Now, I do have a question for you as we talk about this message today. Have you ever been sad about something? And it's kind of like unreasonable. Like it's kind of like, man, why did that make me feel so down and out? Why did that make me feel so sad? Here you go. This past week, I had several things that happened to me that made me kind of feel like over the top sad. Okay, the first one happened Thursday after school. So we pick up our kids from school on Thursday, and we're gonna do something fun. We're gonna go to Cross Creek and go to the pumpkin patch. All right? Sound pretty good, right? So we we we pick them up, we pick our kids up, we go, we go there, they're running around the pumpkin patch. It's really, you know, super fun, it's super nice. Um, they're they're having a good time. And then I see a pumpkin there that I absolutely love. I'm talking about this as the great pumpkin Charlie Brown type pumpkin, alright? I'm feeling like Linus. And so here you go. So I see it, it's like this long pumpkin, and it has like one of those like stems that seems like it's straight from like a Tim Burton movie. Like it was like super long. I was like, this is the best pumpkin ever, right? And so we get our pumpkins, we grab them, you know, we pay for them, we walk to the car, and I and here I'm unloading all the kids' pumpkins, Aries, then I put my pumpkin in the in the back of the car, then it rolls, it hits the seat, and the stem breaks off. And yes, thank you. I was so sad, but I was like, unreasonably sad about this. You you may be worried, like, man, my pastor has some emotional issues. Okay, so I was really bummed me out, right? I was like, dang, you know, Aaron actually did fix it because she's wonderful and beautiful, and I'm just a blessed guy. Yes, yes, my wife. Okay, but but you guys, so that was the first thing that kind of made me unreasonably sad. Then the next here happened on Saturday, yesterday, matter of fact. Yesterday. That's our what we do, we do a family fun day, it's our Sabbath, where we take a day, we take a day off to rest and hang out. And so I woke up that morning and said, Man, I'm gonna do something fun for the kids. I'm gonna make them a nice breakfast, I'm gonna make them fried apples. Have you ever had fried apples? So good. And so I said, Man, I'm gonna do that. But as I was doing it, I was getting all the fall vibes. It felt something nice outside. It's like, man, I'm gonna go to my to my Blackstone and I'm gonna make some bacon and eggs to go with this, right? And you know, I'm singing, I'm having a great time. It's a beautiful day outside, I'm cooking bacon, and it was pumpkin spice bacon. It was delicious. Okay, so I'm flipping eggs, I can hear the kids inside playing, it's a great day, then all of a sudden I hear our smoke alarm. And I'm like, what's that? And then I hear the kids screaming. I run inside, and my fried apples are burning like straight charcoal, gray, poof, gone. Dude, I was so sad. I was I grabbed it, burnt my hand out, um, threw it in the sink, and then I, but it really bummed me out, almost unreasonably bummed me out. Again, I don't know if I'm the one who's just emotionally unstable, but but have you ever had things happen to you that make you feel sad? That make you feel sad. Now, here's the truth though. Here's the truth. We all deal with sadness, we all deal with things that that that that come in our lives that cause pain and anxiety. And what I thought about was, yeah, I was just kind of funny and silly. But the same heaviness sometimes rolls up in our lives, doesn't it? We get these unexplained heaviness, that's unexplained. Like, why do I feel weighed down? Why do I feel so anxious about things? What is going on? And it's this cloud of what we can feel like of darkness that kind of can roll in. And friends, that's what depression is like. That's what depression is like. Like, but for some, for some people, and people that we know, and people that we love, and people of us in here, sometimes it's not just a circumstance that makes us feel sad. Depression is a chronic, ongoing thing that we deal with. And it hurts and it's hard. And as we talk about this series, peace of mind, I truly believe that God wants to heal people and bring hope to people who suffer with depression, who suffer with this sadness that rolls in and takes away from the joy that God has for their lives. Now, that's what I want to talk about. So I want to talk about how we can battle depression, how to find hope. And when you can't see it, and even when you don't feel it, God is still at work. God is still at work. And so here you go. Here's the question, though, for us, another one for us. Have you noticed this? If someone in your small group or someone at your work says, Man, I feel like I have a sore throat going on, what do we normally do? We say, go see a doctor, and then we scoot away from them. We do that. All right? If someone breaks a bone, you say what to them? You should probably go to the hospital. You should probably see a surgeon. Now, if someone says to us, though, if someone who struggles with depression says, Man, I'm feeling, I'm having a hard time, the unspoken message often in church is this hey, just keep smiling. Just press through it. Just keep moving. And also kind of keep it to yourself, too. See, and yet depression is one of the biggest mental health battles in our culture today. In our culture today. And if you're one of the many fighting it right now, I have a verse I want to read to you. I have a Bible