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Creflo Dollar
September 1, 2019
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How to Win Over Depression Part 3

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  • by the partners and friends of Creflo Dollar Ministries.
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  • Creflo Dollar: You must be cautious of what we're exposing
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  • ourselves to on a regular basis.
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  • Now, the abundance of technology available to us today gives us
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  • access to almost anything, but we need to expose ourselves
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  • to the Word of God.
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  • And when we saturate ourselves with God's Word,
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  • we keep negative emotions such as depression at bay.
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  • Now, there's a difference between managing depression
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  • and getting rid of it, and Jesus has given us the antidote
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  • to depression.
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  • over depression.
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  • Creflo: We've been talking about overcoming depression.
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  • We've really been talking about emotions,
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  • and we are on the emotion of depression,
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  • and we're going to spend some time tonight,
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  • talking about not only the effects of it
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  • but the causes of depression.
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  • And tonight, I want to begin in a place where I really,
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  • you know, I'm doing this over and over again,
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  • and I think it's a place that we really need to look at.
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  • I want to show you once again a Scripture that shows where Jesus
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  • actually dealt with it.
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  • If you go to Mark 14, verse 33 to 35 in the Amplified,
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  • because Hebrews 4:15 says, "Jesus was touched with the very
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  • feelings of our infirmities," and again,
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  • to show you what this is.
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  • Now, this whole deal is about emotions,
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  • and the fact that you are in charge of your emotions.
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  • Say out loud, "I am in charge of my emotions."
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  • all: I am in charge of my emotions.
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  • Creflo: Turn to your neighbor and say,
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  • "You are accountable for how you feel."
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  • all: You are accountable for how you feel.
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  • Creflo: Now, and when I grew up in the church,
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  • nobody told me I was accountable for how I feel.
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  • In fact, when the feelings came, I thought I just had to flow
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  • with it.
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  • I can remember saying, "I can't help I feel like this."
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  • And that is the biggest deception,
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  • that is what Satan wants you to think.
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  • He wants to deceive you to the point where you experience these
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  • negative emotions and you think there's nothing
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  • I can do about it.
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  • And so, we've defined emotions as feelings on the inside caused
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  • by pain or pleasure to move you in a direction.
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  • Now, we're not teaching you to become emotionless.
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  • God gave you emotions, but unfortunately sometimes those
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  • negative emotions have you, and he wants you to have emotions
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  • are not allow those emotions to have you.
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  • So, what happens, they are godly emotions that can move you
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  • closer to the will of God for your life,
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  • and then there are negative emotions that are designed to
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  • move you away from the will of God for your life.
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  • You've got to be a person who understands that self-control is
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  • a gift from God.
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  • Somebody says, "Is self-control in the Bible?"
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  • Yeah, it's under the heading of meekness.
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  • Self-control is a gift from God that will lead you in the path
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  • and to the destiny of the designed purpose for your life.
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  • But when you're out of control and you don't know how to
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  • control how you feel--somebody sent a question this week that
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  • says, "Well, what about anger?
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  • Jesus got angry."
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  • We're not teaching that you're not going to experience
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  • any negative emotion.
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  • We're trying to show you how to harness those negative emotions
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  • when they show up.
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  • We're trying to show you how to take authority over those
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  • negative emotions when they show up.
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  • We're not saying that you won't have negative emotions.
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  • In fact, I'm telling you, you are going to have
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  • some negative emotions.
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  • The problem has been when those negative emotions show up,
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  • they control you instead of you controlling it.
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  • The problem is, is when the anger shows up,
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  • you allow it to move you to the next level of destruction for
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  • your life, instead of you taking authority over the anger and
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  • saying, "No, I'll not move you."
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  • Jesus didn't allow the anger to cause him to miss the cross.
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  • He turned a couple of tables over but it didn't cause him to
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  • miss the cross.
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  • And so, I'm trying to show you as Christian people,
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  • you know, don't take this too far to the right, too far.
