TRIGGERED: Taking Back Your Mind In The Age Of Anxiety Part I | Pastor Steven Furtick

You may be sitting down, welcome to the first week of a new sermon series called Triggered and we're going to discuss some things, some different teachings to help you get

your

mind

back

and not just give the devil territory in the area of ​​

your

imagination. and for him to fill you with all these hypothetical scenarios that may or may not happen preventing you from enjoying the life that God has given you, more importantly, stewarding the life that God has given you for his glory and we are so excited to be able to Start today and I want to make the best use of our time.

I know here at Valentine they said it was a little hard to get in, probably not on all campuses, but there was more traffic than usual, so you should thank God. So not only is it getting more people to hear the message of Jesus Christ, but it's also good preparation for a sermon on

anxiety

, so we're just

taking

care of you and helping you get into the right state of

mind

, but let's go over the Word. of God now and obviously I am not a psychologist, I am just a Bible preacher from Moncks Corner South Carolina and with a little knowledge that I have about the scriptures and life experience, today I want to show you something that I think will be Very useful since First Peter chapter 5 verses 5 to 9 and I'm going to tell you that there is only one verse in this entire passage that I really like.

I believe it all and I know I'm supposed to do it all but From the natural point of view of my mind there is only one verse that attracts me and you will see what I say when I read it of course we can't talk about unchained without visiting to Peter, easily the most unchained disciple that Jesus called to insult people and cut off people's ears and stuff, but he's already calmed down when he writes this letter to the Gentiles who are assimilating into the Greco-Roman world and he has some good advice for us about our

anxiety

and our worries, not that. you have some, but someone in your row worries too much, not because you do, but they think about things, make little movies in their minds and edit together things that didn't really happen and then tell themselves that's how really "That's what I'm helping today.

I'm sorry you had to come hear a sermon designed for someone else, but Peter was actually speaking to a church that was suffering a lot of persecution and he has some wisdom experience and I do." I am going to share his words with you today and pray that God speaks to you personally, says first Peter chapter 5 verse 5 humble yourselves what I said verse 5 in the same way you who are younger submit to your elders you almost skip that verse but It is a great verse that I like as a father all of you dress in humility towards one another because God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble humble that is why under the powerful hand of God I like how he says that he says God aligns The other side of human pride, so if you want to be on the same side of the ball as God, you got it, you have to make sure you get to the right level and realize that you are not him, you are the creation, no. the Creator therefore humble yourselves under the powerful hand of God so that he may raise you up in due time cast all your anxiety on him because he cares about you if there was ever a verse to cross stitch and and and to put on a cup of coffee It's first Peter 5:7 that's the one I like if you're wondering cast all your anxiety on him because he cares about you I really enjoy that verse it feels good stay alert verse eight I don't like it so much and sober minded your enemy the The devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour, resist him by standing firm in the faith because you know that the family of believers all over the world are going through the same kind of sufferings and I want to stop right there and speak to you for In a few moments today in this fundamental session opening of our studio called Unchained on this topic, I want to talk about lions, lizards and lies, lions, lizards and lies, and before you say: Oh my God, let me put you in the mood of my five! or six years ago when I called a

pastor

who is older and wiser than me and I wasn't having a clinical nervous breakdown or a panic attack as I understand a panic attack, but just feeling overwhelmed, not in the clinical sense.

I'm experiencing anxiety, but in the everyday sense of adulthood, I think sometimes we say we're suffering from anxiety when really we're just suffering from adulthood and I called him into my driveway to the house we were living in at the time in Mid Hill and I was doing this thing that I did a lot during that period where I would sit in the driveway between work and home because my kids were so young and I couldn't figure out which was more work, work, home because at work I'm The boss and my kids at home didn't call me

pastor

at the time, so I was sitting in the driveway and I thought, you know, I'll just call him and ask him and I don't care what. he thinks that because you get to a certain point where you feel overwhelmed, everything spills out and when I started talking to him I started, you know, when you try to tell someone that you're struggling and you share it with them in small chunks and you try to see If something you say surprises them and if it seems like it surprises them, you

back

off and everything is fine.

