Where Are You? Genesis 3:8-11 Self Examination: Where Are We?

What Are You doing Here? Self Realization: I am/We Are Not where I am/we are supposed to be. I am not where God would have me!
1 Kings 19:1-9 What are You doing here, Elijah?

You have stayed at this place long enough! Self Determination: I/We to Need to get out of here to the place God wants me to Be!
Deuteronomy 1:6-8 You Have Been In this Place Long Enough!

The Despair and Depression of God’s Prophet Elijah! 1 Kings 19:1-9

The Context: A Major Victory For God and Israel! 1 Kings 18:17-

1. Discover Your Source of Despair or Depression

• A Harsh Word.
• A Deferred Hope. Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the Hear sick!
• An “All Alone” Feeling. 1 Peter 1:18-20
• A Lack of Faith. Matthew 6:28-30
• Rejection.
• A Work of The Enemy.

2. Discover Your Despair’s Remedy! 1 Kings 19:9-18

• Find God’s Peace and Presence! (Let God Meet You!)
• Realize You Are Not Supposed to Be in this place!
• Understand that it is Not As Bad as You Think it Is!
• Your Work is Not Done!
• You Are Not Alone! 18
• Respond to God’s Instruction!

Hope In God and His Faithful Work. Isaiah 9:1-7

Psalm 42:11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you Become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

3. Practice This Biblical Strategy.

Philippians 4:4-8
I Will Always Rejoice in The Lord.
I Will Share With Someone of My Anxiety.
I Will Choose Not to be Anxious.
I Will Bring Everything To The Lord in Prayer.
I Will Always Be Grateful.
I Receive God’s Peace.
I Will Change My Mind About My Circumstances.