Welcome back, my friends. It is good to have you here on the morning mindset. If you're

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this episode or by going to not a needyperson.org. That today I want to encourage you, maybe

that's not even a strong enough word, friends. I want to exhort you to make sure you are

not a spirit crusher. Now, that's a strange phrase, and I've kind of made it up, but

spaced on the passage we're looking at today, Proverbs 18 verse 14. It says,

a man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? So I hope you

get the imagery that Solomon is using here. Imagine if you were in your sick bed and you

knew that it's just a matter of enduring this, maybe for three days, five days, ten days,

and in time your body is going to do what God has designed it to do, and you're going

to get well, you're going to get better. There's hope at the end of that tunnel. Now,

I realize there are chronic sicknesses and there are the sorts of things that we don't

recover from physically speaking, but that's not what Solomon has in view here. He just

has in mind your normal, garden variety sort of sickness and the fact that you will recover

is somewhere on the horizon. He's saying, your spirit can endure that. You can push through

and you can get through and you can come out on the other side. But by contrast, a crushed

spirit is something that is very hard to bear and very hard to endure. Think about it

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