WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:12.280 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Is your self-care narcissistic or 3 00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:18.920 is your self-care needed? Are we saying that I need to take care of myself at the 4 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:23.280 expense of others? Isn't that amazing to think about kind of freaky right? I don't 5 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:30.280 care if you're 10 or 110. The answer is still the same. The greatest self-care 6 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:35.880 that you can give yourself is to experience God in an ever-deepening way. 7 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:39.880 Here's the reason why that's important, everyone. 8 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:48.080 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:53.480 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 10 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:58.280 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, 11 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.880 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:10.280 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 13 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:16.000 Hey everybody, the term self-care is a big deal that's happening today. However, 14 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:22.040 it's not a new deal. Self-care is something that the young generation is mentioning 15 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:26.800 and speaking of and I get it. You want to know why I get it? Even though I'm in my late 16 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:34.600 60s, the term and the idea in the concept of self-care, remember this. The Bible says 17 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:42.300 that there's nothing new under the sun. Terminologies change when a generation is seeking 18 00:01:42.300 --> 00:01:52.300 an answer regarding a life human issue. And for all of human life, we have had what I'll 19 00:01:52.300 --> 00:02:01.400 say is the self-care issues. Now, let's be honest, there is a good aspect to taking care 20 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:08.900 of yourself, to thinking about self, to consider what's to be done about self-care. There 21 00:02:09.100 --> 00:02:16.100 is a good way to look at that. I don't want you to be some sort of a Christian that, well, 22 00:02:16.100 --> 00:02:21.060 the Bible says to avoid self. Of course it does and we'll talk about that in a moment. 23 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:28.700 But the reality is we are self. We are that person. How we deal with self is all important. 24 00:02:28.700 --> 00:02:36.700 So today a young generation is battling with, hey, I need self-care. But I want you if 25 00:02:36.700 --> 00:02:43.100 you're 25 or 65, the fact, and this is hard for some people to understand, I certainly 26 00:02:43.100 --> 00:02:47.100 would not have understood this nor believed it if somebody would have told me at the age 27 00:02:47.100 --> 00:03:00.700 of 28, that at the age of 68, the human side of our needs and thoughts are the same, are 28 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:05.540 the same. You say, Jack, Jack, I'm a young person. You sound like my parents and my grandparents. 29 00:03:05.540 --> 00:03:14.740 Yeah, I know. I'm here in it. I sympathize with you. Here's the deal. I want to pick on a 30 00:03:14.740 --> 00:03:20.340 biblical character so that you and I might understand ourselves better in light of God's word. 31 00:03:21.940 --> 00:03:27.940 So what I think you probably know by now that I'm really, really super hypersensitive against, 32 00:03:27.940 --> 00:03:35.460 hypersensitive too, I should say, theoretical faith. I'm not interested in theoretical faith. 33 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:39.780 I think that's one of the reasons why good, bad, or ugly. I gravitate toward a guy that was 34 00:03:39.780 --> 00:03:45.140 somewhat of a mystic in some ways. I mean, that in a good way. But that would be a W. Tozer. 