October 2, 2025 • 64 mins
This episode, These Walls of Depression is dedicated to the memory of Tyra Spaulding, honoring her incredible courage by refusing to be silent about the struggle so many face. Depression builds walls to isolate you: walls of fear, failure, fatigue, and futility.
Let's uncover God's blueprint for demolition. This isn't just a message; it's a lifeline and a declaration that your story is not over. Listen now to find freedom and hope. And once you're ready for the next fight, be sure to join us next week as we take on "These Walls of Temptation."
If this message touched your heart or challenged you in any way, we're asking you to pass it along. Share it with someone in your life who needs to hear it. Your willingness to share doesn't just help us it extends God's Kingdom. It plants seeds. It opens doors. It points people back to Christ. That's the real mission. So don't keep it to yourself. Let it travel. Let it matter in someone else's life. Love & Need Ya!!!
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Let's uncover God's blueprint for demolition. This isn't just a message; it's a lifeline and a declaration that your story is not over. Listen now to find freedom and hope. And once you're ready for the next fight, be sure to join us next week as we take on "These Walls of Temptation."
If this message touched your heart or challenged you in any way, we're asking you to pass it along. Share it with someone in your life who needs to hear it. Your willingness to share doesn't just help us it extends God's Kingdom. It plants seeds. It opens doors. It points people back to Christ. That's the real mission. So don't keep it to yourself. Let it travel. Let it matter in someone else's life. Love & Need Ya!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if the prison you're living in has no bars
but is built inside your own mind. What if the
voice that condemns you the most is your own. In
this powerful, emotionally charged episode of Brothers in the Word,
we're not just talking about depression. We are handing you
the sledge hammer to tear its walls down. Dedicated to
the memory of Tyras Spalding and her courageous fight, this
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teaching exposes the four specific walls that depression builds to
trap you. The wall of frightening fear, the wall of
familiar failure, the wall of fatal fatigue, and the wall
of feudal feelings. Using the shocking story of the prophet Elijah,
who went from calling down fire from heaven to begging
God to end his life, we reveal God's surprising and
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compassionate blueprint for demolition. This isn't just a sermon, It's
a spiritual demolition guide. You will learn to identify the lies,
find the courage to speak your truth, and discover how
to reframe your pain with God's purpose. So the question
is in if you need to hear this, but how
you will respond? Are you ready to stop being a
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prisoner to your own thoughts. Are you ready to finally
confront the script that has kept you in the dark,
Then lean in close and prepare your heart because the
demolition starts. Now grab your Bible and prepare to take notes.
Let's join Pastor Tim Smith.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to brothers in the Word. My
name is Tim Smith, Son of Clara Jones City is
back up.
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It's a muss. We're outside. Please like love and share.
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That's the only currency that I'm asking you for today.
Please like love and share on your way in the
door and also on your way out the door. Family,
I need you to do me a favor. This is
going to be a little different this episode because I
need you to do more than just simply listen today.
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I need you to lean in with everything you got.
I need you to pull up a chair in the
sanctuary of your mind because we're about to have a conversation.
I feel that it's long overdue, and it's a conversation
that the church really doesn't address. But this teaching this
episode is for everyone. This is for the person who
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looks like they have it all together, but you know
they're falling apart on the inside. This is for the
high achiever. This is for the straight a student, the
top performer at work, who.
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Feels like a fraud.
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This is for the pastor who preaches victory but fights
despair and the quiet of his study. This is for
the mother who gives everything to her children but feels
like she has nothing left for herself. This is for
the brother who's been taught to be strong and silent,
but whose silence is screaming at the top of its voice.
This is for anyone any of you who has ever
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had a fight with a war that nobody can see.
We're talking about a battle that is waged in the
private chambers of your own heart and in your own mind.
This is for the college student who feels like there's
no end in sight. And so before we go any further,
I want to just pause and bring a name into
this space that we're about to enter into. I want
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to dedicate this entire teaching. This is something I haven't
done before, but I'm going to do it this time.
God put it on my heart last week to do this.
So I want to dedicate this entire teaching, this entire episode,
to the memory of a beautiful, brilliant soul named Tyra Spalding.
Tyra was a former Miss Jamaica Universe contestant.
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She was a powerful and outspoken advocate for.
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Mental health, and she tragically lost her own battle with
the very thing that she fought to help others overcome.
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Her family found her and the.
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Details of heartbreaking, but what's even more gut wrenching are
the words she left behind as a testimony to her struggle.
There are a lot of videos online of her just
basically chronicling her journey, journaling her journal, her video battle
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and so in the months before she passed, she told
friends that she was hearing voices, she was posting on
social media that she was going through hell, and in
a video that is as raw and honest as you'll
ever find, she said that she said it felt like
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there were two different meeds. She said, I feel like
it's two different means. One of them wants me to
live and the other wants me to die. They want
me to die. It's me against me over here unquote.
That's what she said. So I want you to think
about that phrase she left us, it's me against me,
And when I thought about that, when I heard her
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say that, for me, it was one of the most
concise and powerful descriptions of that internal civil war of
depression that I've ever heard anyone express.
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She asked, is she.
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Asks if the devil was possessing her. She says, something
keeps telling me that, you know, life would be easier
if I wasn't here. So her story, I feel there's
not a headline to be consumed and forgotten, because you
know how we just scroll on to the next story.
But I think that this is a sacred text for
all of us today. It's a window into the private
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torment that experts report that over seven hundred to eight
hundred thousand people die every year from suicide. I think
they said one person dies every forty seconds. In America,
one person dies every eleven minutes. So it's a battle
for the mind, that's what depression is. And Tyr's fight
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her courage to speak her pain. That's the reason why
you and I are having this conversation right now, And
this is the reason why I need you to share
this with anyone who you speak to who's also having
this same kind of battle, the same kind of struggle,
And so tonight, I just want to keep her story
front and center throughout this lesson, because her flight can
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become a lifeline for someone else who's drowning in the
exact same waters that Tyrol's drowning in. So today, what
we're going to do is we're going to put a
name to the struggle. We're calling this lesson, these walls
of depression. So I need you to do me a favor.
Go ahead and grab your Bible and get a pen,
get some paper, take some detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon.
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We are about to engage in some serious spiritual demolition.
Our power word today for this episode is a very
profound word, and that power word is reframe. Reframe to
reframe means to change, means to change the frame around
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the picture. The picture doesn't change, but by changing the border,
changing the context, you see the entire image differently. Depression
is a master artist. And what depression does, Family, It
frames your life with lies. It crops out all of
the light, It crops out all of the hope, it
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crops out all of the evidence of God's goodness in
your life. But today, by the power of.
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God's word, We're going to shatter that frame.
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So, family, your mission, should you choose to squabble up,
is this. I want you to courageously identify the walls
that have been built in your own mind, and I
want you to recognize the lies that they're whispering. And
then what you're going to do is you're going to
find a strength to pick up a sledgehammer of the
Holy Scripture and you're going to begin swinging at those lies.
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So we're in the Old Testament. We're going to pull
up to First Kings, chapter nineteen, and we're going to
look at verses three and four. We're going to look
at those two verses. The Eternal Word of the Lord
says this. Then he was afraid, he being Elijah, and
he Elijah arose and ran for his life and came
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to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there,
but he himself when a day's journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a broom tree. You
should underline that a broom tree. And he asked that
he might die, saying it is enough now, o Lord,
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take away my life, for I am no better than
my father's. So for those of you who may not
understand who this man is, this is the prophet Elijah.
This is not a spiritual novice. This is not a
spiritual rookie. This is the goat prophet right here.
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This is a man.
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Who just stood on Mount Carmel as a solitary figure
against eight hundred and fifty false prophets. This is the
man who prayed and God answered his prayer with fire
from heaven that consumed the sacrifice, consumed the wood, consumed,
the stones, consume the water that was in the trich
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This is a spiritual heavyweight championship.
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And guess what.
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In the very next chapter we find him Elijah running
for This man is exhausted, this man is isolated, and
this man is begging God to kill him. And here's
what you need to understand. This is a warning for
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all of us. If this can happen to Elijah, let's
be humble enough to admit that it can happen to
any of us. All it takes is the right place
storm conditions in your life. So let's break down. We're
gonna look at four walls. We're gonna take a tour.
We're gonna look at four walls, and I want you
to see how these four walls count cornered this mighty
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man of God, this mighty Man of God was cornered
by these very four walls that we're going to take
a look at.
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If you're taking those, write this down wall number one,
the wall.
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Of frightening fear, the wall of frightening fear. Look at
the text verse three, part eight. Then he was afraid.
And I need you to feel the weight of those
four words. This is, without a doubt, one of the
most shocking statements in the entire Old Testament. Afraid this man,
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the man who just stared down the wicked king, the
man who just took down a hostile nation, a man
who went up against hundreds of demonic prophets, the man
who just saw fire fall from the sky because he
prayed and asked for it to come down. How can
this man be afraid past the tim you know how?
Because he got one message. He got a message from
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one woman, Queen Jezebel. Queen Jezebel is the embodiment of evil.
She is the embodiment of demonic forces.
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You'll even read about her.
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This name is going to ring out even over in
the Book of Revelation. So Queen Jezebel sends a messenger
to Elijah, and the messengers give him this word, she says,
and I quote, so may the gods do to me.
And more also, if I do not make your life
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as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow,
one of them is referring to those dead prophets that
Elijah had that Elijah killed. So she's saying, just as
you those prophets, I'm going to kill you as well
within the next twenty four hours.
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So when he.
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Gets that message, he doesn't pray, he doesn't call on
the God who just rained down fire. You know what
he does, He takes off, He runs for his life.
The Bible says, then he was afraid. All it took
was a threat from one woman to induce a case
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of spiritual amnesia. See the miracle on the mountain is gone.
The miracle on the mountain is completely erased by the
menace in the message. And this is the primary strategy
of depression. Depression is a master of selective focus. It
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magnifies the threat until the threat is all that you see.
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You don't see anything else but the threat.
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You keep rehearsing the threat over and over and over
again in your mind.
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Here is a blinder family.
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It forces you to fixate on the side and on
the volume of your problem, and not the size and
the victory of your God. It is the foundation stone
for every other wall that will be built.
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It starts with fear.
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Now, I want you to look at the next part
of the verse, part B, and he arose and ran
for his life. So now, on the surface, when you
look at that verse, he's running to preserve his physical life.
But if you really kind of get into the dna
of that verse of that statement, on a deeper level,
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he's running away from his spiritual life.
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So in one sense, he's running.
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To preserve his physical life, but on a much deeper level,
he's running away from his spiritual life. He is running
from his post. He is a wall. He is absent
without leave. He is running from his calling. He is
running from his purpose. He is running from the very
God who just demonstrated his absolute supremacy. Fear don't just
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make you freeze in place. It makes you run in
the wrong direction. Fear is a great misnavigator of your soul.
