Dealing with Depression

Ben's real wake-up call for you today plus some encouraging news about depressed people in the Bible stage for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire. Now, like always 866-34-TRUTH that's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown friends really don't recall to do were going to do what were called to do on the air were going to be your voice of moral sanity and spiritual clarity today and will be encouraged and uplifted in the process, but you'll be stirred as well. This is Michael Brown. Welcome to the broadcast 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884 the bottom of the hour were going to shift topics and speak with the author of her brand-new book on depressed people in the Bible. So if you struggle with depression if if you struggle just with being down and melancholy and discouraged. I believe to be encouraged by the interview and by the broadcast today, but will deal with some urgent matters in the world around us first. If you like: 866-34-TRUTH may be as plain as I can deplane there is a reason that I have been sounding the alarm and raising my voice for many years now about radical LGBT Q activism is not out of hatred, is not out of malice to the contrary is out of love and it is out of a heart for truth and edges out of a desire to see what is best for everyone in the way that God has set things up because he set things up for human thriving. There is a reason we been pouring these things out for years and years. I would much rather deal with other topics. I would much rather deal with are the subjects utterly poor me.

I'm just saying this is not my choice if it was my choice of just be teaching the word and and and rewriting commentaries and making disciples and stirring revival in the hearts of people and traveling all around the world working with our missionaries apologist pressing a button making a choice I wouldn't deal with the issues like LGBT Q activism issues.

Were you going to get hated for doing it issues where people you think you hate them.

We can alienate people and in there you feel hurt by words that you speak it if you speak with Bob and having to read types of things that are disturbingly distressing is not my saying that I'm into, but I do this out of burden before the Lord. I do this out of calling and I do it in that sense grateful to God that I can be part of the solution and call you together to be part of the solution to bring about positive change. Civil what you talk about now. Let me share with you a quote from GK Chesterton asked if you've never read Chesterton. What an incredible thinker and author from last century. Listen to what Chesterton said.

He said so again he he died. What before World War II.

Having long time back right. We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that to them to make for which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns in which people persecute the heresy of calling the triangle three sided figure and hang a man from Madden mob with the news that grass is green young. Think about that friends for speaking the truth. This is as George Orwell said that that'll become a revolutionary act. That's where were at in society today. People can be punish. They can be canceled. They can lose jobs that they can be blacklisted for simply speaking truth and sing 2+2 = 4. Look at what Francis Schaeffer wrote in 1968, 68, before the Stonewall riots before the rise of modern day activism, but much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis.

It is led in this case to an obliteration of the distinction between man and woman, so the mail in the female as complementary partners are finished, he wrote this in 1968. Think of that insight. And then he added this.

He said it is imperative that Christians realize the conclusions which are being drawn as a result of the death of absolutes.

1968 nailed the death of absolutes, the death of distinction between male and female civil what's prompting you to talk about this today will parents the news almost every day the news from state after state that the news for the push for the quality. XO called equality act, which would got religious liberties in America and be unfair to women and others. This is something we taught at every school day, but check this out. CNN is now said that there is no agreed scientific way to determine our assigned gender at birth. The CNN reporting other madness.

So in response, Molly Hemingway tweeted this. Remember when the propaganda outlet.

CNN ran an ad campaign about facts call this is an Apple. This is a banana.

Maybe they should work on. This is a penis. This is of Regina and referring to this quote from CNN it's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex expert. This is madness. There is no consensus criteria for saying that's a boy or that's a girl at birth and this is just being tweeted out as if it is news here. Check this out. Evolutionary biologist Colin right so not a religious fundamentalist. His this is his reply to CNN he says observing genitalia is the consensus criteria for determining one's sex at birth. That's how you figure it out. It's a boy it's a girl with an ultrasound.

