Lay Down Your Burden | Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety weighs down the heart,

[Music] I've come to recognize and realize that there's a lot of folks who are making ridiculous decisions somebody made a bad choice somebody did something that's not like them it's outside of the nomenclature of who they are some of it is fueled by people being depressed some fold only realize that they're depressed the statistics for people suffering or having experienced depression the numbers are staggering the purpose of the series is to help you to understand how to master those negative emotions now once again we're not teaching you to try to be emotionless as Christians sometimes we go too far to the left or too far to the right God gave us emotions but sometimes those emotions have us we've got to understand that we have authority over our emotions when you hear somebody who says I can't help how I feel that is a deception you can't help how you feel God has given you authority over your feelings and you have now must accept the accountability for being in charge over your emotions some people are depressed because of chemical imbalances in their body I'm not here to address your chemical imbalance I'm here to talk about some spiritual imbalances in people's life the some depression is self-inflicted it is brought on by choices and decisions that you make and my assignment today by the power of the Holy Ghost is to help you bring about a different mindset and help free you from the bondage of spiritual depression your life is the way it is good or bad because of what you expose yourself to how do you know what are the symptoms of depression sadness irritable this inability to sleep low energy fatigue tired feeling worthless feeling guilty for no reason at all losing weight having problems concentrating a loss of interests and things that you used to like to do it can be a number of things or any number of these as a matter of fact the doctors say if you have three or four these things it's a good sign that you might be suffering from depression or to talk first of all about the cause what causes a person who seemingly looks normal to act in abnormal wings what causes a nice-looking man to flip out what causes that hammer of a system popping in all the right places to pop in her head what causes what are the causes that's all I want to get that that's the first thing I want to look at are the causes Romans 8 and 6 says to be carnally minded will lead you to death but to be spiritually minded will lead you to life in peace what does it mean to be a carnal minded person that means you are allowing your senses which you can see hear taste touch feel you're allowing those things that God gave to you he gave you those senses to enjoy life but he didn't give me those senses to govern and to dominate your life you see something and all of a sudden it dominates your thinking it dominates your mind you go to bed thinking about you get up thinking about it no he gave it to you so you can see it but not to be dominated by you can't be dominated by your sense you got to know I'm not moved by what I see I'm not moved by what I feel glory to God I'm not moved by what I hear I am moved by the word of the Living God in spite of what I see in spite of what I feel in spite of what I hear and let me throw this in you got to learn how to speak to those negative emotions you got to do like baby bits so bless the Lord that means when you don't feel like blessing the Lord but you know that there's power and praise you got to speak to yourself in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and you got to say I know you don't feel like doing it but we don't live our life by how we feel we live our life by the government of the Word of God and if God say to do it we're gonna do it you've been redeemed so let the redeemed of the Lord say so now cause you feel like it because you know that's the thing to do and it says right here in verse 25 anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression he tells us some insight right there anxiety and the harder man causes depression he tells us that their very outset that what causes depression not one is anxiety if you have the King James Bible version of the Bible uses the word heaviness the word anxiety means to have fears that are generated from your thought life fears that are created because of the way you are thinking fears from your thinking it it produces distress an easiness all of that is fueled by fear and here's the thing I've come to understand is that the devil's domain and the devil's place and the devil's territory is in the arena of fear if you can get you scared you can get you afraid if you can cause you to call have doubts and concerns if he can make you afraid let's be clear fear is not an attribute of God if fear has stepped up into your camp you can be assured that it did not come from God how you know that pastor well let's look at 2nd Timothy chapter 1 2nd Timothy chapter one and verse seven says this for God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind come on somebody God has not given us a spirit of fear God makes the correlation between a spirit of fear and an unstable mind and an unstable heart and an unstable position if if you have fear it's difficult to have fear and be stable you can't be stable and have fear living in your house and so I'm confident today that if you have if fear is stepping up in your house you can be confident that it did not come from God as a matter of fact I learned in the course of my life that whenever I get afraid of something instead of running away from it because I know fear is designed to sit me in a direction that's the opposite of God's will for my life and so whatever I'm afraid of don't run away from it I want to warn my fears somebody look at your neighbors they run towards your fears what is