Life.Church with Craig Groeschel - The Most Dangerous Myths of Mental Health | Peace of Mind: Part 1

Episode Date: August 14, 2022

We all want more peace, but when we’re struggling with anxiety and depression, it can seem completely out of reach. So, let’s talk mental health! In this message, we’re addressing two dangerous myths about mental health so we can move past them and find peace.ABOUT THIS MESSAGESometimes, we’re facing battles that no one else can see. Maybe it’s trying to move forward after loss or uneasiness about the future. What do we do when we don’t understand what we’re feeling and hope seems far away? In our new series, Peace of Mind, we’ll learn how to fight our mental battles and find peace.WE’RE OPENWe’re continuing to monitor guidelines and best practices for gathering in a safe way. Learn more about everything we're doing to keep you safe and how you can help by using hand sanitizer, washing your hands often, and more: https://www.life.church/updatesFind a time and attend a service with us: http://www.life.church/locationsNEXT STEPSHave you made a decision to follow Jesus? You may be wondering what’s next on your journey. We want to help! Let us guide you to your next steps in your walk with Christ: https://www.life.church/nextABOUT LIFE.CHURCHWherever you are in life, you have a purpose. Life.Church wants to help you find your next step. Our hope is that your journey will include joining us at a Life.Church location throughout the United States or globally online at https://www.live.life.church. Find locations, videos, and more info about us at https://www.life.church or download the Life.Church app at https://www.life.church/app. FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/life.churchInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/life.churchTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/lifechurchTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lifechurchCONNECT WITH PASTOR CRAIGYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/craiggroeschelFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/craiggroeschelInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/craiggroeschelTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/craiggroeschelTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@craiggroeschel#lifechurch #craiggroeschel #mentalhealthmyths Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I'll be real, real honest with you and tell you that I never expected to be one that would break down. I always thought it was other people. I've had years of mostly consistent ministry. My highs aren't real high, my lows aren't real low. I've just year after year, decade after decade have been blessed by God to just be consistent. And I never thought that I would be one to break down. Others maybe, but not me. And on the outside, most people didn't even know.

Because I still showed up and did what I know how to do. And I preached and I looked healthy and am healthy. And my marriage with Amy has been good and was good. And on the outside, everything looked exactly the same. same, but on the inside, it was nothing but sheer panic. And I didn't see it coming. All I know is that it was a little by little. Year over year, there's a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more, and then a little more, and then I thought, maybe it's too much, and then there was a little more, and then I thought,

I can't continue like this, and there was a little more, and then I thought, this is going to get me, and then there was a little more, and then I thought, this will probably kill me. Like, he's going to kill me. So, is that too real? Do we have to play, like, church halo thing? And I get, I'm super pastor, and I don't have real problems? Can we go there?

I thought I was going to kill me. And so here I am almost three decades into ministry, and I need help. And I was embarrassed. Like, I'm the pastor, you know, not just a Christian, but I'm a pastor. And sadly, there are some of you that can relate right now. There's a lot of people that can relate where outwardly, you're still showing up and you're still smiling and you're still trying to do your job. But inwardly, you're battling real depression or ongoing kind of chronic anxiety.

Or you just feel distressed. there's just too much. Like you just can't handle it all. Like you might just snap. You might just burn out. If you find yourself struggling mentally, you're not alone. And we're going to talk about it over the next several weeks.

We're going to talk about mental health in a message series that I'm calling Peace of Mind. And the title for our first and foundational message and it will be very foundational. you're going to say, where's the rest of it? The rest of it's coming. It's very foundational. But the title to build a foundation today

is the most dangerous myths of mental health. And what I want to do is I want to pray an open-eyed prayer. So you don't have to close your eyes. Jesus did say, watch them pray. And so if you're driving and praying, you want to watch and pray. And so this is our open-eyed prayer, and this is my prayer for you. May God himself, may our Heavenly Father, the one who loves you, who is called according to 1st, Thessalonian

chapter 5, verse 23, the God of peace. May the God of peace sanctify you, cleanse you, change you through and through, through and through. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus. Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and scripture promises and he will do it. May the God of peace bring healing. Would you look at the person Nick's sitting next to you and just tell them right now. Tell him, God is my peace. Tell him, God is my peace. Look at your second choice. The other one say, he's your peace too. Go ahead and tell him that right now. He's your peace too. You can type that

in the chat if you're watching today, God is my peace. God is my peace. It's interesting. I'm glad things are improving in the church world for years. People said that the church shouldn't talk about mental health. It was kind of something like it was somebody else's problem and it's not something we're going to talk about in the church. And sometimes the implication would be that you shouldn't struggle mentally because if you're someone that comes to Jesus, then Jesus fixes everything. The moment you come to Jesus, you know, he's going to, I'll try to do my country, preach your voice.

