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What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What to Do - Psalm 55 - Mercy Hill

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July 16, 2022 8:00 am

What Do You Do When You Don’t Know What to Do - Psalm 55 - Mercy Hill

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July 16, 2022 8:00 am

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? What do you do when you are hurting? In this message, our guest pastor, Ryan Britt from Church of Eleven22, brings the Word on dealing with hurt.

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How do emergency file by doing well. Good. Good. I'm honored to be here as Bobby said I my name is Ryan Brind'Amour the pastors of the church. 1122 in Jacksonville Florida and the really curious about where the 1122 come from you. Come talk to me after shoot me an email and I will be more than a more than happy to answer.

While we have the worst church name in the history of church Saints, but we do my families deserve in there for the last eight years or so and has been incredible. I'm so honored to be here monitored. Any time that I get to teach the Bible and unsought of the past Ranger Pastor Bob would have become share with you guys. I'm going to do just that which you teach the Bible so you have your Bibles grab a Morgan to be a couple different places were to be in second Samuel chapters 13 and 15 but our anchor text denies can be Psalm chapter 55 and Morgan make our way around. Who here knows this to be true. God is faithful God is faithful, we sing a song in our church similar to many of the songs we just saying in and one of the lines in the song. The line was, says that all my life. You have been faith and I was worshiping one day in our staff meeting and that I've sing a song 100 times, but that line that day. Just landed on me different illuminated differently.

To me that that happens sometimes the Scripture was songs God will just speak something differently. In a moment.

And that happened and I fell in that moment, the Lord said to me, Ryan. It was a reminder and encouragement Ryan. There's never been one second of your life where I've been anything but absolutely faithful to you in the right heels. I feel like the spirit said to me Ryan there.

There never will be one second for your entire eternal existence where you will experience anything but my absolute faithfulness. God is faithful.

Amen church, he is faithful to his people and he is faithful to himself.

The songs are in large part a testimony of God's faithfulness and so were to be hanging out Psalm chapter 55 tonight so just a heads up right out of the gate. You need to know the song 55 starts heavy stays heavy and ends heavy, so this is a heavy one buckle apart buttercup all right here we go.

Psalm 55 starting in verse one Psalm of David. David writing this says give ear to my prayer David praying this saying this in says give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself or my plea for mercy attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint and I moan because of the noise of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked for the drop trouble upon me in anger. They bear a grudge against me.

Listen to the language here. My heart is in anguish within me the terrors of death have fallen upon me the terrors of death. Have you ever been there. I have one of my most distinct memories when I was a 12-year-old boy. I was sitting in the waiting room of a hospital. While my mother was in surgery.

She had been diagnosed with cancer and the early prognosis was that she would have surgery and maybe some treatment, but that she, she, and we should expect a full recovery, but that day in that waiting room.

I sat there and the phone on the wall rang behind my father and he picked it up and it was the surgeon from the operating room and maybe 10 seconds, 20 seconds went by and the sounds that came out of my bed. I'll never forget it was the guttural and ultimately the news that they gave us that day was what would lead to my mother's passing. And in that waiting room that day. We had a real sense that the terrors of death have found us. There's many of you here who've walked through similar things have walked similar journeys. Maybe for you it wasn't that same road but maybe it was the death of a marriage. Maybe it was the death of the future that you thought you would have. Maybe it was the death of a financial plan that you thought you had set in front of us.

But all of this throughout the course of our life. Somehow, someway, the terrors of death have a way of finding us. The truth is that life can be hard we can be awful to each other and we can experience and endure incredibly hard things.

Here's the thing about hurt in life when it comes for us is that it hurts hurt always hurts life can be very very hard in pain unlike anything else has a very powerful way of grabbing our perspective and thus was going on with King David. So King David in his early years were pretty familiar with the early years of King David's life. We know that he was a shepherd boy who turns warrior and battles the giant Goliath and defeats him and then he becomes a military leader.

He goes through many years where he's running from King Saul. Who's trying to kill him because he been anointed king, but he was not yet King and then he becomes king over Judah, and then by the time he was about 30 years old. He becomes king over all of Israel in the early years of David's life were pretty familiar with, but the later years of David's life were little less familiar with, and so let me catch us up to what's going on the David's life in order to give us context for some 55 and what is walking through if you go to Psalm second Samuel chapter 11, which you can do it another time. What it says in verse one is that in the springtime when the kings go out to war, David sent Joab, and remained in Jerusalem today was the king of Israel. He has been anointed and appointed in task to lead God's people by primary function of the king of Israel was to lead God's people into battle.

