The Healing of a Mind | Pastor Paul McGee

Thank you, Lord, for your sweet spirit.

My God is a gentleman, ladies and gentlemen, my God is a

gentleman. He handles all things well,

Amen. And we should love and thank him

for that, Amen. You are not in the hands of

another man or humanity. You're in the hands of a living

God, Amen, That spun all these things into creation, Amen.

We honor him today, Amen. It's good to see each one of you

in the House of the Lord this morning.

So glad that you are here and come to be a part of the service

today, and we're thankful. I was talking to Scott a little

bit before service, and he really thinks that there needs

to be an auditing committee over all of the numbers of the

contest about the outcome. So I don't know if we're going

to give any ear to this concern. The meal has already been

purchased and ate or eaten so nonetheless, but we're glad to

have them with us again. Amen.

This morning in the House of the Lord in each one of you.

You're smiling faces today. So glad of it.

Now, I'm just going to give just a little warning today and that

is this. I'm wearing a light grey suit

and sometimes I have a tendency of rather than perspiring,

sweating, and so it may be dark grey by the time I finish this

morning. My wife really had banned me

several years ago, Sister Louis, from wearing light grey suits

whenever I preach. But here's the scenario folks.

We went to Spring conference this weekend.

My wife and I left about 8:00 Friday morning.

I had meetings and stuff to be in starting at 12 and we went to

meetings. I was in meetings all day, kind

of with what I would wear on a Wednesday night, and then went

to the hotel, unloaded our vehicle, mind you, put

everything into the hotel room, laid on the bed just for a

little bit to, you know, collect thoughts and just maybe breathe.

And got up to get ready for church.

And I couldn't find one stitch of the clothing that I had

thought I had brought. All of my hang up clothes were

still hanging in my restroom nice and neat.

So we were in a, a, a, just a bizarre thing of trying to find

me something to wear. So luckily I did wear something

that, you know, like I would wear on Wednesday.

So we went to JC folks, I'm not paying $300.00 for a sports

jacket. It's just not happening.

And so I did get a $50 tie with my wife's $10 birthday money

from JC Penney. I threw that old pup on there

and went to church. Goodwill, you know, I thought,

man, if we could just find the Goodwill, I, we, we might be in

business. And so I got up early the next

morning, again, another service. I didn't have another suit.

I went to Walmarts, went to Walmart, shopped around, got

myself some pants and a shirt and used the same jacket that I

did the night before. I told the people was on that

board. I was ready to go home and

change jackets. So I'm just glad to be at this

is what I was going to wear this weekend.

So here I am. You all got the appreciation of

it, and I'm just glad that you could participate in this

madness. Amen.

That my life is called my life. Daniel chapter #4 today, if you

understand with me, turn to Daniel chapter #4.

So even if I do sweat, folks, this is the reason I'm going to

wear this suit. I'm telling you, I'm going to

wear this. Wear this suit.

Daniel chapter #4 I am going to be skipping around just a little

bit this morning in this chapter of Daniel.

So if you can just follow my lead here a little bit today.

I, I wish we would afford us the time to read the whole chapter,

but we, we're not going to do that.

But I want to give you a, a scope of the chapter here and

what this really is. Starting verse #4

Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon is really recounting

something in this moment. He's recounting what he looks

back on in retrospect and calls one of the signs and the wonders

of God in his life, one of the signs and the wonders of God in

his life. And he says in verse #4 he says,

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in mine house and flourishing in

my palace. I saw a dream which made me

afraid, and the thoughts of mine, the thoughts upon my bed

and the vision of my head troubled me.

He had some thoughts that troubled him and made him

afraid. Verse 6.

Therefore made IA decree to bring in all the wise men of

Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the

interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the

astrologers, the child Deans, and the soothsayers, and I told

them the dream before them, but they did not make known unto me

the interpretation thereof. In other words, he has he has

expressed to them the thoughts that had troubled him to these

others that were. Quote.

UN quote professionals, he says. But at the last Daniel came in

before me, whose name was Belchazzar, according to the

name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods.

And before him I told the dream, saying, O Beltazzar, master of

the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods

is in the and no trouble if thee, he said, I know this is

trouble me. But typically nothing troubles

you. Tell me the visions of my dream

that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof, skipping

now all the way to verse #19 if you will.

So there is the dream that is given that the thoughts of

Nebuchadnezzar's mind that's given unto Daniel.

