May 21, 2024 • 59 mins
Embark with Angela and me on an exploration of the Winning Mindset grounded in Biblical Wisdom that promises to fortify your mental and spiritual resilience. Through our revealing conversations, you’ll uncover how to navigate life's challenges with an intelligence that transcends the cognitive, touching the very core of emotional and spiritual depths. Our latest episode is a beacon of hope for those seeking to foster personal growth and leadership through the wisdom of the scriptures, especially poignant during Mental Health Month.
Witness the profound impact of spiritual nourishment as we delve into the realm of spiritual warfare, where your perspective isn't just a viewpoint—it's your weapon. Together, we address the perils of entitlement and negative thinking, encouraging you to engage actively in the battle for a positive mindset. As we dissect the intricacies of renewing our minds with the Word of God, we illuminate the importance of prophecies, faith, and maintaining a good conscience, guiding you to a place of peace and purpose found in the truths of the divine script.
In our transformative journey, Angela and I aid you in challenging false wisdom and beliefs, replacing them with the solid rock of divine insight. Discover the underestimated wisdom that defies worldly expectations and how humility can reveal the path to divine outcomes. As we share practical strategies for defeating negativity with God’s Word, you’ll learn to align your actions with the character of Christ, replacing anxiety with affirmations that uplift and sustain. Don’t miss this opportunity to be encouraged and empowered in your walk with us, here at Daily Bread.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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again.
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Hey everybody.
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That's great.
Thank you so much.
Here's what we're going to do.
Let's will you go ahead andpray over this, this session,
and then our audience, and thenI'll do the housekeeping stuff
right after that.
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Absolutely Great, thank you.
So if you guys would join me inprayer.
Father, we bless and thank youand give you all glory honor and
praise for the many thingsyou've already done.
We thank you, Lord, God, forblessing us to see yet another
day, giving us opportunity,Father God, in this new day, and
I pray God, that those who arelistening, wherever they are,
God that they can touch andagree that they are grateful for
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Thank you, lord, god, for healthand strength and peace and joy.
Thank you, god, for mercy andgrace and provision.
God, thank you, god, forprotection of all of us.
God, we just bless your holyand righteous name.
Now, as always, god, we askthat you would intervene.
I want to ask that you come inthe room, god hallelujah, that
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you will just allow your spiritto flow, that your glory will
consume the atmosphere, that,god, you will anoint our hearts,
our minds, our voices, god, tobe used for your glory.
That, at the end of this, god,that your people will be edified
and that the enemy will indeedbe horrified because your people
are going to stand up and moveforward in the things that
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realm.
We give you the glory, we giveyou the honor, we give you the
praise.
Have your way in this episodeand every episode.
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today.
So today we have a powerhousesession in store for you today.
Now, this series that we havebeen in, unlocking the Secrets
to a Winning Mindset, and wetagged on through biblical
principles, biblical wisdom hasbeen amazing.
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Unlocking the Secrets to aWinning Mindset through biblical
wisdom, it's been amazing sofar.
We can't get out of this series.
So today is part four, so stickwith us all the way through
till we're done.
I don't know how many partsit's going to have, but today is
part four because our mind iseverything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I was sitting here thinking that very thing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The power of having our minds regulated is life
transforming.
If we get our minds right,everything else will fall into
place.
You know what I mean and so youknow it's no wonder that we're
we have so many parts to thisparticular series, because it's
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so vital and it's so important.
And you know we're in the monthof May and I believe May is
mental health month.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So when you?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
think about the mindset.
Sometimes it is in that placethat we're attacked so greatly,
because the enemy knows that ifhe can get your mind, he can get
everything else, if he can keepus distracted, keep us stressed
, keep us filled with anxiety,keep us fearful all of those
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different things then we will beprohibited in movement.
We won't flow and do the thingsthat we normally do.
We won't engage people, wewon't engage relationships.
We won't even buildrelationships because we will
completely be bogged down, soit's no wonder that this
particular series, that God hasus really delving deep into this
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because it's so vital, it's soimportant and I think if we get
our minds wrapped around thereality that our mindset
determines so much in our life,I think we will take charge.
