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How To Win Over Depression Part 2

December 22, 2020

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How To Win Over Depression Part 2

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Creflo: Number two, secondsymptom of depression:
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a passive mind.
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A passive mind.
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In other words, mattersof life are unimportant,
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just--we used to call itthe I-don't-care attitude.
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Matters of lifejust not important.
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Your--is not important toyou, so instead of thinking
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progressively or aggressively,instead of desiring to learn and
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to do more, you don't careenough about anything
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to reach out.
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You have that I-don't-careattitude.
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You could care less if the sunrose or if the moon came
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out or if the kitchen gotcleaned up or not or,
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you know, if rats ranall over your bed.
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"I don't care."
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Now, to have a good and ahealthy mind you gotta tell
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your mind what to think.
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You have to--I lovewhat the Scripture says.
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"Soul, bless the Lord."
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You have to do that sometime,and especially when you're going
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through depression you gottaspeak to yourself in psalms
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and spiritual songs.
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If you don't renew your mind,then it's gonna be a wild mind
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capable of thinkinganything you want to think.
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And with the help ofthe internet and all
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of the technology you have,you cannot only think it,
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but you can download visualpictures and videos and create
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this world that is creating youand making you the--less than
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the person God wanted you to be.
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So, a passive mind is asymptom of depression.
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Well, when I used to sit downin places and have to determine
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whether or not a personwas going through this,
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these were the questions.
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The questions were designed toask about these things so that
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I can get the informationI need,
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so I can begin to set upa medical plan to attack it.
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And most people had no idea.
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They just thought,"Well, that's just how I am."
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No, nobody is just like that.
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When people tell you,"Oh, that's just how I am,"
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no, you're not just like that.
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You're just making an excusefor ignoring the reasons
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why you are that way.
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And so, a guy who beats upwomen,
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there's a reason for that.
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There's a very, very real reasonfor why you would beat a woman
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up and why you will continue todo it and why you are dangerous,
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because you don't even knowwhy you're doing what you do.
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These are real things.
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These are things that I'vechosen to teach on these next
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couple of months because youneed to understand the realities
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that a person who cannot controlhis emotions is gonna be
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outta control and try to controlother people.
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Here is the third symptomof depression:
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it's when you amplifyor magnify difficulties.
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A person who magnifiesa difficulty,
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or he turns a conditioninto a problem.
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There is a issue there,but it's not a big thing.
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A guy who's going throughdepression will take that
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little thing and make it likeit's the biggest thing ever,
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and you're like--you're looking like,
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"Okay, it's fine."
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And, I mean, they'll amplify itto a point where they'll be
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in tears and crying over it,and you're like, "Really?
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Calm down."
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"Yeah, but they just shoulda putthe top on the toothpaste,
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and it's just--"
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Whoa.
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You follow what I'm saying?
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If it is a mole hill,this person will make it
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into a mountain.
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Let's say, for example,a husband turns to his wife,
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and he looks at his wife,and he doesn't smile at her.
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And she just--because she's depressed,
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she says, "You know, oh, my God.
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You're mad at me."
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"Why would you say that?"
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"'Cause you turned whilewe were in the movies,
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looked at me, you didn't smile,and I've got--"
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Are you all understandingwhat I'm saying?
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And that may freak you out,but it's to let you know that
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there are these thoughts thathave been weighing heavy
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upon that person.
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It's so internalized thatit's causing them to feel
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a certain way and display theseparticular symptoms.
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What I'm trying to do is toremove the phoniness away from
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your religion and allow you tosee reality of what's going on
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with you, and to know that Jesushas redeemed you from this,
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and to take what we said atthe beginning of this teaching,
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use it, and find yourselffree from it.
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But a lotta times Christiansdon't wanna do that.
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Immediately, somebody will termwhat you're going
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through the devil.
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"Well, that's the devil.You're demon-possessed."
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No, that's you taking a thoughtand keeping it, nourishing it,
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and building it up, and now it'sdetermining how you feel.
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And so, somebody say,"What is the devil?"
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Well, he was probably somewhereout there when you were exposing
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yourself to stuff and creatingthe circumstances and the
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situations, and he done,'cause he can't--
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everything elseis left up to you.
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You expose yourself to it.Now you start thinking it.
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Can't let it go.
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It starts how you feel.He already know.
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He knows the anatomy of lifeand if you're gonna find him
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anywhere, he's out here.
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You see this commercialwhere the little insurance guy,
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he walks around, and he callshis self the--Mayhem.