I'm not struggling with it, but I say it like some people do and you feel like you're working your way into a conversation at least I'm doing it and it's like I'm telling them I'm a little overwhelmed and he doesn't judge me and I said and so on. it's how I feel and he didn't judge me and so every time he didn't judge me and and and I didn't, I didn't feel like he was surprised, he was and I shared a little more and I shared a little more and at the end I was in my driveway crying on the phone telling him how I feel overwhelmed, you know, when I was in my early thirties pastoring a church that was bigger than the town I grew up in, imagine that and then with kids and him and he actually laughed in my midst crying, he laughed and I can't explain why but it was the most comforting thing he could have done at that moment and what he said next is just what I needed to hear and I know God put it in his mouth so I could hear it and said: I'm not surprised you called me and said this.

No wonder you're melting. I'm surprised you didn't call me sooner and I was

part

ly saying that because you know as our church grew, obviously the pressures increased with it. and I was also saying it from the point of view of a stage of life in which every parent feels relatively useless at some point in the early stages of their children's visit to planet Earth and it takes time to learn to interact with aliens and to end of the I felt better only because he said it's supposed to be like this, you're supposed to fight and when he said I'm supposed to fight the fight didn't go away but the fact that it didn't surprise me anymore made me feel better . more able to deal with it and God has been speaking to me recently that I am too surprised by my struggles and

part

of the reason I struggle so much is because He surprises me when I do it, it's like we have set an expectation. of salvation that if we come to Jesus and lay all our burdens at the foot of the cross, none of them will get back in the car with us and go home, but how many have ever left their burdens at church and discovered that I followed you home with some friends you had never met before and it's like I came to Jesus to get rid of my struggles but my struggle didn't even start until I came to Jesus because before I came to Jesus I did want to curse you.

I just cursed you and I felt better, I didn't care how you felt or what God thought, I felt better and that's all that mattered, but now I have this Holy Spirit inside me and when I crash, he makes me feel bad. I can't sleep until I apologize to you and it got harder, then Peter says Peter says everyone is struggling, everyone in the world is suffering, you have to take both together, you can't come to a cross for salvation where the Savior He suffered for you and you never expect to suffer in your desire to follow him and be like him tell the person next to you you are supposed to suffer a little that's what Jesus said that's what the CEO said CEO of the galaxy is the blind man said the master of the milky way said if they hated me what makes you think you will always be popular and loved and accepted so I pray that it is inspiring that you know that you are supposed to suffer but it helps us .

It helps us because the enemy often operates in our lives secretly and secretly and you know he is very sneaky the enemy is sneaky and that's why he wants to sneak up on you and you think life is supposed to be easy because life seems easy for everyone else, but you don't know you have no idea it's easy for you that's easy for you preacher you'll come up here preach you know you don't know and I don't know struggles but I know there are some struggles and some sufferings that come with the package and that's why the call Following Christ comes with a cross, we understand it and especially in this time, Peter says: look, you want to be part of this movement, the only way to really see the glory of God. revealed is to suffer sometimes to suffer to sit with your suffering and even with your sadness and then we are setting the wrong expectations we are teaching people that they can swell without pain it is supposed to hurt sometimes it is supposed to struggle sometimes that is the fibers spiritual muscles are broken so they can grow back together stronger or something, I don't know and what surprises me is knowing that we must suffer sometimes because our Savior suffered and let's be honest, part of our suffering is not because of our Christian faith is because of our you said it, he said because we are stupid.

