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Think it's supposed to be like this

Whatever we do Rufus

Hey cupcake - Rufus. Why do you have to stay away from the far end of the park tonight? Every Halloween?

there's a spooky wookie ghost called the

Haunted howler that haunts the Haunted holler wants everybody to stay away Zoe

howls like this

It's supposed to sound more like up

Come on Rufus, let's go don't worry Roley cupcake just made that story up. Let's see if they need any help

And when we hung it outside to dry the wind blew it away without my costume you can be half robot

It does seem like a cool costume, oh, I'm sorry you lost it Chloe. All righty guys

I'm gonna take a little nap before the trick-or-treaters start coming

So we're Halloween is ruined no trick-or-treating

That's sad

Just like glory was going to be a wait, what was Chloe gonna be? Okay, that's ejina

Really Rolly

Look something glowy be an explorer's costume. It kind of looks like mine. Look Oh Rubio Lantern

Rolly so flowy so flowy

That's gotta be close costume then let's get it down, you know what this calls for

Cupcake story, you know, it's our mission to get Chloe your costume back and that's what we're gonna do right? Really

Paulo goes from your story over there the far end of the park

It was just that's where the costume went. So that's what we have to go

A lot like boys costumes it does kinda

No trading a starting don't worry I have an idea

Bear joke Chloe the bad news

Oh spooky ghost and a cool robot has a happy Halloween

The Royal pugna's

It's my mom's birthday party tonight, so we're all gonna treat it like a queen, okay

How you even got her this paper crown to wear. We don't know how to do that

Yeah, and we're gonna find a queen to work alone how they have a queen in England

maybe you should go there Lucy seems kinda perfect a

Perfect nation is some omission. Let's go

Now those men of the furry hats are the Queen's guards Frank and it's their job to keep

Anyone from getting through the palace gates?

Maybe if we can get those guards to smile or laugh, they'd be so happy. They let us into the palace

Ladies never smile or laugh, then we'll give them something to laugh about if we can't get past those guards

We'll never get inside that palace unless you look through that doggie door right there and dog you won't right. Well, huh

um

Crumpets worth cream puffs coat eyeful bottom the third it at your service

Hey, but, you may call me Gump it pretty please well

Since you said pretty please I don't see how chef like me can say no

To eat biscuits at tea time one must never eat their biscuit until after they've been given permission

This is a challenge, he's not real good at waiting. Nope

Can I have a biscuit please?

There is no greater compliment to the Queen than to sit still in her presence. I remember on one such occasion

Suppose we sitting we were sitting still for a second

That means walk like this

Everything's alright then

This is a royal mess, we didn't mean to make a mess. I'm so sorry it pops

But tea time with the Queen is starting soon and I need to straighten the whole way before it begins

Whoa, what's going on? Looks like Bob's not the only one going with Hardy

Wait a second

fancy table with biscuits it for tea

Wow, it's the Queen

Greatest chew toy

Has anyone spied by purse Rolly that's the cleanest purse. Oh, is that what this thing is?

From picked

Hue good, that's Saudi just like him just take one the way you've been trained to do

If we go out there, so no, we're not krumping although I do like a good Scratchy behind the ears a bit

Where are you? Good doggy?

Thanks for filling in until I arrived you need to get home so we can treat Bob's mom like a queen, Lilliana

Hold on it was a really good trip. I say

Here you go kasib doggie biscuits go ahead boys eat those treats

Thank You Roley I always like to have this right by my side and we even learned a special birthday song just for you mom

ready Pop's your special day comes only once every

I feel like a queen

Good work Jeff jolly. Good YouTube champ. Good and Gimli time for the birthday portrait

Remember to sit still you guys sat perfectly still they must know it's my special day. Wow. We look great. Yeah

Hey Jesse, you gonna join us in our cool pool?