35 00:03:45.140 --> 00:03:53.460 He believed in the reality of experiencing God, but he didn't get weird. I mean, said that, 36 00:03:54.340 --> 00:04:00.580 when we talk about self-care, the greatest self-care that you can give yourself is to experience 37 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:06.660 God in an ever-deepening way. And here's the reason why that's important, everyone, is because 38 00:04:07.380 --> 00:04:16.020 if we're really concerned about having our needs met, what does that mean? Well, according to 39 00:04:16.020 --> 00:04:22.420 the Bible, and I'm speaking predominantly to a biblical audience right now, to have my needs met, 40 00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:28.900 I need to first of all analyze, are my needs biblically sound? Because here I am at 68 years of age, 41 00:04:29.540 --> 00:04:38.580 and I've been a Christian for 49 years, and yet still to this day, I battle and I have to discern 42 00:04:38.580 --> 00:04:46.100 and make a choice between the difference of my self-care versus what I want versus what is 43 00:04:46.820 --> 00:04:56.580 that which needs to be done by me, spoken by me, done by me, that is Christlike. 44 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:04.980 So here's where the bifurcation, the split, and we have to have this split. This is where this 45 00:05:04.980 --> 00:05:14.420 division must come. And that is this. When a generation says, I need, let me think back. I need 46 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:20.740 me time. Remember that one, everybody, from the 90s, maybe early 2000s. I need me time. 47 00:05:22.500 --> 00:05:29.700 Way, way back, a burger company, forget who it was. Maybe it was Burger King, said something like, 48 00:05:29.700 --> 00:05:36.740 you need to have it your way, your way, your way. And I get that, you can order a burger the way 49 00:05:36.820 --> 00:05:44.420 that you want it. I get that. But there is a fine line for us when we talk about self-care, 50 00:05:44.420 --> 00:05:48.660 are we saying that I need to take care of myself at the expense of others? 51 00:05:50.020 --> 00:05:55.860 I need to take care of what I want to do, and that's going to happen by others supplying what I 52 00:05:55.860 --> 00:06:06.260 want. Listen, little kids who have a narcissistic tendency, as they begin to grow up, 53 00:06:06.260 --> 00:06:12.500 you know you're in a tough spot when they are narcissistic and their kids, and they vocalize 54 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:19.700 that they don't say it this way, but they're saying it this way. Hey, y'all, the whole world has 55 00:06:19.700 --> 00:06:25.380 been created for you guys to wait on me, hand in foot. What I want is what I want, and I want it 56 00:06:25.380 --> 00:06:34.500 now. Mom, dad, brothers, sisters, grandma, grandpa's, everybody, jump to my need. I want it, 57 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:44.100 and I want this now. That is the foundational warnings of a narcissistic worldview mindset, 58 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:52.020 that if left unchecked, we'll grow up an individual that is all about self-awareness to the point 59 00:06:52.020 --> 00:07:00.020 where it's selfless and self-grandizement. It's all about me. How does this work out for me? 60 00:07:00.100 --> 00:07:06.180 And then somebody comes along, maybe it's a cultural warrior, or maybe it's the trending 61 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:10.180 argument of the day, and it's all about you need more time with you. 62 00:07:12.740 --> 00:07:21.380 Listen, it never works right. It never goes well. If you focus on what you want, 63 00:07:22.340 --> 00:07:27.540 then you are going to wind up neglecting others. You see, well, Jack, who cares? I don't care 64 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:33.780 about other people. Actually, you do. You just don't know it. You are not an isolated 65 00:07:38.260 --> 00:07:48.340 alone type of personality that can go through life vacant and void of other people's lives. 66 00:07:48.900 --> 00:07:55.220 You cannot do that. You won't do it. You cannot do it. You may be somewhat of a 67 00:07:55.220 --> 00:08:04.180 loner, so to speak, or introvert. You may find this not true. You may think, I don't believe you, 68 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:09.380 but it's true. So I speak in front of thousands of people every week, but I got to tell you, 69 00:08:10.100 --> 00:08:17.540 I really like being alone. And I'm okay for days on end. I remember not all that long ago. 70 00:08:18.500 --> 00:08:25.940 I spent I think like six days alone. And I loved it, but I can't live like that. 71 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:32.500 That was like a break, right? And I needed that. I had something to accomplish, and