Verse 19 follows up and says, Then Daniel, whose name was

Beltesar, was stoned or astonished for one hour, and his

thoughts troubled him. The king spake and said, Until

Belshazzar let not the dream nor the interpretation there of

trouble. The Belshazzar answered and

said, My Lord, the dream be to them that hate thee in the

interpretation thereof to thine enemies, skipping down to verse

#27 And wherefore, O King, let my counsel, this is Daniel

speaking, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break

off thy sins of thy righteousness and thy iniquities

by showing mercy to the poor. And if it be a a lengthening,

let it be a lengthening of thy tranquility.

He says, Let's do some things, that there can be some peace

brought to this matter and to the thoughts of your mind.

Verse 28 says, And all this came though everything of the dream,

everything of the thoughts that he had been entertaining.

All this, it came upon King Nebuchadnezzar skipping down to

verse #34 I know I'm doing a lot of skipping here.

Verse 34. And at the end of the days,

after these things that have been the thoughts of

Nebuchadnezzar played out in his life, at the end of the days, I,

Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine

understanding returned unto me. And I bless the Most High and I

praise and honor to him that live forever, whose dominion is

an everlasting dominion and His Kingdom, Kingdom is from

generation to generation. What happened?

The Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar went to a state

where he almost, not almost, but took on almost, not almost.

He took on the likeness and the mindset of of a beast of the

field. This, this is even today, this

it can be a real diagnosis in the real world, a real diagnosis

of a person that would take on animal traits because of their

mind being so tormented with thoughts or a direction of

thoughts. But at the end of the days,

Amen. There came some clarity to all

of this with the help of the Holy Ghost.

And folks, I think it's no mistake how the services went

with the help of the Holy Ghost. Today I want to minister this

the healing of a mind, the healing of a mind today can we

ask the Lord to help us in the next little bit?

Father, I love you today Lord, and I trust you.

Lord, I trust you. My confidence, Lord, is squarely

upon you this morning. I pray, O Lord, God, I know

Lord, that you have set Lord a stage here.

You have set Lord a tempo. Lord God, in this room, God,

that none could do it any better but you.

I pray, O Lord, today God, let ministry Lord happen.

God in this building this morning.

I pray, O Lord Jesus, God, every heart, every mind, God, let

there be a compelling of your spirit through and in Lord the

lives that sit God upon these pews today, God, that they would

be ministered to by the Holy Ghost in the lovely name of

Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen of the

church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning

in Jesus name. There is something over the past

several years to put a time frame on it.

I don't know for sure. I would just say perhaps the

last decade that the whole concept of middle mental health

has come very, very sharp into focus over the years, perhaps

more than it's ever been. It's not as though it's never

existed. It's always existed mental

health or even mental difficulties and problems that

we even have as humans from day-to-day with the thoughts of

our mind. It has always been.

There's always been challenges. It's always existed, but in the

past decade or so, Brother Reese, they, they've been

brought out of these, these type of issues and difficulties and

challenges have been brought out of the recesses and, and the

shadows, if you will, of our world into the light.

And so there's been a greater concentration, Sister Sam, of

course, I believe if you live in this world, you know, there's

been a greater concentration, concentration on some of these

things. And so long ago, years ago,

challenges like depression and self harm and suicidal thoughts,

for that matter, were, were the suffering of what you might call

some silent victims, people that in, in the, the recesses of

their, their home and family. They suffered from some of these

things because a society in the world overall, they were taboo

subjects. It's not what you would talk

about or speak about or bring to the surface.

And even furthermore, there were many professionals in in that

day years ago that didn't really know quite how to approach some

of these things or how to best manage them or treat them or

relieve some of the tendencies that can be found from them.

And so over the years, society, just society really, and those

that are in these types of fields have.

Have come a long. Way to to help put in measures

to help and manage and to accommodate and even advocate,

if you will. For those that have been

marginalized at different times, society has marginalized with

these type of issues, you're just going to have to walk with

me just a little bit today. But the fact is that although we

can manage it better and there are are those that have

tendencies we can advocate for them, it does not erase the fact

that these things still exist in our world today, still exist in

homes and families and communities, maybe even some of

your own lives that are setting among me this morning.

