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I really want to share something that’s
been on my heart for a
while and
um something that I’ve spoke
about with some people
and it seems now that I speak about it
now more than ever nearly all people I
meet I think we live in very challenging
and demanding
times and it seems that everywhere we
look and everyone we look at there’s so
much pressure
upon
people just to fit in and just to live
in what is considered as normal
society the standard of living has risen
so
much there’s so much pressure so much
stress and so much worry on young and
old people alike just to fit
in people have so many problems now and
it seems now more than ever now listen
we live in a real world we’re real
people we know that the world is full of
problems there’s always been marriage
problems there’s always been family
pressures there’s always been money
worries there’s been different work
rated
stresses social
difficulties these are normal and
expected obstacles that people must face
in life and eventually overcome to try
and build a better future and provide
some sort of stability for ourselves and
maybe even for our families
we know that we have to face certain
things we know that we have to overcome
certain things in life with or without
Christ Christian or not we know that we
have to fight and we have to battle and
we got to push on in order to try and
build some sort of a future for
ourselves and our
family but it just
seems now more than
ever the fight is literally been beaten
out of
people and the whole of society
regardless of what they have or where
they’re at or who they’re with people
just seem so
fragile people seem so
brittle life just seems like it could
all fall
apart by strong strong G the
wind regardless of what people have
whether it’s little or
much so many people today seem to be
just barely hanging on by a
threat it seems that after all of our
best efforts all all of our trying to
get better and be better and do
better things have only got
worse can you honestly look at life
around you and say that today we are
better off than we were 20 years
ago are we better people than we were 20
year
ago are we nicer people are we more
moral than we were 20 year ago I don’t
think
so the problem is we bought into the
light
we bought into the LIE of the world and
the LIE of the devil and even the lies
that we tell
ourselves we think that we become better
people because of what we have or where
we go or who we hang around
with stuff
possessions friends even they don’t make
you
better I think the contrary is true I
think that these things are actually
making us
worse it’s sad to say that I
think that there’s an obstacle which is
now growing and it’s bigger and bigger
than ever before and it’s different
unlike all issues that we have ever
faced this one isn’t external it’s not
on the outside it’s not something that
we can go to work and earn some more
money and overcome it or go on a holiday
and get away from or spend some time
with family and friends because this is
not external the problem that we’re
facing the one that is growing and
growing and growing larger and larger
and is getting out of control is
internal it’s this obstacle has probably
become the biggest enemy to
humanity that we have ever
known and the obstacle is called anxiety
and
depression you could be a beggar on a
street and you can be a king in the
corner and you can both suffer with the
exact same thing you can be in a cold
field in the middle of Sur or you can be
in the
Bahamas and you can still suffer with
the exact same thing because this is not
something that you can leave behind this
is not something you can run away from
this is not something you can hop on a
plane train or an automobile and try to
escape from wherever you go we seem to
be bringing this pressure this internal
pressure this worry this stress this
depression with
us there was a Harvard psychiatrist in
America his name was Dr Armand
Nikolai very accomplished man very
intelligent man he said this he said
depression is such a serious problem
whether it’s mild or severe depression
now affects more people in our culture
than any other emotional
disorder it’s now estimated that between
30 and 40 million
Americans twice as many women as men
will experience depressive illness at
least once in life he said that
depression is so common it is now called
the common cold of mental
illness depression rates have grown so
much that every year it’s
2.1% so they’re saying that every year
2.1% more children aged between five
five years old and 19 have been
diagnosed with
depression in 2006 suicide was the 11th
leading cause of death in the United
States of America it claimed 33,300
lives per year on
average but now suicide rates among the
youth between 15 to 24 have increased
200% in the last 50
years and you’re telling me life is
getting better
you’re telling me that Society is