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  • Find the middle road on this.
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  • Yes, you gonna have godly emotions and you're going to
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  • have some negative emotions, but he wants you to know
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  • that you can be in charge of your emotions.
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  • If they're negative, they don't have the control your life.
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  • So, what's happened in the lives of most people?
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  • They experience a situation, triggers a negative emotion,
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  • and they allow the negative emotions to take them away from
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  • the will of God and put them in a place they don't want to be.
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  • Because all their lies they've been trained,
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  • "You can't help how you feel.
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  • You can't control your emotions."
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  • And you've seen in the Word of God,
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  • hopefully over this last month, "Oh yes, I can.
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  • And you would--you're going to find out a little later on in
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  • your life that man, this really does make a big difference.
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  • You work on this, you meditate on this,
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  • you saturate yourself in these teachings and sermons.
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  • You'll find that certain people that used to do things to you
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  • five months ago, it don't even move you no more,
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  • because it's like, "Well, I am in control of my emotions.
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  • I'm not going to get upset."
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  • And if you do get upset, you're like,
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  • "I'm not going to stay upset.
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  • I'm not going to do this."
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  • And that's what I'm trying to show you.
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  • I'm not trying to teach these negative things won't happen.
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  • I'm just trying to teach you, you now know how to respond
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  • to those negative emotions that come.
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  • You know how to go after them instead of allowing them
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  • to destroy life.
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  • Amen?
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  • So, emotions, feelings on the inside,
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  • designed to move you, caused by pain or pleasure,
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  • to move you in a direction, and we know the direction
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  • away from the will of God, if they are negative.
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  • Godly emotions go towards the will of God,
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  • if they're godly.
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  • And so, what happens is now, we have taken authority over those
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  • emotions and now we're dealing with the emotion of depression.
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  • So, now, how have we defined depression?
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  • Depression, they're feelings that are caused by thoughts that
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  • weigh heavily upon your heart.
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  • In fact, I think one of our lessons we went over,
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  • there are some things, feelings that come from thinking thoughts
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  • that weigh you down.
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  • Feelings that come from thinking thoughts that weigh you down.
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  • I'd like to ask a question before we begin,
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  • what are you thinking about?
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  • Are you--have you been carrying thoughts all day long
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  • that are weighing him?
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  • You know that.
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  • I may not know that.
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  • You may have come in here this morning or today with thoughts
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  • that weigh you down.
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  • So how long are you going to allow those thoughts to continue
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  • working on weighing you down?
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  • You can't change how you feel because those thoughts
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  • that are weighing you down are responsible
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  • for those feelings of depression.
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  • Depression, it's a way of thinking thoughts that
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  • weigh you down, and eventually gets into your heart.
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  • And so, you have authority over that.
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  • Most people say, "Well, I can't help I'm depressed ."
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  • And because they don't know how to handle depression,
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  • they seek out the help of a therapist,
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  • they seek out the help of a doctor,
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  • and in some cases, they seek out the help of medications,
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  • because they don't know how to handle it.
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  • And I'm not against those things,
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  • I used to be a therapist.
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  • I'm not against those things if--but I have to warn you,
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  • there's a difference in learning how to manage depression
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  • and being free from it.
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  • And Jesus has already redeemed you from depression.
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  • And if you can learn how to tap into what he's already done,
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  • you don't have to go and pay money to learn how to manage it,
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  • okay?
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  • And so, it's important that you understand,
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  • understand the difference here.
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  • And the way you deal with your feelings,
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  • depression is a feeling, and it's painful, and it hurts.
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  • I shared with you in my testimony last week.
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  • It's painful, it's hurtful, and if it's chronic,
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  • I mean it feels painful.
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  • And one of the things you-- I want you to understand
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  • and I wanted you to understand that my journey so that you,
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  • you know, I didn't want you thinking you just listening
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  • to some guy that don't know what he's talking about,
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  • read some book and came out here and try to be
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  • therapeutic with you.
