Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm your Chris
Shelton, your host,
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and I hope that you've
tuned in to be blessed today
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because if you're hungering
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and thirsting for righteousness,
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I know God will
have a blessing for you.
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Today, we're on
program number eight out of 25.
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We have a series
of 25 Bible lessons
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that we are doing
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from this lovely
Bible study booklet.
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And it is entitled
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"Sharing God's
Love Makes You Happier,
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What the Bible Says."
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And that's what we're
going to look at today.
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And number eight deals
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with gentle ways
to ease depression.
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Gentle ways to ease depression.
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You know, in today's world,
so many people are bombarded
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because life is so up and down,
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and many times
they're so far down
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that they feel
hopeless and helpless.
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But you know what,
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as I was
preparing for this lesson,
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and I know as you
study along with us,
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and as you call in
and get this study guide,
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you're gonna find that God
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has a
prescription for depression.
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You know, there's nothing
more than the enemy would want
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is for you to be
down and feel out,
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and hopeless and lost.
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He wants to tear you
apart from your Savior,
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he wants to tear you
apart from your family,
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your loved ones,
but God is there.
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And He promises in His Word
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that He will not
only be there with us,
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that He will never forsake us,
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but He's gonna lift
us up with His own hand.
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And He also promises to
take all of these sad situations
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and turn them
into something good
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just for you, just for me.
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So I hope that
you'll stay tuned,
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but first of all...
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And I know you're gonna
be blessed by this song,
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it's entitled
"Wonderful, Merciful Savior,"
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and it's sung by
Sister Emma McDonald
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from the 3ABN Worship Center.
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Let's go there first
and then we'll come back
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and hear what Pastor Kenny
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has been given to share with us.
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Wonderful, merciful Savior
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Precious Redeemer and Friend
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Who would have
thought that a Lamb
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Could rescue the souls of men
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Oh, You rescue the souls of men
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Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
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Spirit we long to embrace
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You offer hope
when our hearts have
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Hopelessly lost our way
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Oh, we've
hopelessly lost our way
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Almighty, infinite Father
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Faithfully loving Your own
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Here in our weakness You find us
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Falling before Your throne
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Oh, we're falling
before Your throne
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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You are the One that we praise
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You are the One we adore
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You give us healing and grace
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Our hearts always hunger for
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Oh, our hearts always hunger for
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Thanks for joining us here
at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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We appreciate you so very much,
and again, we always, always
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appreciate your
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And, you know, people
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and they're doing
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They have lot of
questions, and some of you do,
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and I'm pretty
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So don't get discouraged,
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you can always
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there's lot of
things that are going on
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in the calls of Christ,
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which I'm very
grateful and thankful for.
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Today, this lesson, I know
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as you already
heard the introduction
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that Sister Chris has
given is very, very important.
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In fact, it holds
the world captive.
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So we need to look at it
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from the standpoint of
the way God looks at it.
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We're going to look at
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general ways to
deal with depression,
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general ways to
deal or ease depression,
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and that's
something that affects
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a whole lot of people.
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And I think it would be
very, very important lesson
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based upon God's Word
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and things that are
going on in the world.
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But before we get into that,
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we want to make
sure we pray once again.
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And I invite you,
those of you at home,
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those of you are
here, wherever you can
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if you just kneel with
me as we pray together.
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Most gracious heavenly Father,
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again, we thank
You for prayer time
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that we can have with You,
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we realize that
it's very, very important
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that we spend this
time with You in prayer
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and asking for
guidance of the Holy Spirit
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to illuminate
these beautiful truths,
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open our minds and our
hearts of each one of us.
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And, Lord, we pray Your
special touch upon those
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who may be having the issue
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that we will be
talking about today,
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we may find that every one of us
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at different
times have experienced
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these symptoms.
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So, Lord, we know
You have the answers,
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bless us, we pray with that
with clear hearts, clear minds,
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forgiveness of sin today
that we might hear from heaven.
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In Jesus' name, we
pray, and for His sake, amen.
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Again, we always encourage you,
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and make sure
you have your Bibles,
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and pencil, and
paper, and, you know,
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you're sitting at
home and, you know,
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at kind of ease there,
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but don't miss anything here
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because we'd be
looking at God's Word,
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and we can't
afford to miss anything
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because as we look at it,
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it's going to give us
help and encouragement.
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In fact, there's
going to be answers
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that will be given to this,
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maybe simple to some
who've been following God,
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but they're not so
simple for many others
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who never opened
the pages of the Bible.
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Here are the answers.
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Here is the way
that God has ordained
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to help us through these
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general ways to ease depression.
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Like, maybe most of you,
when we talk about depression,
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probably most men who maybe
go through a little depression,
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they're in denial, number one.
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We think that we don't
experience certain things
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because it's just
for everybody else
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but we never go through it.
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But today, let's just keep
our minds and our hearts open,
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and let's just
define a little bit
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of what a
depression really means
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because just the word depression
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doesn't sound
real good, does it?
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But we're going to
look at it and see.
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Notice this,
it's a mood disorder.
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When you look it
up, you'll find that
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depression is a mood disorder
that causes severe symptoms.
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So it's something that is real.
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If you look up some...
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There's dozens of synonyms,
you can look up for depression.
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And some of them, you'll...
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These words you
will understand them,
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I heard them
when I was growing up.
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And one of them is said,
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"Well, it sounds
like you have the blahs.
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Did anybody ever heard that?
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We got the blahs for today.
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Others say, you know,
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dejection for
depression, despondency,
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sadness,
loneliness, a heavy heart.
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Here's one that I
really hadn't heard before,
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maybe some of
you had, it's called,
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right here is
interesting, it's blue funk.
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Mrs. Wallace, you know,
some of us have been around
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for a while,
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you know, I've been around,
I've never heard of blue funk.
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But I've also...
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I've heard this though
that we've got the blues.
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You got the blues.
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So maybe that's part of it.
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We're down in the dumps.
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You know, it's
such a persistent.
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If we look at it,
this is persistent.
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When you're sad a lot,
when you're anxious a lot,
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you have a lot
of empty feelings,
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emotions,
fatigue, decreased energy,
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sometime, even leads to suicide.
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So this is a heavy duty issue,
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it's just not
something that's made up.
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It can affect our work,
it can affect our sleep,
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it can affect our concentration,
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it can affect
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our decision
making part of the brain,
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it affects what we eat,
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and sometimes
what we do not eat,
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and how much.
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And also we find that
it affects our insecurity,
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we begin to feel insecure.
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Many, when they have
some of these things,
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and this is just a few of them,
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go through our hearts
and through our minds,
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we're dealing with
them maybe on a daily basis,
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they come to the point
where they seek and say,
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"I'm going to
seek professional help,
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I need to get some help,
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I need to be restored
back maybe like I was before."
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And sometimes
there's good things
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when we seek professional help,
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one such thing
is many of them say,
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you know what, we
need a lifestyle change.
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Lifestyle change is not bad.
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Many of us need
maybe a lifestyle change
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and that deals with
many, many issues of life.
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We have to
recognize that in this study,
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there are, listen,
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tens of millions of
people are affected every year.
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Did you get that? Oh, yeah.
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Tens of millions of
people are affected every year
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with depression, notice that.
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Now listen, this is interesting,
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more than 70% of
these individuals,
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you know, that's
suffering from this condition,
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they've never
received any help at all.
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They don't ask for it,
they've never received any,
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they don't go looking for it,
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they're kind of afraid of
what may be said about them.
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Seventy percent
of tens of millions.
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So it's an interesting thing
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that we're
looking at here today.
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One researcher said this,
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you know, some people
spend their whole lives
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researching things,
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they come up with
a lot of information.
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And it's not
always bad, you know,
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they're comparing a
lot of different things.
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One researcher says
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this is what we
just talked about,
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makes depression so dangerous.
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It makes it dangerous
because we have the symptoms.
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We're going
through these issues,
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and yet, there seems to be
no help or we don't seek help.
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Well, depression,
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most people think
when you do surveys
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if you mention
the word depression,
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most people will say
that's your own fault
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that you're in depressed mood.
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Well, that didn't
help anybody, number one.
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But most people
think that it's your fault
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because you have these symptoms.
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You know, we have to think on...
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That's your own fault.
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Well, I want to think on it
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as we do this
study a little bit more,
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could it be our fault or
maybe it's not our fault,
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maybe it's
something else physical,
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maybe it's something...
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We need to look at the
issues squarely and fairly,
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and we'll certainly
look from God's words.
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Researchers do know this
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and they've
been researching this
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for many, many years
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that they've been
studying part of the brain,
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they're studying
part of the brain
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that deals with our mood
and our physical symptoms.
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And they can target
this area of the brain
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to see how each separate patient
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would react with
certain kind of help.
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Kind of interesting, isn't it?
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We're glad we have researchers
in a lot of different areas,
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aren't we?
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And there are those who can do
these things that will help us.
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But here's what usually
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some of the
professional help goes to,
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they're right now...
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They're not all
on the market yet,
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but they're working
on, they're developing
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over 140 different medications
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for depression.
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They're in the
process of developing.
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Many of those are out
there but there's just...