depression here's how we've defined it depression is feelings that come from thinking thoughts that were you down it's external pressure or stress coming from the outside entering into your heart to weigh you down what outside things things that come from outside circumstances stuff that's happened things you've encountered things that have been painful and hurtful and dark and they've entered into your thinking and it waves you down what have you been thinking about lately what thoughts that you keep hanging on to that just keep weighing you down but hurt for thoughts you keep hanging on to fearful thoughts you keep hanging on to couldn't dimming thoughts that you keep hanging on to and they weigh you down God has not given us a spirit of fear did not come from God that's the devil's domain that's his battleground fear is created matter of fact he thrives on fear the devil has control and influence in a lot of your lives because you allow fear to have domain you have let fear moving to your house you have given fear a room you've given a fear closet you invite fear into all your conversations you got fear coming in your bedroom it's like a little child get you up in bed and here fear comes trapped up into the room hopping up in the bed with you and you let that jokah stay in the bed with you and you wonder why you unstable because you can't go to sleep at night you're tossing and turning those fear is laid up in the bed with you you're waking up in the middle of the night cuz you got fear tapping you on your shoulder waking you up go to preach Manson tickets dango say nothing I'm just trying to tell you that the devil thrives in fear emotions we've defined it as feelings on the inside caused by pain or pleasure to move you in a direction now you've got to understand the devil understands this so he says if I'm going to be successful in moving you away from the will of God for your life and keeping you away from the will of God for your life somehow another I've got to trigger some negative emotions that you won't deal with so if we're to deal with how you feel if we are to deal with your depression and if depression is defined as feelings that come from faults that were you down you have to deal what you're thinking as a man thinketh , in his heart so is he as a man thinking so how you think it's gonna determine how you feel how you think is gonna determine really who you are because you are sum total of how you think and you never consider how you think and what is it that just about the most what thoughts are you holding on the most thoughts that came from circumstances that happened 30 years ago you still hanging on to those thoughts and now it's entered into your heart and it's weighing you down so check out what you're exposing yourself to how much exposure time are you giving God's Word how much exposure time are you giving the Spirit of God or has he been replaced by something else boy I never would have dreamed that I would be in the middle of an IED alterus generation such as this one where we keep trying to replace God with something else we just can't believe that he can do it so even when it comes to the emotion of depression we want to replace God we want to replace his word I'm gonna go see meal therapist number give me some antidepressants and we replace God with what the world uses and we have the most powerful and I don't ever to depression but we just can't believe it so we're going to borrow from the world he's a healer of your emotional situations but you won't trust him he's the deliverer but you won't just we're brother you ought not be telling people that I am gonna tell you that because my God is greater than others stuff he's greater than another stuff and I tell you we always knew the right thing but it's gotta come down to us believing in and doing it you're right believing is gonna eat what you're right living you believe right you're gonna live right you believe wrong you're gonna live wrong when are we gonna stop replacing God with something or somebody that's called idolatry when are we gonna let him be enough and trust him and how you do that if you'll expose your life to what God has to say if you expose your life to God's Word then that exposure is gonna produce godly thinking and that godly think is gonna produce godly emotions the devil operates and thrives of fear what are you what are you afraid of what's your skirt it boils down to three things that people are scared of number one you're scared of your past that your past might run up and catch up with you if somebody might find out about how you really have been so y'all sling up you're looking straight like you ain't got no past but everybody in here amen everybody in here got a pass and everybody in here got something that you don't want folks to know about you I don't care how transparent people might seem they ain't told you everything some people are scared that one day this stuff gonna come out we're scared of our past but here's why I don't have to be scared of my past because I have a past too but I thank God that my past has been covered by the blood of Jesus I'm not afraid of somebody when I heard did you did so-and-so I ain't scared of that cuz I almost say them that's all you heard you to hear the whole story let me tell you that resident stuff I did you only got part of the story though oh yeah I have a pass but thanks be to God when I came to Jesus he he covered my pass under the blood of the Lamb and I had to worry about my past but there's the second thing that people afraid of people are scared of their presence you're scared of what's happening right now yesterday and today some of you scared about what today is gonna turn out what's gonna happen today you couldn't go to sleep last night because you were scared of today what about right now how am I going to handle the day I'm going to get through this issues