 I was glad when they said, let's go to church. You glad to be here tonight? Let's stand and have a word of prayer together. Glad for you to be here. I want you to take that prayer list that you've got in your hand, and let's believe God together to meet the need of everybody that's there. We've had some prayer requests that have come in late this afternoon. I want you to be sure to be praying for those that are hurting over the loss of loved ones. It's some difficult times for many of those folks, of course. And the Lord is able to strengthen. He's able to sustain, amen. So let's believe God for His touch inside of their life. You have a need in your life. Here's one thing you don't have to do. You don't have to ask permission to go before the throne of God when you pray. If you'll believe and ask your Father, He will reward you openly. He will meet the need of your life. How many of you believe that tonight? So let's believe God together. Come on, join your voices in prayer, all of you that are online. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before you tonight. We thank you for the opportunity we have of prayer. You said it is the effectual fervent prayer, the righteous, that will avail much. So tonight, Lord, hear the cries of your people. Hear the voices of your people as we collectively call upon your name. You are the one true living God, and there's none like you. That's why we know that when we ask anything according to your will, it shall be done. That's your word, that's your promise, and we believe you tonight. I pray that you would comfort the grieving hearts of those that are, Lord, the loss of their loved one. We pray that you would touch the lives of people who are in the hospitals tonight or maybe homebound. We know God that you're able to visit them. You're not a God confined to this building, but you're a God who is everywhere all the time, omnipresent. Let your glory fill this place, I pray, and the touch of God and the hearts and lives of your people, and we give you praise and glory for it. In Jesus' mighty name, everybody believes it shall a great big amen. Go find somebody you don't know and shake their hand, introduce yourselves to them while I greet all of you that are watching online tonight. We welcome you from around the world. It's a blessing to be able to have you join us. I encourage you to share out this broadcast this evening in this Bible class. I believe it will be a blessing to you. If you'll take time to do that, you'll be a part of carrying the gospel around the world, and we're glad for you to be joining us from all around the world and out in the western states, the north, southeast and west, everywhere around. We're glad for you to join us and may God bless your life for being a part of this service tonight. We trust that God will touch your life and that you'll get an opportunity to be able to give into the kingdom of God in just a few moments as well as download the study, and it will be a blessing to your life as well. God bless you for joining us tonight. Praise God. Are you blessed tonight? Let me ask you this question. Have you been a blessing to somebody this week? All right. There's a little hesitation there. Okay. Well, let me encourage you. Here's the good part. This is what hump day is all about. This is about what Wednesday is all about. Give you a chance to go the second half of the week and find somebody who needs Jesus and give him Jesus. He didn't ask you to save him. He didn't ask you to heal him. He didn't ask you to be able to write him a check or anything like that. If he does, you better obey God. But you can't save him. You can't heal him. But you can give him Jesus. And if you'll do that, God will bless your life. You will be more than blessed when you give somebody the giving of life. That is Jesus Christ. Praise God. I encourage you to do that. I also want to encourage you as you're getting ready to give. You can open up your whatever it may be, your reoccurring app online if you give online. If you need an envelope, they're available for you. If you're giving cash, we have buckets that are available in the back of the auditorium. I don't want you to forget that there's an opportunity in every way for you to be able to give. It is your faithful financial support of this ministry that keeps it moving forward all of the time. I promise you, there is no underwriters of corporate entities. We don't have bailouts. But I can assure you of this. This house, because it belongs to God, will never go under. It will never go bankrupt. It will never suffer loss because it's God's work. Amen. You get the privilege of being able to be a part of it and all of you that are online. So, give is under the Lord. All the information is there. You can scan the QR code and it will get you where you need to go to be able to give, and God bless you for that. All the information that you need is available for you online for upcoming events, a lot of things that are taking place. I want to encourage all of the Pace Young adults to be a part of going bowling. You can register for that online as well. And if you haven't signed up to be able to be a part of the Sater Dinner, there's still time. There's a few more slots that are left for you there, as well as the Israel course that's coming up. I would encourage you if you haven't been a part of that before, or if you were in it before and you weren't able to finish that out, you can get that book and be a part of this upcoming class. It's going to be a great time. And I encourage you to be able to be a part of it. Also, I want you to be sure to be in prayer. Ben, stand up. I want you to be in prayer for Ben. He's going to be leaving later on tonight and going on a mission trip to Costa Rica. And I want you to be sure to be lifting him up in your prayers. There's going to be a number of folks. There's about 17 guys that are going with you, leaving out about, I don't know who, I ask him who in the world, who was your travel agent that booked a flight out of New Orleans at 2 o'clock in the morning. I don't know. I told him you might want to reconsider. He said it was the cheapest flights we can get. I said, okay, fly out at 2 o'clock in the morning. You keep him in your prayers, hold him up, and that God would give him great success and many souls will be added to the kingdom as a result of their efforts there. He's going with a ministry group and it will be a blessing. Also, somebody was asking me earlier today around the altar this past Sunday, how many folks gave their life to the Lord? I counted, I may be off, but I think there was about eight people Sunday morning that gave their life to Jesus Christ. Come on, give God glory for that. It's a wonder, amen? And I just want to thank you for you continuing to pray earnestly for the upbuilding of the kingdom and what God is doing in reaching out, reaching more souls. We're expecting that as we're entering into resurrection season. I've just done some open and closes a few moments ago for television and for radio, inviting people to come, as well as the Sunday night, April the 2nd for prophecy file update. I just tell you that these are prophetic times we're living in and I want you to help us get it out. So when you go on to social media, be sure that anything you see at Pace Assembly, you share that out, get the word out, help us get the word out to people that need to know about these upcoming events. And then look, invite everybody you come in contact with. All they're looking for is an invitation. That's first. But one of the first, one of the things that people think about is going to church on Easter. Okay? So you invite them on the Sunday before and then tell them you'll pick them up and you'll feed them lunch on the Sunday after if they'll come. If we can get three in a row, let me just tell you, if you get three in a row in a classic Pentecostal church, that means their name goes on the roll. When I was growing up, you had to have three. Three Sundays got you in. I mean, that was almost like, that almost trumped membership. But if you miss three, if you miss three, hell opened up and you fell in. You lost it all. Your membership, your card, your baptism, your salvation and everything, it was done. Oh, Lord. So just invite people. I promise you they are... Oh, man. Let me pull your... the phone up with Christy's... That's what I need. I left my phone back there. I got to share this with you. This is the impact of what takes place when through your giving, for people that are watching online, through your prayers and your support, I've got to share this with you and it's coming any second now. Behold. So this is just a little bit of a narrative here. So listen carefully. I believe it would be a blessing to you. I have to show it to you. So this is from one of our members that is relaying this. As I listened to the message on live stream from home this morning, and this was a couple of... I'm sorry? Yes, yes. Christy is our... I call her Our. She's a member of Pace Assembly, many of you know her. She said I couldn't help but remember this story and I wanted to go ahead and share it with you and Pastor. It's a