Life is such a precious gift that most will fight to keep and prolong, and yet we have all around us occurrences of disturbed individuals who cannot wait to get out of this world for reasons we may never know nor understand.
We think that only the non-spiritual or those that have no connection with God can come under such stress that propels them to hate this life and take their own lives. I tell you that that is not so. Suicide is a spirit that, like sin, looks for a host to dwell in and does not discriminate between those that pray and those that don't.
Suicidal spirit will take a gloomy experience and turn it into darkness. It will turn a voice of reprimand into shouts of condemnation. It will turn failure into inferiority complex. It has the ability of taking your little flaw, magnifying it a thousand time, packaging it and throwing it back at you. Suicide is a spirit, and his voice is your own perception of yourself and your surrounding situation. It is up to us to choose whether we will listen to it or not.
Elijah was a mighty prophet used of God to bring revolution to the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the paganistic reign of Ahab and his whorish wife, Jezebel. God honoured Elijah in ways that we can only dream about today. He summoned fire from heaven, stopped rain for 3 years, commanded an unceasing supply of oil and wheat for a widow, raised the dead to life, and slaughtered those that had defiled the land of Israel. Spiritual, mighty and bold are tags we can label this man by.
Nevertheless, even such a man fell prey to the spirit of suicide and "requested for himself that he might die". Why? He was afraid of the very queen he had challenged just a few days earlier, and whose prophets he had slain. What mistake had he done to suddenly turn from hunter to hunted? The answer is simple. Please note this answer as the most important so you can detect the subtle nature of how this suicidal demon begins its work.
The scripture notes in 1 Kings 19:4 that "WHEN HE SAW THAT". Dearly beloved ones, this is the beginning work of the spirit of suicide. Even before Elijah got discrouraged, or before he travelled to his retirement home. Long before he contemplated and requested the end of his life, he saw that.
What did he see? The previous verse tells us what he saw - the weightless threat in Jezebel words. Her threats were all bluffs, since Elijah had proven to her and the whole realm, that he was untouchable. Elijah enjoyed immunity under the wings of Almighty God. He brought down fire and consumed armies that were summoned to bring him captive before the King. But oh what weakness a mighty man can be reduced to when he directs his eyes and attention to see the bluff of the enemy.
Many are driven toward ending their God given lives because they have trained their eyes at the bluffs hurled at them by the enemy. It starts with a whisper and gradually develops till all they can hear is boisterous sound of the lies of the devil. If this is you today, know that you have a God yearning for you.
Every human being on this planet possesses a special place in the heart of Almighty God. He has already mapped out a plan concerning your life individually from beginning to end. He is not a God a far off, but He is personal and knows your name. He says "my thoughts for you are thoughts of peace and not of evil". He says "I have graven you in the palms of my hand". He says "I will never leave you nor forsake you". He says "when your mother and father will forsake you, I will lift you up". He says "eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms".
In God, there is hope, joy, peace, security, love, assurance, comfort, consolation, answers, and life. So whatever else your circumstances may tell you or whatever people may level against you to contradict what God has said, don't see it. You have an immunity to enjoy, because our God is mighty to save.
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