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>> Is your soul stirred up
this morning? Oh, that is so
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powerful. You know, when the
choir, 100-voice choir, by the
way, when the choir opened up
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right there at the beginning
with that piece or minister of
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music composed, "Holy, Holy,
Holy," and they just exploded
with that. Boy, I was just swept
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up imagining bowing in
the throne room of God and the
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10,000 times 10,000 angels
singing. Wow. You know what?
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I don't think it gets any better
than this. In fact, I'll tell
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you, this Feast of Hymns is my
favorite worship service of the
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entire year. >> Amen. >> Yeah,
amen, amen. And this is the 20th
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anniversary, and the man sitting
at that pipe organ right now,
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the console, designed this,
invented it and has kept it
going these 20 years,
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and I am so grateful
for him. Aren't you? Yeah.
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All our musicians,
this is just kind of a...
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I was going to say overdose, but
that's not the right word. This
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is just a high day for music in
this church, and we are blessed.
Speaking of mental health,
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and we've been talking about
it now for several Sabbaths in a
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row, the website for the
National Alliance on Mental
Illness has a headline that
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reads, "You are not alone."
And under that headline, three
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statistics. Let me run them by
you. One in five US adults
experiences mental illness
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each year.
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My. One in six US youth aged 6
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to 17, that's a narrow slice,
experiences a mental health
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disorder each year. And
the third one: One in 25
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US adults experiences serious
mental illnesses each year.
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You are not alone.
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Guess what. We got it. We
know it. Wall Street Journal,
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just a few weeks ago, on
the screen: "It is conventional
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wisdom that the interest, that
the Internet, rather, has been a
toxic force. Possibly the year's
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most astonishing news story was
that parents in Silicon Valley,
where online life was created,
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are trying to keep their
children away from the screens,"
that these parents invented.
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"Life lived online, as practiced
by many, is a destructive,
dehumanizing alt-reality,"
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end quote. To the place...Guess
what? They have coined a new
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mental illness with this term:
Snapchat dysmorphia. Ever heard
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of that? Listen to this. I'm
reading. "Plastic surgeons are
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sounding the alarm on a
disturbing trend that's emerged
with the growing popularity of
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social media: patients seeking
cosmetic surgery to resemble how
they see themselves in Snapchat
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filters." People are showing up
at the plastic surgeons. "I want
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bigger eyes. I want wider lips.
I want a narrower nose, please."
Researchers at the Boston
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University School of Medicine
wrote, I'm quoting again, "This
is an alarming trend
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because those filtered selfies
often present an unattainable
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look and are blurring the line
of reality and fantasy for these
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patients." So what's all this
have to do with Thanksgiving?
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Everything. I want to share with
you one line from scripture.
Open your Bible to Philippians 4
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where mental health and
Thanksgiving are inextricably
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bound together. Pull out your
device or your Bible,
Philippians 4. Drop down to
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verse 6. I'm in the NIV.
Philippians 4:6: "Do not be
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anxious." By the way, anxiety
disorders are the number one
mental health issue
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this Thanksgiving for Americans.
All right? "Do not be anxious
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about anything, but in
every situation, by prayer and
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petition, with thanksgiving,"
there's that word, "with
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thanksgiving, present your
requests to God." One short
line, embedded in it the quiet
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assurance that there is help for
our mental health issues. In
fact, let me read the two
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verses together. Go back
to the beginning of verse 6.
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"Do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation
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by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And," I keep
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reading, "And," hallelujah, "the
peace of God, which transcends
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all understanding, will guard
your hearts and your minds in
Christ Jesus." "God, I need
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something done with my mind, my
emotions." Here's one line, that
without oversimplifying
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the reality of what we suffer,
could be the key to fresh, new
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mental health. Thanksgiving,
thanks living, you know what?
