Living Free from Condemnation _ Depression Pastor Christine Miller

Let's turn to Joshua. I prayed and asked the Lord to help me for your sake For the sake of the people I Need the message and He gave me a message. I believe that I know in my spirit that this message is for tonight Because there are enough people that need it now this doesn't describe you and you don't think you need it Just hang on to it for a day where you might need it. Yeah In Joshua chapter 1. I just want to start here for a reason Verse 8 says this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth Let me ask you something if it's not departing meaning speak the word only If it's not departing from your mouth, then there's no room left over for negative things So let it not depart meaning keep it there continually, but you shall meditate in it day and night That you may observe to do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way prosperous and Then you will have good success So we see this that it doesn't say God or Satan in this verse, but it says you Know what God expects of people that have been saved for a while Grow up That's what he expects He expects us to be doers of the word. Yeah, and if we're not you will not have good success. I Got baby drool on my shoes Fingerprints Permanent stains for life on these fancy shoes, and it's so wonderful to be a grandmother God expects us to grow up. Are you all awake? I Just read Joshua one for a reason we are to be doers of the word Now being a doer of the word doesn't mean opposition never comes it doesn't mean trials don't come Trials come to everybody as we live in Satan's domain And he'll see to it that they come and especially the more you determine you're going to live for God and live by faith The more he will come to oppose it. Don't think it an unusual thing that your faith is tried Isn't that what Peter said so many words so when we're living for God when we're trying to advance we get opposed and You know, I'd like to say that the longer you're saved the easier it gets It's not that it's easier on the mind or the flesh, but you have answers and if you'll just use the answers. Yeah work Now let's turn to Romans chapter 8 because you don't even know what I'm going to talk about yet Romans chapter 8 and verse 1 Hallelujah, I Hope I don't know if this is the feisty anointing Feisty or get saved Romans 8 verse 1 says there is therefore now no condemnation To those who are in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit I Believe the Amplified says do not walk according to the dictates and the desires of the flesh But according to the dictates of the Spirit so If you are really walking by the Spirit, you will not have a sense of condemnation But you can be thoroughly saved in spirit filled and if you're walking according to the dictates of the flesh You will end up with a sense of condemnation This is important because we all get there's at one time or another in their Christian life where we can sense the condemnation and if you Can't even quite put your finger on what it is. It's happening to you It's likely that it's some form of condemnation And we're going to talk about living free from condemnation and depression tonight Now notice in this verse it says there's therefore now No condemnation Jesus Christ put an end to condemnation It's not gonna be tomorrow or next week or next year if you're in Christ, it's now You paid the price. I asked brother Isaac to sing that song amazing love tonight because it says, you know, you were condemned I I'm forgiving you were forsaken. I'm accepted you were condemned Jesus bore condemnation that was part of the substitutionary work And you know, I sometimes I blame the Catholic Church for this But the reality is you don't have to be a Catholic to be beat up with condemnation Because everybody all you have to do is be an enemy of Satan Because that's what he specializes in Is sitting on your shoulder and beating you up So condemnation is supposed to come to an end in our lives now Now, that's right Why because condemnation keeps our faith from working? Yeah, when you're feeling beat up and condemned and low and like nothing works for me and I'm a loser I'm a failure. Nothing I do is right. I can't seem to do it, right? So what's the use anyway? I'm not gonna even try anymore First of all, who gave you those thoughts? Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what the devil wants is for you not to even try anymore well Those things rob you of confidence and it faith is confidence toward God So your faith won't work. So then what's going to happen is you create a cycle where you keep getting what you're believing and saying You feel condemned you feel like a failure talk like a failure you act like a failure you continue to have failure results The condemnation and and I'm telling you it's just it's a serious problem in the church But especially in this hour, you know what they say Huge percentage of people in this country and I don't know about worldwide But I know in this country are on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications Well, you know Franklin my husband and I had discussed this before if we weren't saved in spirit filled we'd be drinking Yeah, we'd probably be on some kind of medication