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and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you.

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Cleanse your hands these sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded. Be

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afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your

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joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift

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you up. Speak not evil of one another brethren. He that speaketh evil of his

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brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law. But

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if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge. There's one

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lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who art thou that judges

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another? Go to now ye that say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city

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and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain. Whereas you know not

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what shall be on the morrow for what is your life. It is even a vapor that

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appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say

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if the Lord will we shall live and do this or that but now you rejoice in your

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boasting. All such rejoicing is evil therefore to him that knoweth to do good

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and doeth and not to him it is sin. Let's pray dear Lord God just thank you for

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this time we have Lord to hear the preaching of your word. I pray that you bless

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this service Lord bless pastor right now and fill him with your Holy Spirit Lord

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as he preaches your word unto us Lord and that us in the congregation we would

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be attentive to the preaching. I apply these truths from your word to our lives. We pray

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this all in Jesus name amen. Amen. Okay we're in James chapter 4 this evening

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look down in your Bibles at verse number 9 it says be afflicted and mourn and

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weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness humble

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yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up. Inside of my sermon

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this evening is depression. I'm going to preach on the subject of depression

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tonight this evening I want to preach on the subject of being heavy sad what does

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the Bible say about this. Depression of course is severe and persistent sorrow

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sometimes lasting for long periods of time weeks and even months in some cases

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and it can result in a loss of appetite for example the motivation to work and

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in some cases even the will to live very severe cases people can become suicidal

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or even just not want to live not have the motivation to go forward and so that

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is what depression is and this evening I want to give you some biblical remedies

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that the Bible provides for depression. Now typically when I preach on the

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subject of depression I have a tendency to talk more about the physical remedy

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to depression right talking about the importance of exercising making sure

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that you're eating red meat getting enough sleep right things of that nature

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making sure you're checking your hormone levels and checking for chemical

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imbalances I do believe that those are some of the major causes of depression

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today in our society even amongst Christians and so I still think that you

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know when we're gonna go over some of these spiritual points but not at the

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exclusion of those physical things that you should be taking care of as well and

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I think that when you couple both together you essentially give yourself a

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fighting chance it can it can really help you overcome depression and become

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more effective in that area. Now hold your place there and go to 1st Kings

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chapter 19 if you would 1st Kings chapter 19 of course we started off in

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James chapter 4 the Bible literally commands to be afflicted so believe it

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or not there's instances where God commands us to a certain degree to be

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depressed right to have sorrow to feel a sense of mourning and it says here to

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be afflicted to mourn and yes even to weep it says let your laughter be turned

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into mourning and your joy to heaviness heaviness is another way of saying

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depression in other words the Bible is telling us here it's showing us that the

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Christian life is not always joy and happiness and laughter and mirth

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sometimes there are seasons when it is appropriate to mourn it's appropriate to

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be sad to be sorrowful that is a part of the Christian life now before I get into

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my main points by way of introduction let me start off by talking about the

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causes of depression the first cause that we see in the Bible and this is in

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no particular order but the first cause that I'm gonna give to you here is

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exhaustion okay exhaustion can often cause a level of depression in our lives

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1 Kings 19 and verse number 4 talking about Elijah it says but he himself went

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a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree

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and he requested for himself that he might die and said it is enough now oh

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Lord take away my life for I am not better than my father's and verse number

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5 says and as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold then an angel touched

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him and said into him arise and eat now if you know anything about this story

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you have Elijah experiencing this great victory over the false prophets of Baal

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I mean he is destroying them he's putting them to death he's you know the

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Lord shows himself strong on his behalf this is the battle of Mount Carmel it's

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a great success story it's a great victory but then he experiences a valley

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he is emotionally exhausted obviously we see in the story that you know he needs

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to rest but this exhaustion actually causes him to lose the will to live not

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that he's suicidal it's not that he's gonna take his own life but we actually

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see that he's filled with such sorrow that he's like you know what I don't

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even want to live anymore I'm done with this I'm done serving I just want to go

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home to be with the Lord I wish myself I request myself to die look at verse 8

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it says in here rose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that

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meat 40 days and 40 nights unto Horeb the Mount of God now the point that I

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want to make here is the fact that sometimes we become overly depressed or

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sad or sorrowful because you're just not getting enough sleep you're exhausted

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you're working you're burning the candle at both ends you're doing a lot of work

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and that can cause you to be tired and exhausted which can you know play tricks

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on your mind it can cause you to conjure up imaginations that are not really

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there and it can cause you to kind of feel bad about yourself have somewhat of

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a pity party and it can cause you to go into a dark place you say so what's the

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solution the solution is this go to sleep but before you go to sleep go eat

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a four by four right go eat some food get some food in your stomach go to

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sleep at a decent hour get some sleeping and here's one of the most important

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things is that don't make any major decisions when you're exhausted you know

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when you're exhausted you're depressed and you're tired and you're emotional

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you want to throw in the towel you want to make all kinds of decisions we need

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to just move we just I just need to tell them this and I just did and you start

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coming up with all these hasty actions that you want to take you know the best

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thing to do is just sleep on it because what you'll find is that once you've

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gotten a good night's rest you got some food in your tummy wake up the next day

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and you're like wow that was a bad idea if I would have said something like that

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if we would have made that decision that would have been a horrible idea what you

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needed is the Elijah remedy which is to eat go to sleep wake up eat go to sleep

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and you know strengthen your body because exhaustion is often the cause of

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depression sometimes you just need to go to bed and let me just say this is that

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sometimes you know both husband and wife they're at each other's throats they're

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fighting one another and you know why because they're both tired so instead of

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staying up till one o'clock in the morning arguing about something just go

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to sleep just say you know what this is dumb you know let's just go to sleep in

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and we'll sleep on it I forgive you you forgive me let's move on with this and

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you'll find in a couple days you know you'll realize we were just tired

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overly emotional and we just needed a good night's rest go to Psalm 55 if you

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would Psalm 55 so we see the first cause of depression is often exhaustion

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maybe you're overly worked maybe you are a workaholic okay and there's nothing

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wrong with that I think it's good to you know burn the candle both ends every

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once in a while and get a lot done and making sure that you are paying the

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bills and making extra money or whatever may be but you also got to make sure you

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know your limits and recognize you know if you are snapping at your spouse you're

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snapping at your kids you don't necessarily have a joyful disposition

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you know everything becomes bleak in your life you don't necessarily have the

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joyful disposition of times past you know it's time to kind of put the brakes

