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Speaker 1: Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Exodus twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Dear Lord, it seems there aren't enough hours in the

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Speaker 1: day to get everything done. Sure could you sundays to

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Speaker 1: sleep in get myself caught up? But your word says

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Speaker 1: to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. When

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Speaker 1: I put you first and remember to join with other

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Speaker 1: believers to worship and rest in your peace, I feel

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Speaker 1: refreshed when I honor your day and keep it holy.

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Speaker 1: I'm more productive during the week, and it seems you

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Speaker 1: give me grace to fly through my to do list.

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Speaker 1: Putting your principles into practice and lining up with your

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Speaker 1: word has astonishing effects on my mental health. Spending time

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Speaker 1: with you in prayer and worship has never wasted time.

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Speaker 1: Why are you the first thing that gets cut out

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Speaker 1: when my schedule gets crowded with activity? Help me remember

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Speaker 1: the busier I am, the more I need you. And

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Speaker 1: when I carve out time to focus on you, I

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Speaker 1: find you do more for me than I can do

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Speaker 1: for myself. It is an honor and a privilege to

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Speaker 1: join with your family of believers, for where two or

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Speaker 1: more are gathered in your name, you are always in

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Speaker 1: our midst Your presence is refreshing, living water that washes

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Speaker 1: over me and cleanses the stress of the world. You

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Speaker 1: are holy and it is my joy to honor you

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Speaker 1: on your Sabbath day in Jesus's name.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's daily prayer for more

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned to pray dot COM's Sunday service.

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Speaker 2: Amen and Amen and Amen. I guess we're just gonna

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Speaker 2: get real today, right If you got your Bible, so

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Speaker 2: I hope you do you better. First King chapter nineteen,

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Speaker 2: Grab them, there's one in front of you. First Kings

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Speaker 2: Chapter nineteen. We're gonna talk about Jesus in your Mental Health.

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Speaker 2: I stole the title from my friend Rebecca Maxwell's book

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Speaker 2: called Jesus in Your Mental Health. Okay, she's gonna come

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Speaker 2: up here in a little bit and we're gonna get

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Speaker 2: some free therapy, I hope. And that's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 2: And I do need to kind of warn you we're

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Speaker 2: talking about some very very serious and sensitive topics and

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Speaker 2: I'm not a very sensitive purpose person. That's very dangerous, right.

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Speaker 2: But the reason that we're doing this is because we're

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Speaker 2: studying the life of Elijah, and this is just where

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Speaker 2: the Bible goes. We're gonna talk about depression, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about suicide, because this is where the Bible goes.

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Speaker 2: Because this is not just some kind of ancient story book.

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Speaker 2: This is the living, active word of God. And it

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Speaker 2: doesn't just tell us what happened. It tells us what

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Speaker 2: always happens. And now, whatever the problem is in the

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Speaker 2: world or in your world, world, the answer will be

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Speaker 2: found in the Scripture. And I've told you this before. Man,

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Speaker 2: I just ain't got time to play church. Too many

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Speaker 2: church people got a bad case of the finitis, you

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Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, Like you show up to

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Speaker 2: church and everybody asks you how you doing. I'm fine,

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Speaker 2: but you ain't fine. And I'm telling you, just like

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Speaker 2: my man in the video said, if you want to

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Speaker 2: be free, you gotta learn to be honest. And so

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Speaker 2: And I have a sense, as I was praying for

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Speaker 2: realize that they were made for more. There're gonna be

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Speaker 2: as the Word of God is priests, and as we

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Speaker 2: way God sees you. And the empty tomb and an

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Speaker 2: He's got a plan for you. He's got a hope

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Speaker 2: you realize that. Amen. So that's where we're going to

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Speaker 2: That for all of polling history, which I don't know

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Speaker 2: We study this for over two years. Because there is

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Speaker 2: But the good news is that we have a good shepherd,

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Speaker 2: and what he offers to us is life and life abundantly.

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Speaker 2: And the Word has a lot to say about this.

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Speaker 2: And here's the thing, man, if you're struggling with this,

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Speaker 2: Our hero Elijah that we point to that we've been

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Speaker 2: God does not look at Elijah and go sug it up, Buttercup,

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Speaker 2: First Game, chapter nineteen, beginning of verse one, it says

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Speaker 2: this Ahab, that's our Kredi king. Ahab told Jezebel, his

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Speaker 2: prophets of bail and Astrara. Remember that that was fun.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome. Last week was rock and roll. Man.

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Speaker 2: If Elijah was a movie, you would stop the movie

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Speaker 2: right here, there would be credits. Elijah would just ride off.