David had done this many many many many times. He was responsible for something and to someone, but instead of stepping into his responsibility. David abdicated his responsibility to amending Joab as a David sent Joab out to battle and remained in Jerusalem and so David's hang out in Jerusalem. This says that things him… That one day when David wakes up is as it when he arose from the couch. Do you know what that means he was taking a nap. Now I'm not anti-nap. I'm actually pro nap. You can ask my wife. I'm a big fan of Knapp's big public subs and naps.

I like him so that your freeloader nap is how you do it as I saw a big fan of naps. Here's the thing about naps like you can take a nap you discussed was to be nap and when you're supposed to be a war so there's a fight going on. You're not supposed to be sleeping but David was taken and that so just at the right time in the afternoon. David arises from his nap and he walks out on to what the Bible calls the king's roof. This is the balcony and David's house sits high in the city above every other city. Now the question is do you think that was David's first time out of that roof. No way there's no chance you would ever convince me that David just happened to stumble out. David knew exactly what it was looking for and he went out there to find and so he steps he advocates his responsibility and then he arranges his environment.

He says of his world.

In order to get the thing that he's after he walks out onto the roof and he sees a beautiful woman taking a bath and then second Samuel 11 says that he sent and inquired about the woman Bathsheba. So David abdicated his responsibility arranges his environment, all to satisfy his appetites right so David commits adultery with Bathsheba, but he doesn't stop there. David then has Bathsheba's husband killed on the front lines of battle and then lies about it multiple times to cover up what he had done and then a second table 12. The prophet Nathan comes to David is like David you have sinned against the Lord.

Now David did not resist this.

He didn't say will Nathan you don't understand everybody's gone, I'm having a hard time with the other ladies at the house. You don't understand how I'm feeling it and explain himself. He didn't defend himself.

David heard the rebuke from the prophet Nathan and to Davis credit, he repented of his sin, he repented of ascending goes to a process of repentance that God God because this is who God is amazing God forgives David who here knows that God is merciful God forgives David and David and Bathsheba become married. They end up having a son named Solomon who would one day be king now along the way. David doesn't only marry Bathsheba. He marries a few other people as well, and he has a few other kids as well. This is where we pick up in second Samuel chapter 13. Are you ready verse one second Samuel 13. Now they was thinking for a minute he's been really rainy for little while now his family started to come come together and grow. Now Absalom, one of David's sons had a beautiful sister whose name was Mark. Absalom and Taymor have the same mother. David is their father. Okay, and after a time, Amnon, David's son loved her. Amnon David is the father has a different mother than Absalom and Taymor's other half brother and sister, Amnon David son loved her and Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Taymor, for she was a virgin and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. What he think Amnon wanted to do. Play checkers.

I'm so uncomfortable right now.

I mean, you think your family jacked up, you're probably right but I think you imagine what it would be like to be at this family reunion. I mean you roll up in there and you're talking to cousin Eddie and your like payment.

Who's the moody birdie dude over there in the corner trying to get her attention. Like all that's Amnon. He's really not trying get everybody's attention. He's really trying to get Taymor's attention because he will bow tomorrow.

Your like my home on the brother and sister you got okay they look like Taymor. She's the pretty one right yes like who's the who's the hunk of beef next to her this so ripped this get that beautiful hair who is that will that's Absalom the nanny looks awesomely Kenny is awesome you can get to close to them because you get to sleep with one eye open. Click okay. Lose the governor in the corner with all the bling, all the ladies around let Solomon he's old. Other train wreck coming. This family is got some serious stuff going on.

Verse three Amnon had a friend, family saga continues. Actually, verse three, but Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonah dap, the son of Shamika, David's brother, and Jonah. Dad was a very crafty man now. I think if you would ask Amnon at this point in time and on what are you doing and I would say when I just want what I want, but the truth is that Amnon is looking for trouble. And here's the thing when you're looking for trouble, you will always find people to tell you what you want here.

