I Get Down...He Picks Me Up!

Sermon Notes | November 15-16, 2025

"Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like one of them.' Elijah was afraid and ran for his life..."

1 Kings 19:1-3a (NIV)

FOUR WAYS TO GET EASILY DEPRESSED

"...When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat under it, and he prayed that he might die. T have had enough, LORD, ' he said. 'Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.' Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep..."

1 Kings 19:3b-5a (NIV)

1. Wear yourself OUT

2. Shut PEOPLE out

3. Focus on the NEGATIVE

4. Forget GOD  

GOD'S PRESCRIPTION FOR OUR DEPRESSION

1. God says to EAT and REST

"...All at once an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.' Elijah looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

1 Kings 19:5b-6 (NIV)

"The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, 'Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.' So Elijah got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God."

1 Kings 19:7-8 (NIV)

2. God replaces our LIES with His TRUTH

"There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: 'What are you doing here, Elijah?' He replied, I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.""

1 Kings 19:9-10 (NIV)

"...take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

2 Corinthians 10:5b (NIV)

3. God SPEAKS in a still, small voice

"The LORD said to him, 'Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire came a gentle whisper."

1 Kings 19:11-12 (NIV)

4. God gives us a DIVINE assignment

"The LORD said to him, 'Go back the way you came, and go over to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazel king over Aram. Also anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet."

1 Kings19:15-16 (NIV)

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