because how else can you cope with this world? That's right There's a really a line in the sand today You're either gonna go with the world and be troubled or you're gonna get with Christ and become untroubled But the real tragedy is when we're in Christ and we stop being doers of the word And now we have to be treated like everyone else in the world We feel like they do we turn to their methods You know, the reason why a huge percentage of the church turned to liquor in the last couple decades is because they didn't stay full spiritually When you're full spiritually, you're not looking for a fix You know, I'd like to tell somebody who's saved and thinks well it's okay to drink Was it your flesh that told you that or your spirit Because I have inside information I know the Holy Spirit and he never told anybody to go out and hit and get drinks Because here's the thing, you know, like we had years ago We ran into some pastors that were local at a restaurant. They were sitting at a bar with their guest speaker drinking And I didn't say anything about it because I didn't have as much wisdom then as I do now anyway But not that it would have mattered But if you say to somebody well, why do you think it's okay to sit at the bar and drink and they'll always say well We're not getting drunk. We're just having a drink But then I would say well, what's so wonderfully delicious about that drink if you're just thirsty Why do you just drink a soda or a water? Well, I want this drink because if they're being honest about it, this drink will give me a buzz on my flesh It's a flesh problem Flesh problem, but this drink won't give me any buzz So I choose this one and the reason I choose this one is because I'm letting the world know that my flesh is stronger than my spirit right now because if my spirit was full I Wouldn't be doing that because the Holy Spirit in me would be grieved about it When you know the Holy Ghost, you know that this kind of thing would grieve him because why would you substitute what he can do? For you with what the world has to offer And that's not just in the drinking realm that just came up as an example. It's in any realm. We don't want to substitute Something for what the Spirit of God is supposed to be doing for us and the word is supposed to be doing Because when you do that you weaken your faith. Yeah, and what is Hebrews? 116 say faith pleases God So it's the Christian life is not about weakening our faith. It's about growing in faith It's about pleasing God and not pleasing ourselves The reason why the world is one of the reasons why the world is so depressed Is there more self-centered than they've ever been and if all you do is get focused on yourself, you will be very depressed We have to be focused on pleasing a higher power the Lord our God and Doing for others. That's where joy comes from So we know condemnation keeps our faith from working well God Never deals with his children through the use of condemnation So as soon as you start feeling condemned, it's either your own spirit condemning you which we have scriptural proof for or it's Satan trying to condemn you and I would say he does that real well So if you're feeling condemned it didn't come from God. He doesn't deal with his children that way He doesn't correct us that way. He does not Think about this does condemnation motivate I've never known it to once Condemnation deflates you and makes you feel like doing nothing Well, how was God going to get anything accomplished in his kingdom if he tries to motivate his children? Condemnation is of the devil That word condemned Actually means pronounced to be wrong guilty and worthless Sentenced to punishment or destruction Wow, you can see now what Romans Tells us and in chapter 8 there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Why because Jesus took our punishment? He took destruction for us. So we're no longer sentenced to punishment or destruction Glory to God he was condemned so I could be free I'm accepted. He was condemned. Praise God So if we yield to that sense of condemnation in our lives, what we're doing is forgetting what Jesus did for us we're forgetting about the power of the blood and That's unacceptable. We cannot treat the blood of Jesus as though it didn't purchase what it did You know, we talk a lot in this church about we walk by faith and not by sight Really what we're saying is we walk by faith and not by feelings What you see what you hear what you feel? But yet when that sense of condemnation tries to come on you, it's a feeling it produces a feeling You know thoughts and feelings Well, if you are going to live by faith You're going to deal with that thought in that feeling when it comes just like you deal with other Circumstances that come against faith and I know that it's easy to just sit in a chair and cave into it That would be human nature, but that's not pleasing to God you know faith requires effort on our part and It's not the effort of paying the price for what we're believing for because we already have it It's the effort of not letting the flesh rule The flesh wants to rule The flesh wants to have pity parties the flesh wants to crawl into bed and go to sleep and not think about the problems facing And this is the kind of thing that