He said it is inaccurate. Only about 0.018% of the time. That's approximately the same likelihood that a coin will land on its edge when flipped so not less than 1/100 of the time, but less than 2/1000 of a time when you look at the genitalia you will make a mistake about whether the child is male-female because of some other genetic problem or issue, or abnormality friends. This is the madness that were dealing with today dear Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted this she said we live in a literal cloud world with the elites pretend not to know what it means to be a man or woman. The only way to maintain your sanity is to reject this absolute nonsense everywhere you see it in friends. This is everywhere. This is out there. This is why we been sounding the alarm for years and years and years is a just a matter of people being confused, such as P plug struggles we will have compassion limits about an agenda try to overturn reality and then with that confusing more and more young people who are impressionable and and and often struggling with other issues in their own lives are young girls or teen girls unhappy with their bodies make this a wrong neighborly boy trapped the girls about all this confusion is leading to destruction of lives and with it when it becomes normalized, then it's the crackdown against those who differ write a Sophia Bush actress. I'm not familiar with but Cisco 3.7 million followers on Instagram. She put out a wide grade in the broad ranging post the other day is a look as got over 82,000 likes and the end of the post she said this trans kids are under attack across the country.

Arkansas just banned them from accessing healthcare. This is tantamount to murder kids will tell us who they are. It's our job to support them not demonize or harm them.

Each of these issues that you listed needs advocates how you stand up show up and speak up. So what happened in the state of Arkansas. They said no.

No hormonal treatments. Roots say a 10-year-old girl think she's a boy you you cannot give her hormones to block the onset of puberty or cross sex hormones to prepare, say, 13 or 14-year-old for sex change surgery at the earliest opportunity. Can't do it. Thank God this is sanity that this is avoiding child abuse.

This is avoiding kids making decisions that they cannot possibly have the ability to make at that age. Do I think Sophia Bush cares on a know it all, but not Jesus cares. I assume she genuinely cares about the well-being of children, I assume that that she believes that if these kids can't get the medical intervention that they desire or doctors tell them they need, or their parents recommend whatever it is that it will lead them down a path with a commit suicide. I believe giving her the benefit of the doubt have no reason not to think this that she genuinely cares, but this idea kids tell us who they friends. There's a reason. When you have a four-year-old that you're the one driving the car in the four-year-old is in the car seat in the back of the car there. There's a reason for that.

There is a reason that when your six-year-old goes to kindergarten or first grade that they're sitting there with it – skin and taking down notes, or learning to write letters and in the adult is teaching them. There's a reason on hand them the keys to the car. You don't there's a reason I give 10-year-old right to vote, or 14-year-old the right it to carry to carry gun or join the Army in a reason that you don't let your kids get married 13 children by nature, being children do not have the capacity to understand these types of lifelong disability of the idiotic, ridiculous stupid things that is 14 and 15 and 16 and then newly born again at 16.

I'm glad that I did not have the option than to make life altering decisions for the rest of my life in terms of something to my physical body. Glad I did not have that option to do, especially before I was saved but who knows what people do the whole thing with parents as you help your kids through childhood you're the ones to say no, no, you're not really a horse and you place your really horse that we have to sleep in the bad and the barn helpful child understand that you know it's different chick kids understand the gender identity. Why is it 75, 80, 85, 90% of children who identify as transgender. No longer do after puberty several men he identifies gay or lesbian or bisexual.

Okay, okay, but that's a transgender that's not life altering physical decision that that's that's not a child. Sterilize themselves with drugs that it's not that the 16-year-old having a vasectomy. Some crazy like that not all the kids don't tell us who they are.

The parents help the children develop rightly.

One thing the kids is unofficial on citizen K. They were the kids is a boy trapped in the girls while you help them from the inside out friend societies going mad around us.

We must stand firm for the good of our children for the greatest generation for the freedoms of the next generation. That's why we speak of file light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the minor fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH dear again is Dr. Michael Brown as friends for joining us on one farm and bottom of the hour talking about depressed people in the Bible think you'll find it helpful. Over all, and encouraging 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 7884 friends was 2004, 2004 God burdening about the rising tide of homosexual activism. They began to break my heart for those who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, was not as major then I got begin to burden me for the people for the issues, spoke to my heart.

As the months unfolded reach out and resist reach out to the people with compassion resist the agenda. Put another way, we need parts of compassion with backbones of steel these to become foundational issues in a ministry that we deal with again when I asked the Lord back in 2004.