I want to say take charge andtake authority over the way we
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think and the type of mindsetthat we have.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Which is critically important.
I just want to add this caveatto our discussion on today.
In some of my research with DrCarolyn Leaf, and even following
some of my research with DrCarolyn Leaf, and even following
some of the research of DrAnita Phillips in the arena of
neuroscience, what researchsuggests is that negative
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thoughts form like tree branchesin our minds in our brain, not
our mind.
Our brain and what people don'tunderstand is negative thoughts
form these protein-like stems,like branches in our mind.
So the more we think negative,the more those negative thoughts
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actually root in our mind andbegin to form these stems of
negativity like tree branches inour brain.
So they are stuck there.
So we always find ourselvesgoing back to a base nature of
negative thinking because thesetree like stems come on, have
rooted in our minds literally asprotein, literally as protein.
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And what happens is we have toput in more and more positive
thoughts which push thenegatives up to the top, and
it's like they pop and burst,you know.
So the negative is replacedwith a positive.
But you have to put positivethoughts in to get negative
thoughts out.
And so we have to understand,from a science perspective, from
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a spiritual perspective, from apractical perspective and from
a life skills perspective, thatyou're thinking, your thought.
Life is everything.
It is how you decide, how youthe Bible even says as a man
think it.
Yeah, it didn't say it, didn'teven Well, as a man think it in
his heart.
So is he?
Yeah.
So the outcomes in our life'teven Well as a man thinking in
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his heart, so is he?
Yeah.
So the outcomes in our lifeoftentimes is based on what
we're thinking.
What we're thinking and whatwe're allowed to read.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Absolutely.
And I thought Absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This series is everything, especially in this
world in which we live in rightnow.
So our subtopic today is how toidentify and conquer negative
thinking patterns Absolutely,how to identify them and grab
those suckers and conquer them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, I wanted to share this and just because I'm
hopeful that it helps someone.
I think one of the mostpowerful things that I've done
in my life is made a consciousdecision that I didn't want to
continue to be a negativethinker.
That's good.
That was one of the mostpowerful things.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then the key word you said was conscious.
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
God.
Yes, it's made a consciousdecision that I didn't want to
continue, because I used to be anegative thinker and I felt,
like you know, there is thisI've heard I heard this said
recently how sometimes we getenergy from negativity and I can
remember being that personwhere if it was negative, I
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gained energy from that.
And it's wild now because when Ithink about it now, it's like
whoa, because I'm such adifferent type of thinker now.
And I think that if anyonelistening, if you struggle with
a negative thinking pattern, Iwant to encourage you to start
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with making the decision thatyou don't want to continue in
that type of pattern anymore andI believe that once you make
that conscious decision, youwill be more willing to do the
work that's required to come outof that and into a more healthy
, a healthier thinking pattern,a more positive thinking pattern
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.
But I think it really doesstart with I no longer want to
do this or be this person, and Iknow that was one of the things
that I did.
I heard myself and when I heardmyself saying something, it
reminded me of someone else andI said in that moment I don't
want to be that person.
That's not who I want to be,and so I began to gain some
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commitment towards being abetter version of myself.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That is so good.
As you were talking, I began toenvision what an atmosphere
looks like for a person who is anegative thinker.
And I saw this disheveled room,like, like like a house and the
bedroom and the kitchen and theliving room and everything was
so disheveled.
Room like a house, and thebedroom and the kitchen and the
living room and everything wasso disheveled.
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And it was what I saw at thetime was like children
everywhere running and loud andthe TV on.
And I came up with these.
I thought of three just labelsthat I see when a person has
developed a life around negativethinking patterns.
And those three words are thiscasualties, chaos and conflict.
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Conflict meaning that always incontention with with rules,
with people you know, withprocesses, you know so.
So that's that conflict thing.
And then the chaos is thatdisheveled things are always
disheveled around you Argumentsthis that no organization can
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get life structured, bills areout of whack.
And then, finally, casualtiescan't hold on to good
friendships.
You know friendships always die.
Casualties can't hold on togood friendships.
You know friendships always die, die, die.
You know what I mean.
Those three things to me youshould look out for because if
that's happening, especially asa trifecta in your life.
