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0:00Everybody has that list. The things you know you should get around to eventually, organizing the garage, updating important documents, taking care of long-term financial planning. Life insurance tends to live on that list for a lot of people, not because it isn't important, because people assume it's going to be complicated. That's why policy genius exists. Policy genius is an online insurance marketplace that helps you compare life insurance quotes from top insurers in one place for free. Their license team helps explain your options clearly, compare coverage amounts and prices, answer questions, and help you find a policy that fits your needs. No guesswork, no confusion, just clarity. And while they're helping with the shopping, you can get back to enjoying summer with the people who matter most. Policy genius has helped thousands of families find the right coverage and has earned thousands of five star reviews in the process, because some items on the to-do list are worth checking off.

1:01With policy genius, you can see if you can find 20-year life insurance policies starting at just $276 a year for $1 million in coverage. Head to policygenius.com to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. That's policygenius.com. You know what's wild? Most people are still overpaying for car insurance, just because it's a pain to switch. That's why there's Jerry. Jerry is the only app that compares rates for over 50 insurers in minutes, and it helps you switch fast with no spam calls or hidden fees. Drivers who save with Jerry could save over $1,300 a year. Before you renew your car insurance policy, do yourself a favor. Download the Jerry app or head to jerry.ai slash wire. Get some more on this in a moment. First, if you own a small business, that's off to you, because not only are you providing jobs for your community, you've bootstrapped your way to success, despite insane taxes and crazy regulations and all the other things that get thrown at you.

2:01I choose to endorse Peer Talk because they understand that. They started as a small business that's scrappiness and value for hard work and helping their neighbor continue to drive them forward. It's why their customer service team is right here in the United States. It's also why they want to give other small businesses, the HVAC companies, roofers, land scapers, the best wireless service at the lowest price possible. So if you own a business, you want to save on wireless, if you want excellent customer service, it's goodness knows that it's hard to get nowadays, switch your team to Peer Talk for as little as 15 bucks a line for talk, text, and data. Head on over to puretalkbusiness.com. Slash Shapiro, see how much Peer Talk could save your business plus get 50% off your very first month of coverage. Your business deserves awesome customer service and fair pricing. Peer Talk business.com slash Shapiro again. I've been using Peer Talk for years, best coverage, best price. Don't spend extra money where you don't have to. Peer Talk business.com slash Shapiro and get 50% off your very first month of coverage. Peer Talk business.com slash Shapiro.

3:03The following program is pre-recorded. From the Hope Center in Plano, Texas, this is Hope in the Night. Late Night Talk Radio offering biblical hope and practical help. This program has been on the air for over 30 years helping people and it's a ministry of Hope for the Heart. To find out more about that ministry, go to HopeForTheHeart.org. On that website you can listen to previous Hope in the Night programs, make one time or a car in donations, and you can click on the store button and order anything from June's resource catalog. We also have free resources which will give you a sample of June's most popular writings. If you'd like to text the word free to 70919 we'll get you signed up with a sample. Well, I'm Tom Petrosky and I'm here with author and speaker June Hunt. June, many people at some time in their life battle depression. Can you talk to us about depression? Well, I would say first of all recognize that depression is real and it's acknowledging

4:10the feelings of being pressed down. When I think of depression, I think of a heart being literally pressed down. Now we know what it's like to have a deep depression and if it's been raining and there's some mud you see an evident depression by virtue of stepping in that area when it's been raining. Well, the truth is the real life, real pain hits us in our lives and there's no one who could say, oh, I've never, I've never been depressed, meaning we've all had our hearts pressed down and that can be the death of a loved one. It could be rejection. It can be things that

5:12everyone goes through in terms of the loss of the dearest person in your life, whether it's death, divorce, whether it's anything that causes a separation. In fact, in the Bible, we read, I'm suffering and in pain, rescue me, oh God, by your saving power. But we have to understand this. The pain is temporary and not only can we literally reach out in a the most positive way calling upon God who created us, he infinitely knows us. And remember one day he will put it into all pain and suffering for crew believers. The Bible says he will wipe every tear from their eyes.