developing and evolving and we’re making
life
better the suicide rate now is an an
all-time high in people who are 85 Plus
an 85y old a 90 year old some of them
can’t haven’t got the patience no longer
just to wait for God and to die of
natural causes that their life is so
depressed that pressure is so much that
we have 90 year olds killing
themselves in
Switzerland they now have legalized
euphanasia what that means is assisted
suicide if you just decide you don’t
want to live anymore rather than going
through the hassle of killing yourself
you can go and book yourself in a clinic
and they’ll do for
you and it’s now
legal four times more men than women
kill themselves so for every one woman
who kills herself four men kill
themselves but three times more women
than men attempt
suicide now as Born Again Believers we
understand and we know that the world is
a wicked place we know that the world is
a hopeless place we understand that also
possessions and riches and relationships
can offer some sort of
fulfillment above all
we would like to Proclaim and we’d like
to profess and we’d like to say that
only true fulfillment and contentment
and joy is found in Jesus Christ we all
say Amen but one person said
amen and that’s 100% true amen
amen but it’s still also 100% true that
even as
Christians we can still get
depressed we can still feel lost we can
still feel hopeless we can feel hollow
like there’s nothing inside that there’s
just nothing you’re just empty have you
ever felt that way
yes the meaning of the word
anxiety the word anxiety means to be
nervous or to be
worried because pressure is so great on
society and in life we see so many
people who are worried about so many
things Miley preached a fantastic word
on anxiety a few days ago best I ever
heard probably best I ever heard because
I can relate to it so
much anxiety means to be very
worried but the word depression has two
meanings number one depression means to
be pressed down to have so much pressure
applied upon you you are feeling very
low number
two depression means to be made Hollow
empty and the difference between anxiety
and depression is this in simple terms
when you’re anxious when you have
anxiety you’re worried about everything
you’re worried about the children you’re
worried about the husband you’re worried
about the wife you’re worried about your
parents you’re worried about your
friends you’re worried about the church
you’re worried about what to wear what
to eat where to go it can be very
anxious thing and it’s a horrible thing
because you don’t want to worry you know
you shouldn’t worry but you begin to
worry about everything that’s that’s
anxiety depression on the other hand is
when you’re worried about
nothing when you wouldn’t care if the
whole world blew
up so you can imagine these two are
complete Polar
Opposites but the worst thing about the
whole lot is when a person is suffering
for these two opposite things at the
same
time when you’re so blocked up with so
much pressure and so much worry and
you’re getting so pressed down by the
weight of all of these worries that
eventually your strength is dried up
you’re brought to the point of emptiness
you’re Hollow you’re beat down and
you’re only a shell of the person that
you used to be and your head and your
emotions are so mixed up you don’t know
if you’re worried you don’t know if
you’re not worried you don’t know what
to do so all you can do is give
up and you despair of life you don’t
want to be around people you don’t want
to be around Church you don’t even want
to be in the around God because in
church among Christians we’re expected
to walk in with a Pentecostal smile and
a spring in our step and everything’s
all
Rosy and it would be lovely if that was
the
truth but life is real and life is hard
and anyone who tells you different
hasn’t experienced much life that’s
right maybe you’ve been in that state
before
quite possibly you’re in that state
right
now you probably come to this Mission
as one last go on the merry go
around cling into some sort of hope that
God is going to speak to
you maybe you have sickness in your
family maybe you have lost loved ones
maybe you got a sick child a sick parent
maybe you’re sick yourself maybe you’re
not sick maybe you’re as healthy as a
trout but you have so much worry and
pray pressure and anxiety worried about
what people think of you worried about
how you look worried about where you go
worried about this worried about
that you’re just fed up of everything
and you cannot wait till the day you
close your eyes and you don’t ever wake
up
again I think it’s worse for us to
suffer such
things because we’re the people of the
book we have the word of God we’re the
ones who are meant to trust in God word
we’re meant to be the ones who have all
of the
answers we’re meant to be the ones who
know all the answers and if someone is
to come up to us in the world we can say
