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  Prophet Elijah with bipolar disorder?     “And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.  But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers” (1 Kings 19:3-4).     There was a woman who had been suffering from bipolar disorder used to come to our church.  When she was happy, she was very good to her apartment neighbors.  So I think she did her best for a year or so to three women in her apartment complex and eventually brought them to our church.  But when she was in bed mood in her depression, she had a big fight with those three women and all of them left our church.  Several years ago, she tried to take her own life.  So our church elder a...

  Burnout     [1 Kings 19:1-14]     Psychologists say that stress can have disillusion, self-deprecation, and cynicism when it exceeds the threshold.  There's an article that summarizes the seven signaling signs of stress (Internet): (1) He considers himself to be indispensable, (2) He tries to do too many things and has not time to deal with important things (3) He has constant pressure on himself, (4) He feels uneasiness that he is always behind and is not the best, (5) He habitually sits long while he is working, (6) He feels guilty when he gets home early, and (7) He takes his worries home.  If we ignore these danger signals and continue working then we will eventually be burnout.  What is burnout?  Burnout is a feeling of fatigue and asthenia throughout the emotional, physical, and social life, literally devoid of power and energy.  When a pastor gets exhausted and burnout, he loses his motivation for m...