Faith, Community, and Healing: Addressing Mental Health

### Bible Reading

1. **1 Kings 19:1-4 (NIV)**
> Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

2. **2 Corinthians 1:8 (NIV)**
> We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.

3. **Lamentations 3:17-20 (NIV)**
> I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.” I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

### Observation Questions

1. What was Elijah's reaction to Jezebel's threat, and what did he do as a result? ([47:49])
2. How does the Apostle Paul describe his experience in the province of Asia in 2 Corinthians 1:8?
3. What emotions and experiences does Jeremiah describe in Lamentations 3:17-20?
4. According to the sermon, what are some common misconceptions about mental health within the Christian community? ([38:00])

### Interpretation Questions

1. Why do you think Elijah, despite his great faith and accomplishments, felt so overwhelmed and despaired for his life? ([47:49])
2. How can Paul's description of his despair in 2 Corinthians 1:8 help us understand the universality of mental health struggles among believers? ([46:46])
3. What does Jeremiah's lament in Lamentations 3:17-20 reveal about the nature of mental health struggles, even among those who are close to God? ([45:45])
4. How does the sermon challenge the idea that strong faith alone can prevent or cure mental health issues? ([38:00])

### Application Questions

1. Reflecting on Elijah's experience, have you ever felt overwhelmed by a single event or message? How did you cope with it, and what might you do differently now? ([47:49])
2. Paul speaks of being under great pressure and despairing of life itself. How can we support each other in our small group when someone feels similarly overwhelmed? ([46:46])
3. Jeremiah's lament shows deep emotional pain. How can we create a safe space in our community for people to express their struggles without fear of judgment? ([45:45])
4. The sermon emphasizes the importance of seeking practical help alongside spiritual guidance. Have you ever hesitated to seek professional help for mental health issues? What steps can you take to overcome this hesitation? ([38:30])
5. Social media and lifestyle imbalances were mentioned as contributors to mental health issues. What practical steps can you take to reduce the negative impact of these factors in your life? ([57:53])
6. The sermon highlighted the importance of community support. How can our small group better support each other in times of mental health struggles? ([40:31])
7. Reflect on the statement, "Your illness is not your identity." How can this perspective change the way you view your own or others' mental health challenges? ([41:02])

Day 1: Embracing the Universality of Mental Health
Mental health challenges are a common human experience, touching the lives of many, including those of great faith like Elijah and Jeremiah. These biblical figures remind us that experiencing mental health issues does not reflect a lack of spirituality or failure in one's faith journey. It's crucial to recognize that these challenges can strike anyone, and acknowledging this can foster a more compassionate and supportive community. By understanding that even the strongest among us can struggle, we can eliminate the stigma and encourage open discussions and support seeking without shame. [51:02]

Psalm 34:17-18, "When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit."

Reflection: How can you help destigmatize mental health issues within your community today?

Day 2: Correcting Misconceptions about Faith and Healing
There is a harmful misconception in some Christian circles that strong faith alone can prevent or heal mental health issues. It's essential to understand that while faith is a vital component of our lives, God also uses practical tools like therapy and medication to provide healing. These methods should not be seen as a lack of faith but rather as means through which God can work. Embracing both faith and practical health solutions can lead to more holistic healing and well-being. [38:00]

James 5:14-15, "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up."

Reflection: In what ways can you integrate your spiritual beliefs with practical health practices to promote overall well-being?

Day 3: The Power of Community in Mental Health
The New Testament emphasizes the importance of bearing one another's burdens, which is crucial in the context of mental health. Engaging in small groups and fostering a supportive community can provide significant emotional and spiritual support. These groups offer safe spaces to share struggles, receive encouragement, and experience the tangible presence of God through fellowship. This communal aspect of faith is not only biblical but essential for mental health and resilience. [40:31]

Galatians 6:2, "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."

Reflection: What step can you take this week to either join or enhance a supportive community group at your church?

