Speaker 1: The emotions that you have felt the last two years,
Speaker 1: the frustration. Don't suppress it. Don't repress it, confess it
Speaker 1: and express it to God. When you swallow your emotions,
Speaker 1: your stomach keeps score. If I don't talk out my
Speaker 1: emotions to God, I will take them out on my body. Wow.
Speaker 1: The healthiest thing you can do as a believer is
Speaker 1: to tell God exactly how you feel and he can
Speaker 1: handle it. I will confess I have an addiction. This
Speaker 1: will shock everybody. My addiction is I'm addicted to change lives.
Speaker 1: That amazing, beautiful, and all it takes is one change
Speaker 1: life for me to go. It's worth it because I've
Speaker 1: seen marriages put back together. I've seen kids get off drugs.
Speaker 1: I have a guy who was with the life prison
Speaker 1: for life for a double murder who's now I'll pastor
Speaker 1: on my staff. The grace of God can reach anyone, anywhere,
Speaker 1: at any time. Nothing else can do that, Nothing else
Speaker 1: can answer the world's problems. When we look around, Corey
Speaker 1: ten booms that it like this. If you look at
Speaker 1: the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll
Speaker 1: be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be
Speaker 1: at rest. So I've tried to keep my eyes on
Speaker 1: the Lord all these years. And even though things are
Speaker 1: going not real good in the world right now, we're
Speaker 1: not in a happy time in the world right now.
Speaker 1: We just just admit that we're not in a happy time.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, and I'll tell this
Speaker 1: to everybody there. God will have the last word, Yes
Speaker 1: he will, and it will be good. God will have
Speaker 1: the last word and it will be good. And right now,
Speaker 1: the two years of pandemic have been creating a spiritual
Speaker 1: hunger in people that they don't even know what they're
Speaker 1: looking for. They're just dissatisfied. They don't know what they're
Speaker 1: looking for is God. They really don't. This is why
Speaker 1: it's time for the church to step up, for Christians
Speaker 1: to not cower and to hold back, but to be
Speaker 1: loving and to be bold and to be caring, and
Speaker 1: to treat everybody with dignity, no matter who they are,
Speaker 1: what they've done, or how long they've done it or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just to be gracious. And if we will be gracious
Speaker 1: and kind, there will be a great harvest of people
Speaker 1: who go, I want what you've got, Okay, I want
Speaker 1: what you've got, and I want to learn how to
Speaker 1: manage with a peaceful mind when everything's chaos all around me.
Speaker 1: That's our testimony, you know, don't.
Speaker 2: Be weary and well doing I think, I think the
Speaker 2: compassion fatigue, all the stress and all the strain on
Speaker 2: lives and marriages and families and government and just all
Speaker 2: of it. Don't be weary in well doing because in
Speaker 2: due season, and we've been talking about waiting this time
Speaker 2: of wait. The Bible says, if you wait on the Lord,
Speaker 2: that's the scripture that just kept coming, Wait on the Lord.
Speaker 2: What happens when we wait on the Lord? He renews
Speaker 2: our strength.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, they will mount up like wings of eagles.
Speaker 2: It is time for the church in this period of weight, dammit.
Speaker 2: I mean pastor the questions at the beginning of all
Speaker 2: this thing, all through twenty twenty, you know, and twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, But through twenty twenty it was just like
Speaker 2: what in the heck is going on? Right, and nobody
Speaker 2: had an answer for it, and it was just this
Speaker 2: time of just and then we thought twenty one was
Speaker 2: going to be better, yeah, right, right, But God promises
Speaker 2: us that if we wait on the Lord, He's going
Speaker 2: to renew our strength.
Speaker 1: When what Laurie's talking about here is so important. When
Speaker 1: you're in God's waiting room, there's no alternative but to wait,
Speaker 1: to wait on the Lord. What do you do in
Speaker 1: God's waiting room that gives you resilience? Well, one of
Speaker 1: them is first, be honest to God about how you feel.
Speaker 1: When you pray as a believer and you're feeling down,
Speaker 1: you're feeling discouraged, tell it to God. God doesn't want
Speaker 1: to hear what we think we ought to feel. He
Speaker 1: wants to hear how we feel. So if you're discouraged,
Speaker 1: you say, God, I'm discouraged. If you're depressed, God, I'm depressed,
Speaker 1: I'm worried, I'm fearful. Tell whatever you're feeling. What you
Speaker 1: need to understand is this. The only the reason you
Speaker 1: have feelings is because you're made in God's image. God
Speaker 1: is an emotional God. If God were not an emotional God,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have any emotions. The only reason you're able
Speaker 1: to love is because God is a loving God, and
Speaker 1: we're made in God's image. But God, the Bible says,
Speaker 1: God gets angry. The Bible says God gets jealous. The
Speaker 1: Bible says God grieves over his people. That God, you know,
Speaker 1: his patience has tried, and you can see all these
Speaker 1: emotions in God. The Bible says, be angry and sin not,
Speaker 1: which means there is the right way to be angry
Speaker 1: and the wrong way. Any emotion can be misused. But
Speaker 1: emotions are simply emotions. They're feelings and actually in your
Speaker 1: brain it's a chemical reaction, which means it can't last.
Speaker 1: So no matter what you're feeling, the highest high on
Speaker 1: your wedding day are the lowest low when you've lost
Speaker 1: a loved one. That emotion will not stay. So never
Speaker 1: make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. Some
Speaker 1: of you are feeling like giving up your life right now. Don't,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Don't don't, don't, just don't do it.
Speaker 1: We need you here. You were loved, you're wanted, you're needed.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, cry out your heart to God. That's
Speaker 1: not telling God the pious platitudes that I think he
Speaker 1: wants to hear. It means saying God, I'm in the
Speaker 1: pit right now. And if you need examples, go to psalms.
Speaker 1: We always think psalms are about praise and Thanksgiving, But
Speaker 1: fifty of the one hundred and fifty psalms are complaints.
Speaker 1: There's psalms of lament where David says, God, I think
Speaker 1: you lied to me. God, I don't like you right now. God,
Speaker 1: I'm upset. I'm mad at you. And you know what,
Speaker 1: like a parent handling a toddler who's having a fit,
Speaker 1: God can handle yours. And David ends up going in.
Speaker 1: But you know, God, I don't really have anywhere else
Speaker 1: to go, so you're stuck with me and I'm ticked off.
Speaker 1: But he pours out his heart the emotions that you
Speaker 1: have felt the last two years, the frustration. Don't suppress it.
Speaker 1: Don't repress it, confess it and express it to God.
Speaker 1: When you swallow your emotions, your stomach keeps score. If
Speaker 1: I don't talk out my emotions to God, I will
Speaker 1: take them out on my body. Wow. The healthiest thing
Speaker 1: you can do as a believer is to tell God
Speaker 1: exactly how you feel, and he can handle it because
Speaker 1: He will never stop loving you. So in your in
Speaker 1: your in your quiet time, and in your waiting room,
Speaker 1: just be honest to God. And to get it off
Speaker 1: your chest you weren't meant to hold it. When you
Speaker 1: hold in your emotions, it's like taking a can of
Speaker 1: coke and shaking it up and putting it in the freezer.
Speaker 1: It's going to explode some sideways at some point. You
Speaker 1: don't want that, So do what God says. Pour out
Speaker 1: your heart to God, tell him exactly how you feel,
Speaker 1: and you will find nothing but love back from Him.
Speaker 1: At TBN, our mission is to use every available means
Speaker 1: to reach as many individuals and families as possible with
Speaker 1: the life changing gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for
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Speaker 2: Without you, we couldn't do it. God bless you.