I had to 72 00:08:32.500 --> 00:08:37.940 do that. Having said that, everybody, it's so important that you and I literally 73 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:43.620 gel with other human beings because we are social creatures. And you might say, well, Jack, 74 00:08:44.100 --> 00:08:49.220 when I say self-care, I don't mean that. But wait, to achieve self-care, 75 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:55.940 are you cutting yourself away from other people? Are you shutting the door? And are you isolating 76 00:08:55.940 --> 00:09:03.700 yourself out of relationships that you actually need? There's a way to revitalize. There's a way 77 00:09:03.700 --> 00:09:10.260 to renew. The Bible tells us, for example, that those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their 78 00:09:10.260 --> 00:09:16.820 strength. Notice the qualifier is to wait upon the Lord. It means to sit before the Lord and to 79 00:09:16.820 --> 00:09:21.220 talk to the Lord and say, Lord, I'm going to sit right now. I'm going to read the Bible right now, 80 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:29.380 speak to me. I need refreshing of my soul. This is my self-care. I'm bringing myself to you, 81 00:09:29.380 --> 00:09:35.940 Lord, and I'm asking you to speak to me, to call me out, Lord, on things that are not right. 82 00:09:36.660 --> 00:09:43.380 Or give me instructions on things that I need to do. And that's healthy. And that's beautiful. 83 00:09:43.380 --> 00:09:50.580 But I would like to divide it up this way. Is your self-care narcissistic or is your self-care 84 00:09:50.580 --> 00:09:57.460 needed? When I say needed, it's not that you want it. That's more narcissistic. It's that it's 85 00:09:57.460 --> 00:10:03.460 needed, meaning, how do I become a better person? How do I become a closer follower of Jesus? 86 00:10:03.460 --> 00:10:08.980 How can I be a better husband, a better wife, a better father, a better mother? How do I become 87 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:16.820 a better employer or an employee? God show me these things. And so I want to pick on this example. 88 00:10:16.820 --> 00:10:21.860 And I'm going to deliberately delay the revelation of who I'm talking about for some of you 89 00:10:21.860 --> 00:10:28.580 in the younger audience, because you may not stick with me if I say, this is found over here, 90 00:10:28.580 --> 00:10:35.060 and this or there, you might say, I don't want to hear about that. But have you ever known 91 00:10:35.060 --> 00:10:42.740 or are you a manipulator? Meaning, you're always kind of back of the mind, scheming, plotting. 92 00:10:43.780 --> 00:10:47.780 And it's so second nature to you that it's actually first nature now. It's like you don't even 93 00:10:47.780 --> 00:10:54.020 think about it. But you hear about this, you hear about that, you hear about a date, time of day, 94 00:10:54.020 --> 00:10:59.060 you hear about an event, you hear about a day of the week, and you're thinking, how does 95 00:10:59.060 --> 00:11:07.940 that work best for me? How will I come out on top regarding that? In that crowd, where do I have 96 00:11:07.940 --> 00:11:14.420 the best possibility of being seen the most? Those kinds of thoughts, I mean, when you hear them 97 00:11:14.420 --> 00:11:21.860 like this, you kind of go like, right, that's making me sick. But it's human nature. Why? Because we 98 00:11:22.020 --> 00:11:31.460 are prone unchecked, we are prone to manipulate conversations and situations, which leads us to 99 00:11:31.460 --> 00:11:39.220 being dishonest in this way. If we are manipulators by nature and the human nature is by nature, 100 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:45.540 a manipulative nature, Genesis tells us this with Adam and Eve, they were manipulating the fall, 101 00:11:46.260 --> 00:11:53.540 read it later in your Bible. Manipulators are always liars. They will lie. They will either not 102 00:11:53.540 --> 00:11:58.740 tell you the whole truth. They'll tell you part of the truth. They'll tell you the truth 103 00:11:58.740 --> 00:12:05.780 up into a certain point. Manipulators are liars because they are scheming and plotting the 104 00:12:05.780 --> 00:12:14.980 conversation to try to come around that somehow it's going to answer the need to be in the center 105 00:12:14.980 --> 00:12:22.580 of the photo. So they will manipulate by lying. Why? Because they are fixated even if they don't 106 00:12:22.580 --> 00:12:31.380 know the term on self-care. I need this for me. Another thing