Well, I know this is a really difficult season for so many people and that's why I'm honored to try to bring

spiritual encouragement every week and would encourage you to subscribe or follow wherever you can

see in the contents. You'll be the first to get new content. On the weekends at Life Church, we're

doing something different and we can only show it live there. So I've chosen a message especially

for those you get that are hurting. It's called when I've had enough. One of the many things I love about

our church family is you all let me be a real person. Is it okay if I'm a real person today?

Most of the time I am a pastor who glows in the dark not really. All of the time I'm a regular

person and I want to tell you the story behind this message series. It started the first week of June

and I flew to see a friend of mine pastor Stephen Ferdick about twice a year or so. I'll fly to see him

or he'll fly to see me and we spend one day together. We always fast. We pray. We search

scriptures together. We seek God. Actually everything I told you is a lie. What we do is we watched

Wimbleton last time we worked out and we ate a lot but it felt holy. I'm not saying. Okay and so

and the truth is this last visit almost everyone is a highlight for both of us because it's two friends

getting together and encouraging each other but it was a particularly rough season for me

and immediately he's like Rochelle was wrong and I told him I just I'm having a hard time breathing.

This is incredibly unusual for me. I don't battle with a lot of anxiety but I could barely even

breathe full breaths and I was overwhelmed with this sense of anxiety and what I'm about to tell

you was causing it you're going to say well that doesn't make any sense which is exactly what

anxiety is it doesn't make any sense so often. I was stressed about the message series that I'm

teaching right now because I have to name the series a couple of months of advance because of our

programming and such and I couldn't come up with another idea for decades I've done this and I just

hit the end of my rope there was nothing no idea no insight in the scripture no revelation nothing

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