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Jack Graham - Help! I'm Depressed

March 15, 2026 | 27:29

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Help! I'm Depressed | March 15, 2026

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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♪♪♪
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You're going to be okay. those six words were really life
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Changing in a time in my life where i was struggling. i
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Didn't know if i was going to be okay. i'd been through
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Cancer surgery and i was struggling. i was anxious and
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Depressed. and i kept asking deb, my wife and a few others,
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Am i going to be okay?
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And to hear those words of confidence and assurance coming
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Back from people that i love, you are going to be okay. that
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Was life changing. you know, depression is often seen as a
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Stigma, and yet depression is very real for many people,
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Including the great prophets, some of the greatest people in
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History, like churchill or abraham lincoln, but also
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People like elijah.
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Today, we're going to be looking at the story of elijah,
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How he even asked god to take his life because nothing seemed
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To be worth living for. but god changed everything. god
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Provided for him and began a new season in his life, which
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Was glorious. so let's get to the message.
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♪♪♪
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I was diagnosed ten years ago with prostate cancer. i'd never
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Been sick in my life to speak of, and now there's a cancer
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Diagnosis and i actually was prepared for the ensuing
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Surgery and the follow-up. i was spiritually prepared. i was
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Ready to go; get this over with, get this done. typical of
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Jack graham... just go, go, go.
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And so, i had the surgery. a successful surgery, though
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There was some question as to whether or not they got all the
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Cancer. that rocked my world.
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And now i realized i was in for a bigger battle than i thought.
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Not just the physical battle, but a spiritual and an
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Emotional battle. and something happened to me in the ensuing
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Days and weeks that has never happened before, and i pray,
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Never happens again, but i was taken down
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By anxiety and depression.
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And the one question i kept asking my wife
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And some sleepless nights, and some of my friends who knew
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What i was going through, i kept asking, “am i going to be
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Okay? am i going to get through this? am i stuck like this?
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This feeling of helplessness and hopelessness and
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Emptiness?” i got some help. i'll tell you more about that
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Later.
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But i tell you that story at the outset to remind all of us
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That we all need god's help every day. and in episodes of
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Life in which we are taken to the mat, one of those crisis
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Moments or a challenge in your life that can take you out,
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That there is hope and there is healing, and your life can
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Recover; you can live again. you may be feeling like a
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Walking dead man or dead woman right now. that's one of the
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Descriptions of depression. you just... it's not living. it's
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Sort of like dying a slow death. but you're going to be
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Okay. and i'm going to declare that over you today!
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Now we live in depressing times! just watch the news.
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Would you agree? so depressing what's going on in the world,
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What's going on in our country... it's downright
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Depressing! but not just what's going on in the world... and
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The fact is that we're told in the scripture that "in the last
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Days perilous will come", troubling times will come,
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Dangerous times will come. so, we shouldn't be surprised at
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The depressing news and the depressing state of affairs
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That is in our world today.
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But what about your own world? not something coming from the
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Outside, but something that's coming on the inside as a
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Result of circumstances in your life or crisis in your life. a
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Child rebels, a marriage splits up, a beloved spouse dies, you
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Lose your job, or you're facing the loss of health; you're,
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Perhaps, dealing with chronic pain in your life. and you've
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Asked yourself, “am i going to be okay? am i going to get
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Through this?”
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Depression has been called the common cold of emotional
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Illness. it affects 20 million adults right now in america,
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Not to speak of the teenagers, and, yes, even children can be
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Depressed. and even spiritual leaders and christians... no
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One is exempt from this. depression is breakdown, it is
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Burnout, it is a tiredness that you can't even hardly describe.
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Moses had it.
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To the degree that in numbers chapter 11 he was so oppressed
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And overwhelmed by his responsibility, that he prayed
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To god... he said, "lord, i don't want to live." he was
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Ready to give up his life, to check it in. same thing
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Happened to jonah after his experience in the great fish,
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In the belly of that fish, and then the revival that came
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Subsequent to that. and he was angry... he was angry that god
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Would show mercy on these miserable ninevites. he was an
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Angry, pouting prophet. as a result of his self-pity and his
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Anger, he fell into a depression and in jonah chapter
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4, verse 3 he prayed, "lord, let me die! i don't want to
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Live anymore. just take me out."