I didn't say he wasn't going to talk to the guests like that. There are a lot of newbies here today. I was going to say that sometimes we suffered from bad decisions and were not well equipped, but you said stupid, so I'll accept it. Sometimes we suffer because we are stupid and it amazes me that with all the suffering we already have to deal with, somehow as a species we will invent new ways to suffer and experience pain and call it progress as if it isn't enough to worry about in the world. that we invented, you know, torture device, I mean communication devices that keep us constantly connected to everyone's opinion, everyone's offenses and we feed on things that the enemy is looking for someone to devour we feed on things and we feed our minds with things that eat away at our peace and then we pray for God to give us peace after we open the front door and let the enemy show his. fangs and I stood there, so I'm really praying, I'm really praying that God will show us a strategy for this because it seems to me that some suffering is inevitable, but some suffering like the suffering of our shame and the suffering of our sin.

This is about what Jesus has already paid for, and therefore wouldn't it be unthinkable for us, as children of God, to suffer under pressure that he never planned for us? We live in a performance culture. The interesting thing about 1 Peter 5:7 is that it preaches so well as a singular verse, even when I was a little boy, my mom used to play me this salty tape, the salty songbook like the Psalms. PS, salty, not like your teenager, salty, but like salt, yeah, not like that girl's work, but salty. singing a songbook and he had a song in there and I used to fall asleep to this song, if I can remember, I'll cast it was in this verse, all my worries about you, all my burdens at your feet and every time I don't know what make salty falsetto.

I'll leave all my worries on you and boom, I'll come down. I will leave all my worries on you. Can you leave all my burdens at your feet and any time I don't know what to do? I will choose, oh my children, something that is so sweet. I like verse seven. I like verse seven. I wish I didn't have to bother with six and eight. You know these Bible verses weren't there when Peter wrote the letter, it was just a letter, one thing it was, in fact, let me show you something and I showed it a few years ago to the church, but you weren't here yet when I was teaching. this and we have to catch up because this is one of the craziest. mind-blowing things that God ever showed me and I actually brought two Bibles to church today yes, that's right, I'm going to preach twice as long no, I'll get you out on time, but this is a double barrel revelation that God gave me and a translation divides it into the one we read, put that one up there again from the New International Version, he says, cast all your anxiety on him because he cares about you and it's a capital C and it's a new sentence and a new thought and it's a promise that we can claim or rather it's a command that we can obey and I like, I like to throw all these things, I like to throw all these worries, as Salty said in the King James I version. like throw all that on top, all the things that I don't want to deal with and all the things that I can't control anyway, I like to just hand it over to the Lord, I like to just leave it all in his hands feet but in the original language of the Bible and this is what God showed me a few years ago that verse 7 was not a new prayer, it was a continuation of verse 6 andwhen you read it as a continuation it helps you understand why sometimes we are trying to cast our anxiety on God and they keep coming back like a boomerang with extra speed because we are trying to jump to the 7 we want without the 6 we are resisting now?

Verse 6 begins by saying Humble yourselves, look, I don't like that. I want to be the star of the production. I want to be the MVP of the game. I want everyone to adapt to my preferences. I want people to read my mind. I want to be the center of other people's opinions. honey I don't want to humiliate myself I'm not even sure I really know what it means because all I see humble is a hashtag where people brag about something and then hash tag it humiliated that way it makes it humble when you follow it. you are bragging with a hashtag but for Peter humble it was not a hashtag Peter said humble it is a way of seeing the hand of God in history who knows that I am only a small part of this I am only a dot just a little I am a little tiny I am a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit small a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit a little a little a little one for another for one for another for What a relevant verse.

I feel like Peter should have been able to look at the year 2018 and see that we would be living in an era of self-promotion, see that we would be living in an era where instead of praying for opportunities, posting before praying, instead of sitting and listening and learn from people who have something to teach us, we would be so intoxicated with our own opinions and our own point of view and we would be so absorbed by algorithms and echo chambers that the people who think like us and talk like us and before long we would be drunk on our own point of view drunk on images he says humble yourself under the powerful hand of God so that at the right moment he may exalt you and then if you are willing to go through six you reach seven and they are not separated by a period just a comma C lowercase yes you will humble yourself this is the fundamental message of this series to recover your mind you have to humble your heart and when you do that when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God what does that mean but what kind of image is Peter trying to evoke well for a Jewish person the hand of God remembers the sovereign act of God when he rescued his children from Egypt slavery and there, when God spoke to Moses, he told him that you know that Pharaoh will not let the people go unless a powerful hand forces him .