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on a little bit go get some rest because exhaustion can cause this depression but

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another thing that can cause depression is despair and anxiety okay

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Psalm 55 verse 4 says my heart is sore pain within me and the tears of death

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are falling upon me fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror

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hath overwhelmed me so we see here despair and anxiety was causing

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depression in the life of the psalmist David go to Psalm 32 Psalm 32 if you

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would Psalm chapter 32 some causes of depression include exhaustion tiredness

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despair anxiety also here's a common one guilt as a result of unconfessed sin

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believe it or not if you remain in unrepentant sin that can cause some

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depression in your life right why because you're grieving the Holy Spirit

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you're quenching the Holy Spirit you know that you're not right with God and

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then what happens is you become fleshly you become carnal and at that point you

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become sad angry hasty in your speech and it can lead to depression as well

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because you're not confessing your sins Psalm 32 verse 2 says blessed is the

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man into whom the Lord imputed not iniquity and whose spirit there is no

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guile when I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long

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for a day and night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture is turned into drought

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of summer Sila what is he saying he's saying because of his lack of repentance

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or because he kept silent before the Lord you know that caused some level of

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sorrow in his heart and let me just remind you that you know as Christians

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this is why it's important for us to keep a clean slate before the Lord right

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every day we're gonna make sure we're confessing our sins not letting things

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go unchecked first and foremost we obviously know that when we leave sin

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unchecked we become desensitized to that sin but also it can cause a level of

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sadness sorrow and depression that we do not want to experience and it's not

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healthy for us it's better to just confess that sin get it right with the

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Lord repent of it and move on but a Jeremiah chapter 20 Jeremiah chapter

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chapter 20 so we see that unconfessed sin guilt anxiety despair exhaustion also

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loneliness can often be a cause of depression you are in Jeremiah chapter

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20 let me read to you from first Kings 19 and verse 10 it says and he said I

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have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts for the children of Israel have

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forsaken thy covenant thrown down on an altar and slain thy prophets with the

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sword and I even I only am left and they seek my life to take it away obviously

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you may not be able to relate to this but it is a form of loneliness right the

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prophet Elijah is feeling like he's the only one who's serving God he's the only

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one who's doing right and you want there's instances where Christians can

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often feel that way too you know if you are a single man no calling people out

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please you know if you are a single man you may think to yourself oh man look at

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all these families and look at these happy marriages or whatever and here I

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am just lonely I'm going home by myself I don't have anybody but here's the

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thing folks is that at the end of the day the Bible tells us that God will

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never leave us nor forsake us you like yeah but that's God you know I need me a

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woman or whatever I need yeah you know that's true but for the time being though

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rejoice in the Lord right rejoice in the presence of God learn how to have a

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content spirit a joyful spirit knowing that the Lord is with you and you know

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what the truth of the matter is you do have it made even as a single because

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what if you weren't a Christian what if you weren't in church what if you didn't

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have friends and family church family there for you to provide you fellowship

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to provide you the company that you need you know you'd be in a lot worse

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condition you know thankfully you can come here three times a week to fill up

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your emotional gas tank talk to people relate to individuals crack some jokes

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you know listen to the preaching of God's Word get the fellowship that you

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need so that you're not lonely and let me just say this is that obviously we

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don't want to just be lonely 24-7 but sometimes it's good to isolate ourselves

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to a certain degree right because we need to spend time with the Lord we need

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to be alone with our thoughts you guys know what that is thoughts okay you know

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not just like constantly on the internet constantly scrolling we need to be alone

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with our thoughts we need the Bible says we need to commune with our own heart

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upon our beds you know this is what the Bible refers to as meditation you know

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sometimes people are like oh man I just hate it when it's quiet I just need

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something on I need to put some music on I need to put some you know some

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preaching on or I need to put something on how about you just sit quietly you

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know sit quietly commune with your own heart but we obviously know that we

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shouldn't always isolate ourselves we definitely need fellowship and so the

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church provides them the point that I'm making here is that sometimes people

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become depressed because of the fact that you know maybe they do come to

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church but they isolate themselves from everyone else right they don't really

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get involved in fellowship they don't get involved in conversations with

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others they kind of purposely isolate themselves in a public setting and then

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they go home they're like no one loves me everyone is just you know they're

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ignoring me well you know he that has friends must show himself friendly as

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well and you need to make sure you go out of your way to go talk to people

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fellowship with people and so you know yes there's a time and place to isolate

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yourself and be alone with you and the Lord be alone with your thoughts meditate

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upon the things of God and I personally think that some of the most profound

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ideas that you will receive as a Christian is when you're alone meditating

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and I don't mean like meditating I mean when you're thinking you know think

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profound thoughts commune with your heart but then also make sure you get

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you get your social fix in the local New Testament church to avoid that form of

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loneliness and of course we know that the greatest answer to this you know is

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just to get married but if you're not there yet God has thankfully provided

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some form of social interaction for you to participate in so you're not feeling

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this way and so that's important what's another cause of depression?

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persecution not a lot of Christians don't necessarily experience this but

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this is a legitimate thing where people can become bombarded by the enemies of

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God you know by Satan they can feel a sense of persecution and they can kind

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of lose hope in in life and just become sad and depressed look at Jeremiah 20

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verse 7 oh Lord that was deceived me and I was deceived that weren't stronger

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than I and has prevailed I am in derision daily everyone mocketh me for

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since I spake I cried out I cried violence and spoil because the word of

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the Lord has made it reproach unto me and a derision daily so the prophet

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Jeremiah is obviously feeling a sense of sadness because he's preaching the word

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of God and everyone's mocking him persecuting him no one's standing with

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him and that can often cause people to be sad all right like man I don't have

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anybody on my side and quite frankly maybe you've experienced something like

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this not necessarily on this scale but maybe in a smaller scale with your

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family maybe on a scale with your spouse maybe with your children extended

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friends or whatever maybe you know you may experience some form of persecution

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you're like man I feel like I'm like the only one in my family that actually

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cares about the things of God and I'm getting persecuted you know they're kind

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of separating me from their company they're not inviting me to the cookout

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anymore or whatever they're not necessarily wanting to spend time with

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me and you know that could be a little sad right persecution can often bring

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that about as well go to 1st Peter chapter 5 1st Peter chapter 5 the next

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one here is tragic loss can often produce depression Job 311 says why died

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I not from the womb why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the

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belly these are some strong words Job obviously lost his children you know his

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wife I don't know where she went but you know she told him curse God and die he

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lost all his resources his possessions and his conclusion is like I should have