Thanks, but I'm gonna stick with this dry shade

gears when I get back from work, I need to find the perfect place to get cool -

Hmm I got you polish cool but isn't big enough for garb and Hisi shade is cool too but it's only his shoe size

Maybe ours can take us dirty rocks name

Sure, I got plenty of ideas for places to get cool

Well, this fan is broken we are in a junkyard after all

Well, of course to be near ice you have to have ice and that brings me to my last idea being in front of an

Ice cold sprinkler. Sorry pups I never said I have the actual places to stay cool

And it looks like this could be perfect for Bob and all the fans better

Ah

You take us to a place that has ice surgery searching

Looks just like them and it sure is cold

Is so cold, I think we may have found our spot

Yay bark and here's an extra scoop of ice cream for you

Well, we made it to the park now, where are they

That was here just a second ago

That's okay

I will save you

Thank sir yeah, whoo thanks arf-arf is happy art good health good

be next ice was to crashing it stick and this place is way too unpredictable and

Way too hot

You think you're any other place with a vodka cool yet not yet

It is still hot out here, but I'm glad to see you guys have been keeping cool today

Even hisses managed to stay cool

I've been wanting to find the best place to get cool all day and the best place was in my own backyard

Big day, it was nice and Bob to put this out here she would give me the outside. Yeah

What's wrong oh

then this happened

Bonnie stopped running, but that was your favorite toy. We forgot to tell you

Bob put our treadmill there you can still that's a everyone

Just got even more no good

You see stay calm hissy ARP we'll have you out in a jiffy

I've got your hissy I

Hope your day ends up better than it started

Did you hear that Roly Bob one sitting to have a better day than when it started?

Today our mission is to make sure his he has the best day ever

He'd love that

Down in the dumps everybody

Okay

Gonna fix this day

That does sound pretty nice and we're here

Yep, it's a place that we love them. We figured that you love it here, too

You don't love it you too

Looks like you guys want to run off and play with your friends

This seems like it might be kind of fun to crawl through

You're a friend of bingo and Roley. I'm trying to like their big sister

Maybe she went that way. So we'll go this way come on, but we think you'll like this place for sure

And they let people bring pets in here to pick out what they want

You want to play hide and seek with me and Roley I don't know I think

Like however many minutes I spend taking a good long nap, I've found a good one -

That was pretty good I wonder how much this bed is

Your owner is gonna be so happy to see you and take you home to the Python farming

I think maybe this he can't find us, how can he

Hear let's go see where she is. What are you doing in there? Thinking about life on the farm with all those Python what?

It's trial clerk then I'm doing a front

View nothing but the sounds of nature

Seeing the trees the flowers the hizzy stuck on the tracks

I

Just as they didn't end up like we wanted it to frizzy except. I mean it wasn't all bad. I

Found out I could run faster than those dogs at the park

Hmm that wake me up

And when I was on the roof of that train, I felt like I was queen of the world up there

Which made me feel kind of special?

You are special. Yeah, you are Kiki big sister, Missy

I know you had a bad morning, but this'll cheer you up. I fixed your toy at work to make it

Which means there's no way you can catch it before I do

Oh

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It's All Over For Acosta! He Was Just BUSTED Manufacturing FAKE NEWS! - Duration: 15:59.

It's All Over For Acosta!

He Was Just BUSTED Manufacturing FAKE NEWS!

Jim Acosta is done.

His press pass should be yanked, and he should be chased out of town for his fake news antics,

that were just revealed on video.

Here's how it happened:

On Friday, Acosta attended President Trump's event to discuss the six-month mark of his

incredible tax reform, and where he also made a comment on the murder of five people at

an Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper by a man with a years-long feud with the paper.

At that time, Acosta, from the very back of the large room, shouted a rude question at

the president, which made it appear to his CNN audience as if Trump was solely responsible

for the shooting at the newspaper.

At the end of the video, Acosta is heard asking the cameraman if he "got the shot," and

then the cameraman turns off the lights.