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Speaker 2: often our darkest nights come on the heels of our

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Speaker 2: when things are going good, when you're walking in obedience

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Speaker 2: get that? Pastor the Bible just over and over and over,

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Speaker 2: daddy's listening to every single sermon. He's a digital disciple

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Speaker 2: high holy moment for Jesus, Amen God. Next verse, in

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Speaker 2: the twenty third son? We love that one right. The

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Speaker 2: You would think the rest of the whole psalm would

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Speaker 2: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

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Speaker 2: I will fear no evil. So listen, man, Oftentimes our

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Speaker 2: verse three, then he was afraid. He was afraid. See,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. And that's

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Speaker 2: And you look around and you should be full of

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Speaker 2: just can't turn on happy, right. It just doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: Lord and in the strength of his might, not our might,

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Speaker 2: his might. Put on the whole armor of God that

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Speaker 2: you may be able to stand that's fighting words against

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Speaker 2: the schemes of the devil. It's the Greek word is methodea,

430
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Speaker 2: that he has schemes. He's trying to trick us, lie

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Speaker 2: to us, because if we believe the word of God,

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Speaker 2: then we would feel what God feels about us, and

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Speaker 2: then we would do what God says. It would change everything.

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Speaker 2: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but

435
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Speaker 2: against rulers, against authorities, against cosmic powers over this present darkness,

436
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Speaker 2: against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore,

437
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Speaker 2: take up the whole armor of God. So we've got

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Speaker 2: to understand his schemes. It's a dirty war campaign of

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Speaker 2: the mind. Three. You got to take every fault captive.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe everything you think. Have you met you? You

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Speaker 2: think some jacked up stuff. Now identify when you hear

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Speaker 2: those I call them the whispers. Man, I get them bad.

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Speaker 2: I get them so bad. Oh, you don't even know

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Speaker 2: so bad the whispers. And I have to identify them.

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Speaker 2: I have to be like, Okay, where did that come from?

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Speaker 2: Is that my flesh? Is that this world? Is that

447
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Speaker 2: the enemy? Or is that the heavenly Father? You see,

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Speaker 2: Paul says this. In Second Corinthias ten three to five,

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Speaker 2: he says, for though we walk in the flesh like

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Speaker 2: you can't help it. You're a flesh. Though we walk

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Speaker 2: in the flesh, we are not waging war according to

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Speaker 2: the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not

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Speaker 2: the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds. Who

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Speaker 2: wants to destroy some strongholds in your life? We destroy

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Speaker 2: arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God.

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Speaker 2: And we take every thought captive to obey Christ. Don't

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Speaker 2: believe everything you think. And then fourth, you got to

458
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Speaker 2: renew your mind. You live in a world. I live

459
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Speaker 2: in the world. It spends billions of dollars a day.

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Speaker 2: And we invite this lying enemy into our bedrooms, into

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Speaker 2: the toilet with as to just lie to us constantly

462
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Speaker 2: and tell us what we are and what we are not.

463
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Speaker 2: And we've got to say no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do what the Bible says Romans twelve to two. Do

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Speaker 2: not be conformed to this world. I've told you before

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Speaker 2: that word conform is a It's a building term. Have

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Speaker 2: you ever built a form and poured concrete into it?

468
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Speaker 2: I know you have it but we're opening a campus

469
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Speaker 2: in Palaca so they can tell all our Pontavidrip people

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Speaker 2: what this is like. All right, you build a form

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Speaker 2: and then you pour in the concrete and it takes

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Speaker 2: the shape of the form that you have built. This

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Speaker 2: world has a form that it wants you to fit into.

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Speaker 2: And if you pour yourself into it, and then guess what,

475
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Speaker 2: You're gonna do money, and you're gonna do sex, and

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Speaker 2: you're gonna do life just like this world. And then

477
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Speaker 2: you're gonna wonder why you're crazy and losing your mind

478
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Speaker 2: like the world. And so he says, don't conform to

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Speaker 2: the pattern of this world, because all this world has

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Speaker 2: to offer you and me is the pride of life's

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Speaker 2: less of the eyes and the less of the flesh.

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Speaker 2: And it's just a trick to kill you. Do that,

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Speaker 2: but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that

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Speaker 2: by testing you may discern what is the will of God,

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Speaker 2: what is good and acceptable and perfect. And so what

486
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Speaker 2: we have to do is identify the lies that are

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Speaker 2: leading us down the path that lead us to the

488
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Speaker 2: place where we look at ourselves and don't believe what

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Speaker 2: God believes about us. That you were fearfully and wonderfully made,

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Speaker 2: that His works are wonderful, That you know that full will,

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Speaker 2: that you don't when you look in the mirror. Somehow

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Speaker 2: it's clouded because you don't hear the voice of the

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Speaker 2: heavenly Father speaking over you, saying, behold my son, my daughter,

494
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Speaker 2: in whom I am well pleased. That when you have

