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Well, good morning Crossing 
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How are you doing today? 
Oh, you're doing better than 

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that? 
Good morning Christ. 

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The church. 
How you doing today? 

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Way to go with? 
So good to be in the house of 

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the Lord, with the people of the
Lord, learning from the word of 

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the Lord, and allowing the Holy 
Spirit to work richly and 

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powerfully in each one of us. 
And then we get to project that 

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out into a world that so 
desperately needs that intimate 

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personal relationship. 
Ship with Jesus Christ. 

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I want to welcome all of our 
campuses joining today from all 

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over this region of your Insider
online. 

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We are so thankful for each and 
every one of you and today I 

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want to share the sermon time 
with Holly Whatley. 

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I've no ye men. 
I've known Holly since my very 

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first weekend at the Crossing 
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When we were pacing Road 
Christian Church, she was there 

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that first weekend and she has 
been involved. 

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Evolved with some of the most 
critical ministries of this 

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church for years. 
She was my personal assistant, 

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she was a critical player in the
stablishment of our worship 

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teams. 
She used to run the finances for

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the whole church. 
When we decided to go 

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multi-site, she was part of the 
launch Team for our Macomb 

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campus at church location. 
Shout out to Macomb and while 

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she was up there, she finished 
her bachelor's degree. 

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Lincoln Christian University and
then she stepped away from our 

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staff for a time to lead the 
well house ministry here in 

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Quincy, awesome Ministry that we
do and what we share in. 

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And after a time there, she went
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location. 
Shout out to 929, And then later

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transition to manage 
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Ministries here at the 4th 
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She also helped develop and Lead
our rise conference as well. 

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Can I get a shoutout for Rise 
coming up? 

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And after that, she went back to
pursue to school to pursue a 

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graduate degree in counseling. 
And after graduation, she went 

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to work in counseling services 
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Shout out to Hannibal. 
You're lucky to have her out 

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over there. 
She has run a marathon. 

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She has been commissioned to 
ministry here at the Crossing. 

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She's Champion. 
The ministry of Rafa house, 

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Mission our missions. 
Team, she's been a leader at 

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Region and she is Close personal
friend of Allison and myself. 

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And we have a very deep respect 
for her. 

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The reason I want you to hear 
from her today is because she 

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has professional expertise in 
the understanding and the 

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treatment of depression. 
And she couples that with her 

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love for Jesus and her Devotion 
to the ministry at the Crossing.

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So I want you to give the very 
best most powerful Crossing. 

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Welcome to Holly, walley's she 
comes up on This day. 

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Thank you. 
Well thank you obviously Jerry 

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for such a warm welcome and 
thank you all so much. 

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It's such a honor to be here. 
I cannot begin to tell you how 

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much I love this church. 
I have been here my entire adult

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life at this church. 
I have grown and discovered a 

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deeper love and knowledge of 
Jesus. 

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I have found love and acceptance
and healing. 

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I have been challenged. 
I've been encouraged I have 

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loved my opportunity to be on 
staff here at the Crossing it 

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has literally been the honor of 
my life and this transition into

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mental health and into therapy 
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expected. 
Like so many of you I was doing 

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my normal quiet, time one 
morning, sitting down reading my

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Bible spending time with the 
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and the Holy Spirit just 
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So deeply to go back to school. 
And as I began to near the end 

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of my degree just so many things
kept lining up that it looked 

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like I was going to be making 
this transition and it's been an

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incredible Ministry to sit in 
front and across from clients 

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its Sacred Space to hear 
people's struggles to hear their

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stories to hear their 
sufferings, but also to hear 

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their wins and their Joys and 
their successes and I'm so 

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grateful for the opportunity 
that God has given me in this 

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season of History as well my 
unofficial title or how I 

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affectionately refer to myself 
at my current position is 

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world's oldest intern. 
Yes, thank you for that 

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Applause. 
My co-workers assure me that 

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there's no way that could be 
possible but no one has yet to 

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produce an intern older than me.
So until that happens. 

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I'm just going to wear that 
mount will proudly. 

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So if you're a person who can't 
seem to quit, White find your 

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career path. 
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he's listed at least 12 that 
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Let's talk because I can relate.
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this idea of speaking, it is 
part of the series on Mental 

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Health about depression. 
Yay. 