look Jesus can offer you hope Jesus can
offer you uh life he will give you
fulfillment and these things we know
don’t we you probably point out a few
scriptures you probably shared a few on
social
media but let me tell you this brothers
and
sisters it’s one thing knowing the truth
and it’s a different thing entirely
trying to put that truth into
practice we know that Christ gives joy
happiness
fulfillment but sometimes it can be so
hard to see through all of your problems
and
worries the Bible says grab a hold of
the promises of God how do you do that
you don’t do it with your hands the
Bible says see that the Lord is good how
do you do that you don’t do that with
your eyes taste that the Lord is good
you don’t do that with your tongue so
this goes beyond you and I this goes
beyond the Physical Realm this means
that we have to step outside of dealing
with our own problems the way we usually
do and we have to think as and live as
spiritual people and trust in
God I’m going to give you a wonderful
biblical example of
this turn with me to the Book of Psalms
in chapter
42
Psalms
42 in this particular
Psalm King David and the sons of Kor
they seem to be in Exile what that means
is that they’ve been run out they’ve
been chased out of their own home by
their enemies and they’re no longer in
the place where they’re comfortable
they’re no longer in the presence of God
they’re no longer worshiping the Lord in
the temple with the sacrifices in in
Fellowship and they’re under so much
pressure and they’re under so much worry
it seems like everything and everyone
has come against them family friends
enemies I guarantee you felt like that
at some point in your life where
everybody’s come against you family
friends and
enemies but you know who the worst and
most overlooked enemy of all times is
especially when you’re in that
state
yourself yourself you can be and I have
been My Own Worst Enemy at times like
this because you’re completely locked
away with your own thoughts you’re in
the prison of your own mind you’re
trapped only you can open that door if
Christ opens the door only you can walk
out but you become so
comfortable you don’t think you need to
get out or if you do want to get out you
just don’t think you have it in you to
get out and everything is up and
smoke
look at what the salala says here verse
one as a deer pants for the water Brooks
so my soul pants for you oh God my soul
thirsts for the God for the Living God
When shall I come and appear before God
my tears have been my food night and day
while all the while they say to me where
is your
God as a deer pants for the water I am
completely thirsty y I am dried up and I
know that my soul pants for you oh God I
know that you’re the solution to my
problem I know that you’re the only one
who can give me rest you’re the only one
who can give me
Comfort how long oh Lord till I come
back into your
presence how long till I get back before
the Living God you’re in a complete
Despair and you’re asking yourself Lord
I know that only you can help me and I
know where I need to be but I just don’t
know how to get there look how long Lord
why do I have to be left like this why
can’t I just come into your presence
now why do I have to wait for so long in
this place where I’m at this dry and
thirsty Lonesome place my tears have
been my food all night and day the only
thing I can put to my lips is the tears
rolling down my face and I know that
you’re the solution I know that you’re
the
answer but
when when
lord well all the while they say to me
where is your god you complet you you
feel sorry at this time completely
abandoned Forsaken and
forgotten you’re forgotten about by the
people of God nobody cares for you in
the church nobody Rings you nobody
textes you nobody checks on you you feel
completely abandoned and forsaken by
God and the people who you would like to
get some sort of encouragement for maybe
your family maybe they’re unsaved the
church didn’t do it so you run back to
the unsaved and only thing they can say
is where is your god nice Christian you
are about the
giant where’s
yours and all because of that you feel
so
ashamed and you don’t want to tell
people your problems you don’t want to
wear your heart and your sleeve instead
you want to conceal it and you want to
hide it and you don’t want to speak
about it because you look weak you look
foolish you look
stupid till you lock it away inside your
heart and your mind and all of a sudden
it’s CLA from the inside out and it’s
destroyed draing you from the inside
out but our
pride our anxiety what people think we
look like what we’re
doing he said these things I remember as
I pour out my soul within
me he’s pouring out his soul he’s laying
it all before God and he’s remembering
he’s reminiscing he says for I used to
go along with throng and Lead The
Possession in the house of God and with
the voice of joy and Thanksgiving a