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Speaker 2: a hard time believing what the Bible says about you,

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Speaker 2: if you are in Christ, that you are more than

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Speaker 2: a conqueror, that nothing can separate you from the love

498
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Speaker 2: of God, because you got too much of conforming to

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Speaker 2: the pattern of this world and not enough transforming by

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Speaker 2: the renewing of your mind to let Jesus tell you

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Speaker 2: who you are. And then sometimes a sermon in enough. Now,

502
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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. The theological foundation of the truth

503
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Speaker 2: of the Word of God is it? Is it? And

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Speaker 2: then sometimes you need some more help, like from a professional,

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Speaker 2: and we're about to invite one up here in just

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Speaker 2: a second. But here is what I would say. If

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Speaker 2: you do go to a professional to get help and

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Speaker 2: they don't believe this, I would it's fourth and long.

509
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Speaker 2: It's time to punt you understand, because they don't believe

510
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Speaker 2: there's an enemy that's trying to still kill and destroy,

511
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Speaker 2: and they don't fundament Actually, they think you're just like

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Speaker 2: an accident. Do you think you're an accident? And if

513
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Speaker 2: you're an accident, then who cares? Or if they just

514
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Speaker 2: think you're an evolved animal, then why are people surprised?

515
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Speaker 2: If for two generations we've taught our children that you're

516
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Speaker 2: nothing but an involved animal, then why are we surprised

517
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Speaker 2: when they act like animals? But we were created on purpose,

518
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Speaker 2: for God's purpose, for his glory, And we have a

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Speaker 2: God of the universe that loved us and gave himself

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Speaker 2: for us. And if you go to the doctor and

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Speaker 2: they don't ask you about your whole body, heart, soul, mind,

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00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 2: and strength, if they don't ask you about relationships and

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00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 2: what you're eating, and about your physical health and your

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Speaker 2: mental health, and the first thing they want you to

525
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Speaker 2: do is give you some kind of pill forth and

526
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: long you need to punt. You got to find some

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Speaker 2: people and we'll help you find them that are rooted

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Speaker 2: in this word. And then God uses all kinds of

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Speaker 2: ways to heal people. He is the great position. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes it's prayer, sometimes it's people, and sometimes it's pills,

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Speaker 2: and it's usually a combination of all three. And so

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Speaker 2: I don't want to just give you a pep talk.

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Speaker 2: I want to give you some help. And so I've

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Speaker 2: invited my dear friend, Rebecca Maxwell. You can start making

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Speaker 2: your way up here. Rebecca. Rebecca wrote a book. Rebecca

536
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Speaker 2: wrote a book called Jesus and Your Mental Health. Best

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Speaker 2: title I've ever heard in my whole life. Rebecca has

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Speaker 2: been a dear friend of mine for for a long time,

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00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 2: many many years since our boys are playing t ball,

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Speaker 2: however long that is. We've been in a disciple group together.

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Speaker 2: We send if we could clone her a thousand times,

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Speaker 2: we would send every person in need that needs therapy

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Speaker 2: to her. I think you should get like five copies

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Speaker 2: of this book, and I'm not kidding at all. And

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00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: the reason why is we all need to read it right,

546
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Speaker 2: because all of us are going to find places in

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Speaker 2: our life where we need to be tuned up a

548
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Speaker 2: little bit. I think mental health is like physical health.

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Speaker 2: It's not like, well I did it, I'm in shape.

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Speaker 2: The moment you stop, you're not anymore right. Mental health

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Speaker 2: is a similar way. Also, you could use it like

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Speaker 2: a library, so that like if you're struggling to a

553
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: depression or anxiety. You just turn to that chapter. And

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Speaker 2: the reason I keep a bunch of copies on my

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Speaker 2: shelf is because I just hand them out like tiktacs.

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Speaker 2: You know, you meet somebody with bad breath, You're like,

557
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Speaker 2: you need a ticktak You meet somebody and be like, listen,

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Speaker 2: just go to chapter two here and so with all

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Speaker 2: of that, please welcome Rebecca Maxwell.

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Speaker 4: Golly, aren't you glad that we're at a church that

561
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Speaker 4: talks about real life issues, that doesn't put them in

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Speaker 4: the closet and assume and there for other people to

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Speaker 4: talk about. I love that I am at a church

564
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Speaker 4: that gets to do that. I thank God every day

565
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Speaker 4: for that. Well friends church. I was about fifteen years

566
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Speaker 4: old the first time someone I knew died by suicide.