You've got to know that youhave some negative thinking
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patterns that you really need toaddress.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Absolutely, and what I felt the Lord impress upon my
heart to also add to what you'resaying, is that you know that
this is where you are when theopposite of that is happening
and you're uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So when there's no chaos, you set out to create
chaos.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
When there's not.
What was another one of yourwords?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Casualties when there's not conflict.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's the one that really hit me.
Where there's not conflict.
You feel uneasy and you feellike something's wrong.
And so you do things to createconflict, and so what I thought
the Holy Spirit say is that is aclear indication that you are a
negative thinker, because whenthere's calm and when there's
peace, you're uncomfortable.
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Wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's in my book.
That is very good.
In my book, 21 Principles ofChange, I did this deep analysis
and research on how thecaterpillar transforms into a
butterfly, because it alignswith the psychology of how human
beings change a bad habit to agood habit.
And the first point isawareness.
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And what you just outlined andcommunicated so eloquently and
so clearly is that you have topractice awareness.
That point you brought up wasan awareness point.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amen, oh, that's so good yeah, go ahead Go ahead.
No, you go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No, I mean, it's like you said.
If you, you have to be aware,if you see that calm bothers you
, peace bothers you, goodwilltoward men bother you.
I mean, if everything comes,you just got to bust up and go.
Ham, yeah, come on now.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's, that's a problem.
That's awareness.
You feel energy and alive whenthere is chaos when there is
conflict when there arecasualties.
Those are indications thatyou're a negative thinker and
it's time for change.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I like that.
I like that.
That was good.
You know that's almost like acognitive intelligence.
You know we've got emotionalintelligence, coaching
intelligence, relationalintelligence.
You know that that could becognitive intelligence.
You know how cognitive are youof your thinking?
Absolutely, and it goes intoemotional intelligence, because
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emotional intelligence isself-awareness, self-management
and social responsibility.
How do you handle relationships?
So those are the three majorcomponents of emotional
intelligence.
So once you start practicingthat awareness, you are coming
into a space where you know youAbsolutely and when you know you
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, you got to deal with you.
You do.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You do, or at least you should.
You should you know, becausehow do, how do we start a
treatment plan for something wedon't even know?
Is there?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right, you know Right .
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So once we become aware of it, then we can start
looking at what the treatmentplan options are and then go
down that path.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, I like you should and you must.
Yeah, because should and mustkind of remind me of some
coaching principles that I usewith coaching leaders, from this
intelligent leadership model,which talks about my job is to
help show you who you mustbecome in order to perform what
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you must perform.
See, it's one thing to help youbecome who you think you need
to become.
It's another for me, as anexpert, to analyze where you are
and where you want to be andtake you through some of these
strategic, proven principles.
Then I have to paint a pictureback to you of who you must
become.
I get what you're saying whoyou want to become but let me
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add to that from expertise toshow you who you must become,
because who you must become mayrequire some disciplines and
skills that make youuncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, all right.
So we are here in secondCorinthians.
We are in chapter 10.
If you've got a Bible orsomething, I want you to go
there.
If not, we're going to give youabout 10 seconds here to grab a
Bible and a bunch of maybedriving, maybe whatever.
So here we are.
We are in second Corinthians,chapter 10.
I love this passage ofscripture and we're going to
start with verse three.
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Pastor, if you want to readthat, my dear, you can.
Three through five is where Iwant to start.
Three through five, because Idon't want to take up all the
voice time on this show youheard me, you heard me.
You heard me.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So 2 Corinthians right.
2 Corinthians 10, beginningwith verse 3, says For though we
live in the world, we do notwage war as the world does.
The weapons we fight with arenot the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they havedivine power to demolish
strongholds.
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That's the.
I think this is the NIV.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
To demolish for the heaven.
Okay, can you do five?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
remember yes we demolish arguments and every
pretension that set sets itselfup against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive everythought to make it obedient to
Christ Boy.
That's so good, go ahead,that's so good.
Hallelujah my God, hallelujahJesus, hallelujah, that's good,
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okay, go ahead, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
As I listen to that, I think about the reality that I
have power over what is tryingto suppress me.
Yeah, what is trying to crushme.