verse I want to read to you that might spark a little hope and might spark a little anger too. Here you go. Check this out. This is what the Bible says. Proverbs 12 says, anxiety in the heart of man causes depression. I think we all can agree with that. Anxiety, fear, worry, stress causes depression. But check this out. But a good word makes it glad. But a good word makes it glad. Anxiety causes depression, but a good word can make it glad. And if you're battling with depression right now, you might say, Jacob, that sounds too simple. Jacob, that sounds too simple. It's not that easy. A good word for someone doesn't pull me out of the darkness. But this isn't just a good word I want to share with you. This is the word of God, the inspired truth of God. And I believe God's word can bring you hope in the middle of your depression, in the middle of your hardship, in the middle of your pain. And I believe that God wants to do that. And I hear you go, though. I hope this message on depression isn't too depressing. Because I actually, there's a lot of joy and light in this. But depression is a very complex issue. And in case you're feeling a little proud because you don't battle with depression, don't feel too proud because depression doesn't discriminate. So if depression isn't your battle, that doesn't make you more spiritual than someone who is, who it is. Depression also isn't a one-size fit-all. When we talk about this, I just want to acknowledge and say again, this is a very complex issue. And there are essentially four root causes of depression that I want to acknowledge today. Okay, the first one is this: it's biological. It can be caused biologically. If you're battling with depression, you may have it may have nothing to do with your circumstances. It may have nothing to do with the lifestyle that you have, but you might be facing a chemical imbalance in your brain. You may have chronic pain or a nutrition deficiency or hormonal changes, like after having a baby, everything feels off balance. You might not be sleeping well, exercising, or you might be a cowboys fan. Sometimes depression has a very real biological cause. That's one of the reasons. Another one is relational. Come on. Relational cause. In other words, you may be facing a big challenge with one of your kids. Your marriage might have, there might be some tension in your marriage, conflict with people you love, even pain from a divorce or a rejection. So there's relational things that cause it. So there's biological, there's relational, and then there might be circumstantial, circumstantial causes for depression. And at the root of your depression, you might have lost someone close to you. You might have lost a loved one and you're dealing with grief. Or you actually maybe dealing with undealt with grief. And you just wish you could talk to them one more time. Or you might have gone through some type of trauma. Or financially, you did everything you could to hold on, but you still had to file for bankruptcy. There's still a heartache there. Or it could be something that seems good. Check this one out. It could be something that appears to be good. You might finally got to your retirement and you retired. In the first day of your retirement, you said, retirement, here I am. And then the next question you said, now what do I do? And things have changed. Maybe you're empty nesters. And at first the empty house felt great, but now the empty house feels different. Or maybe you've been praying for kids and you finally got kids, and at first the house felt great, but now the house feels different. You keep stepping on little blocks. But there's these things that happen, right? That can happen. And then the fourth one is this, and this one I really want to hit on. The fourth one is there's spiritual attacks. There's spiritual attacks. Now here you go. We live in a culture that we want, we want to make a logical explanation for everything. We put, oh, that's why this happened. Oh, that's why here you got, guys, our spiritual enemy is after our joy. Our spiritual enemy, the Bible tells us, is out to steal, kill, and destroy. And depression isn't just, oh, that's a logical reason why I feel sad. Sometimes, sometimes the enemy is attacking your heart and wants to bring you down low. So there's a spiritual attack to it too. There's a spiritual aspect to it. So again, there's different root causes. Depression doesn't discriminate, and there's no one-size-fit-all. And I'm obviously not a doctor. Or a licensed counselor, but I am a pastor. And so what I want to do is I want to talk to you from the spiritual perspective, acknowledging again the complexity of this. Here you go. In our Old Testament. In the Old Testament, there's a man who battled deep depression. He is a prophet named Jeremiah. He was known as the weeping prophet. You know, I don't know. I'd never want to be that guy. Oh, there's Jacob. That guy cries a lot. You know, so he's the weeping prophet. This is, and this is someone who spoke for God. He loved God. And yet he found himself in the dark and in desperate places. In Lamentations 3, Jeremiah pours out his pain. And to understand why, let's understand the context a little bit. Solomon's temple, one of the greatest tributes ever built to God, to honor God, stood for 400 years. But in 587 BC, the Babylonians destroyed it. They destroyed it. And when this happened, Jeremiah saw it happen. He watched his city burn. He saw his friends die. And he saw loved ones taken captive. Everything he knew was