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That's him.That's him.
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He's Mayhem, and he's outthere trying to do the mayhem,
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and what I need you tounderstand is regardless
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of what happens your reaction iswhat's gonna determine
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your emotional response.
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So, if you decide,"This is mayhem,
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but I'm not gonna react to itnegatively," then you won't get
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a negative emotion.
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But if you have situationsthat happen and you react to it
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negatively, knowing you have theright to decide how you're gonna
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act to it, then if you reactnegatively you're gonna have
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a negative emotional responsethat comes from how you react.
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That's how that works.
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That's how that works,and I just want you to know
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how stuff works.
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Yes, there are lots ofScriptures you can apply
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to everything that I'm saying,but I need to,
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before Jesus come back, let youknow that there is an anatomy
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in how things work, and it'sjust not so simplified as,
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"That's the devil, and that'sGod," especially when God has
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made you free moral agentsand given you the authority
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to master life, and you'rebeing mastered by life.
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Thank you.
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Where is the jerkingon that one?
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Mm.Thank ya.
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Amen.
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There are some people who areso religious when wisdom
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is being released and right nowI'm trying to explain wisdom
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to people.
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You know some people getoffended 'cause I don't use
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ten Scriptures to say that?
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I've got plenty of Scripturesto say that,
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but you need to understandthat so that when I read
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the Scripture you understandingwhat you're reading.
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That make sense?
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All right, let's look at the--there are lots of symptoms,
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but these are the four majorones I thought would be
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the most useful.
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But here is the fourth one--and then, let me close
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with this statementon that last one.
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Be so happy that whatsomeone does or says about you
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won't--you won't even notice it.
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You'll be so focused in on theWord of God that what they do
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or say you won't even notice it.
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So, number four:lack of concentration.
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Lack of concentration.
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When your mind starts wanderingfrom subject to subject like
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a bird hopping from onebranch to the next branch,
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watch out.
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That's a clear symptom.
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See, when you can't stay withyour job or sit down in the
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house and talk with your family,the devil has taken advantage
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of you and of your life.
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You should be capable ofthinking about anything
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as long as you wanna thinkabout it and not saying,
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"Well, you know, I got ADD.I can't think about it."
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No, you have authority,and you've got to know
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you have authority, and yougotta think about--"
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Well, you know, I--my attentiondon't last long."
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Stop talking yourselfinto stupid stuff.
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You have authority.
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Lemme show you this.
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2 Timothy 1:7 says you havebeen given what kind of a mind?
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Turn to it.
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2 Timothy 1:7.
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That's what you tell yourself.
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When the enemy come tells you,you can't concentrate,
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and you lack concentrate, don'tlet somebody give it a technical
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name or diagnose you a name,and then you go around
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and you accept the name,and then you start saying,
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"This is how I am."
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That's how they dowith horoscopes.
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"I'm a Scorpio."You ain't no doggone Scorpio.
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"I'm an Aquarius."Don't let people do that.
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"Oh, you're an Aquarius.
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I shoulda known you wasan Aquarius just
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how you handled that situation.
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That's what Aquariuses do.
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They handle it."
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You don't know me.
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You better practice thatwitchcraft somewhere else.
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It ain't working on me.
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You don't know me.
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I'm not an Aquarius.I'm a Christian.
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All right, so check it out.
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[laughing]
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"You're a Pisces.
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Pisces and Aquariuses, theydon't go together good y'all."
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Stop all that.
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Don't buy into stuff, man.
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Don't but into that.
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Look what he says here.
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"For God has not given usthe spirit of fear," right?
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So, listen.
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What you--God doesn't give youa spirit of fear.
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If you have ever had fear, it'snot coming from God, all right?
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But what has he given you?
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Come on.
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What has he given you?
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And what else?
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If there's one thing you can besure about: God has given you
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a sound mind.
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If it is not appearingto be sound, resist it.
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Resist that thing that tries tocontradict what God's given you.
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You have a sound mind.
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Have you ever been ina situation where you're like,
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"I can't think of something.I'm forgetting this"?
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And it just automaticallycomes out of you,
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"I got a sound mind.
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I got a sound mind," andeventually it comes together,
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because you're resistingthose temptations to agree,
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well, however your mindmight be acting at the time.
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"I have a sound mind.I have a sound mind.
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I have--"I would put things--I don't know if you ever done
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this before, but when I used towear my glasses all the time,
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I used to be walkingaround looking for my glasses,
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and they was right on my face.