I think about when Paul said weare hard pressed on every side
yeah.
And this is a good word for thistime and season of life that we
live in.
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We're hard pressed on everyside, but here's the deal we are
not crushed.
And the reason we are notcrushed is because of Christ's
power that dwells in us.
Now think about that.
Without Christ's power dwellingin me, I can become crushed.
By watch this, not thecircumstantial things that's
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going on around me, see, thoseare just things happening.
It's how I'm processing them,absolutely so even when Paul
says we are hard pressed onevery side and not crushed,
there is an implication.
Coded away in that statement isthe reality of mental warfare,
because I could be hard pressedwith things going on around me.
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But if could be hard pressed,you know, with things going on
around me but if it's notbothering me at all, then that,
then that's the proof that I'mnot crushed.
But so so so if circumstancesdidn't have the capacity to get
into my head, I wouldn't bedefeated by them anyway.
So so that's this reality thatthere are a lot of forces and
powers and issues, problems,traumas and responsibilities and
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information and assaults andattacks that are going on around
me, swirling in the atmosphereevery day, just like little
microscopic pieces of stuffthat's in the air, that we
cannot see.
Those are principalities andpowers that are swirling in
every city, every region, onevery street, in every community
, because it's invisible.
It's spirits in the atmospherefighting and warring against us.
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But what I must accept andrealize and walk in and believe
and this is really good for,because sometimes you could be
strong at this and sometimes youcould be weak at this.
I go through being strong at itand being weak at it, but what
I know is I have a power on theinside of me.
Yes, sir, you got to help mebecause I'm preaching a little
bit.
I got a power.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Preach worthy, really .
That's why I got that On theinside of me that makes me like
Neo in the Matrix.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
When the Matrix, when he finally saw who he was and
bullets was coming at him andagents were coming at him and he
was bending over backwards anddodging everything and blowing
everything out of the wateruntil he came into his
superpower.
And when he came into hissuperpower he started flying.
He was flying above the agents,flying above the bullets,
flying above the warfare.
And that's how it is.
When we tap into the superpowerof Jesus Christ on the inside
of us, we begin to soar like theeagle above the problems, above
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those thoughts that's trying tochain us and be like legion on
the inside of us and cause us tohide and run into the dark
places in tombs and cutourselves with rocks and have
this pain psychology going on inour life where we hurt
ourselves to feel good.
Come on, pastor, pull me outpull me out.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I mean, I love everything you said and it's so
real because, as you weretalking about, you know Neo in
the movie.
It made me think about theflexibility, how we have to
learn how to be flexible, wehave to learn how to move, how
we need to move and do what itis that we need to do, Because
sometimes in our journey asChristians we get stuck.
We want to pray the sameprayers and we want to do things
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the same way all the time andthink that's how God is going to
keep showing up.
But there are some fights andthere are some battles and there
are some things that we gothrough that's going to require
us to go deeper in our prayer.
It's going to cause us to startfasting and praying.
It's going to shift us.
It has to shift us, but we'vegot to be willing to be flexible
.
And then I love how you talkedabout he went from that to
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flying and it definitely made methink about the Eagle and how
the reality is is that whenstorms come, we know Eaglesagles
fly high.
Yes, they do, and it made methink about when things happen
to us.
The enemy's intent is for us togo low.
Yes, the enemy's desire is thatwe wrap ourself up in a ball, go
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over in the corner and sit downand cry somewhere and don't do
anything, don't even activatethe power that we have or get
mad at God Wow, one of the other.
The goal of the assault is totake us down, take us back, but
ultimately to take us out.
And so, as you were saying that, it made me, it's like I could
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see it.
The reality is is that thestorm comes so we can rise up?
Yeah, good God of mercy, itcomes so that we can rise.
Glory be to God, but see becausewe've not been taught, that
we've not been trained, thatwe've been stuck in a little bit
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of some other stuff where wedon't really see storms and we
don't see the battles.
We don't see the fights as Godsees them.
So when I was, when I read thescripture, one of the things I
thought about, the first thingthat I thought about is
perspective, and when ourperspective is not right, then
we won't confront the fightright, because we're looking at
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it as a why.
Me and God is looking at itlike I'm raising you up, oh, my
God.
