I want to talk to you about strength tonight, strength, and I want to show you how Jesus demonstrates, teaches, and illustrates for us what it means to be strong.

So the title of my message, title of my sermon tonight, is I'm tired

of trying to be strong. I'm tired of trying to be strong. I like to speak specifically to anyone in this

room or anyone watching who has ever found themselves or currently are finding

themselves in a place of fatigue, maybe emotional fatigue, maybe mental fatigue, you are constantly, perpetually, continually trying to be strong for everyone around you.

I look around this room, amazing people like Ashley who have real Christmas trees,

and I can imagine how many of us are constantly trying to be strong,

constantly trying to be the rock for our friends,

the rock maybe for your spouse,

the rock for your boyfriend or your girlfriend,

the rock for your coworkers and your loved ones and your friends or maybe it's that time

of year where your family tries to get together but maybe your mom and dad parted ways

years ago and it's kind of get the uncles and the ants together and you're

trying to make everybody happy and make sure everybody gets along and maybe you

find yourself fatigue. Hey I'm tired of trying to be cool, calm, and collected.

Maybe during Thanksgiving holiday, you already lost it a little bit,

something kind of snapped and you just got so frustrated with trying to always be the peacekeeper or the stable one or the cool calm and collected customer in the family.

I want to talk about that and I want to say this if you find yourself

right now as we're talking feeling weak, feeling drained, feeling fatigue, I would like to feeling an opportunity. You are actually set up to experience supernatural strength more than you realize,

more than you realize. And so if you have ever felt weak or you feel weak and you're tired of trying to be strong. This message is for you.

I dedicate it to you and I dedicate it to Ashley and her real Christmas tree.

And Ashley is currently not single. Just to be clear, Ashley, let us know if you ever

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