Overcoming Anxiety | Pastor Bertrand M. Bailey, Jr.

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Philippians 4 · chapter mention

4 yes sir

Philippians chapter

Philippians 4 · chapter mention

4 beginning with verse

4 Philippians 4 beginning with verse

four rejoice in the lord

always and I will say it again

Rejoice let your gentleness be evident

to all the Lord is near

do not be anxious about

anything but in every situation by

prayer and petition with Thanksgiving

present your request to God and the

peace of God which transcends all

understanding will guard your hearts and

your minds in Christ Jesus notice verse

6 do not be

anxious about anything but in every

situation by prayer and petition with

Thanksgiving giving present your

request to God I want to talk about for

a few moments how to

overcome

anxiety how to

overcome

anxiety make a note of this

anxiety is the

lethal combination

of

fear and

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worry which dominates the

mind saturates the

heart and devastates the

Soul let me say it again anxiety is the

lethal deadly

combination of

fear and worry it's the lethal

combination of fear and worry which

dominates the

mind saturates the

heart and devastates the Soul it is a

lethal combination of fear and worry

which dominates the mind saturates the

heart and devastates the

Soul anxiety y'all is abiding in

fear long after the threat has been

removed

anxiety is abiding living in fear long

after the threat has been removed you

were in one bad car accident now you

don't want to ride in no car you one

person broke in your house now you don't

want to go home anymore it it's abiding

in fear long after the threat has been

removed and I need to remind us

according to 2 Timothy 1:7 God has not

2 Timothy 1:7

given us

that God has not given us that God has

not given us the spirit of fear

but Power love and a sound

mind fear expects the worst to

happen fear expects the worst to happen

Faith expects God's

best 2 Corinthians 5:7 we

2 Corinthians 5:7

walk by

faith and not by S what do you walking

by fear or

faith faith f a i t h f a i t t h f AI t

h forwarding all issues to

him look at your neighbor and say

forward that to him forward that you

you're not supposed to have it

anyway Peter 5: 7 cast all your

cares on him

next time somebody brings you a problem

ask them what are you doing with that

anyway when the Bible says cast

all forwarding all issues to him that's

what you need to tell people I forwarded

that to him did you hear what she said

about you yeah I forwarded that to him

did you you saw what they did to you

yeah I forwarded that to him you heard

what the doctor said yeah I forwarded

that to him you heard what the lawyer

said I forwarded it to him

or faith f AI t h forsaking all I trust

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him anxiety affects your entire

being and who better to talk to us about

an xiety than the Apostle

Paul y'all he writes this letter from a

prison sale in

Rome not only that he's on death

row he knows he's going to be executed

he doesn't know when he's going to be

executed he probably knows how he's

going to be executed which he was

executed by having his head chopped off

on Nero's chopping block and here he is

in prison on death row and tells us

rejoice in the lord

always and

again I say rejoice now if you ain't

been through anything you can't help

me but Paul can help me and he tells us

y'all number one write this down Point

number one if we going to overcome

anxiety if we going to thrive in 25 and

overcome anxiety number one he says

celebrate the person of God

he says celebrate the person of God he

says rejoice in the

lord

always and again I say rejoice in other

words listen to me church he says when

anxiety attacks you you got to attack

anxiety sir when you're having an

anxiety attack Paul says throw a praise

party rejoice in the lord always and

again

I

say

rejoice now y'all Paul knows it's hard

to rejoice when the pressure is great

it's hard to rejoice when the problem is

Big it's hard to rejoice when the people

are mean but notice he doesn't say

rejoice in the pressure he doesn't say

rejoice in the problem he doesn't say

rejoice in the people he doesn't say

rejoice in the situation

he doesn't say rejoice in the

circumstance he said rejoice in the

lord

always y'all ain't going to do it he

said rejoice in the lord always you

still ain't doing it rejoice in the lord

always and

again in other words he say he's not

saying rejoice in the problem he's

saying rejoice in the

solution don't don't rejoice in the

sickness rejoice in the Healer

don't rejoice in the haters rejoice in

the protector don't rejoice in in in the

burden rejoice in the burden barer don't

don't rejoice in the heavy load rejoice

in the heavy load Sherer rejoice in

Jehovah Gyra our provider Jehovah n our

ban in Victory rejoice in Jehovah Shalom

our peace rejoice in Jehovah sha the god

who's always there rejoice in Jehovah R

Our Shepherd rejoice in Jehovah RFI our

healer rejoice in the

lord

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always watch

this that means you always have a reason

to

Rejoice because you always have the

Lord so don't sit in here and act like

you don't have a reason to

rejoice when you have the Lord rejoice

in the lord always and again I

say rejoice

celebrate the person of God like the

Hebrew boy said even if he

doesn't he's still

able you see that's why I really don't

like saying and Bishop I know you'll

help me I don't really like saying

praise and

worship because you praise him for what

he for what he does and has done and you

worship him for who he is but never put

what does before who he

is because when you put what he does

before who he is you'll fall in love

with his hand and not his

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heart you don't want anybody with you