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We've kind of sold that concept
short. I'm going to share with
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you an observation from a
psychiatrist, an Adventist
psychiatrist named Timothy
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Jennings. You may have heard of
him. He and his wife and Karen
and I and some others toured
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China together several years
ago. He's written a fascinating
book he shared with me.
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Here's the title of the
book, "The God-Shaped Brain: How
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Changing Your View of God
Transforms Your Life." Now
listen up. This is incredible.
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He shares the physiology of
what's going on behind mental
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health breakdown and mental
health turnaround, and I'm
really going to be stuck on my
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notes here because this is way
above my pay grade, but I want
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you to catch this. Put a
picture, please, on the screen
of the human brain. What's all
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this have to do with that brain?
Listen, that little 3-1/2-pound
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organ that's between all of our
ears, I want you to look how
Christ, the creator, because
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Jesus was the one who created
us, look how the creator has
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made us. The genes in our brains
produce a protein called BDNF.
I'll put that on the screen
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for you. What's that stand for?
Brain-derived, in other words,
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the brain makes it.
Neurotrophic, in other words,
that which is made assists
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the brain cells, or the neurons,
to grow stronger. Brain-derived
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neurotrophic factor, BDNF, and
the idea is, folks, you got to
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have the BDNF you can possibly
get. In fact, Jennings, Dr.
Jennings, calls it the brain's
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fertilizer. Let me put Jennings
on the screen for you. "When
this protein is available,
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the neurons that get it
grow stronger and send out more
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connections to other neurons,
increasing brain circuits," and
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that's the object of the game.
You want more and more of them.
"The brain even makes new
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neurons under the influence of
such proteins. With this protein
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available in the right-brain
regions," okay, up here, "we can
learn faster and easier."
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Now who wouldn't want that on a
campus like this, huh? Faster
and easier, keep reading.
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"When this protein and
other proteins like it are
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unavailable," however, uh-oh,
"the brain stops making new
neurons, and the neurons we have
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begin to wither and die." You've
got to have plenty of BDNF.
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Now fortunately, our creator,
Christ our Lord, when he created
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us, designed white supporting
cells that surround the neurons
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and protect them like a space
suit that an astronaut wears
when he's out space walking.
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These white supporting
cells bathe the neurons in rich,
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nutritional fluids that the
neurons like, including more
BDNF. So it just fosters more
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BDNF. However, the enemy,
who has taught the human race to
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fear... You say, "Dwight, we
just got that on our own." No,
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no, no, no, no. Somebody
injected it into us. I mean, the
Christ is, that evening,
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moving through the garden. He's
looking for... "Where are they?
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Where are my two kids? Yo, Adam,
where are you?" And Adam comes
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trembling out, and the creator
accosts him, "Why are you hiding
from me?" "Because I heard you,
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and I was afraid." "Fear?
Where did you hear about fear?"
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Somebody has injected the human
mind with fear to the place
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chronic fear and anxiety, listen
to this, "cause inflammation in
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the brain, and fear and
anxiety-induced inflammation
damages the white brain cells
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that protect and support the
neurons. And chronic stress
which is this famous
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fight-of-flight syndrome ends
up turning off the gene that
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produces BDNF." My fears and my
anxieties turn off the gene that
needs to make what I need most
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of all: BDNF. Are you
getting this? It's a big deal.
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"And once this gene is turned
off, brain volume begins to
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shrink causing chemical changes
which correlate with disorders
like major depression."
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That's the big headline with
mental health in this nation
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this year. It's depression. It's
what everybody is talking about,
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but God will not be bested by
that enemy, and I love this, as
Jennings writes on the screen,
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"The good news is that many
brain regions remain changeable
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throughout life thanks to a
condition called
neuroplasticity. As we exercise
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healthy neural circuits, these
circuits develop, strengthen and
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expand. Moreover," this
is great, "the brain prunes
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unhealthy circuits when we leave
them idle." So if we quit
accessing those unhealthy
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circuits up here for fear,
chronic fear, anxiety, we just
say, "No, I'm not going down
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that way," as we leave them
alone, the brain just comes
along and just...cleans them
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out. You catch that? God
can actually heal us of the
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inflammation in this organ.
