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How To Win Over Depression Part 3

December 23, 2020

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How To Win Over Depression Part 3

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announcer: Coming upnext on "Changing Your World."
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Creflo Dollar: It's externalthings being internalized, that
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eventually gets into your heart,and it begins to weigh you down,
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but you cannot dealwith depression
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if you don't deal withthe way you think.
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And you cannot deal with the wayyou think if you don't deal what
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you're exposing yourself to,so this is what I'm saying.
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Expose yourself to theWord, 'cause it's gonna produce
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amazing thought life and the
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thought life is gonna producegreat feelings.
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Creflo: Now, this whole deal isabout emotions and the fact that
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you are in chargeof your emotions.
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Say out loud, "I am incharge of my emotions."
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Turn to your neighbor and say,
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"You are accountablefor how you feel."
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Now, when I grew up in thechurch nobody told me I was
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accountable for how I feel.
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In fact, when the feelings came,
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I thought I just hadto flow with it.
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I can remember saying, "Ican't help I feel like this."
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And that is thebiggest deception.
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That is what Satanwants you to think.
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He wants to deceive you to thepoint where you experience these
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negative emotions, and youthink,
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"There's nothing Ican do about it."
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And so, we've defined emotionsas feelings on the inside caused
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by pain or pleasure tomove you in a direction.
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Now, we're not teachingyou to become emotionless.
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God gave you emotions, but,unfortunately, sometimes those
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negative emotions have you, andhe wants you to have emotions
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and not allow thoseemotions to have you.
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So, what happens there aregodly emotions that can move you
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closer to the will of God foryour life, and then there are
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negative emotions that aredesigned to move you away from
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the will of God for your life.
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You've got to be a person whounderstands that self-control
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is a gift from God.
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Somebody says, "Isself-control in the Bible?"
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Yeah, it's under theheading of meekness.
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Self-control is a gift from Godthat will lead you in the path
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and to the destiny of thedesigned purpose for your life.
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But when you're out of controland you don't know how to
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control how you feel--somebodysent 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
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not gonna experiencenegative emotions.
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We're trying to show you how toharness those negative emotions
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when they show up.
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We're trying to show you howto take authority over those
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negative emotionswhen they show up.
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We're not saying that youwon't have negative emotions.
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In fact, I'm telling you,
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you are gonna have somenegative emotions.
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The problem has been when thosenegative emotions show up they
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control you, insteadof you controlling it.
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The problem is, is when theanger shows up you allow it to
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move you to the next levelof destruction for your life,
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instead of you taking authorityover the anger and saying, "No,
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I'll not move you."
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Jesus didn't allow the angerto cause him to miss the cross.
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He turned a couple of tablesover, but it didn't cause him to
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miss the cross, and so I'mtrying to show you, as Christian
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people, you know, don't take
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this too far tothe right, too far.
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Find the middle road on this.
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Yes, you're gonna have godlyemotions, and you're gonna have
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some negative emotions, but hewants you to know that you can
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be in charge of your emotions.
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If they're negative theydon't have to control your life.
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So, what's happened inthe lives of most people?
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They experience a situation,triggers a negative emotion, and
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they allow the negative emotionsto take them away from the will
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of God and put 'em in a placethey don't wanna be, because all
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their lives they've beentrained,
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"You can't help how you feel.
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You can't controlyour emotions."
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And you've seen in the Word ofGod, hopefully, over this last
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month, "Oh, yes, I can."
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And you're gonna find out alittle later on in your life
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that "man, this reallydoes make a big difference."
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You work on this.You meditate on this.
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You saturate yourself inthese teachings and sermons.
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You'll find that certain peoplethat used to do things to you
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five months ago, it don't evenmove you no more, because it's
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like, "Well, I am incontrol of my emotions."
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I'm not gonna get upset.
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And if you do get upset you'relike, "I'm not gonna stay upset.
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I'm not gonna do this."
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And that's why I'm trying toshow you--I'm not trying to
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teach these negativethings won't happen.