This was not some "off the cuff" moment in journalism, as Acosta paints it, later

in a tweet.

This was a setup, designed to embarrass the president and "manufacture" a news story.

Jim Acosta and CNN STAGED a propaganda moment of 100 percent fake news for their audience

and to attack our America First President.

There was no way President Trump would have heard the question from the back of the room.

That moment was designed to lead CNN viewers to believe that President Trump's angst

with the fake news media was to blame for the shooting at the Annapolis Gazette.

Sickening – and completely false and shamefully phony.

From Breitbart CNN anti-Trump activist Jim Acosta was caught

on video Friday not only engaging in shameless grandstanding, but in the actual act of manufacturing

fake news.

In the video embedded below, Acosta is present at a White House event where President Trump

delivered remarks about the five journalists murdered in Maryland on Thursday.

As you will see, though, Acosta is clearly too far away to be seen or heard by the president.

Nevertheless, although there is no way he will be heard, Acosta drops all pretense of

professionalism to still holler a question to the president: "Will you stop calling

the press the enemy of the people, sir?"

In other words, Acosta knows Trump cannot hear him, but like a heckler out to spoil

the moment for everyone else, he still screams his question at him.

It is only at the end of the video that we discover Acosta's true motive, and it is

the opposite of journalism.

Watch as Acosta turns around to look at his cameraman and appears to ask if they got the

shot.

Then the camera lights are shut off, which again reveals just how staged and artificial

all of this is.

This is not journalism.

Acosta and CNN knew Trump was too far away to hear the question.

This is staging news, manufacturing news, a fictional piece of propaganda produced as

a means to deliberately mislead the public and embarrass the president.

If these staged theatrics are not bad enough, Acosta and CNN then doubled down in their

deliberate crusade to mislead.

"I tried to ask the president if he would stop calling us the enemy of the people.

He did not respond," Again, this is Acosta and the far-left CNN's

calculated attempt to deceive, to make it seem as though Trump was asked a direct question

and refused to answer

Acosta is so far away from Trump, you can barely make out the president from where Acosta

is standing, and yet, to fabricate fake news, Acosta films the propaganda of him shouting

a futile question and then publicly accuses Trump of refusing to answer.

If the media do not want to be called the "enemy of the people," maybe they should

stop acting

like it.

For more infomation >> It's All Over For Acosta! He Was Just BUSTED Manufacturing FAKE NEWS! - Duration: 15:59.

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God's To-Do List for Depression - Duration: 28:31.

[PASTOR MARK JESKE] Have

you ever struggled with

feelings of depression or

do you know somebody who

has?

Pastor Mike Novotny has

some encouragement for you

from God's wonderful word

for you today.

[MUSIC]

[PASTOR MICHAEL NOVOTNY]

Dan's friends had

never seen him depressed.

But the day he lost his

job, he seemed to lose

everything they loved

about him - his energy,

his enthusiasm, his

laughter, his jokes, his

positive mindset - seemed

to walk out the door when

the boss shared the news.

But being good friends,

they wanted to help and so

they invited Dan when they

were going out but Dan

just wanted to stay at

home.

They texted him job

opportunities and

applications and openings

but Dan never seemed to

follow-up.

The friends started to get

frustrated with their

depressed friend and so,

they did what any good

group of Christian friends

would do; they googled it.

And Google gave them a

whole list, a treasure

trove of wisdom: Do this

and don't do that.

Stories of people who

escaped and overcame

depression.

Do eat right and don't

forget to exercise.

Do get out of the house

even if you don't want to

and don't forget to

connect spiritually.

Do be open and honest

about your struggles but

don't forget therapy and

medication.

They were so excited about

all these practical ways

to escape depression, they

invited their friend out,

they shared the list - do

this, don't do that.

We're going to help you

through this; we're going

to walk with you through

the darkness.

And they gave him an

entire easy-to-follow

list.

