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You Love God… So Why Do You Still Feel This Heavy?

10:51560 summary words · ~3 min readEnglishBy Hullalujah MinistriesTranscribed Nov 8, 2026

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Summary

Spiritual and emotional heaviness does not mean you have failed God or lost your faith; it requires breaking agreement with lies and intentionally putting on the garment of praise. Real healing involves surrendering burdens to Christ, choosing community over isolation, and combining prayer with professional support when needed.

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Overcoming spiritual heaviness

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Feeling heavy, tired, or lacking joy does not mean you have failed God or that He has abandoned you. Biblical leaders such as David, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Jesus all navigated seasons of deep sorrow and grief. Faith does not eliminate pain, but God never intended for your emotional struggle to define your spiritual identity.

A heavy emotional season is not evidence of spiritual failure or God's disappointment.
Scripture shows faithful servants like David, Elijah, and Jesus facing profound grief.
God does not want your temporary pain to become your permanent identity.

The power of praise

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Isaiah 61:3 describes trading the spirit of heaviness for the garment of praise, illustrating praise as an intentional action you choose to wear. Worshiping despite your feelings is not denial, but a deliberate decision to declare that God is greater than your circumstances. Shifting focus away from the problem onto God's faithfulness begins reviving joy in your soul.

The garment of praise in Isaiah 61:3 is an active discipline rather than a passive emotion.
Praising God in hard times reminds your soul that circumstances are not greater than God.
Worshiping through the struggle redirects your focus from the obstacle to God's character.

Prayer for restoration

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This segment leads an extensive deliverance and restoration prayer that verbally surrenders hidden burdens, sadness, fear, and fatigue to Jesus Christ. It renounces and breaks agreement with lies of worthlessness, abandonment, and hopelessness, asserting Christ's lordship over feelings. The prayer petitions the Holy Spirit for supernatural peace, the restoration of genuine joy, and community over isolation.

Release emotional exhaustion and hidden burdens directly into Jesus' hands.
Break verbal agreement with lies declaring you are worthless, forgotten, or without purpose.
Invite the Holy Spirit to replace anxious thoughts with peace and true joy.
Affirm your biblical identity as loved, forgiven, and purposefully created.

Practical steps to healing

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Overcoming heaviness involves intentional daily steps like playing worship music, getting outside, speaking gratitude out loud, and reaching out to trusted people. Seeking help from a pastor, counselor, or medical professional does not reflect a lack of faith; medical and professional care work alongside prayer. A free deliverance self-assessment is also offered for identifying roots in spiritual warfare.

Take tangible steps against heaviness by playing worship music and verbalizing gratitude.
Refuse isolation by connecting with trusted friends or church community.
Pursuing professional medical or mental health help complements spiritual prayer and faith.

Key points

Heaviness Is Not Spiritual Failure — Walking through sorrow or exhaustion does not mean God is disappointed in you; faithful figures like David, Elijah, and even Jesus experienced deep grief.
Praise Is a Garment, Not a Feeling — Based on Isaiah 61:3, worshiping God before your feelings change shifts your focus from your mountain to God's faithfulness until genuine joy returns.
Break Agreement with the Enemy's Lies — Deliverance from heaviness begins when you verbally renounce thoughts of worthlessness, abandonment, and despair, reaffirming your identity as a redeemed child of God.
Pair Spiritual Authority with Support — Rejecting isolation means combining prayer and worship with practical action, including pastoral care and professional mental health support.

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If you've been waking up feeling heavy,

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discouraged, and like you're just not

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good enough, I really need you to hear

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this. God never told you to carry that

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heaviness. He told you to what to put on

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instead the garment of praise. Listen,

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there are people listening to me right

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now who love Jesus, but you haven't felt

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like yourself lately. You're tired.

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You're discouraged. You don't have the

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joy that you used to have. And maybe the

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hardest part is that you've started

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blaming yourself.

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You think, "Maybe I'm not praying

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enough. Maybe God is disappointed in me.

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Maybe I'm just not good enough." But

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listen to me. Having a difficult season

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doesn't mean that you failed God.

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David loved God and still cried. Elijah

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experienced extreme victory and then

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became deeply discouraged.

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Jeremiah wept. Even Jesus was described

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as a man of sorrow who was acquainted

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with grief.

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Faith doesn't mean you never hurt. But

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God doesn't want your pain to become

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your identity. Isaiah 61:3 speaks about

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it. the garment of praise for the spirit

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of heaviness. I love that picture

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because a garment is something you

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actually put on. Sometimes you praise

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God because you feel joyful, but

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sometimes you praise God until joy

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begins to rise again. Not because you're

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pretending everything is okay. Not

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because you're denying your pain, but

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because you're reminding your soul, my

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circumstances are not greater than my

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God. You may not feel like worshiping

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sometimes. Worship anyway. You may not

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feel like thanking him. Find one thing

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and thank him anyway. You may not feel

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like getting out of bed. Put your feet

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on the floor and say, "This is the day

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the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be

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glad in it."

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Praise changes what you're focusing on.

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Instead of staring only at the mountain,

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you begin looking for the God who is

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greater than the mountain. And somebody

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needs to hear this right now. You are

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not worthless. You are not forgotten.