gone. Was gone. He was crushed. And listen how he describes it, okay? And if you're someone who's ever dealt with deep sadness or depression, you can relate to the words of Jeremiah right here. Here you go. He says, I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the Lord's wrath. He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light. He's besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. He's made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. He walled me in so I cannot escape. He has weighed me down with chains. Even when I call out or cry out, cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. I've been deprived of peace. I've forgotten what prosperity is. So I say my splendor is gone, and all that I had hope from the Lord. Talk about feeling sad. Check this out. He finishes. He says, I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and my gifts and my gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Downcast within me. Have you ever met someone who seems so good, so happy, so joyful to discover that their soul is downcast? Have you ever been there? So good. Look how great I am. Life's great. But you go to bed at night honestly, not wanting to wake up. And there's this downcast. There's this thing that happens. The man of God is broken. He has no hope. But two things I want you to remember when you're battling depression. The first thing is this your emotions are actually valid. Let me say that one more time. Your emotions, they are valid, even if people told you just push past it. Even we do this with our kids all the time, don't we? Oh, it's okay. Oh, no, no, you're fine. Because we don't want to we want them to stop crying instead of letting them go through the process of their emotions. You're alright. Just make it through. Your emotions are actually valid. A lot of times in church culture, people say that your feelings don't matter. Don't believe your feelings. You shouldn't pay attention to your feelings. I want to show you that emotions are valid. Second truth is this I want you to understand that your situation feels hopeless. Your situation does. It feels hopeless. If you are depressed right now, you don't know what to do, you don't know where to turn, you don't know how to get out. You may have tried to pray more, you may have tried to read your Bible more, you may have tried to listen to podcasts more. And you've tried for so long, and you are still stuck where you started. And what I just told you about these truths are true. They're so true, but they're also incomplete. These two truths are true, but they're also incomplete. And the problem is a lot of us have been living in incomplete truth. And we have been making decisions based on things that are partially true but not all the way true. Here you go. What do you mean, Jacob? I'm glad you asked me. Let's get to it. Let's look at this. First of all, I want you to know your emotions are valid, but they are not permanent. Come on, let me say that one more time. Your emotions are valid, but they are not permanent. And the second thing I want you to remember is your situation feels hopeless, but with God, there is always hope. There is always hope. And so with the presence of God in our lives, even when we don't feel it, even when we don't see it, even when everything feels hopeless, with God there is always hope. When you're hurt and you don't know where to turn, when you've done all you can, I want to tell you that your emotions are valid. They are real, and they are actually a very important part of you experiencing God's healing for your life. See, an expert would tell you this. An expert would say, one of the ways to heal and to actually change your emotions is to start by acknowledging your emotions. You gotta acknowledge, you gotta literally name your emotions. If you feel hopeless right now, just write even wherever you are, just say, Yeah, I feel hopeless. Yeah, I got some stuff going on. You know, if you feel angry, you say, Yeah, I'm angry. And if you're angry at God, he can take it. You can tell him that. If you feel hurt, if you feel betrayed, if you feel depressed, you can say it. If you feel empty, if you feel numb, you can speak it, and you can say it. Now, I have a question for you. Who in here is afraid of spiders? I hate to do this to you. This is a real spider from somewhere from my backyard. Okay, this is a spider. Not a real one though, just in case. But here you go. Spiders. There is this one, there is this, um, there is this research, this study they did of people who are afraid of spiders. But for real, imagine though, if you walked in your backyard and you saw this in your backyard. Even if it was pink, I'm still gonna be scared. So, and they what they did was they took four groups of people. They took, stay, stay, stay. Okay, stay. They took four groups of people and they and they and they exposed them to a tarantula. Would you do that? No, some people said, no. What if they gave you a thousand dollars? Some people said, maybe. Okay, you make sure you tied it, though. Here you go. Anyways, so uh they divided them into four groups. One group, one group they labeled them, you have to say what you're afraid of. You say it, acknowledge what you're afraid of. The second group simply made neutral observations. They said, oh, the spider is in a cage or whatever. They just made neutral observations. The third group says something totally unrelated. It's about to rain outside. And then the fourth group said nothing. They said nothing