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I'm just trying to teach you,you now know how to respond
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and--to those negativeemotions that come.
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You know how to go after them,instead of allowing them to
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destroy your life, amen?
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So, emotion is feelings on theinside designed to move you,
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caused by pain or pleasure,to move you in a direction.
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And we know the direction: awayfrom the will of God,
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if they are negative.
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Godly emotions go towards thewill of God, if they're godly.
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And so, what happens is now wehave taken authority over those
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emotions and now we're dealingwith the emotion of depression.
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So now, how have wedefined depression?
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Depression, they're feelingsthat are caused by thoughts that
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weigh heavily upon your heart.
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In fact, I think one of ourlessons we went over there are
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some things, feelings, thatcome from thinking thoughts
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that weigh you down.
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Feelings that come from thinkingthoughts that weigh you down.
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I'd like to ask thequestion before we begin.
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What are you thinking about?
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Have you been carrying thoughts
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all day long that areweighing you down?
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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 thismorning or today with thoughts
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that weigh you down, so howlong are you gonna allow those
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thoughts to continueworking on weighing you down?
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You can't change how you feelbecause those thoughts that are
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weighing you down areresponsible
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for those feelingsof depression.
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Depression, it's a way ofthinking thoughts that weigh you
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down and eventually gets intoyour heart,
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and so you haveauthority over that.
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Most people say, "Well, Ican't help I'm depressed."
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And because they don't know howto handle depression, they seek
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out the help of a therapist,they seek out the help of a
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doctor, and in some casesthey seek out the help of
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medications, 'cause theydon't know how to handle it.
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And I'm notagainst those things.
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I used to be a therapist.
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I'm not against those thingsif--but I have to warn you there
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is a difference in learning howto manage depression
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and being free from it.
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And Jesus has alreadyredeemed you from depression.
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And if you can learn how to tapinto what he's already done, you
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don't have to go and pay moneyto learn how to manage it, okay?
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And so, it's important that youunderstand the difference here
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and the way you dealwith your feelings.
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Depression is a feeling, andit's painful, and it hurts.
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I shared with you mytestimony 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--Iwant you to understand and I
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wanted you to understand it, myjourney, so that, you know, I
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didn't want you thinking you'rejust listening to some guy who
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don't know what he's talkingabout, read some book, and came
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out here and tried tobe therapeutic with you.
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No, this is what I've gonethrough and come out of, and I
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know it's possible, but the keyis you're gonna have to expose
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yourself to the Word of God.
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See, that's the difference.
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We have something that theunsaved world doesn't have: the
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Word of God and ourfaith in the Word of God.
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And when you expose yourself tothe Word of God and, watch this,
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and you become saturated withthat Word, there's something
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that happens in your life
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because you'vesaturated your thinking.
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If you wanna change how youfeel, you change how you think.
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You wanna dealwith how you feel,
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you gotta dealwith how you think.
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You wanna deal with how youthink, you gotta deal with what
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you're exposing yourself to.
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See, you're saturatedwith something.
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I don't know what it is, soI'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 myclosing Bible study last night.
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Well, I like to go to bed with aScripture on my mind, and I was
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looking at the book of Luke 17when it talks about the kingdom
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of God is within a man.
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And I'm working on reallybreaking that down because
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there's a lot of things that
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need to be understoodabout that.
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And one of the things Irealized is that "wait a minute.
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When--" how many of you haveever experienced not enough?
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You know, not enough to pay yourbills, 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 thecircumstance is not enough, but
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in the kingdom it's plenty.
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In the kingdom it'splenty, so here is the deal.
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If when you see not enough onthe outside but your conscious
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mind is focused on the plentythat you have in the kingdom,
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then eventually the lack on theoutside is gonna be dominated
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with a saturated conscience on
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the plenty that's inthe kingdom of God.
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Does that make sense?
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So, as goes yourthinking, so goes your feeling.
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"As a man thinketh inhis heart, so is he."