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  • No, this is what I've gone through and come out of,
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  • and I know it's possible.
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  • But the key is you're going to have to expose yourself
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  • to the Word of God.
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  • See, that's the difference.
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  • We have something that the unsaved world doesn't have:
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  • the Word of God, and our faith in the Word of God.
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  • And when you expose yourself to the Word of God,
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  • and watch this, and you become saturated with that Word,
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  • there's something that happens in your life
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  • because you've saturated your thinking.
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  • If you want to change how you feel,
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  • you change how you think.
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  • You want to deal with how you feel,
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  • you've got to deal with how you think.
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  • You want to deal with how you think,
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  • you got to deal with what you're exposing yourself to.
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  • You see, you're saturated with something.
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  • I don't know what it is, so I'm saying you might as well be
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  • saturated with the Word.
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  • I was spending some time in my closing Bible study last name,
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  • well, I like to go to bed with a Scripture on my mind.
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  • And I was looking at the Book of Luke 17 when it talks
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  • about the kingdom of God is within a man.
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  • And I'm working on really breaking that down because
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  • there's a lot of things that need to be understood
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  • about that.
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  • And one of the things I realized is that,
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  • wait a minute, when-- how many of you have
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  • ever experienced not enough?
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  • You know, not enough to pay your bills,
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  • not enough to do this?
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  • And somebody says, "Are you kidding?
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  • Everybody in here has."
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  • All right, so on the outside, the circumstance says not
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  • enough, but in the kingdom it's plenty.
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  • In the kingdom, it's plenty.
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  • So here's the deal, if when you say not enough on the outside
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  • but your conscious mind is focused on the plenty
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  • that you have in the kingdom, then eventually,
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  • the lack on the outside is going to be dominated with a saturated
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  • conscience on the plenty that's in the kingdom of God.
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  • Does that make sense?
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  • So as goes your thinking, so goes your feeling.
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  • "As a man thinketh in his heart.
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  • So is he as he thinketh, so is he in his heart."
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  • I've said it a whole bunch of times but I got to say it again,
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  • what are you spending the most time thinking about,
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  • that's what you're going to be feeling.
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  • As goes your soul, so goes your life.
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  • As goes your thinking, so goes your life.
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  • If you're thinking is saturated with that thing you've been
  • 00:11:56.250 --> 00:12:00.210
  • exposed to which is negative, and the negative exposure
  • 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:03.260
  • produces negative thinking, and then these are feelings,
  • 00:12:03.270 --> 00:12:07.130
  • these are thoughts that are just remaining,
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  • and you're saturating yourself in that thing over and over
  • 00:12:09.070 --> 00:12:11.090
  • and over again, then on the inside, your consciousness
  • 00:12:11.100 --> 00:12:15.060
  • is saturated with the negative thinking, it's going to produce,
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  • it's going to produce bad depression.
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  • How do you deal with that?
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  • You change what you're exposing yourself to.
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  • "I'm not going to expose myself to the thing that produces
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  • that negative thought."
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  • And then once you change that, you're going to change
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  • the way you think.
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  • And once you change the way you think,
  • 00:12:36.250 --> 00:12:38.040
  • you're going to change the way you feel,
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  • then you're going to change the decisions you make,
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  • the actions you take, the habits you create.
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  • You're going to change your character,
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  • and then you'll ultimately change your destination,
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  • because you know where to go and what to attack
  • 00:12:47.150 --> 00:12:51.050
  • when you feel depressed.
  • 00:12:51.060 --> 00:12:54.220
  • It's external things being internalized that eventually
  • 00:12:54.230 --> 00:13:00.180
  • gets into your heart and it begins to weigh you down.
  • 00:13:00.190 --> 00:13:05.090
  • But you cannot deal with depression if you don't deal
  • 00:13:05.100 --> 00:13:08.000
  • with the way you think.