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just I should have just been a stillbirth I should have just died I

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should have just gave up the ghost when I came out of the belly it would have

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been better for me not to have been born that's what he's saying this is the

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result of his tragic loss he's feeling this great sense of depression where he

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doesn't want to live and then lastly I mentioned this already but just attacks

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from Satan can often be the result of depression maybe you're going through a

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season where you feel overly sad depressed sorrowful and you kind of feel

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a sense of spiritual warfare it could be just you're going through a season where

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Satan is combating you there he's attacking you he's trying to discourage

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you he's trying to get you out of the fight and make no mistake about it you

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know Satan what he will often do is pick at you little by little you know because

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you know does he want you to get out of church immediately no but he's gonna

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work at it though how does he work at it first he stopped he tries to

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discourage you from going solo he tries to discourage you from reading your Bible

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tries to discourage you from praying and when you do that long enough when you

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remain in that habit for long periods of time eventually you will get out of

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church because Satan likes to play the long game right discourage you cause you

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to think that maybe other people in the church don't like you cause you to think

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that people are critical of you that you're not valuable in your local church

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or in the eyes of God these are things that Satan tries to push upon you to try

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to get you out of the fight and look folks we are in a spiritual battle

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obviously a lot of these causes sometimes are self-induced sometimes

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they come from out the on the outside but something is just Satan trying to

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hinder you discourage you from fulfilling God's purpose and being effective in the

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service of the Lord 1st Peter 5 8 says be sober be vigilant because your

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adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour

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whom resists that fast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are

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accomplished in your brethren that are in the world what's the Bible saying

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you're not alone in this Satan is always trying to discourage people you know if

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you see someone being effective in the service of God they're winning souls

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they're making changes in their life he's gonna want to try to slow you down

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he's gonna try to send some imaginations and try to get you to

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believe a lie in order to hinder you you need to make sure that you're casting

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down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge

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of God and so those are some of the causes of depression now go back to

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James chapter 4 if you would James chapter 4 let me just give you a couple

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points tonight in this regard because you know I'm either preaching to someone

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who is depressed just came out of depression or will go into depression

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sometime this year okay and so you're gonna need this and it's very basic but

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very much important and very effective number one when it comes to overcoming

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depression let me start off by saying that you need to allow depression to run

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its course let me say that again you need to allow depression to run its

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course oh I thought I'm supposed to take like an antidepressant I thought I'm

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supposed to just like you know I thought depression all is bad no sometimes we

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need to feel heavy not physically but like you know you need to emotionally in

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your soul feel heavy look at James chapter 4 and verse number 8 it says

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draw a knife to God and he will draw a knife to you cleanse your hands he

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sinners and purify your hearts he double-minded be afflicted and mourn and

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weep let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness why

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verse 10 humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up now

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we often associate humility with just you know recognizing you know I'm

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nothing and it's the Lord who's the most important thing you know I'm just you

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know I'm just kind of serving the Lord and that is a form of humility but in

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this context humility is when someone is humbled because they're afflicted they're

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sad they're mourning they're weeping they feel heavy they have they don't

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necessarily have a high view of themselves because they're extremely sad

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and what does that do it causes God to exalt you because of it you see we as

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God's people as Christians you know have a tendency to become proud we become

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arrogant and prideful we think very highly of ourselves and maybe of our

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accomplishments maybe you think you're just all that and a bag of chips I know

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that's a 90s phrase or whatever you just think you know and sometimes God's like

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you need to humble yourself and you need to allow yourself to mourn and weep

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and be afflicted have some sorrow in your heart what does this telling us

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allowed depression to run its course okay you know sometimes you get a fever

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and you know a lot of people are just like oh man I just need to take a title

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or something like that let the fever run its course you know what I'm saying you

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know when you get a fever just go lay down and let that fever knock you out

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get some fever dreams wake up a couple hours later in a cold sweat you know

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what I'm talking about you know that fever is just like I feel like I'm gonna

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die here and then you go into the covers and you're super hot but you're super

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cold yeah the answer is not you know ibuprofen okay maybe in some instances if

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you're getting like a hundred and whatever some crazy amount but even then

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you know you just got to let the fever sometimes run its course because what is

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the fever for it's there to essentially kill the bacteria kill the virus it's

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trying to burn it up right so it's there to do that and that's why you feel tired

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because your body's like all right time to shut this thing down because we need

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to kill the virus well you know depression kind of operates the same way

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doesn't feel good it's heavy it fills us with the fliction and sometimes people

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are just looking for the quick fix now obviously there's bad quick fixes out

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there right alcohol drugs vice you know whatever may be but you know sometimes

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people just try to go for an antidepressant or something like that but

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at the end of the day sometimes we just need to be sad okay it's not a matter of

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like I can't wait to get out of the sadness sometimes you do have to be sad

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okay go with me if you would turn to Psalm 34 go to Psalm 34 if you would as

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you're turning there let me read to you from Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse

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number one it says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose

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under heaven a time to be born a time to die a time to plant a time to pluck up

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that which is planted a time to kill and a time to heal a time to break down a

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time to build up listen to this a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to

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mourn and a time to dance the Bible saying here that there are certain

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seasons where it's appropriate to feel a sense of sorrow and depression and allow

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that to run its course to feel a sense of mourning and weeping that is

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completely appropriate and think about this you know obviously it doesn't feel

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good when you're sad and depressed and you feel like you don't have a sense of

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value you're struggling you're discouraged you're just kind of maybe

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disillusioned with certain things in life that doesn't feel very good right I

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don't know anybody who's just like I just love depression this is just great I love

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feeling like crap you know I love to be depressed no one feels good you know

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they don't want to be around other people they just want to sleep all day

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they don't eat right they just feel horrible but let me explain to you why

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it's important for depression to run its course look at Psalm 34 verse 17 the

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righteous cry and the Lord hear it and deliver them out of their troubles

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listen to this the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and save

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it such as be of a contrite spirit so when you're depressed when you're going

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through a hard time that's actually the moment where the Lord is closest to you

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think about that you know obviously we feel the Lord's presence to a certain

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degree when we have a sense of joy when we have a sense of gratitude but let me

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just be real honest with you you like you just don't feel as close to the Lord

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as compared to when you're actually going through a really hard time why

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because the Lord is nigh unto you so the Bible refers to as the fellowship of his

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suffering you actually fellowship with the Lord more when you're going through

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a difficult time now this is assuming though that you're actually seeking the