story of the patient from a few weeks ago. She said I was rounding on a typical Friday doing her rounds to help get one of my colleagues caught up on the floor since they had been at PTO and I went over and began attempting visits to complete the assessments. I was able to complete a couple and stopped by several more rooms and families were present and typically I would leave it for someone on the following shift to attempt again. I got back to my office and felt this urgency in my spirit to go back and check on one specific room. This is the leadership of the Holy Spirit. I waited a little while and still felt the same urgency so I got up and went back to that room. When I got there, the patient's son and daughter-in-law were at bedside. The patient was non-responsive for a couple of days. As I began the assessment, we talked about the patient's life. Her only son and how she raised him, her husband and her husband and what she is like. When asked about the patient's faith tradition, the patient's son began to share about how his mom was raised in church. She raised him and she grew up in an assembly of God church. But now he believes she would label herself as a non-denominational because she listens to this guy online every week. I'm not sure what denominational background he is but she loves him. He has a YouTube channel and apparently is also on TV stations. She was always quick to tell me when someone and something that wasn't strictly from the Bible and she would stop listening or watching them. This one guy though that is somewhere I don't think far from here she has listened to for years and would tell you in a minute that this church he pastors is her church and she has never stepped foot on that property or in that church. This guy speaks on prophecy a lot and mom loves to hear about prophecy. When he's preached, when he preaches he speaks the truth and it's always biblical. Mom was never for a pastor who preached and would stray away from strictly Bible and this guy always did. Maybe you know him. His name is Joey Rogers. Christie said I was like yeah I know that him a little bit. He's my pastor. He said what really? I said yes and he responded you know I wish that just once he could pray for her even over the phone especially since she's dying. My last wish for her would be that. I said let me see what I can do to make that happen. If you will give me just a moment I said I called your phone but you were out of town and it was a Friday. I didn't know what the church office hours and Friday was so I called and talked to Cherie and answered. She answered and shared some of the situation with her. She said brother Lowry just walked in the door and pastor was out of town. She asked will brother Lowry work. I said I think so I'll just explain who he is. I explained and he said yes that would be great. As he began the first time in days the patient moved her mouth even while unresponsive and with tears streaming down his face because God had answered and given him his last wish for his mom he looked at me and said I just need to know. Why did you come in here? This is not a coincidence I said no it's definitely not. Actually I felt led in my spirit to come back over to visit your mom I attempted while y'all were out of the room like I needed to come back and attempt again which I don't typically do. He responded this is such a God thing and I know it made mom so happy. The message from the son it was certainly a pleasure and blessing to meet you today later on the day. Thank you for reaching out and doing more than required. We were proud to have brother Lowry pray for mom and please send all of our best wishes and support to him and brother Rogers. Yes ma'am I'm not sure if you heard but mom passed away last evening just before five. We were content she is with Jesus and that certainly helps please make sure to tell brother Rogers how much that he meant to our special devout lady over in Okaloosa County. I never know who is watching and before anybody looks at me I want you to know I'm terribly humbled by this I want to almost crawl out of here because I know that only God could put those things together that's not something I could orchestrate I don't know who's watching I know where they're watching from but I don't know who's watching and neither do you so I just want to thank you for helping us stay strong on our on our live streaming I mean all of the things that cameras in fact you know even even when we were broken into back in Thanksgiving and and the thief stole some of the camera equipment we still had two of the cameras that were up there that were brand new and this is only the second time I've been able to use them but you this church provided those cameras to make sure that we could record in the highest possible quality get it out there on social media get it out there on live stream I'm just telling you I pastor and read an eye pastor the greatest church in the United States of America as far as I'm concerned and we love you and we thank you from the depths of our heart what a blessing there's another soul I've never met I don't even know who the woman is all I got was that I don't know what her name is but thanks be to God that we had an influence in her life and an opportunity for her to watch so thank you again for that all right open your Bibles up to the book of Matthew chapter number five Matthew chapter number five verse number four we started in this lesson last week and the Lord just begin to take it and bless and the Bible says this in verse number two Jesus and he opened up his mouth and taught them saying blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven and where we are tonight part two of this verse blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted what a powerful statement that is it's more powerful than what we believe and I I you know there's any number of corrections that you this message may go but last week and I feel like it is this week I don't believe by any stretch of the imagination that anything that we're teaching just happens to be something that's just thrown out there I don't do that I'm asking the Lord what do you want at specific times and in a time period when the minds and the hearts of people are filled with anxiety filled with pressure filled with stress filled with all kinds of just sitting here tonight if you just touched someone in this building they might explode for the amount of pressure that they're under you might know what I'm talking about and it doesn't always show up on your face we're good at masking it for a little while but I'm going to tell you that there are people that are dealing with depression dealing with all kinds of evil thoughts in their minds and things that they're dealing with and I'm going to tell you the answer is found right here in this verse of Scripture if we will follow the pattern of the Lord I'm not saying that there are not physical maladies or situations that people are dealing with in some chemical imbalance or whatever that it may be but I'm just going to tell you the majority is all happening right between your ears and if you can get your heart and mind focused upon the Word of God day after day then much of what the anxieties that you're facing and things you're dealing with would be brought not only in perspective and even if they were a mountain I know a mountain mover here tonight amen how many of you know what I'm talking about so last week we dealt with these subjects concerning blessed are they that mourn and there's three people that mourn I won't go into the deep of all of this but the person who is desperately sorry for their sins is a person who mourns and a person that is really feels the desperation in their condition and the sufferings of other people is a person that is classified as a person who is mourning the person who experiences personal tragedy and trauma this is the three different categories and we dealt a little bit with the fact that Jesus bears sorrows and carried our grief this is a powerful thing that we're going to expand upon in the coming weeks especially on Palm Sunday I don't want you to miss this illustrated message because what Jesus did for us my friends is more than what we could ever imagine in other words why are we carrying so much of what Jesus has already carried so there's three different kinds of sorrows the natural sorrow the people who do not mourn do not easily adjust to the circumstances and wounds are left open my friends let me just say it to you physically very quickly if you have a wound that is left open I mean it could be bleeding or it could be healing up it might be in the process of healing but hasn't healed up yet it may be a bruise so you can cover the bruise with a needle know when someone rubs up against that spot that suddenly that pain is inflicted again that's the reason why we must be healed I believe that's the reason why the writer shouts out from the scripture is there not a bomb in Gilead is there not a remedy for the healing of our soul we act like there is no place to go but I'm telling you there is a place to go and it's not social media and it's not your friend and it's