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In other words,
you've got a problem,
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here's your pill.
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Is that always the answer?
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You know, it may help sometime,
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so I'm not trying to
discredit any form or fashion,
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anything or anybody here.
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But our focus is going to
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certainly be on the Word of God,
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certainly, we have
to go to God's Word
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but we're very grateful
and thankful for doctors,
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and different
ones, and researchers,
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and those who are trying to
make us little more healthy.
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But I thought that was
very, very interesting here.
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The main target,
notice this, is to...
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The researcher said,
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the main target is to
try to balance the brain.
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They think that the brain
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maybe has become out of balance.
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It's the world that we
live in maybe part of the issue
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that makes our brains a
little bit out of balance,
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so things that we see
that people say are normal
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that are not normal.
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Yeah. Amen.
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And we become a little
confused and we become concerned
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because of all that's going on,
we're concerned about our home,
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we're concerned
about our family,
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we're concerned about our job,
00:16:37.79\00:16:39.13
we're concerned about
crime, and killing, and rape,
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things that are going
on in our own backyard.
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And so there's
always this anxiety,
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there's always these things,
but somehow we have to deal,
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we live in this world.
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Of course, there's all kinds of,
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you call that
antidepressant therapies
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that are out there.
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Now, are they all good?
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Well, probably not all good.
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You know, does
that fit your case
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or someone else's case?
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We just need to look
and think about these
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and certainly pray about it.
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So I think we can say today
that mental illness is what?
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A serious thing.
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Yes, it is.
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Don't you believe it?
It is very serious things.
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Millions, millions upon millions
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are looking for a cure.
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Millions are looking
for just some sign of hope,
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there's hope out there
because they lose all hope.
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Others are screaming
out, "I just need some help."
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Is there no one to help,
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is there no one
that really cares?
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Let's quickly go over
some signs and symptoms.
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And, you know,
because two or three...
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I think I'm gonna look at 10.
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Three or four of them
may fit you, they may fit me,
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it doesn't mean that you have
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because a lot of
signs of symptoms,
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if you're not careful,
you read what all this problem
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is over health problem
and all of sudden I've got it.
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You know anybody like that?
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They read some of the symptoms
of this thing, and they say,
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"Huh, surely I must
have it," and they may not.
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But there are several
things that may be overlapped.
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So let's just look
at some of these things.
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Now this is
according to the Diagnostic
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and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders,
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so they call
themselves professionals,
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and they've got a lot of things
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beside their name
and so on and so forth
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that they say they're qualified.
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And you might see
that some of these things
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might fit if you've ever
been through any of these areas.
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Number one, any
prolonged sadness.
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If you find someone that
seems to be sad all the time
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or all of a sudden they
have just crying spells.
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All they seem to do is just cry.
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They can't seem to help it.
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You see, the other
average person may look and say,
00:19:01.34\00:19:03.30
"What in the world's wrong here?
00:19:03.34\00:19:04.67
They have nothing
to be crying about."
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But remember,
we're not in their shoes,
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we're not thinking the
way that they are thinking.
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Number two,
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you might spot
or you might realize
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there has been
some significant changes
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in your appetite
and sleep patterns,
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some of the signs of depression.
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Now we're talking about
gently trying to deal with it,
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but we have to kind of
know some of the signs,
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we have to know.
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Maybe a change in your appetite
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or maybe a change
you can't sleep anymore,
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you're, you know,
15 minutes over here,
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you're an hour here,
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and then you're in
the chair for another
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and you're over here,
it may be other issues too,
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but we're just saying
something to think about.
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Number three, irritability.
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Easily
irritated, angry, worried,
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everything
agitates you, anxiety,
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and you don't know why.
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Four, pessimism.
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You ever heard anybody
say they are pessimistic.
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What does that really mean?
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Pessimistic person.
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Yeah, everything is negative,
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everything that takes
place in their life...
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They forecast the worst outcome.
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I knew it would happen.
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I knew it would
blow up in my face,
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it never works for me, I
knew it would fall through,
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I knew I wouldn't get that job.
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That's part of...
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The mind is
working and in difference.
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Number five, there seems to be
quite a severe loss of energy.
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The energy is taken
up on maybe other things,
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worrying about other
things that we need not think
00:21:00.39\00:21:02.69
or even worry
about, loss of energy.
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Number six, a feeling of guilt.
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You're feeling guilty
about something all the time,
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you feel like you're
along with that guilty,
00:21:16.34\00:21:19.51
you know, feeling
guilty, guilt is...
00:21:19.54\00:21:21.84
Well, I'm not worth anything.
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Nobody thinks
I'm worth anything.
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I'm worthless, I'm useless.
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You know, that's kind of
difficult we never should say
00:21:31.15\00:21:33.76
that about ourself
00:21:33.79\00:21:35.12
because if
you're a child of God,
00:21:35.16\00:21:37.13
you're really worth
something, aren't you?
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Amen.
00:21:38.53\00:21:39.86
See, but some
people don't know this,
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and they feel worthless.
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And if you've
ever felt worthless,
00:21:43.50\00:21:45.73
you realize that can depress you
00:21:45.77\00:21:49.84
because you don't
know which way to turn
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or what to do.
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Number seven, signs.
00:21:55.14\00:22:00.15
Notice, you're not able to
concentrate like you used to.
00:22:00.18\00:22:04.55
You have a hard
time concentrating,
00:22:04.59\00:22:06.96
you can't concentrate anymore.
00:22:06.99\00:22:08.92
And that means what?
00:22:08.96\00:22:10.43
If you can't concentrate,
00:22:10.46\00:22:11.79
then that means you can't
really make good decisions.
00:22:11.83\00:22:16.46
And you're hopping maybe
from one thing to another.
00:22:16.50\00:22:20.74
Number eight,
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.14
there's an
inability to take pleasure
00:22:23.17\00:22:26.98
in those former
things that you used to do
00:22:27.01\00:22:30.15
that made you happy,
00:22:30.18\00:22:31.85
you just can't
seem to get along.
00:22:31.88\00:22:33.62
And a lot of times
then that bottom line,
00:22:33.65\00:22:35.98
then you want to
withdraw from social activities.
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You withdraw from
people, it's a sign.
00:22:40.66\00:22:44.86
Number nine,
unexplained aches and pains.
00:22:44.89\00:22:51.73
Did you get it, unexplained,
you can't explain it.
00:22:51.77\00:22:55.20
I ache here, I hurt here,
00:22:55.24\00:22:56.57
I'm hurt all over, and da-da-da.
00:22:56.60\00:22:57.97
And when you have all the test,
00:22:58.01\00:22:59.34
and they, there's nothing there.
00:22:59.37\00:23:03.38
Number 10,
00:23:03.41\00:23:05.58
it gets severe as it goes down
00:23:05.61\00:23:08.25
because number 10 is
I'm having, you're having,
00:23:08.28\00:23:11.89
or someone is having,
just going through this,
00:23:11.92\00:23:14.39
they're having thoughts,
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.42
reoccurring thoughts
about dying, about death.
00:23:16.46\00:23:21.10
And then on the other
side, they think about suicide.
00:23:21.13\00:23:26.00
Reoccurring thoughts
about death and then suicide.
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Now remember, there's a
balance to every one of these.
00:23:31.87\00:23:36.31
I personally think it's
okay to think about sometime
00:23:36.34\00:23:38.58
about death.
00:23:38.61\00:23:39.95
The Bible talks about death.
00:23:39.98\00:23:41.32
In the biblical
term, we look at it, death,
00:23:41.35\00:23:43.72
we're here for a
season and then we're gone,
00:23:43.75\00:23:45.75
and then what?
00:23:45.79\00:23:47.12
And then we die.
00:23:47.16\00:23:48.49
We need to know
the truth about death,
00:23:48.52\00:23:50.46
but when it scares someone
00:23:50.49\00:23:52.39
and they're uncertain about it
and they don't know what to do.
00:23:52.43\00:23:57.23
They're scared.
00:23:57.27\00:23:58.73
And then they say, you know,
00:23:58.77\00:24:00.10
I don't think I
can face it anymore
00:24:00.14\00:24:01.47
and they think about
taking their own life.
00:24:01.50\00:24:04.71
Depression is
not much difference
00:24:04.74\00:24:06.11
whether you're young
or whether you are older,
00:24:06.14\00:24:09.21
but different
things can trigger it.
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.28
For instance,
depression signs in young people
00:24:11.31\00:24:14.32
sometimes are
some of the same things
00:24:14.35\00:24:15.75
that we just read in
children and even teenagers,
00:24:15.78\00:24:19.29
many of them have
unexplained aches and pains.
00:24:19.32\00:24:22.96
Their back hurts,
their kidneys hurt,
00:24:22.99\00:24:24.46
this hurts, that hurts.
00:24:24.49\00:24:27.16
They're very irritable,
they fly off the handle easily.
00:24:27.20\00:24:33.07
And they have the
tendency always to withdraw
00:24:33.10\00:24:35.97
and want to kind
of be by themself,
00:24:36.00\00:24:38.01
play by themself as
they were the younger.