These are real. They're still people that are

suffering with bouts of depression that have totally

just just just crippled the way that they have normally done

life and the way that they have have functioned before their

normal lifestyle was just totally upheaved by depression

that has entered their life. They they wear, if I could say

in the symbolic sense, they, they, they have worn the sheets

out on their bread from tossing back and forth and tugging on

them just to turn over. And and some of them they have

put, you know, darkening blinds in their bedroom and foil up on

their windows that might be radiant by by the sunlight, But

they're just trying to black everything out, black out the

day seal in the darkness of their room.

And in reality, the darkness of the room is just smearing the

darkness of their mind, the dark darkness of what's taking place

inside of their mind. They're, they're not welcoming a

new day. They, they, they're not

welcoming the day that has fresh observations and fresh

obligations and and potential. They're not welcoming the day

that has any type of burgeoning hope in it.

They're yearning in a real degree just for a eternal night

where they don't have to interact with anyone.

They don't have to ask any questions.

They don't have to give any responses, Only thing that they

have to answer therefore is themselves and the self

defeating thoughts of their mind.

They, they may even skip some meals and their hygiene might

become secondary and their responsibilities that they have

in their life, they become very optional because they're just

feeling one emotion, or at least one group of emotions of despair

and hopelessness and self pity. And, and then you have the, the

self harm participant whose life is just spiraling out of

control. Everything in their life seems

to be out of control and they can't reign.

It feels like under their own duress or power.

They can't reign in any parts of those aspects of their lives.

They even the circle of other people's lives around them.

They, they don't have no control over these things.

And so their life has been so, so riddled with suffering and

with pain on every level that that it's just hard for them

just even to self regulate to even do that for themselves.

It's just totally absurd. It's, it's beyond their minds

understanding yet in the privacy of their bedroom and in the

privacy of their bathroom, when the world all around them has

come to a standstill, they'll, they'll find that sharp blade or

that razor or that knife and, and they'll, they'll start

whatever implementation they can find.

They'll their hand then. And what's in their hand will

become a vice, and they'll begin to make incisions on their body

as a cutter because that's something they can control.

Everything in their world's out of control, but they can control

that. They can control how deep they

go, and they can control how long of a stride they make

across their flesh might be hidden by everybody else.

I can't control what's happening to me and I, I can't control the

circumstance, but I can control the incision that I'm making on

my body. I, I can't control that sphere

in my life, but I can control this and they can control all

the things about it. And you say, well, Pastor McGee,

there's pain. Yeah, there's pain, but it's

Lisa pain that they're in control of.

Everybody doing okay. It's a pain that they're in

control of, and perhaps it's the only real feeling that they felt

like they felt in a long time because they've been bombarded

by all types of feelings of anger and anxiety and

frustration and the bombarded and the OverDrive of emotions.

They thought, I'm just numbed all this.

I want to know that there's something real here.

Then the voices of no one would miss me if I were gone.

They'd be better off if I were not around.

I'm only a hindrance to them. If I can't stop what's happening

to me, I'll just stop me. No one cares about me.

Ambushment of thoughts, ambushment of lies become a

steady diet, turns in then into an appetite.

Someone's caught by the vice of suicide, Suicide.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen, suicide's not just about death.

Suicide's about trying to escape.

Suicide's about trying to escape.

They believe they're powerless to change anything in their

life. So they exercise the power that

they have over their life. And it may take different forms,

but whatever it may be, self harm, suicide, depression or

other thoughts, maybe even not quite as severe as those, all of

it is an interplay that takes place inside of our minds.

All of it is an interplay that takes place with thoughts and

choices and conversations all played out in our minds.

And the fact of the matter is, is when we find ourself in some

of these places, we say to ourselves that we know how the

future is going to go. And the reason why we say we

know is because we've already played out all the details in

our mind. Whether true or whether false,

we've played out the details in our mind.

And so if we're convinced in our mind, we are convinced everybody

did OK. The Bible says in our Scripture

texts that Nebuchadnezzar was troubled.

It goes to the degree that says that he was afraid and he was

troubled and afraid by the thoughts of his own mind while

he was lying there upon his bend.

These are thoughts that captivated his every waking

hour. He's captivated by these

thoughts. It's not as though they came

just one time and then died out. But what came only one time then

is replayed. You know how it goes.

It's replayed over and over and over in your mind when you're

alone, when you're lying still, when your eyes are closed, when

you're doing dishes with a dead stare out the window, The

thoughts come over and over again in your mind.

It's just like a real hey man that's on repeat, that's playing

over in Nebuchadnezzar's mind. And the fact of the matter is

this, the very things that he constantly thought of and

pondered upon seemingly became a self fulfilling prophecy for

him. Because nothing changed.