not the counselor and it's not the baker or the candlestick maker it's not one nine hundred one eight hundred it's not any of that it is a place where you get alone with God and you can pour out your soul like the prophetess did Hannah and pour out your soul before God with anguishing and I'm just telling you God understands all of that I say God understands all of that please I want to say this to you right now God is not afraid of your why you're not going to offend God with your why I've asked God why I don't know how many times I can't even count them as long as your answer comes up Lord I trust you I don't understand it all I don't have an answer for why this happened or why I'm going through this but the Bible says and I want to emphasize this over and over again tonight is that the Bible says blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted did you understand that do you understand that there's not a maybe in there there's not an if you might he said you shall be comforted if we leave the pain open it becomes a poison as we studied last week in our bloodstream so we dealt with a number of these different things and I bring you down to this story once again of David and Absalom what is this unnatural unnatural sorrow that's caused by guilt David and Absalom is David's son and what happens Absalom has this evil thought that comes up David is the king Israeli sitting on the throne and Absalom comes in to usurp all of the authority of the king now it starts suddenly so let me say this to you just as a little bit of a pastoral care for you listen carefully to me and Absalom spirit is one that tries to get between the king and the people and Absalom spirit is one that tries to get between the boss and the employee and Absalom spirit is one that tries to get between the husband and the wife are you hearing me and Absalom spirit is one that gets between whoever may be in charge and the constituency or the employees or whatever it may be you follow what I'm saying and Absalom spirit says this story just a little bit of this David is on the throne and David is the one who's judging what's going on people are coming before him and I'm simplifying this here Absalom is sitting outside sitting on the stoop if you will and as people are coming up to see the king he says in so many words hey you don't have to see the king you don't have to go through all that protocol you don't have to get an appointment with the king come on over here and tell Absalom how you feel and that's where it started and little by little that Absalom spirit is one that tries to usurp the authority of the person who's in charge now if we learn anything from David's life we learn that David respected the anointing on the person who was the anointed one until that person was taken completely off the scene did you hear what I just said he would not even kill Saul when he had an opportunity to because he respected the office that God set Saul up to be in now that gives you a little perspective so Absalom the son of David is now this son who has gotten his ideas and in his mind that I'm going to take over the king I'm going to take over the throne does that sound familiar does that sound familiar go back to the beginning Satan says I will ascend I will do this I will be the one and whenever that stuff gets inside of your spirit you better find yourself and alter real fast because it will come back to bite you so to speak in a harsh way and so what takes place David's son is disobedient towards him and he threatens his father and the next thing you know he sets up an actual coup and Absalom gets a group of people that will listen to him around him you follow me some people don't understand what happens they get manipulated in this in churches, in business whatever that it may be this is the reason why I tell you there are struggles in their marriage don't come in here talking about your spouse to everybody don't talk about your problems with everybody because you're setting yourself up for a destruction because when and if that comes together and you've created an environment where all of your friends are now still offended and you're not did you hear about y'all are a quiet bunch tonight I must be hidden in the right place now all of your girlfriends are all still mad at him because of the way he said and treated you and blah blah blah blah well now that he's come to the altar and repented y'all got it all back together and everything's wonderful now he can't come back to church anymore this scenario has happened more times than I can even tell you now he can't come back to that church anymore he says because everybody's looking cross-eyed at it I'm gonna close my eyes because there's just so many things going on and you can swap put the shoe on the other foot so you gotta be careful and you gotta keep your heart clean of anything that would try to what you've heard maybe before a takeover spirit and I'll be candid with you it's happened to me right here and some people haven't understood why and what and all that kind of stuff and I'm just gonna tell you I know I've walked this way before I have an understanding I'm not totally I'm not being killed by my son but I'm just telling you you've gotta be careful to not let that stuff get in your own spirit I wish I had a good amen out of y'all out here make me feel better about this lesson but I'm gonna teach it anyway so Absalom tries to take the kingdom from his father David and almost succeeded but what took place in 2 Samuel 14 his father's son comes back come back to me he comes back to him, we'll just leave that there his son is the one that's pampered and he's full of pride in 2 Samuel chapter 18 David is pleading to the leaders please be gentle with my boy even though he's trying to kill you please be gentle and David's mighty man we're getting sick and tired of it and Joab got real sick and tired of it so one day while Absalom is riding his horse singing oh happy day I'm gonna be the king that long beautiful hair that he calmed every morning in the mirror got stuck up in the tree what a horrible place to be you've hung your own self Joab comes along and puts a spear in Absalom and everybody thought that they've done David the king and Israel a service until David falls into a place where he says oh Absalom on his dying bed I would have died for you let it be me and not you I would say I may be going out on a limb here but I won't leave you out there how many Psalms and writings of David would we not have had if Absalom would have succeeded the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want how many times have you been comforted by that only to find out that it had been snatched right out from underneath this all because the king would not allow the what needed to take place to take place in other words was it better for David to die or Absalom to live Pastor what does that have to do with this morning thing has everything to do with it because David's sorrow over his son became overwhelming over his duties as king over the people and David's sorrow was literally because in part because of his sin with Bathsheba so guilt and sorrow came into play and the soldiers felt ashamed the Bible says because of their victory and it brought sorrow to the king and we read it to you last week this blunt statement that came from Joab get yourself out there and let the people see that it's okay and that you're gonna be okay otherwise you're gonna sink the whole place because of your sorrow and your guilt now today it's very difficult to teach this because we're in such a me society that it's all about me is it not? it's all about me and if it's not just an easy road or you know let me I got to deal with this in my way and blah blah blah well let me just say this to you there comes a point Mama daddy let me say it like this y'all don't know what I'm talking about but I'm just gonna tell you mine and for some of you you're gonna like wanna call child services and all and get my parents arrested but they're already in heaven because dad would whip me with a switch until I cried that was only half and then he whipped me until I shut up oh my lord pastor because there comes a point where you gotta get a hold of yourself and if you don't get a hold of yourself the sorrow, the guilt the pain or whatever the punishment of your sin can cause you to sink into a hole and now we've got a whole society and generation of touchy people you can't say nothing to nobody because nobody can tolerate anything you got to apologize for being you are y'all hearing what I'm saying I'm sorry I have a car really well I don't have one listen this is the terminology here you need to make sure you understand this and I've dealt with this before with you equality and equity and you don't like me because I say these things but I don't care I'm telling you the truth and you can write it out whatever you want to do the reason why the SVB bank the Silicon Valley bank went down is because they were too focused on trying to get equity into place in the new budget from the president of the United States that is $7 trillion my friends there are I believe I read six mentions of