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  1. Your Mental Health in Christ

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  3. Ethan: [00:00:00] You are now listening to Your Mental Health in Christ taught by Pastor Randall Crawford Senior. Please visit our website to listen to more messages like this one and subscribe to our newsletter at bethel house of truth dot org. Again that is bethel house of truth dot org. Enjoy the message and God Bless You.

  4. Pastor Randall Crawford Sr.: Good afternoon. I want to welcome you all to Bethel House of Truth this Sunday Service. Praise be the YHVH and Yeshua in the highest. Amen. All right, we're gonna finish this mental health series. I believe this series is gonna help a lot of people. I believe that, God is intended for to help a lot of people.

  5. And it's a good thing because most people: 70, this is a high number, 70% of human beings on this earth deal with mental health issues. Amen. They absolutely do. Whether it be through something they call, or whether it be through something someone else caused, or whether it be through, a tr um, a tragedy, a, a death an accident or something that happened to them, or sickness, whatever it is.

  6. Or they could just be born with a men mental health issue. Every [00:01:00] mental health issue is not chalked up to the devil, okay? And I want everyone to understand that it is not chalked up to the devil. It is just not, okay? There's pollution in the world, and pollution can cause things to happen to our bodies when we are born. The things we eat. That's why we must follow the food laws. It could change, literally change your DNA. Literally change your DNA from what God has intended for it to be. And certain situations can harm you in life. But we're gonna talk about certain things. We're gonna talk about anxiety today.

  7. We're gonna talk about depression. We're gonna talk about some things. We're gonna talk about some things. Let's get right into this. Let's go to, um, John 13. John 13. John 13:34. Now, what I want you to remember is as a Christian, as one with this truth, as one who carries the sword of God and the power of God, you have the [00:02:00] ability to help whomever needs help, you have the ability to help whomever needs help.

    John 13:34

  8. Amen. It's extremely important that you don't be selfish with the power of God, but that you let it reign through your mortal bodies, which will make you almost immortal, okay? (In a sense). So John 13:34.

    John 13:34

  9. Christ wants you to see something: in all things we must do what? Lead with love. 34. If you have it a say, glory to God.

  10. 34 A new commandment (this is Christ speaking). I give unto you that ye love one another.

  11. That just don't mean those in the truth, it means everyone love thy neighbor as thyself, and your neighbor may not be in the truth. Your your neighbor may not know this truth. Your neighbor may have mental health issues, and you just might be the one, the medicine that your neighbor needs. Amen? So you can't just pass judgment on people. You can't just, you don't know what people are going [00:03:00] through in their life. You really, really don't.

  12. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this, shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love one to another. The world can't see love because the world doesn't dwell in the love of God. It just doesn't. Okay? The world dwells in a type of selfish love.

  13. A love that's is all about me, and I don't care what you're going through, okay? That's not what God's telling us to do. That's not how he's telling us to be. He's telling us to love show love. Because if you want the love from God, you must give love. You must give love. And we have a lot to give as those understanding the truth.

  14. That was just a a little dangler to dangle over the people to let you know that this whole message, this whole series, is based on love. It's been based on love is always gonna be [00:04:00] based on love. Everything we do should be done in love. Anything else is of the word and of the devil.

  15. Amen. Let's go to First Kings. First Kings (Old Testament)

  16. first Kings 19.

  17. We got Elijah here, the prophet of prophets. Not a long message at all. The prophet of prophets.

  18. I'm gonna start with verse one.

  19. You got that Jezebel threatening Elijah, and he flees to Bathsheba, then to Mount Horab. Okay? Just filling you in here with what's going on. Elijah just slayed thousands of Jezebel's false prophets. He just beat 'em all down. Okay. By the power of God, I mean, literally ran through him with the sword, okay? And she's upset.

  20. She, she put out basically a hit on Elijah. Basically put out a hit on Elijah. Okay, but this was told by God to Elijah, for Elijah to do. He said, _eradicate the evil. Get rid of all these _[00:05:00] _false prophets who claim to be of me. And I'm not of them. They're not with me._ The reason I came here is because I want you to see that doing God's will can sometimes cause you to have mental health issues, okay?

  21. Because you're dealing with everyone's problems, okay? You're dealing, you're doing everything that God tells you to do if you're obedient, okay? Everything that God tell, if you're truly called of God, okay? It can cause you to have some health problems. It can cause you to have some mental problems. But God is always there to allow you to recover.

  22. Amen. To allow you to recover in him. because you gotta keep going. You have to keep going. Watch this. 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to _me,_ and [00:06:00] more also, if I make not thy life, as the life of one of them, by to morrow, about this time.

  23. She put out a hit. She's saying, I'm going to kill you, Elijah. And it's not so as God would say, touch do my prophet no harm. Touch not my anointed. Amen. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, _which belongeth to_ Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under the juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die; he's praying to God, saying,_ Lord, just kill me._ If this ain't mental health issues. I don't know what it is. Okay, Lord, just kill me. This is Elijah. This is the prophet of prophets saying, I can't take no more saying, _Lord, it's hard for me. I need a way out. This lady's trying to kill me. This evil witch lady is trying to kill me._

  24. _I need a way out. The people don't listen. They don't take heed to your truth._

  25. Watch this:?

  26. 4 And said, it is enough now. O, LORD YHVH [00:07:00] take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. I'm no better than them. I, I just need to go. This is why God would translate Elijah and Eli Shah will take his place later. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, arise and eat.

