June 2, 2025 • 8 mins
On episode 32, Tim shares a personal anecdote on how he's been feeling recently and then explains how he's had to rely on the Lord's strength to carry him through.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome into episode number thirty two of Bringing Heaven Down.
My name is Tim and I'm the host of this
daily devotional podcast that comes out in your feed Monday
through Friday. Make sure you hit that follow button wherever
you're listening so this podcast will show up in your
feed as often as it comes out, and rate and
review the show so we can bring this podcast two
(00:24):
more people. All Right, So last week I've been kind
of going through it a little bit health wise. I
was kind of sick for the entire week. I was
having some stomach issues. Then my nose had some flare
ups and it was just like, oh, it was just
(00:44):
one of those weeks where you were just trying to
fight through it. And I'm still kind of at the
tail end of it. My nose is runny, stuffy, my
stomach is starting to come back to normal, and I'm
just been tired. I've just been really, really tired trying
to do your responsibility of work and take care of
(01:06):
your kids and your wife and do all these different things.
So I just want to talk about that today. I
want to talk about what I've personally been going through
and like the mindset, the mentality, the thoughts all of it.
So grab your favorite drink or a cup of coffee,
and let's bring you having a little closer together. The
(01:33):
one thing that I really want to do in this
podcast is be honest with you, because if we aren't
being honest, who's that going to help. What I'm going
through is probably what you're going through or we'll go
through eventually, and I want to be honest about it.
I want this to be a place where you hear
what I say and it's like, yes, I can relate
(01:56):
to that. I can apply that to my life. I
want the Lord to work through this podcast and to
teach us. And if you have a question or comment
about anything, email the show. Bring Heaven Down number seven
at gmail dot com. Bring Heaven Down number seven at
gmail dot com. I'd love to hear from you. And
I talked about last week just not being a good
week health wise because I've just been feeling lucky and
(02:20):
tired and gross. And when you start to feel those
exhausting feelings and then you have a busy weekend filled
with a three year old's birthday party and a ninety
year old birthday party, and it's just busy, you're setting
out the house you're cleaning, and then you're right back
into the thick of things. You're just tired, you're up early,
(02:42):
you're up at five every day because the kids wake
up at five. And when you feel this certain way,
or at least when I felt a certain way, it
start to almost think negatively, have some negative thoughts about yourself,
(03:02):
maybe about your spouse, like why didn't they do that?
Why didn't you do it? Like this, Oh, they don't
get what I go through. About your kids, like, oh
my gosh, why can't you just listen what's going on here?
Why can you not just listen to me? I am exhausted.
And I think when you're tired and you're hungry and
you're just feeling miserable, the people that you love the
(03:24):
most can start to get mistreated because that's who you
pour all of your frustrations onto. And what I do
my best to do is even when those negative thoughts
come and your initial instinct is to take it out
on those people that you love the most, is to
(03:46):
fight those thoughts and change the thought into a thought
of gratitude and to a thought of thankfulness, and to
a thought of I'm so grateful for my wife and
my children. I'm so grateful for my parents, because what
that does is that shifts your brain, that chases your
thinking from oh, why didn't they do this or why
(04:09):
aren't they doing things like this into I'm grateful for
all the things that they do do instead of nitpicking
and thinking about, well, why didn't they do this or
I feel this way or I feel that way, you'd
be grateful for what they do. And it's also important
to remember, and this is what I do when I
(04:31):
feel tired. I gotta rely in the Holy Spirit to
strengthen me. The joy of the Lord is my strength.
The Lord is our strength when we're tired. And we
have to remind ourselves of these things because when we're tired,
we don't always think of that. When we're tired, we
don't always think about relying on the Lord's strength to
(04:53):
carry us through. Sometimes we can be so caught up
in our negative thinking that it just takes us out
the rest of the day. But what good is that
you hurt the people you love the most. The people
you love the most feel hurt, they might hurt you back,
and it's just a spiraling thing that doesn't end. So
(05:16):
what I want to encourage you this morning is to
change your thinking, change your mindset, allow the Holy Spirit
to change your mind, change your thoughts. Instead of thinking
about what they didn't do, think about how much you're
grateful for them. Instead of thinking that they should have
done this, think about all the things that they have done.