Why me I don't come out of homosexuality them had gender identity issues never had a particular burden to to reach those in the homosexual community might my training is not related to this. My PhD is not in counseling or family therapy or anything like that.

It's in near Eastern languages and literatures, why me and I was running from. It just can't understand me there, what, when God raised me up to do Jewish apologetics into debate rabbis there really was anyone else that was doing at that time there was a real need. There was a voyage we had so many Jewish evangelists the Jews for Jesus, groups with with function of the research behind the scenes.

We had some Orthodox Jews are to become believers from previous generations of but that was their past their time and this was a need. There was a voyage and when God called me to fill that void. It makes sense. I am Jewish been talking to rabbis since the early months when I was in a new believer got my degrees in Hebron, Semitic languages, God's give me grace to be a debater, so it made sense right. But why why this why this, and in that's what I understood that's that's what this will be complained to me that this is not one that we get to sit out with members that this can affect believers across America. Leaders from from all backgrounds will be needed from a local pastor to God the parent to to to an educator to those working in social media to politicians. This is the generational crisis that were facing in terms of how to deal with LGBT to.

Plus I say that this to emphasize how this never ends deal with people with God's love and deal with issues with God's truth, both with truth and love we don't get to sit this out. So here I will encourage you though if we stand it if if we push back double give grace if we determine, in Jesus name that we will not now down. We will not capitulate.

We will not give in to the gods of this age to that to the norms of the culture to the PC spirit to cancel culture that we will not bow down to that we bow down to one Lord only and and if we get rejected hated vilify Bodiford, so be it. We bow down to King Jesus only the be freedom will be liberty if we say look I care about people, but I can't compromise my convictions for the sake of convenience food for the sake of a job for the sake of a promotion for not can't do that. We keep your tithes or the fourth, though, so I can't do that I have to please the Lord. While friends there will be consequences. But the be blessed. Let me give an example. Check out this this article posted on red state it. It's on a number of other websites. Professors win in transgender case is bad news for cancel culture warriors scroll down to this article and and see what actually happened. One reason only, social media, they may come away with the idea that the world is now finally and forever at the mercy of cancel culture and social justice warriors with no room left for traditional values, or rational discourse on difficult topics. However, a court case in Ohio between the professor transgender student he quote Miss gendered in class should make proponents of the C a little light on the horizon.

To be clear, that's less because it's disrespectful of people and how they wish to identify and more because it's a win win the battle of cancel culture.

Could someone run afoul innocently, or as in this case because it goes against religious beliefs.

Whatever the current often fickle rules of the culture happened to be at any given time. In short, if you call transgender pro person by the wrong pronoun. This case proves there are still courts in this country that will allow you to sue on certain grounds.

If the culture warriors come after you and the facts of the case of the scroll down a little further in the unanimous ruling, the sixth US circuit court of appeals said that Shawnee State University violated Prof. Nicholas Murray with his rights of free speech and free exercise of religion by punishing him for resisting school rules that forced him to address students in terms of their choosing. The terms of the truth. Meriwether, a philosophy professor and devout Christian. Soon Shawnee state, claiming that its mandate to use terms that conflict with biology infringed on his religious belief that gender is fixed for the moment of conception. The court's decision written by a judge appointed to the bench by Pres. company from Friday upheld Meriwether's argument quote the first amendment interests are especially strong here because Meriwether's speech also relates to his core religious and philosophical beliefs judge all-male.

The upper part wrote in a 32 page decision. Meriwether apparently referred to transgender student as Mr. instead of Ms. 2016. If the student complained he was reprimanded in 2018 by the school is when before federal appeals court clears them to sue to seek damages, presumably that might have resulted from that reprimand okay so you get the picture that in his mind he was being told to do something that would cause him to compromise his convictions deny his religious beliefs and act contrary truth by referring to a male, a biological male as a female when he wouldn't and couldn't do that. He was reprimanded by the school there were teachers who have been fired for schoolteachers literally fired for doing that but in good conscience, think they cannot tell their class okay you know 88-year-old kids may be in second grade. I would just want you to know that Jane is now Jell-O and you refer to him now is Joe and see him instead of her and Joe will be using the boys bathroom couldn't do the unconscious didn't fire someone push back so that you do not have the right to dictate that will be respectful to everyone gracious towards everyone try to help people in the midst of whatever situation they find themselves in an amicable way, but you cannot force us to cannot require certain speech from us that is contrary truth contrary to reality, contrary to the biological fact and contrary to religious convictions. Here's a court say you bet. The school cannot compel you with friends.