at all. They said nothing about the spider that's right in front of them. Okay, so they took these people who are afraid of spiders and they brought them back a week later and exposed them to the spider, but this time outside of a cage. And they left them in a room with the spider. And what the researchers discovered was the group, group one that acknowledged their fear was able to actually be in the same room with the spider. And then not only be in the same room with the spider, they were even able to touch the spider. But the other groups couldn't do it, they never moved forward. And so what researchers have discovered with this, with you know, with this example and many other ones is that is that you have to name it. That naming your emotions opens the door to changing your emotions. Naming your emotions opens the door to changing your emotions. Your emotions are valid, but they are not permanent. But I want to say to some people today, I really feel that the Holy Spirit was putting this on me today. There are so many people that your emotions have been shoved down. People have just shoved them down in your life. You don't need to feel that way. You don't need to talk about that. You don't need to, you don't need to bring that up to people. You don't need to say, and they've been pushed down. And I feel the Holy Spirit is saying that he wants to bring liberation and freedom to you by saying the things that have haunted you, saying the things that have left trauma in you, exposing it for what it is. Because when you bring it to the light, there God brings healing to your life. He brings healing to your life. Guys, I know this is a little heavy. I know this is a little heavy, even with the pink spider on the stage. But God wants to bring healing to you. And there's been good, mean and fair people who have just told you. Ah, you're alright. What they did to you wasn't that big of a deal. Oh, they were just young, they didn't know any better. No, no, no, no, no. And Holy Spirit wants to bring healing to your life, He wants to set you free. Your emotions are valid, but they are not permanent. And because they are because our emotions are temporary, we are not gonna make permanent dispermanent decisions based on temporary emotions. And when you're feeling down, we're not gonna make a permanent decision based on that. And not only are we not gonna make permanent decisions, we're not gonna make permanent conclusions. We're not gonna say, well, all men are like this. We're all people like, well, church, they're only after this. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not gonna make permanent decisions or permanent conclusions based on temporary emotions. And when you are afraid, when you feel threatened, you might feel like you want to quit. You may feel like you want to quit on your kids, on your marriage, on your purpose, on what God has for you. You might feel like quitting on God. You might feel like running out of the door and shutting everyone behind you and finding the biggest bottle of Jack Daniels that you can. You might feel like just going away. In the darkest times, you may feel like your life is not worth it, and your spiritual enemy will want to speak to you and still kill and destroy you and say, Yes, that is true. Your life is not worth it, and no one will miss you. And in that moment, it may feel true, but I want you to know that never, ever, under any circumstances, is that true. Because God knew you while you were in your mother's womb. That God, that God formed you and shaped you, and He put you on this earth, and He gave you good works to do in advance. Come on. And so we're not gonna make permanent decisions or permanent conclusions based on temporary emotions. And your emotions, they're valid, but they're not real. I mean, and they're valid, and they're real. But God gave you your emotions. God gave you your emotions, and he gave it to you to fill them, but not to be ruled by that. But to walk through them. And that's where spending daily time with God comes in. We can write about it, journal it, pray it, walk through God. Walk, walk, walk with it with God and have them bring healing. The second thing is this your situation may feel hopeless, but with God, there is always hope. There's always hope. There's always hope. And again, you may not feel it. You may not believe it. But I want to bring you a good word today. I want to bring you a good word in Lamentations 3. This is what Jeremiah said. He said, My soul is downcast. My soul is downcast. Then he says this. Then he says, Yet I call this to mine. My soul is downcast. I'm down, I'm low. Yet I call this to mine. What does he call to mind? What does Jeremiah call? He's like, I feel hopeless, I feel depressed, I'm walking in darkness, I have no hope, yet I called this to mine. And because I call this to mine, therefore I have hope. In the middle of my darkest moment, he calls to mind the goodness of God's character, the nature of God, and he talks about it. And check this out. He says this in verse 22. He says, Because of the Lord's great love, we're not consumed. For his compassions never fail. They're new every morning. And in the middle of his darkness, he declares, Great is your faithfulness, God. Great is your faithfulness. I call this to mind. Great is your faithfulness. And what do we do when the whole world feels dark? What do we do when our world is caven in on us? What do we do when depression seems to be the most logical explanation and choice that we can make? What do