from what they can get out of you you

want somebody running with you for who

you

are and that's the way God is he don't

want you kicking with him for what you

can get out of him but kick it with him

for who he is

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yeah you worship Him who he is you

praise him for what he

has done celebrate the

person of

God uh I I really believe every time we

come in here it should be like a funeral

you know and just stay with me now it

really should be like a funeral every

time we come in here because people pack

it out and they in the Overflow

room but they they pack pack it out for

one person that I believe we're the most

focused at a

funeral because people pack it out for

one person and that's the one who

died they they they they fill the

house for the one who

died and I believe every time we come in

here it ought to be for one

person and that's the one who died

and got up early Sunday morning with all

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power some of the same people that say I

don't go to church too many Hypocrites

in there I know what they doing I know

what she doing I know they' been there

for a

funeral you know why cuz the one who

died is bigger than everybody in

there and when you come in here it ought

to be for the one who died I ain't care

less what she think about me he said

about me they didn't die for me y'all

ain't praying with me I'm here for the

the one who I'm here for the one who was

wounded for my transgression bruised for

my iniquity the chastisement of my peace

was upon him by his strip I'm here for

the one who's interceded at the right

hand of the I'm here for the one who

died and and when people come to that

funeral they're not afraid to get

emotional matter of fact the day of the

funeral it it starts at the house when

you wake up

you be getting

dressed cuz your mind is going down

memory lane with the one who

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died and then on your way here you put

on music to help you remember the one

who di how do I

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a you don't care what cars are looking

at

you and then when you get to the place

where they celebrating the one who died

you out there in the parking lot

cry he good to a do

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that's in the parking

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lot and then you really hear hallow you

say they say the family here the family

here I'm trying to tell you when you

here for the one who died it all you

ought to know when the family is there

y'all ain't praying you ought to know

when the family of God is in the house

matter of fact Make a Joyful

Noise unto the Lord all ye land serve

the Lord with gladness come before his

presence with singing know that the Lord

he is God for it is he that have made us

you ain't self-made it is he that have

made us not we ourselves we are his

people and the Sheep of his pasture

enter into his gates with Thanksgiving

that's the parking lot enter into his

courts with praise that's the sanctuary

be thankful unto him and bless his name

and if you need a reason here's a good

reason for the Lord is

good now if you can't shout on now

here's another reason his

Mercy is Everlasting his truth endureth

to

all touch three people and tell them I'm

here for the one who

died I got history with the one who died

the one who died died for me the one who

died got up for me the one who died is

interceding for me

and maybe bishop you can help me with

this when you go to that funeral TJ on

the back of that

program uh you find active power

bearers I like

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them because they actually lifting up

the one who

died they they they're actually being

mobile with the one who who died they

actually came the one who died from here

to there I I like active P

Baron but this other group right here

why are they names even on the

program honorary Paul

barar what are they

doing y'all could have put more pictures

right

here why why y'all putting folk on the

program that ain't doing

nothing honorary are they too old to

live

or they grieving too hard to live cuz

some of them younger than

me and then you come in

here you got some honorary

folk that's watching other folk live

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but thank God for the active folk who

actually came to lift up the one who

died that's why when I come to church I

just can't sit by anybody because

everybody didn't come to

live I have to look at a negro and say

God is good if they look at me I find

another seat but when I find somebody

and I say God is good they say yes he is

scoot over cuz I want to sit by somebody

that's going to help me

live up the the name of Jesus for he

said if I be lifted

up from the earth I'll draw all

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men ask your neighbor are you active or

honorary he said rejoice

in the lord

always and

again I say rejoice because Joy

ultimately comes from the

Lord nemiah 8:10 the joy of the Lord is

mine but then number two he says write

this down number two he says

appreciate the presence of the

Lord he said let your gentleness be made

known then he says the Lord is near

appreciate the presence of God y'all

he's saying instead of focusing on the

pressures and the problem and the people

that causes our

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anxiety he says rather focus on