and you're scared you're afraid Tom's three verse 3 but Thou O Lord are a shield for being and the lifter up of my head butthat encourages me right there God says I'll be a shield for you I'll show you that you are significant to the kingdom you're significant to other people you have significance in this world I'll show you that you do Jesus in Matthew you say at once seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things will be added to you he said take no thought about what you shall eat or what you're sheltering look at the lilies of the field are they not a raid by God and doesn't God think more about you than the lilies of the field look at the birds of the air they don't toil and rest about what they're gonna eat doesn't that God take care of them and aren't you more important to God than the lilies of the field or the birds of the air why you all been out of shape why you all worried and concerned you still got a roof over your head you still got food tea you still got clothes on your back some people are scared of the future they're concerned about the possibilities of the future what am I gonna do about my tomorrows who gonna take care of me if I lose my job what's gonna happen when I get old I got my thing all figured out that's why I had six kids I figure if I can take care of them for 18 years I figure out they ought to be able to carve something aside and take care of me for the latter 20 years of my life here's the truth let me tell you this but don't don't get me wrong I'm just joking about that I'm not totally dependent on my kids listen I haven't taken care of myself all this time you haven't take care of yourself all this time if the same God who has taken care of you up to this point of your life that same God the same God that put the roof over your head today the same God who put food in your cupboard today the same God that put clothes on your back today he will not stop being God tomorrow he will not stop being God next year he will not stop being God ten years from now he's still God he's been taking care of people a long time and he's not gonna stop taking care of you so our fears pour down into these three categories that's why you got anxiety you concerned about your yesterday's your today's and your tomorrows there's no need if you worry about any of those things you can't control any of them you can't control you yesterday is history you can't control right now or you can do is get up and live your life and deal with life has you dished out to you you know what I discovered no matter what happens it comes in my life today come on I feel like preaching up in here today no matter what comes in my life today it couldn't get there unless God signed on for me and if God signed off on it it means that he knows that I have enough that he has put in me to deal with whatever comes in my life today I wish I had a prayer out with me somewhere in the camp today I may not want it I mean I would have been fighting it but if it's here I can deal with it greater is He that is in this world can't deal with it some will give you causes of depression and I want you to build your your guard up against it now okay the first cause of depression sorrow sorrow can cause depression in your life most depressed people have experienced some kind of trauma which has brought sorrow into their lives now I want to show you the causes but then I want to show you some scriptures that will encourage you even in the midst of the calls Psalms 40 verses one through three in the New Living Translation Psalms $0.40 lure the Lord to help me and he turned to me and heard my cry Michael he lifted me out of the pit of despair out of the mud and out of the mire he set my feet on solid ground and he steadied me as I walked alone and that's God walking with you right look at verse three he says he has given me a new song to sing him a praise to our God many will see what he has done and be amazed they will put their trust in the Lord so ladies and gentlemen I'm not saying that you will ever see sorrow I am saying that when sorrow comes you can turn to God and trust him because he'll lift you up out of despair he'll lift you up out of a pit if you're dealing with those thoughts of sorrow I go to sums 40 and I'd read something 40 and it tells me what God will do if I turn my attention there attend to my work give attention to the word rather than giving attention to the situation that caused the sorrow I met people who've been in sorrow for a long time I met people who come to church shout at church get happy at church go home sit there for about five minutes and think about all the other stuff and be filled with sorrow and instead of you been filled with sorrow be filled with his word if you'll be filled with its word praise God the sorrow won't be able to attach itself to your life and maintain depression I want you to take a moment in your life and think about what's stressing you out I guarantee you it falls in one of these three categories you pass your present or the possibilities of the future your past your present or the possibilities of your future y'all don't see now missed those Peas gone past it I am preaching and promoting and prophesied with this powerful productive presentation here's what proverbs 23 and 7 says has a man thinks so he's he has a man Ponder's what he meditates on look at the text in proverbs 12 it says anxiety in the heart of a man the feelings that come from the boss that were you down that's worried and this is an important point because during the course of life you're always gonna have thoughts that will enter into your mind what produces depression is when you allow those fearful thoughts to enter into your heart some of you've been beat up enough some of you just been railroaded you've been hurt you get up and hurt you go to bed and hurt you let your feelings govern your life your feelings