Fear will have you running from the people you need.
Fear will have you running from the places that you
are called to. Fear will have you running from the
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power that can save you. This is for my people
in the classroom, so afraid of what others think that
you silence your own voice. This is for the person
who is afraid of getting your heart broken again. You're
running from a relationship that God may have sent. Fear
is the engine of retreat. If you take a notes,
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write that down. Fear is the engine of retreat. But
we have a power word and we're going to keep
leaning this power word throughout this teaching. The power word
is reframed. So now let's reframe the fear that we
just talked about that the prophety Elijah had that made
him run for his life, and it's found over in
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secon Timothy chapter one, verse seven. We have to use
the tools of scripture to reframe these thoughts and these
these these these notions that come into our mind that
make us run from the presence of God. So Secretimothy
chapter one, verse seven. The apostle Paul writes to his
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young protegee. He says, for God gave us a spirit
not of fear, but of power and love and of
a sound mind.
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Let's break that down. For saying.
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A spirit not a fear. God has not given us
a spirit of fear. That means, as a child of God,
your default setting is courage. Remember how God kept reiterating
to Joshua, be strong and courageous. Be strong and courageous,
Be strong and courageous. Fear is a foreign spirit. But
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I love the fact that God gives each of us
three things to overcome fear. He gives us three things
to counteract fear. Number one, he gives us power.
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What is power? The power that he gives.
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Us is the spiritual authority and the ability to act,
to stand your ground, to move forward even if your
needs are trembling.
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He gives us love. What is love? The perfect love
that the Bible says cast out all fear.
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Why because love connects you to God and it connects
you to others. It breaks that isolation that fear thrives on.
Other thing that he gives us. The third thing that
God gives us is a sound mind. And to me,
this is the genius. Part of this original language speaks
of a discipline, self controlled will, ordered mind.
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Fear creates mental chaos.
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What Tyroh was going through was mental chaos, and that's
what fear does. God's spirit brings order in your mind
and in your life. It's not the absence of fearful thoughts.
But what it is is that God given ability to
manage your thoughts, to talk back to your thoughts. This
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I recall to my mind. Therefore I have hope. It
is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
That's what the Word of God does. So you have
the ability to manage these thoughts. Bring all thoughts under
into obedience to the Word of God, bring all thoughts
into captivity. So you have to learn how to put
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these thoughts in their proper place. You cannot allow thoughts
to just run through your mind unchecked, because those thoughts
that are running through your mind unchecked, guess what they're
gonna do. They're going to pick up momentum. They're going
to pick up momentum. So you have to bring these
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thoughts into the proper order of God's work. So we
honor the memory of Sister Tyrus Faulding. We honor her
by acknowledging that the fear that she felt it was real.
It was real fear. The voices she heard were a terrifying,
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tormenting reality to her. You could see her processing it
in real time and speaking to it in real time,
and the voices were speaking out of her in real time.
The battle for your mind is not imaginary. It is
the most real and consequential battle you will ever fight.
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And what makes it so insidious is that you can
be sitting in one spot in your mind could just
be raging with thoughts of fear, and thoughts of depression,
and thoughts of doing harm to yourself, and you haven't
even moved. She took a pink curtain and ended her life.
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Something that is meant to be beautiful.
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Was used for darkness. So now here's the thing.
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Your call to action is not to pretend you are
not afraid. Your call to action is to identify the
one threat, the one message, the one Jezebel in your
life right now that's making you run.
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What is the message that Jezebel has sent to you.
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I want you to name it, I want you to
write it down. I want you to acknowledge its power,
and and then I want you then to set it,
place it next to the power of God and watch
what happens. Question for you, what message am I allowing
to play on a loop in my mind that is
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causing me to run for my God? Given assignment instead
of running to God for refuge. I want you to
ponder that. I want you to write that out, and
I want you to think about it. Wall number two,
let's keep going, the wall of familiar failure, the wall
of familiar failure. So fear is what built the first wall,
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and that's a big wall.
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But fear is a lonely architect. Guess what.
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Fear needs a partner. And once you're on the run,
guess what the next wall starts to go up, break
by brick, and this is the wall that corners you
from the side.
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Jump to the end of verse four.
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So after Elijah has run, after he has isolated himself,
after he collapse, he asked God to end his life, and.
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He gives his reason in parde of the verse. He says, for.
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I am not better than my father's and I need
you to hear the profound sadness in that man's statement.
That's the sound of comparison, and it's a trap. This
is the echo of a deep seated inadequacy. After this
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man's greatest victory of his entire career, Elijah isn't celebrating
that victory. He's not popping those Champagne bottles. He is evaluating.
He is looking at his life, he is looking at
his ministry, he is looking at his spiritual resume, and
he is grading himself. And guess what great, Guess what
the grade is that he gives himself. He gives himself
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a capital F. He's saying God, after all that, after
the fire from heaven, after the end of the drought,
after the revival on the Mountain Change, Jessebell is still
on the throne.
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The system is still corrupt. I'm right back where I started.
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I'm no more successful, no more effective, no better than
the prophets who came before me and ultimately failed to
turn the nation around. This is the wall of familiar failure.
It's a wall that's built with the bricks of your
past mistakes, your regrets, your shortcomings, and the mortar and
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the cement that holds it all together is the sticky,
toxic substance of present disappointment. One of the things that
led me into this, up against this wall of depression,
was rehearsing disappointments in.
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My life back and though two.
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And It's that insidious voice that tells you that your
best will never be good enough. It's the highlight reel
of all of your worst moments. Think about that, all
of your worst moments of being played over and over
in your mind, all of your mistakes, all of your
if could or will it should us, all of it
is just running together. And nowhere is the word of
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God attached to any of these loops. And all of
your disappointments are just being constantly played over and over
and over again. And you're telling yourself that you're no good.
You're telling yourself that you're a failure. And if this
wall could talk, it would mock you with your own history.
It will say, remember that last business you tried to start,
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Remember that that relationship you messed up, Remember that promise
you made to yourself and you broke it. You haven't
changed you just like your father. You have the same
issues as your mother. You'll never escape the pattern. You're
a failure. And this latest attempt was just more proof
of that. And that's what Elijah saw. When Elijah compared
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himself to the other prophets before him, he.
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Saw himself as a failure.
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He's building walls of self condemnation. Now we can reframe
the wall of self condemnation. We can just simply go
over the ROMs Chapter eight, verse one. There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Elijah was his own harshest critic. And this is the
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core function of depression. I need you to hear me.
Depression turns you against yourself. Remember what Tyra said, it's
me against me over here. Depression makes you the prosecuting attorney,
makes you the bias judge, makes you the jury in
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the courtroom of your own mind. And guess what the
verdict is always the same thing, guilty. And again this
is what Tyron meant, it's me against me.
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Depression is the.
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Internal sol a war where the self that God created
is under constant assault from the self that failure has defined.
Failure has given you a new identity, and it's not
the same identity that God has given you, because the
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identity that.
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God has given you is this.
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If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a
what new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all
things are now new. It's amazing when we just kind
of stop and take the time and allow the scriptures
to reframe us, to reset us, to reboot us. We
look totally different. We look totally different. That's the power
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word reframe. Let's bring in the Apostle Paul, a man
who had every reason to feel like a failure. He
persecuted the church, he stood by when Stephen was martyered.
Yet he writes in Philippians three thirteen fourteen, Brothers, I
do not consider that I have made it my own.
But one thing I do, he said, forgetting what lies behind,
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and straightforward to what lies ahead.
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I press on toward the goal for.
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The prize of the upper call of God in Christ Jesus.
And this is a master class in reframing failure. If
there was ever a verse that gave you a snapshot
of what I'm talking.
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About, its Philippians three thirteen fourteen.
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First, he says, I don't consider that I've made it.
He admits his imperfection. He's not pretending. But he doesn't
dwell their family. He doesn't stay there, he doesn't lodge there.
He said, But this one thing I do. He simplifies
his entire life down to a singular focus. He's not
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trying to do fifty things. He's doing one thing. What
is it forgetting what's behind him? That's an active choice.
You have to decide to do that. It's not that
he has amnesia about his past. It's that he refuses
to let his past be the primary point of reference
for his present. And then he says he's straining forward.
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That's an athletic term. It's the image of a runner
leaning so far forward that they're almost fought. Every muscle
is tense, reaching for the finish line. Your past failures
do not get to define your future potential in God's kingdom.
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I'm sorry.
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Whatever failures you've had, whatever mistakes you've made, they do
not get to cross over into the Kingdom of God
and still try to hold you guilty. Let's add another
layer right on time, Roman, chapter eight, verse one.
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I mentioned it earlier.
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There was therefore now no condemnation to those who are
in Christ Jesus. Condemnation is the voice of the accuser.
Condemnation is the voice of failure that says you're workless.
Conviction is the voice of the Holy Spirit that says
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you're priceless and you can do better. There's a difference
between conviction and condemnation. Condemnation will always lead you to despair.
Guess what conviction leads you to Conviction leads you to repentance.
Conviction leads you to restoration. Go ree Psalms fifty one.
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You'll see it. You'll see it in its rawest form
in Psalms fifty one. You and I we must learn
to discern the voices of condemnation and conviction. You must
know the voices of these two because any confusion here
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will just lead you down a deeper and.
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Darker rabbit hole.
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So you'll call to action is the I want you
to write down the failure that keeps replaying in your mind.
You'll be surprised there are people who are replaying failures
that happen five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, those failures
that say I am no better than because that's what
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elied to say. Then I want you to write it down,
and then I want you to draw a line through
it and right next to it. I want you to write.
But one thing I do, press on, And that's what
you have to do. You have to press on. Got
a question for you. What past failure am I allowing
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you to stand as a monument in my mind when
God has already declared it a memory? What past failure
are you worshiping God? Said, you'll have no other idols
before him. We've made an idol. We've made idols out
of our mistakes. We've made idols out of our past.
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We've made idols out of some things that God has
already thrown into the sea of forgetfulness. So we have
to move past that. We have to move past wall
number two. Let's look at wall number three ahead.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm sorry, real quhead. Can you can you go back
to the call to action? Call to action? Yeah, yes, sir,
I don't even remember. I don't even think I had one.
I'm not even sure. I'm just talking, bro, because you
you had you said one.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Okay, okay, this is this is this is this is this.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Get a piece of paper.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Write down the failure that your mind keeps replaying right down,
that one primary failure that you it s your go
to what you always think of. It's the one that
you have allowed to define you. And I want you
to write down because Elijah said I.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Am no better than.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He never said that until he got into this place
of depression. So I want you to write down that
I am no better than I am no better than
my dad, I'm no better than my mom, I'm no
better than my past. Write down that sentence, Write down
that scene in your life that still haunts you.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And then I want you to draw line through it.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
After you've written it out, draw line through it, and
then right next to it. This is what you're going
to write. But one thing I do, I press on.