What's that have to do with
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Thanksgiving? Everything.
Come on. Read it again.
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Don't miss this, please. Verse
6: "Do not be anxious about
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anything, but in every
situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving,
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present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding,
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will guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus." You want
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to guard your mind from unmental
health, unhealth? You want the
fresh new lease on mental
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health? We're going to close
with this, Dr. Timothy Jennings,
"I'm calling it a DIY,
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do-it-yourself guide, how to
thank your healer." It's in your
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worship bulletin. I need you to
pull it out because you're going
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to fill it in, and I know you're
going to keep these nine steps.
I've actually added a 10th.
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Let's go. In your
worship bulletin, number one,
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"Worship a God of love and
reject God-concepts that induce
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fear." It's a big killer, folks.
Fear is what's killing us. 1
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John 5:18, read it out loud with
me. "Perfect love drives out,"
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all what? "Drives out fear."
Drives out fear. Focus on this
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God of love. Number two, jot it
down. "Practice regular
meditation on some aspect
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of God's character of love at
least 15 minutes a day." Get
that number down: 15 minutes
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a day. We're reading
a book in our Grow Group
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which is also a House of
Prayer in the evening. It's Neil
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Anderson's book, "Victory Over
the Darkness," and I see that
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they're coming by. If you didn't
get one of these study guides,
hold your hand up. This is a
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take-homer. You're going to want
this, so as they're walking by
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your way, just raise your hand
at these great Pathfinders. Up
in the balcony as well.
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Those of you watching online, by
the way, you go to our website,
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if you're watching on television
right now, newperceptions.tv,
and you're looking for this
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teaching called "A DIY Guide:
How to Thank Your Healer." You
find that, and you'll
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have the study guide there.
All right. Number two, "Practice
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regular meditation on some
aspect of God's character of
love at least 15 minutes per
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day." So Anderson's book... This
is dynamite, "Victory Over The
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Darkness." He makes a huge
point. On the screen: "Because
Satan's primary weapon is the
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lie, your defense against him"
is the what? "Is the truth. When
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you expose Satan's lie with
God's truth, his power is
broken. We are not"...I love
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this. "We are not called to
dispel the darkness. We are
called to turn on the light.
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Deceiving spirits are
like cockroaches." You've seen
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cockroaches. Not up in the North
as much. Down South we got them
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and when I grew up on the island
of Singapore. This is the truth
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about cockroaches. Watch this:
"Deceiving spirits are like
cockroaches. They come out only
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at night," true, "and when you
turn on the light," guess what?
Boom, "they head to darkness."
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That's Anderson's point. Fifteen
minutes every morning, that's
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Jennings. Turn on the light
of God's truth, and by the way,
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where should I go for 15
minutes? Go to the life of
Jesus. "I am the light of the
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world," he says. You go
to his life, one story a day,
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15 minutes at a time, one
story. You can do a story in 15
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minutes. Just meditate on it. I
love this from Ellen White. By
the way, she agrees
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with Neil Anderson. Put her
words on the screen. "When the
enemy comes with his
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darkness," yep, we know, "sing
faith and talk faith, and you
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will find that you have sung and
talked yourself into the light."
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Hallelujah, yeah. Okay, jot it
down. Number three: "Be truthful
and eliminate falsehood
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of any kind from your mind."
Timothy Jennings again, "This is
particularly important
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for those" of you, those of us
"who have suffered abuse. Abused
children because of
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the level of brain development,
will misconstrue the meaning of
the abuse and will conclude
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typical falsehoods such as,
'I'm ugly. I'm gross. I'm nasty,
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dirty, disgusting and
unlovable.' While the facts of
history cannot be changed,"
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we can't eradicate that abuse in
your past, "the awful feelings
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once experienced belong to that
event in your past, not the
self. The appreciation of truth
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is healing." Let it
go. Don't believe the lie.