God who can

handle the pressures and the problem and

the people that

causes our

anxiety in other words the key to

overcoming Anxiety is where your focus

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is the key to success is

focus you show me somebody who's

successful I'll show you somebody who's

focused you show me somebody who's not

as successful I'll show you somebody

who's probably not as focused the key to

success is focus the key to spiritual

success is focus Hebrews 12 looking unto

Jesus the

author and finisher of our if you going

to be like Jesus you got to be focused

on

Jesus the reason you cussed them out you

lost

Focus you took your focus off Jesus

that's why you went off that's why you

hit

him that's why you cussed them out you

you you took your focus off of Christ

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every time a Christian come to me in

church talk about Pastor I'm going to

step

down y'all that's the Christian word for

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quit I'm I'm stepping down as Earth I'm

I'm stepping down off the Deacon

board I'm stepping down as Minister here

I'm I'm stepping down as a

member whenever somebody tell me I'm

stepping down

I asked them who you step up there

for I thought you were doing it for the

Lord why you stepping

down because you started looking at

them and took your eyes off him and

whenever you look at them you'll quit

you'll resign every when you look at

them hello somebody you'll cuss you'll

go off but looking unto Jesus

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Philippians 1:21 to live is

Philippians 1:21

Christ so if you liveing Christ to die

is is is gain Romans 14:8 whether we

Romans 14:8

live we live as unto the

Lord whether we die we die as unto the

Lord whether we live or

die Colossians 3:17 whatever you do in

Colossians 3:17

word or deed do all in the name of Jesus

whatever you do in word or deed whatever

whatever you do do it in the

name of

Jesus Colossians 3:23 Colossians 3:23

Colossians 3:23 Colossians 3:23

whatever you do do heartly as unto the

Lord and not as unto

man 1 Corinthians 10:38 first first 1

1 Corinthians 10:33

Corinthians 10:33 whether we eat or

drink whatever we do do to the

glory of God

God I was uh in the mall walking past

Forever 21 and they had a dummy out

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there and they hook that dummy up that's

why I

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stopped I saido look at this

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I Saidi about to go in here cuz I like

that I said boy they done hooked you up

dummy and the dummy talk to

me and the dummy said they didn't hook

me up for

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me the dummy said they hooked me up they

dressed me up to put me out here to

stand to get y'all to come in to

Forever dummy said they didn't hook me

up for me they hook me up to stand to

get y'all to come in to

Forever Bailey what is your point well I

come to tell you

dummies that he didn't hook you up for

you y'all ain't praying with me here he

didn't dress you up for you he didn't

bless you for you he hooked you up to

put you out here to stand to get

somebody else to come in to Forever

that's eternal life y'all ain't praying

with me here look at your neighbor say

dummy It Ain't About You

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I'm

sorry I'm sorry dummy but it ain't about

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you he says four words the Lord