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Right fun. 
Everyone's favorite topic but 

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what's interesting is I think 
depression is something that we 

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Are very familiar with, so 
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depression are two. 
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know, as mental illnesses, or 
mental health challenges, that 

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are the most common, we 
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among our own church family, you
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about this mental health, 
survey, and so many of you 

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responded and we'll talk more 
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But depression is something that
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understood. 
Stood, we're not always sure 

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like when we say depression, 
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right? 
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So imagine you guys are a couple
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conversation, like say a couple 
of you guys are like standing 

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around the grill. 
That's something that guys do, 

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right? 
I don't know men. 

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Yeah. 
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Yes. 
I see a couple of knobs. 

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Thank you. 
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So you guys are standing around 
the grill and you're having a 

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conversation with a buddy and 
your friend says this. 

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Hey, so How are things going and
you say, oh well, you know, I 

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don't know. 
Like I've been just feeling 

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really run down lately. 
Oh, really? 

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Yeah, just been feeling like 
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I'm not really sleeping. 
Well, have trouble falling 

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asleep. 
And I have trouble staying 

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asleep and your friends. 
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that. 
Like, well, how's work going? 

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And your friend says, oh well, 
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you know usually what would 
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and I would get my team together
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I'll get my spreadsheet out, you
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But it just seems like every 
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like my brains kind of fuzzy and
I just can't quite seem to get 

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my ducks in a row like okay. 
Well, alright, how are things at

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home? 
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good like we've been busy, the 
kids have been busy now but Just

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seems like I'm just always in a 
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quite seem to get out of it. 
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Okay. 
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You know, you've been working 
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How's that going? 
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did a certain point. 
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feel like working on it anymore 
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friend like hey man, like I 
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depressed and your friends like 
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Like No, I'm just in a funk like
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Work will slow down. 
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really busy right now but we 
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some of the things that we 
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things that we might classify as
being in a funk could actually 

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be symptoms of depression. 
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these so you might be feeling 
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hopeless. 
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pleasure in activities that you 
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You might be really more hungry 
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hungry at all. 
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You might have extreme fatigue 
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Clearly evaluate our 
concentrate, you may feel like a

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failure or like you have let 
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You might have movements that 
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may Movements that are more 
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You might be getting too little 
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falling asleep or having trouble
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may have the exact opposite 
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sleep. 
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thoughts or start to make plans 
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And again, like I said, 
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affects so many people. 
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two or more weeks, you may have 
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clinical depression. 
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a lot of people. 
We asked you to participate in 

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our mental health survey. 
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that survey. 
And we're so thankful and 

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appreciative of you, sharing 
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And of those who responded to 
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women who responded. 
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The Men Who responded experience
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number of us who either have or 
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depression. 
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in the pages of scripture, we 
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So many people who also have 
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or these symptoms are qualities 
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Just like in real life where I 
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someone based on a conversation 
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I'm not 100% certain that this 
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but we can begin to recognize 
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match some of the qualities that
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those is the psalmist in Psalm 
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So let's look at Psalm 42 verse 
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Why my soul are you downcast why
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Within me, put your hope in God.
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Savior and my God and I can only
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be thinking world's shortest. 
Sermon, right? 

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Why are you so sad? 
Put your hope in God great let's

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go get nachos, right? 
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disappoint you but for others of
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opposite end of the spectrum. 
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or currently experience 
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one more message where I think 
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Why am I so sad? 
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And so right now I want to speak
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locations, who care for someone 
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We've been referencing this word
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series. 
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Word, validation simply means 
acknowledging the thoughts 

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feelings and experiences of 
another person and it sounds 

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like this. 
Hey, that sounds really hard or 

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I can imagine that. 
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willing to see through the lens 
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when we love someone in our life
who is struggling, our 

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intentions are so good. 
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them to think differently, we 
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Um, to feel differently, but in 
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those good intentions, we can 
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much as an encouragement, but 
sometimes it can feel like 

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almost like a weapon to the 
people in our Lives who we love 

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who are having those 
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So, here's what I want. 
All of us at all of our 

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locations to do. 
I want us to take a collective 

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deep breath. 
Okay, so let's take a deep 

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breath in. 
And let's take a deep breath 

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out. 
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want us to enter into those 
conversations with because the 

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people in our Lives who we love 
so much, they are not problems 

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to be fixed. 
They are people to be loved. 

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And so often our presence, our 
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prayers, our encouragement. 
Hey, even our funny memes that 

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we send them throughout the 
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That can mean so much Two more 
two people we love who are 

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experiencing depression, been 
any right answer ever could. 

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Because more often than not, 
there really is no right answer.