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Speaker 4: How about you, guys in a room this large that

568
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Speaker 4: is maybe a general cross section of the population, The

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Speaker 4: number of people that have had suicidal thoughts equates to

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Speaker 4: about one hundred and fifty nine people. That's five point

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Speaker 4: three percent. Five point three percent of our population has

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Speaker 4: thought about ending their life. And the CDC tells us

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Speaker 4: that that's there's one suicide every eleven minutes in this country,

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Speaker 4: and men, you guys, have the highest suicide completion risk,

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Speaker 4: four times that of women. Eighty percent of all completed

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Speaker 4: suicides are men. That's a big deal. And Pastor Jobe

577
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Speaker 4: mentioned the teen mental health epidemic. Suicides have increased sixty

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Speaker 4: two percent since two thousand and seven in our population.

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Speaker 4: And the greatest risk for suicide is untreated depression. And

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Speaker 4: there's a lot of people walking around with untreated depression,

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Speaker 4: and I bet there's a lot in our churches. You know,

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Speaker 4: depression is a little bit like getting stuck under a big,

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Speaker 4: huge wave that just won't let go. You know, our

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Speaker 4: emotions are supposed to come in and go out like

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Speaker 4: the ocean tide, but sometimes they don't. Sometimes that tide

586
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Speaker 4: comes in and it just stays there, and we feel

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Speaker 4: stuck and completely hopeless. And this looks differently in different populations.

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Speaker 4: For girls, more likely than others, they are going to

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Speaker 4: struggle with body image, guilt, feelings, and deep sadness. But

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Speaker 4: for boys, they have a loss of interest in that

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Speaker 4: they used to enjoy. They have a hard time getting

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Speaker 4: up in the morning, and they sleep a lot more.

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Speaker 4: For women, you guys experience more stress, more sleep, problems,

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Speaker 4: more sadness and men, your depression shows up like irritability

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Speaker 4: and anger. The key driver in suicidality is hopelessness. Hopelessness,

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Speaker 4: and we see this in Elijah's story. He was helpless

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Speaker 4: and he was hopeless under that tree, and that depression

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Speaker 4: manifested in his body. And we see later in the scriptures,

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Speaker 4: probably next week, where he exaggerates his condition that he's

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Speaker 4: the only one left. And often that's what depression feels like.

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Speaker 4: We feel like the only one experiencing this thing. And

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Speaker 4: then we see the Angel of the Lord bring God's care,

603
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 4: and there's so much wisdom in this moment of care.

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Speaker 4: We see rest and food and water, and then the

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Speaker 4: Angel of the Lord is going to lead Elijah into

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Speaker 4: God's presence.

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Speaker 2: The way this.

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Speaker 4: Looks for us clinically, I tell my clients is doing

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Speaker 4: the next right thing when you can't seem to get

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Speaker 4: up in the morning, when you can't seem to brush

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00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 4: your teeth, take a shower, get to work, because it

612
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 4: all feels so overwhelming. Sometimes in this place you can

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00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 4: just do the next right thing. So, family, what are

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Speaker 4: we going to do? What are we going to do

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Speaker 4: to take care of each other? In our communities. I

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Speaker 4: want to remind you men, men, you make up eighty

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Speaker 4: percent of completed suicides. Will you, guys, fight arm in arm.

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Speaker 4: Will you be the men that see other men and

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Speaker 4: see through the irritability and the anger. Will you take

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Speaker 4: the step toward them? Will you take them to help

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Speaker 4: women too? But this is the year of the men,

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Speaker 4: and men are eighty percent. This is a real problem

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Speaker 4: in our country and men are suffering too. You know,

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Speaker 4: you don't have to be a professional to help someone

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Speaker 4: who is struggling with suicidality. I bet a lot of

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Speaker 4: you have taken CPR classes before, and you know how

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Speaker 4: to do CPR, and you might not be a nurse

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Speaker 4: or a doctor, and it's the same way helping people

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Speaker 4: who are dealing with suicidal thoughts. You can learn how

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Speaker 4: to spot these sometimes very subtle symptoms of suicidal thoughts.

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Speaker 4: You can learn how to question people in the right way,

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Speaker 4: very directly about what they're thinking and feeling. This doesn't

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Speaker 4: actually make them want to commit suicide. It actually makes

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Speaker 4: them take a deep breath because now it's out in

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Speaker 4: the open, like Mason said, and you can learn how

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Speaker 4: to get them to the right help. You know, suicide

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00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 4: is a solution for people. It's the all ultimate solution,

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00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 4: and we have to walk arm in arm with people

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Speaker 4: and help them see that there are other solutions to

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Speaker 4: their temporary problems, because suicide is the most preventable death

641
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 4: in this country, and we have to be the people

642
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 4: that move toward.

643
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 2: And friends. Maybe i'm describing you.

644
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 4: Maybe you're not the one that can help, but maybe

645
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 4: you're the one that needs help.

646
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: Maybe you've had thoughts.

