Follow Along with the Message

You Are Not Alone

Pastor Tony Myles

The greatest love story...

Imagine if everyone around us felt  and ...especially in their  and . (Proverbs 12:25)

This isn't the finish line, but the starting line. (Matthew 11:28-30)

• We can get better at caring for others when we realize how . (see Ephesians 4:32)

Learning from how God cared for Elijah (1 Kings 19:1-18)

v.1-5a: Understand...

• One single struggle can have multiple .
• Elijah felt despair...potentially because he was .

"...where two halves of the brain begin to [functionally] separate." - Dr. Mark Goulston

• It's hard to enjoy the "picnic" when you're experiencing an infestation of A.N.T.s (be it real or )
• What if we developed a heart to see beyond the ?
• Practice:   

v.5b-6: Replenish...

• Sometimes the most spiritual thing someone needs to do is  and .
• We're  to respond to love and empathy.
• Oxytosin > Cortisol...only when someone feels "."
• Practice:  

v.7-8: Empower...

• Everyone has a next step to take, but they may need help lifting their .
• Elijah needed more than a "one and done." 

"...it may seem to some people that I ought not to mention such small things as food and rest, but these may be the very  elements in really helping a poor depressed servant of God." - Charles Spurgeon

• Practice:  

v.9-14: Reveal...

• God reveals Himself in many ways, yet we tend to look for the  display of power...there is usually one unique way that our unique struggle  Him most. 
• What God does from the inside of us is more  than anything He could ever do for us from the outside. 
• God isn't foundationally  at us...He's foundationally  us.
• Practice:  

v.15-18: Redirect...

• We are not the voice of God.
• We can be a  God uses.
• God has created all of us with a capacity for .
• We all get to be a part of a larger story . 
• Practice:  

Stuck in the middle?

• We can't reach people or extend compassion unless we first take the time to  them. (see Matthew 9:36)
• .
• Be predictably .
• Listen well, and then speak . 
• Resource: Seen, by Will Hutcherson and Chinwé Williams

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