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So with this, we're going to 
shift back to our psalmist in 

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Psalm 42 and we're going to look
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Why is my soul? 
So downcast the way I often 

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explain it to my clients is that
depression can Feel kind of like

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a soup and I know what you're 
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expert advice that I really came
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Yeah yep, you're welcome. 
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depression can be kind of like a
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ingredients can be different 
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different and they can 
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of a person's depression because
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feelings and behaviors and the 
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depends on the individual person
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a clinical professional can be a
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the tools and the resources that
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Out some of the components of 
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your particular type of soup, I 
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the lens of the four buckets 
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bipolar disorder. 
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change in hormones. 
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baby or as you get older That 
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certain medications and there 
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changes that happen when we are 
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So let's look at Psalm 42, 
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pants for streams of water. 
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God, my soul thirsts for God for
the Living God, when can I go 

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and meet with God? 
My tears have been my food all 

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day and night. 
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long. 
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the temple. 
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on the road. 
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presence. 
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me. 
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depression it's like okay, 
wherever God is I'm somewhere 

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else and our soul can feel so 
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desperate. 
We no longer sense his presence 

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and he could feel so distant. 
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symptoms that we can experience.
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psalmist we can have prolong 
times where we have trouble 

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managing our emotional effect 
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Us. 
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psalmist said. 
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appetite and our tears are all. 
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sermon series. 
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these things. 
I remember as I pour out my 

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soul, how I used to To go to the
house of God, under the 

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protection of the mighty one, 
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among the festive. 
Throng. 

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The psalmist is looking back on 
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was flourishing, he was 
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he had purpose, he had 
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and others. 
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sense of loss can often A season
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Whether that's the death of a 
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relationship, the loss of a job,
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something. 
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our life, and so often 
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by the failure, to truly grieve 
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away the emotional pain, we busy
ourselves or try to keep our 

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minds occupied. 
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process of acknowledging 
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It's being willing to say, hey, 
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I miss this person. 
I miss this season of Life, 

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maybe you're grieving or morning
us an experience of life that 

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you've never even got to 
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Mourn. 
That loss, David Kessler, who is

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an expert. 
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it this way, grief Demands a 
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So many of us, we try to stuffer
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to be willing to share with the 
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I am hurting. 
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I am grieving Depression can 
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most part during this series, 
we've been kind of skipping over

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this section, right? 
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clinical and then Moving on. 
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Hey, we're going to hang on to 
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this is kind of my jam, right? 
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when I very first transitioned 
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this question a lot. 
Well, are you going to be a 

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Christian? 
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behind that question, like, oh, 
where you going to be rooted in 

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the word of God? 
You know, are you going to be 

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pointing people to Jesus? 
Are you going to be trusting in 

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the holy spirit to guide you in 
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that the more I learned about 
counseling, theories, or about 

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how our brain and body is wired 
or about the things that help us

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grow or the things that help us 
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Tuck or the things that can get 
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I was like, oh wait like the 
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Bible says that too. 
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So they didn't quite seem as 
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people might actually think. 
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that is found exactly in the 
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it's in Psalm 42:5. 
So again, the psalmist asks, why

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why Is my soul so downcast. 
Why is my soul so Disturbed 

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within me and what we may not 
realize is why is actually a 

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superpower? 
The psalmist is actually 

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teaching us a brain hack. 
So can you guys hang with me and

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nerd out with me for just like 
30 seconds? 

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Yeah, okay. 
Thank you. 

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Thank you. 
I see. 

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I see thank you. 
I see those nods. 

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It gets triggered and triggered,
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When we're having mood 
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experiencing big emotion, after 
big emotion after big emotion 

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after big emotion. 
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ways that our amygdala gets 
trigger and you may have heard 

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this before it, you can 
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your amygdala gets really 
agitated or you Experience 

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freeze or faint, sometimes it's 
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your body and your brain, kind 
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Well, here's the amazing thing. 
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my soul so downcast? 
Why is my soul so? 

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Disturbed within me, the word 
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Hebrew like brought low. 
Just exactly what happens when 

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our amygdala gets triggered. 
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Disturbed, literally means it's 
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It's like thundering and 
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happens when our amygdala gets 
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So the psalmist is describing 
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exactly what can be our 
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But here's the amazing part, 
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brain, normally our thinking 
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emotional brain. 
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is the noticing part. 
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about our thoughts, the more we 
become curious about our 

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emotional experiences, the more 
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angry in this moment, why am I 
feeling so agitated in this 

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moment? 
Why am I feeling? 