Nothing interrupted that mindset.

The Bible says and just put me today, but the Bible says he

sought out some help. He sought out some people of his

Kingdom that might have some insight, could help him with his

thoughts, help him with what was going on in his mind.

He sought out every professional that he knew to help him manage

and navigate through these troubling minefield that he was

a part of. Magicians and astrologers and

zoo Sayers and the list goes on. Because what he's wanting them

to do is interpret the thoughts of my mind.

Makes sense give me some sense and meaning of the thoughts of

my mind. But the Bible says although

these were people, the Kingdom that were known for these type

of things that none of them could aptly give unto

Nebuchadnezzar what he was looking for.

Amen. Since concerning the thoughts of

his mind. And then the Bible says at last

there's a man by the name of Daniel.

He may he's among that same classification, but he is is at

a level just a little different than the others because the

Bible says not only is he a professional, if you will, among

that Kingdom, but he also holds ranks with God.

And so Daniel takes the task for the friend of trying to make

sense of the mind. He hears the same story that the

other professionals heard. He hears the same thoughts, the

same troubling thoughts that Nebuchadnezzar had relate to

them. He he relays also unto Daniel.

And though Nebuchadnezzar didn't quite correctly identify the

difference that was between Daniel and the others,

Nebuchadnezzar seeing Daniel, he even named him A.

Different name after one of their gods GO little GODS.

And he said, well, surely the spirit of the holy gods, little

GODS, Amen is with Daniel. He didn't quite recognize yet at

this moment that it wasn't just another God of his land and

country that was with Daniel, but it was the God, the only

holy God. He, he calls Daniel the master

of magicians. He names him after his God, but

he's not quite put a real finger upon what the difference is

about Daniel. And he's convinced.

He told Daniel. Daniel, I know there's nothing

secret that troubles you. There's been a lot of things

come down the pipe to your door, and I know there's nothing

secret that that troubles you. Yet in our reading today, after

Daniel heard every thought of Nebuchadnezzar's mind, the Bible

says that Daniel was astonished and that he was troubled in his

thoughts. I don't know if Daniel's

countenance changed after hearing all the thoughts of his

mind, of what went on and what reached his ears.

But supposedly a man who's not normally troubled is troubled.

So what we have here, we have a troubled man who has troubling

thoughts, Amen. And he's telling a person that

usually don't get troubled, but after it's said and done, he's

troubled someone say Amen. Now, Daniel does very well.

He handles this quite delicately because he realizes the

seriousness of the matter and the thoughts of this man's mind.

Daniel doesn't shrug it off. Daniel doesn't say, well, let's

make an appointment for next Tuesday.

No, he doesn't tell the king, Take two Tylenol, go to bed and

tell me how things are in the morning.

No, quite frankly, this is what Daniel says.

I'm getting there, folks. Daniel's telling him he says

King, he said, and this is interpretation, distribution.

This is me paraphrasing King, I wish this wasn't happening to

you. I wish this is what was

happening to your enemies. I wish this wasn't happening to

you. I wish these destructive

thoughts that you're having were against those that were opposing

you, Amen. And not against you.

And so here's Daniel operating almost like a excellent

therapist here. He begins to try to make sense

of all the thoughts of the King's mind.

He begins to draw in correlations, Amen, that the

king has has entertained, of the thoughts that the king has

entertained in his mind. And so he starts to give some

meaning to all of the clutter, give meaning to all the

disjointed thoughts and ideas of his mind.

And here's the marvel. Yes, he is a man that's with

God. Yes, he is a man that has the

spirit of God. And Daniel could explain it all.

He'd explained to him the things that he's seen in that vision.

That's what that correlates to. That's what that's going to be.

That's that's how this is going to play out if nothing changes.

Here's the thing. Daniel could explain it all, but

he could not heal it. He could not heal it.

Daniel's counsel to him was basically this.

These thoughts, Nebuchadnezzar, that you're having in your mind,

they will become a self fulfilling prophecy if things

don't change. If not, patterns don't change.

If life patterns don't change, they will be a self fulfilling

prophecy. But Nebuchadnezzar, if we could

somehow get the pattern of the thoughts healed, if we could

somehow get the process of the patterns of your life healed,

you can't escape the doom that you're thinking in your mind.

You can, oh Jesus, someone say Jesus and I need the Holy Ghost

today because I am not ignorant today.