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Or I was talkingon the telephone.
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My wife one time, she justcracked up laughing,
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and I was talking.
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She said, "What you doing?"
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I said, "I'm lookingfor my phone."
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She said, "Well, whatyou talking on right now?"
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I said, "Okay, bye."
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And I got a sound mind.I have a sound mind.
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I have a sound mind.I have a sound mind.
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You know, my son would--you know, I have to stop him
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when he talking about,"You getting old."
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And I'm like, "Brah, lemmetell you something.
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Lemme tell you somethingright now.
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That ain't a part of my--ain't nothing rusty, you know?"
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And then, he start calling meRusty.
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And that's 'cause, when I wouldstand up, my knees make
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a lotta noise.
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I said, "Brah," I said,"lemme tell you something.
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You better hope you look like mewhen you get my age, boy.
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That's what you better do.You ought to ask the Lord."
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What are you talking about old?
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That ain't nowherein our vocabulary.
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Ain't that right, Pastor Ken?
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There ain't no old in no--we--and that won't be
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in our--and that won't bein our 'cabulary even
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for the next 30 years.
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It ain't gonna bein our 'cabulary.
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It ain't happening.
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It's not gonna happen.
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We're working on it right now.
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We're working on being ableto come out--
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30-some--be 87--at 87.
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And what's up?What's up?
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And we're not--just thatain't gonna happen.
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Listen, if that happens,we need to just quit.
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That ain't pleasant to listento or look at.
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"Turn to your Bible.Turn to your Bible.
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What did I say?"
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I ain't doing that.It's just time to stop.
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I ain't doing it if I can'tstill have a pep in my step
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and here is the thing about it:you gotta believe God
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to start working on that now.
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You don't wait till you--Oral Roberts told me this
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before he went on to bewith the Lord.
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He said you can't waittill you're old
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before you start working onnot being old.
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And if you don't tell peoplethat, they won't work on it.
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There are certain things I can'tput in my body as I age no more.
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Refined sugar is one of 'em.
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Can't do it no more.Can't do it.
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It's like kryptonite, and ithelps in the aging process,
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and I have to make a choice,and the choice is real simple:
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that I don't wanna be a certainway, so I'm gonna have to do it.
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Well, somebody else will say,"Well, I'm gonna pray to Jesus,
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and he'll do that."
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Yeah, and I have known lotsof people who are now dead
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who said that.
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God will provide wisdom,and you--I love y'all so much.
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"No, the Bible says I'm just--you can pray over it."
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And, yes, you can.
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Yes, you can, but that body,according to the Word,
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is aging every day, so whatare you going to do to stop
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this natural built-in process?
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You can't worry all the time.
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You can't be depressedall the time,
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depression and worry andinternalizing all those things.
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Do you know the very word"depression" is exactly
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what's happening internally?
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Disease is exactlywhat's happening internally.
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Whatever is going onwith you emotionally,
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eventually transfers that samedistress into a natural
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physical thing, so you gottalearn how to pursue peace.
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You're not made to live a lifefull of depression.
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Depression and internalizedthoughts will set up
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a foundation for chronicdisease, sickness, inflammation,
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a huge outburst of cortisol,
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and all of this stuff thatjust makes your life miserable.
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And all that worryin' andstressed out that you're doin',
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and baby need a pairof shoes, and you're,
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"I gotta go, and I gottamake this--
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I gotta make this promotion."
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And you're staying up,and you're staying up late
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all the time, and you don'tthink that bothers you.
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You know, staying up late,working all night long,
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you know, that will causehigh blood pressure,
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and you got all kinds of issuesgoing on with blood flow,
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and you can have a heart attackbecause you ain't sleeping
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like you're supposed to sleep.
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"Well, I came hereto hear faith."
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I'm talking to you about faith,faith in what Jesus has already
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made available to you, faithand the provisions he's made
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available over depression,and choosing what he's made
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available over these otherthings that show up
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in your life.
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You don't have tochoose depression.
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You can choose your authorityover depression
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and use your faith to defeat itand keep it out of your life.
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It's your choice, amen?
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But I'm happy.I feel good.
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I'm excited about life.
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If a thought stays theretoo long, thank God for Taffi.
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She say, "Hey, how long youbeen thinking about that?"
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I say, "I've been thinkingabout it a little bit."
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"Let it go.
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Let it go," and we got thisother thing we do.
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She does this thing.
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Like, you know, just out ofthe blue she like, "Whoo!"
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And I'm like, "What you doing?"