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There's one other man in the scripture in particular that i
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Want us to focus on because he is a classic example of what
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We're talking about, depression. his name is elijah;
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Remember him? a mighty man of god. in fact, he was called the
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Man of god. he was a powerful prophet, a godly leader and he
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Was serving god in a very dangerous time, a very
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Difficult time in the life of the people of israel because a
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Wicked king was on the throne; his name was ahab, and he had a
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Very wicked queen. even more wicked than the man was the
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Woman beside him and her name was jezebel.
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So, elijah stood up in the midst of immorality and
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Idolatry in the land! it's so depressing, isn't it, to see so
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Much sin rampant in our world today! it's depressing. he
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Stands up against it... courageous leader! he calls for
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National repentance and revival came to the people of god!
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He's on a mountain top, literally and spiritually. and
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Yet in just one day everything changes, and elijah is plunged
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Into a pit! first kings 19 is where we find this story. get
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Your bibles open, if you have one. watch the screen if you
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Don't. but the first four verses:
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1) ahab told jezebel...(poor little ahab; he runs to his
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Wife) all that elijah had done, and how he had killed all the
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Prophets with the sword.(it was a blood bath!) 2) then jezebel
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Sent a messenger to elijah, saying, "so may the gods
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(little g) do to me and more also, if i do not make your
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Life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow."
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In other words, “there's a contract on your life, elijah.
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You're going to be dead by tomorrow!” so, what did the
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Bold, courageous believing prophet do? did he stand up to
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This wick woman and her weak husband? no. it says in verse 3:
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2) ... he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and
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Came to beersheba... (that's about eighteen miles out in the
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Desert) which belongs to judah, and left his servant there. 4)
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But he himself went another day's journey into the
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Wilderness (and it was a wilderness physically but it
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Was another kind of wilderness in his own life) and he came
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And he sat down under a broom tree. (that is a juniper tree)
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And he asked that he might die, saying, "it's enough; now, o
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Lord... (finished!) o lord, take away my life, for i am no
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Better than my fathers."
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He prays to die! he said i'm no better than my fathers. someone
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Said, i don't know why thought... who had told him
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That he was better than his fathers; it must have been his
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Mother. [laughter] i don't know. but he's depressed!
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That's a classic example of depression...
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Anxiety in the bible.
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♪♪♪
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The bible tells us over 2,500 times that god has promised
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Each and every one of us joy and happiness in christ. this
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Includes peace, indescribable peace. even as believers in
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Jesus and those of us who know the promises of god. we also
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Know that we're not exempt from mental health issues and
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Emotional crisis in our lives. things like doubt and fear and
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Anxiety, grief and shame and loneliness. all of these can
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Steal our joy and our happiness, but we can face
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Life's challenges with confidence and hope in the lord.
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Hope in christ and break free and begin anew in jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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The struggle is real, folks. it's real for millions of
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People and it's real for people online, watching right now.
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Some of you who couldn't get out of bed today to get to
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Church so you're... you're hanging on, you're hoping on,
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You're watching this service. i pray god gives you a word
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Today. some of you got yourself here; you don't even know how,
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But you're hanging by a thread. you just pushed yourself and
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You're here. or you know someone in your family, maybe a
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Husband, a wife, a father, a mother, a child that's
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Depressed, and you don't know what to do. you don't know what
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This is.
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And one of the things that can happen... one of the things
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That can happen is that we as christians... we just kind of
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Write it off as someone being emotionally weak or unstable. i
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Know as a young christian when i heard about people being
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Depressed, i didn't... i never said this that i'm aware of or
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Remember, but i'm most likely thinking to myself, "what's
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Wrong with you? snap out of it. come on, come on! get going.
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Don't worry; be happy!" but i've since learned, and this is
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Wisdom that comes from god and experience in life... i've
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Since learned that if people could snap out of it, don't you
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Know if they could, they would. nobody wants to live like that.
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Let me give you several causes for depression: one is fear.
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That's what we have in elijah, the anxiety. he was fearful for
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His life. he was so afraid that jezebel was going to kill him.
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He was under threat, under opposition. now he had stood up
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To all of this and more, but somehow now he had had enough.
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Maybe it was just too much. it was the tipping point. and so
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He ran in fear just to get away from jezebel. and he prays to
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Die.