We're living in a world that is totally overtaken by the

thoughts of their mind. If there's ever a battle in our

world, it's not on soil. It's on Gray matter of minds of

those laws and those saved in the church and out of the

church. And many of you, maybe some of

you. And listen, my wife and I, if

you know us, you know this. We always say 2 prong approach.

We say practical. Get you some real physical help,

teach you some real mental health.

But there's also the spiritual as well.

But what I'm saying today, you may have run yourself ragged and

you're still dealing with thoughts, and you can come to us

and I might be able to explain part of it.

But Paul McGee can't heal you. Don McGee can't heal you.

The first Apostolic Church can't somebody you know, right?

The word of Scripture is this in verse #28 that Nebuchadnezzar's

thoughts became his trajectory. The Bible says all this came

upon the king. Everything that Daniel said

would happen if it didn't alter a change came upon the king.

You can read of this in verse #16 and let me read it.

I don't know if I had that up there, Brother Mason.

But in what Daniel was saying, the Bible says this.

Let his heart Speaking of Nebuchadnezzar and the word

heart there in the Old Testament, the same Hebrew word

that's translated heart can also be translated mine.

OK, so let his harder, if I may interject his mind, let his mind

be changed from a man's and let a beast mind be given to him and

let 7 times Passover him. In other words, there was

something that was going to happen to Nebuchadnezzar because

of these negative these fearful thoughts of his mind.

His mind was going to turn toward that of the beast of the

field and according to scripture, 7 times are going to

pass over him. Most would render that as those

seven years was going to pass over his his life and he was

going to have a mental capacity where he believed himself to be

an animal. You can read in Scripture that

he would like an ox eat grass and and that's the the the the

the the the the hair up on this body be as the feathers as a

eagle and his talons his his nails would grow like the talons

of a bird Amen thinking he was all these things all because of

the thoughts of his mind can let me preach to you today

Nebuchadnezzar in those seven times, whether it's seven years

or 7 something. Nonetheless, the period of time

that went over his life when he was totally deranged and hurt in

his mind, he. Never dreamt in his lifetime

that he would do what he did. In those seven years.

There were events. There were occasions in those

seven years that he missed. They carried on without

Nebuchadnezzar. He acted in such a way in the.

In those years, that wasn't like the actions of a king.

His mind, his compromising thoughts, he then led him

somewhere, a compromised place, a worry place.

The mind of a beast had materialized into the life of a

beast. All because of the thought

processes of what started as the thought processes of a mind.

Everybody OK, but when all these practical measures failed, the

professionals of the Kingdom, even Daniel, he's with God, he

can explain it, but he can't heal it.

And all these measures failed. And it seemed like for

Nebuchadnezzar they only maybe help move hope forward just a

little bit. Daniel's explanation only

soothed just a little bit. Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar

in the middle of the madness of the thoughts of his mind and

that which came upon him. The Bible says that in the

middle of those seven years. Verse 34 says he lifted up his

eyes to heaven and when he looked up his mind his

understanding. Came back to him, ladies and

gentlemen here, pastor today. That's just not a poetic way of

saying he lifted up his head. That is a scriptural way of

saying he lifted up his eyes to heaven.

That's a scriptural way of saying that Nebuchadnezzar

looked unto the Lord and that he prayed unto the Lord.

And this man that is body and soul and spirit tapped into

something that was beyond this world, tapped into something

beyond his Babylonian Kingdom, tapped into something beyond the

professionals, tapped into something.

The Bible says that his understanding returned.

Another place of a translation says his sanity returned.

Another one says that he could think normal again.

Another one says his mind was healed after seven years the

moment he lifted his eyes. No, please understand today, I

don't know what you walk through those double doors with this

morning. I don't know the links that you

went to to try to get a Peace of Mind.

And I understanding that is captivated by peace and

tranquility. But I'm asking you on this

Sunday morning, if you could just get the strength from

looking down to looking up and open your mouth and open.

My God is a healer even of the mind someone.

Hear me today, I'll tell you what the thoughts of your mind

do as it did for Nebuchadnezzar, those pervasive thoughts of his

mind kept him captivated, kept him isolated.

Amen from society, from his family, from those that he would

use to rub shoulders with Amen. It kept him isolated to

quarantine away from all those as everything that his mind just

kept playing over and playing out in his life.

But in a moment, what had been going on for seven years

vanished in a. Moment because a man lifted up

his hand. No therapy session.