You will always find people to tell you what you want here is the people who have the guts to tell you what you don't want to hear that you want to stay close to now this this point in the story and David's life is a testimony to talk about a problem like it's a story like something happened in Langley for this is a testimony of real people, real jacked up stuff okay in this point in David's life if David's life were a movie. This would be this would be with the soundtrack changes. Everybody knows that every great movie has a great soundtrack and everybody also knows that the greatest soundtrack ever made was last of the Mohicans.

That's absolutely correct. Thank you. Thanks for your help thrill. I have never seen. I'm sorry I don't know what I can't live your life for you okay but if the early life in David's early years if you had a soundtrack. I think it would've sounded something like this. I'm going to an appointment to be king by the prophet Samuel born in Bethlehem marches onto the battlefield to fight the giant Goliath with five smooth stones and one shepherd slingshot and I of thousands. He was a hero. You're welcome those for your enjoyment as those for your enjoyment. So David is a hero.

But make no mistake about about of the Bible is not is not a book filled with heroes. The Bible is the testimony of one hero and his name is Jesus. If David's later years had a soundtrack. I think it was sounded something a little more like this all just waiting for the children of the 90s. It would've been like this now to the 90s you know this is the house of pain you're currently sitting on the edge of your seat they can pack it up negative. Let me begin don't go to battle me son you know it's in the got morons in the Bible got Psalms David's house in the later years of his life with the house of pain. He knew pain incredibly well and he became very familiar with pain is a very dear friend it is from this place that he writes some 55 is a house of pain after Amnon. Here's what he wants from Jonah dad. He tricks and then he rates Taymor Absalom Taymor's brother. As you can imagine, gets infuriated, infuriated, and he waits two years and then Absalom has Amnon killed and along the way. He becomes very bitter at David and David and Absalom's mind becomes a problem to solve, and so he goes to work. This is where we pick up in second Samuel 15 Absalom starts working a plan to overthrow David and little by little. He begins to turn the hearts of the people of Israel against his father and it wasn't hard because David was pretty disconnected at this point in time. Here's the thing about abdicating responsibility as soon as you make the choice one time to abdicate the responsibilities that God is given you specifically talking to men. This soon as you take make the choice one time to abdicate your God-given responsibilities. It's really hard to get off that ice is really hard to get back off that ice and David again abdicates his responsibilities, Absalom's is not is not having it is Absalom's first work of planned overthrow David a little by little. He begins to turn the hearts of his people. Absalom leaves Jerusalem and goes to a different city in Israel called Hebron. This is where we pick up in second single 15 verse 11 with Absalom went 200 men from Jerusalem who were invited invited guest and they went in their innocence and they knew nothing while Absalom was offering the sacrifices he sent for this is important. I have felt the Guillen night. David's counselor from the city guy low in the conspiracy drew strong in the people with Absalom kept increasing have to fill. This is the final nail in the proverbial coffin in this chapter in David's life. His presence with Absalom and bolded the rebellion against David. He was David's trusted advisor. He was his closest friend. He is who David would have meetings with. After the meetings were talking countless sacrifices made together countless feasts shared countless intimate moments countless times of times of worship and spiritual intimacy and brotherhood. In true biblical covenantal fellowship. I have a feeling David would had they would be closer than brothers.

In a lot of ways and I have to fill the trays. David enjoins the betrayal in the rebellion of David's son.

So when David writes in Psalm 55.

My heart is in anguish within me the terrors of death have fallen upon me, you bet your son is trying to kill you and your best friend just betrayed you yet, her hurts best deep there's a whisper from hell that becomes a shout in the time and times of uncertainty and pain in life and it beckons the question is God faithful David's ear was being tickled by the lie he wasn't being tempted to abandon God.

He was being tempted to forget that God is faithful and is at a breaking point. I believe when he writes this in Psalm 55 this is fear and trembling. Come upon him in horror overwhelms him. And I say oh that I had wings like it.

I would fly away and be at rest. Yes, I would wander far away I would lodge in the wilderness. I would hurry to find shelter from the raging wind and tempest what David is saying is that he just wants to get away and can you blame him food, whose instinct isn't to run away whenever the herd hits close to home, you can't blame David for what he's thinking and sometimes in life you can and should get away from the who, who is because you hurt. But even though you can get away from the who. It's really hard out run the hurt. David starts letting it rip right here he's bouncing from fear and running to anger and fighting. He says this story, Lord, the five divide their tongues frosty violence and strife in the city day and night. They go around on his walls and iniquity in trouble or within it ruin is in its missed oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace. This work is very personal for it is not an enemy who taunts me. Then I could bear it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me, then I can hide from him but it is you a man, my equal. My companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together within God's house.