I only have one. But he's going to save you, you know, and he's going to redeem your soul, and he's going to fill you with Holy Ghost power, and he's going to work. Maybe that's my voice, I don't even know, but he's going to work in all things to bring about good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. everything that I told you is true. He saves you. He forgives you. He redeems you. He fills you with his power. He'll never leave you. And everything does work together for good. All that's true, but is incomplete. And what I'm about to say is going to freak some people out and you can go

join the blogs that say he's a heretic, you know, whatever. And this may freak you out, but it's true. just because Jesus saves you doesn't mean he fixes every error of your life instantly just because your sins are forgiven i've never heard anyone say like um you know i was reading a bible and i called on jesus and he saved me and all of a sudden i had abs i've never like you know i can't praise the lord here's my spiritual six-back i've never seen that happen before you know i came to the altru i was crying and I gave my life to Jesus, and my credit score improved. My hair got thicker, my thighs got thinner. Hashtag blessed.

I've never heard that. In other words, just because you come to Jesus, it doesn't mean that your boss is now nice to you. Or your bank account just instantly went up. Or when you came to Jesus, it doesn't mean that you instantly became mentally healthy. When we talk about mental health, you say, maybe you say, what are we talking about?

And I want to try to kind of unpack this a little bit because first of all, I want to just acknowledge that I am a pastor, I'm not a Christian psychologist, not a doctor, and so I'm not an expert, but I have read over a dozen books and have consulted in detail, in detail with two Christian counselors who are helping guide me through kind of a biblical narrative to present this in a way that would be helpful. I'm going to tell you right now I'm not an expert at all, and so I'm going to focus more on the spiritual. but what I want to do is acknowledge what mental health actually is. And mental health would include at least three things. Your emotional, your psychological, and your social well-being.

It's very, very important because our mental health, it's not actually static, meaning you can be really healthy for a little while, and then something happens, or you have a change in your body, or you go through trauma, and you may be mentally healthy one moment, and then you may be in a very bad place afterwards. And your mental health, it actually impacts how you think, which impacts how you feel, and then impacts how you act. Your mental health determines how you handle stress around you,

or how you relate to people, or how you make choices, or how you bounce back from a difficult situation, or how you don't bounce back. Your mental health might determine how you cope if you go to the wrong sources for comfort or if you make the right choices. It might determine even how you choose your friends or the quality or the not-so-quality of your marriage.

And there are so many misunderstandings when it comes to mental health. I want to just build a foundation today and then we're going to build on top of it and I'm going to show you the two mental health myths that I've noticed most in the church today. The first one, if you're taking notice, is this. A lot of Christians believe that Christians shouldn't struggle with mental health.

That if you're a Christian because you're filled with the Holy Spirit, because you've been saved, you shouldn't battle with anxiety, or you really shouldn't be depressed, or you shouldn't be burned out. And if you do struggle with one of these things, then it's probably your fault. In other words, you don't have enough faith, or you're not praying enough, or if you are praying a lot, you're not praying right, or there's some kind of a sin in your life that you need to confess and get out of your life, and if you get that sin out of your life, then you're not going to be anxious,

or you're not going to be overwhelmed, or you're not going to be burned out, or you're not going to be struggling. What I want to do is show you that you can love Jesus and still fight depression. You can be in the word. You can have the longest Bible streak in the U-Versian Bible app of anybody in your life group and still battle with anxiety. You can attend church faithfully and sit on the front row and lift your hands for worship and tithe and serve in the two-year-old room and still struggle to overcome trauma,