This is Exodus chapter 3, unless a powerful hand, there's the phrase, forces it, so the hand of God for us is primarily. a sentimental but symbolic comforting image for people reading this who had a little background would know that the hand of God is confrontational that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble and they come from the same hand see what God will use the same hand to oppose the proud that you will use to distribute grace to the humble and my question is what do you want to be on the receiving end of your heart's posture determines that and yet there is a little bit of confusion because you know?

It seems like we want the hand of God to do certain things for us I like I like the hand of God when it's full of his provision You know how I want what's in God's hand that I can't give myself just by raising my hands What? It was in my hands how many have seen God provide for you in a special way and you were suspecting that this had to be God this could not be me it could not be people wait for your hand if you have ever seen God provide for you and for I'm not just talking about the money to make the car payment or put down the deposit on the apartment when you first got married, it could be that God gave you energy when you were so exhausted and didn't even know how it was going. and people would ask you how and you would make something up but deep down you knew that if you really told them how they wouldn't understand because there is an invisible hand of God that is making things happen that I can't even explain, so like the provision, you know how he broke bread in his hands and fed you.

Peter was there when Jesus broke the bread and with his hands, so he could have been remembering that incident when he said the mighty hand of God that can provide for you or perhaps he was thinking of the hand of God in terms of God's protection, how God turned back the sea with his hand so that his people could cross to safety now, if ever God protected you. If you are you are grateful for the hand of God if ever God protected you from the people that were in your life in fact sometimes the way God will protect you is by reaching down and removing you from situations that you like that you are actually praying for. may God leave you and God sometimes reaches down and says I know your little lies you are limited I am infinite you are finite so come with me I will put you here because I know if you stay with them I know where it will take you and Peter says you can fight back or keep going because it is the hand of God, it is the hand of how many I have had.

God protect you and I want him to do it. provides for me and I want him to protect protection and provision, but there is a third dimension of the hand of God and that is his plan and that is the part I have the most difficulty with because I like my plan, why are you looking at me like that? ? trust God that his way is better than yours you know that half of our prayer life is trying to convince God to be on the same page as us so that he can do what we want him to do that he should have already done and is running. a little late but we'll forgive you for that Lord if you come and do it right now it's okay you have a lot of things you're

taking

care of I get confused, honestly I get confused because sometimes you don't know what part is God's work and what part is my job and it is not always that simple humble yourself under the powerful hand of God but then you know that God said to Moses I will bring you out with a powerful hand, it will be my hand that takes you out and then he asks him what is that in your hand and then it seems that there are two hands working here and the problem is that it is always who is in control.

Much of my anxiety arises because I get confused about who. is in control and I confuse responsibilities with sovereignty so I start to think that because God has given me responsibilities, God has also given me control and that's where I get stressed and a lot of my anxiety comes from making it about me when it's not. . about me doing it about my strength when it's not about my strength it's not by strength or by power but by His Spirit but I know God is giving me a job like I know when I'm in front of you like this and the people in the room are suicidal and the people in the room are not only addicted to illegal drugs but some are dependent on drugs that at first they were taking the recommended dose but now they have gone much further and when I know that there are some of you who have not slept in for three nights, except for a few minutes here and there listening to this message.

I know I can't say the words you need. I need God to speak to you through me and I always pray for that because I know how disappointing it will be if I speak, I know I need to move my mouth and I know I need my vocal cords to rub and I know I need to make a sound, but I know I need the substance of God behind the sound I make. I need God to speak. I know you didn't carry those demons. I mean beautiful children. Blessings, quiver full of arrows from the Lord and arrive at this house of worship today in Gaston, UC or Lake Norman.