  27. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a curse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD YHVH came again the second time and touched him and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

  28. Got more to do.

  29. 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of the meat hat meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. Now [00:08:00] what I want you to see here is this. Remember, Elijah is the prophet of prophets, Elijah. Is one of God's witnesses (two witnesses). Okay. YHVH's anointed called and ready to do YHVH's Holy will. Elijah made a lot of enemies doing YHVH's Holy Will. And it finally got to him and it finally got to him that the people weren't really trying to serve God. He thought it was an endless bucket of foolishness. That's what he thought. And I want you to see here, YHVH helped him and comforted him with rest and words of love and comfort and food.

  30. They, yeah, they stray. Strengthened him with the strength of God so we could go on in life. It takes faith and strength from Yahweh to win every battle in life. You're not gonna win every battle. You gonna win the battles that you need to win. [00:09:00] Okay. You gonna win any battles that you need to win in life?

  31. Don't let that depress you either. And it includes mental health, which is a battle. It includes spiritual health, which is a battle because Satan's coming for you. Life is coming for you. You gotta understand these things. If Elijah was having a hard time, you think you're gonna have an easy time. You think you can just scoot the dude through life without anxiety, without depression, without thoughts of wanting to end it all.

  32. Listen to what I'm saying. Let's move on. Okay, let's move on. Let's talk about anxiety here. Elijah, seriously had mental health problems, okay? And I want you to see that he's not perfect. No one's perfect. Let's talk about anxiety here. Let's go to first Peter. Anxiety's huge in the Bible. It's huge.

  33. Christ talks about it all the time: anxiety.

  34. I Peter 5:5

  35. Life's gonna throw you things, [00:10:00] okay? It's gonna throw you things, it's going to throw you things. Whether someone that that you love won't love you back. Okay? It's going to throw you things. Amen. It's going to throw you things, whether it's financial, and you're like, _it ain't enough. It's too little. I need more._

  36. Okay? And you're struggling just to keep what you have. It's going to throw you things. Amen. It's going to throw you things. Whether work is beating you down and you're like, _this is what I have to do just to maintain. Just to maintain,_ right. Whether you have a, a eating disorder, okay? Because you allow your emotions, what, what goes on in your life, (your mental health).

  37. And when things don't go right in your life, you allow, you binge on food. Okay? That's bad for your health. But the reason I'm bringing up all these things is this is because Satan works and all these things, he works and everything. There's, there's no such thing as the physical is all I need. We need both.

  38. We need spiritual, and you need [00:11:00] physical. Amen. You need help both ways. Amen. Without help both ways, you're gonna have mental health problems. You have mental health problems. Let's get into this anxiety 1 Peter 5:5.

    1 Peter 5:5

  39. 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder.

  40. Why is he saying submit yourself to the elder? Because the elder know. The elders know. The elders know. Okay. The younger don't know because the younger hasn't been through much of anything yet, and they don't know how to deal with certain things.

  41. 5 Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility:

  42. Be humble enough to ask for help. Be humble enough to accept help and be humble enough to give help. Amen.

  43. 5 For God resisted the proud, and giveth grace until the humble.

  44. Grace goes to the humble. If you say that, _Oh, I don't need your help. Oh, I don't need your help. Oh, I don't need you. Oh, I don't need you._ You got a problem? There's something brewing. There's a [00:12:00] storm brewing. There's a storm brewing. Okay? And the only victim is you. There ain't gonna be no one else but you.

  45. Help comes in many ways, many, many ways. Help comes in many ways. Watch this:

  46. 6 humble yourselves therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

  47. He is gonna bring you through and he's going to exalt you when he brings you through. Okay? When it's your time, you will shine and you will be free from anxiety, from mental health, from depression.

  48. 7. Casting all your care upon him;

  49. This word _casting all your care upon him_, cast all your anxieties on him, anything you got, anything that's a worry to you. Anything that's causing you to go away from God. Anything that can trigger something in your mind that will cause you to have mental health problems that will cause you not to think the way God programmed you and created you to think in the first place.

  50. Amen.

  51. 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for [00:13:00] you.

  52. You gotta know that, and just knowing that God loves you, okay? Just knowing that he loves you should give you a sense of peace within and a humbling spirit. It really should. I know it does that for me. Because why does such a great God why does he have so much invested in me? I'm not great. I'm not good, but he cares about how I feel mentally and he cares about how I feel spiritually, and he cares about how I think and what I think. He cares about it. He cares about what you go through in life. He cares about it. Life's not perfect, but he wants to make sure that the way you think about life is perfect.

  53. That is perfect. Satan wants you to just give in the situations. He wants you to just give in to life. He wants you to just give in to anything that's gonna pull you away from life itself, which is Jesus Christ. [00:14:00] Watch this.