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As he thinketh, sois he in his heart.
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I've said it a whole bunch oftimes, but I gotta say it again.
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What are you spending themost time thinking about?
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That's what you'regonna be feeling.
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As goes your soul,so goes your life.
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As goes yourthinking, so goes your life.
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If your thinking is saturatedwith that thing you've been
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exposed to, which is negative,and the negative exposure
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produces negative thinking.
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And then, these are feelings,these are thoughts that are just
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remaining, and you're saturatingyourself in that thing over and
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over and over again.
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Then on the inside yourconsciousness is saturated with
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the negative thinking.
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It's gonna produce--it'sgonna produce bad depression.
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How do you deal with it?
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You change what you'reexposing yourself to.
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I'm not gonna expose myself tothe thing that produces that
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negative thought.
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And then, once you change thatyou're gonna change the way you
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think and once you changethe way you think you're gonna
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change the you feel.
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Then, you're gonna change thedecisions you make, the actions
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you take, the habits you create.
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You're gonna change yourcharacter, and then you'll
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ultimately change yourdestination, because you know
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where to go and what toattack when you feel depressed.
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It's external things beinginternalized, that eventually
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gets into your heart, and itbegins to weigh you down, but
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you cannot deal with depression
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if you don't deal withthe way you think.
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And you cannot deal with the wayyou think if you don't deal what
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you're exposing yourself to,so this is what I'm saying.
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Expose yourself to theWord, 'cause it's gonna produce
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amazing thought life and the
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thought life is gonna producegreat feelings.
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You're gonna feel good even inthe midst of a bad situation
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because you've chosen tosaturate your thinking with
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the Word of God.
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What does the Bible say?
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Meditate in the Word--that'ssaturation, ain't it?--day and
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night, or all the time.
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He says when you do that youwill, watch this, make your way
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prosperous, andyou'll have good success.
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Another version says you'll deal
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wisely in the affairsof this world.
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So, while they're trying tofigure life out, you're taking
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authority and mastering life sothat life won't ever master you.
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If you understand whatI just said say amen.
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All right, so let's get startedhere in Mark 14, verse 33
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in the Amplified.
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Let's read it in the Amplified,guys, because I want people to
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see--when the Bible saysthat Jesus was touched with the
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feelings of our infirmities, Iwant you to see that here is
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Jesus in theGarden of Gethsemane.
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He's getting ready to take on
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the sins of every humanthat's ever born.
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He's gonna go to hell anddie for all of mankind.
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He's gonna be crucified ona cross, dead and buried.
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He's gonna be whippedwith a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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Body gonna be beat so bad it's
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gonna look likeraw hamburger meat.
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His form is not even gonnalook like a man when they're
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finished, and thesethoughts came by.
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He knew what happened.
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He knew what was gonna happen
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and look what he says herein this situation.
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Verse 33, "And he took him Peterand James and John, and began to
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be struck with terror and
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amazement and deeplytroubled and," what?
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"Depressed."
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So, he knows about it.
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And then, he says, "And he saidto them, My soul--" the soul.
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That's where your emotions are.
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"My soul is exceedingly sad(overwhelmed with grief)
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so that it almost kills me!
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Remain here and keepawake and be watching."
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But then, he tellsus a little advice.
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What do you do ifyou ever face this?
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And we're going to talk aboutthis either this weekend
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or next week.
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He said go--keepgoing a little farther.
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In other words, don't stop goingtowards the destiny that has
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been revealed to you.
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If you know what you're doingis the right thing,
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keep going a little farther.
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Feeling bad, but you know thisis the right thing, so do it.
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I'll tell you theperfect illustration.
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Maybe feeling bad and not comingto Bible study,
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but you go a little farther.
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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 youremotions to govern your life.
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You take authority overthose things, and Jesus said go
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farther and do thething you know to do.
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Do the thing you know to do.
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I think I sharedthat in my testimony.