647
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 4: Of ending your life, of not being here anymore. Maybe

648
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 4: you've even made a plan or day dreamed about how

649
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 4: you might end your life. Maybe you're just finding yourself

650
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 4: downright hopeless, and you should be scared about these thoughts because,

651
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 4: like Pastor Joby said, these thoughts are not from God.

652
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 4: They are not from the creator who knit you together

653
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 4: in your mother's womb. They are straight from the enemy.

654
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 4: You might need hospitalization and stabilization at minimum. I urge

655
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 4: you to find someone after the service with a Blue

656
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 4: Care Team badge and tell them what you're going through.

657
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 4: There are people here who want to help, and look

658
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 4: look into my face.

659
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 2: Those of you who are struggling.

660
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 4: You have got to amplify God's voice above the lies

661
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 4: of the enemy. God speaks in that still, small, steady

662
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 4: and consistent voice, and the enemy speaks lies, and he

663
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 4: shouts them at you, and he projects all of his

664
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 4: shame and his self condemnation onto you. You know exactly

665
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 4: where to go to get the truth, and it's all

666
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 4: in here. You have to start reading this to yourself

667
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 4: out loud, and if you can't deputize somebody to read

668
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 4: it to you, here are a few scriptures for you.

669
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you rapid fire to write down. Psalm

670
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 4: thirty four eighteen, Psalm twenty three four, Psalm forty two five,

671
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 4: Psalm one forty seven to three, Psalm one thirty nine,

672
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 4: Matthew eleven, twenty eight and twenty nine, and Isaiah forty

673
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 4: one to ten. Friends, reject these lies. This happened to

674
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 4: me today as I was preparing to come be with

675
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 4: you today. My biggest mistake on the day where I

676
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 4: have to preach is opening up my social media took

677
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 4: me straight down the rabbit hole and I had to

678
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: stand in my closet and rebuke the enemy with some

679
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 4: choice words. I want you guys to know that you

680
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 4: can heal. Healing is possible. It's not just managing, but

681
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 4: it is healing. You can rewire your brain neuroplasticity.

682
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 2: You can find hope again.

683
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 4: Like Paul said to the jailer in Acts sixteen, don't

684
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 4: hurt yourself. We are all here. You can get better,

685
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: and I'll tell you. My mother in law is a

686
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 4: testimony to that. After many attempts on her own life,

687
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 4: she lived thirty five years with medication and therapy and

688
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 4: a community of church folk who helped walk with her,

689
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 4: and she never attempted suicide again. Friends, we want you

690
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 4: to live. I love that song. Life is worth the living,

691
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 4: and we want you to live. Please reach out to

692
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 4: your church family because you are in the right place

693
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 4: if you are struggling. I love you guys so much.

694
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me share today.

695
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 2: Thank you Rebecca. Rebecca will be with me and the

696
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 2: lobby afterwards. If you want her to pray over you.

697
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: Sign a book, buy a bunch of them. It is

698
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: an incredible resource for you. The biggest thing I want

699
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: you to hear is don't do this thing alone. Whether

700
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: it's whether it's suicide ideation you know that's for sure,

701
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: the extreme, or maybe you struggle with depression, just don't

702
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 2: do it alone. This is for men and women for sure.

703
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 2: But this is the year that we're going to stand

704
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 2: firm in act like men. And I'm going to close

705
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: by telling you a tome which was a pretty dark

706
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: time in my life. I wasn't suicidal at all, but

707
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: I was not believing the truth of the word of God.

708
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 2: And again, ladies, hear this. Okay, if you're a wife,

709
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: look at me. Let all the defenses down, because that's

710
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 2: what tends to happen. The words of encouragement on the

711
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: lips of a wife are like gold in the heart

712
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 2: of a husband. I just don't have I just can't

713
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 2: even explain it. And listen, every man you talk to,

714
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: inside of him is both a king and a jester,

715
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get the one you talk to, and

716
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: so you can consistently use your words to crown him

717
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 2: or to shame him. And guys aren't real good at saying, hey, babe,

718
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: I need to talk about my feelings. I think I'm

719
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 2: in a spiritual depression and I'm not believing. It doesn't

720
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 2: usually go that way. But ladies, you're intuitive and you're smart,

721
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: and you've got to understand that the dude is not

722
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 2: good for him to be alone. So he sent you

723
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 2: to be wise to discern, to see through what he

724
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 2: is saying, to see what he's actually saying, so that

725
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: you could be an echo of what God wants to

726
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: say to the brother and speak life into him. And

727
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 2: so your man might be crying out for help. Again,

728
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: it might not be suicide. He might just be depressed

729
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: or a little bit lost, and he's byng out to you.

730
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: And oftentimes the reason they don't do it is because

731
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: they have a bad experience the first time they do.

