Kaleb's Corner: Finding Jesus in the Wilderness of Your Soul 004
Dad Tired
Jerrad Lopes
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kaleb Allen dives deep into the story of Elijah's wilderness experience and how it relates to the spiritual highs and lows we all face. Using 1 Kings 19 as a foundation, Kaleb reflects on Elijah’s journey from calling down fire on Mount Carmel to feeling utterly defeated and lying under a broom tree, asking God to take his life. Kaleb unpacks the lessons we can learn from Elijah about not taking ourselves too seriously, the importance of caring for our physical bodies, receiving God's love, listening for His voice in the quiet, and allowing God to renew our purpose.
This episode is for anyone feeling worn out, frustrated, or spiritually dry. Through Elijah’s story, Kaleb offers practical wisdom and biblical encouragement to keep pressing on even in the wilderness moments of our lives. Whether you’re battling fatigue, discouragement, or the temptation to give up, this episode will help you find Jesus in the wilderness of your soul and remind you that God’s plans for you are not finished yet.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction to Part 4 of the 6-week series: Kaleb reflects on "pastor's fatigue" and the emotional crash after a Sunday of preaching.
01:50 – How adrenaline-filled Sundays often lead to discouraged Mondays and how relatable Elijah’s story is in this context.
02:24 – 1 Kings 19:4: Elijah prays to God asking to take his life. How Elijah’s despair speaks to the wilderness moments we face in life.
04:49 – Point 1: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Elijah’s dramatic prayer and the importance of laughing at ourselves in difficult moments.
07:11 – God’s response to Elijah: He sends an angel to feed Elijah instead of rebuking him. The kindness and grace of God in our weakest moments.
09:32 – Point 2: Taking care of your physical body is essential. Addressing the spiritual and physiological connections in wilderness seasons.
11:55 – Point 3: Let God love you. The importance of receiving God's love even when we feel we’ve failed or are frustrated with ourselves.
14:16 – Elijah’s search for God in the dramatic (earthquake, fire, wind) and realizing that God often speaks in the gentle whisper.
16:42 – Personal reflection: Kaleb shares a story about fatherlessness and the temptation dads face to give up when feeling unappreciated.
18:25 – Practical steps: Laugh at yourself, care for your body, let God love you, listen for God's whisper, and allow Him to renew your vision.
20:49 – Reflection on immaturity: God lavishes His love on us even in our immaturity. How we can receive His grace no matter where we are in life.
23:12 – Final encouragement: Elijah’s highs and lows illustrate God’s mercy. Even when Elijah wanted to give up, God still had a plan for him.
23:55 – Closing thoughts: Press on, even when you're in the wilderness, and lean into God’s plans and love.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're looking at the wilderness again. This is part four of this six week little series here. |
| 0:05.5 | It's Monday when I'm recording for you and I always say that you need to be nice to your pastors on Monday. |
| 0:12.8 | I preach three times yesterday, |
| 0:15.2 | which is a lot for me. |
| 0:16.2 | Three is, my max. |
| 0:18.0 | And I preach on Gissimity. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm in Mark's Gospel where Jesus is in Gossimity |
| 0:22.4 | to have heavy text. |
| 0:23.8 | Jesus looking at the disciples and saying, |
| 0:26.1 | I'm sorrowful, even unto death. |
| 0:27.8 | Like what a weighty place in the scriptures |
| 0:29.7 | and big heavy themes to carry and so this morning I woke up after preaching that and |
| 0:36.8 | just feeling like empty it's like all week long I prayed and fought and thought and studied and then you spill it all out with this like fusion of adrenaline and then you lay down on the Sunday and you wake up Monday and you feel it you just feel totally empty and I call that |
| 0:56.4 | pastors fatigue and so I'm feeling that today and I was kind of wrestling with that this morning |
| 1:02.3 | and it's fascinating how we can go from like all of this adrenaline and all this passion and conviction on Sunday to discouraged week and empty Monday. |
| 1:14.0 | And maybe some of you guys, maybe you work on sales |
| 1:16.0 | or you're working on big projects and you push, push, push, push, |
| 1:19.0 | and you have all this excitement and adrenaline, |
| 1:21.0 | and then when the project's done or the task is complete you wake up feeling |
| 1:26.4 | just kind of pointless and man I'm just feeling that today and when I feel those kind of lulls in my soul those kind of swings in my soul |
| 1:37.2 | oftentimes I'll think about Elijah and Elijah's wilderness and so |
| 1:42.3 | Elijah of course on Mount Carmel calls down the fire and |
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