6:13There'll be no more death or sorrow or crying of pain. All these will be gone forever. That's in Revelation 21 verse 4. Now, this is where we have to acknowledge the importance of caring for physical needs because there are times when people and feel depressed. And I say depressed like that because I think of an iron and I love to share depression this way. I think of one of those old-fashioned irons that you put, imagine it being on a heart-shaped pillow. You put that heavy iron on the kind of pillow that has foam and has a heart shape. If you leave it there or let's say, too much, a month, the problem is it will that

7:22iron will literally depress the pillow and it'll stay depressed. Now, if you put it on and the next day take it off. That pillow could probably come back to its original shape. But when that heavy iron is on that pillow for a long time, that's when you can be in a state of depression. And not a state like Texas or a way that the heart does not respond immediately as it would if we had not had that heavy weight. So, check the physical needs. In other words, go to a medical doctor. Sometimes there will be a certain medication. A person is taking and they need to ask for a different medication. Get nutrition that is healthy. I think that would

8:33be protein can be needed. But then evaluate the stress in your life. Interesting. The Bible says, give me relief from my distress. Stress can become distress. And sometimes we need to change. And it can be who we are around. It can be a situation that is so discouraging. When we have a choice and many times we have choices. Sometimes we don't feel we have choices, but indeed we have choices. I think also the spiritual part of us, we are body, soul and spirit. Many people like me at one time, I didn't know anything about a spiritual life. And yet all the difference in the world, I grew up in a very painful home. And I received a great relief after

9:41entering into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. Welcome back to Hope in the Night. If you have questions about our topic tonight, I would like to order resources. Please reach out to our support team at 1-800-488-HOPE or just text the word support to 709-19. That team works during normal business hours, and they can assist you in finding and purchasing materials from our vast library of over 100 topics. June was just reading from our keys for living book on depression, and that's our topic for tonight. And when we talk about a keys for living book, it's really just a study project that June did

10:44about over 100 different topics. And when you open up that book, it's usually between 40 and 60 pages long, so it's not a really thick book that you have to get through. There's usually a few stories describing somebody who's affected by the topic or by the condition that the topic is talking about. And then there's some Bible verses, some causes, some solutions, and just everything you need to have hope when you're dealing with whatever the topic is. June's taken all the work out of it, so you don't have to comb through the Bible for hours and hours. All the Bible verses, pertinent to that topic, are presented right inside the book. It's also a great resource to give to somebody. Maybe you're talking to somebody, a friend or a coworker, and they let you know that they're dealing with something and they really can't seem to get help. And you're maybe feeling, boy, I wish I could help them, but I just don't know how to. Well, by going to hope for the heart.org,

11:46and just clicking on store, maybe you can find one of our keys for living books on that very topic. Give it to them as a gift and just give them some hope after they read that. Let's get to tonight's caller, Joseph. Hello Joseph, welcome to hope. Hi June. Hi, how can we help you? Well, I'm not too sure where to start actually, but I'm coming up on one year sober from Corn and Masterbation. Thanks, the Lord for that. Great. Congratulations. Yeah, that's really significant. Yeah, I spent the last 20 years addicted to it. And well, the porn use led to something called the furry fandom, where there were these animal human creatures just having lots of sex and the websites had content that died into things

12:52like incest rape, orgees, homosexuality and beach reality. And over the course of time, it eventually led to beach reality porn, and it led to me actually doing beach reality in real life with pets. Yeah, I gave the pets away and I haven't done anything since 2015. But just I think a lot of the masturbation and porn was asking a lot of other symptoms, other at things in my life like emotions and things that I was trying to cover over to control. And well, I just I wake up in the mornings now and I'm overwhelmed with facing the day. So when you're saying overwhelmed with facing the day, I'm hearing that you to a degree or

14:01quiet down. Have you thought about harming yourself? That thought has crossed my mind a lot. But I power through it and I keep reminding myself that that is not what God intends for people to do. Hmm. Good for you. That's true. When you say God, what how do you just write God? Well, there are two ways to answer that question. The first is what I know in my head and that's that God is a good God. He created the heavens and the earth and Jesus Christ is one and only son. He's good. He controls everything and he can make me well. The other part of me thinks that