732
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: I don't show a lot of video clips here, but

733
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 2: I'm going to show you an example of how not

734
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: to do it. Watch this, Hey, what do you do?

735
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 2: When I came out to check on you?

736
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 5: Huh? What are you doing? That's who are working? I'm

737
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 5: looking at this? What is it? It's it's wire. It's a

738
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 5: spool of wire, and I'm almost out of it. Can

739
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 5: you see this spool of wire? I'm almost out of it, Okay,

740
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 5: And I've had this spool of wire for like forty years.

741
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 5: I bought it like this a long time. It's not

742
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 5: a piece of it a long time ago, but it's

743
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 5: like forty years of my life.

744
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 2: Is in the wire.

745
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 5: That's gone. Does that make sense? This is what's left.

746
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that, and it's sad for you.

747
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 5: But you're wearing your jets hat.

748
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 2: And I'm a little concerned right now that you're wearing

749
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 2: your jets hat.

750
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 4: I thought that's where you were crying.

751
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm done.

752
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's a lovely woman. She's try nails it

753
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: most of the time. Not sure while she decided to

754
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: video this one instance and then put it on YouTube

755
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: to live forever for all of us to see. But

756
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: can't you see that guy?

757
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 5: He?

758
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a he's not a poet. He's got

759
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 2: his work going on, and he's having like this existential

760
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: crisis that his life is disappearing, like the wires disappeared

761
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 2: on this role, and he's not sure where he's going.

762
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 2: He's not sure about his purpose. And that's his way

763
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 2: of screaming out, I'm alone. I feel alone. I don't

764
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 2: know what to do, and he gets picked on. Back

765
00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: to our text, verse five, Elijah's alone. That's not good, man,

766
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 2: that is not good. He is alone, and yet God

767
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 2: is not gonna allow him to be alone. And he

768
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: lay down and he slept under the broom tree and

769
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 2: behold an angel. An angel just means messenger in Hebrew.

770
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know that. The God saw

771
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 2: Elijah alone and said, I see you, I feel you.

772
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let you be alone, so he sends

773
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 2: a messenger. You know, you could be that messenger in

774
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: somebody's life, right. That doesn't mean you're gonna like people

775
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 2: don't turn into angels. I know people talk about that

776
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 2: all the time. That's not theologically accurate. But you could

777
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 2: be a messenger of God. And God sends and behold,

778
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 2: and angel touched him and said, arise and eat. God

779
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 2: doesn't send him a message to be like, suck it up, buddy,

780
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 2: I got plans for you. No, no, no, no. He sends an

781
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 2: angel and says a rise and eat. And he looked

782
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 2: and behold there was at his head a cake baked

783
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 2: on hot stones and a jar of water. And he

784
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: ate and he drank, and he lay down again. Listen,

785
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes you just need some cake in a nap

786
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: and I to love you enough to touch you and

787
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 2: to be there with you. And the Angel of the

788
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: Lord came again a second time and touched him instead,

789
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 2: Arise and eat for the journey is too great for

790
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 2: you. You see, this angel is speaking hope. This angel is

791
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 2: speaking purpose. This angel is not just wallering in the

792
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 2: misery that he is in. This angel is saying, God's

793
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 2: not done with you. And he arose, and he ate

794
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 2: and he drank, and he went in shrink of that

795
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: food for forty days and forty nights to horreb the

796
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: amount of God. So there was a time, a long

797
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: time ago, nineteen ninety nine, two thousand, that was like

798
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 2: two thousand and two. Three is about where it's beginning

799
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 2: manifest itself. I was working at a church in Athens, Georgia.

800
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 2: Things were going great. I was doing college ministry at Uga.

801
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 2: If you ask why, I'm a Georgia fan, that's why

802
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 2: we were on campus there all the time. Gretchen was

803
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 2: a student there and that's where we were. And things

804
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 2: were going great. Were there were some the college ministry

805
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,760
Speaker 2: thing that I was a part of was going awesome

806
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 2: at the wrong church. The pastor that brought me there,

807
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 2: I love him dearly. He was awesome. But the people

808
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 2: of that church did not believe the Bible like I

809
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: believe the Bible, and they stood in authority over the

810
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 2: word of God. And I stand in authority under the

811
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 2: word of God. And I constantly got beat down and

812
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 2: beat down and beat down and criticized that. They said

813
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: I was too jesus y and people were offended, and

814
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 2: can you just imagine how that went. It didn't go good.

815
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 2: It didn't go good. We got to the point where

816
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: Gretchen says, if we have children, we cannot raise them

817
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: in this church. I mean, there were Sunday school teachers

818
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 2: that didn't believe Jesus was the way, the truth and

819
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: the life and the only way to the Father. And

820
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: so it just didn't go good for me. And then

821
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 2: I got these two job offers. One was to be

822
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 2: like an executive coach for this person and their two

823
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 2: primary clients were like Wrigley's Gum and Xerox or something.