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Lord right you're drawing nigh unto God because if you are depressed you're

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feeling discouraged and sad but you're you know hitting the bottle or whatever

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you're getting involved in sin you're getting involved in things that are not

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pleasing unto the Lord you know the Lord's gonna resist you and in fact

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you're gonna get even more depressed alcohol does not help depression it

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induces depression well I'm just gonna drink my sorrows away they're just gonna

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come back twice as hard okay and you know I grew up in a home where people

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drank I grew up around a culture where people drink a lot and they drink when

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they're sad let me just tell you something they were never happy when they

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drank okay you know they put on the sad music the chente the don chente and they

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drank and they drank and they just cried and cried and cried and it was just like

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you know that looks like it sucks I don't want that and I remember thinking

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myself like why I continue to drink if it's just gonna make you even more sad

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but what they're trying to do is just numb the pain right they want to numb

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the pain but really what it does is just induces it that much the more so what

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you said what should I do allow depression to run its course allow it to

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cause you to draw nigh unto God because he's already nine to those who over

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contract heart so look this alone kind of demonstrates that you're not alone

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because if you're feeling depressed that's the number one indicator that God

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we think oh man I'm depressed I'm sad the Lord has left me no on the contrary

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according to the biblical standard God is actually really close to you and you

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may not feel that way because you're sad but sadness and depression is actually

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the indicator the signal that God is with you he's nigh unto you he's

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watching over you he loves you this should be the proof that God is nigh

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unto us when you're weeping when you're crying when you're feeling a sense of

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sorrow and depression and discouragement when you feel like no one

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loves you or whatever maybe oh man this thing doesn't love me when you feel like

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nobody loves you and you just feel so alone well if you're feeling that way

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just know like God is there because the Bible tells us that he's nine to those

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who are over contract spirit look at Psalm 51 Psalm 51 and let's just be

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honest if you're in our church you're not alone yeah we obviously know that

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we're with you as well okay we love you we're praying for you we're here for you

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and you know be transparent with people not everyone and don't be too transparent

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but you know you should you should confide in a certain someone in our

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church that you're close to but let's just say you just didn't have anybody like that

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the Lord is the closest to you and he will never leave thee nor forsake thee

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and so obviously no one is in that case where they just have God because

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according to the Bible we have God and we have others as well look at Psalm 51

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verse 17 the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite

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heart oh God thou will not despise go to Isaiah 57 Isaiah 57 if you would

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Isaiah chapter 57 let depression run its course if you're feeling depressed today

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you know don't look for the quick fix out of it don't look for the exit sign

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don't look to get out of it right away you know you kind of need to let it run

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its course and by run in its course I mean allow it to push you to draw closer

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to God allow it to push you to read the Bible more to pray into the Lord look at

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Isaiah Isaiah 57 verse 15 says for thus saith the high and lofty one that

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inhabiteth eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with

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him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of

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the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones you see the Bible is

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telling us here that it's necessary for depression to run its course because

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it's actually the first step in being revived it's actually the first step in

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overcoming depression why because when God draws nigh into us because of our

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broken heart he ends up reviving us thereafter the process of recovery from

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that state of mind from the emotion of distress begins when we are depressed

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okay Isaiah 66 verse 2 turn with you if you would to Psalm 30 go to so go back

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to Psalm chapter 30 and then we're gonna go to 42 Isaiah 66 and verse 2 says for

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all those things hath mine handmade and all those things have been sayeth the

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Lord but to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite

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spirit and trembleth at my word let me just say this sometimes we get this

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attitude and when I say we I'm including myself in this because there is no

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temptation taken in us but such as is common to man and you know sometimes we

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think like no one really understands me you know I'm going through a tough time

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and quite frankly I know pastor says he understands me I know so-and-so says

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they know what I'm going through but at the end of the day no one really knows

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what I'm going through and you know what you're right about that maybe we can we

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can you know imagine and maybe we can have empathy towards you but we don't

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necessarily know a hundred percent what you're going through but that is on

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purpose though because a lot of times we want misery loves company right we want

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people to feel exactly like we do but sometimes God has to remove that because

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he wants us to realize that he does feel exactly like we do right he wants

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us to know like I do feel I know how that feels he was tempted in all points

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like as we are yet without sin you understand and so sometimes you know

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maybe you might have this thought like you know I know the church says that

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they love me I know you know that they're there for me and I do love them

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but I just feel like no one really knows what I'm going through and you know what

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if you ever have that thought maybe you are right but that's not a bad thing

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because maybe it's God trying to wake you up to realize like God is the one

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who does know where you're going through and you need to take advantage of that

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you need to recognize like the Lord does love me and I'm not saying like we're

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your enemies like oh man the church doesn't know what I'm going through I'm

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never gonna like open up to them they don't like me they don't like I'm saying

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like you understand that you've probably gone through something in your life then

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maybe a lot of people in our church have never experienced and never will

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experience and you know there's some truth to that but that's okay though

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because at the end of the day Jesus Christ has gone through it the Bible says

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that he is acquainted with grief he's acquainted with your grief so the depth

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of your sorrow he's experienced that I mean when we talk about heaviness

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feeling low Jesus Christ went to the lowest hell when he died I mean he was

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forsaken of God we will never be forsaken Jesus himself was forsaken

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and so I think sometimes when we have this what we would consider to be an

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intrusive thought of like nobody loves me no one really knows what you know what

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I'm going through there may be some truth to no one knows what you're going

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through but it's what the intent of pushing you to understand that God does

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know okay what I have you turn Psalm 30 and verse 5 says for his anger endureth

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but for a moment in his favor is life weeping may endure for a night but joy

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cometh in the morning please recognize that depression has to run its course

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because depression and joy is like the cycle of life we're gonna go through

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seasons of depression and seasons of joy you're gonna have seasons of

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mountaintops and seasons of valleys that is the cycle of life we can't just live

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on the mountaintop where everything is hunky-dory when nothing ever goes wrong

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we need to experience some valleys because how are we gonna add depth to

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our relationships in the Lord without the valleys if everything just went good

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a hundred percent of the time then you know what you wouldn't increase your

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prayer life you wouldn't read more Bible you wouldn't draw nine to the Lord

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because everything is great it's when we are in emotional need that we end up

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drawing closer to the Lord and seek him out go to Psalm 42 Psalm chapter 42 so

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point number one a lot of depression to run its course if you're feeling

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depressed today you know obviously no one should live depressed meaning that

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this is just how you feel all the time if that's something that you just feel