is that they have to do is that they 107 00:12:31.380 --> 00:12:39.460 they have to scheme. They have the plot. It sounds a lot like manipulation. But the plotting and the 108 00:12:39.460 --> 00:12:51.300 scheming of it is a long term calculated plan as to how they're going to go about lying to 109 00:12:51.300 --> 00:13:00.420 manipulate the situation. So it starts out broad by a scheme or plot and it's light about until 110 00:13:00.420 --> 00:13:05.780 it's brought down to the tip of the funnel and that is the act of manipulation. Think about that. 111 00:13:06.660 --> 00:13:13.220 To do that the next step would be that you're very resourceful. It's amazing like a cat always lands 112 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:24.180 on its feet. People who are obsessed with self-care often become very resourceful. They learn how to 113 00:13:24.180 --> 00:13:37.140 use things and people at their will for their accomplishment. They know that if they do something 114 00:13:37.140 --> 00:13:43.780 this way it's always going to bring about this type of response. There's a particular 115 00:13:43.780 --> 00:13:49.300 podcaster that I'm thinking about right now. She's a master at it. She will do these things because 116 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:55.860 she already, before they turn on the cameras, she already knows what she wants the answer to be. 117 00:13:55.860 --> 00:14:02.180 So her whole program is set up to come around to this conclusion. It's actually brilliant. It's 118 00:14:02.180 --> 00:14:10.500 actually a strategy that is even used in psychological warfare. But it's certainly a tactic of diplomacy. 119 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:16.820 But be that as it may, you become very resourceful. Have you seen how resourceful, for example, 120 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:25.540 a narcissist or who are criminal in their activity? I'm con artist, for example, extremely resourceful, 121 00:14:25.540 --> 00:14:35.300 crazy resourceful. A con artist is limitless to what they're able to generate to achieve their 122 00:14:35.300 --> 00:14:45.540 self-care. Think about that for a minute. And what does this happen? How can it happen? Because 123 00:14:45.540 --> 00:14:55.700 they're very, very, very self-reliant. They depend upon themselves. Listen, this is a tough one 124 00:14:55.700 --> 00:15:02.420 and it speaks to maybe all of us at some level. Because of disappointment, because of heartbreak, 125 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:09.060 because of dashed hopes and dreams, every time that happens in our lives, if we do not process 126 00:15:09.060 --> 00:15:15.940 that biblically before God, talk to God about it, can I put it to you this way? I don't want to 127 00:15:15.940 --> 00:15:24.100 cheapen this by any means. But for those of you who are prone to going to an analyst to work it out 128 00:15:24.180 --> 00:15:30.820 for you or a therapist to work it out for you, some of you don't do that. Some of you go to 129 00:15:31.540 --> 00:15:37.540 Jim Beam. You might go to the office of Jack Daniels if you know what I mean. And you'll deal with 130 00:15:37.540 --> 00:15:46.580 it that way. No, no, listen, I'm talking about what if you were to take it to the Lord instead of 131 00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:55.300 those externals. And you say to the Lord, Lord, I'm going to ask you to unpack my life. 132 00:15:57.540 --> 00:16:02.500 Why would we need to do that? Because the danger is if we do not do that, we'll become self-reliant. 133 00:16:03.620 --> 00:16:14.260 Notice, please notice, answer this question. Was Jesus ever in the Gospels? Was Jesus ever self-reliant? 134 00:16:17.140 --> 00:16:22.420 If anybody had the right to be self-reliant, it was Jesus. Was he? Nope. 135 00:16:23.860 --> 00:16:31.220 What did Jesus say? I'll sum it up in one statement. Not my will, Father, but thy will be done. 136 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:43.460 Wow. So when we are tempted to be self-reliant, that is an indicator that we are protecting ourselves. 137 00:16:43.700 --> 00:16:51.780 We can't trust anybody. And we would never confess this, but it's true. We don't even trust God 138 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:58.180 when we become self-reliant. But here's the Achilles tendon to all of that. When we become 139 00:16:58.180 --> 00:17:05.380 self-reliant, because we're mere mortals, and life is such a dynamic, we know that something could 140 00:17:05.380 --> 00:17:11.460 fall through the great, something could fall into a hole. We may miss something here or there 141 00:17:11.460 --> 00:17:24.660 along the way. That causes anxiety. Anxiety is the result of us worrying about the outcome of 142 00:17:24.660 --> 00:17:30.740 something that it could may possibly not go the way that I wanted to go. Anxiety, anxious. 