  54. 8 Be sober, be vigilant;

  55. Don't turn the drugs, don't turn the alcohol because of your life situations. Now you, you only putting more of a strain on your life when you do that. So be sober, be vigilant, be brave, be strong. Don't cop out by picking up puff the magic dragon. Don't cop out by popping pills. Don't cop out by letting alcohol rule you. Don't cop out by being abusive and aggressive. Be brave. It takes so much to be brave. It takes so much strength to be brave.

  56. 8 Because your adversary, the devil (he is your adversary. He is coming for you) as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

  57. so you see, you see what he wants to do, huh? He wants to devour you. That's what he wants to do. [00:15:00] He doesn't want you just to go through something horrible, okay? He doesn't want you to just cry or be upset or have emotions or, um, be in a panic all day long. He wants you to be destroyed. He wants you to say, I give up. That's what he wants you to do. He wants you to say, I don't care about this life anymore. I give up. I've been violated, I've been messed up. I give up. I can't give anymore. I'm done. That's what he wants you to say. No one's going to love me. That's what he wants you to say. And he's waiting, he's watching. And if you can't discern and if you, if you don't have spiritual discernment, if you're not spiritually awake you won't see him. You will not see him. The devil.

  58. 8 Your adversary (the devil) as a roaring lion [00:16:00] walking about seeking whom he may devour:

  59. What do lions do? They devour. They don't just pick you up and play with you like a house cat. They grab you by the mouth with all their their teeth, and they sink their teeth and they crush bone.

  60. They rip flesh, they tear, and then they swallow you whole.

  61. 9 whom resists steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren (and sisters) that are in the world.

  62. We all have bad times in our life. Everyone goes through everyone. Everyone goes through a phase in their life where it's bad times, where their mind's not thinking correctly, where their heart is broken, where their spirit is shut down, where their flesh is like, _oh my God, I can't take no more._ We all go through it.

  63. Watch this. We all go through it. Most people go through it alone. [00:17:00] Most people go through it alone. Without the love, without the support, without the guidance. You don't have to go through anything alone. God saying, _I'm with you. I've been with you. I'm going to be with you no matter what the situation is. I'm going to be there. And he's placed people in your life that are there. _

  64. 10 but the God of all grace. Hear that: *all grace.* That's all love, all mercy. 10 Who have called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, established you, strengthen you, settle you.

  65. He will give you rain so that you can maintain. Okay? He's going to rain on you. He's going to rain on you. His grace, his love, his protection, his guidance, he's going to reign on you. That's who God is, he's a God of love. He's going to make you perfect again, because you [00:18:00] thought you weren't perfect because of the situation.

  66. He's gonna make you strong because you thought that you were too weak. Understand what I'm saying to you. Understand what God's saying to you. Don't allow Satan and his mental games and the mental health that he's trying to place on you, whether it be through anxiety, depression, um, suicidal thoughts, whatever.

  67. It's don't allow him to rule you.

  68. 11 to close this chapter out.

  69. 11 To him, be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

  70. He wants us to lose our peace, Satan, so he sends people to stop us and to stir up our lives. Do you understand when you have this truth that you are a child of God? Do you understand? That the God that lives in you was greater than He that lives in the world? [00:19:00] Do you understand that? Do you know that? Do you know that you, your name's written in the lamb's book of life? Do you know that? Do you understand the power and the authority that is given to you by God in the name of Jesus Christ for any situation? We serve a great God

  71. no matter what happened to you and in your life In be humble. Don't let anger take over. Don't let stress take over. Don't let depression take over. Don't let anxiety take over.

  72. Don't allow your situation to make you hard or unlovable.

  73. Anything you've been through or are going through, YHVH wants you to place it on his shoulders, completely, place it on his shoulders. Talk to your Father he cares. He cares for you. Don't let your pain that someone else, or [00:20:00] Satan, or the world or a situation in life cause you to live in anxiety, to live in fear, to live like you wanna end your life. To live like you're not good enough because you're perfect. You're more than good enough. You are a perfect child of God. That's who you are. He understands and he loves you. Let's move to Philippians 4

  74. Philippians four,

  75. Philippians chapter four, verse four.

  76. We're staying with anxiety for a minute.

  77. Mental health. Mental health. I want you to know something if, if anxiety causes you to shrink like a turtle, you're not a turtle. Amen. God didn't give you a shell. You don't have a shell, okay? There's no shell. You don't, you don't have a shell. Your head doesn't your head don't go in. Amen. [00:21:00] You don't have a shell. If depression causes you to shrink, don't be depressed. Don't be depressed. What goes on in my brain every day I'm not you, and I know that I'm different. I'm anointed of God. I'm totally different. My brain only lets joy in. That's my optimistic brain. That's my spirit, it only allows joy. No matter what's going on in my life, someone else's life. It does not matter.

  78. 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: _and _again, I say Rejoice. Listen to me. Listen to what he's saying here. Listen to Paul. Listen to the Spirit. Listen to God. These are his words.

  79. 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again, I say Rejoice.

