Love Tomorrow More

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I'm going to take a day off today, bring you back an old Quiet Home episode that I did

called Love Tomorrow More.

If you haven't been around too long, you may not have heard this before, to shake some

things off, to cast aside some things that are holding us back.

One of the ways that we can really make deep change is when we get to the place where we

can put a little gap in before we just re-engage in old habits and old behaviors and thought

processes and addictions and patterns and all those things, if we can just get to where.

We put a little space in there and say, wait a minute, before I do this, I want to think

about five minutes from now, five hours from now, five days from now.

I want to think about tomorrow and the impact that my decisions right now will have on tomorrow.

Do I love that more than I need to do whatever it is that I'm about to do right now or however

I'm gonna feel or whatever I'm going to engage in so this is a good little reminder about loving tomorrow more I think it'll be helpful with some good

music from Matt and Mary. I hope that wherever you are and whatever you do and you

remember the one thing I have to teach you if nothing else you can learn from.

All this is that you can't change your life until you change your mind and you,

can start today. Hey are you ready to change your life? If the answer is yes.

There's only one rule you have to change your mind first and my friend there's a

a place where the neuroscience of how your mind works smashes together with faith,

and everything starts to make sense.

That place is called self-brain surgery. You can learn it and it will help you become healthier,

feel better and be happier.

And the good news is you can start today.

Thanks, Lisa. Hey, so glad to have you listening today. I'm Dr. Lee Warren and I live in Nebraska

in the United States of America with my incredible wife, Lisa,

my father-in-law, Tata and the super pups, Harvey and Louis.

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the power of your brain, faith, the power of your spirit, and good old common sense to help you lead a healthier,

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I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I'm here to help you Change your mind so you can change your life. Let's get after it.

And I've been thinking about the prayer wall. A lot of heavy stuff on the prayer wall lately.

We've gotten some private prayer requests this week as I shared a little bit with you.

Just some difficult things. I have a friend whose teenage child recently attempted suicide.

We have just a lot of things that are going on. It just continues to illustrate the point

of what Jesus was saying, that in this world you will have trouble, from John 16, 33.

But he also says, the thief comes to steal and kill and destroy,

but I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10 10th, we have this quantum physics thing where two things can and are, can be and are true at the same time.

Things can be hard, they can be beautiful. Things can seem impossible, they can be possible.

It can be unsalvageable and there can still be hope, all at the same time.

So just, I hope that this weekend you can recharge and refresh and recalibrate and reset

and just get some time with you and your loved ones and get out and enjoy the fresh air, look at the stars.

The stars and the moon have been amazing in the mornings lately.

I'm so sorry my voice is, I guess just tired, but I'm having a lot of trouble with my voice

cracking and clicking, so I hope you don't mind that.

This morning it's early, I'm having some coffee with you, and I'm just excited to go into a Friday

where maybe things will be a little bit less hectic and a little bit less strenuous than they have been.

And this weekend we're gonna just recharge and reset.

So I just, I wanted to share that with you because I always come on and talk about.

How positive things are, and how you ought to reframe your mindset and thinking and all that,

and I don't ever want you to get the impression

that I've got it all figured out, or that me and Lisa and Tata are the three people in the world

that everything is always right and positive and happy.

That's not true. We're just like anybody else. There's strenuous things that happen,

and when you are overworked and overtasked, you need to remember what the Lord says.

Rest, reset, refresh, recharge, renew. He'll make all things new, but you gotta let him,

and you gotta take some time to take a breath from time to time.

So we're gonna do that this weekend.

Hey, I wanna spend quiet time in Psalm 30 this morning. I'm just gonna read Psalm 30.

I've been praying and kinda meditating, thinking about this passage.

There's a couple things in Psalm 30 that I want to make sure that I share with you.

Of course, this is fertile ground. Tommy Walker's written songs out of Psalm 30.

Many songwriters have used Psalm 30 to write. I'm Trading My Sorrows is a famous worship song

that the sorrow may last the night as joy comes from the morning.

All those little verses come from Psalm 30. There's lots of good stuff.

Trade My Mourning Into Dancing, one of my favorite old Tommy Walker songs,

all comes out of Psalm 30. This is fertile ground to find some

of what I've been telling you about, prehab.

You find some words, you find some juice to put in your heart that when challenges come along,

when stressful things happen, these words will come back to you

and you can use them as bullets to shoot at the problem

so you don't lose hope, okay?

So Psalm 30, we're gonna cover that ground.

Just wanna encourage you, going into the weekend, take some time to reset and recharge

and refresh and reframe and let the Lord remake you and next week will feel a little bit lighter, right?

Don't just plug through it, don't just keep working, don't just keep pile-driving everything.

Take a minute, take a breath.