00:24:38.04\00:24:41.81
For older adults,
00:24:41.84\00:24:44.88
some things can
trigger depression
00:24:44.91\00:24:47.28
and someone who's
maybe never been depressed.
00:24:47.32\00:24:51.39
If they go through any kind of
00:24:51.42\00:24:53.52
a sudden big
change in their life
00:24:53.56\00:24:56.66
when you get older, that
can just upset everything.
00:24:56.69\00:25:01.73
And then if they have a
illness that they never had,
00:25:01.76\00:25:05.73
it's frightening
to an older person
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.44
and can bring depression.
00:25:07.47\00:25:09.47
Even if a person has to...
00:25:09.50\00:25:11.24
An older person has to move
00:25:11.27\00:25:13.94
from a house that you've been in
00:25:13.98\00:25:15.31
for many, many years,
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.45
and you have to
move to a new place,
00:25:17.48\00:25:19.58
it's frightening,
much more frightening
00:25:19.61\00:25:21.52
to an older person than
it is to younger person.
00:25:21.55\00:25:25.85
It can bring on depression.
00:25:25.89\00:25:29.02
And an older person, for sure,
00:25:29.06\00:25:30.39
the death of loved
ones can bring it on.
00:25:30.43\00:25:35.33
The National
Institute of Mental Health
00:25:35.36\00:25:38.63
envisions this.
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.54
Now they're envisioning this,
they're doing all the study,
00:25:40.57\00:25:43.27
they're working with
people and for people,
00:25:43.30\00:25:45.21
they don't want
them to go through
00:25:45.24\00:25:46.94
these type of things,
and so they're working,
00:25:46.98\00:25:48.84
they envision a world
00:25:48.88\00:25:50.51
in which mental illnesses
are prevented and cured.
00:25:50.55\00:25:55.98
They're thinking
ahead, they're saying,
00:25:56.02\00:25:57.45
maybe the day will come
00:25:57.49\00:25:59.39
when these
illnesses can be prevented
00:25:59.42\00:26:01.52
and even cured we
won't have to deal
00:26:01.56\00:26:03.12
with them anymore.
00:26:03.16\00:26:06.36
I say today, doesn't
that sound wonderful?
00:26:06.39\00:26:08.26
Oh, yeah.
00:26:08.30\00:26:09.63
All that sounds so wonderful
but, you know, I believe this,
00:26:09.66\00:26:13.03
even with all their
study and all that they offer
00:26:13.07\00:26:15.17
I believe that we must,
if you want to eradicate,
00:26:15.20\00:26:18.21
if you want to cure, if
you want to have a gentle,
00:26:18.24\00:26:21.44
you know, just a nice
little change in your life,
00:26:21.48\00:26:25.08
you want to ease depression,
00:26:25.11\00:26:26.58
we cannot forget
God and His Word,
00:26:26.61\00:26:29.18
it has to be
incorporated in this.
00:26:29.22\00:26:32.39
And so I want to just
00:26:32.42\00:26:33.76
take a few
moments today and look,
00:26:33.79\00:26:36.99
I'm gonna call
them helpful hints,
00:26:37.03\00:26:39.16
some helpful hints
to beat or to ease.
00:26:39.19\00:26:42.63
See?
00:26:42.66\00:26:44.00
It can definitely be
beaten by the Word of God.
00:26:44.03\00:26:46.13
Are you still with me?
00:26:46.17\00:26:47.50
With God on your
side it can be beaten,
00:26:47.54\00:26:49.64
we don't have to suffer, we
don't have to go through it,
00:26:49.67\00:26:52.01
but you're going to
have to do something,
00:26:52.04\00:26:53.98
I'm going to
have to do something,
00:26:54.01\00:26:55.38
I'm going to have to do my part.
00:26:55.41\00:26:56.75
That's right.
00:26:56.78\00:26:58.11
Or it will never ever happen
because God simply said, Jesus,
00:26:58.15\00:27:00.92
I stand at the door knock.
00:27:00.95\00:27:03.02
I know what
you're going through,
00:27:03.05\00:27:04.39
I want to help you through it,
00:27:04.42\00:27:05.75
but unless you ask me and
to help you, I can't do it.
00:27:05.79\00:27:09.49
And so it's a help, you know,
00:27:09.52\00:27:10.86
just get rid of
it once and for all
00:27:10.89\00:27:12.73
to ease this thing.
00:27:12.76\00:27:14.63
Jot down Psalms 37.
00:27:14.66\00:27:16.16
I love Psalms 37:23-24.
00:27:16.20\00:27:20.27
Psalms 37:23-24.
00:27:20.30\00:27:25.61
Now here's the
problem with a lot of people
00:27:25.64\00:27:27.44
who go through this
and they know the Lord,
00:27:27.48\00:27:29.51
they understand
the Bible somewhat,
00:27:29.54\00:27:31.85
they say, "It's too simple.
00:27:31.88\00:27:34.82
Well, that can't do it.
00:27:34.85\00:27:36.18
I've read these passages."
00:27:36.22\00:27:37.55
There's something missing.
00:27:37.59\00:27:39.35
If we say the Word
of God can't do it,
00:27:39.39\00:27:42.06
the Holy Spirit can't do it,
00:27:42.09\00:27:43.69
Jesus is not
powerful enough to do it,
00:27:43.73\00:27:46.06
there's something
missing in their experience
00:27:46.09\00:27:48.60
and so we're asked
by the grace of God
00:27:48.63\00:27:50.90
to get back into
that to exercise faith,
00:27:50.93\00:27:53.60
faith in the Word of God.
00:27:53.64\00:27:55.90
Notice what
Psalms 37:23-24 says.
00:27:55.94\00:27:59.97
The Bible is so clear on this.
00:28:00.01\00:28:01.98
Notice, "The
steps of a good man..."
00:28:02.01\00:28:04.35
Did you get it?
00:28:04.38\00:28:05.71
Mankind, men and women.
00:28:05.75\00:28:07.82
The steps, the direction...
00:28:07.85\00:28:10.19
That steps means the
direction that He's going,
00:28:10.22\00:28:12.69
the path that He's trotting,
the way in which He is going.
00:28:12.72\00:28:16.62
"The steps of a
good man are ordered..."
00:28:16.66\00:28:19.63
Ooh, I like that.
00:28:19.66\00:28:21.00
"Are ordered," that
means they are established,
00:28:21.03\00:28:24.23
"by the Lord.
00:28:24.27\00:28:26.07
He delighteth in
his," what, "his way."
00:28:26.10\00:28:29.90
Verse 24, "Though he fall..."
00:28:29.94\00:28:32.41
Check this out.
00:28:32.44\00:28:34.21
God says, I'm going
to guide your steps,
00:28:34.24\00:28:35.88
but if you fall,
00:28:35.91\00:28:40.55
if you fail, if you fall short,
00:28:40.58\00:28:43.69
"He shall not be
utterly cast down:
00:28:43.72\00:28:47.46
for the Lord
upholdeth him with His hand."
00:28:47.49\00:28:51.46
You talk about good
news, well, I fell short,
00:28:51.49\00:28:53.96
well, I fell
down, well, I did wrong,
00:28:54.00\00:28:55.80
God said, look,
you're not utterly down,
00:28:55.83\00:28:57.63
you don't have
to stay down there.
00:28:57.67\00:28:59.00
Why?
00:28:59.03\00:29:00.37
Because He said,
notice the key here,
00:29:00.40\00:29:01.74
for those who are fighting,
those who want more help,
00:29:01.77\00:29:04.54
encouragement here,
the steps of a good man...
00:29:04.57\00:29:07.58
So first of all, we have
to be by the grace of God,
00:29:07.61\00:29:10.25
a good person
because of who Jesus is.
00:29:10.28\00:29:12.21
Amen.
00:29:12.25\00:29:13.58
Other words, you have
to accept Jesus, where?
00:29:13.62\00:29:16.15
Into your heart and your mind
00:29:16.18\00:29:17.52
and then you are
considered in the Bible,
00:29:17.55\00:29:19.62
in this verse here, a
good person, a good man,
00:29:19.65\00:29:22.62
and if you are, then God said
I'm going to guide your steps.
00:29:22.66\00:29:25.73
Don't take any
steps on your own,
00:29:25.76\00:29:27.43
you're going to get in trouble,
let me guide your steps.
00:29:27.46\00:29:29.96
You're going to
reach out and say,
00:29:30.00\00:29:31.33
"Oh, Lord, I'm
going to make a step here,
00:29:31.37\00:29:32.70
but make sure
it's the right step,
00:29:32.73\00:29:34.14
make sure it's in
the right direction."
00:29:34.17\00:29:36.74
I'll guide them.
00:29:36.77\00:29:38.11
And if you
happen to slip, He said,
00:29:38.14\00:29:40.71
"I'm going to be there for you."
00:29:40.74\00:29:42.44
You're not utterly cast down.
00:29:42.48\00:29:44.31
You know, what good
news that is for us today.
00:29:44.35\00:29:46.51
Yes.
00:29:46.55\00:29:47.88
Because the Bible
said we've all come short,
00:29:47.92\00:29:50.35
we've all
sinned, we've come short,
00:29:50.39\00:29:52.42
we need extra help.