Day 4: Addressing Lifestyle and Social Media Pressures
In today's digital age, the pressures and unrealistic expectations set by social media can significantly affect our mental well-being. It's important to cultivate contentment and focus on personal values rather than external validation. This involves setting healthy boundaries with technology, engaging in real-life communities, and nurturing spiritual and personal growth. By doing so, we can protect our mental health from the often toxic influences of online comparisons and pressures. [57:53]

1 Corinthians 7:23, "You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men."

Reflection: How can you adjust your social media use to better reflect your values and enhance your mental well-being?

Day 5: Securing Identity Beyond Mental Health Struggles
Our identity in Christ is secure, regardless of our mental state. Understanding that our worth and value extend beyond our mental health challenges can provide a profound sense of peace and hope. This perspective is crucial in maintaining self-worth and resilience during difficult times. Remember, God's love and presence remain constant, offering us strength and comfort, no matter the challenges we face. [41:02]

Romans 8:38-39, "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Reflection: How does understanding your identity in Christ change the way you view your mental health struggles?

Amen, amen. Good morning, Hope City! It's good seeing God's faces as always on a Sunday morning. That worship was amazing! I could have gone another hour in the worship. It's like, ahh, can we just stay here for a minute?

You know, oftentimes I get emails and questions about various things, particularly as the church is growing. People ask, "Pastor, do we do this and do we do that?" You know, because the bigger you get, certain things you can't do, particularly if you don't want to isolate people and make sure everybody feels like they've been seen as well.

And so I say, actually, we don't. But I'm going to make one exception. Someone asked me, "Do y'all give birthday shout-outs?" And I said no, we don't. But you know what? I may make one exception today. So what did Raven call you? Yes ma'am, your husband loves you. And yeah, so much so, he wanted me to shout you out for your birthday today. So in front of all your Hope City church family, we're going to shout you out.

Matter of fact, since it's Mental Health Month, let's make sure that her mental health is all good. Let's sing happy birthday to her! Listen, don't you say your birthday is next month because I'm not doing that again. My birthday is next week. Pastor, can you do mine? No. Just happy birthday to you, Raven. And I love the fact your husband loves you like that.

So God is good, God is awesome. And you know, I just feel led, just in general, in this mental health season that we are in, let's find ways to just encourage people and love on people and appreciate them because you just never know where people are at. I saw a bumper sticker yesterday, and the bumper sticker said, "Be compassionate, bro." It just seemed to be, "Be compassionate, bro." And some people, all they need right now is a little bit of compassion.

And so excited about this series today. I got a lot to bring out. Of course, you guys know I never use my laptop when I preach, and so I'm using my laptop today because I want to be a professor today. Come on, somebody! I gotta talk. I'm going to be giving a lot of quotes and references, and preferably over the next few weeks, a couple of video clips to show in the midst of my message.

I'm working on a particular guest speaker to come in the midst of this month who is a psychiatrist but is also a believer. So I'm working on a few things to make this month as impactful and powerful as possible. I want to show us today on a spiritual side where God needs us as a church, I believe, to focus a little bit more than we have on this topic called mental health.

This new book here called "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt, I haven't started reading it yet, but when I say I listened to this guy for about an hour last week as he explained how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. What he said was accurate because all the research I was studying on all the top research polls, he was spot on.

I really just want to encourage a parent today that as we go into small groups next semester, if you have a child in your life, grab this book. I promise you, I just read a couple of pages of it, heard him speak for an hour, and I'm hoping somebody can launch a small group this fall based on this book here. I think it would give you parents some insight on what's going on in the life of your teenager or your child, so please look into that if you would.

So today, as I attempt, I believe we did an amazing job in the first service today talking about mental health. I'm going to do it again today in the second service, and I'm hoping to do just as good as I felt that I did in the first service, particularly being a preacher who's not one that uses a lot of stats and things like that. But I really felt that it is my responsibility this month to make sure that I'm walking this church through this season of what our country has called Mental Health Awareness Month.