transgenderism what does that have to do with the economy unless you are not talking about equality and equity listen to me I don't want someone flying the plane just because they are white, black brown, red because we all felt well we just had too many of this we need somebody in there that's of this okay question do they know how to fly the plane how many of you are going to go to a brain surgeon and go you know what I ain't worried about this qualification I just want to know is he white, black, red, green and transgender all these different all these different ideologies I'm going to pick this one, this one I don't want to know that have you ever opened up a brain before because I don't care who you are if you haven't done this a time or two I don't need you flying the plane I don't need you driving the car I don't need you doing surgery on me while I slip at a holiday in class last night I don't care where you slip come on somebody are you hearing me this is the foolishness that a society gets into when you don't follow the Word of God and I'm just going to tell you this you may not like this but God is not an equal opportunity employer I'm just telling you nor is he an equal opportunity reward some 30 some 60 some 100 fold you need to know that when you get to heaven there are levels of rewards and there's levels of rewards that's going to be in hell everybody ain't going to walk in there and go well here's $100 for you whoo whoo oh no no no check the parable out he gave some talents some talent one talent, five talents, ten talents well that just doesn't work in the equation of of equity does it why am I saying all that this is the mentality that's going on right here when you get a society that thinks they deserve the kingship and gets mad because of it somewhere you got to have somebody who's grown up enough to say dry it up I'm going to tell you that was my daddy's favorite words dry it up listen to me I've been doing that for a long time I know what it is I got enough weapons to know it starts out with sound and then you don't even make a sound you just start jerking have I got a witness if anybody in here knows what I'm talking about now for some of you you don't have a clue what I'm talking about and please don't think of some southern culture thing because if your parents care about you at all they're going to take you out and deal with that Absalom spirit before they have to run for their own life so the point is when my dad was disciplining me he would not let me sink into a place where then it all became about me and it all became about my parents hate me and all that kind of stack it up all together all that you hear about today I never thought about running away brother Neff because I couldn't figure out how am I going to eat that's still my philosophy today if Rita leaves me I'm going with her I don't know how to cook come on somebody I mean I watch it on TV but I can't do that I will starve so there's got to be a point at which you don't let yourself sink into a hole how many of you understand what I'm talking about so the main thrust of this beatitude here deals with supernatural sorrow this is what we want to deal with here tonight supernatural sorrow you find that in 2 Corinthians chapter 7 verse number 10 if you look with me here you'll find out that the Bible says this is a powerful a powerful verse for this particular study and it says for godly sorrow so stop there must be something that is godly sorrow not just sorrow not just natural sorrow but godly sorrow ok so that's the kind of sorrow that would be supernatural and helpful to you right for godly sorrow is doing what it's working you might think because you got convicted of sin that somehow god hates me no no no he doesn't hate you he loves you because he's letting godly sorrow work in you come on travel with me here godly sorrow for godly sorrow work of repentance to what to salvation the godly sorrow of the world works death so you could literally say in this passage of scripture that i'm sorry worldly sorrow works death but godly sorrow is working life in you so in other words all those things that may have brought me sorrow in my heart because my parents taught me how to deal with it and not sink into a hole and suck my thumb or even want to take my life are you hearing me now it's working life for me how does that happen when i repent of my sin god takes the load of guilt and shame off of me do you know what would happen listen you wouldn't have to call revival services if the people in every average church would repent and let god lift the burden of guilt and shame off of their life you would have revival overnight because people would be free before that does not mean everything is going to work out the way you think but the one thing i can do is repent and get up and walk on with god and the results are left up to the lord now the question is can you handle that we're talking about mourning here we're talking about those that are mourning so godly sorrow then is a direct result of experiencing the first beatitude blessed are the poor in spirit for they shall do what theirs is the kingdom of heaven every one of these beatitudes stack on the other one once i find out how bankrupt i am in my spirit i mourn over my sin but god doesn't leave me in mourning nor does god leave me in poriness of spirit he already told me once you realize how bankrupt you are without me poor in spirit you get the kingdom you missed a good place right there and once you understand how bankrupt you are in spirit and you mourn not only over your own sins but of the sins of others and the entirety of the world this is the statement that david makes does no man care for my soul and my friends that right there is a statement that i probably should preach because in the time we're living in right now people do not care about other people in this hour i know there's a lot of people that care about a lot of people but i'm talking about the average person does not think about other people now i'm going to give you a classic example there are people who are driving in the left lane that do not care that they're driving in the left lane even though there is a mile and a half back up there's no consideration for other people you know i am so glad i got that off my chest here tonight i've been waiting for an opportunity to get that all don't look at me crazy you're doing the same thing i would blow my horn but they'll see my jesus loves me sticker right when a person sees themselves as spiritually bankrupt godly sorrow is next let me give you an example judas was a sinner and he committed suicide peter sinned and wept bitterly and found repentance look at the dichotomy of this get this in your spirit the difference in godly sorrow and worldly sorrow is godly sorrow then leads to repentance so what god why is god allowing me to go through this so i will repent and turn my sorrow into joy what is waiting on my sorrow to be turned to joy my repentance well i don't have to repent oh yes you do if that came out of your mouth you better get to repent come on say amen somebody the person who is truly repent then will mourn not only for their own sin but god will bring them comfort through repentance what did he promise blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted this is a powerful lesson if you'll get a hold of it so get this when my consciousness of sin rest only in my mind in other words it's not in my heart it's regret i regret it why do i regret it because i got caught hello somebody they're not repentant they're just regretful please allow me another example here from this same occasion and you're seeing it as well that there are a number of bank officials that pull their money out weeks ahead of the crash sold their stocks and all that kind of stuff now for for the average folk you'll be in prison come on somebody you'd have a knock on your door by the IRS the SEC FBI and all the other agencies regret if what happened is only here then all you do your apology you might even give an apology but it'll be half hearted you'll do it from your mouth just because you were caught now when it affects my mind and my heart affects it my mind and my heart i'm thinking about it all the time it's coming up in the middle of the night i can't seem to get away from it i'm having nightmares over it blah blah blah then it's remorse but remorse he didn't say godly sorrow leads to regret or godly sorrow leads to remorse he said the only way that's going to happen is that godly sorrow will lead to repentance when it affects my mind my will and my heart and brings me to a place where i willingly turn from that thing and obey god then it's true repentance that's what repentance is there's a couple of definitions repentance is basically going the opposite direction i was going this way and now i'm going this way another one which i love is this to repent re is to is to bring you back to the beginning pent or pentance is the highest of the pinnacle so what god is doing by your repentance is he's taking you from down here and bringing you back up to the place where you belong that's repentance don't you love that it's one