is is

near the Lord is near when it feel like

the walls are caving in and the roof is

coming down and the found Foundation is

coming apart the Lord is near when feel

like the fire is too hot the pit is too

deep just know the Lord is is near quit

looking at who you don't

have and start to look at who you do

have the reason you're having these

anxiety attacks the reason you're having

this anxiety you're looking at what who

you don't have what you don't

have but focus on who you do

you have you you have the one born in

poverty wise men brought riches to the

loneliness of his crater you you have

the one who was born a helpless baby but

yet spoke spinning worlds into existence

and sustains the mighty pillars of the

universe by his own word you have the

one who was cradled in somebody else's

crib sailed in somebody else's boat rode

somebody else's animal and was buried in

somebody else's tomb and yet to him

belong all the unsearchable riches of

Glory you you have the one Herod

couldn't kill Satan couldn't seduce sin

couldn't stand Sinners couldn't resist

death couldn't destroy and the grave

couldn't hold you have Adam's Redeemer

Abel's Vindicator Noah's o Abraham's

sacrifice Moses Bush on fire Joshua's

battle ax Gideon's fleece Samson's power

David's music Solomon's wisdom

Jeremiah's branch and fire set up in his

bone you have Matthew's King Mark

suffering servant Luke's great physician

John's me you have the first and the

last the beginning and the end the

keeper of creation creator of all the

architect of the universe quit looking

at who you don't

have and look at who you

do he said if I be for

you I'm more than the whole

world you're more than a conqueror

through Christ

Jesus quick complaining about who you

don't

have quit getting depressed over who you

don't have and look at who you

do the Lord is

near I I bought my my boys Trey was

eight Zach was three I bought him some

bunk beds tra was on top the oldest my

baby boy was at the bottom every night I

looking on on my boys Trey would be in

the bottom bunk with Zach night after

night Trey would be in the bottom bunk

with Zack week after

week Trey be in the bottom bunk month

after

month finally one day I remember to ask

Trey I said hey son come here he said

yes sir I said Trey your bed's on

top why you in the bottom bunk with Zach

you scared of the dark

he said no

sir he said but Zach

is he said Daddy I be up there and I

hear him crying down there and he said

Daddy sometime he wet to bed cuz he too

scared to get up and go use the restroom

and I I changed him without waking y'all

up he said Daddy I gave up my top bunk

to get in there with him to help him get

through the

night and you know I think about that's

what our elder brother Jesus did for us

he he gave up his top bump and came down

through 42 generations to to get in here

with us to help us get through the

night and when I get scared he whispers

in my ear Lo I'm with

you always to the end of the world he he

whispers I'll never leave you I ain't

your baby mama I ain't your baby daddy

I'll never leave you I'm not your ex

I'll never leave leave you now will I

forsake you what is man and what can man

do touch three people and tell them the

Lord is near the Lord is

near the Lord is

near I got to

close Oh by now we

forget

uh every Thursday my kids my oldest is

th

1 my oldest son is 28 and now Zachariah

is 23 every Thursday Pastor I take him

uh to to eat uh we eat dinner together

in in north Texas and I let each of them

take turns picking where we're going to

eat at you know and they have expensive

taste none of them never choose

Popeyes Burger King you know they they

they picked this expensive to me places

and and this time it was Trace time I

said Son what we going to eat at this

Thursday he said uh we're GNA do Habachi

daddy

Habachi well they cook the food in front

of you yeah yeah yeah

okay and then when I get there he got

his

girl Camille got her partner and Zack

done brought a

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friend so this man is cooking and and

making a heart out of the Grease man

cook the food man he making a

heart stacking the onions up making a

volcano like we three making a choo choo

drink choo choo cook

man and finally we start eating and

after get through eating the lady

brought the

bill and it was

$220 I said wow all right

so she gave me that

bill I said get this to that boy right

there Trey get it get get a bill to Trey

get a Bild a Trey get a bill a

Trey and Trey was

looking and she was bringing on the

bill and uh she gave him the bill I'm on

my phone and Trey looking at me Daddy I

thought you were I said you got

it he said no daddy no uh-uh you you you

take care of everything I said Son you

got it pay the bill

man he said dad I don't have it well you

embarrassing me I said you got it he

said Daddy I don't I said son I just

cashed up you $300 pay the bill whatever

your father tells you to do he'll give

you what you need to do it y'all ain't

praying with me here and I'm trying to

tell you whatever God your father tells

you to do he'll give it to you

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appreciate long as my father's present I

got all I

need but then but then here's the last

one write this down

Liberate the power of

God

Liberate the

power of God because if you gonna

overcome anxiety you have to be

proactive you have to take that anxiety

somewhere that's why he says that's why

he says present your

requests unto the

Lord he he tells you don't be

anxious about anything but watch this

pray about

everything our problem is we're anxious

about everything and we pray about

nothing

and watch this if you don't pray p a y

you will become pray p e

y and many of us have become pray p r e

y because we won

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pray do you know what happens when you

pray you liberate the power of God you

you untie God's hands when you pray

you're getting God involved

pray much prayer much power little

prayer little power no

prayer no power Satan still goes about

like a roaring lion seeking whom he may

devour if we don't pray we will become

his prey that's why he told Peter Satan

has asked for you to sift you like wheat

but this is what I've done for you Peter

I prayed for

you that your faith fth not and after

you've been strengthened

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pray tell your neighbor pray pray pray I

went to visit one of my deacons I got a

close but I went to visit one of my

deacons and we was in his

garage and his little grandbaby was out

there and while we were talking the

grandbaby came out there and every that

grandbaby want them cookies and that

baby

was and the Deacon just talking so

Pastor I tell you Pastor you know Lord

good and I know he hear this baby

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and you know Pastor I tell you the Lord

is good that

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baby and the de said pastor you know I

tell you the goodness of God is just

moving I'm

like I know you hear this

baby and so finally I said hey de de de

I think I think he want them cookies he

said I know what he want Pastor he going

to

ask he going to ask Pastor I heard him

when he came out

here I've been I heard him the whole

time

Reverend but he's old and up to ask he

he talk about everything

else he going to

ask and until he ass he just going to be

a crying

baby and some of y'all sitting up here

in 25

crying I want this J I want ra ah

promotion ah I want a

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man the Lord hears you but you going to