That's what you're gonna do. Thanks Daniel, that's what you're
gonna do.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Wall number three the wall of fatal fatigue, the wall
of fatal fatigue. And we're all gonna have to touch
this wall right here. So we've got the wall of
fear that's in front of us, we got the wall
of failure that's on our side.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You're running, you feel workless, and this is where the.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Third wall begins to rise up, and this wall boxes
you in even further. Let's rewind a bit in the
text because I want you to see how this was built.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Verse three parts.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Listen to these words talking about Elijah got a drone following.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
This man in the wilderness.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Look at what it says, and he came to Beersheba,
which belongs to Judith. I want you to look at
how logical, how logically illogical, he is, And he left
his servant there. So up until this point, there's someone
with him. He is a servant that is right there
with him. He has a servant that he can bounce
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all of this back and forth with.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
This servant was with him on Mount Karmo.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
This servant is in a very good position to tell
the Man of God exactly who he is. But look
at what he does, because this is what depression does.
But sister Tyra lost her life. She was by herself
and left his servant there. He came to Beersheba, which
belongs to Judah, and he intentionally left his servant there.
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Then verse four, but he himself went. So he goes
a whole twenty four hours into the wilderness.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Servant is not with him. He's by hisself.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In Part B, and he came and he sat down
under a broom tree.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
So let's break down.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
The sequence because it is a precise blueprint for burnout.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
First, he isolates himself. He left his servant there.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
He pushed away his support system, he pushed away his companion,
he pushed away his friend.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I've seen instances.
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Where people have decided to end their lives and you'll
see them. It will group around people. But in some
kind of a way they've managed to get away from everybody.
Depression is a disease of isolation. Please hear me when
I say that, when you start feeling yourself, this dark
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cloud starts rolling into your mind. Please pick up the phone,
Please go around somebody, Please just go sit in the
presence of someone.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Who can speak life to you.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Because depression will convince you that you're a burden. Oh,
you'll be surprised that the things depression will say to you.
It will make you feel like you're absolutely a burden,
that no one understands you, no one understands your situation,
that you are better off alone. That's the first thing
depression wants to tell you. Hey, let's me and you
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just go somewhere and be by ourselves. But being alone
is the oxygen that this fire breathes. Second, he pushes
himself beyond his physical, his physical and emotional limits. The
Bible says he himself when a day's journey into the wilderness,
not into a city, not into a place of refreshment,
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he is already spiritually defeated and emotionally spent from the
confrontation that he had on Mount Carmel and the threat
of Jezebel, and what.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Does he decide to do. He decides he's.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Going to go on a grueling solo journey through a barren,
hot wasteland. He's trying to outrun his feelings, but he's
only deepening his exhaustion. And guess what happens. He collapses.
He came and sat down under a broom tree. Man
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can't run anymore. His body and his soul has given out.
And the place he collapses, I think this is the
irony of this. The Bible is so amazing to me
because the place that he collapses is so significant. A
broom tree in the original language is related to a
word that means to be stripped, there to be naked.
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He subconsciously found a tree that matched how he felt
on the inside. He felt exposed, he felt raw, he
felt empty, and he felt alone. And this is the
wall of fail fatigue. It's not just about being tired
from a long day's work. That's not what we're talking about.
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This is a soul level exhaustion. This is a mental exhaustion.
This is a spiritual exhaustion, an emotional exhaustion, and physical bankruptcy.
Most mind blowing part of the story. What is God's
first response to Elijah's suicidal despair. The Man of God
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is praying and asking God to take his life. So
what is God's response to the Man of God. Does
he give him a sermon? Does he give him a
five point power point what he needs to do? Does
he tell him I need an offering? Does he rebuke
him and say he doesn't have any faith?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
No.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
The Bible says in the next verses that an angel
of the Lord shows up, touches him. I want you
to see how practical it's his family, and says to Elijah, a.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Rise and eat.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That is God's response to everything that this man has
said and everything that this man has done up until
this point in.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Time, A rise and eat.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
And Elijah, when he wakes up, there's a cake baked
on hot stones, and there's a jar water.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He eats, he drinks the water.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
He lies down because he's depressed, and he goes back
to sleep. Guess what the angel does. The angel comes
back in time and says, Man of God, arise and eat,
for the journey is too great for you.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
God's first response to a spiritual crisis was physical care.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
We so spiritual we forget this, We forget.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
This little small haul, complimentary meal and rest that we
probably so desperately need. He gave the Man of God
a meal and a nap twice, and it's a profound revelation. Sometimes, family,
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the most spiritual thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Is go to bed on time.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Sometimes the biggest spiritual breakthrough you can experience is to
eat a balanced meal and drink some more water.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Sometimes, the holiest.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Action you can take log off social media, turn off
the news, unplugged from the drama, and allow your mind,
allow your body to rest completely. We honor tire or
struggle by understanding that the exhaustion that she felt it
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was not a metaphor.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The desire for the pain to simply stop is a
symptom of deep, profound fatigue.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
It's not a character flaw.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's a human cry for It's a human cry for
the rest that the world cannot give.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
You.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Reframe this with what Jesus himself says over in Matthew,
chapter eleven, verse twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Life is tired, he spent. He don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Jesus says, come to me, all who labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you money. No, I
will give you food. No I will give you rest.
He doesn't say, come to me all who haven't figured out.
He says, come to me all who labor, all who
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are toiling to the point of exhaustion, all who are
heavy latent. That means you're carrying burdens you are never
meant to carry.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
That's what that means.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Jesus is inviting you and I to bring to him
our burdens and lay them down at his feet. Peter
even writes over in First Peter, I believe chapter three,
verse eighteen, cast all your cares on him.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Who is him God? Why?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Because he cares for you. It's about reframing. The invitation
is not a new set of rules. The invitation that
Jesus makes to you and I is a divine exchange.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
You give Jesus your exhaustion, and he gives you his rest.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
He'll give you the same rest he had on that
boat in the Gospel of Mark, in Mark chapter four,
when he was asleep during the storm. He'll give you
that kind of rest. Let's add Isaiah to this as well.
The egle our prophet Isaiah Chay, verse twenty nine to
thirty one. Isaiah writes this about God. He says, he
gives power to the faith, and to him who has
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no might, He increases strength. But they who wait for
the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up
with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be wearied.
They shall walk. And I think waiting on God is
not passing. Waiting on God is an active exchange of
our depletion for his infinite supply. This is what Paul
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could say from a Roman jail cell, my God.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Speaking to people that are free, he said.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
My God shall supply all your needs according to his
riches and his glory in Christ Jesus. But it's about
us making this exchange. We have to make this exchange.
We have to exchange the exhaustion in our mind and
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in our heart, and in our spirit and in our
life and in our past. We have to give that
to God for his divine exchange.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
So here's your call to action for this wall.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Your call to action is to look at your calendar
for the week, whatever your calendar looks like, starting tomorrow,
and I want you to look. I want you to
project out a week, and I want you to do
me a favor I want you to schedule a non
negotiable appointment with yourself for rest.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Try it, Just try it.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
No scrolling on your phone, no binge watching the show.
That's not what I'm talking about. Just rest, true rest,
or walk in nature, just sit in silence outside, take
a nap, and I want you to guard it like
it's the most important meeting of your week, because you
know what it.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Just might be. Imagine if Tyre could have got out
of that house and just went and just rested in God.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
You have to pull yourself out of this gravitational force
of depression.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
You have to find a way to break free from that.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
And because we're a country, we're a world, we.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Like to brag about the grind and grind and grind.
Every day, I'm hustling, grinding.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You better sit down somewhere and get you some rest.
That's what you better do. Jesus is talking about giving
you rest. There was even a time I forgot where
it's at. I want to say this in Mark, but
it was a day where Jesus and the disciples they
had just been toiling and working with people all day.
And guess what he told them when they got done
with all of that he said, let's go.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Get some rest.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Let's go chill, let's punch out, and let's go get
some rest. So scripture is letting you know how important
this is. Remember the Sabbath day. Remember the Sabbath Day
rest question for you? Am I treating my body as
a temple for God's spirit? Where am I treating my
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body like a disposable machine that I could run into
the ground without consequence. You have to get some rest, mam.
You have to get some rest. We underestimate just how
powerful rest can be for our body, our mind, our spirit,
and our soul. Let's go to wall numberfore, the wall
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of the Wall of feudal feelings. I just wanted to
show you the wall of feudal feelings. We've arrived at
this final wall. The wall of fears in front, the
wall of failures on the side, the wall of fatigue
is behind you. And now the last wall goes up
and the ceiling is dropped into place, and you are
completely enclosed. And this is the wall of feudal futile feelings.
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It's built from the bricks of the other three. Now
I want you to look at verse four PARTSI. Listening
to Elarjah, and he asks that he might die, saying
it's enough now, Oh Lord, take away my life. That
is the language of utter, absolute hopelessness. That is me
against me, It is enough. This is the cry of
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a man who has lost all positive expectation of the future.
He's not thinking of a future. He has looked ahead
with eyes of fear, failure, and fatigue. And all this
man can see is, you know what. I don't want
no more pain. I don't want them to struggle. I
don't want no more loan than this. I don't want
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any more running. And that's that toxic belief that nothing
will ever change for the better. You get so consumed
in the moment right.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Now you can't even see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
You get so consumed in the moment right now you
can't even celebrate small victories. And this is a feeling
that's confirmed later in the chapter.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
God is going to catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
He's going to find him in a cave and he's
going to ask Elijah, what are you doing here? And
Elijah's response is a masterclass in depressive thinking. He says,
I've been very zealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts,
for the people of Israel.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
They forsaken your covenant.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
They've thrown down the author, they killed the prophets with
the sword. But I'm the only one left God, and
they trying to kill me too.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
He rehearsed that narrative.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
That is the rehearsed narrative that depression creates. It'll surprise
you some of the things that people will say.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And it's just it's on a constant look. They won't
change up anything about it.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
It's a script. He feels alone, so he concludes he
is alone. He feels like his work was for nothing,
so he concludes it was for nothing. He has created
walls of paranoia, he has created walls of despair.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
And here's the proof that it's a script.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
God lets him rest, feeds him, sends him on a
forty day journey to hoar up the mountain of God.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
And then guess what God does.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
He asks him the same question again, and guess what
Allieda says.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
When he responds, he gives him the.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Exact same answer, word for word, hopelessness, scripted answer. He's
so locked into this narrative of futility that he cannot
see or process any new information. He refuses to let
anything positive. He's not going to allow any light to
shine in his confirmation. Biased is in full effect. He
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is only looking for evidence that proves his hopeless case.