We talked about Prof. Jordan Peterson when he was just one of tens of thousands of college professors in Canada. His name most all of us would never know that when Canada said okay here's are the new bill and and this is gonna require certain speech like this across the country. When he pushed back. He was not somebody really means is that when testimony he pushed back because he studied communistic systems for for years and understood that the perils of state enforced speech codes not not not just telling you what you can't say that's bad enough, but what you must say is even worse.

So he pushed back.

But what happens demo. He becomes an international celebrity is his writings that are read by millions and millions and millions of people's videos watched by millions and millions of people so he goes from just being a professor at college stands up for what's right and next thing is voices being heard all around the world now in some other cases someone takes a stand made maybe in a village in Nigeria. What Jesus and there beheaded for they don't become an international stove that they become a star in the eyes of heaven.

The become highly esteemed and in the eyes of heaven and and great is their reward forever. Sometimes you suffer loss and that loss goes on for years, but you bear the reproaches. The approach of obedience with friends this how we overcome this is how we overcome by refusing to bow the knee to the culture were respectful were gracious when not mean nasty when were not condemning. We simply act on our convictions.

When refused to bow that to the culture and bowing to the Lord were free were free.

Though no one could threaten us because were ready died with died to this world, we died to its power. We've got to its appeal would die to its prestige.

We live to do the will of God said and and if that gets his hatred and scorn. We rejoice because were being treated the way Jesus was great is your reward in heaven if it opens a greater doing platform wonderful that we speak all the more loudly and clearly in either way, no matter what hatred we receive. We don't respond with hatred and while we work with the political system, you bet.

By all means contact your elected officials and urge them to to vote against the equality act by all means absolutely while we work in the political system when when we vote our convictions. We don't put our trust in that system to bring about righteous change. That's gotta come from God's people living this out that's got a come from our hands being clean in our hearts being pure.

That's gotta come from us, loving God and loving our neighbor. That's gotta come from us being revived and with that fresh revival in our hearts, touching those around us slid stand. Let's stand strong. Let us be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

And as we come back and talk about depressed people in the Bible and dealing with depression.

I understand that from personal experience, but from what I've read that real serious depression is the natural most impossible to get out of but God, but God so we can encourage you first called Stan Nesson encouragement to follow error on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown thanks friends for joining us on the line Michael Brown and like many radio hosts TV host we get lots and lots of books sent to us really every week from different publishers.

Different authors will be have this guest on the will to a lot of interviews just because of the time and the things that we want to cover so either that the author has to be someone I know and really want to get on, or the book title gets my attention and this is one of those when I saw the book came in the now this is interesting.

This is interesting so Jeff Sharansky involved in messianic Jewish ministry, pastoral ministry and in other work is written the book. Depressed people of the Bible and Jeff, thanks for writing the book and thanks for joining us today on the line of fire really think beyond McEwen. I followed you labor for many years it got done.

We'll thanks but my joy to have you all one on earth prompted you to write this book a number you're not my mother, depression, and document an account link that and with believer and Jonah as an example to help her out in the back of my mind I was back 30 years ago.

More and bridging and studying the Bible. A lot of people in the Bible is different from the knowing that people in the world of be helpful for those that are dumping from the Bretton know that they're not alone and that from the Bible time one popular 11. The God is mightily also at times suffered from depression so so when you went in and started studying this you surprised to find that there were more figures think of Elijah struggled right after confronted by Jezebel through the greatest high point so she struggling maybe with tougher head. We can think of one or two but we surprised with what you discovered yet by what I thought I liked but Elijah and Moses and David and Jeremiah 1 and a pretty I write so what would you say for someone that's that's listen to this broadcast and they struggle with depression, either occasionally and very deep way through or it's an ongoing thing in the laws or they find themselves. It just stuck in a terrible rot right now. What are some of the practical things that you learned and in writing. Depressed people of the Bible. One.