God wants us to put our foot on the neck of that say no I refuse to be mad at yeah, I'm forgiven so If you can't receive from God, you're really in trouble, aren't you? We have to deal with this thing called condemnation The devil is going to taunt you when you come to God in prayer. I found that pretty regularly I Mean because I talked about this from the pulpit before you can be busy about your day And that's not usually when condemnation affects you because you're too busy, right? But if you get quiet like you go to spend some time in the word in prayer, that's a prime time for the devil Because you've quieted your mind you quieted your body and that those sinking feelings will try to come and make you feel like you're not worthy You can't you didn't do everything right the last few days You missed it here. You missed it there. You remember everything you did wrong when you go to pray and That is a prime time for Satan to come and try to discourage you because that's a time Where you're supposed to be walking with God and faith is supposed to be building inside of you And if you do have requests you want them answered and that's the time you ask is when you're in the presence of God So it's to keep you feeling unworthy to receive Two things about condemnation number one. They cannot condemnation cannot conduct faith And number two, it will open the door to depression We need to know this you start feeling beat up about everything you did wrong and it leads to depression I'm telling you this is something that Maybe it's not clicking yet. But if it starts to click I Can see it so clearly even just regarding the church if all you think about is the results you've had up till now or everything that went wrong or every Person that left or every negative word that was said and you stay in that cycle of thinking it will hinder your future It works in any arena and we have to work it at not bringing up the past You know, we we're so acquainted with our own faults and our failures, aren't we So acquainted and there's a temptation to yield to that condemnation because we know we missed it We know we could have done better how many could have prayed more this last week, uh-huh. Well you ought to be condemned about that No, can you be what good is that gonna do right? I hope you know I'm being sarcastic What good is that gonna do anybody? I Was feeling like we could have done more for brother Ray, you know, I could feel that just sitting on my shoulder You know for days But what what can you do about it, what can you do if you could have done more you can't change it We always could have should have would have and Even if you couldn't the devil will still say you could And that's where you have to be careful because Some of us I'm not going to say all of us, but some of us are highly skilled at taking the blame for things We always Right away accept the accusation against ourself that we didn't do good enough Instead of believing, you know, I think I did do good enough and it's not my fault That's really rare for me to think that thought on my own. I have to work at that thought and I'm sure some of you are the same way, but if we don't get that changed it's gonna limit how far we're gonna go Also, you know we can find it easier to forgive other people sometimes than to forgive ourselves I've really never had a hard time forgiving anybody as long as I can remember because one thing that was practiced in our home We always my mom always said I'm sorry, you know, she could Mean as could be about something and lose her temper, but she'd always come back within less than an hour and apologize And I learned early on yeah, you could be you could miss it But you just say you're sorry and I know she meant it and we mean it when we say we're sorry So we forgive others but then You forgive yourself You know if if you allow those feelings of condemnation to linger day after day week after week Then that's an indication you have not forgiven yourself So the results of not forgiving yourself, I've got five listed here number one is worry Number two is fear See when you say worry and fear when you don't forgive yourself That means you're continually hanging on to thoughts that you didn't do it, right? You didn't do it good enough You messed up It can't be changed. I Ruined it now How's this ever going to get fixed what is that worry thoughts worry thoughts worry thoughts Or fear fear of what is it? What's the result going to be now? How am I going to make it in life now? How am I going to fulfill my destiny now? worry and fear guilt Condemnation and depression as I said before so if you don't forgive yourself, you will the end result is going to be depression and Even worse than that a life of Unanswered prayer and an unfulfilled destiny and it won't even be on God's end because all along He's washed you in the blood and he doesn't remember any of it Let's turn to mark chapter 11 Mark chapter 11 and verse 23 Jesus said her assuredly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea And does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done He will have whatever he says how many know these are faith scriptures Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray Believe that you receive them and you will have them