  • 00:13:08.010 --> 00:13:10.090
  • And you cannot deal with the way you think,
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  • if you don't deal with what you're exposing yourself to.
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  • So this is what I'm saying, expose yourself to the Word,
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  • 'cause it's going to produce amazing thought life,
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  • and the thought life is going to produce great feelings.
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  • You going to feel good even in the midst of a bad situation
  • 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:27.230
  • because you've chosen to saturate your thinking
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  • with the Word of God.
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  • What does the Bible say? Meditate in the Word.
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  • That's saturation, isn't it?
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  • Day and night or all the time.
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  • And he says, when you do that, you will, watch this,
  • 00:13:39.190 --> 00:13:42.090
  • "Make your way prosperous and you will have good success."
  • 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:46.210
  • Another vision says, "You'll deal wisely
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  • in the affairs of this world."
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  • So while they're trying to figure life out,
  • 00:13:50.140 --> 00:13:52.070
  • you're taking authority and mastering life so that
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  • life won't ever master you.
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  • If y'all understand what I just said, say, "Amen."
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  • all: Amen.
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  • Creflo: All right, so let's get started here.
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  • In Mark 14, verse 33, in the Amplified.
  • 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:05.240
  • Let's read it in the Amplified guys,
  • 00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:07.040
  • because I want people to see when the Bible says,
  • 00:14:07.050 --> 00:14:10.020
  • "that Jesus was touched with the feelings of our infirmities,"
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  • I want you to see that here's Jesus in the garden of
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  • Gethsemane, he's getting ready to take on the sins of every
  • 00:14:17.160 --> 00:14:21.080
  • human that's ever born, he's going to go to hell
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  • and die for all of mankind.
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  • He's going to be crucified on a cross, dead and buried.
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  • He's going to be whipped with a cat-o'-nine-tails,
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  • body going to be beat so bad, it's going to look
  • 00:14:33.290 --> 00:14:36.100
  • like raw hamburger meat.
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  • His form is not even going to look like a man
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  • when they're finished.
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  • And these thoughts came by.
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  • He knew what happened, he knew what was going to happen,
  • 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:48.270
  • and look what he says here in this situation, verse 33,
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  • "And he took him, Peter and James and John,
  • 00:14:51.180 --> 00:14:54.140
  • and begin to be struck with terror and amazement
  • 00:14:54.150 --> 00:14:56.260
  • and deeply troubled and," what?
  • 00:14:56.270 --> 00:14:59.050
  • "Depressed."
  • 00:14:59.060 --> 00:15:01.130
  • So he knows about it.
  • 00:15:01.140 --> 00:15:03.140
  • And then he says, "And he said to them,
  • 00:15:03.150 --> 00:15:05.060
  • 'My soul,'" the soul, that's where your emotions are,
  • 00:15:05.070 --> 00:15:08.010
  • 'My soul is exceedingly sad, overwhelmed with grief,
  • 00:15:08.020 --> 00:15:12.080
  • so that it almost kills me.
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  • Remain here and keep awake and be watching.'"
  • 00:15:15.020 --> 00:15:18.170
  • But then he tells us a little advice,
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  • what do you do if you ever face this.
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  • He said, "Go, keep going a little farther."
  • 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:25.090
  • In other words, don't stop going towards the destiny that has
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  • been revealed to you.
  • 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:32.130
  • If you know what you're doing is the right thing,
  • 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:34.180
  • keep going a little farther.
  • 00:15:34.190 --> 00:15:36.080
  • Feeling bad but you know this is the right thing so do it.
  • 00:15:36.090 --> 00:15:38.160
  • I'll tell you the perfect illustration,
  • 00:15:38.170 --> 00:15:40.190
  • maybe feeling bad and not coming to Bible study,
  • 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.030
  • but you go a little father.
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  • You go a little farther.