00:29:52.45\00:29:53.79
Verse 24 said, notice
this, I'm going to look at you.
00:29:53.82\00:29:56.02
"Though he fall..."
00:29:56.06\00:29:57.79
"Though he fall..."
00:29:57.83\00:30:00.00
Now how would you fall?
00:30:00.03\00:30:01.83
Well, it could be
very simple. It could be...
00:30:01.86\00:30:03.83
He failed because
he made a wrong choice.
00:30:03.87\00:30:06.63
How many people in the
Bible, don't start naming them,
00:30:06.67\00:30:09.44
that made a wrong choice
at one time or the other?
00:30:09.47\00:30:11.84
Look, how many
times in your own live,
00:30:11.87\00:30:13.21
my life, I made a wrong choice.
00:30:13.24\00:30:15.91
I could've made
the right choice,
00:30:15.94\00:30:18.68
I could've went the right way.
00:30:18.71\00:30:20.72
I even knew the
right way, but I chose.
00:30:20.75\00:30:27.06
Maybe made just wrong choice.
00:30:27.09\00:30:28.82
And sometimes it could
be just disappointment.
00:30:28.86\00:30:32.13
Is anybody here...
00:30:32.16\00:30:33.50
Don't raise your hand,
00:30:33.53\00:30:34.86
but you've been so
disappointed over something
00:30:34.90\00:30:37.03
that you just did something else
00:30:37.07\00:30:38.40
wrong all the way
00:30:38.43\00:30:39.83
'cause you're
just so disappointing,
00:30:39.87\00:30:41.20
you just lost it.
00:30:41.24\00:30:42.57
Sometime a person
may fold though he fall
00:30:44.97\00:30:47.74
because of misfortune.
00:30:47.78\00:30:50.95
You may lose your
home, you may lose your car,
00:30:50.98\00:30:53.11
you may lose your
family, the misfortune,
00:30:53.15\00:30:55.02
sometime we
choose the wrong path,
00:30:55.05\00:30:57.52
a calamity to death,
00:30:57.55\00:31:01.06
and sometime it's just
simply falling into sin.
00:31:01.09\00:31:05.49
Remember falling into sin,
00:31:05.53\00:31:06.93
falling into
sin's a little different
00:31:06.96\00:31:08.36
than jumping into sin.
00:31:08.40\00:31:09.93
Somebody's not with
me, I see right now.
00:31:09.96\00:31:14.04
There is a difference
of jumping than falling.
00:31:14.07\00:31:20.21
Many people who
go out to fun clear
00:31:20.24\00:31:22.78
for wherever it might
be, some of these places,
00:31:22.81\00:31:24.65
you never intended to fall,
00:31:24.68\00:31:26.88
but you got a little
too close to the edge.
00:31:26.92\00:31:29.92
But you never intended to fall
00:31:29.95\00:31:31.59
but your feet at that moment
they slipped and out they went.
00:31:31.62\00:31:36.83
That's no excuse for sin.
00:31:36.86\00:31:38.63
But we have to look at
what does the righteous man do.
00:31:38.66\00:31:42.23
God said, "I'm going to
help the righteous man here."
00:31:42.26\00:31:45.87
Little depressed,
little bit down and out,
00:31:45.90\00:31:47.67
the world's not
treating you right,
00:31:47.70\00:31:49.04
you're thinking
things are not going right,
00:31:49.07\00:31:50.44
you feel like you're
worthless, there's nothing good,
00:31:50.47\00:31:52.77
why keep living, I
might as well be dead,
00:31:52.81\00:31:55.08
this right here...
00:31:55.11\00:31:56.44
God said, "Though you fall,
00:31:56.48\00:31:57.95
though you still as it
were you fell into sin..."
00:31:57.98\00:32:00.42
Here's what the
righteous man does,
00:32:00.45\00:32:02.02
the evil man will not do it.
00:32:02.05\00:32:03.39
The righteous man will
immediately, immediately,
00:32:03.42\00:32:06.72
when he's made a wrong choice
00:32:06.76\00:32:08.36
or that maybe
he's fallen into sin,
00:32:08.39\00:32:10.76
he quickly goes back to God
00:32:10.79\00:32:12.59
and ask for forgiveness of that
and he makes it right with God,
00:32:12.63\00:32:16.87
and that makes the difference
when things are right with God,
00:32:16.90\00:32:19.93
that's where peace can come in.
00:32:19.97\00:32:23.91
see, the righteous man
want to rectify his error.
00:32:23.94\00:32:28.78
Now let's just
establish this, bad things,
00:32:28.81\00:32:33.01
and we're going to
talk about few things here.
00:32:33.05\00:32:34.42
But bad things
happen to good people.
00:32:34.45\00:32:39.52
I mean, we've
heard all of our life,
00:32:39.55\00:32:40.89
but we have to remember this.
00:32:40.92\00:32:42.62
We can't be like
Job and all is what,
00:32:42.66\00:32:44.43
what kind of
message has he made,
00:32:44.46\00:32:45.79
that's why his life is this way,
00:32:45.83\00:32:47.26
because he's made
all of these things.
00:32:47.30\00:32:48.63
No, even Job was
righteous before God,
00:32:48.66\00:32:52.43
men were judgmental.
00:32:52.47\00:32:55.14
Bad things
happen to good people.
00:32:55.17\00:32:59.97
You know, how I know that?
00:33:00.01\00:33:02.44
One passage, just
quickly, many, many passages
00:33:02.48\00:33:04.71
but Psalms Chapter 34,
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.75
Psalms 34:19 and
it's just not one time,
00:33:06.78\00:33:13.46
Sister Kai, this
is going to happen
00:33:13.49\00:33:15.56
in your life.
00:33:15.59\00:33:16.93
There may be...
00:33:16.96\00:33:18.29
The Bible says here
"Many are the," what?
00:33:18.33\00:33:21.56
"The
afflictions of the righteous
00:33:21.60\00:33:25.73
but the Lord delivereth him
00:33:25.77\00:33:28.34
out of them all."
00:33:28.37\00:33:32.81
That's it.
00:33:32.84\00:33:34.18
That almost
deserves a hand, doesn't it?
00:33:34.21\00:33:35.54
Somebody said mine.
00:33:35.58\00:33:36.91
Yet, many are the
afflictions that were there,
00:33:36.95\00:33:39.61
you know, if you
look at it in the Hebrew,
00:33:39.65\00:33:42.35
it said, that
many are the hurts,
00:33:42.38\00:33:44.92
many are the troubles,
00:33:44.95\00:33:48.12
many are the
grieves of the righteous.
00:33:48.16\00:33:51.13
You just say,
yeah, but I'm righteous,
00:33:51.16\00:33:52.49
I'm following Jesus,
why should I have to go?
00:33:52.53\00:33:54.60
God knows why,
00:33:54.63\00:33:57.83
He's purifying some
character, isn't He?
00:33:57.87\00:34:00.17
We're going through these tests
00:34:00.20\00:34:01.54
and these trials
but He said many.
00:34:01.57\00:34:04.14
So being a child of God
simply put today does not mean
00:34:04.17\00:34:08.01
we are exempt
from test and trials.
00:34:08.04\00:34:10.81
But I do know this,
00:34:10.85\00:34:13.52
I believe this
as a child of God,
00:34:13.55\00:34:15.75
our suffering is less,
is less than a nonbeliever.
00:34:15.78\00:34:21.16
Even though we go
through the afflictions are many
00:34:21.19\00:34:22.96
and the hurt is still there.
00:34:22.99\00:34:24.33
There is something
different about a child of God
00:34:24.36\00:34:28.46
because the evil, for instance,
00:34:28.50\00:34:29.83
the evil go through a
lot of different things
00:34:29.86\00:34:31.63
because they're
suffering many times,
00:34:31.67\00:34:34.14
the decisions they made
for instance on intemperance,
00:34:34.17\00:34:39.57
they suffer in this life.
00:34:39.61\00:34:41.48
They suffer because
they're living a life of crime,
00:34:41.51\00:34:45.08
you see there's a lot of things.
00:34:45.11\00:34:46.45
You're not living
the life of crime,
00:34:46.48\00:34:47.82
you may not have to go
through what they go through.
00:34:47.85\00:34:51.29
And many times they suffer for
00:34:51.32\00:34:52.89
because of just
simple bad habits,
00:34:52.92\00:34:56.19
Ill effects in the home.
00:34:56.22\00:34:58.49
They go through these things,
00:34:58.53\00:34:59.86
so some of the rewards we
would say of the righteous,
00:34:59.89\00:35:03.77
I like this
rewards of the righteous
00:35:03.80\00:35:05.50
even in this life.
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.00
When you make right choices
are enjoyed in this life.
00:35:07.04\00:35:11.71
Making right
choices in this life,
00:35:11.74\00:35:13.64
you can enjoy
certain things here.
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.91
Ain't that wonderful?
00:35:15.94\00:35:18.25
But if you're
making wrong choices,
00:35:18.28\00:35:20.05
you're gonna suffer in
a lot of different ways.