What's going on in the field? There was no palace around him.

He had no dignity left but one look.

Change what 7 years could not change.

It's my admonition, Brother Heath.

Yes, let's be practical, but let's also be prayerful.

Let Daniel, the holy man of God, let him bring some explanation

perhaps to the thoughts, bring some meaning to your madness.

That's great. What a great holy man of God

that he is. But listen, and I can speak that

there are some holy men of God that can be shaken to the core.

By the merciless dilemmas of just this every day.

Life. Daniel was troubled.

Look here, the king was afraid and troubled by the thoughts.

A man who the king normally thought didn't get troubled

became troubled. But when Nebuchadnezzar went to

God, God wasn't troubled. He's troubled.

Daniel's troubled, but God was in troubled.

Nebuchadnezzar is afraid. Daniel's astonished, but God

says that's nothing. Am I?

Doing all right. And it was years ago, Scott,

probably 20 plus years ago as an evangelist.

Thinner than, faster than, not any better looking.

About 20 years ago, I remember I preaching A sermon called It's

No Trouble. It's No Trouble based upon the

story in the Gospels for the lady that had the issue of blood

for 12 years and then also the young daughter of a synagogue

leader who also was 12 years old and dying.

Always been, always been amazed by this particular story in the

intersection of them, because the woman who's been suffering

for 12 years, she's been suffering for the same number of

years that this girl has been alive and they both need

intervention from the Lord. The Bible says the story begins

firstly because the synagogue ruler has come and found Jesus

to take him to where his dying daughter is.

He wants to take him to his dying daughter with the chance

that he would speak something, say something, put his hand up

on her, and life would come back into her.

The Bible portrays that as the master is going with the

synagogue ruler whose daughter is dying.

As they're on their way, there's a lot of people thrown in Jesus,

one to touch Jesus because he's Jesus.

His reputation has preceded him concerning what can happen when

you have an audience with the Savior and the Bible says as

he's going by, there's this woman with the issue of blood

seems to be incurable. Hey, man, she's thinking in

herself that I can just but touch the hem of his garment.

I'll be made whole. This isn't my point right here,

but it's good to throw it in. This woman who has this

condition has went to a lot of professionals and the Bible says

she just rather grew worse. They could do nothing about her

condition. They could do nothing to help

her. We don't fault this woman for

that. We don't fault this woman that

she grew worse. Some things turned around

through practical measures, some things turned around through

practical measures and prayerful measures.

But evidently everything that she tried and was not working,

the Bible says she could not be healed.

And Luke, she could not be healed by any of them.

Now again, I realized this was a legitimate physical issue, but

you cannot convince me I've rubbed shoulders with enough

people that physical, legitimate physical issues.

You cannot tell me that after 12 years of dealing with this

affliction that this woman wasn't attacked and weary in her

mind. Again, that's not my point.

The Bible says she touched Jesus.

She was made whole. And while he yet spake with this

women, you look at it and look at it.

While he yet spake with this women, there comes some servants

of the ruler of the synagogue, God that had got Jesus walking

with Jesus to take him back to his daughter.

Here comes some rulers of where he lives.

And they tell him, Sir, it's went from bad to worse

concerning your daughter. It's went from hopeful to

hopeless concerning your daughter.

Your dying daughter is now dead. Someone say glory.

They may have even interjected. This is not in the Bible, but I

could see them talking to that synagogue ruler.

Sir, I know you've made this journey and I know you've made

this trip to find Jesus and summon him to come back to you

where this dilemma was. But this thing has turned

hopeless. And their words to him was don't

trouble the Master. But ladies and gentlemen, this

is not the holy little GODS, gods that we're dealing with

here. This isn't even a man that's

devout to God that we're dealing with here.

We're dealing with God manifest in the flesh.

And when Jesus overheard that conversation, he said, and if

you allow me a little leniency here, when he overheard that

conversation, he basically responded to them, if I can like

this, listen, what troubles you? Don't trouble me.

You've run your hand on a stormy sea and I've slept in the boat

and walked on the water. It's no.

Because we get in our mind, we get to choose or not choose what

we trouble God with based upon whether or not He can.

You can trouble him as long as she's dying, but when she dies,

don't trouble the master. God's not sitting there on his

daily To Do List and saying impossibility scratch next.

We're the ones sitting down saying, oh, dead now,

impossible. Financial woe, impossible, new

diagnosis as terminal, impossible.