we do? What do we do? We acknowledge it. We say it. We say what we feel. We say, I feel hopeless in this. I feel angry in this. I feel upset in this. We acknowledge, we acknowledge what's happening, and then and then we acknowledge our need for help. We acknowledge that we need help. And again, I said this a few weeks ago. Acknowledging that you need help is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of wisdom. The wise get help. The wise seek counsel. The wise goes to a brother and sister for help. The wise do that. And so we acknowledge the pain and then we acknowledge that we need help and that we're not by ourselves. Here you go. What are some ways that you can get help? Well, you might talk to a counselor, that's wise. You might go to a doctor who can prescribe helpful medicine. That's wise, and that is not unspiritual. You might change your diet, that's wise and spiritual. And it works with the way God designs your body. You might start to exercise. You might start to keep a journal, or you might actually get into a small group. Guys, I gotta say something. We got two men's groups that meet on Tuesday nights, and one that meets at Wegman's and another that meets at a church, and we're going through this curriculum called freedom. Guys, it's been so good. And I look forward every Tuesday to hang out with the fellows at my group and just share. And share. And then here's the cool part you know, let to let you in a little bit behind the curtain. Most of the times pastors can't really share that well with people in their congregation because people in the congregation be like, dude, but we got a group of guys, man, I can share openly and honestly. And I can't imagine doing life without them. I can't imagine. There's too much bad stuff happening. There's too much. I gotta have some strong men in my life. Iron sharpens iron. And I encourage you to get into a small group to get people around you that can encourage you. That's why we do small groups. That's why we do them. And so that you can have people around you that might pray for you, that can help you pause, and who can praise with you when you need help. Jeremiah says, I call this to mind. I call this to mind. And when we do this, things happen. And here's the biggest thing that happens when we call this to mind. You start to change your posture. You start to change your posture. I want you to see this. I have no proof of this in the Bible. But for some reason, I just feel like when Jeremiah was talking about all that he's when he was like, My my soul is downcast. I'm suffering. I'm in pain. I can only visualize him being like this. Like there's so much pain. Have you ever taught to someone who is struggling with depression? Often their shoulders are down. Often there's a frown. Often there's pain. You see it in there and they're down. And this is how I picture Jeremiah saying this. He said, This is happening, God. There's all this pain. There's this affliction that I feel. But then I see this. Then I see this. When he says, Yet I call this to mind. There's a change in his posture. There's a change in his posture. Because there's an enemy that will want to keep you sink, sunk down, low, defeated. There's an enemy that wants to make you invisible. That wants to make you feel like your life doesn't matter. And that nobody really cares. And so if you can stay low and shrunk and down, but he says, Yeah, I call this to mind. And his posture begins to change. And his posture begins to move. And when your posture, your posture, it reflects your moves. It reflects your mood. And your posture can impact your mood. Yeah, I call this to mind. And again, I don't know if he really did this, but this is what I see. He says, I call this to mind. Great. And I begin to see his arms going up. Great is your faithfulness, oh God. Great is your faithfulness. And I see where he started down low and he's naming his affliction. He's naming his emotions. He's naming his pain. And once we name our pain, the enemy doesn't have a say over it anymore. And he's naming his pain. But then he says, But great are you, God. And he begins to lift up his hands. And what does it mean when we lift up our hands? It's an act of surrender. God, I surrender to you. And that's why during worship you see people raising up holy hands towards heaven. It's not because we gotta do some salute to God to make God move. No, it's a sign of God, I can't do it, but you can. I'm surrendering to you, Lord. And I'm lifting up hands. And it's not only just a posture of surrender, it's a posture of victory. What happens when your favorite team scores a goal? Thank God. We lift up our hands. We be lifting up our holy hands to Tom Brady more than Jesus. He ain't even playing no more. And we lift up our hands, and it's our posture changes. And that's why we're gonna pray and we're gonna pause and then we're gonna praise God. And we're gonna say, God, even though I have this darkness, even though there's this depression, even though there's circumstances I cannot change, and there's people I have no control over, God, I surrender to you. Great is your faithfulness, God. Great is your faithfulness. You have been faithful before. And you're gonna be faithful again, and we're gonna change our posture. And you may say to yourself, Jacob, is that gonna fix my problems? I don't know if it's gonna fix your problems, but it will fix your perspective. It will fix your perspective. And then when you're in this position of praise and surrender and victory, you got to