So you guys listen to me every Sunday, right? So I said, you know what? Let me just take advantage of this opportunity. I already got them here. I don't know where they're going to leave. Y'all care? My wife said, but I don't think they're going to do it. If they do, lock the doors, please, sir, if they do lock the doors.

But I'm going to take my time with this today because I really want to be clear. I'm not looking for any responses, but I don't get any shouts or amens. I promise you that is okay. I want to make sure that this information, this insight, this wisdom enters and lands in your heart where it needs to land because many of us are on different stages and spaces on what's going to be talked about today.

Mental health is the preeminent problem that's going on right now in our society, particularly for those who are battling with various types of things. The widespread impact of mental health issues is on the run. Let me just be very clear out the gate. I'm going to give a lot of references and quotes over the months, and you can notice, "Man, he did a whole lot of reading people's stuff." Listen, I'm going to milk a lot of cows, but I promise you I'm going to make my own butter, okay?

So when I'm done with this message here, you may hear different folks' names, but at the end of the day, this is what I believe the way that God is showing me to give it to us today because I want to make sure that no one person in Hope City Church is struggling and not battling alone in this area in this topic that we call mental health.

We look at the scripture, we're going to see men and figures like Elijah and Jeremiah, King David, and even the Apostle Paul. These are great men of God who did great exploits for the Kingdom of God, and these men, as we're going to see here shortly, they had challenges. They experienced challenges in their life, but it did not negate their faith or their spiritual strength.

As a matter of fact, we can find out, or we know that there's a common misconception even in the church by well-meaning preachers and Christians that mental health issues are a result of inadequate faith or spiritual failure. And listen, that is not always the case. I will go so far and say there is some harmful theology that has even entered into our Christian church and communities that suggest that the more faith you have, it can prevent or cure mental health issues. It's just not true.

We say things like, "Pray harder and pray longer," and to many people, disappointment things do not even get better. And because we have taught people to fake it till you make it, we smile on the outside, but on the inside, we're still down. And so the stigma of mental health not only needs to come off in the world, it needs to come off in the church as well.

And so I want to stress over the next few weeks the importance of a supportive community and the need for practical help alongside spiritual guidance. And watch this here, this includes professional counseling and sometimes medication, which are all tools that God can use in the healing process.

Before I jump into the scriptures, let me be very clear. At the end of this message, this series is to be a reminder of God's constant presence and support even during mental health issues. So whether you are up on the outside and down on the inside, God wants to cause everything in your life to stand up. And so you don't have to walk around smiling on the outside but depressed on the inside. God's ready for you to get back up.

Let me give you three key takeaways from our whole talk today. Number one, mental health is a universal battle. Everybody can experience a mental health crisis and a mental health issue. It is universal to see great men. One prophet of God, Jeremiah, wrote an entire book called Lamentations. He lamented quite a deal of his life. He was God's man. We're going to see an apostle and a king as well.

Here's a second thing I want you to take away: not only is it a universal battle, but there's some, as I said already, some misguided theology that I want to correct. And then a third thing is, and then we'll move on, the role of community support. That's the reason why we believe in small groups here at Hope City. You don't do life alone. This is just not a psychological principle, but it is a communal responsibility that reflects the biblical call to bear one another's burdens. Are y'all still with me?

Okay, so let's be clear on a few things. Depression is not a malfunction of the mind. Depression is not a malfunction of the mind. It is a signal that something is wrong. Okay, some depression, as you'll learn today, is clinical, but most of it is not clinical. Okay? And there's a stigma in that, and we got to annihilate that even more so in the church.

My illness is not my identity. If you're dealing with any mental health issues, that is not your identity, no more than a person who's on a cane right now or walking on crutches. That's not their identity. They happen to be on a cane or crutches, but that's not their identity. If you're battling with a mental problem, it's the same way a person battles with a physical problem. That's not your identity.

And somehow in our society, people can go to the hospital with a physical issue and get the support and the help they need, but if they show up with a mind problem, we immediately want to lock them up and say, "But that could be a breakdown in our bodies and physically, spiritually, and in our minds." Your illness is not your identity.