  80. But what if my situation doesn't cause for me to rejoice? Every situation calls for you to rejoice. You are a child of God. Why would you allow Satan to take that [00:22:00] from you? _But sometimes I want to kill myself. _You're a child of God. Why would you allow Satan to take that from you? _Well, I don't feel worthy. You're a child of God._ He said, you are worthy. Why would you allow Satan to take that from you? You are a child of God. See you're royalty and Satan is trying to make you feel like you're a pauper. Okay? Like someone who has to beg from God. You don't have to beg anything from God. You got it automatically. It belongs to you. Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice in everything you do rejoice! When wickedness tries to come upon you. When you feel something triggering what hurts you, rejoice! When life gets too much, rejoice! And again, I say rejoice.

  81. 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. [00:23:00] The Lord is at hand (by your behavior, by your service to Christ). Let them know who you serve. Let them know who your father is. Let them know! Every day feel good! Every. Single. Day: be happy. God says, _my spirit of peace, my spirit of joy, my spirit of happiness belongs to you,_ to those who love me. So every day, rejoice every day, be happy. Every day dwell in the presence of God. For you are royalty, and royalty stays with royalty. I know it hurts, and I know it's painful. The things people do and the things people say and how they make you feel. I know it does. I know it makes you wanna shrink and go into your shell. We're not turtles. We're children of God. We're children of God.

  82. You are [00:24:00] loved way more than the person who hurt you. You are loved more by God than the person who harmed you. You are loved more by God than the person who will not love you. The word careful here is anxiety. Be anxious for nothing. Don't allow your anxiety to get you going. Well, if I just had all this, my life will change. Everything will stop. If I just had, this will change. If I just had, this will change. If this never happened, this would've never happened. Let God.

  83. 6 Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God.

  84. By faith, without worry, without doubt, without depression, without anxiety, without fear,

  85. I want you to know who loves you. I want you to understand who cares for you. I want you to [00:25:00] know that He, God loves you more than anyone on this earth, and he loves you more than your situation. And you may say, _well, why did it happen? Well, why did that happen if he loved me so much?_ Freak things happen. Things happen. It doesn't mean that he doesn't love you. And if, and if you're hurting because of a situation, I promise you God's going to make it right. But don't shrink, don't fall into fear. Don't fall into depression. Don't fall into the trap of the devil. Don't have thoughts of murder, of, of, um, killing yourself or killing others around you. Don't have those thoughts. Let go. Let God, let God handle it he is more than able.

  86. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, (things you cannot understand) shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. YHVH will protect your heart. He [00:26:00] will protect your mind from who? From the devil. He will protect it from the devil. He will protect it from the world.

  87. He will protect it. That's who God is. He protects it. But I need you to say, _Lord, I need you to protect me. I need you to protect my heart, my mind. I need you to help me. If I begin to slip into depression, I need you to help me. If I begin to slip into anxiety, I need you to help me. If I begin to shrink,_ I don't feel worthy. _I don't feel like I'm able to take care of my family, Lord, and I just, I don't feel like I'm enough. I don't feel like anyone's gonna love me anymore because I'm violated _because_ I'm _[00:27:00] _hurt. I don't feel like I can do this. I don't feel like I could take care of my children. I don't feel like my parents love me the way they were supposed to love me,_ _and I'm hurt by it and I'm sad,_ _but I'm gonna be happy. Every day I'm gonna be happy. I don't know my mother's situation and why my life was the way it was when I grew up. I don't get it. I don't understand it. I don't understand why my dad wasn't there. I don't get it. I don't understand it, but it's not gonna cause me to have mental health issues is not gonna cause me to go into a state of depression._ _It's not gonna _[00:28:00] _cause me to have anxiety. It's not gonna cause me to wanna kill myself. It's only gonna wanna make me be a better person._

  88. If my father, my dad wasn't there, who gives a crap? I'm gonna be there for mine. And no matter what they go through, I'm there. If my mother didn't love me correctly and still don't love me correctly, it doesn't matter. I'm making heaven and I'm going to be happy no matter what. Cause if she can't give me happiness, that's her problem. I'm making heaven.

  89. I don't want to grow up with daddy issues. I don't wanna grow up with mommy issues. Because what you put out to your children is what your children gonna put out back to you. What you put out to your parents is what your parent, your children, gonna put out to you. [00:29:00] And I want you to see and understand that. I want you to see that life isn't easy, but nobody in this world could take the happiness that God has laid upon your life.

  90. No one can take that, no one, and you cannot allow anyone to take that happiness, that joy, it belongs to you. It is from God. It is from God. Do not fall into the trap of the mental, of the mental health. Don't fall into the trap. Don't do it. Don't allow Satan to make you think that you're still an addict. That God can't heal you from this. He can't stop you. He can't, he can't do nothing for you. That's what they teach. That's what they teach.

  91. Is God bigger than anything? Yes. Is the earth [00:30:00] his foot stool? Yes. So a tiny drug problem. A tiny alcoholic problem. A tiny um, problem that you seem so big that seems so large and big to you. It's bad. You gotta know that God can handle it. Amen. You have to know that he can take it, ring it out. That's what he does. He's God. He's God. Don't have daddy issues, don't have mommy issues. Don't allow what you can't control to control you. Does that make sense? Don't allow what you can't control to control you. Does that make sense? Don't allow it. You can't control it. If you were in your mother's womb and you came out and you almost died, you can't control that. _Well, my mother shouldn't have been on drugs. She shouldn't have been this, she shouldn't have been that. She shouldn't have been doing this, she shouldn't have been doing that._

  92. No, she shouldn't have been on drugs. No, she shouldn't have been smoking. No, she shouldn't have been drinking alcohol. But look at me now. She didn't care enough about me.