(05:37):
And when you're tired, your mind can also spiral into
all these different thoughts. And what's also important to remember,
and I do this, is it's not my wife's fault
or my spouse's fault for being tired. It's not my
(05:59):
children's fault for being tired, although they could sleep in
a little bit longer than five o'clock, go to bed earlier,
get into scriptures. More So, what I tell myself when
I have a negative thought is Okay, it's not my
wife's fault why I'm tired. So because I'm tired, I'm
not going to take things out of my wife. Does
that make sense? She did not force me to be tired.
(06:22):
She didn't do anything to make me feel this way.
It is my own personal thing that I'm wrestling with
to try to get out of this tiredness, and it's
not her that made me tired. So when I tell
myself those things. It helps me compartmentalize those things and
then not blame her for being tired or not take
(06:44):
things out on her for being tired. So you got
to fight our initial instinct of sin because we gravitate
towards those things. We gravitate towards our instincts, and our
instinct is sin. Our instinct is to take things out
on loved ones, and we got to push back against that.
We have to think about it. We have to lean
(07:06):
on the Holy Spirit to fight through these initial negative
thoughts and change those thoughts and rely on the Spirit
strength to strengthen us and to strengthen our bodies and
minds and to change those as well. So if you're
(07:26):
tired today, if you're going to be tired next week,
and you're just kind of going through it, I want
you to think about the things that I said today.
The Lord strengthens. Our first instinct is since so we
need to change our minds, change our thoughts, and change
it to the Lord. Remember, it's not our spouses or
children's fault. While we're tired, it's not their fault. Why
(07:48):
we have to do this or do that? Be grateful,
Think about the things that they do that is so meaningful.
So I hope that was encouraging for you today. Thank
you for choosing this podcast, thank you for choosing Jesus,
and I hope you all have a great day.
Welcome into episode number thirty two of Bringing Heaven Down.
My name is Tim and I'm the host of this
daily devotional podcast that comes out in your feed Monday
through Friday. Make sure you hit that follow button wherever
you're listening so this podcast will show up in your
feed as often as it comes out, and rate and
review the show so we can bring this podcast two
(00:24):
more people. All Right, So last week I've been kind
of going through it a little bit health wise. I
was kind of sick for the entire week. I was
having some stomach issues. Then my nose had some flare
ups and it was just like, oh, it was just
(00:44):
one of those weeks where you were just trying to
fight through it. And I'm still kind of at the
tail end of it. My nose is runny, stuffy, my
stomach is starting to come back to normal, and I'm
just been tired. I've just been really, really tired trying
to do your responsibility of work and take care of
(01:06):
your kids and your wife and do all these different things.
So I just want to talk about that today. I
want to talk about what I've personally been going through
and like the mindset, the mentality, the thoughts all of it.
So grab your favorite drink or a cup of coffee,
and let's bring you having a little closer together. The
(01:33):
one thing that I really want to do in this
podcast is be honest with you, because if we aren't
being honest, who's that going to help. What I'm going
through is probably what you're going through or we'll go
through eventually, and I want to be honest about it.
I want this to be a place where you hear
what I say and it's like, yes, I can relate
(01:56):
to that. I can apply that to my life. I
want the Lord to work through this podcast and to
teach us. And if you have a question or comment
about anything, email the show. Bring Heaven Down number seven
at gmail dot com. Bring Heaven Down number seven at
gmail dot com. I'd love to hear from you. And
I talked about last week just not being a good
week health wise because I've just been feeling lucky and
(02:20):
tired and gross. And when you start to feel those
exhausting feelings and then you have a busy weekend filled
with a three year old's birthday party and a ninety
year old birthday party, and it's just busy, you're setting
out the house you're cleaning, and then you're right back
into the thick of things. You're just tired, you're up early,
(02:42):
you're up at five every day because the kids wake
up at five. And when you feel this certain way,
or at least when I felt a certain way, it
start to almost think negatively, have some negative thoughts about yourself,
(03:02):
maybe about your spouse, like why didn't they do that?