So we're going to see what the Bible says about that here in just a moment. Let me give you a few stats here. "Lost Connections" by Jonathan Harris says we need to stop talking as much about chemical imbalances and more about the imbalances in which we live. I'm going to say it again. In his book "Lost Connections," we need to stop talking as much about chemical imbalances and more about the imbalances in which we live.

More and more research is pointing out that our own lifestyles are the main factor that causes depression. Our own lifestyles are causing most people's depression. Not everything that is doable is sustainable. A lot of people are doing a lot of doable stuff, but it's not sustainable. It's not healthy. It's messing up your psychology. It's wearing you out mentally and ultimately wearing you out physically.

Challenges versus support: as your challenges go up, your support needs to go up. But here's the issue: most people's challenges are going up, but their support is going down. They got a lot of challenges but an inadequate supply of support.

I'm going to give a few more stats when I get more stats next week, but I don't want to make it too boring for you. Fifty-one percent of Americans say they have experienced depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues in the past year. That means one out of two people has dealt with mental health issues in the past year. That means in this church right now, half of you who are sitting in church on Sunday morning have experienced over the past year with a mental health issue.

The U.S. Census Bureau and healthcare experts found a severe shortage—this blew my mind—of child psychiatrists or clinicians. Because some of y'all say, "I don't want to see no psychiatrist or clinician." In the nation's largest 25 cities, it says in Indianapolis alone, there are more than 100,000 at-risk children with only one mental health professional per 2,800 kids. In Houston, there are 130,000 at-risk children and only one psychiatrist per 2,000 kids.

The rate of mental health in kids is going so fast that it is outpacing the number of people who can be trained to treat the issue. Then you add on that the people who have a desire to go into that field, the length that it takes to get them trained up to become a psychiatrist or clinician is a very long time. And then you add to that many of them are getting out of school, and watch this here, they are $300,000 in debt, and they can't even do what they went to school for because they are now trying to deal with talking about another form of depression.

If you would, you ever looked at your student loans and got depressed? Oh God, we got to look at this here again. Look what it says here in Galatians 5: "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." It is in freedom that Christ has set us free.

The book of Lamentations, written by the prophet Jeremiah, he was used mightily of God. Look what it says in Lamentations 3: "I have been deprived of peace. I have forgotten what prosperity is," the prophet Jeremiah. "So I say my splendor is gone, all that I had hoped from the Lord." He says, "I remember my affliction, the wandering and the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me."

His soul, the seat of his emotion, where he thinks and how he feels, he said it was depressed. This is Jeremiah, who wrote many books in the Bible, wrote the book of Lamentations, and he was depressed. And the church doesn't want to talk about mental health.

What about the Apostle Paul? In 2 Corinthians 1:8, he said, "We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experience in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself." This is the Apostle Paul being used of God, got weight on his life to the point he said, "We are in trouble on every side. We almost don't want to even live."

You know, and that's how some people get suicidal thoughts. They are weighted down by the activities and the works of life. And if we are not careful, as I talk about here in just a moment, we don't have the right people in our life and the right connections in our life. We can create situations in our life that will bring us down, down, down.

In 1 Kings 19, we are going to see a prophet by the name of Elijah. And Elijah had this call, fire down from heaven. He killed all the prophets of Baal. He prophesied that there would be no rain or dew according to his word. He caused a drought to come by prophesying with his word. He was a man on fire that God was using.

And a few chapters later, he got a message from a false prophet, if you would, Jezebel. And everything that he was at a high peak in his life, and he got one email. He read one Facebook post. Have you ever read a Facebook post, got an email? Your day was great, and then you get one crazy message?

Your spirit was high, your spirit was up, and now at the reading of the message, your spirit comes down. We all can experience mental health issues. He said, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely." Then it says Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.

Wait a minute! You just called a famine in the land. You called fire from heaven. You slain all the prophets of Baal. You forgot about all your great victories because of one bad message. Listen, there could be a message, a circumstance, a situation, a crisis that hit your life so hard it could make you forget about every mountaintop experience you had.