00:35:20.08\00:35:23.55
So may I say as
we're studying this today
00:35:23.59\00:35:27.49
about easing depression,
00:35:27.52\00:35:29.72
we have a God that cares for us,
00:35:29.76\00:35:32.99
we have a God that's
interested in our life,
00:35:33.03\00:35:35.66
every aspect of it,
00:35:35.70\00:35:38.10
and He wants to be involved
in every aspect of it too.
00:35:38.13\00:35:41.34
That's how special that you are.
00:35:41.37\00:35:43.71
But a principle of scripture,
00:35:43.74\00:35:45.37
I think is very paramount
00:35:45.41\00:35:46.74
as you read from
Genesis to Revelation.
00:35:46.78\00:35:50.91
It's simply that
we just talked about
00:35:50.95\00:35:52.41
that the righteous
are protected by God
00:35:52.45\00:35:56.48
in so many different
ways, the righteous are, what?
00:35:56.52\00:36:00.39
Protected by God.
00:36:00.42\00:36:02.39
So see if we're going
through all kind of issues,
00:36:02.42\00:36:04.89
maybe you
forfeited that protection,
00:36:04.93\00:36:07.56
that strength, that
closeness, that would develop
00:36:07.60\00:36:11.40
as our
relationship develops together.
00:36:11.43\00:36:14.44
I'm thankful that we
have a God again in heaven,
00:36:14.47\00:36:17.67
they'll send those angels
to help us and to encourage us
00:36:17.71\00:36:20.91
and let you know that
you are worth something.
00:36:20.94\00:36:24.31
You are worth something,
you are worth regardless
00:36:24.35\00:36:27.45
how you feel about yourself,
you're worth all of heaven,
00:36:27.48\00:36:30.79
you're worth the
life of Jesus Christ.
00:36:30.82\00:36:33.36
Think about that.
00:36:33.39\00:36:34.86
How can you put a price on that?
00:36:34.89\00:36:37.33
Jesus came down.
00:36:37.36\00:36:39.29
New Testament
quickly, Romans Chapter 5,
00:36:39.33\00:36:41.63
time's going by rather quickly.
00:36:41.66\00:36:43.43
Romans Chapter 5,
00:36:43.47\00:36:45.80
I'd like to read all the verses,
00:36:45.83\00:36:47.17
I can't do it,
but if you will do it,
00:36:47.20\00:36:49.60
it will be a blessing to you.
00:36:49.64\00:36:50.97
I know that
we'll get to the first
00:36:51.01\00:36:52.67
and maybe the last.
00:36:52.71\00:36:54.04
And Romans 5, read
verses 1 and then 8.
00:36:54.08\00:36:58.25
Remember, we
need to read them all
00:36:58.28\00:37:00.42
if time were
permitting we could do that
00:37:00.45\00:37:02.32
'cause there are all so good.
00:37:02.35\00:37:03.99
Romans Chapter, what?
00:37:04.02\00:37:05.75
Five, good.
00:37:05.79\00:37:07.86
And read verse 1
right now. Ready?
00:37:07.89\00:37:10.13
It says,
"Therefore being justified
00:37:10.16\00:37:12.03
by," what?
00:37:12.06\00:37:13.40
"By faith, we
have peace with God
00:37:13.43\00:37:16.36
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:37:16.40\00:37:18.03
Do you see the
promise that's there?
00:37:18.07\00:37:20.30
Do you see what is it?
00:37:20.34\00:37:21.67
Being what?
00:37:21.70\00:37:23.04
Being justified by
faith, being made right,
00:37:23.07\00:37:25.71
getting your life right,
00:37:25.74\00:37:27.78
being covered by
the blood of the Lamb,
00:37:27.81\00:37:29.58
having your sins forgiven
is what it says right here,
00:37:29.61\00:37:32.25
then you have peace.
00:37:32.28\00:37:33.95
Many people don't have peace
00:37:33.98\00:37:35.32
and go through what
they're going through
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.69
because they
don't have that peace.
00:37:36.72\00:37:38.72
They've not been justified
by the blood of the Lamb,
00:37:38.75\00:37:41.72
only those who've experienced it
00:37:41.76\00:37:43.12
can understand it
and talk about it.
00:37:43.16\00:37:45.66
Oh, by the blood
of the Lamb justified,
00:37:45.69\00:37:47.83
we have this peace that
the world's looking for.
00:37:47.86\00:37:51.93
That's wonderful to realize.
00:37:51.97\00:37:53.47
Verse 8, just skip it on
down, can't read them all.
00:37:53.50\00:37:55.47
Verse 8, the Bible
said in Romans 5:8,
00:37:55.50\00:37:59.34
"But God commendeth
His love toward us..."
00:37:59.37\00:38:02.31
Oh, I love this
00:38:02.34\00:38:04.05
"In that, while
we were yet sinners,
00:38:04.08\00:38:07.42
Christ died for us."
00:38:07.45\00:38:10.49
He is showing us
His love, didn't He?
00:38:10.52\00:38:13.36
He said I'm showing you
my love, when you don't...
00:38:13.39\00:38:16.69
You said, you didn't love me,
00:38:16.73\00:38:18.43
when you didn't
want to serve me,
00:38:18.46\00:38:19.79
when you was doing everything
you possibly could against me,
00:38:19.83\00:38:22.80
I loved you and I
went to Calvary for you.
00:38:22.83\00:38:25.77
That's awesome.
00:38:25.80\00:38:27.74
You can't get a
friend to do that.
00:38:27.77\00:38:29.54
There's nobody in the
world that won't do that.
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.64
Only Jesus will do that.
00:38:31.67\00:38:33.48
Think about it.
We're justified with Him.
00:38:33.51\00:38:36.44
God commended His love
while we were yet sinners,
00:38:36.48\00:38:39.15
Christ died for us.
00:38:39.18\00:38:41.02
How awesome that is.
00:38:41.05\00:38:43.28
Now what does that mean?
00:38:43.32\00:38:44.65
Well, we've read it,
00:38:44.69\00:38:46.02
we've talked
about it a little bit,
00:38:46.05\00:38:47.39
but what does that really mean?
00:38:47.42\00:38:49.12
I found these little
articles, letter 329A.
00:38:49.16\00:38:53.06
Letter 329A written
in 1905, notice this.
00:38:53.09\00:38:58.53
I like it 'cause it
kind of poses a question.
00:38:58.57\00:39:00.20
It begins, "If Christ
gave his life to save sinners,
00:39:00.24\00:39:04.11
why shall I not
take that blessing?"
00:39:04.14\00:39:07.91
God's offered me a
blessing of eternal life,
00:39:07.94\00:39:10.45
shed His blood, paved the
way, why shouldn't I take it?
00:39:10.48\00:39:14.38
See by not taking it,
then we open ourselves
00:39:14.42\00:39:16.62
to the things of this
world, and the depression,
00:39:16.65\00:39:18.82
and the anxiety, and the
mess that's in this world.
00:39:18.85\00:39:23.16
When we take Christ in,
He fights our battle for us,
00:39:23.19\00:39:26.09
He gives super human strength,
and knowledge, and wisdom,
00:39:26.13\00:39:30.07
and victory that
only God can give.
00:39:30.10\00:39:33.44
Man, this is what
we needed in this life,
00:39:33.47\00:39:34.94
we can't do it on our own.
00:39:34.97\00:39:37.84
Notice, the article
goes on "My faith...
00:39:37.87\00:39:40.78
Your faith, grasp it,
00:39:40.81\00:39:42.94
and thus my faith
00:39:42.98\00:39:44.51
is the substance
of things hoped for,
00:39:44.55\00:39:47.78
and the evidence
of things," what?
00:39:47.82\00:39:49.78
"Not seen or unseen..."
00:39:49.82\00:39:51.52
That's the faith
chapter, Hebrews 11:1.
00:39:51.55\00:39:55.82
It's beautiful.
00:39:55.86\00:39:57.36
Notice this, what happens in.
00:39:57.39\00:39:58.73
The article goes on and said,
"Thus resting and believing,
00:39:58.76\00:40:03.43
I have peace with God
through the Lord Jesus Christ."
00:40:03.47\00:40:07.24
This is what we're
looking at in the study.
00:40:07.27\00:40:09.27
We're looking for peace,
00:40:09.30\00:40:10.77
we're looking to be able
to rest, we're looking...
00:40:10.81\00:40:13.07
And it simply
says, we need to believe
00:40:13.11\00:40:15.24
in those things that
He has said in His Word.
00:40:15.28\00:40:17.28
Believe, take them by faith,
00:40:17.31\00:40:19.31
grasp a hold of
not what you see,
00:40:19.35\00:40:21.68
but grasp of those
things that are unseen,
00:40:21.72\00:40:24.45
a heavenly things.
00:40:24.49\00:40:25.82
If you look at the world
and things in this world,
00:40:25.85\00:40:27.39
man, you're going to lose hope,
it's going to be discouraging.
00:40:27.42\00:40:31.66
Think about how
discouraging it is
00:40:31.69\00:40:33.03
to cast your eyes on
things of this world,
00:40:33.06\00:40:34.53
and try to base your
life, and your decisions
00:40:34.56\00:40:36.87
upon the mess that's
going on in this world today.