As a matter of fact, what Ihear the spirit of the Lord
saying is that a lot of times.
Thank you, jesus.
Is that the fight?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
glory to God I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I forgot.
I forgot y'all were here.
Look here.
Oftentimes, the fight comes as aresult of a prayer that you
prayed and you don't even knowit.
Lord, use me.
What, oh my God?
And then a fight showed up,lord, lord, expand my territory.
Lord, make me great.
Lord, help me to walk thisthing out that you placed on the
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inside of me.
See, we think it's going tocome a certain way.
But when you learn a little bitmore about God, you understand
that he used the unusual thingsto answer the prayers that we
pray.
So what the Holy Ghost of Godjust hit me with is that a lot
of the fights are a result ofthe prayers that you prayed and
he's answered.
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Wow, because how do I know?
It's just like what you talkedabout, neo.
How did he know he had abilityuntil the threat showed up?
It's not until the threatshowed up, you know.
Let me just say what the goodbishop said.
He said that Goliath took Davidto the next level.
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Jesus, it was the confrontingof a thing bigger than you Come
on, that showed you how muchgreater than it you are.
That's so good Jesus Jesus.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That is so good, my God.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And so we have to be mindful Not to get.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We have to be mindful not to get this is good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
We have to be mindful not to get angry at God when
the fights show up.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Because he's working something.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Even in that.
So we have to have the rightperspective.
That's powerful Because thisverse five it says we take
captive every thought to make itobedient to Christ.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So if I don't have the right perspective, I'm not
thinking about this thing theright way.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Right, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I need to shut that down.
Take it into captivity that'sgood and align it with that of
Christ Lord.
What you saying about this?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What are you doing?
Help me to see what you'redoing in this, so that I don't
get thrown completely off,emotionalize myself to death and
be totally angry.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Because of this situation that is so good.
I have to say that that is sogood.
My God, I'm going to try toknow well, I mean, I think, I
think, so, I think, I think whatyou said brings us right into
one of our first points hereyeah, is is the realness of
spiritual warfare yeah you knowthat.
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That's really what you just laidout is that you know we're
praying about things and god isanswering, and sometimes you
answer through a test.
You know a storm shows up or atest shows up, then of course
you have the enemy that's tryingto put out our light and
silence our voice.
Come on that we don't show theworld the love of Christ and his
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grace and his power too.
So many of us are familiar withthis love, but we think it
stops there.
We don't know, we don'tunderstand the power that dwells
in us, the Holy Spirit, thepower of God dwelling in us, and
you're bringing us right intothat.
And so that means that we haveto deal with this, we have to
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debunk and destroy anddeconstruct this spirit of
entitlement, that we don't haveto engage in the battle of
positive and negative thinkingmy Lord.
Like we could just cruisethrough life and I don't have to
address it.
I could think how I want tothink.
It's my mind.
I ain't saying that I can justkeep this in my head.
No, it's coming out.
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But the key is to transform bythe renewing of your mind.
It is putting healthy food,healthy thoughts, is healthy
food.
Right, it's like puttinghealthy food in your body.
You're putting healthy thoughtsin your mind as a meal for the
day, as your food for the day,so that your brain is getting a
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quote, unquote iron and calciumand vitamin C and D and vitamin
E and and all your, your youknow your fish oils and your
brain gets that through what youput in your mind and the
beginning of that is putting theword in your mind.
Cause the word is like leaven oryeast in dough.
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You put a biscuit that's gotyeast in it in the oven.
It's going to rise, and youtalked about that ego rising.
How we rise against negativethoughts is transformed by the
renewing of our mind, by thisword, and when those negative
thoughts come, we rise abovethem with a word from God.
And so in 1 Timothy 1, verse 18and 19, there's a passage of
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scripture that kind of bringsout what I'm talking about,
about engaging in this spiritualwarfare and this good and bad
thoughts, and it says here firstTimothy, chapter one, verse 18,
paul talking to Timothy.
He said this charge I commit toto you, son Timothy, according
to the prophecies previouslymade concerning you, boy, I'm
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trying not to preach, butthere's a prophecy over your
life concerning you, and it'sgood.