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365 days out of the year you can't get out of bed you don't want to eat you

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don't want to do any activity you don't want to exercise you don't want to go to

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work you just hate life obviously there's some other underlying maybe even

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physical ailments that you may be experiencing okay you need to go get

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checked out go get your hormones checked out you know figure out what's going on

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but a season of the when I say a season I'm talking about there could be times

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when it lasts for months you understand what I'm saying sometimes

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depression lasts for months look even as a pastor I've gone through seasons of

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depression yes you know I haven't had one recently you know but you know with

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the last couple years since we started the church there have been seasons where

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I was in great heaviness and great sorrow you know and you say well you

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didn't look like it because I was allowing depression to run its course you

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know it's just like come to church the Lord is my God he's my rock and you know

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I'm battling here I'm struggling with my personal life just nothing sinful just

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you know feelings of inadequacies feeling like I failed or whatever may be

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and it's not something I can really express to anybody because again right

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you don't feel like people can understand but what do I do just draw

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an eye into the Lord because I know he understands but did I live in that

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season forever no you end up coming out of it and you end up coming out of it

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learning new principles adding depth to your Christian life and I don't want to

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get ahead of myself but that's very important you allow depression to run

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its course don't take the antidepressant unless you're on antidepressants right

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now I'm not telling you to stop it because you need to see your doctor to

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wean yourself off of that if that's what you want to do I'm saying that should

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not be your first solution it's just like well let me go get some medication

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or something you know I'm not gonna smoke marijuana but maybe I can take

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some some edibles or something and you know do it that way and just kind of

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chill myself out or whatever no sometimes you just got to allow yourself

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to be depressed be sad because then the Lord draws nigh unto you point number

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two regarding overcoming depression and this is very practical but it's very

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necessary and you need to know this develop your hope in God okay develop

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a lot of times when people think of hope or the way people use hope they kind of

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use that term to describe something that hopefully might happen like I hope it

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happens right it's kind of like saying like it might not but you know I'm

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hoping that it does that's kind of how we use it today in the modern vernacular

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right whereas hope in the Bible is something that we know is gonna happen

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okay and it's just it's kind of like a twin of faith sometimes used

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interchangeably in the Bible hope is simply this is what the promises of God

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say and therefore I'm looking towards the finish line of this promise I know

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it's gonna come one day that's what hope is okay meaning that like everything

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going bad right now but based upon the Word of God I have hope that this is

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gonna turn out for good regardless of what happens and look folks if you want

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to endure the Christian life the hardships of the Christian life you need

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to learn how to develop hope be a hopeful person now it's easy to say that

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when you're not going through anything but when all is lost and you feel like

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all doors have closed when you feel like well I've kind of looked at every

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variable in this situation and it just seems like nothing works out in my

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favor you got to exercise some hope and realize that but there's one variable

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that you haven't taken into account that's God who ends up changing

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variable sometimes okay look at Psalm 42 verse 11 why are thou cast down oh my

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soul what is David doing he's communion with himself here's how he would say

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today like why am I so depressed why am I so sad he says why are thou cast down

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oh my soul and why are thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall

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yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God the Bible says

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turn with me if you would to 1st Samuel chapter 30 first Samuel chapter 30 what

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a beautiful verse right he's like man why am I so depressed I feel so sad my

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soul is disquieted within me I don't feel like I'm rejoicing and he's telling

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his soul you need a hope thou in God meaning that maybe you feel like all

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hope is lost but all hope is not lost let's be realistic here as Christians we

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never lose hope and even if you end up you don't feel like there's nothing at

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the there's no light at the end of the tunnel you're wrong you're wrong you've

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been deceived you don't read the Bible enough you don't know the promises of

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God because there is light at the end of the tunnel there always is because

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we're Christians have you read the end of the Bible you know we win the end

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means we won the problem is that Christians when they don't develop hope

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they quit right and what we need to do is make sure that we believe how does the

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Bible put it let me see here because I don't want to misquote this what I have

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you turn for Samuel you stay in for Samuel I'm gonna read to you from a

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Roman chapter 4 there's a great verse here verse 18 it says who against hope

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believed in hope that's powerful it's like nothing just not gonna turn out in

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my favor but I'm still gonna believe like it's gonna turn into my favor though

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like I know it's gonna try my favorite even though it doesn't look like all of

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against me but against hope I'm gonna believe in hope he says who against hope

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believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to

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that which was spoken so shall I see be and be now weak in faith he considered

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not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old neither yet

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the deadness of Sarah's womb he staggered not at the promises of God

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through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to God listen to this being

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fully persuaded the way he had promised he was able also to perform so what I'm

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telling you is you got to develop hope in your life because that's what will

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carry you through when you're going through the valleys of despair and

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sorrow and depression look at first sandwich up to 13 and verse number one

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it says here and it came to pass when David and his men were come to zig lag

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on the third day that the Amalekites had invaded the south and zig lag and

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smitten zig lag and burned it with fire and had taken the women captives that

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where they're in they slew not any either greater small but carried them

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away and went on their way so David and his men came to the city and behold it

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was burned with fire and their wives and their sons and their daughters were

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taking captives then David and all the people excuse me David and the people

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that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to

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weep so I mean just picture the situation that they're in coming back

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home and their families are gone the city is burned their families are gone

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their children I mean I feel like I just lose my mind come home one day my my

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wife and my kids have been kidnapped in my house is burning with fire I just

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absolutely lose my mind I would weep until I can no longer weep you know

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because they're my family is very valuable to me and think about that right

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and everyone's weeping they're crying they have no more power to weep they're

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just hopeless verse 5 says and David's two wives were taking captives a

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Hinoam the Jezreelitis and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite and David

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was greatly distressed why for the people spake of stoning him so on top of

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the fact that he just lost his family now his boys his mighty men are just like

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this is your fault and we're gonna kill you because if it wasn't it's your fault

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that our families were kidnapped this is the reason we're in this situation so

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on top of the fact that his own family has been kidnapped now these guys are

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trying to kill him I mean yeah greatly distressed for sure all right it says

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David was greatly distressed for the people sake of stoning him because the

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soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and for his

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daughters but this is what separates the men from the boys right here but David

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encouraged himself in the Lord his God so in the midst of just being distressed

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and in anguish and even being threatened what does David do he encourages himself

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in the Lord why cuz ain't nobody else gonna encourage him they're talking

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about stoning him you know he's just like can someone like encourage me give

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me some hope here you know what but he had no hope in anybody else you know

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what he did he encouraged himself in the Lord what that means it means he was