ask you have

not ask and it shall be given seeking ye

shall find

not tell your neighbor and 25 ask the

Lord

I got to

close for the 12th

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time I never forget my son Zach he about

five but this this this blew my mind he

ran into me he ran into me he said Daddy

Daddy W Daddy I said what son he said I

want in trouble

Daddy he said I was in trouble Daddy I

said what what what what' you say Dad I

wanted

trouble and I said trouble somebody

bothering you son what is it what's

going on he said no Daddy trouble I won

it couldn't hold me in

trouble I said what are you I'm lost son

what you talking about you w in trouble

they couldn't hold you he said Daddy

hold on come on I ran he said Daddy

trouble he said Daddy I

want in

trouble the

game I I said well how did you wi in

trouble he said Daddy there's a ball in

the middle he said you got to push and

you got to keep moving and when you push

and tell you how how how much you can

move and then once you line it up daddy

whoever lined up first wins in

trouble I said my God son and then the

Holy Spirit started dealing with me he

said now that's what I want you to tell

my children that they can

win in trouble but they got to keep

pushing you know what push mean don't

you pray until something happen and if

you keep pushing and you keep pushing

help me somebody and you keep pushing

and you line up with his word

you can

win in trouble look at your neighbor say

neighbor I

won in trouble they couldn't hold me in

trouble because I kept pushing that's

how I got through 24 I kept pushing and

I kept moving and I lined up with his

word and I got the

victory tell your neighbor you can win

you can win in trouble in

trouble you can

win even over

anxiety you can

win even

in

trouble I'm closing

now I'm

closing but I'm

reminded of a little boy

who thought he

was the best Checker player in the

city everybody he played Checkers again

he would

win he beat everybody in his

school yeah he said which makes him the

king of

checkers but his partner said

no you ain't the King yet there's one

more

man you got to

beat that old

man on the corn of King in William

Street he's the best in

checkles yes Lord that young man set out

to be the best Checker player but he

said I got to be I got to

be that old man

every day he would walk past that old

man's

house

yeah hoping that the young man would be

outside so he could beat him in

checkers one day when he walked past the

old man's house the old man was sitting

out on the porch behind a table with

Checkers on the

table the young man looked at that old

man the old man said do you want to play

me in checkers the young man said oh

yeah he jumped up on the porch and sat

at the table with the old man saying I

got to beat this old man so I can be the

king in checkers the old man said well

do you want to move

first the young man said now you go

first old man moved young man mve oh old

man move young man jumped old man old

man moved again young man mve old man

moved again young man jumped old man

kept on moving young man jumped him

again kept on moving young man jumped

him again the young man said this man

ain't nothing he ain't that good in

Checker but he made the mistake and he

let that old man get in King's territory

and when that old man with one check on

the board got in King's territory he

started moving in ways the young man

didn't expect and the old man he came

back and

be that young man ain't God all right

the young man said how did you do that

the old man said it didn't matter what I

lost up front you made the mistake

and you let me get into King's territory

that's how I got the victory somebody

want to know this morning how did you

make it how did you survive you lost a

whole lot but yet you're still here you

ought to testify I got in King's

territory ain't God all right he helped

me move he helped me get the victory

he helped me recover With the Enemy sto

ain't got all right

see say yeah look at your neighbor say

neighbor it won my

education that got me here it wasn't my

degree that got me here it wasn't good

looks that got me here it was

Jesus I got in King's territory do you

know who he

is

Jesus born in

bethle

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J in Nazareth

J baptized in the Jordan perform

miracles in

Galilee

Jes prayed in

Gethsemane and one Friday even he died

he died but I got some good

news Sunday

morning he got up I know he got up he

rocked me to sleep last night I know he

got up he walks with me he talks with me

he tell me that I'm here on

I know he got it this Joy I have the

word didn't give it and the world can't

take it Long As I Got King

Jesus

Jesus I don't need

nobody ain't he all right see

yeah yeah

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he's all right he all rain when I fall

he lifts me when I fail he forgives me

when I'm weak he's strong when I'm lost

he's the way when I Stumble he steadies

me when I hurt he heals me when I'm

broken he Ms me when I'm blind he leaves

me when I face trials is with me

persecution he Shield me problems he

comfort me death he carries me right on

home a't he all right say yeah

yeah yeah

he's all right

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