thing for me to just turn around and go the opposite direction but for the lord to lift me up out of the myrie clay and set me back into heavenly places only the lord can do that and repentance will make that take place are you with me right there so you have the classic example of this in the prodigal son in luk 15 all full of pride leaves out give me my stuff dad i didn't earn anything i don't deserve it you're not dead yet usually the inheritance comes after the person is gone give it to me now he says the father gives it to him he goes off into a far country look at all the things that are taking this away bringing his father great sorrow and eventually would bring him some now nobody sees it when they're running away from god until they land in the pigpen and then nobody wants to associate with him i mean when he left out he got him a four by four truck he had friends he had influence he had a four wheel drive he had a rhino liner in the back he had all the bells and whistles and then when he ran out of money they repoted then he put his nose down on something that somebody offered him and got himself all messed up and now he's skin and bones laying in a pigpen almost ready to eat what the pigs would not now you would look at that and say that's a horrible place to be but i'm going to tell you from the prayers of the father back at the house and the prayers of the saints can you see the father going to church on sunday going hey y'all and they ask him has your boy come back yet not yet but i'm looking for him any day now just keep on praying for him oh yeah come on i'm really burdened i'm really mourning i'm really sorrowful over there come on let's pray for brother jim he's really hurting but he's holding on he's trusting god kept on trusting god when it didn't look like he could even didn't hear from him didn't know where he was god you know where my boy is at and i'm not going to stop mourning until you bring that boy and the day that he didn't think that it could happen is the day that he sees an old shadowy figure coming down the road y'all hearing me he falls into his arms he runs and meets him look at the intense i don't know how long the boy was gone but it was long enough for him to hurt i don't care if it was overnight something tells me it was an extended period of time he had enough time to go get him a job over there and lose the job and then finally that just doesn't even fit and when he finally came to himself sometimes our mourning causes us to intervene in situations before the lord has gotten him to the place where they will repent that is a hard place to be i'm telling you you know it he didn't go searching him down he just kept on believing when he finally saw his boy he said don't you worry about the dirt that's on you we can wash that off your clothes are not fitting you like they did whenever you left but that's alright i got a robe for you daddy just make me one of the servants make you a servant what's your last name you're not a servant you're my son bring him a ring to let everybody know this is my son he don't look like he did he's got all kinds of sores and mess from the stuff that he was in but that don't make any difference that's my boy i know my boy anywhere you're walking a little soft son it's alright bring him some shoes come on son let's go celebrate i've been holding a fatty calf for you for all these years i don't need to know where you've been what you've done all i need to know is you're right with the lord right with me that's the reason why we must be aware not to deal easily or comfortably with our sins because what we many times condemn in others we condone in ourselves and the reason why we're not comforted when we're mourning over it is because God knows we're playing the hypocrite thing here you'll know when you're comforted listen Christians the Christian who is able to deal with sin in their life can be trusted to deal with sin in the lives of other people i want you to make sure you get that in your spirit because i believe in the days that are ahead we're going to see people walk through these doors who feel like and one of the greatest obstacles that many people have coming to church is that they don't feel like they measure up to everybody because everybody's judging them let's just knock that right in the head right now because i just want to let you know there's enough sin on every one of us in this room to condemn us to a thousand hills but for the grace of God here tonight are sitting in this building can we make it plain but for the mercy and the grace of God how would we even have been here at this moment pardon me but i'm just going to use him as an example here tonight Israel Fisher sitting on this front row and should not be everything about the odds everything about the drugs everything about everything he ever went through we should have already we should have already preached his funeral but his wife mourned she mourned him into church and you know what she is right now comforted because he's sitting right there beside her that's just one example of many friends it is so important for us to be able to realize that the mourning that i have the tears the sorrow that i have and i'm not all i'm talking about you just sinking into something i'm talking about over the over others they're listen they're going to disappoint you have you ever disappointed yourself before six hands have disappointed themselves you know what you're a disappointment to me because you didn't raise your hand right now if you've never disappointed yourself you haven't done anything because if you ever take a step of faith in God there's going to be times when you're going to stub your toe there's going to be no big deal you stub your toe and then there's only other times that you're going to find yourself in the pig pen wandering around in there acting like you're having a good time and everybody loves it while the party's going on but when the friends leave and the party's over and you look at yourself in the mirror and you feel that guilt and pain come in on you at night time am I talking right Ben you know what i'm talking about he gave his testimony last Wednesday night up there in ignite student ministries and they fell on the floor after they heard that somebody had already been there to the pig pen and back and lived to tell about it have i got any people in here that has gone to the pig pen and came back and you're alive to tell about it can i see your hand i can't tell from your faces here tonight God has been good to every one of us all of you that are watching online i don't know what prodigal may be watching me right now but i can tell you here's what the Lord is saying come on back home just come on you're in a house that loves you unconditionally you're in a place that's going to love you unconditionally if the Lord loves you and he does then we're going to love you you're going to smell like slop you're going to smell like that you're going to have 16 earrings in your right ear and four kinds of color in your hair we don't care about none of that i want to know have you made your peace with God and are you going to serve the Lord with all of your heart it doesn't mean you're not going to fall down and stumble again but you know what being in here one thing about it come on somebody one thing about it come here man come here man come here come here one thing about it everywhere i go after i'm born again and if i stumble and fall i got somebody i wish i had somebody i got somebody i don't know what y'all doing y'all the worst illustrators i've ever seen in my life i got somebody while i'm doing i'm doing good they're still there but if i do bad they're not they're there to catch me you know who he is that's mercy you know who he is grace they're following me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever anybody's got a made up mind and you're not going to let sorrow take you down come on and give God praise right now hallelujah sit down let me finish this lesson now get this here's what comfort means i love this we think so many times we read the Bible read these words and we think one thing one definition and then all of a sudden you find out in the Greek or the Hebrew that it's something totally different this is this is the definition i love comfort is not just like everybody standing around going oh we just love you i don't need that right i mean i appreciate i appreciate good words when you come but what i need is somebody to catch me so god is saying blessed are those who mourn for they shall receive strength now let me flip that around if you don't mourn are you understanding there's a mourning that has to take place there's a sorrow there's tears there's pain in walking with the Lord there's situations you're going to come in contact with that you're not going to explain you're not going to have an understanding all that kind of stuff it's going to bring hot tears down your cheeks but see god knows that and he said when you're weak i am made strong in fact he said i'll use your weakness to be your strength not sympathy strength second Corinthians 1 and 3 look at this god is the god of all