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developing his hope in God he knew that God can work it out together for good

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okay go to Romans chapter 5 Romans chapter 5 if you would as you turn I'm

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a retweet from Psalm 147 verse 3 says he healeth the broken in heart and bindeth

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up their wounds develop your hope in God and you know I'm speaking by

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experience you know years ago my family and I went through a very severe trial

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and I remember thinking to myself when we were going through this like there

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is no solution to this and I'm like how am I gonna get up and preach to my

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church you know to help them through situations I feel like I can't even get

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through this situation like I'm so distressed I'm filled with such anguish

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and it was just like literally we just didn't know what was gonna happen day

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to day and then I ended up preaching a sermon called something to the effect of

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hope and this is before like we had any solution to the problem like I just my

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wife was extremely sick and I'm thinking to myself like you know we just don't

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think she's ever gonna get better like she's probably gonna be like this for

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the rest of her life I heard someone literally telling me this like your

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wife's probably gonna be like this for the rest of her life and I thought to

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myself well I mean I have nothing left other than to just hope that that's not

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gonna happen right and my hope wasn't in you know some medical solution some

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home remedy it was literally and just like well I just know that the Lord

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loves me he loves my family and he's called me to be this pastor of this

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church he loves my wife and based upon all these variables that all things were

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together for good I'm just gonna have faith and have hope that things will

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work out together even though I don't see like an immediate solution and I

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just thought to myself like that's all I can do all I can do is encourage myself

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in the Lord because I know at the end of the day like God has him forsaken right

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like I'm saved and I'm not gonna lose my salvation or anything like that but I

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know that like on top of that though like I know that the Lord loves me I'm

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his child he's I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor seedbegging bread

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and folks this is why it's important to just know the promises of God right you

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got to know how the Lord feels about you got to know what his attitude is towards

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you I know the thoughts that I think of you thoughts of peace and not of evil

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listen to this to give you an expected end and I had to constantly like remind

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myself of these things constantly you say why man cuz I was broken I was

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depressed and you know I don't really have the luxury to be depressed while

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right like I got to preach to everyone and help people with their depression

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you know and help people with their problems and stuff like that so I'm just

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like Lord I'm just I just have to believe and you know what I remember

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thinking myself like my wife does not believe because she was really sick and

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I was like I just need a hope for both of us and every day is just like we'll

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get through this it'll get better somehow you know it's gonna happen how I

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know but I know like the Lord has not forsaken though I know that he's not

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just gonna leave me high and dry like this I know that like he's not just

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gonna destroy my life like this is the life of my family the life of my wife

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and our kids he's not gonna do that because he loves us and you know what as

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bad as it's gonna get let's say we just our health just completely deteriorates

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everything just goes to crap everything just is destroyed I still believe though

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at the end of this something good is gonna happen and you know what it did it

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finished we just came out of it not just now I'm saying like during that time we

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came out of that and I'm thinking myself like six months ago I thought we were

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gonna be here forever six months later we're we're as happy as heck like

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everything's just like went back to normal but then I you know and then I

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had this thought like maybe the Lord allowed me to go through that to

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develop my hope because I have to believe that what God you know it's

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easy to say yeah well God says it's true it's another thing to say that when

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you're going through a hard time it's easy to say when the bills are paid

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health is great everything's going fine and dandy it's another thing when you're

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actually in the midst of the fire in the tribulation and you're like I have hope

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when everything's going great I have hope and then you know when you're going

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through hard times like I have hope I hope I hope you know and what is hope

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it's believing that light is at the end of the tunnel even though you can't see

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the light everything's super dark pitch black and you're like I know

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everything's pitch black and everything but you know there is light at the end

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of the tunnel but it's not there but I know that it is though because the Bible

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says that it is so I can't really trust these things can't trust my emotions

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can't trust my judgment right now I have to trust what the Bible says I got to

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encourage myself and Lord and you know I just kind of decided like you know if

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this is the are the rest of our lives if we just end up being this way for the

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rest of our lives you know obviously the Lord saw us fit to be able to handle

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this just remember that if you're going through a hard time obviously the Lord

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see deems you worthy of that trial he deems you strong enough to be able to

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withstand in that evil day okay look at Romans 5 verse 3 and not only so but we

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glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience and

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patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the

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love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us

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it's saying that hope's not gonna let you down because the love of God is

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shed abroad in our hearts we know that God will come through that is a fact and

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let me just let me be very transparent with you you know every day when I was

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going through that trial I was gonna quit being a pastor I was literally

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gonna quit I was I was like you know what I don't think I could do this

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anymore I can't like take care of my wife in this situation and pastor of the

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church and you know one of my pastor friends just every day I just talked to

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him every day and I'm just like I'm done he's just like just hold on for one more

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day can you hold on for today I was like I'll hold on for day but I can't say the

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same about tomorrow then tomorrow would come and it's just like I made it through

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that day and then tomorrow would come and it was just another bad day and it

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was just like every single day but you know what it was a necessary trial though

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it was necessary to build hope and please do not undermine the importance

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of this point develop your hope in God okay you know read the Bible know the

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promises of God go to Matthew 11 if you would Matthew chapter 11 so in order for

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us to overcome depression we gotta let it run its course we gotta make sure

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that we encourage ourselves in the Lord okay and look sometimes we need to walk

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we need to grab someone's hand and walk them through a trial let me just remind

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all of you in here you're eventually gonna have to walk through that trial

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alone with the Lord you're not gonna be able to have every you know you're you're

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not gonna have a brother sister in Christ walking you through holding your

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hand throughout every trial you have to learn how to do it on your own sometimes

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and you know what you will go through a season or a trial where you have no

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choice but to do it alone and it's that time where it's like Satan is designed

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to sift you the to have you that he may sift you as wheat and you have to be

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able to endure that and you can't have this juniper tree pity party and quit

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on the Lord and just say well you know I just can't handle this therefore I'm

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gonna quit well just make it through to today and let me just say this like it's

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you know Jesus said this the things concerning me have an end trials don't

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last forever they just don't they come in seasons but they don't last forever

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okay and we're here to hold your hand we're here to exhort you to help you but

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eventually one day you have to do it on your own okay and that's important here's

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my next point is that to overcome depression you got to wait upon the Lord

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so hoping God but wait upon the Lord what I mean by that look at Matthew 11

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verse 28 he says coming to me are you that labor and are heavy laden and I

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will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lonely

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and heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my

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burden light what does it mean when he says yoke a yoke is that that that

