Open your Bibles with me to Joel Chapter 2.

Joel Chapter 2.

I want to talk to you today about the Holy Spirit's power

to help us overcome grief and sadness.

title of my message is hanging in there.

You ever said that when someone says,

how you doing?

You went hanging in there, but that's not how you said it, right?

You took a big tired sigh first,

because you all know the only way to answer hanging in there when someone says,

how you doing is to first go,

hanging in there. How you doing? Right? Like, like, like hanging in there. Like I asked

someone this week, how you doing and they said, they said back so honestly they said,

well I'm here, aren't I? I was like I don't know if

that's that's good or not like I guess so I guess it's better than the

alternative right? When we say though hanging in there I think a lot of times tragically we're saying and

acknowledging that we're just coping that we're just sort of squeaking by that

we're essentially surviving and if you feel that way today I understand right

things can happen in life that lead to you just being overloaded and overwhelmed, right?

But I think if we're honest, hanging in there

is a far cry from what Jesus hung there for you to experience.

That is to say, he said, I want you to have joy,

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