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Number four, jot it down. "Live
to give." Get involved in some
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sort of ministry, some sort of
volunteer opportunity wherever
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you live, on this campus.
Look, I meet every other Tuesday
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evening with nine undergrads,
okay? We call it the Collegiate
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Council. It's a huge help for
me. And I didn't set them up to
this, but I was just thinking
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as I was writing this: Every
single one of them, all nine of
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them, are involved on their own
initiative with volunteer
service opportunities on this
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campus. That's the secret to
mental health. Get out of your
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own cocoon. Get into the life of
somebody else. That's what he's
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saying. Number five, jot it
down. "Establish relationships
with people of loving
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and mature character, and
terminate destructive and
exploitive relationships."
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Come on, your dormitory deans,
your school counselors, the
00:31:16.94\00:31:22.68
psychologist, pastors are mature
individuals who, with
compassion, will care about you
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and offer counsel to grow and
improve your own mental health.
Number six, jot it down, please.
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"Trust God with your life and
your life's outcomes." What's
Jennings talking about?
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Jennings on the screen: "One of
the greatest sources of worry
and fear is trying to make,"
00:31:40.43\00:31:44.20
that's his emphasis, "trying
to make life turn out the way we
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want rather than simply choosing
what is right and trusting God
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with the outcome." And I got to
say this, and we have wonderful
00:31:52.74\00:31:55.41
parents here, and I had
wonderful parents, but sometimes
00:31:55.41\00:31:59.11
parents mistakenly transfer
their dream for their lives to
00:31:59.11\00:32:03.08
you as a child. They say,
"Listen, this is what you want
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to do. We know.
You're going to be great at
00:32:04.89\00:32:06.45
this. We just
have seen from the very
00:32:06.45\00:32:08.02
beginning."
Sometimes they're right.
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Sometimes they're
not. I watched a kid once.
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His folks were really pushing
hard to get him into med school,
00:32:11.66\00:32:14.73
and so he goes through
the whole shooting match
00:32:14.73\00:32:18.47
of preparing for med school
and its tough science classes,
00:32:18.47\00:32:22.07
and it just did not work out.
00:32:22.07\00:32:25.61
He then spun around and went the
way his heart was telling him,
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and he's a huge success story
today. It's when we try to force
ourselves into something that
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maybe is not God's will for me
that we get in trouble, right?
Okay, what was that, number six?
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Let's go to number seven. "Live
in harmony with the physical
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design protocol for life such as
regular sleep, drink plenty of
water, exercise mind and body
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regularly, avoid toxins and eat
a balanced diet." Number eight:
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"When mistakes are made, resolve
guilt as soon as possible.
Forgive those who mistreat you,
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and don't hold to anger or
judges as such emotions activate
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the body's inflammatory
cascade." "I'm not going to say
a word to him until that guy
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apologizes." "Until she
apologizes to me, I am not going
to change." But you're hurting
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yourself because you're
inflaming your brain with that
anger, with that chronic stress
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and fear and anxiety. You're
ruining yourself. Get off of it.
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Let it go. That's what
he's talking about. Number nine:
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"Resolve fear, as unremedied
fear truly destroys." We don't
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realize how debilitating fear
is. If you got fear issues going
on, talk to somebody.
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Come on. You don't
have to hang on to this.
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Talk to somebody. You
weren't made to live with that.
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You can be set free. I promise
you, but you got to talk,
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and I'm throwing in number 10,
no extra charge. Number 10:
"Wake up thankful."
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What's wrong with that? In fact,
I drove by Apple Valley on my
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way to church this morning, and
I pulled over and scribbled it
down. The sign on the marquee at
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Apple Valley right now, Apple
Valley Market: "Begin each day
with a grateful heart."