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thing that instrument that they put on beasts of burden right to keep them

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together to keep two pieces of burden together well he's saying yoke up with me

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so in other words you know we need to make sure that if we're heavy laden

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we're feeling a sense of depression discouragement you better be working

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with the Lord and here's one of the best things you can do when you're depressed

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believe it or not keep serving God keep your eyes on others keep taking care of

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others keep adding the weight increase the reps keep serving God wait upon the

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Lord take the yoke and serve God despite the fact that you're sad okay

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what Isaiah chapter 40 Isaiah chapter 40 Isaiah chapter 40 if you would now on a

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from a practical perspective why is that important to do why should we keep

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serving God when we're feeling depressed well just practically speaking when

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you're serving others you end up realizing that others have it worse than

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you and let me just be very insensitive right now there's people who have way

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worse than you like way worse and you know what for you it may be like oh I'm

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going through a hard time and you are and I'm not downplaying what you're

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going through but you know it helps us to realize to minimize you know our

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trial to a certain degree or having pity for ourselves is realizing there's

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people out there who have it worse right taking your eyes off of yourself

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and putting it on someone else helps you to realize like there's other people

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who have it way worse than what I have it and it makes you grateful right look

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at Isaiah 40 verse 28 has thou not known has thou not heard that the

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everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not

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neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power to

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the faint and to them that have no might he increased its strength even the youth

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shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall now before I read

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the next verse what is what is the Lord saying here he's saying you know people

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look for strength in all the wrong places don't you know like the Lord

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never runs out of strength he never runs out of resources and strength and might

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he is the source of strength right and it's like the young guys will faint and

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like you know as much vitality as they have they will eventually tank out their tanks will be

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on empty they can't continue to go on for forever but the Lord does not faint

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he is not weary he says in verse 31 but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew

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their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not

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be weary they shall walk and not faint now when it says wait upon the Lord we

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could obviously say like wait till he answers our prayers or something right

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wait till God comes through and that's for sure it's true but it also means to

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serve the Lord like a waiter would right he waits upon the Lord what does the

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Lord require of me in other words if you are faint then keep serving God because

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when you serve God through depression through discouragement what does he do

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he renews your strength oh you say that but you know I'm kind of going through

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a hard time look folks if take it for me if someone who's actually experienced

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this I've learned that when you keep serving God even when you feel weary and

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tired discouraged and depressed you end up catapulting yourself out of that

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state faster when you're actually serving God you're actually serving God

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he gives you the strength to overcome he gives you the strength and here's the

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great thing about serving God when you're depressed you eventually you know

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get out of depression and then you're just twice as strong as you used to be

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now you're more emotionally strong you're more spiritually strong because

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you keep serving God this is the objective of the Christian life is to be

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able to serve God in all seasons don't take a break from church don't take a

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break from Bible don't take a break from soul winning don't take a break from

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just serving the Lord keep doing those things even while you're struggling

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because you're not always gonna struggle it's non-existent my friends

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there's seasons of trials seasons of difficulty but when you keep waiting

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upon the Lord you will see noticeable results in your life you're like wow I

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can handle more pressure now I can handle more stress I'm not as emotional

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I'm not as sad or depressed in fact I can help others now because of the fact

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that I waited upon the Lord and I'm serving God despite that and so you know

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it's important for us to allow depression to run its course to develop

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our hope in God but keep serving God as you are feeling that sense of

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discouragement and depression go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 and we're almost

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done let me just breeze over this point actually and so you're going to 2nd

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Corinthians but stop going there real quick and go to Job 13 I'm glad you

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know where 2nd Corinthians is though it's good here's my second to last point

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regarding overcoming depression let me just say this is fine purpose in your

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suffering that'll help you to overcome depression is finding purpose none of us

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suffer for no reason so I'm just going through this for no reason no there's a

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purpose behind your suffering don't let your pain go to waste don't let your

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suffering go to waste the Bible tells us in 2nd Corinthians that God comforts us

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so that we can comfort others understand and so it's important for us that when

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we're going through a sense of a season of depression that we're recognizing

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God's gonna work this out later on so that I can help someone else who's going

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through that same situation because you know the natural propensity for us is

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just to be selfish like oh woe is me I'm going through this but how do you know

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you're not going through that so that you can overcome it and then help someone

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else who goes through that in the future like God's allowing you to experience

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that so that you can come up with the answers that you're gonna be giving

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someone else when they experience that same trial that's how it works find

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purpose in your suffering and here's my last point regarding overcoming

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depression and it's very practical but it's biblical and that is get around

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the right people okay don't be hanging around a bunch of depressed people and

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don't be hanging around a bunch of people who keep you in depression you

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know yeah your life does suck yeah man it's just look look look what God did to

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you you know just people you know some people just don't have any tact they

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lack discretion and they say some of the just the dumbest nonsense ever online

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family members friends Christians just sometimes just say stupid stuff you know

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and obviously you can't control what people say but you can control who you

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are around okay get around the right people if you're feeling depressed you

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know don't go hang around the doom and gloom people the fatalist or whatever

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you need to get around the people who are will help you in a healthy manner

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that will speak you right things because at the end of the day if you get around

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the wrong people they're gonna make matters worse for you look at Job 13

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verse 1 lo mine I have seen all this mine ear has heard and understood it

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what you know the same do I know also I am not inferior to you surely I would

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speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God but ye are all are

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forgers of lies ye are all physicians of no value all that you would all

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together hold your peace and it should be your wisdom let me translate that

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shut up I wish you just shut up and I don't want to hear your wisdom and let

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me just say this if someone's going through a hard time in our church you

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know be very careful what you say to them if they're going to just a super

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difficult time we know you got all kinds of wisdom we know you're super

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knowledgeable about the Bible and about life but you some sometimes the best

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thing you can say is just nothing at all just hold your peace what does that mean

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you'll do more you'll help this person more by not saying anything sometimes

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okay and of course we know that this is job speaking and he had some horrible

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friends he's just loses evidence friends are like are you involved in sin now is

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that what it is you're involved in sin or something like that folks let me just

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say this is someone's going through a hard time you know I'm sure if they're

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in our church they know they've already questioned whether they're in sin or not

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they don't need you to tell them hey maybe it's because you're sinful okay hey

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you ever thought about the fact that maybe you're just disobedient unto the

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Lord oh and look I have a tendency to be a very impetuous person and I'm very

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harsh sometimes but sometimes other people are just they just they just mock

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me in that area okay if someone's going through a difficult time you know you