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  • "Well, I don't feel like it," but you go a little farther.
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  • You don't allow your emotions to govern your life,
  • 00:15:47.230 --> 00:15:51.010
  • you take authority over those things.
  • 00:15:51.020 --> 00:15:52.290
  • And Jesus said, "Go farther and do the thing you know to do.
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  • Do the same you know to do."
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  • I think I shared that in my testimony,
  • 00:15:58.280 --> 00:16:00.090
  • that when I was going through that thing and I asked my wife
  • 00:16:00.100 --> 00:16:02.080
  • to help me, she says, "The only thing--"and she don't--
  • 00:16:02.090 --> 00:16:04.220
  • we don't--we didn't realize until now that
  • 00:16:04.230 --> 00:16:06.190
  • that was a godly advice.
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  • Only thing I can tell you is keep doing what you know to do.
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  • I had no idea that was what Jesus advised.
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  • Just keep doing it even though you feel that way.
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  • Keep doing what you know to do.
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  • I don't know about you, have you ever entered into a prayer
  • 00:16:18.280 --> 00:16:21.020
  • and you didn't feel good?
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  • Or you didn't feel like praying?
  • 00:16:23.150 --> 00:16:25.030
  • That's just not what you wanted to do?
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  • And how many of you just made yourself do it
  • 00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:29.140
  • and you felt better.
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  • "You know, I don't feel like reading this Scripture,
  • 00:16:31.190 --> 00:16:33.060
  • I don't feel like sitting here looking at this Word
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  • for the day," but you keep doing what you know,
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  • and your feeling change because you've attacked those thoughts
  • 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.190
  • and you've exposed yourself to something that's awesome.
  • 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.150
  • And that's why he said, "Go a little farther,"
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  • and he said, "Keep praying.
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  • Go a little farther and keep praying."
  • 00:16:48.130 --> 00:16:50.110
  • Well, the world doesn't want us to receive that advice.
  • 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.270
  • And so, when you neglect God's advice,
  • 00:16:52.280 --> 00:16:55.210
  • then you go and try to find, what you call something
  • 00:16:55.220 --> 00:17:01.220
  • that's fake?
  • 00:17:01.230 --> 00:17:03.070
  • You're to--an imitation.
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  • You try to go and seek another way to do it.
  • 00:17:04.280 --> 00:17:07.020
  • Now, I'm not against you going another way to do 'em,
  • 00:17:07.030 --> 00:17:08.260
  • but I'm just saying our way is the best way.
  • 00:17:08.270 --> 00:17:11.130
  • And people don't know that, and some Christians don't know
  • 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:14.170
  • that because they won't do it.
  • 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:16.210
  • And I'm telling you as a person who's gon' through it,
  • 00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:18.240
  • and will do it, you'll see some amazing things happen.
  • 00:17:18.250 --> 00:17:21.230
  • Now, we left off with talking about the effects of depression,
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  • and one of the statements I made was that depression is
  • 00:17:26.270 --> 00:17:29.210
  • an enemy to your success.
  • 00:17:29.220 --> 00:17:33.100
  • Depression is an enemy to your success.
  • 00:17:33.110 --> 00:17:38.010
  • Depression wants us to steal your ambition and it wants to
  • 00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:41.290
  • prevent you from participating in the activities that you
  • 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.250
  • should be enjoying in your life.
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  • It's an enemy to your happiness and is an enemy to your success.
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  • There's no way I want you to allow this enemy to stop you
  • 00:17:51.110 --> 00:17:56.050
  • from being happy and successful.
  • 00:17:56.060 --> 00:17:58.060
  • And it should motivate you to know that when depression tries
  • 00:17:58.070 --> 00:18:00.270
  • to attack your life, it should say to you,
  • 00:18:00.280 --> 00:18:03.140
  • all you trying to do is stop me from being successful.
  • 00:18:03.150 --> 00:18:08.190
  • And how?