15:04God's punishing me for something that I did in the past. Is it a specific something or is it just the general up? I'll say everybody has that list. The things you know you should get around to eventually organizing the garage, updating important documents, taking care of long term financial planning. Life insurance tends to live on that list for a lot of people, not because it isn't important, because people assume it's going to be complicated. That's why policy genius exists. Policy genius is an online insurance marketplace that helps you compare life insurance quotes from top insurers in one place for free. Their license team helps explain your options clearly, compare coverage amounts and prices, answer questions and help you find a policy that fits your needs. No guesswork, no confusion, just clarity. And while they're helping

16:08with the shopping, you can get back to enjoying summer with the people who matter most. Policy genius has helped thousands of families find the right coverage and has earned thousands of five star reviews in the process, because some items on the to-do list are worth checking off. With policy genius, you can see if you can find 20-year life insurance policies starting at just $276 a year for $1 million in coverage. Head to policygenius.com to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. That's policygenius.com. You know what's wild? Most people are still overpaying for car insurance, just because it's a pain to switch. That's why there's Jerry. Jerry is the only app that compares rates for over 50 and sure is in minutes. And it helps you switch fast with no spam calls or hidden fees. Drivers who save with Jerry could save over $1300 a year. Before you renew your car insurance policy, do yourself a favor. Download the Jerry app or head to jerry.ai slash wire.

17:25Because they understand that they started as a small business that's scrappiness and value for hard work and helping their neighbor continue to drive them forward. It's why their customer service team is right here in the United States. It's also why they want to give other small businesses, the HVAC companies, roofers, land scapers, the best wireless service at the lowest price possible. So if you own a business, you want to save on wireless, if you want excellent customer service, it's goodness knows that's hard to get nowadays. Switch your team to pure talk for as little as 15 bucks aligned for talk, text, and data. Head on over to puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro. See how much pure talk could save your business. Plus get 50% off your very first month of coverage. Your business deserves awesome customer service and fair pricing puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro. Again, I've been using Puretalk for years. Best coverage, best price. Don't spend extra money where you don't have to puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro and get 50% off your very first month of coverage puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro. Survey of your life thus far. I think the specific thing would be the, the born and the sexual related things.

18:32The interesting thing about the God of the Bible is he says, I've loved you with an everlasting love. Now that's Jeremiah 31, 3. He says this knowing that all the while all we like, sheep of gonestray, according scripture, all of sinned. He knows that all of us would sin. And I think the point is the reason he devises a place called heaven for us, Joseph, it's not like anybody that only perfect people go there because there are no perfect

19:39people. And it's made clear in the Old Testament and the New Testament. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So the fact that we have chosen wrong, whatever area. And we have, and it's not like we accidentally fell into a hole. Everyone has chosen to go against the revealed will of God. And we prioritize what we wanted to do at the time. And my point of saying this is, after a while, things can get magnified. In other words, we can do something for a period of time and we don't get the same, I'll say,

20:53I'm going to use the term excitement. When we continue or the same high, you can talk to anyone who's been on a drug of choice. There typically is a certain effect. And then after a period of time, it requires more of that same substance or switching to something else that will produce an increased high. And what I'm saying is God knows this. And I think of the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who finally said, you know, nope, I'm going to do this anymore. And changing, and you know this, I know this, to change a habit, it's different

22:01than just choosing one time to not do something. But we get into patterns. And that's what becomes an addiction. But every year, there are thousands of people who, for example, they kick the habit of a drug of choice, whether it's alcohol, it's, I mean, there are all kinds of habit forming drugs. And that, but that's true of a behavior like gambling. There are people who have taken their lives because they got into a habit of gambling. I just drove five. Something all wins, wins star. Driving from Oklahoma City to Dallas was going for a friend's birthday

23:07party, a three year old birthday party. But the point is, and I thought, you know, I see this place I'm advertised a lot in our area. And, and I think isn't that interesting? I, I, and there were thousands of cars. And then, but I've done, we've done study on this. We have what we call keys. keys for living on gambling. And the numbers of people who get hooked into that high, that feeling, that rush, but then losing their homes, losing their cars, losing their lives, the suicides. And so, what I'm saying is there are all kinds of areas where we can get addicted to, to something

24:13that at the time provides a, a rush, a, we feel differently, it's a different feeling. And some people, they're, look, they don't like the way they felt and they want to feel differently. Well, that's true, our material on sexual addiction. We, we describe situations, but it's the victories that God enables us to have. And that's, I'm going to just say, I thank you for calling me out. Because you can, any, any person can feel down. Depression, you think of it, it's literally a press down heart. You put a, a hard, well, a big, heavy iron on a heart shaped pillow.