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So sad right now, it actually 
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actually a fancy word called 
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We separate ourselves from the 
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the thoughts or emotions. 
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result of repressing. 
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acknowledgement of like, what is
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It made feel too scary to 
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What is going on inside of us. 
That could be for a variety of 

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reasons, maybe it's Trauma from 
our past that feels very scary 

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to address and that is very 
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It could be difficult or painful
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jealousy or more often than not 
shame or guilt and we don't even

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want to go there. 
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we binge another episode of 
Netflix or we finish off another

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sleep of Girl Scout cookies. 
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or sex to try to regulate what 
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But the more we utilize this 
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our amygdala becomes less 
reactive and it calms down this 

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emotional experience and helps 
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You see, the psalmist was 
morning a season in his life, in

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which he was really flourishing 
and transitioning to a season in

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which he was not later on. 
In Psalm 42, we read that he was

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oppressed. 
But he was feeling forgotten by 

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God and it's very often in these
times of difficulty that we can 

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really do the hard work of 
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The why regeneration is an 
incredible Ministry at our 

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church? 
I am a proud regeneration 

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graduate. 
I love this ministry and 

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regeneration is a Biblical 
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and as part of those Twelve 
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it can be kind of known as the 
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If, you know, you know, because 
the fourth step is we go through

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the process of cultivating or 
conducting a Fearless moral 

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inventory. 
We list out all of our fears, we

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list out all of our resentments,
all of the harms done to us, all

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of the harms that we ourselves 
have done to other people and 

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it's all The effort of getting 
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What did our response value? 
What are we placing on the 

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throne of our hearts? 
Other than God is it pride? 

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Is it control? 
Is it a sense of security is it 

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self protection? 
Is it relationships? 

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What is at the root of my 
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And where am I failing to put 
God on the throne and trust, God

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first in my life. 
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spiritual bucket we're going to 
go back to Psalm. 42:5 why my 

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soul? 
Are you downcast why? 

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So Disturbed within me, put your
hope in God for I will yet 

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Praise Him My Savior and my God.
So now we're going to focus on 

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the very last section of this 
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I will yet. 
Praise Him My Savior and my God.

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So in the Hebrew verse 5 
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praise God, for the help of his 
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We as human beings are 
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are parents at any of our 
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So imagine this with me, your 
baby is crying. 

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Crying. 
Okay, and imagine like the 

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heaving sobbing top of the lungs
just like, you know, where the 

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face is, just like beet red, 
everything they've got crying. 

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Okay, so you go in and you pick 
them up and you hold them close,

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and you're like, it's okay, it's
okay, it's okay. 

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Well, what begins to happen, 
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You feel their body begin to 
relax. 

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You feel them. 
Begin to take, breaths that arm.

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Much more deep, you feel the 
shaking begin to calm and you 

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feel the tears? 
Begin to dry up because that's 

455
00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,200
what happens when we co regulate
with each other. 

456
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,000
And that process continues 
throughout the course of Our 

457
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,100
Lives. 
We teach each other how to 

458
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:34,000
regulate and manage our emotions
And God's relationship with us 

459
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000
is no different. 
God's presence is with us when 

460
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,800
we have these big feelings when 
these thoughts overwhelm us, 

461
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:50,400
God's presence is with us to 
calm us to hold us. 

462
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:55,900
When we are struggling with our 
mood, our thinking and our loss.

463
00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:03,100
Psalm 42, 6A says this, my soul 
is Cast Within Me. 

464
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:11,000
Therefore, I will remember you, 
you see, when we are depressed, 

465
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,100
we have a mental filter and that
mental filter is a negative 

466
00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,500
mental filter. 
We will think that we are 

467
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:23,100
failing. 
We will think that everything is

468
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,200
going wrong. 
We will convince ourselves that 

469
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,600
there is no hope. 
And that is naturally, that is 

470
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,100
connected. 
With depression. 

471
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,900
And the psalmist says, okay, I 
realize that this is my 

472
00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,900
experience. 
My soul is downcast. 

473
00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:44,600
What did we say? 
That was my soul is down low. 

474
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:51,500
My soul is depressed Within Me. 
Therefore, so he's saying I know

475
00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:55,100
that I am depressed. 
I know that I have this mental 

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00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:59,900
filter. 
Therefore, I will remember you 

477
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:06,900
when we have this mental We have
to remember God, if he's in 617 

478
00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:10,100
says this. 
We have the full armor of God. 