This is where Elijah and the Christian person would say, "Come on, let's just pray about it." And I'm not saying we shouldn't always pray. I'm definitely not saying that. But what I'm saying is there's going to be times even when you pray, you're still going to have some trouble.

In this world, you will have tribulations. Don't go to, but yet, because we like to move on real fast, "Be of good cheer for our health." But let's not go there yet. In this world, you will have tribulations. Because we think it's going to last for five minutes. We read the stories of the prophets in the Bible, the whole story, and we read the pain in one verse and the victory in the next verse. But oftentimes, there's years in between.

So it's easy to say, it's easy for us to read the scripture and rejoice and say, "If God did it for him, He can do it for me." And yes, He can. But sometimes there's a gap in between that space that we have to learn how to endure hardness as a good soldier. Are you with me?

He said while he himself, Elijah, was afraid and ran for his life. So when he came to Beersheba in Judah, this was the place where Beersheba of Judah is where he first received his calling. But then it says he left his servant there. Some of you have left your calling, left the visions you had, the dreams you had. You no longer have the hope you used to have because of a circumstance—all because of an email, a phone call, a loss, somebody walked out on you.

You have run away from your entire dream because of one bad situation, and it has depressed you so much so. You know, a person, I've seen particularly for men, in Tennessee, not to explode first, but we implode first. Whenever a man explodes, it's because he first imploded.

Y'all just let it all out the first time it comes. Y'all don't hold nothing. I mean, I haven't studied this as of lately, but Harvard did some reviews on why men die earlier than women. And in one of the studies, they're showing it's because men hold stuff in more, and women release it. They release a whole lot of stuff out. "Girl, let me tell you what's happening to me."

Well, you can't believe it. Y'all talk about it. We hold. I ain't telling nobody nothing. You made me go to the doctor. I ain't say no doctor. Ain't nothing wrong with me.

Is that he left his servant there while he himself went a day's journey. And I'm just going to say this real fast. Some of the therapists, if you guys are getting coaches and counselors offline who don't have no receipts, every coach, every counselor don't qualify to be counseling and coaching you. You're going to come out of that room just as crazy as they already are.

Yeah, so be very careful. People getting these certificates overnight, be very careful of some of the stuff. They see it now as big business, so be very careful with that there.

It says while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, he came to a broom bush, which is essentially a low-hanging bush of the tree that is so low it creates a shade. He said he sat down under it and prayed that he might die. This is Elijah. This is the prophet Elijah. He's praying. He's having thoughts of dying.

The one who you love to tell people about, "I got the fire of Elijah on my life." You do, don't you? Like looking at Elijah's highlight reels. Highlight reels. The person on Facebook, highlight reels. But you don't know the whole story.

I want their marriage. I want their home. I want their job. If you get their job, you're going to get everything that comes with it. Watch this here. You want their husband? You're going to get everything that comes with him. He may be cuckooed in Cocoa Puffs. Come on, somebody! You want his wife? I'll leave that right there because he's just drip, drip, drip, driving that man crazy. Just drip.

You can't want a person's life based on their highlight reels because guess what? All of us got some low reels we don't want nobody to see.

Quickly, he said, "I have had enough, Lord." He said, "I am no better than my ancestors." I mean, why are you bringing your ancestors in this here? I mean, what? I really had to study this to figure out what was the point of bringing your ancestors in this whole conversation about.

Hopefully, I'll get a chance to tell you why he brought it up. Now, how do we end up in a cave? I'm talking about a cave today. How do we end up in a cave?

And a cave is, I'm speaking about being depressed. How do we end up in a cave? Number one, life imbalances. Life imbalances place us in a cave. We're doing too much of what we shouldn't be doing. Stephen Lardy, author of "The Depression Cure," says we were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, socially isolated, fast food, late, and sleep-deprived pace of modern life.

We weren't designed for that kind of lifestyle. Think it's cool and sexy, and we're moving. New moves today, that all sounds good, but if we're not supposed to be doing all that stuff, that we are carrying, it would get our life in balance. We'll be off balance, and it physically will begin to impact our body as it does emotionally.