00:40:36.90\00:40:38.97
I need something higher,
00:40:39.00\00:40:40.60
I need something
that's more sure,
00:40:40.64\00:40:42.40
I need something
that's in the bank,
00:40:42.44\00:40:44.01
or you know what
I'm talking about here.
00:40:44.04\00:40:45.77
I need something
that I can count on,
00:40:45.81\00:40:47.24
and it's heavenly,
00:40:47.28\00:40:48.61
and I know that it's
heavenly and I need that.
00:40:48.64\00:40:53.28
The righteous right there,
00:40:53.31\00:40:54.65
there is promise they'll have...
00:40:54.68\00:40:56.02
Trying to do right,
you're going to have a peace,
00:40:56.05\00:40:58.02
nobody else understands.
00:40:58.05\00:40:59.39
How can you be so peaceful
in the midst of a storm?
00:40:59.42\00:41:01.79
Now also take note of this.
00:41:01.82\00:41:03.16
The Bible is very clear.
00:41:03.19\00:41:04.89
The reason people go through
00:41:04.93\00:41:06.29
some of the
things they go through
00:41:06.33\00:41:07.66
we maybe going through.
00:41:07.70\00:41:09.03
If we take our eyes off Christ,
00:41:09.06\00:41:11.43
Isaiah 58, it
is in Isaiah 58:22.
00:41:11.47\00:41:15.04
The Bible said,
"There is no peace,
00:41:15.07\00:41:18.11
saith the Lord to the wicked."
00:41:18.14\00:41:20.28
There is no, what? Peace.
00:41:20.31\00:41:22.31
There is no peace
saith the Lord to the wicked.
00:41:22.34\00:41:26.45
The wicked have no
peace, the wicked are shifty.
00:41:26.48\00:41:32.35
Hello?
00:41:32.39\00:41:34.99
They're always
shifting their eyes around.
00:41:35.02\00:41:39.73
They're always looking
around to see who's behind them,
00:41:39.76\00:41:43.83
who's beside of them,
whose hands in their pocket.
00:41:43.87\00:41:47.84
They're shifty.
00:41:47.87\00:41:49.87
There is no peace.
00:41:49.90\00:41:51.84
They can't sleep
unless they have iron bars,
00:41:51.87\00:41:53.74
you know, on their windows,
and they're carrying something.
00:41:53.78\00:41:58.41
They don't have the
peace that you have.
00:41:58.45\00:42:00.78
God's not directing their steps
00:42:00.82\00:42:02.28
because they don't want
God to direct their steps.
00:42:02.32\00:42:05.25
Having this precious peace.
00:42:08.89\00:42:13.46
See, I know, Oh,
Lord, have mercy.
00:42:13.50\00:42:16.87
I know I came into
this world with nothing
00:42:16.90\00:42:19.10
and I know that I'm
going to leave with nothing.
00:42:19.13\00:42:22.50
So I need not be
crying and carrying on
00:42:22.54\00:42:24.81
because things look like,
oh, you might lose something.
00:42:24.84\00:42:27.81
Remember, God will never take
anything from you that you need
00:42:27.84\00:42:31.31
that's good for you.
00:42:31.35\00:42:33.78
And if we are true to
Christ, we will not...
00:42:33.82\00:42:36.28
We have to leave
this world with nothing,
00:42:36.32\00:42:38.55
we can't take anything with us.
00:42:38.59\00:42:41.72
You can be buried
with whatever you have
00:42:41.76\00:42:43.56
in your money if you want,
00:42:43.59\00:42:44.93
it's not going
to do you any good.
00:42:44.96\00:42:47.93
You might say it
claimed to be high society,
00:42:47.96\00:42:52.23
that's not going
to get you anywhere.
00:42:52.27\00:42:53.67
You heard that song
00:42:56.71\00:42:58.04
no matter how high
in society they go,
00:42:58.07\00:43:00.78
no matter how
much money they pay,
00:43:00.81\00:43:04.68
when they close
their eyes in death,
00:43:04.71\00:43:07.08
they can only feel one grave.
00:43:07.12\00:43:10.95
Don't know if it's religious,
00:43:10.99\00:43:12.32
or of the world but those
words are worth chewing on.
00:43:12.35\00:43:15.32
Having this peace with God
00:43:19.53\00:43:21.66
helps calm this anxiety of life,
00:43:21.70\00:43:26.13
it eases the
pressure of everyday living.
00:43:26.17\00:43:29.37
I'm a believer, I don't
think I have my heads up
00:43:29.40\00:43:31.97
in the clouds and say,
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.34
I just love Jesus and
everything's going on.
00:43:33.38\00:43:35.34
God expects you to do your part.
00:43:35.38\00:43:37.51
You've got to be studying,
and praying, and believing,
00:43:37.55\00:43:40.18
and claiming these promises
00:43:40.22\00:43:41.65
when it seems like
there's no way it can work out.
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.85
You have to have
faith to believe God said,
00:43:43.89\00:43:45.99
I'm His child, He's
going to take care of me.
00:43:46.02\00:43:51.06
You realize a Spirit of Prophecy
00:43:51.09\00:43:52.43
talks about depression,
00:43:52.46\00:43:54.33
the Bible talks a
lot about depression.
00:43:54.36\00:43:57.57
One of the... One of
the men... Well, you know...
00:43:57.60\00:43:59.33
Elijah after his big
meeting there on Mount Carmel,
00:43:59.37\00:44:06.14
after all that
seen what God had done
00:44:06.17\00:44:08.08
in marvelous
ways, God was present,
00:44:08.11\00:44:11.61
God was victorious, he
left in a depression...
00:44:11.65\00:44:17.89
'Cause a woman threatened him,
00:44:17.92\00:44:19.75
I think it
wasn't some like queen.
00:44:19.79\00:44:23.79
Isabelle coming after him.
00:44:23.83\00:44:25.16
Jezebel. Jezebel.
00:44:25.19\00:44:28.43
He was depressed.
But you know what?
00:44:28.46\00:44:31.40
He didn't stay
depressed, there's a difference.
00:44:31.43\00:44:35.37
You might slip into
something for a moment
00:44:35.40\00:44:37.24
because of circumstances,
but then He came out.
00:44:37.27\00:44:39.74
Read that in 1 Kings 18
and 19 about this what went on
00:44:39.77\00:44:45.08
and see if that's
not what I'm telling you
00:44:45.11\00:44:46.82
the truth right now.
00:44:46.85\00:44:48.38
You can look it up
in Spirit of Prophecy,
00:44:48.42\00:44:50.52
in Prophets and Kings,
00:44:50.55\00:44:52.25
page 161 through 166.
00:44:52.29\00:44:57.79
Once you listen carefully
to this couple of lines here,
00:44:57.83\00:44:59.86
it's very...
00:44:59.89\00:45:01.70
If why this battle must
be fought and it must be won.
00:45:01.73\00:45:06.94
The enemy's craft,
that which he does,
00:45:06.97\00:45:11.01
which he tries to put in
our way is most successful,
00:45:11.04\00:45:14.91
his work on me, maybe you,
00:45:14.94\00:45:17.75
is used mostly successfully
00:45:17.78\00:45:20.02
against those who are depressed.
00:45:20.05\00:45:23.08
He can work his
workers most successful
00:45:28.06\00:45:32.33
on those whom are depressed.
00:45:32.36\00:45:37.63
Because when we
are in that situation
00:45:37.67\00:45:40.07
and probably everyone
has been at different times,
00:45:40.10\00:45:42.24
so I'm not
trying to point a finger
00:45:42.27\00:45:43.61
at anything or anybody,
we're looking for a way out,
00:45:43.64\00:45:45.51
we're looking to climb out.
00:45:45.54\00:45:48.44
We're looking for a way
here that the enemy says
00:45:48.48\00:45:50.88
when you're that way,
00:45:50.91\00:45:52.25
you've taken your
eyes off of Christ,
00:45:52.28\00:45:53.95
you're not claiming
any promises of the Word,
00:45:53.98\00:45:56.05
you're not praying,
you're not studying,
00:45:56.08\00:45:57.52
you're not going to services,
you're not going to church,
00:45:57.55\00:45:59.89
you're not singing,
00:45:59.92\00:46:01.26
you're not doing anything right,
00:46:01.29\00:46:03.29
and how we going
to get out of it?
00:46:03.32\00:46:05.39
We the enemy has us to
where we cast off our only help.
00:46:05.43\00:46:11.00
Did you get it?
00:46:11.03\00:46:12.60
The only help that we
have when we get depressed
00:46:12.63\00:46:15.27
and our mind
becomes close, we cast off,
00:46:15.30\00:46:18.04
how many has fall into a
well and there's no way out,
00:46:18.07\00:46:21.01
somebody throws you a rope,
00:46:21.04\00:46:22.54
takes the rope and throws aside,
00:46:22.58\00:46:23.91
say, I don't need it.
00:46:23.95\00:46:25.28
Well, give me that rope,
00:46:25.31\00:46:28.12
I don't even care
who's holding the rope,
00:46:28.15\00:46:29.55
just give me the rope.
00:46:29.58\00:46:34.26
Don't let him be
successful on me or you.
