Finding Hope and Healing in Our Weakness
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1) "But today we look at that second word. And Elijah's story reminds us. And I know this is not like an exciting. Listen, I'll be real. I didn't want to preach this one. Okay. That's why I gave it to Ashley originally. I didn't want to talk about it. But we got to be intentional about the physical part of us if we want to make it out of the cave and live out of there." [17:57]
2) "Depression tells us that, man, we can't do anything. It's totally out of control. And I know in the cave it feels that way. It feels like disorienting. But we still have some free will. We still have some choices about how we spend our time. And what we prioritize." [20:05]
3) "But sometimes it's seasonal depression. Sometimes it's whatever. But sometimes we're just too tired. Sometimes we're just too empty. If the greatest prophet of the Old Testament, if a guy on the Mount Rushmore of the faith needed rest, maybe you're not Superman." [25:04]
4) "If our bodies could speak, most of us are so, so hungry somewhere. And for me, for my times, I feel like I've been in the cave, so to speak, twice. And for me, my feeling was so, so lonely. Different caves, different reasons. First one, I had this season where I didn't know the future." [27:32]
5) "But in those moments of hopelessness, what we're learning, whatever our cave looks like, what we're learning from modern science and doctors and psychologists and case studies from tons and tons of evidence is that even the tiniest step forward can be huge." [29:10]
6) "And I want to say this. We're talking about the physical today. But if you only address the physical, it's not going to last. There's no amount of sleep, no amount of healthy snacks that can give you what you need if you don't have the rest of Jesus Christ." [33:51]
7) "He wants you to have better. He wants you to have more. I'm so grateful that he not only saw Elijah right where he was, but he met him right where he was. Come on. That story could have been, here's Elijah. He's under the broom tree. He's ready to die." [31:15]
8) "That's not what I'm expecting to see in the text, but it's right here in the text. God addresses his physical needs first. Why? Could it be, now we're going to see God get into his purpose and his relationships and his calling and all these other things, but could it be that Elijah couldn't handle any of that until this was dealt with?" [14:36]
9) "Man, raise your hand. How many of you are battling this right now? And in my eight years of being the lead pastor here, I have never had a service where more hands were shot up for a question than last week when I said how many of you are in a cave?" [04:06]
10) "And we looked at his story and how his darkest hour, his darkest depression came after a mountaintop experience, after a spiritual high. So we should be on alert for that, right? Then he started going down all these different things that are just pitfalls of depression." [07:40]
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2) "Depression tells us that, man, we can't do anything. It's totally out of control. And I know in the cave it feels that way. It feels like disorienting. But we still have some free will. We still have some choices about how we spend our time. And what we prioritize." [20:05]
3) "But sometimes it's seasonal depression. Sometimes it's whatever. But sometimes we're just too tired. Sometimes we're just too empty. If the greatest prophet of the Old Testament, if a guy on the Mount Rushmore of the faith needed rest, maybe you're not Superman." [25:04]
4) "If our bodies could speak, most of us are so, so hungry somewhere. And for me, for my times, I feel like I've been in the cave, so to speak, twice. And for me, my feeling was so, so lonely. Different caves, different reasons. First one, I had this season where I didn't know the future." [27:32]
5) "But in those moments of hopelessness, what we're learning, whatever our cave looks like, what we're learning from modern science and doctors and psychologists and case studies from tons and tons of evidence is that even the tiniest step forward can be huge." [29:10]
6) "And I want to say this. We're talking about the physical today. But if you only address the physical, it's not going to last. There's no amount of sleep, no amount of healthy snacks that can give you what you need if you don't have the rest of Jesus Christ." [33:51]
7) "He wants you to have better. He wants you to have more. I'm so grateful that he not only saw Elijah right where he was, but he met him right where he was. Come on. That story could have been, here's Elijah. He's under the broom tree. He's ready to die." [31:15]
8) "That's not what I'm expecting to see in the text, but it's right here in the text. God addresses his physical needs first. Why? Could it be, now we're going to see God get into his purpose and his relationships and his calling and all these other things, but could it be that Elijah couldn't handle any of that until this was dealt with?" [14:36]
9) "Man, raise your hand. How many of you are battling this right now? And in my eight years of being the lead pastor here, I have never had a service where more hands were shot up for a question than last week when I said how many of you are in a cave?" [04:06]
10) "And we looked at his story and how his darkest hour, his darkest depression came after a mountaintop experience, after a spiritual high. So we should be on alert for that, right? Then he started going down all these different things that are just pitfalls of depression." [07:40]
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