We walked in the throne.

Now I believe that he was specifically speaking about have to fill right here because I don't think he would've ever considered Absalom in equal but he certainly carrying the hurt from a hatha fell on top of the burden of Absalom on top of the burden of what happened in his family. There is a specific kind of hurt that David is experiencing here.

It's the hurt of betrayal in the wounds of betrayal inherently come with the wounds of rejection heard of betrayal inherently comes with the wounds of rejection and some of us here have experienced these kinds of wounds in these kinds of hurts and I hope to God we field but maybe we carry them and their fresh some of us carry these kinds of hurts and and have walk through these kinds of trails. I mean we stood at the altar and we said, I do and I will but they didn't and now they won't. They look at you and they said trust me, but they took you. They said were in this together but they left you hold in the back. They were supposed to protect you and instead knowing them as felt like punishment. They were supposed to be there for you but the truth is they were anywhere but many of us have been cutting deep places by the wounds of betrayal and rejection FSU here. I would just say I'm really sorry I'm really sorry I'm here to tell you that it can be healed in Jesus's hands. It can be healed in Jesus's hands. The wind rejection is real. It's deep, but it can be healed. Proverbs chapter 18 verse 14 says this, the human spirit can endure his sickness but a crust for a wounded spirit who can bring her, there's a kind of hurt that goes deeper than our normal operating sense of consciousness is a wound on our spirit is the wound of rejection and it replicates itself throughout the course of our lives.

Unlike any other hurt I've ever encountered. It is so deep and it is so defining it manifests itself in loneliness and self-loathing, hopelessness, joyless living purpose was living in it often turns into addictions and patterns of self abuse and spiritual forces of darkness there at work in this evil age they love this one because they see it as an an opportunity to steal your God-given identity. So they began to tempt with the lie that God is not faithful in the you're not who he says you are and you begin to replace your true identity with a superficial inauthentic manufactured happiness. At best, and/or a desperate addiction to escapism as a way of life but underneath all that activity is a spirit that is been wounded by rejection and so how can it heal when the answer is in Jesus's hands.

Jesus himself says this, but the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives look these kinds of wounds and hurts leave people emotionally and mentally bankrupt faster than anything I've ever seen. Jesus says that I have come to proclaim the good news to the poor that I came to proclaim liberty to the captives, the wound of rejection hold hostages often for entire lifetimes.

But Jesus can set us free. Jesus says that I came to recover the site of the blind and to set at liberty those who are oppressed, first John chapter 3 verse aces the reason Jesus Christ came into the world is to destroy the works of the devil.

The devil in my opinion, his favorite wound is the wound of rejection. He loves to pick and taken to can pick and keep the wound open so that he can still joy kill purpose and destroy lives. But Jesus came to destroy any work that he would. How does Jesus fill the answer is this their acceptance what hills these kinds of wounds of betrayal and rejection. The answer is acceptance not just acceptance by anyone except us by God the father through God the son, who is Jesus Christ. Romans chapter 5 verse 17 says that death ruled like a king. Because Adam had sinned, but that cannot compare with what Jesus Christ has done. God has been so kind to us and he has accepted us because of Jesus.

And so we will live in ruled like kings with him. Listen church one drop of Jesus's blood has the power to set generations free and has the power to set generations free. Romans 116 says I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God under salvation for all who hear and believe the gospel is the power of God at work in this world and in it can save anybody from anything at any time, and it can heal anybody from anything at any time. It is the most powerful force work on the planet which is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The power of God in salvation pulses. I'm not ashamed of the got the gospel the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, received, believed and applied by faith. It heals you. It is healing you and it will heal you receive believed and applied by faith.

How about offer you this here today through the power of prayer and the practice of forgiveness. How does Jesus's hands heal. These wounds, through the power of prayer into the practice of forgiveness.

Peter asked Jesus how many times should I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me.

But here's the thing. All of us logically have a category for the reality that people have the capacity to sin.