824
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 2: So we'd be flying back and forth to Chicago all

825
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,720
Speaker 2: the time, and he would he would tell He's like, man,

826
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: you're a good communicator. Just just do that thing. Just

827
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 2: leave out the Jesus stuff, and you pick pick the

828
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: neighborhood you want to live in. You'll finally, he said

829
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: these words, You'll finally be able to give your wife

830
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 2: all the things she's ever wanted. I was making thirty

831
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars a year, and they were offering me

832
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: six figures. And then another guy comes up and I

833
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 2: get another job offered to sell caskets and funeral plots

834
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: in the county north of Athens. And it was a

835
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 2: family owned place. And he's like, dude, I think you'll

836
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 2: crush it because you already on a suit, and only

837
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: about one person dies every two weeks, so you can

838
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 2: hunt and fish. You don only ever have to do anything,

839
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 2: and you can convince people to believe in something they

840
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 2: can't even see. Surely you can upgrade their casket and

841
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 2: their tombstone. I think you'd be good at this also

842
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 2: offered a six figure salary, and I came to Gretchen

843
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: and said, I think I'm done with ministry. I think

844
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,320
Speaker 2: I'm out. I mean I tried if I had a

845
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: pretty good run, you know, ten years or so, but

846
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: I just don't think I have what it takes anymore.

847
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 2: And we've got these offers over here, you know, I mean,

848
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 2: we could get some stuff, who don't want some stuff,

849
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 2: and we don't have to worry about this, don't have

850
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 2: to get beat up all the time. And you know,

851
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 2: I think I was faithful in that season, but seasons

852
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: don't always last. And I think I'm done. And I

853
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: had resolved in my prayers to God and beginning to

854
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 2: admit it to her out loud, it's over. I think

855
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 2: it's over. And it was a dark, dark place again.

856
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 2: I wasn't suicidal whatsoever, but I was not hearing the

857
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: word of God. And God sent me an angel, and

858
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: it wasn't a weaned being out of heaven. Her name

859
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 2: is Gretchen Martin. And she didn't make fun of me

860
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: when I began to share my heart with her, and

861
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 2: she didn't dismiss it like it wasn't important. And she

862
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 2: began to speak life in me that I didn't know

863
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 2: was there. And she began to speak truth over me

864
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 2: that I didn't see in myself. And she began to

865
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 2: tell me, I don't think God's done with you. What if?

866
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: What if? She didn't even tell me what to do,

867
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 2: She just said this, What if you just give it

868
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 2: one more chance? Would you do that? Would you just

869
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 2: be willing to give it one more chance and see

870
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 2: if God is done with you in ministry or not?

871
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: And I said thank you?

872
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 3: And I said, Okay, I'll give it one more chance,

873
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 3: and she sent my resume out and beat church called

874
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 3: and we moved to Jacksonville, Florida.

875
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 2: All right, and listen, man, ain't nothing special about me.

876
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there's nothing special about me. But none

877
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 2: of this is happening now. None of this, the two

878
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,919
Speaker 2: thousand plus salvations this year, the three hundred and ninety

879
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 2: five salvations just two weeks ago, the one nine hundred

880
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 2: and fifty eight people that got baptized at the beach,

881
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 2: the thousand people that are about to get baptized at

882
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 2: Saturated None of that happens if a messenger from the

883
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 2: Lord doesn't step into what God has told her to

884
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: say and speak truth into somebody whose ears for some

885
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 2: reason had closed up to the truth of the Word

886
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,919
Speaker 2: of God. When I say to you, you have no

887
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: idea what hangs in the balance, You're sitting in it.

888
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 2: You're sitting in the empirical evidence of what can happen

889
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 2: when somebody is depressed and somebody is believing in the

890
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: lives of the world, and somebody just for whatever reason,

891
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 2: doesn't have ears to hear the truth. And then God

892
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 2: sends you an angel, a messenger to speak truth. And

893
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 2: God can do miracles through your words, and so I

894
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: want to talk. Listen. If you are here and you're

895
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 2: on the struggle bus, you are not alone. Please get help.

896
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 2: It starts with this. Listen. The front line of this attack,

897
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 2: to defend against the attack of the enemy is the

898
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 2: local church. And so you find somebody with a blue bladge,

899
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 2: somebody from the care team, and the way that we

900
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 2: close our services, it matters so much. I hope you

901
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 2: realize this, because we won't pray. And maybe you're not

902
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 2: on the struggle blessed right now, but maybe you know

903
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,760
Speaker 2: somebody that is. You remember Mark chapter nine, the dad

904
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 2: with the sick kid. You see he came to Jesus

905
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: not on his behalf, but on behalf of somebody else

906
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 2: that the enemy was trying to take out. Maybe there's

907
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 2: somebody that you know and the enemy's trying to take

908
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,279
Speaker 2: them out. And so when we pray, I'm going to

909
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: invite you to come and on behalf of God, pray

910
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: for them, beg them, say God would use me if

911
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 2: you can pray for their heart. Pray, pray, pray like crazy.