pushing people away from you your feelings dog and relationships out messing up marriages your feelings stopping the very best that God put in you from rising to the top - bless you manatee because you can't figure out how to control your attitude is one thing for a bird to come flying by it's another thing for you to let that bird land and build the nests you've allowed the bird to land lay eggs and you willing to put up with the crap but I'm here to tell you don't let the bird land of a thought because once it lands and lays eggs it gives birth to additional thoughts God did not create you to be mastered by your life he created you to master your life see is one thing that that thought come is another thing for you to allow it to hang out and stay there and I want to tell you today keep your heart garden somebody's they keep your heart garden tell your neighbor keep your heart guarded if you want to keep from being depressed you have to keep your heart guarded I need you to turn the second Corinthians chapter 10 this was a life-changing passage for me and changed my life verses 4 & 5 for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds somebody say pulling down strongholds here's how you pull down the strongholds verse 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God here lookie here bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience and price your heart has to be guarded and you guarded by examining every thought that comes in your mind and if that thought produces fear you've got to have the discipline you've got to have the discipline to say you don't belong here you've got to go you can't come here you can't hang out here you cannot stay here you have to you have to protect your heart guard your heart by evaluating every thought and if it doesn't measure out you have to cast it out somebody said cast down casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ keep your hearts guard second cause of depression disappointment or unfulfilled expectations disappointment which is unfulfilled expectations you're you become disappointed when what you expected to happen didn't you're disappointed when you really built yourself up and you expected this thing to take place it didn't take place be careful not to set yourself up for disappointment you got to come to the point where I don't expect anything but I appreciate everything and that'll protect your heart from disappointment but if you let your expectations get ahead of you that expectation is just gonna set you up for hurt and when you don't get what you expect it you have the potential of being depressed because you can't understand why it didn't happen now here's the deal anxiety in the heart the fears that are allowed to permeate your mind and transition into your heart where you believe it and you give it validity and you give it you give it stress produces depression are y'all listening to me this was a revelation for me depression here's what the word that God uses for depression is this listen to stoop to bow to pay homage to to crouch down fall down to treat has royal anxiety is negative meditation on the wrong thing here's what it says it says you're depressed because you're taking those thoughts of fear that comes from the enemy and you've allowed them to get in your heart and when they get in your heart it produces depression why because you're now bowing down and paying homage to those thoughts and you're giving credence to those thoughts and you're given significance to those thoughts and you're giving importance to those thoughts and you're giving value to those thoughts and you are placing those thoughts above the knowledge of God you're depressed because you've allowed what those fears said speak louder to you than what the Word of God says to you that's what causes you to be depressed when you get depressed it ought to be a signal to you that you are giving more honor and more spec and more weight to your fears than you are to the truth of God's Word I wish I had a friend crowd with me here today it's the third cause of depression rejection feelings of not being accepted rejection can get you to a point where it creates a phobia where you start rejecting yourself before people reject you your Egyptian is really an issue of self-worth it's this thing of feeling insignificant self-worth the love and exceptions that we have from God should be enough that's why it's so important for you to recognize how God loves you and how God accepts you but then there's this other worldly kind of self-worth that talks about performance and the opinions of others and that's hard if you're trying to build your self-worth based on how well other people think you perform and if you're trying to build your self-worth based on other people's opinions of you you are going to be depressed a whole lot we want people's opinion of us to be good I mean listen them I'm a human I like for people to have a good opinion of me but it can't be to the point where their opinion and their acceptance of me governs my value for myself and governs my self-worth I depend on what God said about me I'm the apple of his eye he loves me he expresses his love to me I'm all right with him he has a great opinion of me and I just got to stick with that I'm serving a savior who has washed away all of our sins I'm serving Satan who has cleanse me from the inside I wish I had a praying crowd with me I serve a savior who forgave me of my past who walks with me in my present who is positioning me for my future I'm serving a great god here's the fourth cause of depression dead religious traditions dead religious traditions can cause depression if you are depressed every time you come home from church something is wrong with that church and I'm telling you I am a witness to this being under the law is a dead religious tradition I believe is a Latin definition of religion means a