And if this wall could talk, it wouldn't whisper. This
wall would scream in the echo chamber of your mind.
It would shout it's over. It would shout You're the
only one fight. It would shout no one else cares
nothing you do. Nothing you do matters. It'll never get
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any better than this. It will always be this hard.
You're gonna always be broke. You're gonna always be stuck.
You're gonna always be without a job, You're gonna always
be alone.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
Why are you even trying? Just give up? It would
be easy for everyone else.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
And that's the very wall that our sister Tyra Spauldin
was pressed up against when she said life would be
easier if I wasn't here.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
That's the same thing Elijah's saying.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
It is the tragic but logical conclusion of a mind
that had it has been systematically convinced by fear of
failure and fatigue, that the future holds no possibility of
relief or joy. Is check out time, baby, And this
is where we have to.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
How can I say this? We must with all of
our might in that moment. We have to reframe.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
And this is where God's response to Elijah becomes so revolutionary. First,
he provides a safe space for honest communication. I love it,
He asked, Elijah, what.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Not because the omnitient God of the universe doesn't know
where Elijah is.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Remember, he asked Adam the same question. Where are you?
Speaker 2 (49:47):
He asked Elijah because Elijah needed to hear himself safe.
He needs to externalize the poison that has been circulating
in his ce.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Can I tell you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Something and you'll really find this out in the songs.
God is not afraid of your honest, raw, unfiltered emotions.
He is not intimidated by your anger, your doubt, your despair,
or even your death wish.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
He invites it.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
He would rather have you screaming at him than whispering
about him behind his back. God wants to reel you.
He's never afraid to hear exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
What's in your heart.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
You should go and read the songs because they tell
God exactly how they feel. They keep it honest, they
keep it real with God. Then, after Elijah emptied his soul.
He got all that venom out, he got all that
poison out. God gave him a gentle correction. And how
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he does it is a lesson for all time. He
doesn't show up in the wind he gives Elijah these demonstrations.
He's not in the wind that breaks the rocks. He
doesn't show up in the earthquake. He doesn't even show
up in the fire. He shows Elijah all of these
dramatic things that are happening. But you know what he
does after all of the noise has passed, The Bible says,
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in a still small voice, the original language, I think.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Is even more beautiful. It needs something like a general whisper.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
God is whispering to Elijah. Why because God's truth doesn't
have to shout to be heard. God's truth will cut
through the storm of your emotions with a quiet, undeniable authority.
You will know it's God. You're sense that, you all
feel it. You'll be like it's in the room right now.
The loudest voices in your life, especially the ones in
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your head, are not always the truest voices. And so
in that whisper from God to Elijah, he corrects the
central lie of Elijah's life. He says, Elijah, the script
that you've been rehearsing, the script that you've been going
over and over in your mind, the one where you're
the lonely hero, the one where you're the last man standing.
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He said, Elijah, let's refrain that. By the way, Elijah,
I have seven thousand prophets that you have never met.
They're in Israel, and they've never bowed their need to
bail in whose mouths they have not kissed him. In
one sentence, God demolishes the entire foundation of Elijah's despair
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because Elijah's feeling of being alone was so intense that
it was real, but it wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
It was real to him, but it wasn't true.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
And I believe this is a critical distinction that we
have to grasp today. And it's this because the Bible
says we walk by what faith right. But how many
times do you hear people talking about their feelings. I feel,
this is what I feel, this is what I feel,
this is how I'm feeling.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
No, your feelings are real.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Your feelings are valid indicators of your internal state, but
they are not always reliable reporters of the ultimate reality.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Question for you, what lie.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
About your future and your significance? Are you believing that
God's promise and his purpose awaiting to shatter? Because God says,
want to I want to have a talk with you.
I want to have a talk with you in regards
to some of these things that you've been saying.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Some of these things that have.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Been coming out of your mouth have the abundance of
the heart. The mouth speaks, So God says, I need
a heart. I need to do a heart check up
with you. So we've seen these four walls, these walls
of depression, These walls of depression. They don't just overpeer,
they don't just appear overnight. These walls of depression are
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built break by brick, lie by lie, suspicion by suspicion.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
First comes the wall of frightening fear.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
That wall stands in front of you, That wall blocks
your path. That wall whispers, this threat is bigger than
your God soul.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Run.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Then as you run, the wall of familiar failure goes
up on your side. That wall mocks you with your past.
You'll never change. You're a disappointment. Nobody likes you, nobody
wants you. You'll know better than them. And so when
you get exhausted from running from running, and you're burdened
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by the shame, then the wall of fatal fatigue rises
up behind you and it cuts off your retreat. It whispers,
you're just too tired to fight. Why don't you just
give up?
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Surrender? Surrender is easier than the struggle. It struggles too much,
life be life in it. Let's just get up out
of here.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
And then finally you trap in your corner by the
wall a few the futile feelings, and it drops down
from above and it steals you in darkness and screaming
at you.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
Is over. Nothing matters. Hope is dead. So this man
is completely surrounded when God pulls up on him.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
And maybe some of you feel surrounded today. Maybe you
feel surrounded today. You look up, you look behind, you
get down to pray, you can't stay focused. You look
to the side, and all you see is these hard
all you seal, these hardcore walls. You've run, you've isolated yourself,
you've collapsed, and you've despaired. And you understand what Tyra
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meant when she said it's me against me. You resonate
with Elijah's cry, it is enough. And I'm here to
tell you today. But all the authority of God's word,
there is a doorway from behind this wall.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
There is a divine demolition plan.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
God's response to Elijah is is your blueprint, and it's
my blueprint for freedom whenever we come up against these
walls of depression. And it's very simple and it's very practical.
First of all, it starts with physical care. God says,
be kind to your body. Your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit. Rest that body. Get you something
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to eat, get a well balanced meal. Can't just eat
fast food every single day. Sometimes the first step to
spiritual healing from this story is a nap and a meal.
The other thing you gotta do have honest communication with God.
God says, tell me everything, pour out your heart. I'm
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big enough to handle your anger. I'm big enough to
handle your pain. I'm big enough to handle your questions.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Give it to God.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
But it also involves general correction because sometime times God
will speak to you and a whisper, not a whirlwind.
He'll cut through the noise. He'll reframe your lives with
his truth, and he reminds you that your feelings are real,
but his facts are truer. And then when we do that,
guess what Now It releads us. Now, it leads us
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to a renewed purpose. God will give you a new assignment.
God will tell you to turn. You turn, you turn.
Now you go back and you help some people. He
calls you back into his story. Your life has meaning
and your work is not in vain. That's what God
is saying to you. So this story of Elijah in
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the Bible, it's for you, it's for me, it's for
all of us. It's for any of us who've been
dealing with depression. You're not a bad Christian if you
are depressed, if you feel depressed, you're not a bad Christian.
It doesn't disqualify you. Mighty prophets get depressed. Strong leaders
get exhausted. You have pastors all over the world right now.
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Faithful servants feel like failures. Mothers sometimes feel like quitting.
Fathers feel like growing into town in a town sons
and daughters get back into dark corners. And you know
what I love about God. His response is not condemnation.
His response is not judgment. You know what it is.
It's compassion. It's a cake baked by Angel it's a
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draw water.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
It's a still small voice. It's a new mission.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
So if you're listening to this right now, and if
you're in a dark place, if you're hearing these voices,
if you feel like it's me against me, I'm begging.
Speaker 3 (58:46):
You, hear my voice. Your story is not over. The
author of life has not written the final chapter.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
That feeling that it would be easier if you weren't
here is the most profound exception from the pit of hell.
Speaker 3 (59:02):
Your life is a gift.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
Your presence on this earth matters, Your presence to your
family matters.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
There is help, there is hope.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
You can call a text nine to eight eight in
the United States or Canada any time, day or night.
You will be connected with a trained, compassionate crisis counselor
it's free, it's confidential, it's a lifeline. Making that call
is not an act of weakness. Making that call is
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an act of strength, is an act of war against
the lies that are trying to take your life. And
it's the bravest thing that you can do. Please, if
you find yourself in that place, use that number. Remember
Tyrus Falding her life. Losing her life was not in vain.
Remember her not for the tragedy of how she died,
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but remember her for the incredible courage that she lived
her struggle. And so we're gonna honor her by refusing
to be silent any longer. We're gonna stop dancing and
shouting over our depression. We honor her by having this conversation.
We honor her by reaching out to one another. We
honor her by choosing to fight, by choosing to believe
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God's demolition plan is greater than depression's construction plan. We
honor our sister by tearing down these walls of depression.
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Listen.
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If this teaching knocked down at least one wall in
your life, or even just put a crack in the wall,
all I'm asking you to do is share it.
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Share it for sister Tylor. Share it.
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living inside of these walls. Don't keep this lifeling to yourself. Facebook, Family,
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by doing so. Our new podcast drops every single Thursday
morning at nine am sharp. Join us back here next
Wednesday for our next teaching. We have begun the demolition
of these walls of Depression. Next week we're going after
its close relative. The lesson is entitled these Walls of Temptation.
It's going to be another powerful time of breakthrough. Let's pray. Father,
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we honor you on tonight.
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God. We honor you for the life of Tyrus Faulding.
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And so right now, God, I pray that this word
God will begin the demolition process tearing down the walls
of depression in our lives. God, we thank you that
your word is yay and Amen. God, we thank you
that eyes haven't seen and ears having heard what it
is that you have in store for us. So right now, God,
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I pray that the hedge of protection will be around
the minds and the hearts of your people. I pray
God that we will get the rest that we need.
I pray God that we will have the balanced meal
that we need to have God. I pray God that
we'll understand God that your word says first natural and
then spiritual. So help us God to be better stewards
of the natural body that You've given to us. God,
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this temple, this temple that houses your Holy Spirit, help
us to be better stewards of it. God, help us
to curb some things God that is breaking our bodies down,
that are making our bodies weak. Give us the strength
that we need, God to run this race, and to
run this race with endurance. So Father, we come against
the spirit of depression. We come against the spirit of suicide.
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I pray right now God that your word will begin
to shine light into the darkness and the minds and
the hearts of your people.
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Of God.
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Your word says, he who the sun sets free is free. Indeed,
So God, help us to walk in that freedom. Help
us to walk in that boldness. And most of all, God,
help us to check on others. God, help us to
be more mindful of our brothers and sisters. God help
us not to leave anyone behind. God help us to
learn from our sister's story. We thank you for this
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time of sharing. We thank you for this time of fellowship.
And it's in Jesus' name that we pray.