You didn't sign up to hear me speak. You need God to speak and I believe God will speak I think he's speaking I think he wants to speak I think he's still speaking I don't think he's spoken even once in the past and now we have this dusty book full of principles that applied at one time, but it doesn't make sense in the modern era. I don't think God is outdated or irrelevant. I don't think I need BuzzFeed to tell me what's going on in the world. I have my Bible and it's alive and it's active and it can penetrate through all the noise so I know we need God to speak in his word it doesn't come back boy and God will speak but God won't study I have to study God won't show me if the prayer was one or two sentences gave me books for that inspired, sometimes I can't understand it and sometimes I feel like I'm a control freak and something is getting in my way.

I really like that it's a way that I feel like I'm going to do it. controlling things about controlling people I'm manipulative and I see it and I hate it but I do it it's a habit and I know that the hand of God is the hand that is really moving things but you know I want to put my hand in the hand of God and something like that as so holy sometimes you know sometimes God needs a little help because he's just Peter is writing from experience, he didn't get humility easy, that's what I like to hear him because he didn't always think. this way like when Jesus was getting ready to go to the cross, he said to his disciples, he's like, hey, come here, this is a Matthew 16:21, give it to us on the screen, Jesus said, I gotta go to Jerusalem and suffering many things at the hands of the elders at this point Peter didn't think the Savior was supposed to suffer, did he?

Jesus' mission did not fit his way of thinking. He was still confused about whose hand he was writing the schedule, so Pedro, in a younger version of himself, did it. He didn't know how to humble himself under the hand of God or the plan of God. He liked the provision. Hey, Jesus, don't go to die. Let's feed more people. It was amazing when you did it. That boy was so happy. I got it. bag of leftovers is crazy you know dying look what Peter did Jesus said I have to go I have to suffer it's part of the plan I have to fulfill the plan I can't get caught up in my preferences I can't get caught up in my ideas my expectations or the expectations of others I did not come to be an earthly king I came to inaugurate a kingship and a government that is not the result of human hands and Peter verse 22 took Jesus aside put Jesus in time out the Same guy who said, you know Humble yourself, this is like telling your children not to do exactly what you did when you were their age.

Peter told Jesus, the younger, Peter, the first half of life. Peter says, Lord, this will never, never happen to you. I won. Don't let it if they try I have a sword and they have ears and see what I can do. I have a plan, let's work on my plan and verse 23 says Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan, oh that's a degradation. It went from Simon to Peter, that was his first name. Simon is a little sneaky and Peter is the rock, so he goes from Dwayne Johnson in one verse to Satan in the next verse and says: you are a stumbling block to me, you don't have God's worries on your mind but the worries merely human you still think you have control and that's why your mind is a mess because you're still trying to control things that are beyond your pay grade Peter you're confused, we get confused sometimes I don't know when to let it go.

I do not know when. Sometimes I don't do this a lot because I've seen some really horrible things happen on church stages, but sometimes I call someone up on stage and ask them to come up on stage. I share and I don't know them and I feel like my responsibility is to control what happens in this scenario as a pastor and when they come up, I usually call him and ask him to share something and I do. This even with our staff, I'll call them and ask them to share, but one thing I've learned to do is I always keep the mic in my hands when they show up, they think they're going to take the mic and they don't.

I've got the microphones on and I'm holding this microphone in case you decide now would be a good time to say something weird. I can take it back and I just like the feeling it gives me of being in control in case you decided, you know, I could ask you something, you said well, when I was three, we don't have time for when you were three and ask you all that and I have the microphone. , give it back to me now, so it gives me a good feeling, but it's interesting. The thing is there are crazy Christians and sometimes when I call them I can't see their eyes and when they come up I'm like, oh God, I picked one of those and you can't see it from a distance, so I like Hold the mic and hold it.