partially because it's traumatic to serve in the two-year-old room. When you look in Scripture, some of the people that we preach about as heroes, the ones we look up to, the ones that are the heroes and the fathers and the mothers of the faith, with all their faith, they still had bouts with mental challenges. There was Elijah. I mean, think about this guy. This guy, he's cocky, man. I mean, he stands down 800 false prophets of bail,

and he calls down fire from heaven one day. And shortly after, he's all alone depressed, and he wants to die. David, a man after God's own heart, who stands down the giant says, Who are you to come against the armies of the living God? And he battles with deep despair, wondering if God is a doubt. abandon him. Jeremiah. I don't want to be Jeremiah because he's called the weeping prophet. I want to be the bold prophet, the confident, the strong prophet. And the prophet of God, who declared God's truth, battled with loneliness, insecurity, and he cursed the day that

he was born. And so if you find yourself like so many people today, you're struggling in your mental health and you don't know what to do. The message sometimes in the church is you just need more of God, you just need more of God, you just need more God, you just need more God. And I came to tell you that you do need more of God and you might need more sleep. Is that unspiritual? God designed those. You might need better friends. You're not in a life group and you wonder why you feel alone and disconnected and don't

have people standing by you and pray them for you? How in the world do you think you're going to stand strong against the forces of darkness when you don't have friends of life standing nearby? We want to take a holistic approach, and I don't necessarily mean like holistic medicine. I'm talking about our whole body's connected. Like you might need a better diet, you might need to go to a doctor, and you might be having some hormonal changes,

you might need to do some deep therapy or whatever the case would be. If you're struggling, and so many people are, I don't know if I can make it, I feel anxious, I feel depressed, and I don't know why, and I'm praying, and I'm trying to church, and I'm seeking God, and I'm trying to do better, and I still just can't seem to make it.

If you're struggling, it doesn't mean you're not a good Christian. It means you're human. It means you're human. And there's a myth, and it's a lot of time you'll see it around the church, that is, Christian shouldn't struggle with mental health. And there's another myth if you're taking notes, and that is a lot of people say, well, God doesn't care about your mental health. He didn't really care about that.

He's too busy. He's got bigger problems. Have you seen what's going on in the world today? You think God has the time to deal with you trying to handle your freaky, in-laws or whatever. He didn't have time for that. But when you look at Scripture, especially the Psalms,

does anybody love the Psalms? Anybody love the Psalms? When you look at the Psalms, you're going to see just how much God cares about every area of your life. I love the Psalms. I'll share just a few of them with you, just to quote them,

the Lord is my light and my salvation. whom shall I fear? The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He saves those who are crushed in spirit. God is our refuge and our strength. He's our ever-present help in a time of trouble. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He restores my soul. even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You will prepare for me a table in the presence of my enemies, and your mercy and goodness will follow me all the days. The Lord cares about you, he cares about you. Go to the Psalms to see how much he cares about you, and go to the Psalms to see some

people breaking down mentally. There's a lot of psalms you want on your coffee mug, and I'm going to show you one you don't. I'm going to show you one you don't. Psalm 88 was written by a guy named He-Man. Now, for those of you that might be my age, when I was a kid, there was a cartoon character named He-Man, who had a girlfriend named Shira, and they were both very muscular and immodest. And that was Heman. This is a different Heman. I'm just saying, I don't know. I don't even know why I thought of that, but I'm, Heman!

Okay. In the Bible, Heman is the guy that you wanted in your life. He was well respected. He was the one that everybody looked up to. And I want to show you just some of the qualities we know about Heman from Scripture. He had great wisdom, very, very wise, wisdom from the Lord. Lord. He was a talented musician. He was one of the worshippers and had incredible musical ability. He had a lot of kids, and the implication is that he was a committed parent, very committed in his

parenting. And he was very, very faithful in his service to the king. This was a man of God. This would have been the deacon at the church. This would have been the guy at work that you go to for advice. This is the guy you want for your father-in-law or your dad. This is a man of God. And I want to show you what he said in Psalm 88. And I'll give you a little spoiler alert. This is one of only two Psalms and all the Psalms that don't have a positive ending. A lot of times people whine and cry and complain, and then they say, but the Lord is faithful. And this man of God says this.