I love what it says in Ecclesiastes 4:6: "Better is one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind." Because we're never satisfied. We want more, more, more. And it's one thing to want the more of what belongs to you, but when you want more just because you're measuring your life on what somebody else is doing, because you don't know what they can handle.

Come on, somebody! You don't know how they're built and how they're made. They may handle three or four. You are a one-person person, and that's okay. But you let society and culture and people tell you, "If they get a new house, I gotta get a new house." They let go of their man, "I gotta let go of my man." You don't know why they let theirs go.

Come on, somebody! We're moving our life after the pattern. And watch this here: social media and the culture and society and how it moves is how we move. If you ever notice how the craziest and the dumbest things trend, the craziest and the dumbest things trend when it comes to style.

But when it comes to principles, it's hard to get principles to trend. Don't get out there. But that thing trends so fast. It moves so fast because people like just moving like the wind because we feel like it's something in it that if I'm not a part of it, I'm going to miss out on what is going on.

Life imbalances. Here's the second thing that puts us in a cave: comparing ourselves with others. Comparing ourselves. The more you wonder about what they have and why they have it, it robs you of your joy. It really doesn't make it any easier because they want to show you how many shoes I got today and how many books I got right now and what I'm cooking right now.

I mean, really, do we really need to know all of that? And all of us are guilty of it because we're actually in the social media bubble right now. We're actually in it, and we're showing some stuff. Do I really need to know that you have 5,000 friends and followers? And none of us is designed to have that many friends.

And we're after the followers because it does something to our ego that has been given to us by this new culture that we are in. I'm not saying the last 10 years, but in general wise, however the wind blows, however the culture goes, we go with it, even if it doesn't make sense for our psychology, for our health, because everybody else is doing it. And guess what? I gotta do it quick, fast.

We are noticing too much. We're looking too much. We're looking too much. What she got and what they do, we're looking too much. And that looking, you begin to compare your life. "Man, how they got that? Are they on vacation again?"

Too much looking is not too good. Galatians 6:4 says, "Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to someone else. For each one should carry their own load."

You can't carry what she's carrying. You can't carry what he's carrying. You don't know what they invested. You don't know what they've been through. And when we compare ourselves, when we compare, we despair. When you compare, when you measure your life against somebody else's life, you'll find yourself disappointed and disgruntled and begin to question God, "Why they got that and I don't got that? Why ain't I there yet? Why, why, why?"

Test your own actions. Somebody say, "Test your own actions." Measure your own. Look at your own life. Measure yourself against yourself. I'm only in competition with one person in this whole entire universe, and that is myself. That's the only competition. I want to be better than myself, not better than you.

I want to be the best me that I can be so that whoever I'm supposed to be, you can benefit from that. I'm not trying to be the... No, I got too much in me that is uniquely and fearfully and wonderfully made to be trying to copy somebody else. Are you with me?

And the same thing with your life as well. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are the apple of God's eye. Just like Jeremiah, Elijah, Apostle Paul, you may have stressors in your life right now, but that don't make you anything less valuable, most important in God's eyes.

Stop comparing yourself to other people. Someone said, "Comparison is the thief of joy." It will rob you of your joy. It will quickly rob you of your joy. Social media viewing is reshaping and reforming our minds. Content creators are literally apologizing. Those who created the app, they're literally apologizing for a lot of stuff that they put on the app because they don't even let their kids get on some of these programs anymore because of the danger that it is bringing into their minds.

If the creators won't let their children use it, and we just send our people, our kids, everything almost like out to a slaughter because it just feels good. Well, you're in it now. It's hard to get out, and I get that. It's like Medusa's snake head. You try to get one out, and you somehow end up still getting bit.

Once you're in it, it is difficult. But I'm telling you, if your mind is not where you need it to be, some of you need to come off social media. You make it, if every time you look at somebody's post and it discourages you, cut them off. If you're looking at somebody's post and you're always comparing yourself, disconnect from them.