25:19And if it stays there for a long time, what would normally be like a foam pillow, it will lose its shape. And instead of bouncing back, it has a state of depression. The good news is, there are all kinds of things that we get into and yet that doesn't dictate our future. And you have already experienced certain choices, you've made choices. And you said, you know, from 2015, you hadn't done certain things in the, from the past. Now that's huge victory. I'm friend, I want you to think about this one phrase. Life is the series of choices.

26:22Life is the series of choices. Say that, say that phrase. Life is the series of choices. Yes. And we choose many times to get into things that we regret, and then we can get out of them. And that is where we're going to go. Welcome back to Hope in the Night. If you're facing a problem that would like to be a guest on the program, please call 1-800-917 or text the word color to 709-19. Leave a message and we'll call you back, or just send a text and we'll get back to you. We'll start the scheduling process. It's very simple. I'll reach out to you. We'll find a time where you can join us on the radio program live and

27:26it happens late in the evening Monday through Friday. So we'll find a time where it works within your busy schedule for you to join us. And if you'd like to order resources, again, we were just talking about what are the keys for living books and how can they help you? If you'd like to order one of those, perhaps for yourself or a family member or even a friend, reach out to our support team at 1-800-488-HOPE or by texting the word support to 709-19. That team works during normal business hours Monday through Friday and they can assist you in finding and purchasing materials. From our library of over 100 topics, if you know exactly what you need, you can just go to hopeforthohart.org and click on store and all of our materials right there. You can order it 24 hours a day and we'll get a chip to you quickly. We want to continue with our caller, Joseph. Well, my friend, I appreciate you calling because there are many, many people who do not reach out

28:36when they want to have victory in their lives and yet you have had quite a past of pain. By the way, tell me about what it was like for you growing up and how old are you now, Joseph? Right now I'm 33. Okay. So that means you've got not just double the years for your future. This is important. You've got almost tripled the years of what would be typical for you as a man living in America. I'm just saying you've had a hard time. You've had a hard life so far. So tell me what it was like for you growing up.

29:38Well, things seemed to be okay until I turned about 10 years old. And that was when my uncle, was revealed and my uncle had been the resting my sister for like four years, maybe even longer than that. And that led to a trial and my mother went through an extreme form of depression. And my laughter after the trial got over with that caused a rift to form between her and her family. And then my dad decided that that was the time when he wanted to tell us siblings and my mom that he had been struggling with a porn

30:38addiction that he had cheated on my mom. So that led to an even bigger depression with my mom. I remember them arguing pretty frequently and I would try to kind of zone out when they did that. Most of the time I didn't have like pretty much didn't have any friends after that. And well, there were always movies and cartoons to watch so I would do that. So that's a kind of escape. Yeah. Okay. And you didn't have any friends. Why do you think that was the case? Well, it could have been my personality. It could have been that I was afraid of other kids actually.

31:47Well, what you'd experienced as a boy with within your family to know that your uncle had been my resting her sister and here's a trial and this is this huge trauma. This is trauma. And that can shut down any kid. In fact, I didn't have those things but I was shut down because of bizarre things in my family. So I feel I can to a degree identify with not talking to friends. I had the people but I didn't tell anybody anything.