multitude keeping
Festival I’m remembering all of the good
things I used to do in the presence of
God when I had so much happiness I had
so much joy did you ever say to yourself
if I could ever get back to the person I
used to
be I know I’m a
mess I know I’ve messed up I know I’m
down I know I’m lonely I know I’m broken
but if I could ever get back to the
person I meant to be I remember years
ago back in 197 6 and so on and so forth
and we try and convince ourselves and we
try and remember the good things in
order to bring ourselves
up but at the same time we’re so down
traing we’re trying to convince
ourselves that this is only a season
it’s going to pass and we know it’s
going to pass and it will pass that’s
the truth it will
pass but sometimes memories is not what
we need we need to hear and out don’t
we then all of a sudden he asks this
question he’s remembering he’s pouring
out his soul he’s crying before God he’s
asking when Lord will I come into your
presence he’s remembering when he was in
God’s presence we’ve all been there then
all of a sudden he asks this
question he says why are you in despair
oh my
soul he’s trying to figure out in his
own heart in his own mind he’s saying
why have you become this Disturbed
within
me the question now is not when but why
how did I get myself
here why am I in this situation why is
my soul Disturbed within me why am I in
such a morbid horrible
condition when you already know the
answers that’s the worst thing about the
whole lot when someone comes up to you
and tries to give you scripture or
someone tries to share with you the word
of God you’ve heard it all before and it
just doesn’t seem to resonate it’s not
clicking in brain because I’ve already
heard I don’t want to hear no more and
you’re looking for answers outside of
the truth that you already have this is
the confusing thing about depression
because he says this in the very next
verse hope in God for I shall again
praise him for the help of his
presence why am I Disturbed why am I in
despair that’s the question here’s the
answer hope in
God I know the answer me me
head just can’t seem to grab a hold of
it in me
heart he says my God my soul is in
despair within
me so now he’s looking outside of
himself he’s looking back towards God
he’s saying Lord my soul is in despair
within me my soul is broken my soul is
desperate therefore I remember you from
the land of the Jordan from The peaks of
Herman and from Mount
Mah do you know the word worst part of
the I think the worst thing about
depression is you don’t actually know
what caused
it have you ever felt really down or
really depressed and you just you just
wish you could crawl up in a ball and
die and someone keeps saying to you
what’s wrong with you what’s wrong with
you I don’t know you must know what’s
wrong with you I don’t know I genuinely
don’t know if I knew I’d fix it it
wouldn’t be wrong with me would
it that’s the problem with
depression you don’t actually know where
it’s coming from from you can’t put your
finger on what’s actually causing
it because you’ve had so much anxiety
because you’ve had so much stress
because you’ve locked so much in you’re
not now aware of the straw that broke
the camel’s
back you held on to so much when you
should have been given it over you don’t
know what actually is the the the the
final nail in the coffin you don’t
know so you ask questions you search
your heart you search your mind you ask
of God why am I in despair why am I
desperate why am I
Disturbed I’m trying to have positive
thoughts I’m trying to set my mind in a
Godly place I’m trying to remember the
fellowship I used to have I’m trying to
remember the presence of God I’m trying
to go back to times when times were
good but I just can’t grab a hold of
us he said this in verse seven
deep calls to deep at the sound of your
waterfalls all of your Breakers and your
waves have rolled over
me deep calls to Deep by the sound of
your waterfalls all of your Breakers and
your waves have rolled over me do you
know what he’s saying here to the god
he’s saying Lord I am being crushed I am
being crushed and I feel suffocated and
I feel like I’m drowning in this
situation deep calls to deep from the
deep depths of the situation that I’m in
from this deep anguish inside of my
heart I’m calling out to you
Lord I feel suffocated I feel like I’m
drowning I feel like I’m under so much
pressure I can’t keep my head above
water and I don’t know what to do I’m
calling out to you
God and all of a
sudden once again
he says
this not only is he remembering what
used to happen in the presence of God he
now has to set his mind on what God is
going to do in his situation and that’s
what we have to do it’s not enough to
worry
about last year’s
convention or next year’s seminar we
have to worry about what God is going to
do for us here and now listen to what he
says the Lord will command his loving
