Kaleb's Corner: Finding Jesus in the Wilderness of Your Soul 004 |433

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Kaleb Allen continues the wilderness series by looking at the moment Elijah hit his limit. After calling down fire from heaven, Elijah finds himself in the desert, exhausted and ready to quit. Kaleb shares what it looks like when men hit that same place and how God responds with rest, care, and quiet direction.

What You’ll hear:
• Why Elijah collapsed under a broom tree after his biggest victory
• What it means to laugh at yourself in low moments
• How God responds to weakness with kindness, not shame
• Why your physical health affects your spiritual strength
• How to hear God’s voice in the quiet
• What to do when you feel like quitting everything

Feeling tired, frustrated, or in a spiritual dry spell? God still has work for you, and He meets you with grace before He gives you your next step.

Episode Resources:

• 1 Kings 19, James 5, Mark 14 – Elijah and Gethsemane
• Book: Letters and Papers from Prison – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Poem: “Who Am I?” – Bonhoeffer
• The McShane Bible Reading Plan
• Read The Dad Tired Book: https://amzn.to/3YTz4GB
• Support Dad Tired: dadtired.com/donate
• Invite Jerrad to speak: https://www.jerradlopes.com

Transcript

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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.
0:05.6	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 preached three times yesterday, which is a lot for me. Three is my max. And I preached on Gassimity.
0:19.3	I'm in Mark's Gospel where Jesus is in Gassimity. It's a
0:22.5	heavy text. Jesus looking at the disciples and saying, I'm sorrowful, even unto death. Like,
0:27.9	what a weighty place in the scriptures and big, heavy themes to carry. And so this morning, I woke up
0:35.7	after preaching that and just feeling like empty.
0:40.1	It's like all week long I prayed and fought and prayed and thought and studied.
0:44.9	And then you spill it all out with this like fusion of adrenaline.
0:49.4	And then you lay down on Sunday and you wake up Monday and you feel it.
0:53.6	You just feel totally empty. And I call that
0:56.5	pastor's fatigue. And so I'm feeling that today and I was kind of wrestling with that this morning. And it's
1:03.1	fascinating how we can go from like all of this adrenaline and all this passion and conviction on Sunday to
1:09.7	discouraged week and empty Monday.
1:14.3	Maybe some of you guys, maybe you work in sales or you're working on big projects and you
1:17.5	push, push, push, push, push, and you have all this excitement and adrenaline.
1:21.6	And then when the project's done or the task is complete, you wake up feeling just kind of pointless.
1:29.5	And, man, I'm just feeling that today.
1:31.9	And when I feel those kind of lulls in my soul, those kind of swings in my soul, oftentimes
1:37.8	I'll think about Elijah and Elijah's wilderness.
1:41.2	And so Elijah, of course, on Mount Carmel calls down fire and 450 prophets of
1:48.1	bail come to their end. And he is the man of the hour. He's God's man. He knows God's power. He
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