God's giving us the opportunity today to put an X through anxiety for us to live free

from the grip of anxiety in our lives. I don't know if anybody here today needs a message like that.

I would guess that there are people in the space that need it and people in your life sphere

that need this message. In 2012 something radical happened to the people of America.

And every study has showed a spike in self-harm, fear, anxiety, and depression. I don't mean a

little spike. I mean a massive spike on the chart. What happened in 2012 to cause that spike?

You think, oh, maybe it was when the phone was created. Now that happened a little bit earlier.

It's when social media became a part of the fabric of our lives. And this isn't a Christian

perspective. These are just people studying people. And so we are living in the most anxious age

that we can find in humanity. And that would touch into your life the same way it's touched

into my life. And I just want you to know today that God is in our midst today. And he is saying,

I am greater than whatever is making you anxious. I'm greater than whatever is making you afraid.

And you can live free. And if you're thinking today, hey, that sounds great. I would expect you to

say that. You got a book putting an ex or anxiety. But you don't understand where I am. You don't

understand the situation I'm in. And I'm telling you today, God brought me back from the other side

to this place today. Over a decade ago, I fell in a hole. Happened just like that. I didn't know

the hole existed. I didn't know how deep it was. I didn't know how dark it was. And I didn't know

how captivating it was. But I fell in it. And I figured out in a hurry that this thing called

depression is real. And I'm not talking about a bump in the road. I'm talking about being out of

commission for months in my life. I didn't leave the house. I didn't go on a walk in the neighborhood

with my wife. I didn't go to a meeting at the office. And if you said to me in that season,

you'd come in faith to my house. And said, Louis, listen, I have a word for you. God's going to put

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