But then it's followed up with this little verse setting that says when you stand praying forgive Yeah So we see that this is one of the primary things that keeps faith from working is unforgiveness It's tied to these faith verses. So not only forgiving somebody else for what they did against you but forgiving yourself No, yeah, I should have done something differently. I should have reacted differently I should have put my foot down on that. I should have raised my kids differently. I should have done this I should have done that Thank God we're redeemed First John 1 9 says if we confess our sins He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness Cleanse us from all unrighteousness, so when we sin We lose our sense of righteousness But thank God we have this verse because we can confess our sin Ask for forgiveness and now we're cleansed from that sense of unrighteousness And this is why you know as I was reading that verse today this came to me This is why the hyper grace teaching is so harmful Because if you're being taught that you don't ever have to ask for forgiveness Because you're already forgiven Then whether you know it or not you're living with condemnation Because you're not asking for forgiveness and that condemnation is limiting your faith So there's a whole lot of people that have bought into that that they can do whatever they want and there's no consequence for sin because sins all been cleansed and washed away and it's Legally Jesus did pay the price for the sins of the world But this verse is written to believers if you sin you still have an advocate with the father You still need to ask for forgiveness and it's not because you'll go to hell if you don't it's because you'll live in Condemnation if you don't yeah, and if you live in condemnation, you will never have another prayer answer And so then people like that are really ineffective and they don't fulfill their destiny and so there's a lot of harm in that teaching So to fail to forgive ourselves is to doubt that God forgave us You know Satan is the accuser of the brethren the Bible says and We have to become skillful at answering Thank you Jesus you just got to tell him no you don't God forgave me that sin is washed in the blood. He's not remembering it anymore, and if he's not remembering it I'm not remembering And then he'll try to bring the thought back again. You say no you don't I refuse that thought Jesus cleansed me from that He's forgiven me, and he's forgotten about it because he chooses to forget Because he's wise yeah, and we would be wise if we choose to forget Interesting that God Almighty Wiser than any of us will ever be Chooses to forget all of the sins that you confess but then we Want to hold on to them and remember them Why because we're greater than God No we can't hold on to it. We have to get rid of it We are not taking those things back after we've gotten forgive Remember forgiveness just like we're taught we walk by faith and not by sight forgiveness is not a feeling It's a decision You may initially still feel like you're not forgiving But that's how you have to deal with it by speaking to it by speaking what God's Word says about it Just like your body might not feel healed when you believe you received your healing well What do you do you speak to it you say what God says about it? You don't go by what you feel Another thing that I love is in first John chapter 4 verse 16 It says we have known and believed the love that God has for us Now think about it, we're so quick to believe the accusations of the enemy But instead we should be quick to believe the love that God has for us He loves us so much, and I think I'm maybe I'm just preaching to myself But it seems like it's so much easier to believe the accusations than to believe the love that God has for us And it's so backwards Let's see if you do miss it we're not encouraging you to just keep living in sin and just forget the past We're encouraging you to repent and get it right and then forget the past But if you believe the love that God has for you It supersedes anything you did wrong. I mean that love is so great. That's why we pray in Ephesians That God would grant unto us the ability to understand how You know the breath and width and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes our knowledge or our natural understanding It's too hard for the human mind to grasp the love of God And why because our whole lives we've been treated with human love Which rejects you as soon as you don't do something their way. Yeah And so we're we're so good at Not accepting the love of God we have to work on accepting it. It's unconditional love Amen Be quick to believe the love that God has for us. You know like I said when God forgives he forgets that is love So if there's someone in your life that sinned against you and you've forgiven them Then you have to forget about it, too And if you bring it up every week You're not forgetting you're condemning and if God doesn't condemn then who do you think you are condemning, right? Glory to God. Thank you Lord. I think sometimes we're raised in an atmosphere where we're taught. That's the way you do it Because you're gonna learn your lesson bless God. I'm gonna keep rubbing your nose in this doo-doo You