You're going to say, "Well, it isn't that deep." Yes, it is that deep. One man said we need to have a phrase called selective ignorance. We are very intentional about what we need to know, but we need to be as intentional about what we don't need to know.

It's just some stuff you don't even know. It's like, do I really need to know all of this here? We get so much information. We want to know everything. And going back even to Genesis, when God asked Adam, "He told you that you were naked?" Eve and Adam had a conversation with somebody they had no business having no conversation with. They had no need to know that they were freely walking on the earth. They were naked. They were confident in who they were, their identity.

There was no complex there until they had a conversation, until they got too much information, until they kept scrolling too much. They kept TikToking too much. They kept tweeting too much. You had one wrong conversation. And the question is, who told you that you were naked?

I'll say this here: who told you that you weren't beautiful? Who told you that you weren't fearfully and wonderfully made? Who told you that you're not the apple of God's eye? Who told you you're not the head and not the tail? Who told you you're not above and not beneath, the lender and not the borrower, blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed coming and going at the same time?

Who told you that you're not all of that? We're having conversations with the wrong thing and the wrong people, and it's causing stressors to enter into our body. I had a conversation with a lady as I was leaving out today. She was just weeping after the message and was just saying we were speaking about not ADHD but speaking about Kaden, about autism.

And she mentioned how in her situation, her grandchild was being bullied. And what we don't understand, you guys, is that the environment that's created, even in schools, where kids' minds can go down, they're being bullied in school. You don't know how that's messing up in their mind.

And then when you... Back in my days, you come home and complain about certain stuff like, "Oh, go in there and say there ain't nothing wrong with you." Some of those kids actually had issues, and we pushed it off. "They're bad. They're just ill-mannered. They don't want to behave."

We can't do that today. I thank God that we saw with my grandson under the age of two that he had autism. He had signs. I had no clue what it was, but because we saw something that was off, we couldn't pray it off. We couldn't sing or worship enough songs to worship it off. We needed to get help.

He refused to say, "No, we're not going to go sing him to therapy." He would not be doing as good as he's doing right now. And that's a lot of Christians right now that's refusing to get in the necessary help in certain areas of their life because you don't think you need that.

And I'm telling you, yes, we're going to pray and go see that doctor. Come on, somebody, you with me? You can pray and go see that. You can pray and have a therapist at the same time and see what happens. And the multitude of counsel, their safety, it's all biblical.

We need to make a list of the things you could know but that you don't need to know. Some of y'all tonight, just right now, what's the list of things I could know but I really don't need to know that? That's your daily devotion right there. How much stuff that I know about that I really need to stop worrying about because it's weighing me?

It's all about not being consumed. And we are being consumed. Number three, I'm almost done. Ruminating and self-talk can lead us into a cave. Ruminating and self-talk can lead us into a depression. We keep ruminating of what they did and what they said.

Ruminating is, there are what they call ruminating animals, like a cow. And a cow, what it does, it eats the grass or it eats the cud, and it brings the cud in its mouth. It chews it up, it swallows it, then it throws it back up in its own mouth, and then chews it up, swallows it, throws it back up, chews it up some more, swallows it, and throws it back up in its own mouth.

And let me tell you something, every time you chew it and throw it back up, it don't get better. Some of the stuff you keep talking about, it don't get better. It gets worse. It makes the situation worse. We ruminate over some of the wrong stuff, how they did us and how they hurt you and how they left you and how I never have this and I'll never do that.

You're ruminating, and self-talk is self-destructive to your mind. Brian Tracy says 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are the apple of God's eye. You are the head. You are the head and not the tail. Cora, you're always above and never beneath. Cora, you're blessed in the city and you're blessed. And Cora, and you look good too, boy. Come on, somebody!

You've got to watch out. The Bible says, and David encouraged himself. Oftentimes, people will not encourage, but if you learn how to self-regulate your own encouragement, come on, somebody! It's not arrogance; it's confidence in the God that you belong to. Come on, somebody!