32:51Yeah. How do you explain things that are culturally unspeakable? Does that make sense what I'm saying? Yeah, it does. And I just found out this year that I had been in the same room when the molestation was occurring. I didn't know about that. No. Well, so in your family there was this sexual addiction over here, sexual abuse there and then your dad, how did you handle that with your dad? I remember when he told me about it. I remember I went into my room and I climbed into the upper

33:51bunk and I just cried. I think a rift must have formed then because as I got older I just made it up in my mind. I looked and didn't want to hurt anyone in the same way that my dad had hurt my mom. And I didn't really know it at the time but now looking back on it, I feel like my mom kind of turned me into sort of a make sort of a stand-in for a psychiatrist or a psychologist because she was talking a lot about her family and what things that she went through as a kid. Well, she would tell stories about certain times her sisters didn't treat her well. So it's kind of like telling a lot of past adult things to you. I guess she probably thought of you as safe.

34:59But she had her own trauma she was dealing with. A lot of people think back on their childhood and they go, oh, I had the most wonderful childhood. I can't even identify with that. And you can't either, can you? Well, I mean, there are certainly good memories. But I mean, I wasn't raised in a bad home. There wasn't a lot of bad physical things that happened to me. It was my sister. So I don't really understand why I have all this pinned up anger and part of me thinks it's because I didn't really want to move from the one house that we moved from. But at the time, I thought I would do

35:59whatever it takes for my mom to get better, if that meant moving. And if that was the easier thing to do, to not cause any more additional problems, that's what I wanted to do. So you were into a degree trying to protect your mom? Yeah. You know, you know, what that's called, that's called role reversal. It's like you at a very young age kind of became the parent because you wanted to be a safe person for your mom to talk to. And it's like that's a heavy burden for a child. Heavy burden for a child. So you've carried like the weight of the world on your shoulders for a period of time and it's

37:08the unknown. And children don't have the choices that they later have in adulthood. And so I just, I think the issue, let's make it clear, you are right about God being a good God. And he knows the plans he has for you. Number two, you said, but the other type of God that you see is like a punishing God. I'm going to ask Joseph, has there been a time where you know you humbled your heart and you received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior giving him control of your life?

38:11Or maybe not. The first time I did that, I was six years old, that that was more out of fear from being cast into the lake of fire. Okay, that's called fire insurance, wanting fire insurance, which is not really receiving Jesus himself as your personal Lord and Savior. But I hear that. So has there, we said that the first time that was that? Yeah, and then the second time would have been in 2018 when I got repaptized. So I think then that would have been it. But most recently with all everything that's going on, I'm very scared that I haven't accepted him as my warden master. So I, I'm a warden Savior. So I, so I pray that prayer whenever I'm afraid that I've lost my salvation.

39:22Well, I'm going to give you some good news. Based on the authority of the Word of God, Romans 8, chapter 1 says, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. No condemnation means no condemnation. Now, there are times when there are godly people who have chosen wrong, after yielding their lives to Christ, like David, who got head and a fair with Bathsheba, King David. And the Bible says he was a man after God's own heart. And so the issue is I want you to think about this in work hard to guilt.

40:28You can say, Father, thank you that you don't condemn me. And you don't want me to condemn myself. I reject these feelings of false guilt because they are invalid. I have sceptic Christ. Welcome back to Hope in the Night. Once again, if you're facing a problem, we would love to have you be a guest on Hope in the Night. You can just call 1-800-917 or you can text the word caller to 709-919. If you'd like to do it via the website, you can go to hopeforthohart.org

41:30slash night. Any one of those processes will get the scheduling going. I'll reach out to you. Find a time where you can join us on the air on our radio program, which we do every evening, Monday through Friday, in the late evening, right around 11 o'clock, central time. We're happy to have you as our guest. If you do listen to us on the radio and there's sometimes where you wish you didn't have to stay up so late to hang out with us, you can find us on our podcast and listen to the program there. Go to HopeForTheHeart.org and click on Shows to find Hope in the Night. Or you can search for Hope in the Night in any one of your favorite podcast platforms. Late last year, we hit 1 million downloads and we'd love for you to join us digitally. Well, let's finish up the call now with Joseph. But Joseph, I'm hearing that you want to be basically set free of that which in the past

42:34it's like you're trapped in certain addictions and an addiction is challenging to overcome, but it is absolutely doable and every year thousands of people overcome addictions. But I'm hearing that I'm going to share something with you. It's something called how to have a transformed life. And when depression leaves your heart feeling pressed down, you have a choice. Everybody has that list. The things you know you should get around to eventually, organizing the garage, updating important documents, taking care of long-term financial planning. Life insurance tends to live on that list for a lot of people, not because it isn't important, because people assume it's going to be complicated. That's why policy genius exists.