I like holding the microphone, but now the interesting thing is that I'm holding the microphone, but there's a guy you don't see named Neil and Neil this week, among many others, and our different locations happen to be. in the back of the room sitting behind a console and you know what's interesting, I'm up here talking and I'm holding the microphone, but at any moment Neil in the Sun, at any moment, he can decide, you know, maybe he'll throw the chain he or something like that he doesn't like any time this is the beginning I maintain it but I don't control it they got it last night that's what I know about my life that's what I know about my time that's whatthat I'm learning about my money, that's what I'm learning about my children, my responsibility, I have it but someone I can't see is controlling it, he's in control, he talks and wins, he obeys, he talks and Wayside down talks and c.

I am divided because what I can see is controlled by that hand that I cannot see and now I want to humble myself under that powerful hand and I am getting to the place in my life where I say God, I don't even know what. I need more, so I trust you and your time and I trust you and your heart and I trust you and your wisdom and I humble myself and as I humble myself my anxiety goes out the door with my pride and my arrogance and my plan. and I become what Peter says is the goal of the Christian life in verse eight, which I don't like any more than I like verse six, but it's on the other side of seven and I want the result of seven because I don't I want to live. with the weight of the world on my skinny shoulders so I got a B what Peter says strange phrase that says be alert and sober I didn't even know I was drunk but I am Peter I didn't know he was tripping telling Jesus what Jesus had to do He was drunk only you Look how we become intoxicated in the times we live in, so much information reaches us, we are drunk, we don't even know it and we can't defend ourselves and they are eating us alive.

God gives us peace and the enemy. he eats it because he's a lion, at least that's what I always thought, I thought, I thought he was a lion and this week I slowed down and read the verse and I realized that the Bible never says that the devil is a lion , he is a liar. I know he's a liar, yes, you know, in the lion of the devil, when he speaks, he's a liar, but he's not a lion, give me the verse that Peter says, be careful, a translation says: pay attention, wake up or stay alert and with a sober mind, here is why your enemy the devil. your enemy the enemy of God is pride your enemy is the devil who wants to fill your mind as if we no longer suffer enough as if we no longer have enough to deal with today wants to put you in a hypothetical tomorrow where things may or may not happen or put yourself in the past repeating what you wish you had said to the person who offended you and how many come with great answers about three weeks late God, let me see them again, please let me I will see them again and let them say it just like they said it .

I'm ready now. The devil is alive but he does not say: beware of the lion. The devil is not a lion. What does he say? Your enemy prowls as if he were not a lion. strong as a lion but it's not as powerful as a lion unless you let it be this is what I'm going to teach in the series will you come back after this week because I really want to get into this and I want to see some? of the lies that we have believed in the realm of our mind that is where the attack occurs we have been looking for a lion but it is not a lion that is coming to attack us it is our mind it is in our minds and we have been calling evil things of the devil I have a flat tire is the devil it was a nail it was a construction site they are building houses across the street they ate a donut it was the devil it was not delicious the temple is the devil it is the devil I I am under attack a spiritual war I need you Devils attacking me we mean the devil attacks you well my mother-in-law is coming to visit that's not the devil that's your prayer request remember when you asked those women to pray for more patience well God hit the patients in a package that was It looked like your mother-in-law and she's about to deliver FedEx to your door God delivers, that's not the devil, so now it's loud but it's not a lion, what is it?

I remember hearing years ago about the part of our brain again bear with me I know there are neurologists in the crowd you don't make me feel bad about that I won't make you feel bad about the Bible we just agreed together that everyone says in their own lane but I heard something in the phrase that caught my attention called lizard brain and I once wrote a book about Chatterbox and I think I was trying to talk about what they call lizard brain and I remembered it the other day because Abby wanted to show her brothers that She is our youngest daughter and our only daughter, our smartest daughter.