  93. I need you to care enough about you. I need you to care about you. [00:31:00] I need you to know that your, the system that you have set up, that God has set up for you in your life is greater than anything your mother or your dad, or anyone could possibly do to you, the system that he has to look for you, the system

  94. 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

  95. Think on things that make you happy. Cartoons make me happy. So I watch cartoons a lot because the world's crazy music make me happy. So I listen to good music a lot. Gospel makes me happy. So I listen to the gospel a lot. The word of God makes me happy, so I read it a lot. I ingest it. Food makes me [00:32:00] happy. So I eat food a lot. I don't stray away from what I, what don't make me happy. If, if a certain food doesn't make me happy, I'm not eating it. But if it makes me happy, I'm eating it (if it's on the list of eating from God).

  96. I'm only gonna think on things that are good to me. That brings peace to my soul, peace to my spirit. I'm not gonna think on things. I'm not gonna think on what caused me to get to this place in the first place. I'm not thinking on that. I don't even wanna hear about it. We gonna move on from it. Amen. We going to grow from it because stress grows us. Amen. Into a better human and to a better person for God. Anything worth fighting for? Anything that you love and that loves you back properly is worth fighting for. Amen. [00:33:00] So if you love yourself, you are worth fighting for. Fight. Fight. If you love yourself, you are worth fighting for. So fight. But you don't have to fight alone, you never have to. Satan wants you to think you have to fight alone. He does. He wants you to think that you do not have a supporting cast. That's what he wants you to think. He wants you to think that you gotta do it all by yourself. That's what he wants you to think. I tell you, you don't.

  97. Oh my God. Oh my God. If I lose my wife, oh my God, oh my God. If I lose my husband,

  98. Lemme tell you. I went through that last year. The thought of losing my wife okay. Literally freaked me out. Freaked me out, okay? And you're like, _you're a pastor you're supposed to know that._ I do know that God's there. Okay? I do. I do know that God's there. Okay? No one in this room got more faith than me. I have the gift of faith. Okay? I do [00:34:00] know that God's there, okay? And that's exactly why he sent his angel and held my hand. Okay? That's exactly why. Because you need comfort. Sometimes you need comfort, like God, comfort Elijah. You need comfort sometimes.

  99. And the person who always comforts me was on the table. She wasn't there. She was on the table. So I needed comfort from God. Yes. My friends, my sisters, my niece, my, my, my best friend sitting in the front here, he comforted me. They all called me and comforted me. Okay? Everyone comforted me. But you need comfort from God sometimes to pull you through any situation. And I want you to see that when God comforts you, he's not only gonna comfort you, he's gonna strengthen you. And sometimes if he gotta show up, he's going to show up. He's going to show up, he's going to be at your side.

  100. because I thought half of me was gone.

  101. And for a minute, I went into a [00:35:00] depression for a minute. I went into anxiety for a minute. I went into depression for a minute. If you don't know a love like that, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

  102. But even the love that I have for her, (my wife: first lady) the love that she had for me, can't compare it to the love that God has for you. Can't even compare. It doesn't even stand next to it. Amen. But when there's actual love, God is present. He is present. He will come to you. So I want you to know that you don't have to do anything alone.

  103. Pain does not stand by itself. It just don't. Know what I'm saying to you? It doesn't stand by itself. Well, what if my marriage don't work? It's going work. You wheel it to work and I mean, you wheel it work. What if my kids grow up and they don't love me? I, I must be their friend. No, wheel them in the truth.

  104. You wheel them and be [00:36:00] happy doing it. And be happy doing it. Let joy reign through your spirit, because where there's joy, where there's peace, where there's happiness, depression can't live it cannot live where there is love, where there is joy, where there is peace, anxiety can't live. Where there is love, where there is peace, where there is happiness, where there is joy, where there is praise, death can live, cannot live. 9. To close this chapter out:

  105. 9 those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

  106. Amen. Listen, be happy. Even when you don't feel happy, you saying fake it? No, I'm saying be happy. Learn to be happy when things aren't good. Amen. Learn to be happy when things are bad.

  107. You don't have to [00:37:00] pretend. You don't have to pretend there's enough joy, ammo inside of you. Okay? I need you to take it out. Change clips. Amen. There's enough joy ammo inside of you.

  108. Be happy even when you don't feel like being happy. Praise when you don't feel like praising. Have happy thoughts. Remember, you don't have to struggle with anxiety or fear. Catch yourself and rebuke it in the name of Jesus.

  109. YHVH will strengthen you and he will strengthen you over and over and over and over again. As long as you need it. He will strengthen you. You can always depend on his love. You can always depend on jave. He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Let's talk about depression. Psalms 23.

  110. [00:38:00] Psalms 23. What a beautiful Psalm.