We all understand that mentally ascribe to the truth that people sin right we don't logically object that the challenge was sin is when we get emotionally involved when they sin against me. That's when it gets really hard to deal with. Peter says how many times should I forgive when they sin against me and Jesus and Peter says seven times in Jesus says no I tell you, not seven times, but 77 times what Jesus means is every time you go through life and you often hear even well-meaning Christians say say things like, forgive and forget. Here's the problem with that. I never been able do I just never been able to do it so I'll stand here today and tell you forgive and forget what I say is this, forgive and remember that you have forgiven. Forgive, and remember that you have forgiven the hard part of forgiving is remembering that you have and do forgive every time the pain from the hurt comes back around when Jesus forgave you. It came inherently with the power to forgive others when Jesus forgave you. Mind you, was no easy task. I'm not saying forgiveness is easy.

I'm just saying it's where freedom is when Jesus forgave you, it inherently came with the power to forgive others. It is a choice that we make.

It is not just a place we end up. Forgiveness is a choice we make. It is not just a place we end up.

David continues, and he says this let death still over them is not done renting. Let death still over them, let them go down to Sheol alive for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart was David saying here he saying I hope I have fill in Absalom burn in Sheol, that's right.

That's what he saying no. He said he sent the burden is exactly what he sent through your nose you can talk straight and got you scared you scared your feelings, you can bring all you got God all the time. I promise he can handle it.

We have a saying in our church that we say this all the time. The figures doing just fine so you should bring the real you to the real God who sent his rules on the dollar will cross to pay for real sense of that you could really have life right so the figures doing just fine.

You hopefully you check him him or her at the door. The real you is who God came to save in the real you. Who's got is who God wants you to bring him in relationship all the time.

You can bring all you got God all the time, Davis is.

I hope they burn in Sheol. Here's the thing, hate and hurt, as were the wound of rejection leads. If it's not trusted into the hands of someone who can elect David make the turn here and he says this, but I call to God's essay a call to my next relationship I call to my next success. A call to my next endeavor. I call to my next whatever he doesn't say. He says, but I call to God Jehovah Roth, the God who heals our call to God and the Lord will save me evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moment he here's my voice. Is there anybody thankful here today that we serve a God who hears us, who is near to the broken hearted. We serve the living God who does not turn away from us. If we draw near him we find every time that he is drawn near to us. I love this David doesn't say I did it wants. I said it once water and I feel better.

David says no, evening, morning, noon, I utter my complaint and I moaned here's the thing about healing any process of healing. If you want to heal spiritual healing emotional healing.

If you want to heal at least a part of you has to want to at least the part of you has to want to heal stay at a brother and sister beat down the doors of heaven for the healing that is rightfully yours in Jesus Christ and I promise you this, when you go to knock on the doors of heaven for the healing that flows from the throne of God. You will find all of those doors have been open for you, through Jesus Christ beat down the doors of heaven and you will find they've all been opened. David says this I call to God and he redeems my soul and safety from the battle that I wage for many are arrayed against me. God will give ear and humble them. He who is enthroned of old because they do not change, and they do not fear God as we go through life, and we experience relationships.

We walked through seasons of betrayal, times of rejection.

A tough but freaking experiences when we come to a place where we realize that it is God who changes people. I can't change anybody David saying I'm waging war here man it's been a fight. My situation externally. My circumstances are so wildly complex that you can't even begin to get your head around Robin fight now hear him fight in here. Everything inside is in turmoil not sleep. I'm not even I have anxiety I'm I'm on the floor. I am at or it is a fight in David's eyes. I've done some wrong things he says. I've done some right things. He says that ultimately God of the end of the day you're the one is on the throne and is in your hands. We can pray for change in people and we can encourage people toward health and we should we control hardlines in relationship so that other people who have hurt us, their habitual behavior does not hijack our life and our joy that sometimes we have to do that.

We can always join God in his work as he helps others change when he opened the door, but you cannot kick the door down and force people to change that belongs to the Lord, and you can trust. You can trust who here knows everything God does is good no matter how long it takes or what our perception of the outcome is he is good the Lord is my shepherd and he's a good Shepherd, I shall not want. Because every good and perfect gift has been handed down to me and the father of lights. Who is above he's good when he makes me to lay down in green pastures. He's good as he leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He's good as he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake, his good names sake. Yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me. You anoint my head. You anoint my head with oil, you prepare a table love that you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies and it is in the presence of my enemies were, I will feast on your goodness. My cup overflows with your faithfulness.

Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it he established it upon the waters, and he founded it upon the seas who can ascend to the hill of the Lord and who can stand in his holy place. Only he who has clean hands and a pure heart and does not bow his soul to an idol.

Do you know how you know that you know the God is good because he sent Jesus Christ on a rescue mission in Jesus Christ with clean hands and a pure heart and never about his soul to an island. He marched up the hill of God's wrath paying the full due penalty for sin so that you could be forgiven and set free and adopted as a as a member of God's family totally forgiven, totally redeemed, totally accept God's good God is good in everything he does is good. I'm 14 years old. I'm standing at the back of a funeral parlor and across the room as my father is standing next to an open casket has my mother's body and and I don't know if those are the notes from the Lord, or if you just caught me out of the corner of his eye that my dad makes his way through the sea of people and he walks up to me and I'm I'm I'm up against the wall and I'm bitter. I'm confused. I'm angry I'm hurt, I will have a category for the things that were walking through my dad walks all the way across the room and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he looks me in the face. He said son. I know this is hard, but God is good 25 years later I can testify to you tonight today. My friends, the God works all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. He is good and even in the hardest of times.

He is at work for your good. David finishes with this and he says by companion, stretched out his hand against me are his hand against his friends. He violated his covenant, his speech was smooth as butter. Get war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords and he says these words cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved. Don't forget the gospel your sins have been totally forgiven in Jesus Christ and that all the bad sin had to offer Jesus took it on the cross and that all the good that Jesus earned. He credited to you through the resurrection.

All the bad he took and you get all the good you didn't do anything to deserve it. So because you didn't earn it. You cannot lose it, you cannot lose unforgiveness and unhealed wounds of the heart can sure keep you from enjoying it though unforgiveness is the fastest road I know of joyless living when it comes to hurt and healing. There's three postures that we would have one is that we can carry it, you can carry your hurts around where around your life like their pair glasses.

See everybody through them hold everybody hostage to create a scenario where pretty much everybody close to you are not have to navigate you and dance around on eggshells because they're scared to bump into one. You can carry around. I tried that visibly you can.

You can shove it deep down in their and act like nothing ever talk about it just tough it up, work harder, do better.

You can try to shove it down in their you can fill all your time with Netflix and mindnumbing activities on your phone seek distractions anywhere you can find them at any time that the hurt just happens to spill out you can get into the blame game. Keep yourself isolated from real relationships don't practice a vulnerable phase at best show up and check the boxes but don't truly repent of sin don't truly confess the gospel don't truly have real conversations with God you can. You can hide behind walls of sarcasm and and and since thus, self doubt and you can just hide in their isolated living in your own box you can carry it, you can. Or you can cast.

You can cast all your cares on him because he cares. Jesus says this in Matthew 11 come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon me and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your soul. For my yoke is easy and my burden my annotation to use this, rest take his yoke through the power of prayer and the practice of forgiveness. I love the Jesus says this we don't talk about this a lot when we read this verse we love the company.

All who are heavy and light heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, but there was a set and learn from me learn to wake up one day and also in all hurts don't go cast upon the cast upon the Lord morning noon and night.

Take into father when Jesus taught us to pray not close with this. He said when you pray, pray like this, our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is. Give us this day our daily forgive us our trespasses as forgive me I'm going places I should. I said things I shouldn't say forgive my sins and this was the same as I do what forgive those who trespass against me with annex father apparent friend, brother, sister is not encourage you to do is you cast your burden upon the Lord. Be specific. Be specific, say the name Christians don't sin anymore.

Somehow you going this anymore. We just struggle to strike your singing for the specific as I forgive specifically for specifically castor burden. He is at work in your story with your on the mountaintop here in the Valley. He is at work for your for his glory. Pray for his father. We love you. Thank you for this day for this time for your words.

Thank you for this church will reprint your spirit right now would comfort us where we need comforting and convict us where we need help us to receive what only five pray for my brothers and sisters here who came in here carrying some hurt Jesus when she made him right where they are know you will and I know you have to know your Jesus we healing right now is Jesus you are the prince of peace and so I pray piece of my brothers of their mind over their hearts and their souls for they be filled with peace and war sons and daughters. Most we love you and worship you because you're the only senior name we pray. Amen