return to bondage if you're leaving a church every church service and you feel worse than when you came in something is wrong with that church ain't never going back to religion no more I'd never gone back to that stuff from your life as a Christian is never enough you come every week and you hear about how you're not enough you didn't pray enough if you lost the baby and a miscarriage it's because you didn't say enough scriptures out loud it the reason why you're in a mess you're in is because you know God's getting you for all the sin that you have done and you know you you know you don't honor the man of God you didn't give Beauty that's it that must be it lots of house cuffs if you'd have been given and then you keep coming and you trying and you like whatever you because you got a gift and you're not using your gift you know you ought to be in that class saying it and that's the reason why you can't get no husband and use my cat dog in it and then you get in the cry and you start singing and then it's like you get in fast and I win last time you went on a fast and it says it's never enough and this damn traditional stuff you know the Bible talks about the fact Jesus came to deliver us from dead works dead works are doing stuff to try to deserve the blessing from God I'm a John everything I'm gonna pray to three hours a day today traditionals time they told me to convince this until I had like three pages of confession and then you have to pray our in tongues and then those mornings when you were praying real hard and you thought I'm about finished looked up paper three minutes went by and so you're not praying to the Lord anymore you're praying to the clock to see how much longer and then you look up you got 15 more minutes you think I don't know if I can make it little about it you start off with la la Wow and then you came to church and it was kind of those churches they had like three services you came to church that more and then they had evening service and then you had about three full offerings in both of the circuit and then God God forbid now if you got a divorce or something like that happened did you ain't no good no we can't use you know more because you don't know how to rule your house well you ain't even because a real man will rule this house well it just keeps going it keeps going you know your mom is celebrating her 80th birthday you didn't come to church since Sunday and now that leadership mad at you cuz you should've put God with God before you your mother's 80th birthday nothing comes before God when I met my wife I believe on mobile with nice pretty legs and the Lord was trying to show it to me but the tradition said we'll watch out for lust and I was sitting in the Bible study with her and he said oh yeah I hold my eyes up and I said that she wore my clothes and I said I behind you well I bind you I find you I find you satan get away safe because it stop I'm trying to show you what to be praying for I leave the church depressed because I couldn't do it all right I was never enough but then one day I found that His grace is sufficient God loved me because of my good works God loves me because of my belief in Jesus Christ and all the works that he did and once I got set free from that tradition hallelujah in that area so let me let me close this dynamic message with the solution from proverbs chapter 2 in proverbs 12:25 read it says but a good word makes it Glen but anxiety in the heart of a man causes depression there's the cure right there good work a good word make the glad a good word and IB says a kind word first three to five and seven he says take the anxiety the worry and the care and cast it on God because he cares for you again we say I'll believe that and so you keep it and the longer you keep it the more potential you have of it when you now guess you can look at it from two perspectives you can look at it from the perspective that if you come across somebody who's depressed you can speak a kind word to that person you can speak an encouraging word to that person you can speak a hopeful word to that person here is what has gotten me out of my propensity because I am prone to depression I am prone to slide over into the arena of depression in a minute in fact I believe that there are some gifts and anointings on the inside of you that as the world gets dark and darker God's going to begin to summon and turn on some of those anointings and gifts some of you didn't even know you had for his God but if you can harness the right emotions and if you can work towards being emotionally stable what a gift it is to walk in self-control that when this negative emotion comes and in the past you would normally go off or do something stupid and you don't do that anymore and you recognize I am not the same person why because I now can take charge of what used to take charge of my life if you understand that say you man somebody to victory is a good word this word right here a good word a revelatory word a power forward that's why I love to come to church that's why I love good preaching that's why every time I get a chance I'm underneath the Word of God because I've discovered that if I can get a good word if I can get a good word I'm trying to give you a good word as well it'll break the shackles off if I can get a good word it'll put my mind back in the direction it needs to be if I can get a good word it can help me stable my thought life a good word will slap me close my faith and remind me that the God that I serve is greater than any challenge that I can face a good word will give me a hope that it might be difficult today but trouble will not last always a good word reminds me that I might be troubled on every side but I am not defeated [Applause]

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Length: 31min 45sec (1905 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 13 2019