43:38Policy genius is an online insurance marketplace that helps you compare life insurance quotes from top insurers in one place for free. Their license team helps explain your options clearly, compare coverage amounts and prices, answer questions, and help you find a policy that fits your needs. No guesswork, no confusion, just clarity. And while they're helping with the shopping, you can get back to enjoying summer with the people who matter most. Policy genius has helped thousands of families find the right coverage and has earned thousands of five star reviews in the process, because some items on the to-do list are worth checking off. With policy genius, you can see if you can find 20-year life insurance policies starting at just $276 a year for $1 million in coverage. Head to policygenius.com to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. That's policygenius.com. Tired of your car insurance rate going up even with a clean driving record, you're not alone.

44:43That's why there's Jerry, your proactive insurance assistant. Jerry compares rates side-by-side from over 50 top insurers and helps you switch with ease. Jerry even tracks market rates and alerts you when it's best to shop. No spam calls, no hidden fees. Drivers who save with Jerry could save over $1300 a year. Switch with confidence. Download the Jerry app or visit jerry.ai slash wire. Get some more on this in a moment. First, if you're on a small business, that's off to you, because not only are you providing jobs for your community, you've bootstrapped your way to success despite insane taxes and crazy regulations and all the other things that get thrown at you. I choose to endorse peer talk because they understand that. They started as a small business that's scrappiness and value for hard work and helping their neighbor continue to drive them forward. It's why their customer service team is right here in the United States. It's also why they want to give other small businesses, the HVAC companies, roofers, land scapers, the best wireless service at the lowest price possible. So if you own a business, you want to save on wireless, if you want excellent customer service, it's as good as it is that's hard to get nowadays. Switch your team to peer talk for as little as 15 bucks aligned for talk, text, and data. Head on over to puretalkbusiness.com

45:47slash Shapiro. See how much peer talk could save your business. Plus, get 50% off your very first month of coverage. Your business deserves awesome customer service and fair pricing. Puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro again. I've been using Puretalk for years, best coverage, best price. Don't spend extra money where you don't have to. Puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro and get 50% off your very first month of coverage. Puretalkbusiness.com slash Shapiro. Of literally finding the formula I'm thinking for freedom. It's a freedom formula. Okay, sorry. Okay. Sorry I was hearing something else going on. Okay. Now, I want you to imagine Joseph, imagine like a target where there are rings. Did you ever shoot a gun or shoot

46:47an arrow facing a target? Okay. Well, you know, let's say that there are these three rings, and in the middle there's this black, large area. That's what we're going to call transformation. And I'm going to share with you something that I think is so right for you. I wasn't going to do that this earlier. And I thought, no, this is, I think this is for my friend Joseph. Okay. There's this freedom formula that years ago I worked up. It's if you have a new purpose and a new priority and a new plan that enabled the formula for you to then have a transform life. Now, I'm going to explain it this way. Let's say the outer ring of that target is a new

47:52purpose. Now, in the past, whatever a person is addicted to, let's say it's gambling, and I'm going to shoot and I'm choosing that just because there are many who lose their lives because of gambling this addiction. But and you can apply this to anything where you were addicted before. But until you've got to have a new purpose, instead of getting the high off of whatever you have had as an addictive activity. Now, God's purpose for me is to be, and this is the highest purpose of all to be conformed to the character of Christ. So I want you to say after me, I'll do whatever it

48:52takes to be conformed to the character of Christ. Let me let me ask you, is that, is that something you would like to have for your life? Oh, yes. Okay. Great. Okay. I want you to say that. I'll do whatever it takes to be conformed to the character of Christ. To be conformed to the image of Christ. Yes, say it again. I'll do whatever it takes to be conformed to the image of Christ. Great. Now, the Bible says this is based on scripture. This is Romans 829 that we are predestined. This is amazing. This is God's highest purpose for you and for me, for every person, it would be God predestined. He's determined how He is going to do this. He predestined us to be conformed to the image of His