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Then there's self-pity. the prophet was having a
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Pity-party. if you read the story, when he prays to die, he
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Laid down and slept under the juniper tree, and when he got
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Up, god asked him in verse 9:
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9) ... "what are you doing here, elijah?" (so, elijah
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Explains, he says, verse 10) "i have been jealous for the lord
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God, the god of hosts. for the people of israel have forsaken
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Your covenant, thrown down your altars (these are terrible
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People who have) killed your prophets with the sword, and i,
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Even i only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away."
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Self-pity. he thinks nobody cares. he... he's thinking, god
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Himself doesn't care. so, he tried to run away, and he
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Throws this pity-party. the problem with a pity party is
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Nobody wants to come to your party except i, me, myself and
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My. not good company typically when you're in this state.
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Self-pity.
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Then there's isolation. he was all by himself out there in the
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Desert, isolated from the family of faith, isolated from
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His friends. there was no support system. he was alone in
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The wilderness. david said, "i'm alone like a pelican in
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The wilderness, like an owl in the desert." and you may find
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Yourself lonely... and we're going to deal with the subject
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Of loneliness in a later message in our help series. but
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You're lonely because you feel alone.
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Now you're not alone. if you're a christian, god will never
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Leave you or forsake you. but the lie of depression says i'm
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Alone. nobody cares. you're a single parent and you're going
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It alone. you're raising children, you're working
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Multiple jobs, you're utterly and totally exhausted. you
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Don't how you can keep going. you're alone and you may be
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Depressed. your husband or your wife dies and you're oh so
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Lonely; it aches because your heart is broken.
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Older adults battle depression. and many of you who have lived
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A few years and you've come here the last season of your
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Life; it's winter in effect in your life and you feel all
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Alone and alienated and people don't seem to care. we can make
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It worse by saying things like, "well, people don't care about,
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The church doesn't care about me, no one cares about me."
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It's all this self-pity and isolation that can exist when
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We take care... when we take ourselves out. and that's what
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Depression does: it just kind of removes you from people who
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Do really care, who would help you and can help you. but you
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Don't want the help. you want to just try to go it alone and
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That complicates it.
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So, elijah was alienated; he was isolated; he was alone, and
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When you get yourself isolated, you become a target of the
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Enemy, and that's when satan's lies... lies born out of the
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Pit of hell, start attacking you. because ultimately here's
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What depression does: it lies to you! or satan uses your
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Depression to say, "you're worthless, you're wasted,
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You're finished, you're done! nobody cares! you might as well
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Die! people would be better off without you!" these are the
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Lies that come out of the darkness.
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How can we recover? i want to give you some words that begin
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With the letter “t”. you may want to write these down.
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First of all, time. give it time. it's a process of
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Healing. again, i'm the kind of guy that if it doesn't happen
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In the next fifteen minutes, i'm wondering why. i remember
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Actually... this is how crazy i was. i remember actually just
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Sitting and staring at the clock, trying to make it go
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Faster in my mind where i could get out of this state. but you
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Can't push yourself out on your own, and it takes time. again,
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If somebody told me it was a year, i said, "you got to be
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Kidding me. not a year." about a year i really felt myself
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Again. it takes time.
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Then truth. remember, i said depression is a lie! exchange
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The lies for the truth! when satan comes against you... when
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You start talking yourself crazy talk things that are
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Silly, it's not even true about yourself, counteract it by the
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Word of god and what god says about you! you are a child of
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God! so many people during times of depression feel so
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Worthless and weak. but you're not worthless and weak! you're
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Stronger than you think! "i can do all things through christ..."
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Now sometimes it's just putting one foot in front of another.
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It's just getting up when you feel like laying down. i
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Learned what i had preached in the past and that is we do not
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Feel our way into acting, we act our way into feeling!
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That's faith. we start believing what god says and
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What... instead of what we say. we hear the still small voice.
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That's what happened to elijah. god spoke to him. it was
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Revelation. god gave him another word; god gave him a
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Challenge.
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Do you know what many depressed people need? if you're
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Depressed, you know what you may need? you need a new
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Mission in your life; you need a new challenge in your life.
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And god's using this season to prepare you for something
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Bigger, something greater, or something else. he's preparing
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You so listen to him! someone said to me... they were just
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Talking really about prostate cancer i had, but said to me
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Something like this. "jack, i'm praying that you'll learn
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Everything you need to know... what you need to learn from
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This experience." that was good advice; good counseling. and i
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Learned a lot of things and so will you. i learned god's word
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To stand on god's promises even more.