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Amen, and that's our time. Family, Thank you for locking
in with us for this crucial teaching. Now that we've
put a crack in the walls of depression, you have
to be ready for the enemy's next move. So I
need you to join us right back here next week
as we take on his other favorite blueprint in our
next teaching, these walls of temptation on behalf of brothers
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in the Word, and Pastor Tim, remember, get into the
Word of God, and the Word of God will get
into you.
What if the prison you're living in has no bars
but is built inside your own mind. What if the
voice that condemns you the most is your own. In
this powerful, emotionally charged episode of Brothers in the Word,
we're not just talking about depression. We are handing you
the sledge hammer to tear its walls down. Dedicated to
the memory of Tyras Spalding and her courageous fight, this
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teaching exposes the four specific walls that depression builds to
trap you. The wall of frightening fear, the wall of
familiar failure, the wall of fatal fatigue, and the wall
of feudal feelings. Using the shocking story of the prophet Elijah,
who went from calling down fire from heaven to begging
God to end his life, we reveal God's surprising and
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compassionate blueprint for demolition. This isn't just a sermon, It's
a spiritual demolition guide. You will learn to identify the lies,
find the courage to speak your truth, and discover how
to reframe your pain with God's purpose. So the question
is in if you need to hear this, but how
you will respond? Are you ready to stop being a
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prisoner to your own thoughts. Are you ready to finally
confront the script that has kept you in the dark,
Then lean in close and prepare your heart because the
demolition starts. Now grab your Bible and prepare to take notes.
Let's join Pastor Tim Smith.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to brothers in the Word. My
name is Tim Smith, Son of Clara Jones City is
back up.
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It's a muss. We're outside. Please like love and share.
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That's the only currency that I'm asking you for today.
Please like love and share on your way in the
door and also on your way out the door. Family,
I need you to do me a favor. This is
going to be a little different this episode because I
need you to do more than just simply listen today.
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I need you to lean in with everything you got.
I need you to pull up a chair in the
sanctuary of your mind because we're about to have a conversation.
I feel that it's long overdue, and it's a conversation
that the church really doesn't address. But this teaching this
episode is for everyone. This is for the person who
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looks like they have it all together, but you know
they're falling apart on the inside. This is for the
high achiever. This is for the straight a student, the
top performer at work, who.
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Feels like a fraud.
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This is for the pastor who preaches victory but fights
despair and the quiet of his study. This is for
the mother who gives everything to her children but feels
like she has nothing left for herself. This is for
the brother who's been taught to be strong and silent,
but whose silence is screaming at the top of its voice.
This is for anyone any of you who has ever
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had a fight with a war that nobody can see.
We're talking about a battle that is waged in the
private chambers of your own heart and in your own mind.
This is for the college student who feels like there's
no end in sight. And so before we go any further,
I want to just pause and bring a name into
this space that we're about to enter into. I want
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to dedicate this entire teaching. This is something I haven't
done before, but I'm going to do it this time.
God put it on my heart last week to do this.
So I want to dedicate this entire teaching, this entire episode,
to the memory of a beautiful, brilliant soul named Tyra Spalding.
Tyra was a former Miss Jamaica Universe contestant.
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She was a powerful and outspoken advocate for.
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Mental health, and she tragically lost her own battle with
the very thing that she fought to help others overcome.
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Her family found her and the.
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Details of heartbreaking, but what's even more gut wrenching are
the words she left behind as a testimony to her struggle.
There are a lot of videos online of her just
basically chronicling her journey, journaling her journal, her video battle
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and so in the months before she passed, she told
friends that she was hearing voices, she was posting on
social media that she was going through hell, and in
a video that is as raw and honest as you'll
ever find, she said that she said it felt like
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there were two different meeds. She said, I feel like
it's two different means. One of them wants me to
live and the other wants me to die. They want
me to die. It's me against me over here unquote.
That's what she said. So I want you to think
about that phrase she left us, it's me against me,
And when I thought about that, when I heard her
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say that, for me, it was one of the most
concise and powerful descriptions of that internal civil war of
depression that I've ever heard anyone express.
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She asked, is she.
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Asks if the devil was possessing her. She says, something
keeps telling me that, you know, life would be easier
if I wasn't here. So her story, I feel there's
not a headline to be consumed and forgotten, because you
know how we just scroll on to the next story.
But I think that this is a sacred text for
all of us today. It's a window into the private
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torment that experts report that over seven hundred to eight
hundred thousand people die every year from suicide. I think
they said one person dies every forty seconds. In America,
one person dies every eleven minutes. So it's a battle
for the mind, that's what depression is. And Tyr's fight
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her courage to speak her pain. That's the reason why
you and I are having this conversation right now, And
this is the reason why I need you to share
this with anyone who you speak to who's also having
this same kind of battle, the same kind of struggle,
And so tonight, I just want to keep her story
front and center throughout this lesson, because her flight can
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become a lifeline for someone else who's drowning in the
exact same waters that Tyrol's drowning in. So today, what
we're going to do is we're going to put a
name to the struggle. We're calling this lesson, these walls
of depression. So I need you to do me a favor.
Go ahead and grab your Bible and get a pen,
get some paper, take some detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon.
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We are about to engage in some serious spiritual demolition.
Our power word today for this episode is a very
profound word, and that power word is reframe. Reframe to
reframe means to change, means to change the frame around
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the picture. The picture doesn't change, but by changing the border,
changing the context, you see the entire image differently. Depression
is a master artist. And what depression does, Family, It
frames your life with lies. It crops out all of
the light, It crops out all of the hope, it
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crops out all of the evidence of God's goodness in
your life. But today, by the power of.
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God's word, We're going to shatter that frame.
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So, family, your mission, should you choose to squabble up,
is this. I want you to courageously identify the walls
that have been built in your own mind, and I
want you to recognize the lies that they're whispering. And
then what you're going to do is you're going to
find a strength to pick up a sledgehammer of the
Holy Scripture and you're going to begin swinging at those lies.
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So we're in the Old Testament. We're going to pull
up to First Kings, chapter nineteen, and we're going to
look at verses three and four. We're going to look
at those two verses. The Eternal Word of the Lord
says this. Then he was afraid, he being Elijah, and
he Elijah arose and ran for his life and came
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to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there,
but he himself when a day's journey into the wilderness,
and came and sat down under a broom tree. You
should underline that a broom tree. And he asked that
he might die, saying it is enough now, o Lord,
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take away my life, for I am no better than
my father's. So for those of you who may not
understand who this man is, this is the prophet Elijah.
This is not a spiritual novice. This is not a
spiritual rookie. This is the goat prophet right here.
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This is a man.
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Who just stood on Mount Carmel as a solitary figure
against eight hundred and fifty false prophets. This is the
man who prayed and God answered his prayer with fire
from heaven that consumed the sacrifice, consumed the wood, consumed,
the stones, consume the water that was in the trich
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This is a spiritual heavyweight championship.
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And guess what.
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In the very next chapter we find him Elijah running
for This man is exhausted, this man is isolated, and
this man is begging God to kill him. And here's
what you need to understand. This is a warning for
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all of us. If this can happen to Elijah, let's
be humble enough to admit that it can happen to
any of us. All it takes is the right place
storm conditions in your life. So let's break down. We're
gonna look at four walls. We're gonna take a tour.
We're gonna look at four walls, and I want you
to see how these four walls count cornered this mighty
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man of God, this mighty Man of God was cornered
by these very four walls that we're going to take
a look at.
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If you're taking those, write this down wall number one,
the wall.
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Of frightening fear, the wall of frightening fear. Look at
the text verse three, part eight. Then he was afraid.
And I need you to feel the weight of those
four words. This is, without a doubt, one of the
most shocking statements in the entire Old Testament. Afraid this man,
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the man who just stared down the wicked king, the
man who just took down a hostile nation, a man
who went up against hundreds of demonic prophets, the man
who just saw fire fall from the sky because he
prayed and asked for it to come down. How can
this man be afraid past the tim you know how?
Because he got one message. He got a message from
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one woman, Queen Jezebel. Queen Jezebel is the embodiment of evil.
She is the embodiment of demonic forces.
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You'll even read about her.
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This name is going to ring out even over in
the Book of Revelation. So Queen Jezebel sends a messenger
to Elijah, and the messengers give him this word, she says,
and I quote, so may the gods do to me.
And more also, if I do not make your life
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as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow,
one of them is referring to those dead prophets that
Elijah had that Elijah killed. So she's saying, just as
you those prophets, I'm going to kill you as well
within the next twenty four hours.
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So when he.
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Gets that message, he doesn't pray, he doesn't call on
the God who just rained down fire. You know what
he does, He takes off, He runs for his life.
The Bible says, then he was afraid. All it took
was a threat from one woman to induce a case
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of spiritual amnesia. See the miracle on the mountain is gone.
The miracle on the mountain is completely erased by the
menace in the message. And this is the primary strategy
of depression. Depression is a master of selective focus. It
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magnifies the threat until the threat is all that you see.
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You don't see anything else but the threat.
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You keep rehearsing the threat over and over and over
again in your mind.
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Here is a blinder family.
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It forces you to fixate on the side and on
the volume of your problem, and not the size and
the victory of your God. It is the foundation stone
for every other wall that will be built.
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It starts with fear.
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Now, I want you to look at the next part
of the verse, part B, and he arose and ran
for his life. So now, on the surface, when you
look at that verse, he's running to preserve his physical life.
But if you really kind of get into the dna
of that verse of that statement, on a deeper level,
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he's running away from his spiritual life.
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So in one sense, he's running.
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To preserve his physical life, but on a much deeper level,
he's running away from his spiritual life. He is running
from his post. He is a wall. He is absent
without leave. He is running from his calling. He is
running from his purpose. He is running from the very
God who just demonstrated his absolute supremacy. Fear don't just
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make you freeze in place. It makes you run in
the wrong direction. Fear is a great misnavigator of your soul.
Fear will have you running from the people you need.
Fear will have you running from the places that you
are called to. Fear will have you running from the
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power that can save you. This is for my people
in the classroom, so afraid of what others think that
you silence your own voice. This is for the person
who is afraid of getting your heart broken again. You're
running from a relationship that God may have sent. Fear
is the engine of retreat. If you take a notes,
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write that down. Fear is the engine of retreat. But
we have a power word and we're going to keep
leaning this power word throughout this teaching. The power word
is reframed. So now let's reframe the fear that we
just talked about that the prophety Elijah had that made
him run for his life, and it's found over in
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secon Timothy chapter one, verse seven. We have to use
the tools of scripture to reframe these thoughts and these
these these these notions that come into our mind that
make us run from the presence of God. So Secretimothy
chapter one, verse seven. The apostle Paul writes to his
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young protegee. He says, for God gave us a spirit
not of fear, but of power and love and of
a sound mind.
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Let's break that down. For saying.