  111. Let me tell you, one time I was, I was feeling I'm going to bring, so, I mean, what's her name? Sophia, in here for a second at the color purple table at the end of the movie, one time I was feeling really bad. I was feeling mildly low. I was feeling might low, but then I saw you and he gave me strength. Yes, you did.

  112. I saw you. I, I want you to understand one thing, okay? I want you to understand something, okay?

  113. That. I was feeling such a low one time before, years ago when I first came into the truth. When God first called me, I was feeling such a low because I went from [00:39:00] 75 people to no people, and I was feeling low, and I said, I gotta be strong for my wife.

  114. And I was like, am I doing something wrong? To me, God is everything. God is my life. Christ is my life, and then my wife and my kids and everything else.

  115. But I started reciting this prayer, this prayer from David. And when I say that now, excuse me, because I don't have drums or an organ. But when I say that where I was began to shake and the presence of God came down.

  116. And the spirit of God surrounded me, and that was it. That was it. There was no more depression. There was no more anxiety. There was no more fear. There was no more. Maybe I'm doing it wrong for God. Maybe he's going to punish me. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Maybe I'm not his court. There was no more of that ever again, ever again.

  117. This [00:40:00] psalm is my friend. Make it yours, the Lord. YHVH is my shepherd. I shall not want you, shall not want for anything when you serve the living God. God knows your want. He knows your need. He knows your want. He knows your need. So that means that you can't say in your brain, this ain't working for me. You can't say in your brain, this is wrong, or This ain't going my way. You don't really have a way. You don't really have a way. It's God's way. Amen. We tell our plans to God. He laughs at us. Amen. We tell God what we wanna do when he says and he laughs.

  118. 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. That means peace of mind for anything. I want you to embrace this psalm he making me to lie down in green pastures in the best pastures. You get the best food. Think about what you get every week and every, every Wednesday and every Sunday. Think about what food you receive.

  119. You never receive the same [00:41:00] meal. God's always up in heaven cooking up something different. Amen. You never get the same meal unless it's on repeat two years later, and I need to go over the lesson again. But other than that, it's a different meal you're eating always.

  120. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. Still waters. You ever try to walk in the river? Waters are wild, crazy still. Waters are deep. Waters okay? The ocean's deep. Very deep. His truth is deep. 3 He restoreth my soul: Yeah, when you need it, he will restore you when you need it. He will restore you always, always. That's who God is. 3 He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake.

  121. He will restore you so you can go through and then he will lead you in paths of righteousness for his namesake because you represent him.

  122. Whether you know it or not, you represent God, not yourself, but [00:42:00] God. You represent God almighty. Amen. Yeah. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. I will fear no evil. So no matter what you've been through, no matter who hurt you, no matter who talked bad about you, no matter what pain you feel inside, what's causing you to to not think, right?

  123. You don't have to fear evil cause all that's evil. You don't have to fear it at all. He says, I'm teaching you. I'm making you move on from it. That's the type of peace. That's the type of joy, that's the type of happiness that he gives you. Know who your father is, understand who he is. Understand it. I'm not just speaking words, I'm not just reading words.

  124. These are words from the mouth of God to David, to the spirit, to you, to me.

  125. That's what these are.

  126. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of [00:43:00] death,

  127. The shadow of death is all around you. Have you have, you cut the news on. Huh? The shadow of death. Soon as you walk outside, you got the shadow of death is all around you. Death comes from every which way. Because that's who Satan is. He is an adversary.

  128. He is a lion seeking whom he may devour. Neither. I walk through the valley of shadow death. I will fear no evil for thou ark with me. He is always with me no matter what. I wanna, I wanna say this to you.

  129. When, when you're on your pillow and you're crying at night or during the day when, when the person comes to you and they say, Hey, _it's going to be okay. It's gonna be all right._ And you really don't want to hear that because the pain is so much because it hurts so bad.

  130. God's waiting. He's waiting for you. To take the step [00:44:00] towards him. He is waiting for you. So someone like me, someone like First Lady's going to push God constantly. We're going to push God constantly. We're gonna push because you can't see, because you're in anxiety, depression, you wanna kill yourself.

  131. You're, you're um, you're in fear, you're in doubt of who you are. So you can't see anything that's spiritual. You can't see anything. You can't even see that God is standing right here, right there before you, with his hand stretched out to you saying, come to me. As a mother or a father would. You can't see that because you're in a fog.

  132. You can't see that because you're not thinking it, because you're not thinking clearly. You can't see it because, You got too much hurt and anger and pain inside of you.

  133. He's saying, I never left you. I'm always here. Th rod and I staff, they comfort me. [00:45:00] Let him comfort you. Let him comfort you when he leaves the 99 to go get the one that's serious. When he leaves the 99 to go get one. It's evil all around us. But Christ, he go gets his lamb. Watch this:

  134. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:

  135. now what is, what is he doing here? If he's taking, if he is making a table just like he gave Elijah food and water and cake to drink when Elijah wanted to kill himself, the prophet of prophets, if he's taking and he's making the table before you in the presence of your enemies, that means he got your enemies over here. He done took everything from you. You just don't really know it yet.