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And i'll give you one of them. this is something to hang on
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And hope on. jeremiah 29:11! somebody watching me right
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Now... someone listening to me right now. you need this
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Because you wonder if you have a future. "'for i know the
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Plans for you,' says the lord. 'plans not to harm you, plans
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Not to hurt you, plans for your welfare and for your good.'"
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God has a future and a hope for you. if you're a follower of
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Jesus christ, he gives beauty for ashes.
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Then there's trust. trust in god. i mean really trust him
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All the way. faith, believing god... what god says is true,
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Knowing that you can't fix this but he can. trusting him that
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He's working all things together for good. psalm 23 was
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Probably written in a depressive period for david's
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Life. he said, "yea, though... even though i walk through the
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Valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil for you are
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With me."
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And then there's touch. reach out to others. don't get
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Yourself isolated as elijah did and some of you are right now.
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But you need support and encouragement. call someone who
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Cares.
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We're here to help you carry the load. you don't have to
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Carry this all by yourself.
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Then there's thanksgiving. write down every day... i
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Learned to journal and just to write down everything every day
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My thoughts, but my thanksgiving to god. just write
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Down three things every day. just name three... three things
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Every day, the blessings of god upon your life. and what... you
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Know what happens? it's proof... scientific proof, your
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Brain starts to change. the chemicals in your body, the
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Composite of you... the soul, the body, the mind... it begins
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To rethink, and your mind is transformed. thanksgiving is
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Therapy!
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And then there is therapy. yes, i mean professional therapy.
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See a doctor. if you find yourself depressed, in one of
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These states, you need to go see a doctor. you may need to
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Go see a christian counsellor. you may need to see a
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Professional... a psychologist or a psychiatrist.
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And yes, medication is appropriate when needed. you
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Get... you get medication for your cholesterol, you get
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Medication for diabetes, you get medication for headache.
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It's just foolish to think that you wouldn't take a medication
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If you're battling depression. because these medications
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Typically... they do a lot of things, but ultimately, they...
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They rebuild the serotonin in your brain. what they really do
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Is kind of get from an unstable condition... to get you even
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And level again where you can start repairing and you can
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Start healing. so, it may be appropri... what is not
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Appropriate is to medicate yourself with alcohol or drugs!
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Or bad behavior! so, get the therapy you need, and that
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Includes talk, not just medication! but therapy is
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Important.
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And then finally, there's testimony. elijah was
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Reassigned a new work and a new calling in his life. and he got
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Up from that desert, depressed experience, and he returned.
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God said, “what are you doing here, elijah? there's more work
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For you to do.” i said it a moment ago, some of you just
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Need a new calling, you need a new challenge in your life. you
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Need to get going again! you're stuck! so put one foot in front
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Of another!
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And what i learned, we often learn it's what the apostle
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Paul learned who said to the corinthian christians, “our god
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Is a god of all comforts, and with the comfort with which we
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Are comforted, we comfort others.” when you are healed,
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You want to help others. when you are broken, you want to
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Help other people put the pieces back together; to pray
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For people, to love people, to serve people. i tell you, i'm a
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Better comforter of people, i'm a better counsellor, i'm a
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Better helper because of that experience in my life. and so
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Will you.
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“you're gonna be okay.”
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So let's close today with a powerful word of encouragement
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From the apostle paul. he gives us this in second corinthians
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One versus three and four. all praise to god, the father of
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Our lord jesus christ. god is our merciful father and the
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Source of all comfort. he comforts us and all our
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Troubles so that we can then comfort others when they are
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Troubled.
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We will be able to give them the same comfort that god has
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Given us. god will give you comfort, the comfort you need
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Right now. and because you are comforted by the god of
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Comfort, you will be able to share that hope and love and
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Peace with others when you have been broken. you want to help
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Other people who are broke and get their life back together in
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God.
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God will give you a greater desire to pray for people. if
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You experienced sorrow or sadness or grief or pain in
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Your life. he will show you how you can love people and serve
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People. i tell you, i'm a better man, a better christian,
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A better pastor, a better counselor, a better helper, a
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Better preacher because of the experience of pain in my own
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Life when god gave me great comfort.
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It makes me a better a greater comforter of others. i pray
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That god will bless you. i pray that god will give you hope,
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Joy, and peace and love that is found only in him. and i look
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Forward to being with you again the next time.
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Right here on powerpoint.
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Help! I'm Depressed

March 15, 2026 | 27:29

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