comfort say that with me god is the god of all comfort now remember the definition we're not talking about paid mourners sitting around the room right? look what jesus did with all the paid mourners that showed up he sent them all out of the room when he was about to raise up gyrus' daughter everybody's in there crying weeping he walks in and said the girl was only asleep and they started laughing at him he said well all of y'all get on out of here don't you wish you could have just been there and i see i know jesus used southern drawl like all y'all ever last one of you get out get on out of here because see here's the problem when you get a group of people that are split minded they'll flip on you and they'll cry hosanna one day and crucify the next i don't need that i need somebody who will agree with me in prayer over this situation and we come into touch and agree over one thing and it shall be done so send all the unbelief out of the room and then jesus said get up girl and she bounced up out of that bed to the glory of god and he went right on down the road look at this he's a god of all comfort all strength he's the god who not only comforts but look what he did he said you've got the comforter all the time the pericletos the one who's come alongside to help you the holy spirit, the holy ghost is not just around you but he shall be in you why do i need to be filled with the holy ghost and pray in the holy ghost and pray in tongues every day because i'm building up myself on my most holy faith the comforter is already working in my behalf when i pray in the spirit now why is that important because he knows what's coming ahead i don't know when the phone call is going to come to my house this week i've had at least three of them that have come from parishioners out of this congregation who said my love one passed away this one passed away i sent a text to pastor trailer a little while ago his long time secretary 20 years had a heart attack passed away that entire church is mourning my sorrow goes out to him today and to the entire church if we don't feel it then who will if the church doesn't feel it then who will but we're not helpless and we're not hopeless ladies and gentlemen he said if i go away i will send you another comforter he will be Christ in you he will be the comfort that you need and you know what God has an amazing way of doing is comforting someone whether they know it or not before they get into a situation where they need the comfort more than one time i've had people and i know brother zepp is a test of this more than one time i've had people ask pastor do you think that the person who was passing away had an idea that they were going to be going more than one time i've seen it take place because he gives his prophets the bible said insight he gives them information who is that that's the holy ghost who will lead you and guide you and all truth and show you things to come did you hear what i just said he will show you things to come he's not just here for you to talk in tongues and get this warm fuzzy feeling running down your spine he's here while you're driving down the road to speaking to your mind and say hey turn left right here well why do i need to turn just obey god turn left next thing you know you hear sirens coming down the road come on somebody there's more than one time that that's happened to me more than one time the holy spirit is directed moved shifted something and suddenly whatever the tragedy was i'll never forget the church when we were working here as an associate the church had this little like a little station wagon we used as a visitation wagon you remember that little thing and they were getting rid of that and getting the vans and so someone came along and purchased it and it didn't make any difference where i went i knew where that wagon was i knew what it looked like so i'm coming down bell lane coming towards the church and that car in fact i think you were in the car with me i said hey that looks like the wagon that the church sold or whatever and the person driving it the person driving it was swerving all over the road now i don't know what was going on it was the middle of the day i don't know if they had a diabetic situation going on or what but the car was swerving all over the road i said oh lord i mean almost hit an 18 wheel we were right behind it when they stopped at the traffic light in highway 90 they coasted right on out in the middle of the intersection watching this and so i wanted to get on around them and so when they turned on highway 90 they started coming this direction and i was i was running there and i said come on we'll just get on out and get on down the road by the time i got here to the church we had to stop up here at the bank by the time we got at the bank and i went to the atm i heard the fire department pull out from right over here and i thought man that ain't good moments moments they traveled down there and they came to find out that the car had run off the road and went into the dentist's office down here and killed the person in the car why am i saying that because the Holy Spirit if will be sensitive will lead us and guide us are you hearing what i'm saying the sorrow and the mourning that we feel have you ever had the Holy Spirit just wake you up or or quicken you in the middle of the day and suddenly you started praying for somebody you felt you felt something moving on the inside of you that's the comforter working this now that's the comforter that's working on the inside of you why because somebody has got to care for the souls of humanity i mean what are we going to do we're going to keep on sending money to Ukraine or wherever that it may be but that's not all that they need there's got to be somebody who's interceding in their behalf who feels their pain who is not just looking at doggie commercials to figure out how we can help the dogs what about humanity that's going to spend eternity somewhere why are we broadcasting right now because there are people that are watching that are mourning and they're hurting and this gospel is comfort to them right now are you with me God the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 7 6 we are comforted to comfort meaning you are going to go through situations that's going to bring you to tears and to sorrow and to pain and you're not going to know why you're walking through it well i feel like i'm in the right zone right here right now you're going to go through it and you're not going to know why and it may be years before you know it i've been there at the time i had at the time old flesh rose up why is this happening to me why am i feeling this why am i having to go through this i'm just going to tell you i said that today to myself those are some things that i'm walking through now i'm not going to lose my salvation i haven't sinned or anything i'm not quitting the church but i'm just telling you everybody walks through something and everybody's going to question why but here i got another question for you why not you don't put that on me i'm feeling enough anxiety as it is if we were in a Baptist church there'd be a bunch of people out in the front door smoking right now but anyway i'm just kidding man y'all are too tight i want y'all to cut that out and send that to pastor ted alright why have i had to go through things why do you have to go through things why not us wait a minute we're the ones who lifted our hands and said oh praise god you're the god of all comfort strength you're the god of all salvation glory and mighty and we praise him we dance we fall out we shout we speak in tongues and then all of a sudden god said okay it's time for a test i'm going to let you walk through this hard place and it's not even going to be about you i like that that causes people to go crazy today when they have to deal with something that's not even their fault so what do they immediately do blame somebody else and what happens what's going on in society today people listen i've already told you this you know this you're seeing it on the screen the largest percentage of those that are committing suicide are teenage girls girls so i want to help you there's something before we leave here tonight i want to give you this because i felt like that the lord is wanting to speak to us about this situation of depression that's leading people to a place of no hope so i want to give you just a few things that's not on your paper and you might want to write this down flip it over right on something because i'm just going to tell you right now there are normal setbacks that we have normal situations many times that may bring us to a place maybe physically chemically whatever we may have places that are low places whatever i am not a psychiatrist or a psychologist i'm not a medical doctor i am a spiritual man i'm a pastor so my advice to you tonight and my council is coming straight from the word of god but i believe that if people would put into place these principles and begin to act upon them that much of what people are dealing with right now which is probably not totally physical but spiritual at its core could be fixed so the