Look what Philippians 4:8 says. It shows us how to ruminate. He says, "Finally, my brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable." He said, "If anything is excellent or praiseworthy, he said, ruminate about such." He said, "That's what you should be chewing up on. That's what you should be talking about. That's what you should be processing."

How are you going to make it out? How are you going to make it out? How are you going to make it out? How are you going to make it out to be healed? How are you going to have victory? How are you going to be restored? How are your kids going to be great? Ruminate on stuff like that, not this negative self-talk that is deliberating our hearts, our minds, our souls, and our spirits.

Here's the fourth one: the inability to process pain in a healthy way. I'll give you six ways we get into a cave. We have five ways to get out of a cave next week. Inability to process pain in a healthy way. Do you know that some people, all of us, at one point, we do not know how, when we don't have healthy ways to process pain, we will find ways to escape to coping mechanisms that will become the tools that we use to process pain, like drugs, alcohol.

I'm not saying the casual stuff. Some of you guys may do that. I'm saying the alcohol, and you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about saying stuff you shouldn't be saying after you're done. The Bible says it's not what goes in the body that defiles a man. It's what comes out of the body.

So if whatever you drink, when it goes in you, if it halves you, you defile. If when you drink, casual conversations don't immobilize you, don't change your psychology, don't make you belittle people, you still are cognitive in your mental faculties. Are you okay?

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Test your own actions. Measure your own. Look at your own life. Measure yourself against yourself. I'm only in competition with one person in this whole entire universe, and that is myself. That's the only competition I want to be better than myself, not better than you. I want to be the best me that I can be so that whoever I'm supposed to be, you can benefit from that." [01:00:54](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



2. "You are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are the apple of God's eye. Just like Jeremiah, Elijah, Apostle Paul, you may have stressors in your life right now, but that don't make you anything less valuable. Most important, in God's eyes. Stop comparing yourself to other people." [01:01:24](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



3. "Someone said, 'Comparison is the thief of joy.' It will rob you of your joy will quickly rob you of your joy. Social media viewing is reshaping and reforming our minds. Content creators are literally apologizing for a lot of stuff that they put on the app because they don't even let their kids get on some of these programs anymore because of the danger that it is bringing into their minds." [01:01:56](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



4. "We need to have a phrase called selective ignorance. We are very intentional about what we need to know, but we need to be as intentional about what we don't need to know. It's just some stuff you don't even know. It's like, do I really need to know all of this here?" [01:03:03](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



5. "Who told you that you weren't beautiful? Who told you that you weren't fearfully and wonderfully made? Who told you that you're not the apple of God's eye? Who told you you're not the head and not the tail? Who told you you're not above and not beneath the lender and not the borrower? Blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed coming and going at the same time. Who told you that you're not all of that?" [01:04:05](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



### Quotes for Members

1. "Depression is not a malfunction of the mind. It is a signal that something is wrong. Some depression, as you'll learn today, is clinical, but most of it is not clinical. There's a stigma in that, and we got to annihilate that even the more so in the church. My illness is not my identity." [41:02](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



2. "We say things like pray harder and pray longer, and to many people's disappointment, things do not even get better. Because we have taught people to fake it till you make it, we smile on the outside, but on the inside, we're still down. So the stigma of mental health not only needs to come off in the world, it needs to come off in the church as well." [38:00](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



3. "I want to stress over the next few weeks the importance of a supportive community and the need for practical help alongside spiritual guidance. This includes professional counseling and sometimes medication, which are all tools that God can use in the healing process." [39:00](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



4. "Mental health is a universal battle. Everybody can experience a mental health crisis and a mental health issue. It is universal to see great men, one prophet of God, Jeremiah, wrote an entire book called Lamentations. He lamented a quite deal of his life. He was God's man." [40:01](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



5. "Let me give you three key takeaways from our whole talk on today. Number one, mental health is a universal battle. Number two, there's some misguided theology that I want to correct. And then a third thing is the role of community support." [39:30](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)