49:56son. So God's purpose is to be conformed to the character of Christ. That is the outer ring of that target. Then the middle ring is not just a new purpose, but a new priority. Well, God's priority for you and me is to change our thinking. And so this is based on, by the way, Romans 12, two, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So what do you do? Well, this is your part. I'll do whatever it takes to line up my thinking with God's thinking. Is that what you would want? Yes, it is. Oh, fantastic. Okay, say that then, after me, I'll do whatever it takes to line up my thinking with God's thinking.

51:04Line up my thinking with God's thinking. Excellent. Say it again. I'll do whatever it takes. I'll do whatever it takes to line up my thinking with God's thinking. Perfect. Okay, that's that middle ring. Then the inner ring is a new plan. And God's plan is that we rely on Christ's strength, not our strength, to be what he created us to be. In other words, the Bible says, I can do all things, not just all things, I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, Philippians 413. And the point of that is, it's not my strength, it's not your strength. Was Jesus all powerful when he was on earth? No. So are you aware that when, and I never

52:17will forget, when I read the scripture, it's Christ in you, the hope of glory. I thought, I was very new to the Bible, didn't know anything really about the Bible. And I read Christ in you, the hope of glory. What do you mean, Christ in you? Well, we receive him as our Lord and Savior, which you mentioned earlier. And as such, he has supernatural strength that I don't have, and that you don't have, but he does have that. So I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength. And that is for you. So your part is, I'll do whatever it takes to fulfill his plan and his strength. Is that your desire? Oh, yeah. Okay. All right. I want you to say that after

53:19me, I'll do whatever it takes. I'll do whatever it takes to fulfill his plan and his strength. To fulfill his plan and his strength. Right. So what that means is, when you are feeling, oh, by the way, you put these three together, a new purpose, not the old purpose of doing whatever feels good at the moment, because it ultimately doesn't feel good when it's not right in God's side. So you have a new purpose. I'll do whatever it takes to be conformed to the character of Christ, new priority. I'll do whatever it takes to line up my thinking with God's thinking. And then a new plan is I'll do whatever it takes to fulfill his plan and his strength.

54:23And what that means is, that will give you a transform life. And I can hear your you know the things that don't work. There's huge advantage. I know this is going to be a strange there are advantages of making wrong choices because you find out they don't work. You're eliminating the things that are not going to give you the peace you want. Does that make sense? Mm-hmm. Okay. So I'm thinking I'm going to send you something on depression because so much of what you will read. These are called our keys. We key keys unlocked doors. And at times we're stuck because

55:31there's we're locked into a pattern. But we can that pattern can change and we can affect the change in the strength of Christ. It sounds like you are understanding and getting what I'm saying. Yeah, I am. I know it in my head, but it's hard to actually feel it. Okay. Well, I'm what I've described to you, this model of transformation basically isn't almost all of our keys, but this one will be in the keys on depression. And I want you to go through, you'll see what to do physically. You'll see what to do in the area of your soul. See, we are three parts,

56:32three parts of person is body, soul. The soul is the mind, will, and emotions. And the third is spirit. So we approach it from those five different ways. The body, the mind, this is the soul, mind, will, and emotions. And then the last is spiritually. And if you'd like for us to talk again about applying all this, I hear that you're getting the basic part of the plan. But if you'd like for us to talk again. Okay, we will work that out. I like you. I, my heart's with you. I grew up with bizarre. You grew up with bizarre. And it wasn't good. But you have a whole future. Almost two-thirds

57:38of your life yet to live. It's good. Whether you listen to us on the radio or digitally through our podcast or website, I want to thank you for listening to this program. We'll be sending Joseph books from June's Kids for Living Library. And we send each and every caller resources free of charge because of your financial generosity. If you'd like to partner with us and help spread the book of hope, please consider making a financial gift to hope for the heart. You can go to hope for the heart dot org and click donate or just text the word give to 70919. Until next time, thanks again for listening to Hope in the Night. The preceding program is pre-recorded.

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