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Doubt is real something all of us face at some point or another and it can become real dangerous if left unchecked and left to manifest because when DOUBT is left to grow it leads to death and depression. I know this first hand....the root of my depression is doubting God’s plans for my life? Doubting who God said I am? Doubting that I have something to offer this world Depression is painful…it is not something that I wish on anyone Deadly: Garden of Eden…this lead to a physically and emotional death Deadly: not to get morbisuicides rates up, the root for many people is DOUBT....some of us are dead right now... Emotional and SPIRITUALLY.DOUBT IS THE SEED THAT LEFT TO GERMINATE, LEFT TO GROW, LEADS TO WALKING AWAY FROM GODPEOPLE START DOUBTING - NOT TRUSTING GOD - NOT OBEYING GOD- NOT BELIEVING IN GODMANY PEOPLE WALK AWAY FROM GOD NOT OVER THIS BIG THEOLOGICAL ISSUES, BUT RATHER IN A DOUBT THAT IS LEFT TO GERMINATE AND GROW THAT LEADS TO SPIRITUAL DEATH AND DEPRESSION. THAT IS HEAVY STUFF…but it is honest stuff....BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS But the God News is we can take all of our doubts to God....God doesn’t say only come to me…take all your worries, doubts, and fears to the Lord. TENSIONWhat does God say to us, or show us when we are doubting? GOD I am with youHow does God come? wind, fire, storm Who does God come to? Kings and presents Rich and poorThose who are labeled good by society and those who are His presence is the present I remember during my depression....I could sleep at my dad’s house NO EXCEPTIONSSome of us hear God is with us....and we say yes God is with us, meaning THEM not me....do you know what I did yesterday? Do you know what I looked at online last night? Do you know what I said to them?.....or do you remember that one thing I did 10 years ago....and for 10 years you keep repeating that sin in your heart and mind…AND MAYBE

​Romans 8:31–39 ESVWhat then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I AM FOR YOU AND TRANSFORM YOU

​Romans 8:28 ESVAnd we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

I look at my life and I so see God at work....Pete drove down that path again or followed the wrong path and God says no hear.... I am like my children at Target....dad look there’s TOYS!!!

​Philippians 1:6 ESVAnd I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

I HAVE GIVEN YOU A PURPOSE AND A PATH AND I AM WITH YOU IN THE PURPOSE AND THE PATH

​Matthew 28:18–20 ESVAnd Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”