And God says, don't you stop. You think you're troubling me?

It's no trouble to me, honey. This is the reason why I am.

This is the reason why I came. I'm a healer of the mind.

I'm a healer of the body. I'm a healer of the spirit.

I know. Can I admire somebody today?

You need to take your droopy head and your slouch shoulders

and you need to lift them and square them back and look to

heaven. I know it feels bad.

I know there's thoughts in your mind, but God can heal your

mind. Listen, Patrick McGee, today

it's not even in. Listen to me folks, You've been

through sundry relationships. Your answer is not a new

relationship. Colossians says we are complete

in him Holly. We've mistakenly sometimes

sought out people to complete U.S. jobs to complete us, more

possessions to complete us. Honey, you're digging and

looking for a bottom you'll never find.

As long as you look to those things.

You need to let your eyes and look to Jesus.

You can only find completion in Him.

Jobs will come and go, relationships might stand or

fall apart, but He's the anchor you can tie your SO to.

You can find complete in Him. Mark 5, the blessed popular Mark

5. Jesus comes on the shore of the

gatherings. There's a man living among the

tombs of all places. And you thought Motel 6 was bad?

He's not even paying by the hour.

I'm just telling you, he's living among the tombs.

Bible says no one could bind him.

They've tried with cheddar's. cheddar's chains and fetters.

I like to eat at Cheddar's Buffalo Chicken Wrap, one of my

favorites. To tell you the truth.

But chains and fetters, and the reason why it gives us this two

distinguishment of words is like 11 applies to what's around his

feet. The other applies to what's

around his hands. Anybody want to go to chatters

after? I praise God I just lost

everybody. They're in lunch now.

The mind, the mind. Bible says nobody contained him,

right? Yeah.

Let me put in this terminology. The professionals are at their

wit's end, right? Yeah, right, right.

He you want self harm in scripture, he's practicing self

harm. He's cutting himself with

stones. That's in your he's cutting

himself with stones. He wants help.

He rinsed to Jesus. Bible says there's a legion of

demons in him. Yet he may still makes his way

to Jesus because his need was greater than his torment, and

that also spells your torment can't keep you from getting your

need met. But the time, by the time

everything is over, the Scripture says these words

concerning this man, the wandering tune, cutting,

deranged, I mean to say this chattered man, when they come to

find him next to Jesus, he's sitting, no longer wondering.

He's clothed and in his right mind.

Don't tell me, Dana, that God can't do it because he

specializes in the mine. One physical aspect of the cross

involved a crown of thorns, which had these thorny, long,

thorny piercings coming in from every direction toward the head

or the mind. If I may, piercing thoughts.

Trepidation of the mind symbolized at Calvary or

symbolize in another tongue it says at Golgotha, which means

what the scripture says and interpreted to mean the place of

the skull. So at the place of the skull

there would be an impelling wooden member of redemption.

At the place of the skull on Golgotha's heel, Redemption

impaled through the skull. He who knew no sin bore sin in

his body for us, Scripture tells us He gave his life.

Therefore, he gave his back to the beatings that it received.

He gave his hands and he gave his feet and he gave his side to

the piercings and those storms that were properly placed on his

head, coming in from every direction and angle, pointing at

penetrating toward every region of the brain.

This just hit me on to Thursday. This even really goes beyond

just storms and piercings toward our thoughts, but every region

of the brain. That means there's storms

pointing toward motor skills, there's storms pointing towards

language sets that's in your brain.

There's storms pointing toward memories talking about the

different regions of your brain around about your skull.

It's pointing towards your cognitive reasoning.

All these storms coming in and every angle.

And so in the Gospels, particularly of John 19, when

Jesus is hanging there on that cross and his head bowed with

the thorns of his crown, he says it is finished.

Scripture says, and he bowed his head with that thorny crown.

He's in that moment, as he was with all the moments leading up

to this culmination. He's surrendering to all of the

devices, all of the tortures, all of humanity, sin, all of the

thoughts that are sin stricken in his mind that he's plagued

by. He's surrendering all and paying

the price for our victory. And this is what I want you to

understand. Christ bowed his head with the

thorny penetration of that that crown up on his head, so that

you could lift your head. What are you trying to get

across? There only needs to be 1 head

bowing here. There only needs to be 1 head

bowing there. You know how it is when people's

overwhelmed in their mind, seldom are they looking up.