start preaching to yourself. Because hearing me preach on Sunday is not what LVC is about. LVC is about helping everyday people learn how to become Jesus followers and spending daily time with Jesus because sometimes I ain't gonna. To be there, and if I showed up in your kitchen, that would be weird. But you're gonna start praising, and you're gonna start preaching to yourself, and you're gonna start saying you are my ever-present help in time of need, and I am more than a conqueror who is giving me strength. I'm gonna start preaching to myself. Though you though the world slays me, God, you never leave me or forsake me. And you start preaching to yourself, you start speaking to yourself, and you start saying, God, you're with me and you're for me, and great, great is your faithfulness. And so, friends, I want to remind you when you're dealing with depression, your emotions are valid, but they are not permanent. They are not permanent in your situation. It feels hopeless, but with God, there is always hope. And so today may be the day anxiety causes pain in your heart and in your mind. But a good word, a good word brings gladness. And the good word I share with you all today is that Jesus, that Jesus thought about you when he was on that cross. And Jesus thought about you when he rose again. And Jesus thinks about you even in your lowest of moments. And so when you're low, he's not waiting for you to elevate to meet him. While you're low, he puts an arm around you and says, I'll help you lift up your eyes to see that I'm with you. There's an intimacy there, a connection there, and he's with you and for you. So, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, we thank you for your power. We thank you for your goodness, and we thank you for your joy. Just even right now, as I was prepping this message this week, I felt like there's some people in here that you would say, Man, there is this depression in your household. There's depression in your household. If that's you, I'm not gonna call you out or nothing like that, have you come up front, but I want to see who I'm praying for. If that's you, if there's depression in your household, can you just shoot a hand up to in the air so I can see who I'm praying for? Yeah. Come, Holy Spirit. You see those hands, Lord. Lord, I pray for your joy and your peace in their households, Lord. I pray um reconciliation of relationships. Yeah, Lord, come, Holy Spirit. I pray your joy to replace hardness of heart. And God, we just ask that you pour out your spirit of peace, that you pour out your spirit of love. You pour out your spirit of goodness, Lord, on those households. We pray for the kids that those households represent, that they will be filled with your joy, Lord. God, we pray a protection over our children, Lord. Where media has so many voices and influences. Lord, we pray protection over the ears of our children, Lord. I even feel right now, this may be silly, but I feel like this is for someone. I feel like the Holy Spirit saying in that chat GPT is not your counselor or your friend. Because he doesn't have a soul. But small group, get some people around you. Man, okay. Come, Holy Spirit. I feel like there's a spouse in here who said, who has said, I've been trying to confide in my spouse, but they put me down when I try to open up about my emotions. So, Holy Spirit, I pray for a safe place in that household. And Holy Spirit, I pray that you uh bring around um godly um men and men or women, whoever it is, around that person, Lord, that they can confide their emotions in and find healing and hope in Jesus' name. And then Lord, I also just pray healing over that marriage, Lord. Come on, Holy Spirit. We're about your business today. We're not in a rush. I just feel like someone, I feel like the Holy Spirit is uh, again, guys, go with me with the imagery that I'm feeling, but I just like the Holy Spirit is taking like a big scissors and is like cutting a tie that someone keeps putting their worth in somebody else, and that person just keeps disappointing them and it's messing up your mental health. And I feel like the Holy Spirit's like, can I cut it? Shoot. But he won't cut it unless you say yes. And I also feel like the Holy Spirit is saying it's not even a chain, it's a tie. It's a little, it's a little yarn. All right, Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit. I'm not in a rush. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. You're so good. Great is your faithfulness, Lord. Great is your faithfulness. So, Holy Spirit, we say more of you. We say more of you, Jesus. We say more of you. And actually, I just feel like the Holy Spirit is saying, someone in here, you're having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. And I feel the Holy Spirit is saying, the joy of the Lord is your strength. Repeat it to yourself, preach it to yourself. The joy of the Lord is your strength. The joy of the Lord is your strength. So, Lord, we pray that you just pour out a bucket full of joy on people. Drench them in your joy. God, we're tired of the enemy's lies. We had enough of it, Lord. We're fed up with it. Why so downcast, my soul? No, no, I look up. I call this to mind that God, you are victory. God, you are good. You are the undefeated one. You sit on high, you sit on the throne, and so we worship you, Lord. We lift up holy hands to you and we say, You hold our victory, Jesus. God, we love you and we need you in Jesus' name. Everybody says, Amen. Come on, let's give God some praise in here today.