00:46:34.29\00:46:38.03
Don't let him be successful.
00:46:38.06\00:46:41.26
What can we do?
00:46:41.30\00:46:42.63
We did have nine
minutes or so left,
00:46:42.66\00:46:44.00
I'm going to say this
00:46:44.03\00:46:45.37
don't anybody
get depressed here.
00:46:45.40\00:46:46.74
You'll get to eat,
everything will be fine.
00:46:50.31\00:46:52.91
But realize, this is
something that's deadly
00:46:52.94\00:46:55.94
and millions will
miss out on heaven
00:46:55.98\00:46:58.88
because they didn't
understand the issues
00:46:58.91\00:47:01.18
that continue to go on
the way they've been going.
00:47:01.22\00:47:04.12
There has to be a
change, they will be happy,
00:47:04.15\00:47:06.22
heaven will be happy,
the church will be happy,
00:47:06.25\00:47:08.42
the community will be
happy, the home will be happy.
00:47:08.46\00:47:11.79
You see, when we
come out of that,
00:47:11.83\00:47:14.40
and we live for Jesus.
00:47:14.43\00:47:15.76
So what can I do
00:47:15.80\00:47:17.13
if I've been
buffeted by the old enemy,
00:47:17.17\00:47:19.07
and I've become discouraged,
and I become depressed,
00:47:19.10\00:47:22.47
I become anxious.
00:47:22.50\00:47:25.27
Two Selected Messages,
00:47:25.31\00:47:27.51
page 242 and 243 makes
this comment, notice it.
00:47:27.54\00:47:31.55
Notice, when the
enemy has buffeted me,
00:47:31.58\00:47:33.82
and when he just
trying most wore me out,
00:47:33.85\00:47:35.85
when I don't think
I can take any more,
00:47:35.88\00:47:37.99
you know, what the council
here is in Spirit of Prophecy,
00:47:38.02\00:47:40.56
it says right
now, go right forward,
00:47:40.59\00:47:44.19
didn't say sit
down, just go head along.
00:47:44.23\00:47:47.90
Go right forward.
00:47:47.93\00:47:49.26
"Go right along, singing,
00:47:49.30\00:47:53.17
making melody to
God in your hearts,
00:47:53.20\00:47:56.17
even when depressed by
sense of weight and sadness
00:47:56.20\00:47:59.91
light will come,
and joy will be ours."
00:47:59.94\00:48:03.41
See, to me, that's exciting.
00:48:03.45\00:48:04.78
It will come.
00:48:04.81\00:48:06.15
You sing long
enough, you pray long enough,
00:48:06.18\00:48:08.78
you praise long enough, I
tell you, light will come,
00:48:08.82\00:48:12.79
and you will be eased up.
00:48:12.82\00:48:14.72
See, Paul knew
about this, did he not?
00:48:14.76\00:48:17.63
Paul knew about afflictions,
00:48:17.66\00:48:19.46
probably more than most men
will ever know besides Jesus.
00:48:19.49\00:48:23.67
Man, he knew about it.
00:48:23.70\00:48:25.03
You know, what he Paul
said about afflictions?
00:48:25.07\00:48:27.44
2 Corinthians 4:17-18,
quickly notice what he said.
00:48:27.47\00:48:32.17
He said, notice,
this man had been beaten,
00:48:32.21\00:48:34.54
and
shipwrecked, and then prison,
00:48:34.58\00:48:35.91
then treated as an outcast.
00:48:35.94\00:48:37.51
And where nobody seemed
like loved him, and wanted him,
00:48:37.55\00:48:39.71
and he had a message from God
00:48:39.75\00:48:41.15
and notice what
happened right here.
00:48:41.18\00:48:43.89
When he talked
about affliction, he said,
00:48:43.92\00:48:45.65
"For our light affliction."
00:48:45.69\00:48:51.03
When I went through
all that, somebody say,
00:48:51.06\00:48:52.43
what you went throughout,
I'd keep them all day long.
00:48:52.46\00:48:55.96
You can't believe what happened,
00:48:56.00\00:48:57.97
you can't believe
what I went through,
00:48:58.00\00:48:59.70
you can't believe this myth,
00:48:59.73\00:49:01.07
we need to be
very careful about that
00:49:01.10\00:49:02.44
that we never uttered...
00:49:02.47\00:49:03.81
I'll talk about that in
the moment if we have time.
00:49:03.84\00:49:06.01
But right now, Paul simply said
all that he had been through,
00:49:06.04\00:49:09.74
think about this
all he had been through,
00:49:09.78\00:49:11.41
he said, "Our light afflictions,
00:49:11.45\00:49:14.12
which is but for a moment..."
00:49:14.15\00:49:16.22
Right now, they seem like
they're just going on and on,
00:49:16.25\00:49:18.02
day after day, but Paul said
really in the scheme of right
00:49:18.05\00:49:20.99
eternal history of
this world, it's very quick,
00:49:21.02\00:49:24.69
"For just a moment,
00:49:24.73\00:49:26.06
worketh for us a more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory."
00:49:26.09\00:49:30.63
Verse 18, "While we look..."
00:49:30.67\00:49:32.70
Here we go again.
00:49:32.73\00:49:34.07
"While we look not at the things
00:49:34.10\00:49:36.07
which are seen..."
00:49:36.10\00:49:37.44
Those who are being depressed,
00:49:37.47\00:49:38.81
those who are
tired and worn out,
00:49:38.84\00:49:40.18
don't look at the
things that are present,
00:49:40.21\00:49:42.14
don't look at the situation,
00:49:42.18\00:49:43.51
don't look at the threatenings
of this person and that person,
00:49:43.55\00:49:45.88
what somebody is
going to do to you,
00:49:45.91\00:49:47.42
don't look at that,
that's what Paul saying here.
00:49:47.45\00:49:49.18
"Not at the things
that which are seen,
00:49:49.22\00:49:51.49
but at things
which are not seen."
00:49:51.52\00:49:53.59
That means the heavenly.
00:49:53.62\00:49:54.99
Look at the promises of God,
00:49:55.02\00:49:56.73
this is 'cause we
have to have faith,
00:49:56.76\00:49:59.06
we have to have faith.
00:49:59.09\00:50:00.66
"For the things..."
00:50:00.70\00:50:02.03
Notice, which he
explains it here.
00:50:02.06\00:50:03.40
"For the things, which
are seen are temporal,"
00:50:03.43\00:50:06.43
is what the Bible said,
00:50:06.47\00:50:07.80
"but the things
that are not seen," what?
00:50:07.84\00:50:09.57
"They are eternal."
00:50:09.60\00:50:10.94
We need to be
looking at eternal things.
00:50:10.97\00:50:13.48
Where are you headed today?
00:50:13.51\00:50:15.51
Where am I headed today?
00:50:15.54\00:50:18.35
We cannot live,
00:50:18.38\00:50:20.32
we cannot be moving
about on feelings and emotions.
00:50:20.35\00:50:24.85
Feelings and faith
were told over and over
00:50:24.89\00:50:27.96
are just as distant or distinct
as the east is from the west,
00:50:27.99\00:50:33.50
that's how far faith
and feelings are apart.
00:50:33.53\00:50:36.36
Faith is not
dependent on feelings,
00:50:36.40\00:50:39.97
it never has
been, it never will be.
00:50:40.00\00:50:42.57
So when we need
help, what do we do?
00:50:42.60\00:50:44.71
We go to God in prayer.
00:50:44.74\00:50:46.07
I'm encouraging today.
00:50:46.11\00:50:47.44
If you need help,
go to God in prayer.
00:50:47.48\00:50:49.48
And then get off of your knees,
00:50:49.51\00:50:50.85
and then you go
live out that prayer.
00:50:50.88\00:50:53.42
This is where you
put it into action.
00:50:53.45\00:50:56.38
I'm praying that
God will help me,
00:50:56.42\00:50:57.75
get over depression,
00:50:57.79\00:50:59.12
but I'm gonna stay right
here in this little midst,
00:50:59.15\00:51:00.49
I'll keep my head
down, I'm not going to...
00:51:00.52\00:51:01.86
Listen, I feel for
that, I understand that
00:51:01.89\00:51:04.29
'cause all of us have
felt like that at times,
00:51:04.33\00:51:06.36
I've had my head down at times,
00:51:06.39\00:51:07.86
and you understand what
you're talking about here.
00:51:07.90\00:51:10.03
But I found out
that you lift your head,
00:51:10.07\00:51:12.03
your redemption draweth nigh.
00:51:12.07\00:51:13.60
You look up
because Jesus is there,
00:51:13.64\00:51:16.04
you focus on the eternal,
00:51:16.07\00:51:17.81
not what's going
on in the world today,
00:51:17.84\00:51:20.21
and God's going to help us.
00:51:20.24\00:51:23.24
And when you finish
asking, what do you do?
00:51:23.28\00:51:25.61
Live them out,
00:51:25.65\00:51:27.38
live out those that
prayer that you just prayed,
00:51:27.42\00:51:29.98
get up and go about it,
00:51:30.02\00:51:31.62
about your father's business
and you watch how it change.