  • 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.180
  • Because when the feeling comes, it wants to move you away from
  • 00:18:10.190 --> 00:18:12.110
  • the will of God for your life.
  • 00:18:12.120 --> 00:18:14.080
  • Wants to move you away from the plan of God for your life.
  • 00:18:14.090 --> 00:18:16.110
  • And how often do you find yourself just kind of wondering
  • 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:19.180
  • how long is it going to take, and when is it good to be
  • 00:18:19.190 --> 00:18:22.010
  • my time?
  • 00:18:22.020 --> 00:18:23.140
  • Listen honey, it's hard to talk to the God of love and peace
  • 00:18:23.150 --> 00:18:27.130
  • when you're always in a dark place,
  • 00:18:27.140 --> 00:18:32.080
  • and he just needs you to recognize that.
  • 00:18:32.090 --> 00:18:34.050
  • So, we talked about some effects of depression.
  • 00:18:34.060 --> 00:18:36.280
  • Number one, physical illness is one effect of depression.
  • 00:18:36.290 --> 00:18:42.010
  • Physical illness is one effect.
  • 00:18:42.020 --> 00:18:44.060
  • You continue to allow those thoughts to press in,
  • 00:18:44.070 --> 00:18:48.250
  • and they eventually settle into your heart and you don't do
  • 00:18:48.260 --> 00:18:52.260
  • with those thoughts, and then those feelings comes,
  • 00:18:52.270 --> 00:18:54.270
  • and man, it will release terrible things in your body,
  • 00:18:54.280 --> 00:18:57.220
  • your cortisol level begins to rise up,
  • 00:18:57.230 --> 00:19:00.090
  • it begins to put a foundation for a chronic disease because if
  • 00:19:00.100 --> 00:19:03.220
  • you're emotionally dis-eased, you will eventually become
  • 00:19:03.230 --> 00:19:08.210
  • physically diseased.
  • 00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:11.190
  • And while people try to diagnose folks in the different
  • 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.280
  • illnesses, one of the things that I think we miss is the fact
  • 00:19:14.290 --> 00:19:18.290
  • that a lot of things come from being so stressed and depressed,
  • 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:24.010
  • that if you don't deal with that,
  • 00:19:24.020 --> 00:19:26.280
  • then you can try to take a lot of supplements and healthy
  • 00:19:26.290 --> 00:19:31.250
  • things, but you have got to deal with that emotional area.
  • 00:19:31.260 --> 00:19:36.220
  • And your emotional area can bring you to a place of death.
  • 00:19:36.230 --> 00:19:41.010
  • You can go through a trauma or shocking trauma situation
  • 00:19:41.020 --> 00:19:47.140
  • and it could release cancer to be manifested in your body.
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  • We all have cancer cells but they are kept at bay,
  • 00:19:51.040 --> 00:19:53.140
  • and just some emotional thing like that can be responsible
  • 00:19:53.150 --> 00:19:56.190
  • for it being released in your body.
  • 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.140
  • I can tell you the illnesses that are up,
  • 00:19:58.150 --> 00:20:00.210
  • that can come up as a result of you not dealing with depression.
  • 00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:05.000
  • And so, for people who like to worry a lot, stop.
  • 00:20:05.010 --> 00:20:08.030
  • You're making yourself sick.
  • 00:20:08.040 --> 00:20:10.260
  • For people who just want to be depressed about everything
  • 00:20:10.270 --> 00:20:13.080
  • and want to magnify differences, difficulties in your life, stop.
  • 00:20:13.090 --> 00:20:17.180
  • You're making yourself sick.
  • 00:20:17.190 --> 00:20:19.260
  • If you go to bed sad, and you wake up sad,
  • 00:20:19.270 --> 00:20:21.280
  • and you're sad throughout the day,
  • 00:20:21.290 --> 00:20:23.160
  • you're making yourself sick.