I'm just kidding with my kids, but she has a little bit of an advantage over the kids because she's always had to work hard to keep up, you know? and she is superior for being a woman, so she worked in my pulpit. At some points she wanted to cross the entire pool and hold her breath, which her brothers couldn't do until they were 10 years old. She's seven, so she says. I could do it, I could do it, okay, let's do it and she wanted everyone to see it and I told her you can do it, but you have to know that the lizard, the lizard's brain, will tell you that you can't do it, but the lizard.

It's a lion, she said there's a lizard in my brain. I said no, baby, and you know she's seven, so I pretended to be an expert. I said the human brain, the human brain, and gave an outdated theory about what the triune brain probably is. I don't even accept it anymore, but I was talking about that thing that is real in our brain that doesn't process it at the level of wisdom and doesn't process it even at the level of emotion, but processes it at the level of fear and they call it brain. of a lizard or they called it a lizard brain because it is no different than a reptile, a snake or a lizard, so when I told him don't listen to the lizard, I was explaining to him that you are going to go down and I am going to think that you are going to die but no You're going to die, just don't listen to the lizard and she went under that water and swam to the other end and came out, gave the biggest gasp, the biggest gulp. of air and she was very proud and said man, that lizard is noisy, I said well, what did you answer? she said I told her to shut up lizard I'm doing this now wait I know the enemy has been telling you something things that I know he has because that lizard has been talking to me too, but I came to tell you today that that lizard has no power over you, could hurt your blue heel, but you will crush his head in the name of Jesus. do it I'm going to make a difference in the world by taking my mind back and for the next 7 weeks we'll learn how to do what Abby did what Peter said have a sober mind tell that lizard can you talk can you shout well I'm swimming to the other side now everything in you has been telling you that you're drowning you're sinking but the lizard is a liar your own mind is lying to you and that's why God put it on my heart to do a whole series on the things that

triggered

it too, ya You know, the trauma that you went through that transports you back to a lesser version of yourself and then you start to react and respond with anger due to rejection from people who are not.

I don't even want to talk about it in your life anymore. I respectfully request your presence and as many sessions as possible, but right now I want you to stand up and for no one to leave because I just want to pray for open and humble hearts that we can. You don't receive what God has in his hands when we cling too much to what is in our hands and when you are drunk on your own opinions and drunk on your own ideas and ways of seeing the world, you are not open to wisdom. from God and you're just tripping Jesus, I understand that behind me you're tripping, you're tripping, be sober because your enemy is trying to steal your attention that's where the fight is that's where the attack is it's not out here the attacks on our Life is actually used by God Trials are used to make us stronger It's here and that's what we want to pray for And for too long God's people have been equipped with some clichés to make it to Sunday at 4: 00 and we are being eaten alive in our minds and now we can no longer concentrate, we live in the age of what a psychologist called constant partial attention and we cannot give ourselves completely to anything, but God has a word for us. and throughout this series we will need several characters from the Bible that struggled with the same things that we struggle with today and suffered in many ways like us and I know that this is not a substitute for doctors and counseling, that is not my goal in this series, but I think so.

It would be good for us to begin this journey together just in a posture of surrender and I want to ask you to do something that Christians have done historically and worshipers have done throughout the millennia and just raise your hands to God in his presence because it's too much. for us. that you carry him really is and you humble yourself under his head and release what you are holding too tightly and he is able to release his peace and that is why today we simply speak peace over your life more than speaking it, father, I pray that We would position ourselves so that we could receive your peace and repent of all the ways we think things are supposed to be and exhaust ourselves endlessly trying to align our agendas with the reality of our lives instead of submitting to yours. , so we are here before you today as humble as we know how to rescue to fill our hearts with your peace hey thank you for watching the Elevation Church YouTube channel if you enjoyed this message take a minute click the subscribe button on your screen that way you won't miss a single video and if this ministry has impacted you and you would like to partner with us to continue reaching others, you can click the link in the description below to thank you again for watching and don't forget to subscribe.