bible says that godly sorrow works repentance but the sorrow of disobedience then works death to us do you see that what did john 10 and 10 say the thief comes but for to steal to kill and to destroy there's this process that's going on so he may have been waiting years to get you to a place where you sink and i'm going to tell you for the majority the vast majority of people around the world people watching in this building here tonight after the pandemic has taken place we're now taking a measure of what's taking place and people have slid down into a place of depression because they feel like there's no hope and i want to stop right here and say not only is there hope but his name is Jesus Christ i know i've been boasting on those billboards but i'm just going to tell you something i'm on both some more because here's the deal if anybody's looking for hope there's a great big name jesus is hanging out there on a billboard where people are driving down the road and it's unmistakably coming at you what happens when people get depressed their motivations drain their pursuance of god backs off their conversations become sour they're blinded from their current blessings many times are you hearing me your enthusiasm has to be forced you have a days on you regarding any kind of future plans i don't want to plan nothing i'm sick and tired you see things as thorns instead of roses it is a condition that's going on initially in your mind whether it is physical or not it starts right here did you hear what i said you need to know this depression starts right here not just in chemical imbalances but right here for the bible says this if we believe the bible thank you for those two amen for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he so paul what does paul do paul said is important that you control your thinking process so what does he say he says in philippians for us to do what what sort of things are true what sort of things are honest what sort of things are pure what sort of things are lovely what sort of things of a good report think on these things what is he saying to us you can't watch television because it is not true it is not honest, it is not just it is not pure, it is not lovely and it doesn't have a good report whatever you feed the inner man is what you are going to get out are you hearing me so our heavenly fathers will as the bible says according to isaiah 14 3 is to give us rest so here is a few things that i want to help you with should you feel yourself sinking first understand that depression can come to every one of us feel like you are unusual or unique but you are not Abraham Lincoln dealt with depression Winston Churchill dealt with depression David said why aren't our cows down oh my soul, why aren't they all disquieted within me, he was sinking one preacher in the bible thought the best thing for him to do is quit preaching and open a motel it would be better than the ministry he was in who was that oh this is what he said in chapter 9 verse 2 oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and go from them he said I am opening a motel 6 and I don't have to I don't have to tell you about Elijah you know this is a classic example of depression hides in the cave and God said what are you doing in here I didn't tell you to come down here he stopped listening to God listening to Jezebel in her letter Jonah begged for his life while he was in the belly of the well why was Jonah so depressed here's a thought for you Jonah became depressed when his personal security was more important than the souls of other people what's number 2, recognize the dangers of depression in other words all depression is not necessarily physical be honest with yourself I said this to an individual one time years and years ago when they needed to go to the doctor and get examined I said go to the doctor your wife is telling you go to the doctor she's trying to help you that relationship ended in a divorce because he simply wouldn't take care of himself so pinpoint the cause of the stress and the pressure and don't feed it in other words if you're already depressed don't watch a horror movie what is that movie what is that movie oh if you're already depressed don't watch the notebook right? I'm just going to sit down and have me a good cry no! watch Bugs Bunny or something you know the bible says that an unconfessed sin in our life is like a rock in your shoe come on somebody anybody getting anything out of this right here so we've got to examine ourselves and pinpoint is it sin that's going on in our life there's no sense in coddling it or glossing over it because godly sorrow leads to repentance and I didn't say you had to confess it to the whole church get along with God talk to God let him examine you turn the light on me Jesus show me what's going on with me because I can tell you there's no vacation and there's no doctor that will be able to heal that until you do it the bible says in Isaiah 59 and 2 your iniquities have separated you from your God your sin has caused him to hide his face from you bible says in Proverbs 15 and 27 he that is greedy have gained trouble at his own house you're all the time searching for something and you never can acquire it and you're bringing trouble in your own house Jesus said beware of covetousness for a man's life doesn't consist in the abundance of things that he possesses stop running after things did you hear what I said more stuff more trouble two greatest days in a man's life he buys a boat he sells a boat I know that I've been there I couldn't get rid of that boat fast enough because at the moment we couldn't even enjoy it but I guarantee you they wanted taxes on it they wanted to tag on it and every time it needed some fuel and then by the time I took it out it needed some grease come on somebody let me say this to you if you go into life making comparisons with other people you're going to lead yourself into depression Paul gives us the admonition from the Word of God don't compare yourself with yourselves don't envy somebody stuff and strive to do that or whatever that it may be don't let your life get into a place of frustration because you're comparing yourself with somebody else you be what God's called you to be and do what God's called you to do Paul said with all this stuff I am content I've been there and I've been here and I'm content I've been rich and I've been poor being content poverty and shame the Bible says shall bring to him that refuses instruction but he that regarded the reproof shall be honored here's a good one for you Proverbs 18 and 8 the words of a tail bearer are as wounds what does that have to do with it people start telling stuff on people when they start comparing you know they don't deserve that blah blah blah you should read you some Proverbs every once in a while I mean I call it the cash roll of the soul that's what I call it it'll purge you like overnight like within hours maybe in the same hour if you're good let me say something else to you here quickly living with a forgiving spirit means controlling your life some of you might be depressed because you haven't forgiven somebody and you've asked God to forgive you but you haven't forgiven them so how long are you going to hold it until the Lord you hear the Lord say depart from me you worker of iniquity I never knew you because you couldn't forgive talk to me somebody that's a hard thing to do it's probably one of the hardest things to do it's forgive somebody that's hurt you and especially when you know I'm right and you could be absolutely right and completely wrong you could be completely justified and prove it in a in a court of law but if your attitude stinks and you won't forgive them I think I'm teaching you something good here get this in your spirit here's another thing that I found out in my own life that many times fatigue will cause depression in your life that's where that's where Elijah was fatigue will cause depression and if you're driven like me you keep going and you don't know when you have run out of fuel and you start working off of fumes and everybody around you smells the fumes fumes but you don't because that's your tailpipe you're in a headwind come on my staff is laughing out loud right now because I'm telling you I'm just a person I don't it's very easy I've got myself in that place before I've got myself in the place where I'm bouncing in the corner of my room and not knowing why at two o'clock in the morning that I look like I'm at the western wall in Jerusalem caught myself woke up and many times like Elijah you just need some time listen if Jesus went away to rest and to pray then you and I need to do the same and if you don't the possibility of you sinking everybody around you I gave that scripture to you last week the possibility of you getting down so much that you start like a vortex that's the reason why they say jump far away from the ship when the ship's going down swim hard because the the vortex the pull the pressure that that ship going down is gonna suck everything with it that's how a lot of people died in the Titanic they couldn't get away fatigue one pastor said weariness and