learn your lesson I Never did agree with that with dogs, you know, I Had family that if the dog messed in the house, they take their nose and rub it in it I'm just like well, I don't think that's teaching them anything That's horrible But you know, it's just human nature to do things that way we think somehow that that's gonna work Well, it doesn't work Glory to God Hallelujah, are you awake when God forgives he forgets Our sins are worthy of just one thing and that is forgetting Once you confess them or get them Blood of Jesus puts us back into a place as though we had never sinned What would you do with your life if you had never missed it What kind of confidence would you have toward God if you had never missed it? Yeah What would you ask for if you had never missed it? We'll go ahead and do it because from God's perspective. You've never missed it Because you missed it so much you're afraid to ask No, God doesn't want us to do that anymore he wants us to ask big If there was anyone who could have been held back by their past it would have been the Apostle Paul Think about all that man did now naturally speaking. He had great accolades. He was highly accomplished highly educated Went very far at a young age in the Jewish faith But he was guilty of killing and persecuting Christians That's the best kind of person to get saved Jesus is wise Remember when Ananias he appeared to Ananias and said I want you to go lay hands on Saul of Tarsus He's praying and Ananias said but Lord Are you sure you know what you're doing? Yes, he knows what he's doing And look at how hard remember what Jesus answered to him was he's gonna see how much he must suffer for my name's sake in Other words, he's not getting off scot-free. Don't worry He's gonna work four and five times harder than any of the other disciples and suffer a lot But he was such an asset Well, he didn't allow his past He would have every day been mindful of all the people he was responsible for killing Of all the persecution he did enough wrong. It's one thing to sin against, you know people in a certain way But when you're sinning against the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and that kind of measure And I'm sure the devil came with lots of condemnation because that's what he does So Paul had to learn how to resist it Yeah, and we know that he did move beyond his past because let's go to Philippians chapter 3 In Philippians chapter 3 and verse 13. Oh Let's just start with verse 12 not that I have already attained or I'm already perfected he was sober That even after all he did he still hasn't arrived yet But he said that I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and Reaching forward to those things which are ahead. I Press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call in Christ Jesus and I love verse 15 He says therefore let us as many as are mature Have this mind So what's he saying saying here failure to forget holds you back You're not going to get past what you fail to forget But he's also saying mature people will forget So if you're holding on to your past that means you're not mature spiritually That's not meant to be mean guys. It's meant to wake us up If you're still remembering everything you've done wrong If you can't forgive yourself you haven't matured spiritually Yeah, you know there's so much more in front of us than behind us It's not is it worth holding on to the past And then forsaking all the good that's in the future It's gonna rob you of what God has for you, and then you're gonna be living life depressed and angry because You don't have the things you should have had by now. You don't have them if you don't let go of the past I mean, that's a big step There's so much more in front of us We have to forget the past so we can fully reach forward and that's really what Paul did if he would not have mastered that He would not have done all the things he did because that sense of condemnation would have kept him from reaching out from being bold and One thing he did though. He said I think my god. I speak with tongues more than you all put together So what did he do he kept his spirit man larger? Than what his flesh had to say and offer And that's what we need to do as well Hallelujah So like I said before guilt and condemnation are poor receivers and Your faith is not going to work if you allow that to stay now Let's look at one really great biblical example in Matthew 15 And I love this story because it illustrates so beautifully Someone who had every reason to feel condemned refused to allow their past to keep them from receiving In Matthew chapter 15 in verse 21 it says then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon and Behold a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to him saying have mercy on me O Lord son of David My daughter is severely demon-possessed Thank you Jesus But he answered her not a word and His disciples came and urged him saying send her away for she cries out after us But he answered and said I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel She's got a lot working against her right now This first of all She's a woman From Canaan. She's not a Jew. She didn't has no covenant with God She obviously has unclean things going on in her household because