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That when I was going throughthat thing and I asked my wife
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to help me, she says, "Theonly thing--" and she don't--we
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don't--we didn't realize
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until now that that wasa godly advice.
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"Only thing I can tell you iskeep doing what you know to do."
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I had no idea thatwas what Jesus advised.
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Just keep doing it eventhough you feel that way.
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Keep doing what you know to do.I don't know about you.
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Have you ever entered into aprayer and you didn't feel good,
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or you didn't feel like praying?
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That's just notwhat you wanted to do.
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And how many of you just made
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yourself do it andyou felt better?
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"You know, I don't feellike reading the Scripture.
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I don't feel like sitting herelooking at this Word for today."
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But you keep doing what youknow and your feelings change,
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because you've attacked thosethoughts, and you've exposed
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yourself to something that'sawesome.
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And that's why he said go alittle farther,
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and he said keep praying.
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Go a little fartherand keep praying.
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Well, the world doesn't want usto receive that advice, and so
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when you neglect God'sadvice then you go and try to
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find--what do you callsomething that's fake?
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You're trying to--an imitation.
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You try to go and seeanother way to do it.
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Now, I'm not against you goingthe other way to do it, but I'm
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just saying ourway is the best way.
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And people don't know that, andsome Christians don't know that
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'cause they won't do it, and I'mtelling you, as a person who's
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gone through it and will do it,
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you'll see someamazing things happen.
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Now, we left off with talkingabout the effects of depression
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and one of the statements I made
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was that depression is anenemy to your success.
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Depression is anenemy to your success.
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Depression wants to steal yourambitions, and it wants to
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prevent you from participatingin the activities that you
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should be enjoying in your life.
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It's an enemy to your happiness,
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and it is an enemyto your success.
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There is no way I want you toallow this enemy to stop you
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from being happy and successful,and it should motivate you to
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know that when depression triesto attack your life, it should
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say to you, "All you're trying
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to do is stop me frombeing successful."
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And how?
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Because when the feeling comesit wants to move you away from
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the will of God for your life,wants to move you away from the
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plan of God for your life.
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And how often do you findyourself just kinda wondering,
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"How long is it gonna take?
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And when is itgonna be my time?"
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Listen, honey, it's hard to talkto the God of love and peace
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when you're always in a darkplace,
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and he just needs you torecognize that.
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So, we talked about someeffects of depression.
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Number one, physical illnessis one effect of depression.
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Physical illness is one effect.
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You continue to allow thosethoughts to press in, and they
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eventually settle and--into yourheart, and you don't deal with
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those thoughts, and then thosefeelings comes and, man, it will
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release terriblethings in your body.
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Your cortisol levelbegins to rise up.
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It begins to put a foundationfor chronic disease, because if
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you're emotionally diseased,you will eventually become
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physically diseased.
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And while people try todiagnose folks and the different
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illnesses, one of the thingsthat I think we miss is the fact
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that a lotta things come frombeing so stressed and depressed.
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That if you don't deal withthat, then you can try to take a
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lotta supplements and do healthythings, but you have got to deal
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with that emotional area.
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And your emotional area canbring you to a place of death.
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You can go through a trauma or ashocking trauma situation, and
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it could release cancer tobe manifested in your body.
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We all have cancer cells, butthey are kept at bay, and just
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some emotional thing like thatcan be responsible for it being
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released in your body.
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I can't tell you the illnessesthat are up that can come up as
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a result of you not dealing withdepression, and so for people
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who like to worry a lot, stop.
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You're making yourself sick.
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For people who just wanna bedepressed about everything and
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wanna magnify differences,difficulties in your life, stop.
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You're making yourself sick.
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If you go to bed sad and youwake up sad, and you're sad
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throughout the day,you're making yourself sick.
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And so, what happens is when thesickness comes, you say, "Well,
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who did it?
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It's the devil."
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No, it's an uninformed Christian
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who didn't know how to dealwith his emotions.
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Wow.
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How about that?