There are depression and depression.

All depression is bad, right in our family die.

I liked about God. My grandfather died and my grandmother went for her regular checkup regular position are you doing for Bob Bratton and Billy want prescriber on med and she did do it all depressed when you're out 50 years.normal to go through the grieving brought that and feeling down, and feeling bummed out about though there are times that we should be of life in the times when we should write back. Don't know bad normal to be depressed and some of the people that we read about in the Bible.

That normal depression that depression in another aspect of the good book for people to realize is that question is not a life long does it have to be a lifelong diagnosed depression is really just a compilation of light. It is not a permanent disability like losing a leg, but we can like will never grow back. We'll let depression like that what we falling to even clinical depression.

We can come out of it and be restored. How we were before.

And even better deal of that dog right so some people might think that it's just physiological genetic chemical imbalance and I'm always destined to be like this, but you're saying that that depression is it affects our or motion source or spirits that there there are God-given solutions that can liberate us from the gimme some some hope from Scripture giving example are scriptural principle that would help somebody right now that that doesn't see light at the end of the tunnel.

It's not morning that the death of of a love one or there in an ongoing bankruptcy thing that's draining them every day and let you have it appear in court day and night just there there in a deep rut there in a funk. Their stock give us some encouragement or principal from depressed people of the Bible so there are one of his help people from the Bible a lot of testimony in the book about modern people suffered from very different type of depression and who were liberated by by God's power encouraging seeing that others have walked my path and have found a way out of the cave right out of the darkness and into God's glory like that is encouraging and entering the Bible their wonderful almond on the promises of God from Isaiah 26 verse three you referring to God you will keep him in perfect mind is stayed on you, because trust at the powerful, important, but keep the promise of the mind just yet. Document.document the spirit of fear but of love. Our downline problem how you clean them.

What is it what is it me help help somebody that doesn't understand how to claim a promise. Listen your struggling in your own life and you're looking at with the word says the promises of God, and you seem unable to grasp hold of how to someone claim a promise like that someone in your congregation struggling how to counselor very much appreciate that question because that very practical right with it and that the report right in the book we try make it very practical example from that what I quoted Isaiah 26 or three what a person can do is put them in the act right and then expand on the road like amplified Bible for severe, you will keep him in perfect peace of mind is stayed on you can read it thing you Lord God Almighty created the heavens and the earth. Your overall thing you all might know all you know the end and the beginning you help people in the path you are able to keep me regret the birth and the next time. Read it through empathizing. The second work you will you will definitely do it. You promise to do it.

You will do it and what you say you will do I claim that because you say so I worked you will keep permanently forever day by day, moment by moment. Second by second, you will keep me in perfect as my praying through the Bible that we praying the tech and making a personal putting yourself into the pack is a very powerful way. Claimant got on yeah I love that idea of emphasizing word by word. You do it one day, emphasizing who God is and then the nature of the promise and the certainty of the promise in breaking it down. Now I'm sitting here listening on and edified about. I am in good spirits. You know, but I'm sitting here listening it and I'm getting edified as is use as you speak about that now that the front cover of the it go have no warranty on God promised.warranty.

I provide. I bought something of one car and adding your warranty or whatever you warranty and nothing broke down within the warranty. I go back and I think I want to get to got word and right here got got up about not willing to do another one, but the struggle with the devil, although that was it right struggle is not against God struggling with.electric juggling with God become that overcome or yeah and that's that's how we grow in the in the process.

That's what God puts us in this journey that the front cover. The book as I was looking at it. There is that there is this an empty tomb. There is bright sun shining, how does you. She was resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus undergird hope in our lives, how can it be personal and a foundation on which we built because I really would have macho dog lit the resurrection overcome the world overcome is our example walk for life on earth, and it BECAUSE he also humanity suffered from depression, clinical depression, but they went to great fighting wintertime when they were not the greatest there in the garden 70 struggle not my will will be done. I struggled and struggled in prairie building surrendering struggled now.

