Tell God your frustrations.<\/i> After being restored through proper food and rest, Elijah travelled for forty days. Then he went into a cave and spent the night. In the morning, the Lord asked him, \u2018Why are you here?\u2019<\/i> Elijah answered: \u2018I\u2019ve always done my best to obey You. But Your people have broken their solemn promise to You. They have torn down Your altars and killed all Your prophets, except me. And now they are even trying to kill me!\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:10\u00a0CEV) <\/p>\n
Elijah poured out all his feelings, and God allowed him to let off steam. He wasn\u2019t shocked by Elijah\u2019s complaints. Sometimes it\u2019s helpful to share your feelings with a trusted friend. It\u2019s cathartic, a cleaning out, a venting of all the things that have been pushed down inside you that are contributing to your feelings of depression. And Elijah had plenty of stuff pushed down inside. Notice the emotions he experienced. <\/p>\n
He was afraid.<\/i> Then he felt resentment,<\/i> followed by low self-esteem<\/i> and guilt. \u2018I\u2019ve had enough\u2026 I\u2019m no better off than my ancestors.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Kings\u00a019:4\u00a0CEV) He was angry<\/i> because he had worked hard for nothing. He was lonely<\/i> to the point of despair<\/i>: \u2018Now they are even trying to kill me!\u2019<\/i> He was worried.<\/i> <\/p>\n
When fear, resentment, low self-esteem, guilt, anger, loneliness, and worry are combined, it can open the door to depression! So God let him spill it all out. He basically said, \u2018Elijah, what\u2019s frustrating you? What\u2019s eating you up?\u2019 and Elijah poured it all out. So when you are depressed, what you need to do is\u2014take it to God in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tell God your frustrations. After being restored through proper food and rest, Elijah travelled for forty days. Then he went into a cave and spent the night. In the morning, the Lord asked him, \u2018Why are you here?\u2019 Elijah answered: \u2018I\u2019ve always done my best to obey You. But Your people have broken their solemn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}