479
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:14,200
And particularly verse 17 says, 
take the helmet of salvation and

480
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,000
the sword of the spirit which is
the word of God. 

481
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:23,300
So the helmet of salvation 
protects our minds and think 

482
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:27,900
about it for a minute. 
What is salvation Salvation is 

483
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:31,600
the knowledge that we have been 
rescued by God. 

484
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,600
It is the knowledge that all of 
our sin and failure and mistakes

485
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,500
have been covered by the blood 
of Jesus Christ. 

486
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:45,200
It is the knowledge that there 
is absolutely no condemnation. 

487
00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:49,600
For those who are in Christ 
Jesus, it is the knowledge that 

488
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,000
there is absolutely nothing in 
heaven on Earth that can 

489
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,400
separate us from the love of 
God. 

490
00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,900
That is ours in Christ Jesus. 
So the helmet of salvation 

491
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:05,800
protects Our minds and reminds 
us of who we are and whose we 

492
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:11,000
are and not only that we have 
the sword of the spirit, the 

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00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,400
word of God. 
It was never meant to be used as

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00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,500
a weapon against us. 
It was always meant to be used 

495
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:21,200
as a weapon against the enemy of
our souls. 

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00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:27,700
Psalm 42 verses 7 and 8 says 
this deep calls to deep in the 

497
00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:31,600
Roar of your waterfalls, all 
your waves and break. 

498
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:37,200
Have swept Over Me by day the 
Lord directs his love at night, 

499
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:42,400
his song is with me a prayer to 
the god of my life. 

500
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:47,100
We talked about that when my 
soul is distressed, it feels 

501
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:51,100
like the Roaring waves, right? 
Our thoughts are all over the 

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00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:52,600
place. 
Those emotions. 

503
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,500
Hit us like waves, but the 
psalmist is comparing God's love

504
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,300
his voice. 
To those same waves, which means

505
00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:05,000
that When those thoughts and 
those feelings are so loud God's

506
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:11,000
voice in his love is louder and 
that he is directing and 

507
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:17,000
commanding his love towards us. 
He is very much in the battle 

508
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,600
with us. 
So when the thoughts are loud, 

509
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:25,400
his voice is louder. 
And when we're awake and cannot 

510
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,300
sleep, at says, his song is with
us. 

511
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:34,100
So what does that mean? 
For those of us at all of our 

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00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:40,400
locations, who are in a season 
of depression, it means that we 

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00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:46,000
will take steps of faith. 
And for some of us a step of 

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00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,700
Faith, literally might mean 
getting out of bed and taking a 

515
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,900
shower. 
But as we take that step of 

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00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:58,200
faith, we know, God is directing
his love towards us, right? 

517
00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,800
So that means that every Every 
step of the way, God is saying 

518
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,600
I'm here. 
I'm here, you're doing it, 

519
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,000
you're doing it. 
He is directing his love towards

520
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,300
us and when those thoughts and 
those feelings get so loud. 

521
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,699
We will remember that. 
God's voice is so much louder 

522
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,300
and we will protect our minds 
with the helmet of salvation. 

523
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:23,400
Remembering that we are loved 
and chosen. 

524
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:28,500
By God, that we were covered in 
Christ blood. and when we are 

525
00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:36,300
awake in the middle of the night
again and again and again, We 

526
00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:46,199
will allow him to sing over us. 
And we will rest in his love for

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00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:51,300
us. 
The psalmist says yet. 

528
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,000
I will praise him. 
It's a, pretty powerful word, 

529
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,900
right? 
Especially when our symptoms are

530
00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:03,100
so significant when we're 
feeling so tired. 

531
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,900
When those emotional waves, hit 
us over and over and over again,

532
00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:15,400
when those thoughts Pierce so 
deeply Yes, no matter what? 

533
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,400
No matter what I experience, no 
matter what each day brings yet.

534
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:24,600
The psalmist says yet. 
I will praise him. 

535
00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:29,700
Why? 
Because he is with me. 

536
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:32,500
We're moving to a time of 
decision. 

537
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:44,300
I'm in. 
I'm in an interesting spot 

538
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:52,300
because I've said to you before 
that, I've had people come up to

539
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:54,400
me and say it's like, you're 
reading my mail. 

540
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,500
It's like you're going through 
my trash or hiding in my closet.

541
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,300
I kind of feel like that 
happened to me today. 