Like you mentioned earlier on the program struggled with that but the rendered by God our bounty get to got the victory in his humanity, and that he died. Go to the physical death. The second death brought resurrection. He had been married for the understanding attempted and always like we are on the path for us to follow his blood vein path to heaven because he lived resurrected.

We can at the assurance he is without walking with us today. He will carry it is its reality. Friends of that reality. Fletcher life changes, gratitude, depression does this flee, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Jeff we just got about a minute before the break, but you not just an author or pastor. Have you seen people long-term changed through these biblical principles were the they used to really struggle with depression and that's something of the past in their lives. File cutting themselves God delivered 23rd. One lady I know she young child had a minister for father and he not only do therapy will other ministers yeah are right horrible, unthinkable, and not had miraculously healed her powerful witness and she uses that are experienced in ministering to other people. And yet God is able to totally transform men friends get a copy of the book depressed people of the Bible. Jeff, thanks for it for writing the book and thanks for your ministry may many be set free through it. I appreciated thank you very much all right depressed people of the Bible's name in the book get online is for your local bookstore. Jeff Zirinsky CAR AEM escape. Why it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 664 through here again is Dr. Michael Brown share something with you if you tuned into the broadcast is struggling with? With love.

When the struggled with depression. I'm not a professional counselor. You understand that, but over the decades of ministry. Of course you minister to people and all kinds of situations and the word of God addresses every major need human life. And if if if Hope can be infused if there is real hope that the future is bright or gauze with you or or simply that he's for you. Sometimes just that one ray of solid hope changes everything. For example, if you were going through an absolutely horrific season of life and and let's say your your young married woman you've just had your third miscarriage in two years and the doctors are telling you it's unlikely you'll ever have children of your own and think about adoption, etc. in an in all your life since your little little girl. You can think about want to have babies and children. It and and you feel you know them enemies messing with your mind you're beating yourself up you feel I'm a failure.

What's wrong with me up to supply my husband. I mean all this junk that you just get hit with right no matter how encouraging your husband is and those around you, and hates find the dockets will be great and and for some it is the path adoption has been great while. If if you in the midst of that paint seat you're suffering the loss that losses real the loss of those kids by miscarriage. That's real and you never forget that and you look forward to the day when you can see those children in the world to come. But if you in the midst of that depression and feeling of hopelessness saw yourself giving birth to one set of twins and three other healthy kids over period of the next five years and you see there you just have this vision of the future and you're running around the house unify chasing you husband chasing the kids and all this in and in their you're holding the baby. Just birth the even though that pain of the miscarriages.

This is gonna be there and is real suddenly that hope it, everything would change everything would change if if you feel you completely failed and what you're doing maybe felt called in ministry and and and just felt like a failure on a never live up to God's calling and any just shows you a glimpse of the future, with his arm around you sent us. My boy that's my boy him with him.

That's my boy. It changes everything so much. Some of the false hope of nuts about manufacturing's of that's not there but I am saying this that if you can grab hold of the spiritual reality that God is with you and that in him. Your future is blessed is change everything it and you see will how I get hold of that will, if there is no known sin and rebellion in your life you have to turn from in other words, if if you are, let's say you've left your wife and your living in an adulterous relationship and feeling depressed. I'm glad you're feeling depressed should feel miserable break that off and and and plea for forgiveness from your family and try to make things right yeah and get to the root of the sin that drove you away sent repeated again by all means feeling miserable. Let's us a good saying go ahead feel miserable with it. Let there be repentance. But if if there's not some blatant disobedience in your life, because of which God's blessing cannot be poured out on all you do is you look to the cross blessed all you and I'm not making like this is easy thing okay but set your heart not on yourself but on on the Lord and who he is when he died for you on the cross did he know every sin you commit to the know every failure yes and he died freely set his love on you and and I and I know is some years back Nancy with Nancy was really seeking the Lord earnestly pressing through in certain areas which you want to get hold of God in a deeper way to know the real real serious change in its that has to be there has to be hunger or thirst desire doesn't just fall on your head like ripe fruit from the tree.

She was just pressing in going after the Lord and pressing in going after the Lord and she so wanted to take hold of the reality of his character that she printed out hundreds of verses about the nature of God in literally every single day would read through those verses on her knees until her mind was renewed in her heart took hold of it was just one promise in Scripture.