kindness in the daytime and his song
will be with me in the night I know that
every after every dark night a new day
is
risen and the Lord will command his
loving kindness to me in that
daytime this is going to pass brothers
and sisters what you’re feeling what
you’re going through what you the
pressure you’re under I am telling you
this with all faithfulness by the
authority of the word of God it will
pass it will pass he will command his
love and kindness in the daytime and his
song will be with you in the
night no longer will will you be in that
Dark Lonely place in
despair but there will be
rejoicing you Lord there’ll be rejoicing
there’ll be a
song and I will say to the God my
rock why have you forgotten me why do I
go about mourning because of the
oppression of the enemy as the
shattering of Bones and the adversary
revile me while they say to me all day
long where is your go where is your
god why are you in despair oh my soul
There He Go Go he’s at it again listen
what happens he goes from negative to
positive negative to positive he just
said that God’s going to command his
loving kindness towards him he just
reminding himself that it is going to
pass but then all of a sudden it gets
right back down to the nitty-gritty
again I will say to my God why have you
forgotten me why do I go about mourning
because of thepress of my enemy as the
shattering of my bones my adversaries
revile me while they say to me all day
long where is your god why are you in
despair oh my soul why have you become
so Disturbed within me hope in God for I
shall again praise him cuz he is the
help of my countenance
Hallelujah I know today I could feel on
top of the world and thank God I do I’ve
had a very blessed time with each and
every one of you this week but I know
tomorrow I could be at rock
bottom and I know again that God will
bring me out of
it and then I know again that I can
bring myself back into
it cuz some people the lucky ones they
probably only get depressed once in
life but because life is so
depressing we can seem to fall into the
habit of the ever ending cycle of going
through the mill time and time again I’m
up and I’m down and I’m up and I’m down
I’m up and I’m
down it’s me as well that’s all of us if
we’re
truthful but let me tell you this
regardless of how you feel regardless of
what you’re going through regardless of
your situation regardless of your
emotions regardless if you have a
million friends or no friends a million
pound or no
pounds we change circumstances change
people people change relationship change
but God Remains the
Same that’s our hope our hope is not in
circumstances because we can’t because
we can fall to the ground and drop a hat
that’s right our hope is not in money
because money can be very hard to earn
and very easy to get rid
of hard times can fall upon anybody our
hope is not in
health because healthier people than you
and I have dropped dead in a
heartbeat our hope is in the Living
God in the Living God and do you know if
I never had one friend do you know if I
never had one
pound I have
God and if you’re a child of God so do
you Hallelujah if you have no
help God is your
help he is a help listen what it says in
Psalms 94:1 17 if the Lord had not been
my help then my soul would have dealt
sorry my soul would have dwelt in the
Abode of Silence if I should say my foot
has slipped your loving kindness oh Lord
will hold me up when my anxious thoughts
multiply within me your consolations are
the Delight of my
soul when I have no
help I have God and if God had not been
my help then my depressed lowly Despair
and broken Soul would have to remain in
silence
forever which is not a good news
brothers and sisters it doesn’t have to
remain in silence we can Rejoice with
joy and Thanksgiving that God is our
help he is our help if I should say that
my foot has slipped that means I’ve
slipped away to the point of no
return I’ve let you down I’ve let God
down I’ve let the church down I’ve let
my family down I’ve let myself down I’ve
slipped I’ve done
wrong if I should say
that then your loving kindness oh Lord
will hold me up and when my anxious
thoughts multiply within me when I’m
full of this worry this stress and this
anxiety and this
pressure your consolations Delight my
soul it’s the comfort of God that will
truly give you comfort
amen because the god that we
have Accord according to 2 Corinthians
chapter
7 says
this but God who comforts the
depressed the god that we have is a god
of
comfort and
tonight the meeting is not over just
because I
preached I think we should pray we
should seek and we should Worship the
Lord and we should look for that true
comfort that only comes from the Samus
knew the Samus knew he said I will again
hope in God
I might be in this low place
today but if God sees fit whenever he’s
ready he will pull me out at the right
time because he gives Comfort to the
depressed let’s
pray most gracious father