542
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:09,000
That I don't know how what Holly
shared with you is affecting 

543
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,500
you? 
I have no idea but I know how 

544
00:36:10,500 --> 00:36:14,700
it's affecting me and and how I 
look at my own life. 

545
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,300
And I can see a lot of those 
realities. 

546
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:27,500
In my life and I bet you do too.
A lot of different things 

547
00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:31,900
impacted mean what she said, one
of the biggest ones was 

548
00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:42,900
co-regulation. and, As a parent.
I can remember the two words. 

549
00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:46,800
That we said to our kids, they 
had two different meanings 

550
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,500
depending upon the situation, 
but we set them a lot and that 

551
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:54,300
was be still. 
Did you ever hear that from 

552
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:56,800
parents? 
Be still. 

553
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,200
You know, that's a Biblical 
term. 

554
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:07,800
It's in Psalm 46 where God says 
be still and know that I am. 

555
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,900
God. 
Most of the time though, we 

556
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:15,400
didn't use those two words, we 
had a noise. 

557
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,000
A sound that we would make that 
conveyed the same message. 

558
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:29,700
And the noise was this. 
How have you heard a lot? 

559
00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:35,700
And again, it can mean two 
different things in 

560
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:37,600
co-regulation. 
It can mean two different 

561
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,600
things. 
One, It can be. 

562
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:45,400
Hey, you need to quiet down. 
Right. 

563
00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:51,800
And then in Psalm 46, be still 
in the Hebrew language, could be

564
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,200
translated, stop striving. 
Quit fighting. 

565
00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:03,200
Surrender. 
Some of us today is where we are

566
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,600
exactly where we are. 
And that still Small Voice in 

567
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:12,300
your heart. 
God speaking to you right now 

568
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:18,900
and that's what be still means. 
That's what co-regulation looks 

569
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:23,300
like for some of us. 
I mean, we're just torn up. 

570
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,700
And we need to feel that we've 
been taken up in the arms of 

571
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:33,100
God. 
He calms us. 

572
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,600
And he reminds us. 
That it's okay. 

573
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,700
That it's going to be okay 
because you're in his arms. 

574
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:53,700
maybe today is a day where 
you're not crying or retching or

575
00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,800
Overwhelmed. 
But because you spend some time 

576
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:05,200
with the Lord today, you can 
feel those things calm down. 

577
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,100
Some of you today have never 
come into an intimate personal 

578
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,100
relationship with Jesus Christ. 
You're still trying to do this 

579
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:16,800
on your own and it's time to 
stop that. 

580
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,700
It's time for you to go to him. 
And let him have control of your

581
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:27,000
life. 
It's time to stop striving. 

582
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:32,700
It's time to quit fighting. 
It's time to surrender. 

583
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,700
There's going to be someone 
right over there by that 

584
00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:38,600
baptistery. 
That would love to talk to you 

585
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,600
about that step. 
A courageous step, a huge step, 

586
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:53,300
but so powerful. 
So life in eternity changing For

587
00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:58,000
many of us today. 
It's different. 

588
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,500
We have that relationship with 
Jesus Christ and maybe, you 

589
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:06,400
know, we're feeling 
hypocritical, like why can't I 

590
00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:11,000
Why can't I get this? 
Get my stuff together, why can't

591
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,100
I And that's what these steps 
are for today. 

592
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:20,400
For you to just take that step 
to take a step. 

593
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:30,900
A courageous step. 
Get on your knees before the 

594
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:33,500
Lord, and pour your heart out to
him. 

595
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,400
And feel. 
His hands pick you up. 

596
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:52,900
To feel his comfort and his 
strength in a time of need today

597
00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:57,700
is the day. 
To start a process of healing. 

598
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,800
It just makes sense that you 
would go. 

599
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:06,900
To the great physician. 
To the Healer. 

600
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,700
Would you stand with me? 
Let's pray together in Jesus 

601
00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:13,400
name. 
Heavenly father I pray. 

602
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,800
Would you just take advantage of
this moment? 

603
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:21,600
That we would be able to hear 
that voice. 

604
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:30,900
Your spirit inside us. 
Gently encouraging. 

605
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:38,100
Moving us to take a bold, step 
courageous step. 

606
00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:46,700
And that father, we would be 
able to experience some healing.

607
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,500
I pray father that you would 
accomplish a great Mighty thing.

608
00:41:56,900 --> 00:41:59,100
In Jesus name, amen. 
In Jesus name, amen.