But after a day, none of

the boxes got checked and

then after a week, and

then after a month, and

the paper stuck to Dan's

fridge with a whole list

of unchecked boxes made

him feel even more

depressed.

Have you ever been there?

Seven percent of U.S.

adults struggle with some

form of deep depression in

any given year.

Depression actually comes

from the word "depressio"

in Latin, which means to

press down.

And it's not the drops of

sadness that rain on all

of our heads in this

broken world; it's the

storm that clouds the

forecast for weeks on end.

And if you've ever lived

under that storm or if

you've ever loved someone

who's going through that

storm, you know that

depression is not so

simple to fix.

It invades our lives in so

many different ways.

Maybe depression is part

of your genetic story.

Mom struggled and grandpa

struggled and now you

struggle.

Maybe depression surprised

you after the birth of

your child; a postpartum

bout that made those late

nights and lack of sleep

even more difficult.

Maybe it happened after

the loss of someone you

loved; a death you didn't

expect that seemed to

crack your soul.

Maybe it happened because

of an addiction; maybe

when you started going to

divorce court.

Maybe after you lost your

job or declared

bankruptcy.

In a thousand ways,

depression invades our

lives and if you've been

through it, you know all

about the list.

We Google it in our

desperation: "How do I

beat this?"

And like Dan's friends,

you're going to find a

whole lot of incredible,

practical medical and

scientific wisdom: Do

exercise, even if you have

to cry on your treadmill.

Get out of the house;

raise your natural

dopamine levels.

Do stay connected with

family and friends.

Be honest.

Express your thoughts.

Don't believe your

feelings; depression

invades us with lies in

disguise, negative

emotions that aren't even

close to true.

Talk about them.

Do set goals.

Don't forget to volunteer.

Do this and don't do that.

And then, if you're a

Christian, there's a whole

other list, isn't there?

Do pray and don't stop

going to church even if

you haven't showered all

week.

Do stay connected to

Christian family and

friends; open confession

with your pastor.

Don't forget to be

grateful.

Do remember the promises

of God.

And all of it is good.

In fact, I would say all

of it is great advice but

do you know the problem?

A friend of mine shared

the story when she battled

genetic and then

postpartum depression and

her husband had all these

good ideas: We should be

thankful.

Think of how bad some

people have it.

Think of how good our

family has it.

And then not only was she

depressed, but she felt

sinful and ungrateful,

unappreciative, spoiled,

and the depression got

worse.

And that's why I'm so

excited to share this with

you today because right in

the middle of your Bible

is a song that was written

out of a deep and dark

depression.

And in the middle of this

song, we find God's to-do

list for the depressed.

It comes actually from a

pair of psalms that were

written about 3,000 years

ago; Psalm 42 and Psalm

43.

And we find out the author

was a worship leader who

seemed to be in a pit of

despair.

But the thing is, God

inspired this song.

God wanted it included in

the Bible.

God actually wanted his

people - not just back

then, but even today - to

sing psalms like this.

And you're about to find

out why.

So listen what one of the

Sons of Korah says in

Psalm 42: "As the deer

pants for streams of

water, so my soul pants

for you, my God.

My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God.

When can I go and meet

with God?

My tears have been my food

day and night, while

people say to me all day

long, 'Where is your God?'"

Those are good questions

that depressed people ask,

right?

When and where?

When will this be over?

God, where are you?

Why don't you fix this?

This marriage and this

mess, this cancer, this

chemo, this chemical

imbalance, this divorce,

my children, my body -

God, when will I see you

and when will you fix

this?

Like a deer who is running

from his predators, he

says, "My soul is thirsty;

my soul is panting for

God.

I'm sick of running.

I want to find a new day.

I want to find crisp and

refreshing water for my

soul."

He is down and he is out.

So what will he do?

Well, he has an idea.

He sings next: "These

things I remember as I

pour out my soul; how I

used to go to the house of

God," under the protection

of the mighty one, "with

shouts of joy and praise

among the festive throng."