As Jeff mentioned, from depressed people of the Bible just one verse from Scripture and and and you prayed that through that promise what he suggested. Note every day, but an emphasis on different word in it, you know, you may have to be a phrase within it and and take hold of it and then this hope rises unlogged. I want a fossil hope in God is never false hope in the one true God through Jesus is never false Jesus. Yeshua has risen from the dead, being celebrated in the midst of the Passover Easter season.

He has risen ultimate so I need to find the right relationship with God, and I know Jesus process.

It ever is all I need to know and I can live rejoicing.

The rest of my life through anything made that was realities take hold of you with a takeover. You may God's grace be poured into you. In Jesus you are and overcome her more than a conqueror. Don't listen to the devil's laws hope certain arises from the arts take hold of her friends take hold a man all right what shift gears here and read an apology to you to you, let's let's read let's restart that or shift gears and read a heartfelt apology that was sent to me in my ministry team passed on to me this week. Let me read this to you Dr. Brown I owe you an apology, and the gentleman identified himself by name. Please forgive me for the things I have wrote to you on social media. I've been harsh in my words towards you in regard to the elections. I confess I become blinded by the selections, I became more passionate for Tromp that I was for God for season because of that I attacked opposing views. I'm sorry. I love your ministry and and in full support of all you do. God bless and I will again start to financially support your ministry like I use to in the past.

So of course we sent a note back assuring him of complete forgiveness and appreciating his integrity and humility and understand how people got caught up in things and what I warned about getting caught up and when I warned about looking to a man in an unhealthy way. Many are upset and lashed out at understand is a volatile time and intense time and and many are so grieved by where the left is going wants to go that the elections felt like a life or death for the nation and and and so on.

Understand how things got intense and that's also why Say we gotta keep her focus with belongings. Jesus is the only hope of American political systems.

I can save us out of doing damage to do good things, save us. We need a deeper work. We need God to work so we been hearing from folks just like this dear brother, who wrote in an left understand my concern is not me.

My concerns you. I'm blessed by the Lord I'm I'm his child and I'm blessed by the Lord, but I'm on the radio I'm on intranet him on TV I'm writing so as to to be a blessing to you. Help to you in order to serve you and encourage you and strengthen you and equip you, and if you're angry with me if you if you feel that I speaking wrongly or whatever.

Then I'm unable to help you so I don't undermine the arrows coming my way have said it many many times as part of my calling as per my calling to arrows coming from every angle day and night. My concern is how can I reach and help and edify and bless and strengthen you over on our Facebook page, which is our largest social media platform.

We went maybe from 590,000 people to 580,000 people.

So we lost developer center to a follows there and a lot of it was in the aftermath of of me coming after chewing on conspiracy theories. In the aftermath of warning that we were looking for man in an unhealthy way and in the aftermath to be saying that that we could become politicized and and draped of the gospel in the American flag given warnings like that that we got a lot of flak a lot of people angry and that a certain percentage dropped out hate working out of the Lord. Either way will you do what we believe is right in the sight either way, we don't like losing people but hey, Jesus lost large crowds went down to the small crowd and then people fled when he was crucified. So having numbers is not the silly proof favor and in the biggest numbers of anyone on the Internet or people in the world in a celebrity or sports star someone like that right. So our goal is not impressed me with numbers are our goals to to to produce disciples and to put people for the kingdom. Whether it's three or 30 million.

Either way, we honor the Lord but what I want to say is to all of you who had differences with me but said hey we agree on the big things you didn't drop off like this dear brother said hate you know we reacted against you. God bless you because we are in this together. We we do stand together as as one and and it is by loving each other despite differences oh I don't mean heresy. I don't mean denying the fundamental biblical truths can have differences and sometimes will rub each other the wrong way and sometimes if I'm doing my job and God.

I will say something that hits a button there press a button you this reaction. But it it's for good reason because Ron covering something so let's move forward together. Let's honor one another. Let's give respectful place for differences, but then let's determine the devil will not divide us in Jesus name we will stand this one around the cross stands want to make him known to a dying loss of flesh