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A spirit not a fear. God has not given us
a spirit of fear. That means, as a child of God,
your default setting is courage. Remember how God kept reiterating
to Joshua, be strong and courageous. Be strong and courageous,
Be strong and courageous. Fear is a foreign spirit. But
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I love the fact that God gives each of us
three things to overcome fear. He gives us three things
to counteract fear. Number one, he gives us power.
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What is power? The power that he gives.
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Us is the spiritual authority and the ability to act,
to stand your ground, to move forward even if your
needs are trembling.
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He gives us love. What is love? The perfect love
that the Bible says cast out all fear.
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Why because love connects you to God and it connects
you to others. It breaks that isolation that fear thrives on.
Other thing that he gives us. The third thing that
God gives us is a sound mind. And to me,
this is the genius. Part of this original language speaks
of a discipline, self controlled will, ordered mind.
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Fear creates mental chaos.
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What Tyroh was going through was mental chaos, and that's
what fear does. God's spirit brings order in your mind
and in your life. It's not the absence of fearful thoughts.
But what it is is that God given ability to
manage your thoughts, to talk back to your thoughts. This
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I recall to my mind. Therefore I have hope. It
is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
That's what the Word of God does. So you have
the ability to manage these thoughts. Bring all thoughts under
into obedience to the Word of God, bring all thoughts
into captivity. So you have to learn how to put
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these thoughts in their proper place. You cannot allow thoughts
to just run through your mind unchecked, because those thoughts
that are running through your mind unchecked, guess what they're
gonna do. They're going to pick up momentum. They're going
to pick up momentum. So you have to bring these
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thoughts into the proper order of God's work. So we
honor the memory of Sister Tyrus Faulding. We honor her
by acknowledging that the fear that she felt it was real.
It was real fear. The voices she heard were a terrifying,
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tormenting reality to her. You could see her processing it
in real time and speaking to it in real time,
and the voices were speaking out of her in real time.
The battle for your mind is not imaginary. It is
the most real and consequential battle you will ever fight.
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And what makes it so insidious is that you can
be sitting in one spot in your mind could just
be raging with thoughts of fear, and thoughts of depression,
and thoughts of doing harm to yourself, and you haven't
even moved. She took a pink curtain and ended her life.
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Something that is meant to be beautiful.
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Was used for darkness. So now here's the thing.
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Your call to action is not to pretend you are
not afraid. Your call to action is to identify the
one threat, the one message, the one Jezebel in your
life right now that's making you run.
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What is the message that Jezebel has sent to you.
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I want you to name it, I want you to
write it down. I want you to acknowledge its power,
and and then I want you then to set it,
place it next to the power of God and watch
what happens. Question for you, what message am I allowing
to play on a loop in my mind that is
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causing me to run for my God? Given assignment instead
of running to God for refuge. I want you to
ponder that. I want you to write that out, and
I want you to think about it. Wall number two,
let's keep going, the wall of familiar failure, the wall
of familiar failure. So fear is what built the first wall,
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and that's a big wall.
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But fear is a lonely architect. Guess what.
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Fear needs a partner. And once you're on the run,
guess what the next wall starts to go up, break
by brick, and this is the wall that corners you
from the side.
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Jump to the end of verse four.
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So after Elijah has run, after he has isolated himself,
after he collapse, he asked God to end his life, and.
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He gives his reason in parde of the verse. He says, for.
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I am not better than my father's and I need
you to hear the profound sadness in that man's statement.
That's the sound of comparison, and it's a trap. This
is the echo of a deep seated inadequacy. After this
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man's greatest victory of his entire career, Elijah isn't celebrating
that victory. He's not popping those Champagne bottles. He is evaluating.
He is looking at his life, he is looking at
his ministry, he is looking at his spiritual resume, and
he is grading himself. And guess what great, Guess what
the grade is that he gives himself. He gives himself
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a capital F. He's saying God, after all that, after
the fire from heaven, after the end of the drought,
after the revival on the Mountain Change, Jessebell is still
on the throne.
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The system is still corrupt. I'm right back where I started.
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I'm no more successful, no more effective, no better than
the prophets who came before me and ultimately failed to
turn the nation around. This is the wall of familiar failure.
It's a wall that's built with the bricks of your
past mistakes, your regrets, your shortcomings, and the mortar and
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the cement that holds it all together is the sticky,
toxic substance of present disappointment. One of the things that
led me into this, up against this wall of depression,
was rehearsing disappointments in.
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My life back and though two.
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And It's that insidious voice that tells you that your
best will never be good enough. It's the highlight reel
of all of your worst moments. Think about that, all
of your worst moments of being played over and over
in your mind, all of your mistakes, all of your
if could or will it should us, all of it
is just running together. And nowhere is the word of
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God attached to any of these loops. And all of
your disappointments are just being constantly played over and over
and over again. And you're telling yourself that you're no good.
You're telling yourself that you're a failure. And if this
wall could talk, it would mock you with your own history.
It will say, remember that last business you tried to start,
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Remember that that relationship you messed up, Remember that promise
you made to yourself and you broke it. You haven't
changed you just like your father. You have the same
issues as your mother. You'll never escape the pattern. You're
a failure. And this latest attempt was just more proof
of that. And that's what Elijah saw. When Elijah compared
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himself to the other prophets before him, he.
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Saw himself as a failure.
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He's building walls of self condemnation. Now we can reframe
the wall of self condemnation. We can just simply go
over the ROMs Chapter eight, verse one. There is therefore
now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Elijah was his own harshest critic. And this is the
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core function of depression. I need you to hear me.
Depression turns you against yourself. Remember what Tyra said, it's
me against me over here. Depression makes you the prosecuting attorney,
makes you the bias judge, makes you the jury in
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the courtroom of your own mind. And guess what the
verdict is always the same thing, guilty. And again this
is what Tyron meant, it's me against me.
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Depression is the.
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Internal sol a war where the self that God created
is under constant assault from the self that failure has defined.
Failure has given you a new identity, and it's not
the same identity that God has given you, because the
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identity that.
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God has given you is this.
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If any man be in Christ Jesus, he is a
what new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all
things are now new. It's amazing when we just kind
of stop and take the time and allow the scriptures
to reframe us, to reset us, to reboot us. We
look totally different. We look totally different. That's the power
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word reframe. Let's bring in the Apostle Paul, a man
who had every reason to feel like a failure. He
persecuted the church, he stood by when Stephen was martyered.
Yet he writes in Philippians three thirteen fourteen, Brothers, I
do not consider that I have made it my own.
But one thing I do, he said, forgetting what lies behind,
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and straightforward to what lies ahead.
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I press on toward the goal for.
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The prize of the upper call of God in Christ Jesus.
And this is a master class in reframing failure. If
there was ever a verse that gave you a snapshot
of what I'm talking.
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About, its Philippians three thirteen fourteen.
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First, he says, I don't consider that I've made it.
He admits his imperfection. He's not pretending. But he doesn't
dwell their family. He doesn't stay there, he doesn't lodge there.
He said, But this one thing I do. He simplifies
his entire life down to a singular focus. He's not
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trying to do fifty things. He's doing one thing. What
is it forgetting what's behind him? That's an active choice.
You have to decide to do that. It's not that
he has amnesia about his past. It's that he refuses
to let his past be the primary point of reference
for his present. And then he says he's straining forward.
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That's an athletic term. It's the image of a runner
leaning so far forward that they're almost fought. Every muscle
is tense, reaching for the finish line. Your past failures
do not get to define your future potential in God's kingdom.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Whatever failures you've had, whatever mistakes you've made, they do
not get to cross over into the Kingdom of God
and still try to hold you guilty. Let's add another
layer right on time, Roman, chapter eight, verse one.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I mentioned it earlier.
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There was therefore now no condemnation to those who are
in Christ Jesus. Condemnation is the voice of the accuser.
Condemnation is the voice of failure that says you're workless.
Conviction is the voice of the Holy Spirit that says
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you're priceless and you can do better. There's a difference
between conviction and condemnation. Condemnation will always lead you to despair.
Guess what conviction leads you to Conviction leads you to repentance.
Conviction leads you to restoration. Go ree Psalms fifty one.
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You'll see it. You'll see it in its rawest form
in Psalms fifty one. You and I we must learn
to discern the voices of condemnation and conviction. You must
know the voices of these two because any confusion here
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will just lead you down a deeper and.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Darker rabbit hole.
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So you'll call to action is the I want you
to write down the failure that keeps replaying in your mind.
You'll be surprised there are people who are replaying failures
that happen five, ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, those failures
that say I am no better than because that's what
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elied to say. Then I want you to write it down,
and then I want you to draw a line through
it and right next to it. I want you to write.
But one thing I do, press on, And that's what
you have to do. You have to press on. Got
a question for you. What past failure am I allowing
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you to stand as a monument in my mind when
God has already declared it a memory? What past failure
are you worshiping God? Said, you'll have no other idols
before him. We've made an idol. We've made idols out
of our mistakes. We've made idols out of our past.
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We've made idols out of some things that God has
already thrown into the sea of forgetfulness. So we have
to move past that. We have to move past wall
number two. Let's look at wall number three ahead.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm sorry, real quhead. Can you can you go back
to the call to action? Call to action? Yeah, yes, sir,
I don't even remember. I don't even think I had one.
I'm not even sure. I'm just talking, bro, because you
you had you said one.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Okay, okay, this is this is this is this is this.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Get a piece of paper.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Write down the failure that your mind keeps replaying right down,
that one primary failure that you it s your go
to what you always think of. It's the one that
you have allowed to define you. And I want you
to write down because Elijah said I.
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Am no better than.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
He never said that until he got into this place
of depression. So I want you to write down that
I am no better than I am no better than
my dad, I'm no better than my mom, I'm no
better than my past. Write down that sentence, Write down
that scene in your life that still haunts you.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And then I want you to draw line through it.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
After you've written it out, draw line through it, and
then right next to it. This is what you're going
to write. But one thing I do, I press on.
That's what you're gonna do. Thanks Daniel, that's what you're
gonna do.
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Okay.
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Wall number three the wall of fatal fatigue, the wall
of fatal fatigue. And we're all gonna have to touch
this wall right here. So we've got the wall of
fear that's in front of us, we got the wall
of failure that's on our side.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You're running, you feel workless, and this is where the.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Third wall begins to rise up, and this wall boxes
you in even further. Let's rewind a bit in the
text because I want you to see how this was built.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Verse three parts.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Listen to these words talking about Elijah got a drone following.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
This man in the wilderness.
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Look at what it says, and he came to Beersheba,
which belongs to Judith. I want you to look at
how logical, how logically illogical, he is, And he left
his servant there. So up until this point, there's someone
with him. He is a servant that is right there
with him. He has a servant that he can bounce
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all of this back and forth with.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
This servant was with him on Mount Karmo.