That sounds a bit more

hopeful, doesn't it?

Shouts of joy, songs of

praise.

See, he's remembering how

we used to go to God's

house and be with God's

people and the thought of

worship revives his spirit

and that's really good

advice, isn't it?

When you're down, to

remember, to think, to

count your blessings.

And we can focus on all

the things we don't have

or we can choose to focus

on the blessings that we

do.

Or maybe that's the to-do

that will cure depression.

Or maybe not.

Did you catch that phrase?

He said, "Used to."

Oh, I remember how I used

to!

When I used to go to

church instead of not

wanting to get out of bed.

How we used to shout and

sing and raise my hands

instead of curling up in

the fetal position at

home; I remember.

How my body used to work,

how my family used to be,

how much I used to enjoy

my job, the vacations we

used to take and the

thought of what used to be

and what is now just

drives his depression

deeper.

And so, he tries something

else.

He breaks out into the

chorus of the song; words

that he's going to repeat

three times in these two

psalms.

He sings, "Why my soul are

you downcast?

Why so disturbed within

me?

Put your hope in God, for

I will yet praise him, my

Savior and my God."

Now he turns the song into

a solo and he sings

directly to his own soul.

He says, "Soul, why are

you downcast?

Why do you feel this way?

Why are you so low?"

He starts to interrogate

his own heart; he starts

to examine his feelings.

He preaches to himself, in

a sense.

He says, "Heart, I will

praise God.

I will put my hope in God.

I'm not going to follow

you just because I feel

this way.

No, this is my God and my

Savior."

And that's really good

advice.

I learned from talking to

many depressed people that

one of the top things that

happens in your heart are

lies are hatched by the

minute; just negative,

spiraling thoughts that

have no basis in reality.

God's not here, God's not

going to fix this.

There's no plan for this;

this will never get

better.

My life will always feel

this sad.

And so, the psalmist has

great advice.

Question your heart.

Point a finger down at

your insides and say, I

know we feel that way, but

feelings are not facts.

And I don't have faith in

my feelings; I have in the

facts.

God is with me - fact.

Jesus is my Savior - fact.

God has a plan for the

biggest messes in life -

that is a fact.

Maybe the to-do that makes

depression done is talking

to our own hearts,

questioning our own

feelings; maybe that will

work.

Or maybe not.

Because the very next

words after the refrain is

done say this: "My soul is

downcast within me."

I want to grab this guy

and say, "Wait, what?

Didn't we go through all

this already?

Like we talk to our

hearts, God's our Savior,

put your hope in God not

in all this other stuff.

Didn't we fix this?"

But maybe that's the

point; maybe you can't

cure depression with a

catchy chorus even if the

chorus is about Christ.

And if today you'd read

the rest of these two

psalms, you would find

this manic, depressive,

rollercoaster of faith and

doubt that lasts into the

very final word.

After expressing his doubt

and downcast soul, he

says, "God, all your waves

have swept over me.

It's like I'm drowning

here and you send wave

after wave after wave

until I just want to cry

out, 'Seriously?'"

Have you ever prayed

that prayer?

Seriously, God?

Now?

I'm going through the

divorce and now this

happens?

And then my car breaks

down after I lose -

seriously, God?

But then the very next

verse, verse 9, he

returns: "But I say to God

my Rock."

I say, Yes!

That's going to fix the

depression.

Don't put your faith in

the shifting sand of your

circumstances.

God is faithful and God is

solid.

He's on the right path

until the very next line

which says, "God, why have

you forgotten me?"

I pray and I pray.

Do my messages go right

into your junk mail, God?

Because you are not fixing

this.

So he sings the chorus

again: "My soul, why are

you downcast?

Put your hope in God."

Then the very next verse:

"God, why have you

rejected me?"

And then he goes back to

the chorus and then the

song ends.

And that's in your Bible

and I love the fact that

it is.