  136. He took everything from you that's harming you, that's hurting you, that's causing you all types of pain. He, he removed it. The table set, he got your enemies looking on. They're backing off. They can't even come to you, [00:46:00] meaning it can't happen again. It won't happen again. They're just watching in obedience to the power of God. Watch this.

  137. 5 I Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

  138. Do you understand what I just read to you here? Verse five. Here it says, lemme explain something to you. Thou prepares the table before me in the presence of my name is they're watching. They're not sitting at the table. They can do nothing with you now.

  139. Thou anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. He's letting them know that you are his anointed. He's letting them know that I sit with this one. Therefore, you can't come to this one anymore. He sets things in order. He sets things right before in your life and he sets things right before your enemies ( that includes Satan). All you gotta do is have enough faith and sit down. That's all you gotta do. Have enough faith. And sit down with your father. Sit down. Sit with your father. Sit at the table he created for you [00:47:00] and for him. Sit at the table. What are you waiting for? What are you waiting on? Do you listen? Sit at the table with your father? You're going to eat foods that you've never eaten before. You're gonna feel joy that you've never felt before in your life. Someone would ask me, how could you be happy all day? Do you know where I sit? Do you understand where I sit? Happy all day long. Only time I I come outta my happiness is when I have to, um, lay down the law, or when my righteous indignation is flared. That's the only time I'm coming out and I'm going right back because it's not a doggone thing for me in the world. Not one thing. I will sit with my father. He's waiting for your rebirth. He's waiting from your rebirth, from mental health. He's waiting for you to be great in him. That's what he's waiting for. Just sit down, sit down, stop moving. Stop. Stop moving. Stop moving around. Stop letting [00:48:00] things run through your brain. Stop letting anxiety cause you trouble. Stop thinking. Murderous thoughts, suicidal thoughts. Stop feeling inferior. Sit down. Sit down.

  140. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:

  141. Not until you do this.

  142. 6 And I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

  143. Just trust. Just trust him. He already pulled your chair out for you to sit down with him in Christ. Don't shy away from what YHVH has for you, what he wants to do for you. It takes strength to get there. He's willing and ready to get there with you. You're not alone without YHVH and Christ depression, anxiety, fear, suicidal thoughts will rule you.

  144. With YHVH you will rule it. Amen. And that's the truth.

  145. In closing: Luke 10.

  146. Luke 10:17

    Luke 10:17

  147. I hope you enjoyed this message,

  148. Luke 10:17. In closing. If you have it say, glory to God.

    Luke 10:17

  149. 17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through [00:49:00] thy name.

  150. What did he just say? Even the devils are subject to us through thy name. Even the devil and all his demons are subject to us through thy name. 17 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. (First earth age).

  151. He's here. The spirit of Satan is here and he's running rampant. Okay? Now I want you to understand that. He puts thoughts in one's brain, okay? He puts people in your life to harm you, okay? He causes your husband or your wife to cheat. He causes people to not make the right decision. He causes our appearance to think that the situation is worse than what it really is. So therefore, not caring about the embryo inside the belly, causing us to have mental challenges, today. Nothing's new under the sun. Okay? He causes the dad to say, _Hey, I don't wanna be there._ _I just got caught up._ He causes a mother to choose self over child, okay? He causes [00:50:00] murder, rape, pillage, hate, racism, all these things.

  152. And because Christ knows this, because God knows this, he says this, be hog. I give you powerous. Satan causes us to make the wrong decision every single time. Every time

  153. he calls that lady, a few years ago to take her children and drive them off of the bridge.

  154. Listen to what I'm saying to you. How could 10 minutes? Well, for some people, how could 10 minutes of pleasure be worth cheating? Somebody tell me it ain't. It's never been.

  155. He causes priests to do unspeakable things, okay? I want you to know who you're dealing with. You're not dealing with someone who's looking for repentance, okay? You're not dealing with an entity who's looking for repentance. He's on death row, okay? And I want you to [00:51:00] understand that he's on death row and the way people act on death row in prison, he has nothing to lose, not one thing.

  156. He has nothing to lose. You understand? He has nothing to lose, not one thing. He has nothing to lose. So if he got life in prison, what's double life? Right? If he got quadruple life, what's adding another life sentence? Basically what I'm saying to you is satan is sentenced to die. The type of person he's, he wants you to die with him. He wants you to die in two places. He wants you to die in the flesh and he wants you to be mentally unhealthy and then he wants you to die in the spirit. That's what he wants.

  157. Christ said this though, praise God. 19 Behold I give unto you power (dunamis) to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy:

  158. Who your [00:52:00] enemy? Satan, the only one. You only have one. And this dunams, this dynamite from God takes care of him. You load it. You load it. And nothing shall by any means hurt you. Did you hear what he just said to you? God can't lie, and God is Christ (Emmanuel God with us). God can't lie. The word of God is only true. Amen. So when he says, nothing shall by any means hurt you, that means Satan. That means as workers, that means anything that I just named. Nothing will harm you when you're using this power.