  • 00:20:23.170 --> 00:20:25.220
  • And so what happens is when the sickness comes,
  • 00:20:25.230 --> 00:20:27.180
  • you say "Well, who did it?
  • 00:20:27.190 --> 00:20:29.120
  • It's the devil".
  • 00:20:29.130 --> 00:20:31.080
  • No, it's an uninformed Christian who didn't know how to deal
  • 00:20:31.090 --> 00:20:35.040
  • with his emotions.
  • 00:20:35.050 --> 00:20:37.100
  • Wow.
  • 00:20:37.110 --> 00:20:39.070
  • How about that?
  • 00:20:39.080 --> 00:20:41.060
  • That feels crazy coming to church and you're not hearing,
  • 00:20:41.070 --> 00:20:43.010
  • "Well, it's the devil that they did."
  • 00:20:43.020 --> 00:20:44.120
  • No it's on an uninformed Christian who don't have
  • 00:20:44.130 --> 00:20:47.050
  • no idea how to handle their emotions.
  • 00:20:47.060 --> 00:20:49.100
  • And the emotions have been handling you,
  • 00:20:49.110 --> 00:20:51.020
  • and you go around with pain, you got the stuff that happened.
  • 00:20:51.030 --> 00:20:53.210
  • You wouldn't--listen, you show me a real sick person
  • 00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:56.140
  • and I guarantee you, I'll go back in the background,
  • 00:20:56.150 --> 00:20:58.250
  • if they're honest with me, if they're honest with me,
  • 00:20:58.260 --> 00:21:01.190
  • they will tell me how long they've been worried and
  • 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:04.280
  • concerned and all that kind of other stuff that's going
  • 00:21:04.290 --> 00:21:07.050
  • on right there.
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  • It is. It is.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:10.180
  • I found out my emotional openness,
  • 00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:12.290
  • I'm trying to fight it by faith, and I had it going until the
  • 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:17.060
  • trauma and the shock of betrayal hit me and it affected
  • 00:21:17.070 --> 00:21:25.100
  • my physical body.
  • 00:21:25.110 --> 00:21:28.140
  • And while I looked strong, coming on the pulpit like it
  • 00:21:28.150 --> 00:21:30.100
  • didn't matter and stuff, that's all my faith part,
  • 00:21:30.110 --> 00:21:33.020
  • but the trauma of it and having to deal with that,
  • 00:21:33.030 --> 00:21:37.250
  • woo, it was the devil.
  • 00:21:37.260 --> 00:21:40.220
  • He was trying to kill me.
  • 00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:42.100
  • That one day, there's so many things that happened.
  • 00:21:42.110 --> 00:21:45.040
  • That one day, that was so painful,
  • 00:21:45.050 --> 00:21:47.250
  • so hurtful, including the death of loved ones.
  • 00:21:47.260 --> 00:21:50.160
  • It was just crazy.
  • 00:21:50.170 --> 00:21:52.090
  • And the enemy knew, "If I can cause enough stress and trauma,
  • 00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:56.280
  • I can release something and be closer to taking you out."
  • 00:21:56.290 --> 00:22:01.230
  • But just like that drama can take you out,
  • 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:03.220
  • the joy of the Lord can produce healing.
  • 00:22:03.230 --> 00:22:07.030
  • And See, you got to know the Word that will bring joy, amen.
  • 00:22:07.040 --> 00:22:10.020
  • For everything the devil think he got against you,
  • 00:22:10.030 --> 00:22:12.040
  • God has already risen more.
  • 00:22:12.050 --> 00:22:14.190
  • You know, the Bible talks about much more.
  • 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.050
  • You know, sin, "When sin abounds," he said,
  • 00:22:17.060 --> 00:22:19.020
  • "grace does," what?
  • 00:22:19.030 --> 00:22:20.120
  • "Much more abounds."
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  • So ain't nothing that's going happen to you,
  • 00:22:21.230 --> 00:22:23.220
  • that's not already handled.