It's never going to be

inspirational enough for a

Kidz Bop album, right?

But it is so good for

grown-up faith because

what does it teach us?

It teaches us that you can

be an inspired author;

that God can choose you to

write the songs that his

people will sing for

millennia and there is no

quick fix.

There is no "just believe

this" or "pray that" and

the depression will leave.

In this broken world, it's

something that God's

people in the church, who

love God, who believe that

he is their hope and their

Savior, struggle with.

Maybe I can picture it

like this: You know who

this is?

It's Sadness if you

haven't seen the kid's

movie "Inside Out" like I

have 1,017 times.

If you've seen the movie,

you know that Sadness is

always depressed.

Half the movie, she's flat

on her back, lamenting

about what if and worst

case scenarios and

negative spiraling

thoughts.

And Joy tries to cheer her

up but if you've seen the

movie, you know that

Sadness gets up and then

back down.

And she takes the first

step and then she's flat

on her back and Joy has to

drag her along all the

time and because the

depression doesn't leave

quickly.

You know what some people

think in the church?

Some people think that if

Jesus would show up and if

he could just say the

right things and believe

the right promises and

repeat the right prayers

that we'll just jump up to

our feet and the sadness

will be gone.

If we just give the right

advice, if we just say "do

this and don't do that,"

and if we have a chapter

and a verse to prove it,

well then, depression will

leave.

But then you read this

psalm and it's not that

simple.

So what am I supposed to

say to you today?

Pray more?

Count your blessings!

Make sure you go to

church.

I'd be right but it

probably wouldn't fix it.

So I'm going to give you

something else today.

My absolute favorite part

of this psalm.

You ready for it?

I want to give you a

Chiasm.

You don't seem excited

[Pastor: Laughter].

You ever hear of a Chiasm

before?

C-h-i-a-s-m.

A Chiasm was an ancient

technique in writing songs

where the author would put

the main point of his

poetry right in the

middle.

In modern pop music, we

put the main point in the

hook or the chorus, right?

Justin Bieber writes a

song, you know the main

point because he'll sing

it 78 times so you'll hum

it and you'll sing along

with it, even if you don't

want to.

That's what we do.

That's not what they did.

They would take a song and

they would find the very

middle of it and sometimes

they would just say the

line once but if it was in

the middle, you know that

it mattered.

It was like a song

sandwich, right?

All the ingredients God

chose, but he's going to

put the meat of the

message in the middle.

And do you know what

happens if you take Psalm

42 and 43 and find the

very center?

You'll find three stanzas

that each end with a

chorus, go to the second

stanza, find the very

middle verse, and you will

find God's to-do list for

the depressed.

It's the only time in the

entire psalms that it's

not "God, I feel this

way," or "God, you should

do this," or "God, please

help me with this."

It's the only time that

God is the subject of the

verb.

This is what it says in

Psalm 42:8: "By day the

Lord directs his love, at

night his song is with

me."

That's so good, let me

read it again: "By day the

Lord directs his long, at

night his song is with

me."

Day and night, when the

sky is down and out, God

directs his love.

It the midst of all the

crying and moping and

doubting and forgetting,

God directs his love.

You know, the word

"direct" in Hebrew is the

same word as command.

Normally, we think of the

Ten Commandments where God

tells us, "do this" and

"don't do that."

But this time, God is

commanding not us but his

love.

Picture his healing and

sustaining and empowering

and forgiving love at his

side and he's commanding

it; he's saying, "Go!

My sons are so sad; my

daughters are so

depressed.

I'm commanding you, I'm

directing you, go be with

them.

Go help them and go heal

them."

It turns out that God's

to-do list for the

depressed is not something

we do; it's something that

God does.

So what exactly does that

look like if you're

depressed?

If someone you love is

down and out, that God is

directing his love?

Well, I'm going to give

you five examples.

The first one is that God

directs his love through

pastors.

