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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional Podcast, episode 1486. Today's devo is called In My Head. Hey there, we're the Alessis, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to-do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a 5-minute daily Daily Dose of Heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast. Hello everyone, my name is Lauren Alessi and I am your host for this week. And how exciting, second week on camera, which is trying to get used to it for me, for myself. I prefer to just talk and talk and talk and not worry about a camera, but it's okay, we're getting used to it. And if you're listening to us on Spotify, why don't you go check out YouTube, see our videos, or check out our social media, because we're trying to do also video and audio. And let us know what think.
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So today's episode is called In My Head. Why is it called In My Head? Well, that is because we have been discussing internal inconsistencies. Not to brag, but I thought of this month's idea because— and that's really not to brag at all. It's because I've been struggling with internal inconsistencies. And what does that mean? It's basically struggling with inconsistencies internally, like Why am I in my head all the time? I'm a Christian and I trust God and I believe the good things for him, but I'm constantly spiraling inside and in my head and I can't get out of my head.
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I don't know if you relate to this, but this week is really dedicated to kind of my struggles of getting in my head, struggling to get out, and turning to the word of God and what does it say about that. So I hope you enjoy. Let's dive into the word and what it has to say. So today's episode, In My Head, the Psalm— I mean, the verse of the day is in Psalms, and it says this: Psalm 94:19, "When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy." And already this, like, verse just wants to bring me to tears, because when you're somebody who struggles with being in their head, you know how that can turn from being in your head to stress to anxiety. To full-out spiraling to now, as the Gen Z says, like crash out. It goes from 0 to 100 so fast when you just stay in your head. And when we get out of our head and we trust God, we find peace. But when we stay in our head, we just keep going. We stay in the anxiety, we stay in the stress, we stay in the spiral, the constant spiral of, okay, but what if God doesn't come through? Okay, but what if, what if, but it doesn't get better? Like, Look at our world around us. It's getting worse. It's getting worse. But here in Psalms, it says, when anxiety was great within me, your Consolation brought me joy. And it says your Consolation with the capital Y. So what does that mean? It's talking about God. His consolation brings us joy. So what does this tell me today? That even though I can be stressed, even though I can get anxious, even though I can stay in my head, the joy of the Lord is my strength. I don't need to have all the answers. I do need to get out of my head because it is the Lord's consolation that will bring me joy, and the Lord's joy is my strength. It's what brings me strength. I don't know if you struggle like I do with getting in your head. Maybe you're someone who's more external and not internal like me, and you're just more— I'm just gonna say it, and I don't— I wish I was like you, honestly.
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I wish I was people who could just say it and you're not a heady person, or overanalyze or overthink. I am like jealous of people like you because I just get stuck in my head. So maybe you don't struggle with it, but if you do, let us together reflect on this verse that when anxiety is great within us, when getting stuck in our head is great within us, when that constant spiral of I want to talk about it, but I don't want to talk about it, and I'd rather just deal with it, and I know talking about it will help me, but then I just don't want to burden others. When that constant spiral is going around, we can turn to the Lord for joy. We can turn to his consolation for joy. And that doesn't mean we don't talk about it, because we need to talk about it, but it ultimately brings that the ultimate joy and the ultimate consolation comes from the Lord, not from our own thoughts, not from staying in our head, but it comes from the Lord. Let's pray. Lord, first of all, we bring this week to you, God, because there are some internal inconsistencies in us. God, I say I trust you, Lord. We say that we trust you, God, but how can we stay in our head and have anxiety and have stress and go around in circles, God, if at our heart we truly trust you, Lord? So on my behalf, Lord, forgive me, God. Help me to trust you. And if anybody who's listening, Lord, can relate to this, Lord, let us all just pray the prayer of repentance. Lord, forgive us. Lord, let us not be caught up in anxiety or stress or staying in our head or, or thinking irrational thoughts. Lord, Lord, let us completely fall into trusting you and having faith in you, God. And forgive us for thinking that way, Lord, but help us and give us strength to do better, God.
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We don't want to be in our heads, God. We want to be completely trusting in you and have complete faith in you. So help us to do that, Lord. And we give this week to you, God. I pray that it helps people just as it helps me. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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