Maintaining a balance in your Christian walk can be very difficult. On one hand, being too heavenly-minded will make you no earthly good, while on the other hand, being too earthly-minded means you are no heavenly good. But true balance occurs when you can bring good to earth through your heavenly mindset. Learn more about maintaining the Biblically-based balance that Tony Evans likes to refer to as “The Divine Imperative.”
some of us are being destroyed by Satan
you need somebody who can whisper about
the power of God in your life and you
need to know from somebody who can see
outside of you that greater is he that
is in you you need to be lifted out of
your discouragement through honesty with
God in order to get the rest you need or
the help you need and to have somebody
in your life who loves you enough and
God will love to hook the two together
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most of us know at least discouragement
discouragement typically is related to a
loss of something you discourage because
you lost your job you discouraged
because you lost your health you
discourage because the bills have
climbed up and you’ve lost your
financial freedom
but when discouragement continues and
elongates itself discouragement devolves
into depression
depression is
discouragement on steroids it’s
discouragement that now has produced an
ongoing level of Gloom and ongoing level
of emotional pain and when
discouragement becomes depression
depression unresolved becomes despair
and when depression becomes despair that
ongoing discouragement that has led to
depression which now results in despair
produces a sense of hopelessness you see
no way out you see that there’s going to
be no exit sign there’s no way to get
around this thing there’s no way to beat
this thing it will not go away and then
when discouragement results in
depression that leads into despair then
you wind up considering the possibility
of death
because maybe that’s my only way out
because the hopelessness has gone on so
long so that death as a result of
Despair due to continuing uh depression
resulting from ongoing discouragement
has placed me in a place where I see
nothing else to live for
all of us have been in level number one
discouragement many of us have been in
level number two depression that’s our
situation today
with Elijah
now last time we saw Elijah
he’s rolling nice
last time we saw Elijah it closes
chapter 18 by saying the hand of the
Lord was on it
I mean he’s run 15 miles non-stop at
lightning speed because the hand of the
Lord was on him he’s then sucked down
rain from Heaven because the Lord was on
him he’s destroyed 400 prophets because
the hand of the Lord was on him here is
a prophet on steroids he’s got it going
on and he is doing large but in less
than 24 hours
his world changes his life collapses and
then in less than a day
everything is turned around and he is
gone from the hilltop the mountain peak
of Victory to the valley of despair
when we come to chapter 19
we find out what led to this
emergency shift in his emotions
Ahab had a controlling wife
he had a woman who was telling them what
to do