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That feels crazy, coming tochurch and not hearing, "Well,
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it's the devil that did it."
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No, it's an uninformed Christianwho don't have no idea how to
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handle their emotions, and theemotions have been handling you,
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and you go around with pain.
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You got the stuffthat's hap--
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You wouldn't--listen, you showme a real sick person, and I
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guarantee you I go back in thebackground, if they're honest
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with me, if they're honest withme, they will tell me how long
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they've been worried andconcerned and all of that stuff
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that's going on right there.
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It is.It is.
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I found out my emotionalopenness, I'm trying to fight it
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by faith, and I had it goinguntil the trauma and the shock
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of betrayal hit me, and itaffected my physical body.
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And while I looked strong comingon the pulpit like it didn't
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matter and stuff, that's all myfaith part, but the trauma of it
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and having to deal withthat, whoo, it was the devil.
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He was trying tokill me that one day.
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There are so many things thathappened that one day that were
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so painful, so hurtful,
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including the deathof loved ones.
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It was just crazy, and the enemyknew, "If I can cause enough
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stress and trauma, I can release
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something and be closer totaking you out."
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But just like that drama cantake you out, the joy of the
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Lord can produce healing, see?
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You gotta the Word thatwill bring joy, amen?
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For everything the devil thinkhe got against you, God has
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already risen more.
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You know, the Bibletalks about much more.
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You know, sin, when sin abounds,he said grace does what?
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Much more abounds, so ain'tnothing that's gonna happen to
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you that's not already handled.
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Turn to two people andtell 'em, "It's handled.
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It's handled.
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It's handled."I don't care what it is.
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It's handled.It's handled.
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And that keeps yousafe in your mind.
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That no matter how crazy itmight be, remind yourself,
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saturate your consciousness that"this is handled, and there is a
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expiration to all trouble."
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Go to bed.
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Say, "That thingmight expire tomorrow."
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If it don't, wake up, live byfaith through that day, go to
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bed again, but it can't be thereall the time, hallelujah.
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Just use it like you woulddumbbells and just exercise to
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build your muscle up.
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While the trouble is there youmight as well benefit from it
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being there.
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Glory be to God.
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I almost got happy on that.
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You might as wellbenefit 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 ofa hard time the same.
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Come out of a hard time withsome wisdom, that you know
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something now.
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"Bring it on, devil."
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And then, one day you'regonna say, "You wanna dance?
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Bring it on.I ain't scared of you.
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I ain't scared of you.
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No, I ain't nevergonna be scared of you.
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Come on over here.
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You gotta get thataggressive with the enemy.
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First of all, you've gotto know how's he behind it.
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He's behind it.
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He doesn't haveauthority to do it.
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He wants to use suggestionsand trickery
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so you can authorize it.
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Sad thing is that you've allowedSatan's suggestions or your
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ignorance to authorizeyour own destruction.
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You hear what I said?
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Satan's suggestion or your
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ignorance to authorize yourown destruction.
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You open your mouth up andspeak things in the air.
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You start agreeing with stuff.
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Your emotions starttaking you places.
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You're not in the Word andexposing yourself to the Word.
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See, all of that stuff isauthorized by you, and so you
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gotta use your authority in theright way to benefit you so that
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you don't allow yourself toauthorize something to happen in
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your life that's gonna hurt you.
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I used to pray a prayerwent like this:
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Lord, please help menot to hurt myself.
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Please help me not to dosomething, say something
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or misunderstand somethingthat'll hurt myself
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because, you know, I recognizedwhere it was coming from,
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but I needed some revelationon how to deal with it.
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a different time, this isa different season.
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This season, which is a holidaytime, but yet we are in
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a pandemic, but you know what?
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God is still good and ouremotions do not rule
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and dominate our lives.
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Thank God for the positiveemotions, but you know what?
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You have to arrest andeliminate, and eradicate
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the negative ones.
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So be encouraged today,make some great memories,
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start a new tradition,and know that God is good.
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Happy Holidays.
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