And I wonder how many of you might be able to relate. He says, I am overwhelmed with troubles. and my life draws near to death. I'm counted among those who've gone down to the pit. I'm like one without any strength left. I'm set apart with the dead like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, God, you've forgotten me. I feel like I'm cut off from your care.

And then we're going to see something that he gets right. And what I want to tell you is what he gets right is the very same thing that you get right. because in the middle of his darkness, in the middle of his despair, he continues to turn from God just like you might be doing today. The very thought that you may be hurting and feel desperate and you've shown up for church or you've watched online tells you that somewhere buried in there, in the middle of the darkness, you're still turning toward the light. And he did the very same thing right that you're doing at this moment. He says, but I cry to you for help, Lord. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

you're the first place I turn. And even though he's crying out to God, he's not finding the peace that he wants. And he says, why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me? And the last verse of Psalm 88 is haunting. He says, you've taken from me, my friend and neighbor, darkness is my closest friend. Darkness.

It's my closest friend. This God love God. It's a man of God. And this is in the Bible. This is in the Psalms. And I love that it's there with no positive ending because it shows that God is not afraid of our honesty. That he cares, that it's that you may love him

and you may question him. And you may worship him. you may hurt. And when you hurt, he cares. Darkness is my closest friend. And that's about where I was when I was breaking down. Still preaching, still showing up, and panicking. Fine on the outside, dying on the inside. So I got over my pride and I called a counselor. You're like, you're a pastor, and you call it a counselor, yes. And I just want to remind you that getting help isn't a sign of weakness.

It's a sign of wisdom. I want to say it again, and I want you to hear it. Getting help, it's not like you're weak, you're dumb, you're bad, it's wise. And so I started meeting with my counselor, and I said, I'm in bad shape. Like, I'm in really bad shape.

I'm in bad shape. And so he put me through a very expensive, ongoing battery of different tests. And he came back and said, I got good news for you. I said, good, I need something. He says, you're not in bad shape. I'm going, you're the wrong guy. I'm in bad shape.

He goes, no, no, no. And he said, you're not. He said, physically you're in as good as shape as I've seen. And a man your age, like he had to throw that in there. Like, why not just say you're in good shape in a man your age? He said, he says, spiritually, you're like seeking God and you're in God's word and you're praying and you have faith. you're not sending in any gross and ongoing ways.

He said, your marriage is like something that everybody would aspire to have. He said, you're physically healthy, you're spiritually healthy, you're relationally healthy. He said, you're just mentally exhausted. You're just mentally exhausted. And so we started going through some exercises and we did all this kind of basic insulting stuff

like, Pastor Craig, what is the greatest command? Like, oh, here we go. What is it? Well, Jesus said this. He said, love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your what with all your mind and he said are you loving God with all your heart I said yes are you loving God with all your soul yes because are you loving God with all your mind interesting how do you love God with your

mind and so he reviewed some stuff that I taught in the series winning the war in your mind that your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts and we started to talk about the brain. And what I want to do is I want to, let's just talk about the brain. That's pretty cool. Let's talk about the brain for a moment. The brain is actually built over time. And it starts at birth, and then it starts to evolve.

And what happens is the brain, it makes all of these connections, connections, connections, simple connections that are called neural pathways. And for the first few years of your life, How many neural pathways is your brain making? About one million or so connections every second, every second, your brain's making a connection, and connection and connection. And then after a while, the brain starts to learn and the connections are simplified through a process called pruning.

What happens? Your brain gets more efficient. And it starts to think in patterns. In other words, once you think of thought, it's easier to think that thought. Again, it's like a mental rut or a pathway that's easier to continue to think those thoughts. And that's good news if your thoughts are healthy. That's bad news when your thoughts aren't. So if your body's not healthy, what do you do?

You go to a doctor. You might change your diet. You might exercise. you might get treatment for where your body is unhealthy is unhealthy so if your mind is unhealthy what do you do you might go to a doctor like I did you might go to the great physician who helps to renew your mind and my mind just couldn't shut down so my counselor gave me assignment come up with 30 things you've never done before I came up with six like I couldn't think to seven I got I got stupid I was too many

And so I want you to try, start trying them. So I tried two, and I started two new hobbies, which seemed like really odd counseling for as much money as I was paying an hour. But what I didn't realize is he was trying to disconnect my mind so it could reconnect to God. I did disconnect at first. My mind was stuck in this church, church, church, church.