Can I tell you one of the

best things about having a

pastor?

Your pastor could care

less about how you feel.

I don't mean that pastors

don't care about people,

we don't care about your

feelings.

But before we get up to

preach, did I ask any of

you today, "Hey, how are

you feeling about God's

love?

Because if you're kind of

doubting it, I just won't

say it."

No, we pastors get up and

no matter how you feel, we

say what God says.

If you feel like a loser?

I don't care; you're more

than a conqueror through

him who loved you.

You feel all alone?

Who cares; God is with

you; he'll never leave you

and he'll never forsake

you.

You don't think there's a

point in your suffering

and pain?

I don't care if you think

that because there is.

Everything - all things -

work together for the good

of those who love him.

You feel ugly and

worthless, that life is

not living?

No, I don't care.

I know the plans - one of

the best things about a

pastor is he hears from

God and he preaches it

whether you feel it or

not.

So you can think you're

unforgiveable, unlovable,

your life is pointless.

You can look in the mirror

and hate yourself but a

pastor will say, "I don't

care.

God loves you.

Fact."

God directs his love

through the leaders of his

church.

Number two, God directs

his love not just through

pastors but through the

Scriptures.

Have any of you ever had

the scary experience of

trying to buy a Bible from

a Christian bookstore?

Have you ever gone into

the like super

intimidating aisle of

17,000 translations and

there's the NIV and the

ESV and the KJV and the

new KJV and the message

and the NASB.

I've stood before those

walls but do you know what

I've never seen?

I've never seen a copy of

the RDV - the Really

Depressed Version.

That takes all the

promises of God that end

in periods and exclamation

points and edits it for

question marks.

God so loved the world?

I don't know; probably

not.

[Pastor: Laughter] Because

God doesn't care, right?

He just doesn't care what

you feel in that moment.

He is coming with an

authoritative word that

cannot be questioned.

And so when you're

depressed, if you open the

Book and if you raise your

hands to rejoice or if you

cry on the page, it will

still say God's mercy is

new every morning.

I will be with you always,

Jesus will say.

Period.

Not ellipses, as if it's

in doubt.

God directs his love

through a word that does

not change and cannot be

broken so that we know his

love for us will never be

changed or broken.

Number three, God directs

his love through you.

One of my friends who

battled a deep depression

said the best thing she

experienced was what she

called the "We" version.

You ever hear of the "You"

version, the downloadable

Bible app?

The "We" version, she

said, was just Christians

who didn't try to fix her;

they were just there.

They knew there was no

quick answer to depression

so they were with her and

they prayed with her and

they spent time with her

and it meant the world to

her.

Mary Keith is a Christian

who's battled depression

and admitted that she

didn't get all the to-do's

done.

She once confessed on her

blog: "My shield of faith

was mostly lying next to

me on the ground.

And I didn't make a

gratitude list and I

didn't trust God and I

didn't count my

blessings," and she would

sometimes cry out, "God,

where are you?"

But then he showed up in

the two Christian friends

who knocked on her door

who came unannounced with

a meal and said, "We

cooked.

I know it's hard when you

don't feel great."

And she realized that

God's presence and God's

love was right there in

the people that God

directed and sent to love

her in her darkness.

God directs his love

through pastors, through

Scriptures, through

brothers and sisters, and

number four, through

doctors.

You know, some Christians

don't believe that.

I heard an incredibly

depressing story of a

woman battling depression

and anxiety whose friends

and family told her, "If

you really trusted God,"

as if pills and promises

were on a teeter-totter

and you could only have

one or the other.

One of my friends is a

pastor who has diabetes.

Do you think I tell him,

"Well, it's either insulin

or faith; you pick!"

[Audience: Laughter] No,

we would never say that.

If a kid broke his leg

would you say, "Well, it's

either a cast or Jesus

Christ; what are you going

to pick, bud?"

"Oh Johnny, I see the

crutches, you of little

faith."