143 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:37.060 What does the Bible say? Be anxious for nothing. But by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, 144 00:17:37.060 --> 00:17:43.780 let your requests be made known unto God. You see the big difference? There's the need 145 00:17:44.500 --> 00:17:53.780 or what's needed, or there's the narcissist. When we talk about self-care, me time, self-time, 146 00:17:54.980 --> 00:18:02.420 having it my way, it's not always good. It's not always good. And in the culture today, 147 00:18:02.420 --> 00:18:08.740 it's not good by and large. If you're not going to God, instead, you're spending time with yourself 148 00:18:08.740 --> 00:18:14.900 to get answers from who? Yourself about the decisions that you're going to make about who? What? 149 00:18:14.900 --> 00:18:25.140 Yourself? That is a definition of a fool, to be honest with you, because to prevent from being 150 00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:35.380 foolish is to seek the wisdom of God. God is a person. God is a personality. I love how 151 00:18:36.260 --> 00:18:43.300 see as Lewis talks about how if we try to imagine God prior to the incarnation of Christ and flesh, 152 00:18:43.300 --> 00:18:51.220 the logos becoming flesh, that God is more of a mind than he is anything else. Is that 153 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:56.740 amazing to think about? Kind of freaky, right? Until you realize the Bible says God is spirit, 154 00:18:56.740 --> 00:19:02.900 that he's spirit. The big miracles that God would come into this world draped in human flesh, 155 00:19:03.620 --> 00:19:10.980 that Christ was born into this world as a human, to relate to us. Wow. That said, 156 00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:17.300 when you are left alone with your thoughts, it never goes well. Have you noticed that when you 157 00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:21.540 are not thinking about yourself, you're the happiest? Could be that you're busy at work, 158 00:19:21.540 --> 00:19:27.380 could be you're on a trip, a commitment, and you're working so hard, you're sweating, 159 00:19:27.380 --> 00:19:34.100 you're digging holes, you're working with that team, and life is doing great. Life's doing great 160 00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:39.700 because you haven't been thinking about you. Then on the way home, you start thinking about you, 161 00:19:39.700 --> 00:19:46.260 and by the time you get home, you're just a little creep. Why? Because you've spent time with 162 00:19:46.260 --> 00:19:50.980 yourself, you've analyzed and talked about everything out with yourself, and so you and yourself 163 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:55.540 got together and you've decided that this is where you're going to land. That's never good. 164 00:19:57.460 --> 00:20:04.340 And listen, when we're anxious, we think that the things that we desire will be the answer, 165 00:20:04.340 --> 00:20:10.180 will be the soothing balm. When we're anxious because we're self-reliant, we seek to be resourceful, 166 00:20:10.180 --> 00:20:16.820 we scheme about bringing something about, so we light, we lie about the situation, the scenario, 167 00:20:16.820 --> 00:20:22.580 and to achieve that, we seek manipulation, and why is that the case? Because we want to 168 00:20:22.580 --> 00:20:31.060 pad ourselves with security blankets. Help me out here. But isn't Linus in the Charlie Brown? 169 00:20:32.260 --> 00:20:37.940 Is Linus the guy with the blanket? I think he's the guy with the blanket. He's always walking 170 00:20:37.940 --> 00:20:47.940 around with the blanket. By the way, Charlie Brown and the Christmas, Charlie Brown's Christmas 171 00:20:47.940 --> 00:20:54.500 Carol, the legendary annual cartoon you see, the only time that Linus drops his blanket 172 00:20:56.180 --> 00:21:02.340 in his entire career as that character is when he sings the praises of Jesus at the birth 173 00:21:02.340 --> 00:21:07.540 in Luke chapter 2 of peanuts in the cartoon series. Did you know that? That's a group. That's 174 00:21:07.540 --> 00:21:14.180 a very great thing for us to know. Linus drops his security blanket when he starts to praise the Lord 175 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:22.660 in the cartoon, Charlie Brown's Christmas. That's the answer. How do you actually really achieve self-care, 176 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:29.700 drop your blanket, lift your hand and praise, and give thanksgiving to God for what the Lord 177 00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:34.100 has promised you and what you do have. And listen, stuff's not the answer. 