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Many of you have sent questions in for our Bring It On segment.

So we want to take a few minutes to answer some of those today.

This is Karen, Gordon, who says, "I have recommitted

my life to the Lord, but I'm going through a very hard time.

I am unemployed for the second time in three years.

And I'm not at a good age to be given a chance at a new job.

Neither instance was my fault when I lost my jobs.

I have anxiety and depression and fear

and feel God is not answering any of my prayers.

I have a lot of doubt, and I really just want to give up.

What do I do?

I feel like God is failing me."

Karen, what you're saying in terms of anxiety,

depression, and fear-- those are spiritual at times.

And you need to recognize that you're in a spiritual battle.

And how do you overcome spiritual battles?

How do you-- how do you do that?

Well, you can do it through the word of the Lord.

There's also-- I think you need to take control

of what you think about.

When you start thinking, oh no, I lost my jobs.

And there-- there's no hope for me.

And I'm too old to be employed.

Those thoughts are going to give rise to feelings of anxiety.

Those thoughts are going to make you feel fearful.

So take control of your thoughts.

Here's one for you.

In 6,000 years of recorded history in the Bible,

God has specifically chosen you to be the very first person

that He breaks His promise to.

Now when you put it that way, you

go, no, He hasn't done that!

He hasn't rejected you.

He hasn't said, I'm going to specifically single

out Karen to be the one I'm going to fail for.

He's going to support you.

All His promises are yes and amen for those

who are in Christ Jesus.

Start thinking that way, that He who has promised

will be faithful and will be faithful to you.

And He specifically has called you.

That's why you are in the Kingdom of God.

He knows you by name.

He knows the very hairs on your head.

He numbers them all.

He is intimately concerned with you.

Start thinking that way and see what happens to that anxiety.

See what happens to that fear.

See what happens to that depression.

And then, armored with that-- with those thoughts--

go out and say, how can I conquer today?

With Christ, I can do all things.

What's next?

This is Daria who says, "If to be out of the body

is to be present with the Lord, then

who are those that are asleep and will be resurrected when

Jesus returns?"

Daria, this is one of the great mysteries.

And I don't think there is any specific answer one

way or another.

You can say that, OK, it was talking

about the spirit of those.

And so the spirit-- the soul, if you will--

of those who have died is now present with the Lord

and they all await a bodily Resurrection.

You can say that.

But it's unclear.

There are so many things that we don't understand-- that eye

hasn't seen, ear hasn't heard.

It hasn't even entered into our hearts

what He's prepared for us.

So be encouraged with that.

The best is yet to come.

We leave you this word from Jeremiah.

"I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint."

For Terry, for me, for all of us-- God bless you.

We'll see you again.

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