For most of the sermon, he spoke of anxiety, which he defined as everyday concerns that “God’s oil” could alleviate.
“All this anxiety, all this anxiety … all this feeling about the bills being poured, all this feeling about anxiety, and then the oil of God, the ointment of God, comes into this situation and you release, if you have it, and receive your gift, ”he said.
Succumbing to anxiety was “Satan’s plan,” he said.
“We cannot allow these anxieties to deny us that this is not His plan. This is Satan’s plan. It is not His plan.”
He made a distinction between anxiety and mental illness, saying the latter had “very real random factors,” such as biological problems and brain chemistry that required professional clinical treatment.
At the end of Morrison’s speech, Court took the stage and said to the congregation, “The Lord certainly has a life for you after politics.”
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