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You are not a disappointment to God. In

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this heavy season, it doesn't get to

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write the ending of your story. So,

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we're going to pray. And while we're

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praying, I want you to consciously lay

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down that heaviness and turn your

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attention toward the goodness of God.

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So, come into agreement with this

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prayer. Father God, in the mighty name

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of Jesus Christ, I come before you right

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now for every person within the sound of

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my voice. Lord, you see the person who's

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exhausted.

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You see the one who smiles around

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everyone else and then cries when they

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get home. You see the one who's been

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just carrying something that they

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haven't told anybody about.

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You see the person who woke up this

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morning and didn't even want to get out

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of bed. Father, meet them right where

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they are. Let your presence surround

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them right now in Jesus name. And if

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you're praying with me, say this. Father

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God, I give you my heaviness. I give you

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my sadness. I give you my

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disappointment. And I give you my

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loneliness. I give you my fear. I give

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you the thoughts that tell me I'm not

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good enough. I give you every burden

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that I've been trying to carry by

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myself. Lord, I cannot carry this

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anymore. I don't believe you ever asked

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me to. So today, I lay it down in the

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name of Jesus. I break agreement with

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every lie that says I'm worthless. I

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break agreement with every lie that says

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nobody cares about me. I break agreement

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with every lie that says nothing will

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ever change. I break agreement with

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every lie that says God has forgotten

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me. I break agreement with every lie

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that says my life has no purpose. Those

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thoughts will not become my identity. My

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feelings are real, but they are not my

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master. Jesus Christ is Lord over my

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life. Father, your word tells me to put

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on the garment of praise for the spirit

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of heaviness. So right now, even before

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my circumstances change, I choose to

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praise you. I praise you because you

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kept me. I praise you because you saved

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me. I praise you because you forgave me.

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And I praise you because you woke me up

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today and I'm still breathing. I praise

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you because the enemy did not destroy

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me. I praise you because every season

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I've survived is evidence that your

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grace has carried me. I praise you

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because you are good. Even when life

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doesn't feel good, I praise you because

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you are faithful. Even when I don't

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understand what you're doing, I praise

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you because you promise to never leave

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me nor forsake me. Oh, Holy Spirit, come

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into this heaviness. Bring light into

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every dark place. Bring peace into every

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anxious thought. Bring hope into every

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place where disappointment has set in.

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Bring strength into every place where

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exhaustion has taken over. Oh Lord,

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restore joy, not fake happiness, not

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pretending. Real joy. The joy that comes

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from knowing God is with me. God loves

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me and God sees me. God hasn't finished

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with me. Father, remind me of who I am.

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I'm your child. I am loved. I am

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forgiven. I am redeemed. And I am

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valuable to you. My life has purpose. My

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story is still being written. And what I

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feel today does not determine what

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tomorrow will become. Lord, teach me to

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praise you in the valley. Teach me to

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worship while I'm waiting. Teach me to

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recognize your goodness in the small

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things again. The sunrise, a

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conversation, a meal, a friend, a

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breath, another day. Lord, give me eyes

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to see your goodness that has been

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surrounding me even when heaviness made

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it difficult to notice. And Father, when

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I need help, give me courage to ask for

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it. surround me with people who will

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love me, people who will listen, people

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who will pray, people who will walk

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beside me instead of judge me. I refuse

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isolation. I refuse shame. I refuse the

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lie that I have to fight every battle

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alone. Today, I put on the garment of

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praise. I choose gratitude over

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hopelessness. I choose truth over

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condemnation. I choose community over

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isolation and I choose hope over

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despair. And when heaviness tries to

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return tomorrow, I will remind my soul

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again. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. I

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will remember what you've already

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brought me through. I will remember your

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faithfulness.

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and I will keep walking one prayer at a

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time, one day at a time, one step at a

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time. Father, restore the joy that has

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been missing. Let laughter return. Let

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hope return. Let expectation return. Let

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that person who thought they would never

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feel like themselves again begin to

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experience life again. And above

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everything else, draw them closer to

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Jesus because my ultimate joy is not

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found in my circumstances.

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My joy is found in you. Thank you for

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holding me when I couldn't hold myself

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together. Thank you for loving me when I

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didn't feel love. Thank you for staying

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near when I felt alone. And God, I thank

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you that in this difficult chapter, it's

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not the end of my story. In the mighty

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name of Jesus Christ, amen. If you

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prayed that with me, I want you to do

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something today. Put on the garment of

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praise. Turn on worship music. Go

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outside. Thank God out loud for what you

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still have. Call somebody you trust.

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Don't isolate yourself inside the

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heaviness. And if you're struggling with

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depression or persistent heaviness,

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seeking help from a pastor or a

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counselor, a doctor, or a mental health

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professional doesn't mean you lack

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faith. Prayer and appropriate

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profession, professional care. It

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belongs with each other. If you receive

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this word, comment below. I choose joy.

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And if you're experiencing spiritual

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battles and want some biblical

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direction, my free deliverance self

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assessment is linked in the description.

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So like this video, share it with

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somebody who's been struggling quietly,

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and subscribe so you don't miss the next

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prayer. I love you. Jesus loves you so

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much more. Put on the garment of praise

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today. God bless you.

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