It's as though the real weight of the thoughts of their mind

has cast their eyes down and cast their head down.

I'm telling you today there only needs to be 1 head that ever

bowed and that's his head. And because his head bowed, that

empowers me to lift mine. That empowers me to be like a

Nebuchadnezzar with all these thoughts that's plagued my mind.

I'm going to get the strength through him and I'm going to

lift my eyes until the heaven and I feel sanity coming back.

I feel. I feel healing coming.

I feel clarity coming because he bowed his.

I can lift mine. You don't stand with me, so this

is what I'm convinced of as a. Pastor here of a few.

Great. People sitting in these Piers

this morning, I'm convinced of this, that if God can restore

the mine of the Pagan heathen king in a field somewhere that's

taken on the actions of an animal, then he can restore the

minds of individuals right here in this room.

Yes, Amen. Yes, Jesus, yes, eaten has an

ox, talons of his hands. Somebody in the spiritual sense

today needs to tell the beasts of the field goodbye.

Pluck your feathers, trim your nails, lift up your eyes, lift

up your head and give praise to the Most High God.

Can we tilt our heads back whether they're your eyes are

closed or open, Hands extended to God right now and just begin

to honor as Nebuchadnezzar did when his sanity came back to

him? On or the one who has, the Bible

says an everlasting dominion that spans all eternity.

You can't find out where his dominion started, and you can't

find out where his dominion has ended.

He's always had the dominion. So if you feel dominated today,

that's not God. Amen.

But if you'll lift up your head to the real dominator, he can

help you. He can heal your mind.

He can bring peace to your thoughts.

He can bring clarity. I can't do it today.

Nobody else in this building can do it today.

But our God can. Our God can if your mind has

been the battlefield for the past few months.

If your thoughts have been louder than your faith for the

past few weeks, if you've just been rehearsing defeat and

despair and anxiety and escapism, it's time for you to

lift your. Head it's time for you to lift

your head. Lift a prayer right where you

are. Right where you are, you can

lift your eyes, you can lift your voice, you can lift your

mind to heaven and the healing, the healing can come.

You tell me, Brother McGee, stop my therapist.

No, I would never tell you that. Keep going to therapy, but pair

with that therapy a prayer and lifted eyes to heaven.

You tell me, don't see the doctor.

No, go to the doctor, please, I admonish.

You to do. So that that's being a good

steward of your body. Go do it, but don't leave this

other undone. Because I'm convinced the very

one that created the body and the snap seas of the brain and

the interconnections of the ligament in the joints.

If He's the creator of us and the owner of us, then I believe

He has the power, if He wills, to take care of whatever it is

about us. Come on, somebody, if it's

appropriate, can you just lay your hand on your neighbor's

shoulder? Or on their.

Back if it's appropriate. Can you, can you start just to

offer a simple prayer? God, we live in a real world.

We come in sometimes with anxieties and fears and dismays

and disappointments and God, there's things that ravage our

thoughts and God caused us to get in the gutter of thinking

Lord the same thing over and over and it almost becomes self

self fulfilling prophecy because we can't we can't allow anything

else to penetrate the thoughts of our mind and it's negative,

negative, negative, bad, bad, bad.

It's not going to happen. It's hopeless, so and so forth.

God, I pray today. God, help my friend, help my

neighbor. Help us as a church to let our

rise. Help us, God, help us.

God, I look to you. God, you, you're where my help

comes from. You're where my help comes from.

You're where my help comes from. Sir.

Neighbor, just cast your care on the Lord today.

Cast your care on the Lord today.

Are you heavy laden? Are you heavy laden in your

mind? Then go to the Lord.

His yoke is easy. His burden is light.

Go to the Lord. Sir, it.

Come on, Sir, It's not hopeless. It's not beyond, it's not a lost

cause. It's no trouble to God.

It's it's no trouble. Come on, Sir, Come on, ma'am.

You can respond to the Spirit of the Lord that you're feeling

right where you're standing. You can respond with a lift,

voice, lift hands, lift. You can respond right where

you're at. God can meet you right where you

are. Come on, Sir.

Come on, ma'am. Maybe means of symbolism.

Symbolism. You just need to come to this

altar. So, God, I'm just going to bring

it here. I'm going to leave it on the

altar today. I'm going to leave it there.

I'm not going to pick it up. God, I'm laying it down.

I can't allow this to dictate my life anymore.

I can't allow this to have the stronghold.

I've casted my eyes up.