mental fatigue has blinded me to the fruit of my labor in my pastorate and so impulsively I resigned few weeks later I realized what a serious mistake I made I want to say to you my friends there's a time to rest now wait a minute if you're resting all the time if you're resting all the time I'm thinking to fill my shoe at you because the reason why some of us can't get no rest is because you're sitting up on the boat happy and you're just strolling along and having a nice day you need to get up and help somebody and if you're retired get up there is no retirement in the Bible so before I throw my hip out of joint there you go you think about these things the older you get here's here's here's I'm coming to the clothes I'm coming to the clothes whenever you sense it coming in on you take immediate action don't wait don't wait because when you when you when you begin to look to God and you recognize Lord I'm I'm sinking whatever that it may be God takes tragedies and turns them into triumphs that's what he does but you can't get help from him until you realize it and you go to him and nobody's going to help you like he is say a man for your neighbor right there I'll stop right here on this I have to believe that Paul was feeling the pressure when the Bible said he prayed three times and said Lord take this thing away from me now I mean you're talking about you're talking about the guy on both extremes the murderer of Christians and was doing it in mass holding the coats for those who were he was ready and on his way to kill some more people he has a God encounter and everything listen his world flips upside down now he could have gotten depressed because every synagogue and every church he went to didn't want him there he said I'm a Jew like you he said we don't care we heard you killing them we heard you doing this get away he said I've been perils in the country I've been in perils in the city all the fears over there all kinds of stuff is going on and then I got all these churches to take care of he said so you got this thorn in the flesh and after all that he's been through and seen things and God took him to the third heaven and all this glorious events that are taking place God allows a messenger of Satan to buffet him this is a powerful story I don't have time to go into the depths of it but the point is in Paul's physical being according to most commentaries and he's all he's asking is Lord take this out so I can do better work for you all he's asking is Lord if you'll just do this have you ever bargained with God have you ever said Lord if you'll save my son I'll go to church every Sunday Lord if you'll do this I'll pay my tithe you know what God said pay your tithe he petitions him I have to believe that Paul was in a place where he was sinking because get the dichotomy I'm doing all this for you God and you're allowing me to have to deal with this I believe it was AAL and y'all can tell me that great healing healing evangelists from years gone by under the tent and he suffered in his body physically I think it was one of the great evangelists yes Wigglesworth then y'all might laugh at that name but he was a real guy Smith Wigglesworth I mean stood his own wife up against the wall and called life back into her people healed under his ministry and you know what he dealt with kidney stones and you go come on God clear the path why did God allow that on Paul he said I've shown you some things that other people can't handle so to keep your pride level down come on now talk about every other sin but don't talk about pride because nobody's got it every person I've ever asked in my lifetime in ministry nobody has ever confessed you know what I'm full of pride it's all there nobody says that God said I gotta keep you in check because you're gonna write more than a verse of the New Testament for me I brought you to third heaven and you're having to talk in third person so no I'm not gonna take it away from you here it is here's the comfort in my sorrow but Paul my grace is sufficient you're going through this and I'm not gonna take it away from you but I tell you what I am gonna do I'm gonna let my grace carry you through all of the man don't you want to sit down and talk to Paul when you get to heaven Paul tell me what it was like tell me how you felt when you had to deal with this and God said my grace is sufficient man I feel the anointing of God flowing all over me right now because I'm gonna tell you I don't know about you but I need his grace to comfort me to give me strength that's what it says my grace is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect weakness so whatever you're going through my friends whatever you're going through whatever you're dealing with hear these words God said my grace blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comfort if you need strength from the Lord tonight just lift your hand right where you are strength is coming your way right now the comforter is coming your way the kingdom of Jesus across this auditorium and around the world right now there is Lord perhaps a deficiency of spirit maybe a lowliness a sinking that's going on even in the saints of God Lord the other day when the preacher called me and told me that preachers were falling and preachers are struggling and preachers are trying to get up Lord if the preachers are what's going to happen to the congregation so tonight I pray Lord it's not me but it's you and send supernatural comfort and strength into the heart and lives of your people this evening you know exactly what they need this is not some general prayer Lord I'm asking for the specific strength that they need for their life and for the next steps that they're going to take and decisions that they've got to make and situations that they're involved in that they don't have any answer for Lord you and your grace is sufficient and even in their life you're made strong and so I trust you now my friends I didn't give you the rest of this lesson but I'm just going to tell you how to get rid of depression that is to lift your hands and be grateful to a God with your praise right now all around this room and all around the world just lift your hand and open your mouth and begin to praise him right where you are come on open your mouth you got to get him some gratitude because see the only reason why depression has come is because you feel like you're hopeless but I came to tell you when you praise up your joy gets full again when you praise up the gratitude comes and the Lord strengthens you even in your weakness I'm not talking about answering your prayer I'm talking about lifting you up out of the low place so you can keep on going in the name and in the powerful name of Jesus Father we praise you come on let's all stand I wish you'd open your mouth and give the next 60 seconds the best praise I don't want you to clap your hands I want you to open your mouth I want you to open your mouth and I want you to praise him I'm trying to tell you how to get out of depression and somebody said well I got to go back to the doctor oh I'm telling you doctor Jesus can heal you tonight if you'll lift your voice and begin to praise him right where you are Father we give you glory tonight we thank you Jesus that we're not left alone we're not hopeless the joy of the Lord is my strength tonight replenish my joy replenish my strength replenish my mind my soul and my spirit lift me into places God that is reserved for your children tonight in a place Lord where your presence there's fullness of joy and at your right hand there's pleasure forever more and some prayers across this auditorium and around the world right now I pray give them peace that passes all of their own understanding right now and saturate this house with the glory of God Lord we need this revival in our own soul before we see others Lord revive us strengthen us I pray and then we'll look on other people and say if you did it for me Lord you can do it for them these things we give you glory in tonight hallelujah my friends I just want to tell you when you're walking through the rest of your week don't be slack on your praise whatever you think you're doing in the praise department kick it up 20% did you hear me pull the car over on the side of the road today I've been studying preparing for messages and things upcoming some plans and so forth and today I fed my soul with with music and with preaching and things that I needed for my own self and you know what my whole mind is shifting I want to encourage you get the praise music on get your spirit lifted up first thing in the morning early will I seek thee come on somebody seek the Lord early in the morning before you get anywhere around anybody else seek the Lord fill your spirit with the encouragement of God's word and the praise and the worship before God and you'll see things change inside of your life amen you believe that say a good why don't you practice it on somebody turn around encourage somebody out you need encouragement encourage somebody else in the Lord right now shake a hand hug a neck I'll see you Sunday morning don't miss it this weekend I believe in Jesus Christ don't miss it