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This servant is in a very good position to tell
the Man of God exactly who he is. But look
at what he does, because this is what depression does.
But sister Tyra lost her life. She was by herself
and left his servant there. He came to Beersheba, which
belongs to Judah, and he intentionally left his servant there.
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Then verse four, but he himself went. So he goes
a whole twenty four hours into the wilderness.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Servant is not with him. He's by hisself.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
In Part B, and he came and he sat down
under a broom tree.
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So let's break down.
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The sequence because it is a precise blueprint for burnout.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
First, he isolates himself. He left his servant there.
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He pushed away his support system, he pushed away his companion,
he pushed away his friend.
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I've seen instances.
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Where people have decided to end their lives and you'll
see them. It will group around people. But in some
kind of a way they've managed to get away from everybody.
Depression is a disease of isolation. Please hear me when
I say that, when you start feeling yourself, this dark
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cloud starts rolling into your mind. Please pick up the phone,
Please go around somebody, Please just go sit in the
presence of someone.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Who can speak life to you.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Because depression will convince you that you're a burden. Oh,
you'll be surprised that the things depression will say to you.
It will make you feel like you're absolutely a burden,
that no one understands you, no one understands your situation,
that you are better off alone. That's the first thing
depression wants to tell you. Hey, let's me and you
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just go somewhere and be by ourselves. But being alone
is the oxygen that this fire breathes. Second, he pushes
himself beyond his physical, his physical and emotional limits. The
Bible says he himself when a day's journey into the wilderness,
not into a city, not into a place of refreshment,
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he is already spiritually defeated and emotionally spent from the
confrontation that he had on Mount Carmel and the threat
of Jezebel, and what.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Does he decide to do. He decides he's.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Going to go on a grueling solo journey through a barren,
hot wasteland. He's trying to outrun his feelings, but he's
only deepening his exhaustion. And guess what happens. He collapses.
He came and sat down under a broom tree. Man
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can't run anymore. His body and his soul has given out.
And the place he collapses, I think this is the
irony of this. The Bible is so amazing to me
because the place that he collapses is so significant. A
broom tree in the original language is related to a
word that means to be stripped, there to be naked.
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He subconsciously found a tree that matched how he felt
on the inside. He felt exposed, he felt raw, he
felt empty, and he felt alone. And this is the
wall of fail fatigue. It's not just about being tired
from a long day's work. That's not what we're talking about.
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This is a soul level exhaustion. This is a mental exhaustion.
This is a spiritual exhaustion, an emotional exhaustion, and physical bankruptcy.
Most mind blowing part of the story. What is God's
first response to Elijah's suicidal despair. The Man of God
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is praying and asking God to take his life. So
what is God's response to the Man of God. Does
he give him a sermon? Does he give him a
five point power point what he needs to do? Does
he tell him I need an offering? Does he rebuke
him and say he doesn't have any faith?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
No.
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The Bible says in the next verses that an angel
of the Lord shows up, touches him. I want you
to see how practical it's his family, and says to Elijah, a.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Rise and eat.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That is God's response to everything that this man has
said and everything that this man has done up until
this point in.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Time, A rise and eat.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
And Elijah, when he wakes up, there's a cake baked
on hot stones, and there's a jar water.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He eats, he drinks the water.
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He lies down because he's depressed, and he goes back
to sleep. Guess what the angel does. The angel comes
back in time and says, Man of God, arise and eat,
for the journey is too great for you.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
God's first response to a spiritual crisis was physical care.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
We so spiritual we forget this, We forget.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
This little small haul, complimentary meal and rest that we
probably so desperately need. He gave the Man of God
a meal and a nap twice, and it's a profound revelation. Sometimes, family,
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the most spiritual thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Is go to bed on time.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Sometimes the biggest spiritual breakthrough you can experience is to
eat a balanced meal and drink some more water.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Sometimes, the holiest.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Action you can take log off social media, turn off
the news, unplugged from the drama, and allow your mind,
allow your body to rest completely. We honor tire or
struggle by understanding that the exhaustion that she felt it
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was not a metaphor.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
The desire for the pain to simply stop is a
symptom of deep, profound fatigue.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
It's not a character flaw.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's a human cry for It's a human cry for
the rest that the world cannot give.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
You.
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Reframe this with what Jesus himself says over in Matthew,
chapter eleven, verse twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
Life is tired, he spent. He don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Jesus says, come to me, all who labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you money. No, I
will give you food. No I will give you rest.
He doesn't say, come to me all who haven't figured out.
He says, come to me all who labor, all who
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are toiling to the point of exhaustion, all who are
heavy latent. That means you're carrying burdens you are never
meant to carry.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
That's what that means.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Jesus is inviting you and I to bring to him
our burdens and lay them down at his feet. Peter
even writes over in First Peter, I believe chapter three,
verse eighteen, cast all your cares on him.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Who is him God? Why?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Because he cares for you. It's about reframing. The invitation
is not a new set of rules. The invitation that
Jesus makes to you and I is a divine exchange.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
You give Jesus your exhaustion, and he gives you his rest.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
He'll give you the same rest he had on that
boat in the Gospel of Mark, in Mark chapter four,
when he was asleep during the storm. He'll give you
that kind of rest. Let's add Isaiah to this as well.
The egle our prophet Isaiah Chay, verse twenty nine to
thirty one. Isaiah writes this about God. He says, he
gives power to the faith, and to him who has
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no might, He increases strength. But they who wait for
the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up
with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be wearied.
They shall walk. And I think waiting on God is
not passing. Waiting on God is an active exchange of
our depletion for his infinite supply. This is what Paul
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could say from a Roman jail cell, my God.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Speaking to people that are free, he said.
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My God shall supply all your needs according to his
riches and his glory in Christ Jesus. But it's about
us making this exchange. We have to make this exchange.
We have to exchange the exhaustion in our mind and
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in our heart, and in our spirit and in our
life and in our past. We have to give that
to God for his divine exchange.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
So here's your call to action for this wall.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Your call to action is to look at your calendar
for the week, whatever your calendar looks like, starting tomorrow,
and I want you to look. I want you to
project out a week, and I want you to do
me a favor I want you to schedule a non
negotiable appointment with yourself for rest.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Try it, Just try it.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
No scrolling on your phone, no binge watching the show.
That's not what I'm talking about. Just rest, true rest,
or walk in nature, just sit in silence outside, take
a nap, and I want you to guard it like
it's the most important meeting of your week, because you
know what it.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Just might be. Imagine if Tyre could have got out
of that house and just went and just rested in God.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
You have to pull yourself out of this gravitational force
of depression.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
You have to find a way to break free from that.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
And because we're a country, we're a world, we.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Like to brag about the grind and grind and grind.
Every day, I'm hustling, grinding.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You better sit down somewhere and get you some rest.
That's what you better do. Jesus is talking about giving
you rest. There was even a time I forgot where
it's at. I want to say this in Mark, but
it was a day where Jesus and the disciples they
had just been toiling and working with people all day.
And guess what he told them when they got done
with all of that he said, let's go.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Get some rest.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Let's go chill, let's punch out, and let's go get
some rest. So scripture is letting you know how important
this is. Remember the Sabbath day. Remember the Sabbath Day
rest question for you? Am I treating my body as
a temple for God's spirit? Where am I treating my
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body like a disposable machine that I could run into
the ground without consequence. You have to get some rest, mam.
You have to get some rest. We underestimate just how
powerful rest can be for our body, our mind, our spirit,
and our soul. Let's go to wall numberfore, the wall
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of the Wall of feudal feelings. I just wanted to
show you the wall of feudal feelings. We've arrived at
this final wall. The wall of fears in front, the
wall of failures on the side, the wall of fatigue
is behind you. And now the last wall goes up
and the ceiling is dropped into place, and you are
completely enclosed. And this is the wall of feudal futile feelings.
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It's built from the bricks of the other three. Now
I want you to look at verse four PARTSI. Listening
to Elarjah, and he asks that he might die, saying
it's enough now, Oh Lord, take away my life. That
is the language of utter, absolute hopelessness. That is me
against me, It is enough. This is the cry of
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a man who has lost all positive expectation of the future.
He's not thinking of a future. He has looked ahead
with eyes of fear, failure, and fatigue. And all this
man can see is, you know what. I don't want
no more pain. I don't want them to struggle. I
don't want no more loan than this. I don't want
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any more running. And that's that toxic belief that nothing
will ever change for the better. You get so consumed
in the moment right.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Now you can't even see tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
You get so consumed in the moment right now you
can't even celebrate small victories. And this is a feeling
that's confirmed later in the chapter.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
God is going to catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
He's going to find him in a cave and he's
going to ask Elijah, what are you doing here? And
Elijah's response is a masterclass in depressive thinking. He says,
I've been very zealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts,
for the people of Israel.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
They forsaken your covenant.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
They've thrown down the author, they killed the prophets with
the sword. But I'm the only one left God, and
they trying to kill me too.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
He rehearsed that narrative.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
That is the rehearsed narrative that depression creates. It'll surprise
you some of the things that people will say.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And it's just it's on a constant look. They won't
change up anything about it.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
It's a script. He feels alone, so he concludes he
is alone. He feels like his work was for nothing,
so he concludes it was for nothing. He has created
walls of paranoia, he has created walls of despair.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
And here's the proof that it's a script.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
God lets him rest, feeds him, sends him on a
forty day journey to hoar up the mountain of God.
Speaker 3 (47:28):
And then guess what God does.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
He asks him the same question again, and guess what
Allieda says.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
When he responds, he gives him the.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Exact same answer, word for word, hopelessness, scripted answer. He's
so locked into this narrative of futility that he cannot
see or process any new information. He refuses to let
anything positive. He's not going to allow any light to
shine in his confirmation. Biased is in full effect. He
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is only looking for evidence that proves his hopeless case.
And if this wall could talk, it wouldn't whisper. This
wall would scream in the echo chamber of your mind.
It would shout it's over. It would shout You're the
only one fight. It would shout no one else cares
nothing you do. Nothing you do matters. It'll never get
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any better than this. It will always be this hard.
You're gonna always be broke. You're gonna always be stuck.
You're gonna always be without a job, You're gonna always
be alone.
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Why are you even trying? Just give up? It would
be easy for everyone else.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
And that's the very wall that our sister Tyra Spauldin
was pressed up against when she said life would be
easier if I wasn't here.
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That's the same thing Elijah's saying.