912
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 2: And when we worship, do you realize it's war against

913
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 2: the end enemy. It's war against the devil of hell himself.

914
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 2: We're going to speak the name of Jesus over these things.

915
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 2: And what we're doing is we're looking at him and

916
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 2: we're going you can't have them. They're His. And every

917
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 2: single time we bring our first and best. Don't you

918
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 2: know that the reason we are able to stand in

919
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 2: the gap and help so many people all over the

920
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 2: place is because of the generosity of God's people. We

921
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 2: have an enemy that wants to steal, kill and destroy,

922
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 2: and there's some people in our congregation. There are some

923
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 2: people right now that are living in the devastation of

924
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 2: losing loved ones to suicide, and we need to pray

925
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 2: for them and pray over them. We need to pray

926
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 2: that the God that transcends all understanding would guard their

927
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 2: hearts and their minds in Christ Jesus, and that God

928
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 2: could even use their darkest days for somebody else to

929
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 2: hear the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

930
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 2: So listen, I ain't got time to play church, ain't

931
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 2: got time to fake it. If you need to scoot out,

932
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 2: I'll swing you in the Lord. I believe there are

933
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 2: lives hanging in the balance, and our prayers and our

934
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 2: worship and our generosity are going to make the difference.

935
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 2: And you have no idea what hangs in the balance.

936
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 2: So as we close, I want to go to war.

937
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 2: I want to go to war on our knees in prayer.

938
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: I want to go to war in worship. I want

939
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 2: to go to war in generosity because you have no

940
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 2: idea how God might use you in the life of

941
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,879
Speaker 2: somebody else. Would you please stand and let me pray

942
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 2: for you are good and gracious, Heavenly Father, God. I

943
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,800
Speaker 2: thank you so much that when you see us in trouble,

944
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 2: just like when you saw Elijah in trouble, you don't

945
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 2: just give us a pep talk. You send us a

946
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 2: messenger that speaks truth over us. God, that we have

947
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: a hope in a few sure, God, I pray for

948
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 2: any person that's believing the lies of the enemy right now. Lord,

949
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 2: I pray, Oh, I pray supernaturally you would pour out

950
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 2: your grace upon him. God, for people that this whole

951
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 2: subject is just the most painful thing they've ever walked through. God,

952
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 2: I pray that you would give them the kind of

953
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 2: peace that could only be described as miraculous. Lord, I

954
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 2: pray that every single one of us would be that

955
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 2: kind of messenger. Lord, I thank you so much for

956
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 2: my wife Gretchen that in a dark, dark time, Lord,

957
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 2: she shined your light and we had no idea what

958
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 2: hung in the ballots. So Lord, I pray that this

959
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 2: is a dividing line in some people's life. Lord, I

960
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: pray that the chains of addiction when to fall off.

961
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: God.

962
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 2: I pray that depression would be surrendered to you. God.

963
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,280
Speaker 2: I pray that anxiety would dissipate as grace move spirit

964
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 2: as you move in. Lord, I pray that those suicidal

965
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 2: thoughts would leave, because we would know that we are

966
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 2: your children, bought and paid for by you, You and God.

967
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 2: That we would know if the tomb is empty, anything

968
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 2: as possible, and we could walk in freedom because you

969
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 2: walked out of that grave. Spirit of God, would you

970
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 2: minister to us, Would you equip us, would you as

971
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 2: strengthen us. Would you give us eyes to sea and

972
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 2: words to say that bring life. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen,

973
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 2: if you're ready to go to war for your own

974
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,239
Speaker 2: heart or on behalf of somebody else, I invite you

975
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 2: to come and pray to the living God of the universe,

976
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: who hears and seize you and your words. It'll make

977
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 2: your mind explode if you think about it. The sovereign

978
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 2: king of the universe says, I want you to agree

979
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 2: with me on what I want to do in the

980
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 2: people that you loves life and I want to move.

981
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 2: But you got to pray because you have not, because

982
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: you ask not, and I want to sing. I'm telling you,

983
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 2: like the people we loves, lives depend on it. We're

984
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 2: gonna speak the name of Jesus over these things because

985
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 2: where his name is, darkness has to flee, and we

986
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 2: are gonna bring. We are gonna bring because we are

987
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 2: funding the army of God against Satan and his minions

988
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 2: trying to take out those that we love. Let's sing,

989
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 2: Let's bring, let's pray, Let's go to war.