And that sounds like all spiritual. That's church, that's not God. There's a difference. It's church. He's like, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. I had to disconnect my mind and then connect it to God. And there's one verse I want to share you that can start to help you disconnect your mind from the wrong thing and connect it to the right thing. If you want peace of mind, here's the foundation.

We'll start here today. Isaiah 263. Scripture says this. Watch this. You will be kept in perfect peace. all who trust in you, all who's what, watch this, all whose thoughts God are fixed on you. I love this.

You'll be kept in perfect peace, perfect peace, perfect peace, perfect peace. Not just occasional peace when everything's going the way you want it. Not just momentary peace when you feel good in the moment. Not just circumstantial peace, but you'll be kept in perfect peace. What is perfect peace? I love in the Hebrew language, perfect peace is actually a translation from Shalom two times. Salome is peace, but the author doesn't say Shalom, but he says, Shalom, Shalom. Any times you see a word repeated in the Hebrew is for incredible emphasis. It's like Shalom exponential. It's like what you do. If your kids are acting up, you repeat it. Like you're

driving along, don't make me come back. Don't make me come back there. And then once you get wisdom, you don't even speak, you just swat. I mean, you know what I'm talking. about. So you repeat something for, and the author says, you will experience, shalom, shalom, who will experience it? Those whose thoughts are fixed on CNN news? Oh, wrong party. On Fox News. On those who are just sitting there scrolling through social media all day long. Are those whose minds are fixed on church for the work? No, no, no. No. You'll keep it. imperfect peace, all whose thoughts are fixed on you. The Hebrew word translated as fixed is the word Samak. And this word, it actually means to prop. It means to rest your full weight on an object.

It's to rest your full weight. If you're like so many people right now, and you're just not doing great, there's tension, there's heaviness, you're worried about kind of stuff. You don't know where to turn. You don't like your job. You don't know like people around you. You're just not okay. One of the things we need to do is disconnect our minds from what is unhelpful

and we don't just fix our thoughts on what's helpful. We fix our thoughts on God, on God, on God, on God. And we start to create new neural pathways, that's science. Scripture says we renew our mind. Do not be conformed to what everybody else is doing. doing. The craziness, the toxicity, the hatefulness, the bitterness, the negativity. Do not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed. How? By the renewing of your mind. And so, I disconnected my mind and I started to connect it to one spiritual truth. And this was mine.

The verse, 2nd Peter 1.3, this was my verse that talks about God's power. It's his divine power. It's God's power. It's not my power. It's his power. It's his power. It's not my power. It's his power. Has given us everything, not just part of it, but everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him. It's his power. And again and again, I fixed my mind on his word and again and again. And so instead of saying like, I can't, and this is too much, and this is going to kill me, and I'm never going to get it all done, and nobody understands, and nobody cares. Instead, what I said is that God is my source and my strength. I have everything I need to do everything he called me to do.

God is my source. God is my strength. It's him, it's his power. It's not mine. It's God. It's God. According to Scripture, he's given me everything. Everything I need, the people I need, the resources I need, the friends I need, the

counselor I need, the strength I need, his word, the energy, the power, the mental health. He's given me everything I need over and over and over and over. and over and over again, and you'll be kept in perfect peace, those who thoughts are fixed on you. And so I started changing my thought patterns, and I was healed instantly. I wish.

It wasn't instant. It was like, I would say, Amy might say, about an 18-month journey. And about 18 months ago, she said, I think you're doing good. And I said, can we say that? Have I been good long enough? I said, I think I'm doing good too.

And I didn't really go public with it with many people because they're close to me because I want to see it for three months. I want to see it for six months. About 18 months on the other side of it saying, like, by the grace of God, he has given me, he's given me everything I need to do everything he's called me to do. It's a peace. It's a peace. And so, so I was meeting with a hundred or so of our staff members.

These were the campus pastors, 42 of them, and the top leaders from Central. So these were the people that oversee the church. We had a long working session, and we prayed for you at the end. We prayed for you, our church family. And at the end of the prayer, it's funny I'm telling you because I didn't even want them to know, but at the end of the prayer, I couldn't physically stand because of the emotion was so great. The burden that I feel as your pastor, we're praying. and their eyes are closed and I just crumbled.

