you know, speaks to Elijah, he says, you're not the only one man.

5:30 Speaker 2: There are seven thousand people here who are not bowed down to bail. There are seven thousand people on this on board with us. But Elijah was in that mode where he felt like I'm the only one going through this. See what I want you to understand is when you go into this mode of depression, or you get into that mode of constantly, you know, meditating on the problem, meditating on these negative thoughts, what happens is it gets to a place where it starts magnifying. You feel like the whole world is against you.

6:02 Speaker 2: You feel like nobody cares for you. You feel like nothing is working in your life, even if nineteen nine things are working, and that one problem that you're facing is not working, and you think that nothing is working in your life. That's what happened to Elijah. He had just seen the mighty move of God. He had just seen that God enabled him to bring fire from heaven. But he has seen the hand of God, the power of God, and now he gets a threat from the enemy, and he's running for his life. And at this point, what he's saying is he's over magnifying the problem and saying, you know what, I'm the only one here God.

6:37 Speaker 2: Everybody els has compromised and God had to correct him, and saying, you are magnifying the problem. You're not the only one. There are seven thousand people who have not bound to pay. Sometimes, you know, we over magnify the problems to a point where we don't realize this was actually not even a problem. What you think as a problem. You keep thinking and oh, I'm magnifying it's actually not even a problem. Today. I want you to guard your thoughts instead of allowing it to go into that wilderness.

7:18 Speaker 2: I've shared this many times with you guys, that last year was one of the hardest years for me because I had a huge financial loss and a job loss, followed my attacks on my health, followed by close those in the ministry, so many, so much of oppositions, so many things that happened, you know, certain things. I can't even share it publicly yet. So it was her hard season. And one of the things that I remember was I knew God was showing me visions that I'll be traveling and ministering. And by the grace of God, now those have started opening up for me to travel and minister.

7:53 Speaker 2: But I wanted to understand I was getting these visions, these promises from God, and my life was like completely stuck. Nothing was working on. People were against me, people were saying, oh, you made some mistake and God is punishing you now. Like it was so hard to convince anybody that God was leading me, that God was still showing me his visions and leading me, carrying me, teaching me. It was a very hard phase. And during that phase, I happened to scrawl on to social media and I saw three of my friends that I known through ministry, and they had posted a story or status saying, you know what, we are ministering in Singapore and pray for us, and that one status through me crazily.

8:42 Speaker 2: I'm being open with you, right, I'm being open with you. I was like, see, I was not jealous that day were traveling and ministering in Singapore. I was like, God, You're taking them to Singapore and I'm here stuck in Bangalore. You know, They're flying to Singapore and I'm sinking in my life like Titanic. You know. It was so bad. And I started fighting with God for three days, like I'm being honest with you, Like, God, how can this be the case? God, This doesn't make sense, Like why aren't you doing anything?

9:14 Speaker 2: I fought with God. I was so mad at God for three days. I went into this wilderness of like, you know, God is not opening doors for me, God is punishing me, or God is not answering my praise. I was so mad. I was fighting with God. At the same time. It was my relationship with God and I was going through all of these things turmoil on the inside. And one month later I happened to meet these guys and I met a how was your trip to Singapore and come to find out that they actually did not go to Singapore.

9:46 Speaker 2: They had just taken a photo in a prestigious small in Bangalore and put out a status as a prank saying that they were traveling to Singapore. And I was like, man, think about this. I fought with God. I had three days of sleepless nights and fights with God, so much of like a wilderness three like how elijahed spent an old day in the wilderness. I spent three days in the wilderness of her mind, like what is God doing? What is happening? And then I realized I fought with God for nothing. What I thought was not even the reality, like how Elijah thought He's the only one when God actually said that there was seven thousand others.

10:34 Speaker 2: When I was feeling like, why isn't God blessing me? And God is blessing others alone, and God was saying, listen, you're in a journey. They're in a journey. Can you come to a place of peace in the journey that I placed here? You see, guys, the reason I share these with you is telling you that you can be open with God about how you feel. I want you to be open, like if I feel upset, not again, like I said, even if I do feel jealous, I share that with God. So God I feel jealous, help me if you feel jealous, if you feel hurt, if you feel broken, be open with God.

11:18 Speaker 2: That's when he can heal you. But sometimes we fight with God over things. We get into that wilderness of the mind over things that are actually not even a problem. We just assume. We just think because we keep overthinking one thought or leads to another thought that leads to another thought, and one thought leads to five minutes of depression and then one hour, and then one day, and then five days, and some people for many months, and sadly for some many years. Don't let that be you today. I want to pray over you that if you're in that wilderness of depression in your mind, a wilderness of wrong thought process, a wilderness of world win in your mind that's affecting you where you're not in that mental state that you need to be.

12:11 Speaker 2: I pray in Jesus' name that you will receive the breakthrough, that you will see the deliverance in your mind, and you will be set free in Jesus name really challenge you to leave a comment and shat this with someone and I will see you backwy soon. God bless you.

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