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She'll do stuff like,"We made it."
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And it just kinda cracks me upwhen she does that,
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so we have ways to kinda jerkyou out of it,
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'cause you know you can go homeand you can get some bad news
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or a bad situation, and it willsettle in your mind,
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and you won't even know you'respending all that time
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sitting there in a dazethinking about that thing.
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And you can't do that.
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That's why God gave youhis Word.
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Think on his Word day and night.
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Meditate in his Wordday and night.
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Replace that thoughtwith something else.
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Instead of going to bed worryingabout this or that or this or
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that, purposely pick you someScriptures to go to sleep on.
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Choose some Scriptures to goto bed with and choose some
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Scriptures to wake up with, andthen you go to bed with 'em
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that night, and you rise upearly in the morning.
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That's how you do itday and night.
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Are you understandingthe practical approach
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to dealing with this?
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Now, you know, my Wednesdaynight class I can talk
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like this.
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You know I can't do this Sunday.
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People, you know, they're like,
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"You know, dude, what youtalking about, you know?
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I got to go."
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I came here to--so I gotta get a little--
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put a little sugar on the sermonon Sunday.
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Are y'all followingwhat I'm saying now?
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All right, so now let's goto another part of this.
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Of course, the effects.
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Those are just the natural ones,but, in other words,
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what depression willactually do.
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Many times, depressionwill steal your ambition.
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It will steal your ambition,number one.
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Number two, it will preventyou from participating
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in the activities thatyou should be enjoying,
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activities that bring joyand strength into your life.
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Stealing your ambition.
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Preventing you fromparticipating in activities
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that you should be enjoying.
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Depression is an enemyof your happiness
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and an enemy of your success.
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Why?
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Why would the enemy wantdepression in your life?
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It is an enemy to your success.
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Gosh, don't ever forget that,and so every time it comes over,
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"This is an enemy to my success.
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Depression is an enemyto my success.
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These thoughts that are weighingheavily upon me and
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entering into my heart, this isan enemy to my success,
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and I won't put up with enemiesto my success."
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Again, what is success?
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It's fulfilling--it's discovering and fulfilling
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the will of God for your life.
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Success is not the five carsand the four-level house.
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Success is discovering andfulfilling the will of God
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for your life, and depressionis an enemy to your success.
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I tell you that'swhat gets me stirred up,
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when I find out how Satan istrying to use these tools
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to stop me from doing whatGod's called me to do,
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so it's not just, "Oh, we cameand learned a lesson
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about depression.
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We can go and replacetherapists now."
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No, I'm trying to get you tounderstand that you have been
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designed by God, and therehas been a call on your life,
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and there is a purposefor your life,
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and there is somethingGod wants you to do,
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and the grace of God hasprovided finished works,
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and depression and emotionalinstability is trying
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to stop it all.
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So, you look at peoplethat you know,
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and you look at the issue,and you start looking at
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what I'm teaching you right now,you'll see that 90--
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over 90% of their issue is theycannot control their emotion.
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They cannot controlwhat they feel.
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They don't even know enough.
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They receive the symptoms.They live with the symptoms.
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They even go and pay a therapistor a doctor to tell them
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the name of the symptom,and then they tell everybody
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what's wrong with them.
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And what happensto the call of God?
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What happens to the will of Godfor their life?
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What happens to the impactthey're supposed to be making
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and the footprint thatGod has put in the earth?
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It's all been put on hold.
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I'm not gonna be depressed.
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I'm not gonna be depressedbecause I wanna see
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what's at the end of this.
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I'm not gonna be depressed'cause all of these wonderful--
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you know, Taffi calls himthe God of the surprise.
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I wanna encounter the God ofsurprise every place I go to,
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and I can't let depression stopme from achieving what God
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has put before me, so that's whyI'm gonna fight that good fight
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of faith against negativeemotions that are designed
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and sent to be an enemyto my success.
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I mean to tell you that got me.
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"An enemy to my success?"
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Okay, ultimately, yeah,it's the devil, you know,
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if you wanna say that, butI am showing you the everyday
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devil stuff that's the enemyto your success.
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I think about about the firsttime Creflo and I hosted
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that we had Christmas with ourgrandkids and just, you know,
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thanking God for the opportunityto be a part of all the things
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You know, it's all about familyand the extended family--being
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So instead of thinking aboutwhat you don't have, just begin
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And so be presentin the moment.
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This year may be different thanprevious years: safety concerns,
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It challenges us to be creative.
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