No, we would say when

something happens to our

body, we thank God for

medical advances and

technology and medicine so

what would be so different

if it didn't happen here

or down here but up here?

And so, God directs his

love through good

medication and wise

doctors and I want to say

to some of you: There is

nothing small about your

faith if there are pills

in your bathroom because

God directs his love

through good doctors.

But most importantly, God

directs his love not just

through pastors,

Scriptures, brothers and

sisters and doctors, he

directs it through the

Savior.

You know what I love when

I think about Jesus?

That the Bible says he

didn't just come to give

depressed people good

advice.

Isaiah 61 said that Jesus

would come to bind up the

brokenhearted and Psalm 34

tells us how.

The Lord is close to the

brokenhearted.

The great prophecy of

Isaiah said that Jesus

will be a man of sorrows;

a man who would thirst

like a deer panting for

water.

A man who would go to the

cross and cry out, "My

God, my God, why have you

forsaken me?"

Why did he say that and

why did he do that?

So that you and I and our

loved ones would know that

Jesus is not up here

waiting until we pick

ourselves up and work our

way up to him.

No, here's how God directs

his love: He comes down

and he sits with the

depressed.

When they're not better,

when they're still broken,

when they feel hopeless,

when they feel unlovable,

they won't have to look up

to the top of the ladder

and wonder how long will

it be until they're with

God.

They would look to the

side and know that God is

already with them.

So if you battle

depression or someone you

love does, Google it and

take the advice.

But more than anything,

remember God's to-do list;

to love his depressed sons

and daughters who didn't

anything done.

[MUSIC]

[PASTOR MARK JESKE]

You know, sometimes

we don't like to admit

being weak.

I sure don't; I don't like

the people around me

seeing me as weak.

And so, if I'm really

struggling with some

self-doubt or with some

self-hatred, I might try

to bottle it up or deny

that it's there or pretend

as though it hadn't

happened.

But that isn't really safe

or very healthy, is it?

My counsel to you when you

encounter those feelings

is to share them with

someone you trust or with

your pastor and, above

all, with our Lord.

I'll be back in just a

minute to pray with you.

[PROMOTION] Hi, my name is

Jason Nelson.

I've had the privilege of

writing many Grace

Moments devotions and

several books for Time of

Grace.

My recent book is

entitled, "Keeping the

Last Promise." And in it,

I share some very personal

lessons I've learned about

addiction and recovery.

So I wrote this book for

two reasons.

One, is to provide some

camaraderie.

If you know somebody who

is battling to be

unpossessed by drugs or

alcohol, you are not alone

and you don't need to feel

ashamed.

I also wrote this book to

sketch out a little

framework for hope.

We found hope that enabled

our loved one to begin to

put his life back

together.

And recovering people need

the power of God's grace

in their lives and when

they have that, they have

the ability to keep their

last promise to remain

sober for one more day.

Thanks so much for your

gift to help connect more

people to God's amazing

grace.

[PASTOR MARK JESKE] You

know, there's no shame in

admitting that you

sometimes have feelings of

depression.

Talk to your friends about

that; talk to your pastor.

And, above all, talk to

your God.

Let's pray right now,

shall we?

Heavenly Father,

Sometimes, you know that I

feel pretty low.

I don't like myself very

much.

I feel like a fool and a

failure.

At times like that, I

really need you.

Send your spirit into my

heart.

Speak your words to my

ears and let your spirit

then encourage my heart so

that I will see myself as

the wonderful creation you

have made; loved and

redeemed by Christ and the

spirit of the Lord lives

in me.

Give me strength to fight

the devil's temptations to

be blue.

I pray these things in

Jesus' name, Amen.

For Time of Grace, I'm

Pastor Mark Jeske,

celebrating God's amazing

grace with you and it all

starts now.

[MUSIC]

[ANNOUNCER] The

preceding program was

sponsored by the friends

and partners of Time of

Grace.

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