And I thought, I can't let him see this. I couldn't stand. I was just shaking. So I put the mic down and tried to walk out of the room. I didn't want them to know. And now I'm telling all of you. What I want you to know is that it's like, God, I think, I'm not happy about this. I think he allowed me to experience something so I could relate to what's going on

and dive into his word and come out with truth that might just change some lives. Our spiritual enemy is attacking everywhere. Christian to point in the fingers at each other like the wrong and not believing in the best motives, criticizing on, on, on, on, on. And people just aren't doing well right now. And you can be kept in perfect peace if your thoughts are fixed on him. Here's what we're going to talk about.

Next week, we're going to talk about anxiety. The week after that, we're going to talk about depression. The week after that, we're going to talk about worry. The week after that, if I haven't got you yet, I'm coming for you. We're talking about chronic negativity. Seeing the world through a negative lens. We're gonna talk about trauma and deep pain and deep healing. And then we're gonna talk about mine, which is burnout.

Where do we go? And we're gonna live out the promises of Jesus. When he said this, he said, peace, I leave with you. And watch this, he said, my peace, my peace. My peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives. I love this. He said, my peace.

Not a peace, but my peace. And when did Jesus say he gives his peace? It's interesting in John 14, he said he gives his peace the night before his suffering, the night before he faced the worst physical agony possible to show us perhaps that real peace, perfect peace, isn't found in the absence of problems, but real peace is found in the presence of God.

It's Shalom Shalom. It's peace even when you hear bad news. It's peace even when you lose your job. It's peace when your marriages is struggling. It's peace when your kids are making decisions that are wrecking you in your heart. It's peace when you're hurt by those you love the most.

It's peace when money is tight. It's salome, salome. It is a peace from God. The world can't give it, and the world can't take it away. And God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power and love have a sound mind. May the God of peace,

sanctify your soul through and through. He cares, he is here, He is faithful. So Father, we pray by the power of your spirit that you would do a healing work. As you're reflecting wherever you're watching today, those of you who would say, I want to learn to love God with my mind.

I need some help in my mind. Would you lift your hands right now? Lift them up. Lift them up. Let's just go there. Let's just go there. God, thank you for honesty today. Thank you for your presence.

Help us, God, to fix our thoughts on you. train our brains to be renewed with your truth. God bring healing to those who are hurting. Either instantly in the moment or in a journey as you guide us. You're the source of all that we need, and we look to you. As you keep praying today, some of you, spiritually, you don't know where you stand right now. We're seeing so many people baptized. There are many that felt guilty and ashamed of things they've done, and they found a peace that

goes beyond anything this world knows. His name is Jesus. He is the Son of God, he was perfect. He shed his blood that we could live. He died in our place. And when you call on him, he hears your prayers. He forgives your sins and you become brand new today. Wherever you're watching from, those of you,

you feel a heaviness, you feel a weight, you may feel ashamed. Step away from your sin, call on Jesus. When you do, he forgives all of your sins. He makes you brand new. The weight is gone. There is a peace from heaven. It is not a peace of this world.

It's a peace this world cannot take away wherever you're watching from those today who say, I need that, I need his grace, I need his forgiveness, we're stepping away from the old life. We're stepping toward Jesus, we're giving him all. He hears your prayers. He makes you new that's your prayer, Jesus, I need you. Would you lift your hands higher?

Right now, all other places, lift them to say, yes, that's my prayer. All of you guys right here and up in there, praise God for you. Right back over there, my God. Others today saying, yes, Jesus. Oh, I surrender to you. Online, you can just type that in the chat. I'm giving my life to Jesus. Just type that in the chat and we're going to pray together and then we're going to worship together. Just pray a lot. Heavenly Father, forgive my sins. Jesus saved me. Forgive me. Make me new. Fill me with your spirit so I can walk with you and I can know you and I can show your love. Change my life and use me. to change others.

Thank you for new life. I give you all of mine. In Jesus' name I pray. Would you praise God right now, welcome those born into his family. Worship God.