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know what folks I'm just gonna be honest with you most everyone in our church

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knows that when you go through a difficult time the first thing that comes

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to mind is like am I involved in sin okay everyone knows that already they

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don't need oh you know the job's friends come to them and say hey you ever think

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about oh so you know just God's punishing you huh that's what it is yeah I can see

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it oh yeah that's happening to you because God you know God's like chest

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eyes in you right now you're in a God's punitive did you repent yet oh you did so you're

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involved in something else then huh shut up your physicians of no value you're

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just not helping anything you're just like like just tearing a brother down

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tearing a sister down even more you like what if they are involved in sin then you

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know what how do you know that they haven't gotten it right how do you know

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they may yeah maybe are could people be dealing with the residuals of their

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decisions of course but you know what let them deal with it if they're trying

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to get back on track they're trying to serve God leave them alone we don't need

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physicians of no value it's like people you know it's easy to point out problems

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but it's very hard to give a solution if people think that because they know how

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to point out problems they're really just really good they're really smart

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wise and spiritual everyone can do that I can do that with my eyes closed it's

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easy to point out problems it's solutions right go to job 16 job 16

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it look folks you know something throughout our church life I've met

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people and dealt with people who suffer the consequences of their actions and

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maybe didn't listen to my counsel or someone else's counsel I'm not gonna

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rub that in their face why because at the end of the day you know what my

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objective is is the success of this person and you know what their punishment

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is enough why do I need to add to that I just want to help them get out of that

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don't be a physician of no value shut up hold your peace we don't need your

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wisdom look at job 16 verse 1 then job answered and said I have heard many such

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things miserable comforters are you all he's like you're trying to comfort me

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you're a miserable comforter it's just like it'll be okay you'll be all right

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doesn't help anything you like doing more damage and you know but to the

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person or people that are going through a difficult time you know here's my

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advice to you get away from those people or if you can't get away from them don't

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divulge what you're going through with them right you know don't go to the

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position of no value to tell them what you're going through because they

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probably got no wisdom to give you anyways so when they tell you like how's

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it going also how how's it going praise God it's good you said wouldn't that be

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lying no because it is going good it's always going good God is good all the

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time then go to the person who you confide in who's mature who actually has

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empathy and sympathy and words of wisdom and say man everything sucks it's good

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because God is good but I'm just gonna be honest with you like I'm going through

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a hard time right now and you know what the brother mature brother or sister is

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gonna be like well I'm praying for you what can we do to help you know I'm

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sorry you're going through that sometimes it's not even a solution that

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we did people need they just need someone to empathize with them all right

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they just need someone to say like man I'm really sorry you're going through

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that sounds horrible they don't need to be like do it

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physicians of no value miserable comforters are you all this is what job

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saying of his friends because you guys just you guys are the crappiest

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therapist I've ever had you know you're just miserable people he says shall vain

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words have an end or what emboldened in the feed that thou answer us I also

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could speak as you do if your soul were in my soul stead I can heap up words

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against you and shake my head at you he's like you know if I was in your

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position I could probably do the same thing sorry I keep picking on miss Kelly

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because she's the most expressive she helps me to like act this out because

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she's just like he said the first five but I would strengthen you with my mouth

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and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief he said you know what I would

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do I wouldn't do what you're doing to me you know what I would do I'd actually

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try to relieve you of your pain of your grief that's what my words would do unto

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you though I speak my grief is not as wage and though I forbear what am I

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eased but now he has made me weary thou has made me desolate all my company the

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Bible says he's just like you just made me worse like I feel worse now why because

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the Bible says a word spoken in due season how sweet it is and death and life

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are in the power of the tongue Bible says in Proverbs 12 verse 25 heaviness

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in the heart of man maketh it stoop but a good word maketh it glad you want to

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help that person give him a good word you'll be all right it's only for a

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season God's on your side you're making the right decisions I'm praying for you

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Bible says in Proverbs 15 verse 23 a man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and

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a word spoken in due season how sweet it is that's pretty much it you know we need

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to make sure that we are refreshing people who are going through a difficult

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time okay and so but obviously this sermon is for the depressed person okay

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you know if you're feeling depressed you know obviously you just need to make

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sure you're talking to the right people okay and be around the right people don't

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get advice from someone and look you have my permission if someone comes to

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you and just says something like that to you just be like that was the stupidest

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thing I've ever heard and I can't believe that you would say something like

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that to a person who's going through something in my situation and just

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remind me to remind you never to advise me ever again make it as awkward as

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possible that's what I do shut that person down and I hope you never advise

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anybody else because you are a miserable comforter you so what if they get a

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fended that's what they're supposed to do get up you know so they so they don't

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do that to anybody else we don't need miserable comforters we don't need

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physicians of no value and look I could be harsh and I am harsh and I get on

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people and all that but you know what folks there has to be a balance here and

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exercise wisdom and realize and you know maybe that's why I did go through

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that hard situation because it humbled me enough to recognize people are going

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through a hard time and the people say stupid things to me during that time of

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course but you know I was probably necessary so that I don't do that to

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someone else when they're going through a hard time you know why you're probably

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going through a hard time so you empathize with others when they

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experience that hard time and you don't say anything dumb either so that you can

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empathize with them and give them a word fitly spoken and do season and make sure

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you don't discourage them and actually be a physician of value let's pray father

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thank you so much for your word and Lord obviously depression is not

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pleasant it's difficult it's heavy and impedes us in so many ways help us Lord

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may you walk us through it but help us to realize that we're not hopeless as

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hopeless as we may feel we cannot trust our feelings the heart is deceitful above

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all things desperately wicked who can know it we cannot trust in our hearts

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and especially when our decision-maker is broken Lord I pray that when we go

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through a time and a season of depression and sorrow that we would put

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the the vehicle of our hearts on cruise control and trust the Word of God trust

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the Holy Spirit trust the preaching of your word and make decisions based upon

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what the Bible says not based upon how we feel help us to increase our hope in

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you Lord by reading the Word of God reading the Psalms comforting ourselves

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through the Holy Spirit as we memorize Bible verses that reinforce biblical

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truths in our lives and I pray that you just help us to be physicians of value I

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know that in my personal life I probably had some instances where I was rude and

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discouraging to someone and Lord I'm not perfect and I'm sorry for that but I

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pray that you'd help me Lord and help us to encourage those who are going through

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a deep dark time in their lives that we may pull them out of that pit and aid

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them in their recovery from their depression Lord we love you we thank you

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pray these things in Jesus name amen