her daughter's demon-possessed you know your children don't get demon-possessed if they're under your authority unless somehow you've allowed it to happen and So she's got something going on in her life that shouldn't be so she's in a living in a life of sin Doesn't have a covenant she's a woman all by herself approaching Jesus and She came and worshiped him saying Lord help me she wouldn't quit she was persistent But he answered and said it is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs And she said yes Lord in other words. She said I agree that I'm a dog But notice that's the only thing she brought up when she came before Jesus She didn't come to him and say Lord. I know I'm a sinner. I know I don't have a covenant with you I know I'm not worthy to receive from you I know that I'm you know not this and not that she didn't come and bring all of her faults and failures before him Do you know you come to God in prayer? And you need something and you start out by pouring out all your faults and failures to him That's no way to receive from God. Yeah She didn't come and bring any of that nasty stuff up. She just said yes Lord or truth Lord I think King James says in other words I agree that I'm a dog but even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall on the master's table Then Jesus answered and said to her old woman great is your faith? Let it be to you as you desire and her daughter was healed from that very hour So what did she do she didn't have her faults in her mouth she had the right words in her mouth She said truth Lord yet Even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table. She had words of faith in her mouth She didn't allow her past to keep her from pursuing the health that she needed. I Like this story because we have a covenant with God This woman did not and yet she still had the boldness to come and ask for help She wasn't focused on how undeserving she was she was focused on the help that she could receive from him And that is why he said you're you've got great faith Because you're not focusing on all the things you did wrong You've got great faith because you're focusing on me and my ability to do this for you My willingness to do this for you in spite of all that you did wrong. You still came for me. Yeah And so what we see with her is great faith does not hold on to the past It doesn't hold on to failures It doesn't hold on to sin great faith holds on to the Word of God holds on to Jesus The past is dead and gone You know, sometimes we preach messages like this at the first of the year Because we need to forget the past if we're gonna move on then you get almost to the halfway point And all the things that you said you were going to do January 1st Well, maybe it's not looking like you kept some of those Resolutions Whatever they might be Maybe you haven't become the spiritual giant by today that you thought you went on January 1st Maybe you didn't keep up with your Bible reading. Maybe you didn't keep up with your prayer life You know, you could name any number of things. Well, what are we going to do about it? So forget the rest of the year now Well, then what then you waste six good months No, that's not what we're gonna do we're gonna forget those things which are behind So we can press forward and continue to live in victory and Make some progress and bear some fruit Praise the Lord what lies ahead is so much greater Than what's been behind us and this is important even for this church because we've got a lot of years behind us But it doesn't matter how many years we have behind us. We know that what's ahead is so much That's why we keep pressing that's why we keep coming that's why we keep preaching That's why we keep serving and giving why we were faithful to be here tonight Even though most of us would probably rather be in bed or resting at home after working all day But we press to be here because we knew that our spirit man needed to be fed And that was more important than letting our flesh rest and do nothing And so that's part of the press as Kim where I used to say pressed to possess And so I just wanted to encourage us tonight. There is therefore now now No condemnation To those who are in Christ. Amen. Don't let you know, maybe as I'm preaching this message You're thinking about something in your own life, whatever it might be That could be holding you back from moving in the direction that you should be Because of this thing called condemnation and maybe you didn't even realize that's what it was. I Know I felt that the Lord dealt with me The last few days that this is something that might be going on in my life, and I wasn't even aware of it That you can almost subconsciously be thinking wrong thoughts about things in your life based on what's happened in the past And if we don't let go of it, we won't be able to progress in that area So I encourage you let go because we don't need depressed Saints We don't need You know believers that are being just like the world and dealing with these things. We need to have the victory displayed in our lives and And you know another thing is what do you do when you start to feel that sinking feeling you speak to it? But what is pastor Nancy taught us you answer it and then you rejoice and praise