178 00:21:36.020 --> 00:21:40.180 40 minutes from where I'm at, 45 minutes from where I'm at right now, is Hollywood, 179 00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:47.540 Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu, Sunset and Vine, Hollywood Boulevard, all that stuff, 180 00:21:48.260 --> 00:21:52.900 the Hollywood Hills. You think those guys got the answer? You think those guys are content? 181 00:21:53.700 --> 00:22:02.020 Billionaires live there. It's no big millionaires. Billionaires, what's them? Everybody's a millionaire 182 00:22:02.020 --> 00:22:09.700 in this town. Billionaires. You think they're happy? Why are they committing suicide? 183 00:22:10.580 --> 00:22:14.900 Listen, they have manipulated, they may have lied. They schemed. They were very resourceful. 184 00:22:14.900 --> 00:22:19.380 They were self-reliant, self-made people. They were anxious, though, because as they went 185 00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:24.340 about all of this, they may not work out. They thought getting all kinds of stuff and appeasing 186 00:22:24.340 --> 00:22:30.900 their desires would bring about satisfaction. And all of that they're thinking is all about self-care 187 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:38.340 when it's actually them trying to get their need met and they never get it met. They just wind up 188 00:22:38.340 --> 00:22:44.500 becoming narcissists and they wind up becoming disillusioned, lost and broken and tired and scared. 189 00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:53.780 And who am I talking about? I'm talking about the man Jacob in the Bible, Jacob. That's the big 190 00:22:53.780 --> 00:23:01.780 reveal, the secret. I would encourage you to read Genesis chapter 28, specifically around verse 16, 191 00:23:01.780 --> 00:23:10.420 where Jacob is doing his thing. He's all about self-care. And then he goes to sleep and he lays down 192 00:23:11.380 --> 00:23:21.460 and he has a dream. And in that dream, he witnesses God via a ladder coming down out of heaven, 193 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:28.260 and the angels are going up and down on this portal, where the angels are going up and down 194 00:23:28.260 --> 00:23:36.180 from earth to heaven as God's emissaries and God's messengers. And Jacob woke up and he said, 195 00:23:37.140 --> 00:23:49.940 I had no idea that God was in this place. Friends listen, God is in this place. God is in your place 196 00:23:50.740 --> 00:24:01.220 wherever you're at, if you'll just stop right now, stop with self and say, God, if you're real, 197 00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:07.460 show me who you are. If you're real, I need to know this. I need to know that everything that I'm 198 00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:15.860 in hot pursuit of, I cannot achieve, but you can satisfy me, that it's all about Jesus Christ 199 00:24:15.860 --> 00:24:21.300 in seeking first the kingdom of God and all these other things shall be added to me. Not to come to 200 00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:29.060 you, Lord, as a Santa Claus, not to come to you, Lord, as some sort of a genie, but to come to you 201 00:24:29.060 --> 00:24:36.260 knowing that my character and my nature is sinful, and I am asking you God to make a meaning and 202 00:24:36.260 --> 00:24:43.700 a purpose for my life, because I've gone about it the wrong way. Me time alone time, 203 00:24:45.300 --> 00:24:52.980 guy time, girl time, I don't know what you guys call it, self care is the buzz among the young 204 00:24:53.060 --> 00:25:00.740 people. The answer is still the same. I don't care if you're 10 or 110. The answer is still the same. 205 00:25:03.300 --> 00:25:07.620 Seek first the kingdom of God, Matthew 633, and all these other things shall be added into you. 206 00:25:08.340 --> 00:25:13.700 God first and all this. Listen, we'd love to have you subscribe. 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