  159. Amen. When you're using this power, I know this to be true. I know this to be true because when demons see me coming, they run. I know this to be true, that if I go cast out a demon in someone's house and the wall begins to shake and they begin to scream and say, _no, get out, get away, get away!_ *No, I'm here *[00:53:00] *to cast you out.*

  160. That's what I'm here to do. I'm here to whoop that! That's what I'm here to do. In the name of Jesus Christ! You can shake all the walls you want to, but I'm about to shake you out of this individual in the name of Jesus!

  161. Because that's the power he has given you. That's the power he has given all believers who believe upon him the power, the dunamis in the name of Jesus Christ, to change any situation, to change any mindset, to change the most stubborn person there is on earth. To change a judge's mind, to change a ex-boyfriend, a ex-husband, a baby daddy, a baby mommy mind. To [00:54:00] change the worst situation into a good situation. Amen. That's who God is. That's the power that you've been given because if someone's putting bad, if someone's putting evil, if someone's putting out negativity and stress to you.

  162. It is only the enemy, and that means that that individual or individuals work for the enemy! Realize what's going on. Death row is real. It is real, and all those people without Christ in their life is basically on death row along with Satan, and he has a crew. And they're throwing up gang signs, okay? And you need to understand what's going on. You do. When he says Nothing will hurt you.

  163. Watch this:

  164. The only thing that can hurt you is not Satan, can't hurt you. So [00:55:00] get that through your brain. He can't hurt you, okay? He can't, lies can't hurt you. People can't hurt you. Demons can't hurt you. Bad health can't hurt you. Mental health can't hurt you.

  165. Not you being a victim can't hurt you, or an addict can hurt you. The only thing that could hurt you is yourself. Is you not using the glorious power that was given by God to remove everything that I just named. That's what hurts you. That's what's going to continuously hurt you. You have power. You have power.

  166. What you alarm to harm you, what you allow to harm you and your wellbeing yourself. That's what hurts you, what you allow. Don't be too lazy. Don't be weak in the power of God. [00:56:00] Christ Jesus, who has all power and all authority from YHVH, the great I AM has given you, has given that power, that dunamis, that power, that dynamite, that bang to change every negative, every issue that Satan will throw at you. Every situation that you are in or will be in, in our life and around us. Have faith it's yours, it belongs to you. It's the gift of God. It's the gift of God. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Understand who your Father is and understand what he has done for you.

  167. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice because your name is written in heaven.

  168. Where and the Book of Life in the Lamb's book of life. If your name's written in [00:57:00] heaven, guess what that means? Satan knows exactly who you are.

  169. You're known of Yahveh and Christ and the Devil and all his demons. He's saying it's a small thing just because. Just because you got the power that don't that don't mean nothing. It means something, but it don't mean nothing. It means more that your name is written in the Book of life because guess what? Unless your name is written in the book of life, you ain't gonna have that power.

  170. You understand that? If your name's not in the Book of life, the power's not yours. But because your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, the power belongs to you and everything else that comes with it. Don't be weak in the power of God. Be strong.

  171. 21 And that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent who think they're wise and have revealed them unto babes:

  172. Yes, you are babes you are God's babies. You are his children. [00:58:00] You are his loved ones, you are his wife, is you, is or is. You ain't his baby. It's simple as that.

  173. 21 even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. 22 All things are delivered to me of my father and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and _he _whom the son will reveal _him._

  174. Meaning you had to be revealed by God to know who Jesus Christ is and you had to be revealed by Jesus Christ to know who the Father is. That's the only way. If you don't know one of them, you know none of them. If you don't have the right one, you know none of them.

  175. 23And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, (this is a private conversation now.) 23 Blessed are the eyes which [00:59:00] see the things that ye see: your eyes are opened by Yahveh. Use the power. I'm gonna say it again. Your eyes are opened by God. Use the power. I don't care what you, you could say,_ well, it can't possibly work in this situation... _It works in every situation. Any situation that's not of God, any sit-- don't test God. But any situation that's harming you. Anything that's bothering your spirit, your mind, use the power. How do you think I stay shielded from whatever's going on with you if I'm talking to you by the power of God?

  176. 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen _them;_ and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard _them. _

  177. The power of YHVH, the great I AM has been revealed to Christ Jesus and the true power of YHVH has been revealed to God's children, to God's children [01:00:00] by Christ Jesus. Now, as Christ left it up to up to me to take on that awesome power of YHVH and be filled with His Holy Spirit. I leave it up to you today, to take on that awesome power in the name of Jesus Christ, and to be filled with this Holy Spirit. Let the counselor counsel you and help you and be a friend to you and be a Father to you. Most of all, you don't have to suffer. You don't have to deal with mental health by yourself, and if you have mental health problems, it doesn't mean that you're less than you're still a child of God. God loves you. He loves you. We gonna walk on, remember He in Christ, love you like no one else. So rebuke any mental health issues you may have in Jesus Christ's name, and start a new life, one without fear, one without anxiety, one without stress, one without depression, one without suicidal thoughts, but one with the love of Jesus Christ. Remember to stand in the grace of God because that's where he wants you. God bless you all. I love you all. All glory and praise to the [01:01:00] Father and the Son. I take credit for nothing, in Jesus precious name. Amen.