Why didn't you do it? Like this, Oh, they don't
get what I go through. About your kids, like, oh
my gosh, why can't you just listen what's going on here?
Why can you not just listen to me? I am exhausted.
And I think when you're tired and you're hungry and
you're just feeling miserable, the people that you love the
(03:24):
most can start to get mistreated because that's who you
pour all of your frustrations onto. And what I do
my best to do is even when those negative thoughts
come and your initial instinct is to take it out
on those people that you love the most, is to
(03:46):
fight those thoughts and change the thought into a thought
of gratitude and to a thought of thankfulness, and to
a thought of I'm so grateful for my wife and
my children. I'm so grateful for my parents, because what
that does is that shifts your brain, that chases your
thinking from oh, why didn't they do this or why
(04:09):
aren't they doing things like this into I'm grateful for
all the things that they do do instead of nitpicking
and thinking about, well, why didn't they do this or
I feel this way or I feel that way, you'd
be grateful for what they do. And it's also important
to remember, and this is what I do when I
(04:31):
feel tired. I gotta rely in the Holy Spirit to
strengthen me. The joy of the Lord is my strength.
The Lord is our strength when we're tired. And we
have to remind ourselves of these things because when we're tired,
we don't always think of that. When we're tired, we
don't always think about relying on the Lord's strength to
(04:53):
carry us through. Sometimes we can be so caught up
in our negative thinking that it just takes us out
the rest of the day. But what good is that
you hurt the people you love the most. The people
you love the most feel hurt, they might hurt you back,
and it's just a spiraling thing that doesn't end. So
(05:16):
what I want to encourage you this morning is to
change your thinking, change your mindset, allow the Holy Spirit
to change your mind, change your thoughts. Instead of thinking
about what they didn't do, think about how much you're
grateful for them. Instead of thinking that they should have
done this, think about all the things that they have done.
(05:37):
And when you're tired, your mind can also spiral into
all these different thoughts. And what's also important to remember,
and I do this, is it's not my wife's fault
or my spouse's fault for being tired. It's not my
(05:59):
children's fault for being tired, although they could sleep in
a little bit longer than five o'clock, go to bed earlier,
get into scriptures. More So, what I tell myself when
I have a negative thought is Okay, it's not my
wife's fault why I'm tired. So because I'm tired, I'm
not going to take things out of my wife. Does
that make sense? She did not force me to be tired.
(06:22):
She didn't do anything to make me feel this way.
It is my own personal thing that I'm wrestling with
to try to get out of this tiredness, and it's
not her that made me tired. So when I tell
myself those things. It helps me compartmentalize those things and
then not blame her for being tired or not take
(06:44):
things out on her for being tired. So you got
to fight our initial instinct of sin because we gravitate
towards those things. We gravitate towards our instincts, and our
instinct is sin. Our instinct is to take things out
on loved ones, and we got to push back against that.
We have to think about it. We have to lean
(07:06):
on the Holy Spirit to fight through these initial negative
thoughts and change those thoughts and rely on the Spirit
strength to strengthen us and to strengthen our bodies and
minds and to change those as well. So if you're
(07:26):
tired today, if you're going to be tired next week,
and you're just kind of going through it, I want
you to think about the things that I said today.
The Lord strengthens. Our first instinct is since so we
need to change our minds, change our thoughts, and change
it to the Lord. Remember, it's not our spouses or
children's fault. While we're tired, it's not their fault. Why
(07:48):
we have to do this or do that? Be grateful,
Think about the things that they do that is so meaningful.
So I hope that was encouraging for you today. Thank
you for choosing this podcast, thank you for choosing Jesus,
and I hope you all have a great day.
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