  • 00:22:23.230 --> 00:22:26.060
  • Turn to two people and tell them, "It's handled.
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  • It's handled. It's handled."
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  • And I don't care what it is, it's handled.
  • 00:22:29.260 --> 00:22:31.200
  • It's handled.
  • 00:22:31.210 --> 00:22:33.250
  • And that keeps you, that keeps you safe in your mind
  • 00:22:33.260 --> 00:22:35.280
  • that no matter how crazy it might be, remind yourself,
  • 00:22:35.290 --> 00:22:39.050
  • saturate your consciousness, that this is handled and there's
  • 00:22:39.060 --> 00:22:43.200
  • a expiration to all trouble.
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  • Go to bed and say, "That thing might expire tomorrow."
  • 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.220
  • If it don't, wake up, live by faith through that day,
  • 00:22:52.230 --> 00:22:55.180
  • go to bed again.
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  • But it can be there all the time.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Just use it like you would dumbbells,
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  • and just exercise to build your muscle up.
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  • While the trouble is there, you might as well
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  • benefit from it being the.
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  • Glory be to God, I almost got happy on it.
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  • You might as well benefit from it being there.
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  • No, don't do that.
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  • Get something out of it.
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  • Don't ever come out of a hard time the same.
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  • Come out of a hard time with some wisdom
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  • that you know something now.
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  • Bring it on, devil.
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  • And then one day you're gonna say,
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  • "You want to dance? Bring it on.
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  • I ain't scared of you. Come on over here.
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  • I wish you would."
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  • You got to get that aggressive with the enemy.
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  • First of all, you've got to know how's he behind it?
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  • He's behind it--he doesn't have authority to do it.
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  • He wants to use suggestions and trickery
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  • so you can authorize it.
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  • Sad thing is that you've allowed Satan's suggestions
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  • or your ignorance to authorize your own destruction.
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  • You hear what I said?
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  • Satan's suggestion or your ignorance to authorize
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  • your own destruction.
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  • You open your mouth up and speak things in the air.
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  • You start agreeing with stuff, your emotions start taking you
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  • places, you're not in the Word and exposing yourself
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  • to the Word.
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  • See, all of that stuff is authorized by you.
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  • And so you've got to use your authority in the right way to
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  • benefit you so that you don't allow yourself to authorize
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  • something to happen in your life that's going to hurt you.
  • 00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:27.290
  • I used to pray a prayer that went like this,
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  • "Lord, please help me not to hurt myself.
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  • Please help me not to do something,
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  • say something or misunderstand something that will hurt
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  • myself," because, you know, I recognize where it was
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  • coming from but I needed some revelation on how
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  • to deal with it.
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  • Well, why has it taken me so long to pull this series
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  • back up?
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  • I taught this series years ago but I didn't have as much
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  • revelation on it as I do know.
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  • Somebody said, "Where did that came--where it'd come from?"
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  • The hell that I've been through.
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  • It's one thing to teach it, because you know,
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  • you know it, you study it and all that stuff.
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  • But boy, it's revelation when you go through it
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  • and you have to make a choice, I want God.
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  • All right, if you want this way, you got to go down this path.
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  • But if you go down that path, it's going to lead you that way.
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  • The Bible says, there is a path that seems right.
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  • "I don't want to go down no path that seem right."
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  • "Why?"
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  • "Cause I went down a path that seemed right but
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  • at the end it was destruction."
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  • So what do you do?
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  • When you learn about a path that seems right,
  • 00:25:43.030 --> 00:25:44.240
  • expose that path to some people you love so they don't have
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  • to go down that same path.
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  • And I am telling you, you have to understand that when
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  • you are emotional and you can't control his emotions,
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  • then you going to start trying to control other people,
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  • and you're going to be miserable,
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  • and open the door to all type of emotional things
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  • that we'll be talking about.
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