You're allowed to. You're allowed to schedule yourself some time off.

You're allowed to schedule yourself some exercise.

You're allowed, in fact, if you want to be a good steward of yourself, remember that one of the fruits of the Spirit

is self-control, and that doesn't mean just not doing a bunch of things.

It also means controlling yourself in a way that will produce recharging, exercise, rejuvenate.

Spend some time listening to your favorite music this weekend. Just just spend a little time,

Not working or not doing the thing that's wearing you out so much and God will reward that.

And he'll help you remake yourself. We're gonna do Psalm 30 as a quiet time this morning,

Okay, my friend. Here's Psalm 30. I'm gonna play a little music behind it something

I recorded for Lisa years ago called Lisa's eyes on my nylon string guitar, and I hope you enjoy that I,

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.

O Lord, my Lord, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.

You restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name, for his

His anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountains stand strong.

You hid your face, and I was dismayed. To you, O Lord, I cried,

and to the Lord I plead for mercy. What profit is there in my death if I go down to the pit?

Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

O Lord, and be merciful to me, O Lord, be my helper.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing. You have loosed my sackcloth and have clothed me,

with gladness, that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.

O Lord, my God, I give my thanks to you forever.

Amen. Friend, there's a lot in there. Find you some of those verses that can be useful to you

as prehab to then use in your attack against the things that come along and not just be victimized by them.

To make your days better, arm yourself with some prehab and Psalm 30 is a great place to go.

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Pray through that, meditate through it, think about it, let those words be useful to you.

Now I'm gonna give you one thought today.

I told you recently that I want you to love tomorrow more than you hate what you're feeling tonight.

A lot of folks, a lot of people all around the world are struggling so much with whatever it is that they've been through or whatever they're going through or whatever the

Situation is in their life that they don't want to think about that. They come home at night.

Every day, and they turn their brain off. They turn the television on, they open up a bottle of wine,

they get online and gamble, they get online and click on websites that they ought not to click on,

they flirt with somebody from the office that they ought not to be texting with.

They do something, shop or do something to distract their brain from what they really ought to be working

through and processing and trying to make better.

So instead of working on it and getting the Lord to heal it and finding a plan and a strategy to deal with that thing,

They just go numb themselves, anesthetize themselves, so they don't have to deal with it.

But then guess what happens tomorrow? You wake up and you still have the problem,

and you have the hangover,

and you have the debt you have to pay, and you have the relationship that you messed up,

and you have the wound that you gave your spouse with the angry words that you said, or whatever.

And you have the regret that you didn't go to your kid's baseball game,

and instead you came home and did X, Y, or Z.

If you don't take care of it, then you have to deal with it later,

plus the tomorrow tax of whatever it was that you did instead, right?

So I just want to give you one thought. When he says, weeping may tarry for the night,

but joy comes with the morning.

And when he says, you've turned my mourning into dancing, there's something that's implied there.

If you don't let yourself do the weeping, you won't get the joy in the morning.

In other words, if you anesthetize yourself, if you numb yourself from the problem

and you don't actually let God minister to and operate on and heal that problem

or teach you how to deal with it or teach you how to negotiate it a different way,

then you still have it to deal with the next day.

So if you want the joy to come in the morning, you have to love tomorrow more than you hate today.

Love tomorrow more, my friend.

Weeping will carry you through the night, but only if you let yourself do it.

Because you can't turn your mourning into dancing if you're not willing to go through the mourning.

If you're not willing to go through the pain to find the light on the other side,

if you just keep turning the lights off on your brain and numbing yourself to it,

then you'll never actually process it and deal with it.

That's something we had to learn with grief. You've got to learn to go through it.

You can't just stuff it down. I did that to my shame. I did that with Iraq when I came home.

I put everything in a trunk and closed it up and didn't deal with it,

and then a few years later it came roaring out in the form of PTSD that really was hard on me

and my wife and my family.

Because I didn't process it, I didn't let myself do the weeping through the night

so that God could give me the joy in the morning.

I wasn't willing to go through the sorrow, to go through the mourning, to go through the grieving,

to go through the problem, because I didn't want to feel it.

And therefore, God couldn't turn it into dancing until I was ready to submit it to Him.

The sum total of today, what I'm talking about with you today, my friend, in this short few minutes here,

is just let yourself go through the mourning, let yourself go through the weeping,

so that he can give you the joy and the money. Love tomorrow more than you hate what you're feeling today.

That's the take home message that I'm giving you from Psalm 30, okay?

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Use Psalm 30 as some prehab for you.

And love tomorrow more than you hate what you're feeling today.

And that will help you, my friend, to recharge and reset and refresh and let him keep his own promise

that the joy will come at the morning and that he'll turn your morning into dancing.

But the good news about all of that, my friend, is that you can start today.

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