God Sometimes you just have to get alone Jesus put on the garment of praise. I praise you Jesus. I don't feel like it, but I'm praising you Jesus You're worthy to be praised and look Chris back. There is a fine example of this when I when I think of this message I Know he lived under condemnation for many years And it's a supernatural work of God this joy This joy that I have the world didn't give it to me this joy that I have The world didn't give to me this joy that I have the world didn't give it to me The world didn't give it and the world can't take it away You can't take it away, but you can keep it from flowing If you allow condemnation to stay instead of choosing to rejoice Well that didn't go the way I wanted it to today, so Forget everything today everybody get out of my way cuz I'm in a bad mood now Whoa? Well, it maybe didn't go your way, but you can just say this Doesn't matter what happened I'm not the entertainment show for tonight supposed to be joining in This joy The world didn't give it to me this joy that I have The world didn't give it to me the world didn't give it and the world can't take it away As pastor Ramos would say you have to joy Have to joy And if you refuse to joy, there is no help left for you you reject your help There's a guitar not working tonight for some reason is there a cable problem every problem are we on batteries Okay Because I was gonna have you come play something joyful, but if it won't work It's okay It's it's okay Well, we'll just make our own music is there anyone here tonight that you would like to receive hands laid on you for healing Hallelujah glory to God This joy that I have This joy The world didn't give it to me this joy The world didn't give it to me The world didn't give it and the world can't take it away This joy The world didn't give it to me Lord we thank you that brother mark is your child and healing is his bread and in the name of Jesus I command all sickness and disease Behold from the top of your head to the soles of your feet Don't let a blanket of heaviness come on you guys Thank You Jesus joy joy joy His church without some joy Come on up for the Chris What happens when that sinking feeling tries to come on you, what do you do? You find a court jester That heavy sinking feeling ever tried to come on you And so what happens when you laugh And so the laughter is that the help of the spirit sure Anybody know what I'm singing is the good old Ramason glory. Do you know that song brother Isaac? How they live this joy that I have the world didn't give it to me this World didn't give it to me this World didn't give it to me World didn't give it and the world can't take it away All right, thanks Chris you've been kind of Yeah, I know Janna's rejoicing Oh Praise God choose joy Well father we thank you tonight you've given us answers for everything we face in life And we thank you Lord that we have the rivers of the spirit flowing in us And they're not meant to just stay in us, but to flow out And to affect those around us and we thank you father for the glory of God and manifestation in this hour Lord, it's not about us. It's about those that need to be reached And they don't need to be reached by depressed people who they're gonna say dear Lord, I don't want No, they want the joy that we have Because it's one thing they can't have without Jesus Christ So we thank you Lord for this joy Joy Are you gonna joy for everybody This joy that I have To me He actually has a set of drums if you can believe it Praise the Lord, I don't know. I guess we can do it to the drums Busy watching everything Well, we love you all hope you know what a blessing you are and how much the Lord and this city I Just This is a really strange I guess but It's It's it's a perfect example. I think Of what you kind of need to do at home because it's like Pastor Christine is joyful. She's excited Let's do But it's like that's that's Like how it is at home and how it is in life and it's like, you know I don't be like being joyful and I had this thing where I do where I'm always talking to my mom or my sister And I'll just I had this like stone face because it's my face and Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and we'll just go back and forth until we Start busting out It's on the inside You know, it's okay the Lord wants you to do to work up that joy Operate separate from it is by the spirit We don't take advantage of these wonderful tools or gifts that we've been given that we just continue to suffer And that's not God's highest and best. So thank you for sharing brother I Know I've taught you before that were to come to God as a little child This little child thinks that every time he takes two or three steps without holding on then he has to stop Just rejoice over every little Sammy Sammy gonna clap with grandma I Time and Julie do that remind me of my young days. My grandparents used to listen to the Mixmasters Everybody would get together for family gatherings and they would dance not, you know, slow boring dances, but the polka Oh Hallelujah, praise God. Well, God wants you to poke on church Grab your partner swing around Hallelujah, well listen just tonight remembering just joy That condemnation and depression We'll see you on Father's Day, we love you all