00:51:31.65\00:51:34.42
Dart a prayer into heaven,
sing a song, go help somebody,
00:51:34.46\00:51:38.43
go walk the dog,
go walk yourself,
00:51:38.46\00:51:41.26
do something to get
out of what just put you
00:51:41.30\00:51:43.30
maybe in that mess
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.73
because that's
one of God's plans.
00:51:44.77\00:51:47.17
Little exercise,
eating right kind of...
00:51:47.20\00:51:48.90
Having right kind of diet food.
00:51:48.94\00:51:52.21
I'll say this quickly
right here, every dark thought,
00:51:52.24\00:51:56.04
every selfish thought.
00:51:56.08\00:51:58.75
Think about this.
00:51:58.78\00:52:01.12
Every doubt must
be guarded against,
00:52:01.15\00:52:05.55
any time the
enemy wants you to come
00:52:05.59\00:52:07.09
and start doubting the
promises of God's word,
00:52:07.12\00:52:09.32
doubting this, doubting that,
these things, these doubts,
00:52:09.36\00:52:13.83
even though they
might come in your mind,
00:52:13.86\00:52:15.50
they are never to
be spoken out loud.
00:52:15.53\00:52:19.27
And look how often we do it.
00:52:19.30\00:52:21.40
God have mercy on
us. Think about it.
00:52:21.44\00:52:23.10
We're never to
be spoken out loud.
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.87
Be careful with these words
00:52:24.91\00:52:27.84
that will honor
the powers of darkness.
00:52:27.88\00:52:34.02
But please, remember today.
00:52:34.05\00:52:38.19
Jesus tells, especially this
is such a beautiful promise.
00:52:38.22\00:52:41.79
He said, when you're lonely,
00:52:41.82\00:52:43.16
when you feel a
little depressed,
00:52:43.19\00:52:45.53
when you're in pain,
00:52:45.56\00:52:47.13
when the sorrow is
knocking at your door,
00:52:47.16\00:52:49.50
there's doubt
that's jumping all around,
00:52:49.53\00:52:51.60
just the famous, you say,
00:52:51.63\00:52:54.17
scriptures in the
Word of God in John 14:18,
00:52:54.20\00:52:57.91
notice, Jesus says,
simply says "I will not."
00:52:57.94\00:53:03.04
I will not, what?
00:53:03.08\00:53:04.41
"I will not leave
you or forsake you."
00:53:04.45\00:53:08.88
Regardless of how far
down, He said I will not.
00:53:08.92\00:53:11.82
He keeps His promises.
00:53:11.85\00:53:13.72
He will not, we leave Him.
00:53:13.76\00:53:17.46
We leave him there, he
is right there at the door.
00:53:17.49\00:53:19.26
There is our help.
00:53:19.29\00:53:21.46
Man, if you're starving to death
00:53:21.50\00:53:22.83
and somebody comes up
with a bag of groceries,
00:53:22.86\00:53:26.23
you don't throw the groceries
that person out, do you?
00:53:26.27\00:53:28.30
Say come on in, your
help is there, Jesus is there.
00:53:28.34\00:53:33.11
He said, "I'm not
going to leave you,
00:53:33.14\00:53:34.48
I won't forsake you."
00:53:34.51\00:53:35.84
Jesus is the living Savior.
00:53:35.88\00:53:37.55
He's the one that
fights the enemy for us,
00:53:37.58\00:53:40.55
He's the one that
fights the fog of doubt
00:53:40.58\00:53:42.58
that comes in our
mind from time to time.
00:53:42.62\00:53:45.59
He's the one that
brings the sunshine.
00:53:45.62\00:53:48.02
There is
sunshine in my soul today.
00:53:48.06\00:53:50.66
Why not praise Him,
00:53:50.69\00:53:52.03
even if you don't
feel like it today,
00:53:52.06\00:53:53.73
why not praise Him.
00:53:53.76\00:53:55.10
Philippians 4:4 says,
00:53:55.13\00:53:56.46
"Rejoice in the Lord
always and again I say rejoice."
00:53:56.50\00:54:01.64
Oh, it's so good.
00:54:01.67\00:54:03.00
If we serve and
praise the risen Savior,
00:54:03.04\00:54:05.84
then why not think
about this question
00:54:05.87\00:54:08.24
that asks us in Colossians 3:1.
00:54:08.28\00:54:12.21
"If ye then be
risen with Christ..."
00:54:12.25\00:54:14.88
Are we risen with Christ?
00:54:14.92\00:54:16.25
Those of you who are depressed,
00:54:16.28\00:54:17.62
those of you're going
through kind of mess right now,
00:54:17.65\00:54:19.09
you need to be
raised up in Christ Jesus.
00:54:19.12\00:54:21.82
If you'd be risen with Christ,
00:54:21.86\00:54:23.43
"Seek those
things which are," what?
00:54:23.46\00:54:25.76
"Are above, where Christ sitteth
00:54:25.79\00:54:27.66
on the right hand of God."
00:54:27.70\00:54:29.06
Man, that's good news to me.
00:54:29.10\00:54:32.03
This will bring us
out of that depression.
00:54:32.07\00:54:34.47
Read Isaiah
41:10, we cannot do that,
00:54:34.50\00:54:37.11
we cannot do that
because of our time.
00:54:37.14\00:54:39.34
Philippians 4:8, read
that when you have time.
00:54:39.37\00:54:42.58
I'm telling you,
it bring you peace
00:54:42.61\00:54:44.01
and bread and encouragement.
00:54:44.05\00:54:45.71
Now I tell you,
it'll enlighten you,
00:54:45.75\00:54:47.75
you'll have a peace,
you'll have an enjoyment.
00:54:47.78\00:54:49.88
Philippians 4:8,
"Finally, brethren,
00:54:49.92\00:54:51.85
whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
00:54:51.89\00:54:54.96
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,"
00:54:54.99\00:54:57.89
Philippians 4:8
"Whatsoever things are," what?
00:54:57.93\00:55:00.50
"Lovely, whatsoever
things are good report.
00:55:00.53\00:55:03.37
If there be any virtue,
if there be any praise,"
00:55:03.40\00:55:07.27
notice this,
"think on these things."
00:55:07.30\00:55:10.01
Oh, I'll tell you,
praise God for these promises,
00:55:10.04\00:55:12.51
sure results of following
God's plan are for us today.
00:55:12.54\00:55:16.61
His promises are
sure we know that.
00:55:16.64\00:55:18.85
And in so doing,
00:55:18.88\00:55:20.22
we become more than
conquerors through Jesus Christ.
00:55:20.25\00:55:22.88
Romans 8:37,
00:55:22.92\00:55:25.05
I'm going to
pray quickly right now
00:55:25.09\00:55:26.42
for you those who
made that decision
00:55:26.45\00:55:28.02
to come out of it right now.
00:55:28.06\00:55:29.39
Let's pray.
00:55:29.42\00:55:30.76
Merciful Father in heaven,
we thank You for Your Word,
00:55:30.79\00:55:32.66
powerful, powerful it is.
00:55:32.69\00:55:34.50
Bless each one that's made
that decision choice right now.
00:55:34.53\00:55:36.90
No more depression,
00:55:36.93\00:55:38.27
we're going to
follow Jesus all the way.
00:55:38.30\00:55:39.63
I thank you in
Jesus' name, amen.
00:55:39.67\00:55:43.24
As usual, we always thank God
for each and every one of you.
00:55:43.27\00:55:46.24
Thank you for your prayers,
thank you for your support.
00:55:46.27\00:55:48.08
Keep it up.
00:55:48.11\00:55:49.44
We want to keep
continue to go to the world.
00:55:49.48\00:55:50.81
We love you, and we look forward
00:55:50.85\00:55:52.18
to seeing you next time.
00:55:52.21\00:55:55.62
Hello and welcome back, friends,
00:55:55.65\00:55:57.65
"Gentle Ways to
Ease Depression."
00:55:57.69\00:56:00.82
Oh, I hope you were blessed,
00:56:00.86\00:56:02.49
I know, by these wonderful
promises in God's Word,
00:56:02.52\00:56:06.19
you can't help,
but be encouraged,
00:56:06.23\00:56:08.36
you can't help, but feel
God's presence and His blessing.
00:56:08.40\00:56:12.17
Sharing God's Love,
What the Bible Says.
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This is program
number 8, it's 8 out of 25.
00:56:15.14\00:56:19.37
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00:56:22.01\00:56:25.41
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00:56:25.45\00:56:26.92
all of those Bible promises,
00:56:26.95\00:56:28.85
take time with it,
put them in your Bible,
00:56:28.88\00:56:31.85
read them day by day,
begin to memorize them
00:56:31.89\00:56:34.86
because they're there for
you and they're there for me.
00:56:34.89\00:56:37.43
We can drink and we
can eat of the Word of God
00:56:37.46\00:56:40.56
and be lifted up
far above depression,
00:56:40.60\00:56:44.50
far above depression.
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00:57:08.36\00:57:10.53
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00:57:13.50\00:57:16.93
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Friends, until next
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00:57:48.93\00:57:52.13
continue to lift
you out of depression
00:57:52.17\00:57:55.64
and richly bless you and yours.
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