It is supernatural when God gives you the ability to keep going when a few minutes ago you were ready to give up.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about beating discouragement and overcoming the victim mentality.

And he brings something in your experience

that quickens you, wakes you up, so you can get up and keep going.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible

Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

There are modern day treatments for depression, but today Dr Evans will tell us about one that only has positive side effects, and it doesn't even require a prescription.

Let's join him as he takes us to First Kings 19 for today's message.

All of us have been in level number one, discouragement. Many of us have been in level number two,

depression, and so we know what it is or we know people

who know what it is to have the need for an emotional miracle. If nothing else

ever changed in our lives with regard to our

circumstances, our situation, if I could just get my mind straight. If I could just

if I could just get my thinking right, if I could just get my mind straight, I can make it, but no matter what externally happens,

there's a demon in my head that I can't shake.

That's our situation today with Elijah.

Here is a prophet on steroids. He's got it going on and he is doing large but in less than 24

hours. His world changes, his life collapses and in less than a day. Everything is turned around and he has gone

from the hilltop, the mountain peak of victory to the valley of despair. And many of us knows that

sometime it doesn't take 24 hours for things to turn on you a pink slip that you

didn't anticipate a person walking out of your life who you were counting on a

diagnosis or a physical ailment that you didn't even know was operating within your body in less than 24 hours,

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