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It is the tragic but logical conclusion of a mind
that had it has been systematically convinced by fear of
failure and fatigue, that the future holds no possibility of
relief or joy. Is check out time, baby, And this
is where we have to.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
How can I say this? We must with all of
our might in that moment. We have to reframe.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
And this is where God's response to Elijah becomes so revolutionary. First,
he provides a safe space for honest communication. I love it,
He asked, Elijah, what.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (49:38):
Not because the omnitient God of the universe doesn't know
where Elijah is.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Remember, he asked Adam the same question. Where are you?
Speaker 2 (49:47):
He asked Elijah because Elijah needed to hear himself safe.
He needs to externalize the poison that has been circulating
in his ce.
Speaker 3 (50:01):
Can I tell you.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
Something and you'll really find this out in the songs.
God is not afraid of your honest, raw, unfiltered emotions.
He is not intimidated by your anger, your doubt, your despair,
or even your death wish.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
He invites it.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
He would rather have you screaming at him than whispering
about him behind his back. God wants to reel you.
He's never afraid to hear exactly.
Speaker 3 (50:29):
What's in your heart.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
You should go and read the songs because they tell
God exactly how they feel. They keep it honest, they
keep it real with God. Then, after Elijah emptied his soul.
He got all that venom out, he got all that
poison out. God gave him a gentle correction. And how
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he does it is a lesson for all time. He
doesn't show up in the wind he gives Elijah these demonstrations.
He's not in the wind that breaks the rocks. He
doesn't show up in the earthquake. He doesn't even show
up in the fire. He shows Elijah all of these
dramatic things that are happening. But you know what he
does after all of the noise has passed, The Bible says,
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in a still small voice, the original language, I think.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Is even more beautiful. It needs something like a general whisper.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
God is whispering to Elijah. Why because God's truth doesn't
have to shout to be heard. God's truth will cut
through the storm of your emotions with a quiet, undeniable authority.
You will know it's God. You're sense that, you all
feel it. You'll be like it's in the room right now.
The loudest voices in your life, especially the ones in
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your head, are not always the truest voices. And so
in that whisper from God to Elijah, he corrects the
central lie of Elijah's life. He says, Elijah, the script
that you've been rehearsing, the script that you've been going
over and over in your mind, the one where you're
the lonely hero, the one where you're the last man standing.
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He said, Elijah, let's refrain that. By the way, Elijah,
I have seven thousand prophets that you have never met.
They're in Israel, and they've never bowed their need to
bail in whose mouths they have not kissed him. In
one sentence, God demolishes the entire foundation of Elijah's despair
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because Elijah's feeling of being alone was so intense that
it was real, but it wasn't true.
Speaker 3 (52:39):
It was real to him, but it wasn't true.
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And I believe this is a critical distinction that we
have to grasp today. And it's this because the Bible
says we walk by what faith right. But how many
times do you hear people talking about their feelings. I feel,
this is what I feel, this is what I feel,
this is how I'm feeling.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
No, your feelings are real.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Your feelings are valid indicators of your internal state, but
they are not always reliable reporters of the ultimate reality.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Question for you, what lie.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
About your future and your significance? Are you believing that
God's promise and his purpose awaiting to shatter? Because God says,
want to I want to have a talk with you.
I want to have a talk with you in regards
to some of these things that you've been saying.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Some of these things that have.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Been coming out of your mouth have the abundance of
the heart. The mouth speaks, So God says, I need
a heart. I need to do a heart check up
with you. So we've seen these four walls, these walls
of depression, These walls of depression. They don't just overpeer,
they don't just appear overnight. These walls of depression are
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built break by brick, lie by lie, suspicion by suspicion.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
First comes the wall of frightening fear.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
That wall stands in front of you, That wall blocks
your path. That wall whispers, this threat is bigger than
your God soul.
Speaker 3 (54:17):
Run.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
Then as you run, the wall of familiar failure goes
up on your side. That wall mocks you with your past.
You'll never change. You're a disappointment. Nobody likes you, nobody
wants you. You'll know better than them. And so when
you get exhausted from running from running, and you're burdened
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by the shame, then the wall of fatal fatigue rises
up behind you and it cuts off your retreat. It whispers,
you're just too tired to fight. Why don't you just
give up?
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Surrender? Surrender is easier than the struggle. It struggles too much,
life be life in it. Let's just get up out
of here.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
And then finally you trap in your corner by the
wall a few the futile feelings, and it drops down
from above and it steals you in darkness and screaming
at you.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
Is over. Nothing matters. Hope is dead. So this man
is completely surrounded when God pulls up on him.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
And maybe some of you feel surrounded today. Maybe you
feel surrounded today. You look up, you look behind, you
get down to pray, you can't stay focused. You look
to the side, and all you see is these hard
all you seal, these hardcore walls. You've run, you've isolated yourself,
you've collapsed, and you've despaired. And you understand what Tyra
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meant when she said it's me against me. You resonate
with Elijah's cry, it is enough. And I'm here to
tell you today. But all the authority of God's word,
there is a doorway from behind this wall.
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There is a divine demolition plan.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
God's response to Elijah is is your blueprint, and it's
my blueprint for freedom whenever we come up against these
walls of depression. And it's very simple and it's very practical.
First of all, it starts with physical care. God says,
be kind to your body. Your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit. Rest that body. Get you something
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to eat, get a well balanced meal. Can't just eat
fast food every single day. Sometimes the first step to
spiritual healing from this story is a nap and a meal.
The other thing you gotta do have honest communication with God.
God says, tell me everything, pour out your heart. I'm
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big enough to handle your anger. I'm big enough to
handle your pain. I'm big enough to handle your questions.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Give it to God.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
But it also involves general correction because sometime times God
will speak to you and a whisper, not a whirlwind.
He'll cut through the noise. He'll reframe your lives with
his truth, and he reminds you that your feelings are real,
but his facts are truer. And then when we do that,
guess what Now It releads us. Now, it leads us
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to a renewed purpose. God will give you a new assignment.
God will tell you to turn. You turn, you turn.
Now you go back and you help some people. He
calls you back into his story. Your life has meaning
and your work is not in vain. That's what God
is saying to you. So this story of Elijah in
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the Bible, it's for you, it's for me, it's for
all of us. It's for any of us who've been
dealing with depression. You're not a bad Christian if you
are depressed, if you feel depressed, you're not a bad Christian.
It doesn't disqualify you. Mighty prophets get depressed. Strong leaders
get exhausted. You have pastors all over the world right now.
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Faithful servants feel like failures. Mothers sometimes feel like quitting.
Fathers feel like growing into town in a town sons
and daughters get back into dark corners. And you know
what I love about God. His response is not condemnation.
His response is not judgment. You know what it is.
It's compassion. It's a cake baked by Angel it's a
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draw water.
Speaker 3 (58:31):
It's a still small voice. It's a new mission.
Speaker 2 (58:35):
So if you're listening to this right now, and if
you're in a dark place, if you're hearing these voices,
if you feel like it's me against me, I'm begging.
Speaker 3 (58:46):
You, hear my voice. Your story is not over. The
author of life has not written the final chapter.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
That feeling that it would be easier if you weren't
here is the most profound exception from the pit of hell.
Speaker 3 (59:02):
Your life is a gift.
Speaker 2 (59:05):
Your presence on this earth matters, Your presence to your
family matters.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
There is help, there is hope.
Speaker 2 (59:13):
You can call a text nine to eight eight in
the United States or Canada any time, day or night.
You will be connected with a trained, compassionate crisis counselor
it's free, it's confidential, it's a lifeline. Making that call
is not an act of weakness. Making that call is
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an act of strength, is an act of war against
the lies that are trying to take your life. And
it's the bravest thing that you can do. Please, if
you find yourself in that place, use that number. Remember
Tyrus Falding her life. Losing her life was not in vain.
Remember her not for the tragedy of how she died,
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but remember her for the incredible courage that she lived
her struggle. And so we're gonna honor her by refusing
to be silent any longer. We're gonna stop dancing and
shouting over our depression. We honor her by having this conversation.
We honor her by reaching out to one another. We
honor her by choosing to fight, by choosing to believe
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God's demolition plan is greater than depression's construction plan. We
honor our sister by tearing down these walls of depression.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
If this teaching knocked down at least one wall in
your life, or even just put a crack in the wall,
all I'm asking you to do is share it.
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Share it for sister Tylor. Share it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
You have no idea who in your circle is silently
living inside of these walls. Don't keep this lifeling to yourself. Facebook, Family,
I need you to like, I need you to comment,
and above all that, I.
Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Need you to share.
Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Tag some people who need to hear that hope is
real and that help is available. Podcast listeners on Spreaker, Spotify,
Amazon Music, iHeartRadio. Please subscribe, Please subscribe, please like, please spollow,
but most importantly, share this episode with your family and
your friends. You never know whose life you might say
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by doing so. Our new podcast drops every single Thursday
morning at nine am sharp. Join us back here next
Wednesday for our next teaching. We have begun the demolition
of these walls of Depression. Next week we're going after
its close relative. The lesson is entitled these Walls of Temptation.
It's going to be another powerful time of breakthrough. Let's pray. Father,
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we honor you on tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
God. We honor you for the life of Tyrus Faulding.
Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
And so right now, God, I pray that this word
God will begin the demolition process tearing down the walls
of depression in our lives. God, we thank you that
your word is yay and Amen. God, we thank you
that eyes haven't seen and ears having heard what it
is that you have in store for us. So right now, God,
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I pray that the hedge of protection will be around
the minds and the hearts of your people. I pray
God that we will get the rest that we need.
I pray God that we will have the balanced meal
that we need to have God. I pray God that
we'll understand God that your word says first natural and
then spiritual. So help us God to be better stewards
of the natural body that You've given to us. God,
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this temple, this temple that houses your Holy Spirit, help
us to be better stewards of it. God, help us
to curb some things God that is breaking our bodies down,
that are making our bodies weak. Give us the strength
that we need, God to run this race, and to
run this race with endurance. So Father, we come against
the spirit of depression. We come against the spirit of suicide.
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I pray right now God that your word will begin
to shine light into the darkness and the minds and
the hearts of your people.
Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Of God.
Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Your word says, he who the sun sets free is free. Indeed,
So God, help us to walk in that freedom. Help
us to walk in that boldness. And most of all, God,
help us to check on others. God, help us to
be more mindful of our brothers and sisters. God help
us not to leave anyone behind. God help us to
learn from our sister's story. We thank you for this
(01:03:21):
time of sharing. We thank you for this time of fellowship.
And it's in Jesus' name that we pray.
Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Amen, and that's our time. Family, Thank you for locking
in with us for this crucial teaching. Now that we've
put a crack in the walls of depression, you have
to be ready for the enemy's next move. So I
need you to join us right back here next week
as we take on his other favorite blueprint in our
next teaching, these walls of temptation on behalf of brothers
(01:03:49):
in the Word, and Pastor Tim, remember, get into the
Word of God, and the Word of God will get
into you.
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