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Wake up grateful. From the
little classic "Ministry of
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Healing" on the screen for you,
this choice Thanksgiving nugget.
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Here it is. "When you open your
eyes in the morning, thank God
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that he has kept you through the
night. Thank Him for his peace
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in your heart. Morning, noon and
night, let gratitude, as a sweet
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perfume, ascend to heaven."
Morning, noon and night, wake up
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grateful. After all, what did
we just read? One more time: "Do
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not be anxious about anything,
but in every situation, by
prayer and petition,
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with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And the peace
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of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ
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Jesus." For wasn't it Jesus, on
the eve of his own execution...
Didn't Jesus say these words,
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"Peace, I leave with you"? "My
peace, I give to you," not as
the world of social media
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do I give to you. "Let not your
heart be troubled neither let it
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be" ...What's that word?
"Neither let it be afraid." Wow.
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I don't know about you, but this
Thanksgiving, you know what I'd
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like to say? Thank you, Jesus.
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>> For a few weeks now,
we've been inviting all of you
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to help us to feed the
needs in our community.
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So we now prepare for the
noisiest and most delightful
offering of the year,
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truly my favorite. So for our
processional offering, you're
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invited to bring your gifts of
food and song, your tithes and
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offering and your Thanksgiving
letters to the platform. Our
Pathfinders will be lined up
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right here in the front. You'll
see the baskets marked for those
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different types of gifts,
and you can just put it right in
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there. You'll pass your gifts of
food to the other Pathfinders on
the outside, and they'll
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place them on the stairs for us.
Perhaps you're wondering, "Man,
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I forgot my bag of nonperishable
foods," and you want to still
give. Well, take a tithe
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and offering envelope, put
some money in there, and note
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Thanksgiving, and we'll make
sure that it goes to feed some
needy families this season.
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Our deacons will dismiss you row
by row. Use the side aisles to
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come down in the center and wall
aisles to return back to your
seat. The words of the hymns
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will be on the screens, so while
you're bringing your offering,
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sing with us as we give thanks
to God for the rich blessings in
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our lives. い い
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>> And, oh, God, with that amen,
the celebration ends. Our hearts
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are full. We have freely and
joyfully lifted them to you in
gratitude. But, Father, we can't
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end this moment without
breathing a prayer for those
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who, in spite of the music,
struggle with darkness. For
weeks now, they've been
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on our hearts, on our minds.
They're young. They're not so
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young. They're here. They're not
here, but we collectively join
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together in humbly praying
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that the peace of God which
transcends understanding might,
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as a bright light, shine into
their minds, shine into their
emotions, shine into their very
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being, and let them know the
God of the universe has himself
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walked this way, experienced
this darkness and has achieved
the one victory that will set us
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all free. >> Amen. >> So whether
you do that now or you do it
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later, you win. >> Amen. >>
And we, in Christ, win as well.
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So we go home with courage. We
go home with hope. We go home
believing that this,
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too, shall pass. In Jesus' name,
let all the people say, "Amen."
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>> Amen. >> Amen. い
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[ Congregation sings ]
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>> We've been really
blessed by the financial support
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that comes from our viewers,
and we've made a conscious
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decision not to continually
appeal to you for that support.
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The fact is, as everyone in the
industry will tell you, we're
needing to make constant
00:57:18.00\00:57:21.74
upgrades to our technology. So
if God has blessed you, and
you'd like to further
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the work of this ministry, we
invite you to partner with us.
00:57:26.34\00:57:29.24
Not a single penny of your
donation will go to me. Every
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bit of your gift goes to the
mission of blessing your
community and our world.
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You can donate on our
website, newperceptions.tv,
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or call the number.
You know the number: 877
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-HIS-WILL. Again,
that number is 877,
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the two words: His Will.
And may the God who has blessed
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you continue to pour
into your life the gifts
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of his joy and his hope.
Thank you, and I'm looking
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forward to seeing you
right here again next time.
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