It's not a prophecy of doom andgloom, but there's a word
hanging over your life that yourgreat, great grandmama prayed
in, your mama prayed in, yourauntie prayed in.
Somebody has spoken as aprophecy over you from God
himself.
That's good.
That's you, the head and notthe tail.
That's okay.
I need to stop.
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That's good.
He says that you by them.
You may know.
Let me make sure I'm sayingthis right.
I charge you, son Timothy,according to the prophecies
previously made concerning you,that by them, those prophecies,
you may wage the good warfare,having faith and a good
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conscience, which some havingrejected and this is what I talk
about, that spirit ofentitlement Some have rejected
concerning the faith havingsuffered shipwreck.
So he's saying you know, there'sa prophecy over your life, but
you got to get into.
That's good that God has instore for you, that's a perfect
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plan that God had in store foryou, for destiny and purpose
that he has laid out from thefoundation of the world.
But what you have to do isengage in this conscious battle,
this good fight of faith inyour head that some have
abandoned doing.
They done rejected the wholegood fight of faith.
Because we don't wrestle, notagainst flesh and blood, like we
read in our first passage ofscripture, when we read about
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that in 2 Corinthians, chapter10.
We're not wrestling againstflesh and blood, but we must
deal with our own thoughts andbring them into captivity and be
conscious of the way we'rethinking, so that we can get to
faith and not all these otherthings that are trying to
convolute our thinking process,absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That takes me to something that I felt like the
Lord shared with me yesterday.
I was talking to him about theplans that he has for us that
are good and not evil, and youknow I'm a proponent of saying
back to God his word.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I do that, right right, right, you know what I'm
saying.
Lord in your word.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You said in your words you know not that he needs
to be reminded, but I enjoyhaving that dialogue with the
Lord and as I was thinking onhis plan being good and not evil
, I could feel an idea of peoplechallenging that you know, well
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, I'm going through this or thishappened to me, and so forth
and so on, and immediately whatI believe God showed me was my
plans for you are good, butpeople are imperfect.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's it.
That's real good.
I hope y'all caught that.
I hope y'all saw that she wentin.
I hope y'all caught that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I hope y'all saw that she went in.
Do you know how delivering thatis?
I just made that word up.
Do you know how free that is?
Because when things our livesare bumpy and that's everybody
we all have bumpy lives.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We might as well quit lying, quit trying to make your
life perfect and you give it up.
Just give it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And I just believe that there is conversation that
happened where people are sayingGod, why did you do this to me?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I believe that the revelation is that God is
saying no, remember, my plansare good, Even when I go back to
the garden right my plansthey're good, but people are
imperfect and so a lot of thethings.
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when you think about the thingswe've gone through, it is the
result, oftentimes, of adecision that somebody else made
, you know who maybe didn't knowthe Lord, who maybe, whatever,
I don't know, you know what I'msaying and, as a result, we got
caught in the crossfire.
I feel the Holy Ghost of Godand the reality is is that that
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doesn't intimidate God?
It's never intimidated.
It didn't intimidate him whenEve offered Adam the fruit.
It didn't intimidate himbecause he had a plan.
So there's nothing that'llhappen.
At the end of the day, my plansare good for you and I'm still
going to give you a way out,even when man contaminates my
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plan.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, that is so good .
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, you took me back to the origin of firsts,
that is a principle.
That's a life principle.
The origin of firsts yes, it'salmost like Maya Angelou said
when people show you who theyare the first time, believe them
.
And so the origin of firsts youwere talking about God in the
garden.
So if we look at the origin offirsts, who you saw God show up
as the very first time is who heis through and through.
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He showed up good in thebeginning, he showed up good in
the middle with sending Jesus,and he shows up good at the end
when he comes back.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Oh, he's good, I mean you see good, come on, I'm
preaching these good things.
Oh my God, I mean like you seeprovision, you see positioning,
you see promise, you see powerJesus hallelujah.
You see prophecy glory be theGod All in the garden.
And then he sent Jesus so wecan get back to that position.
Come on, come on now to thatposition.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Come on, come on now.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Okay, yeah, he good coming through.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Okay, he just good, go ahead and say we both had a
little chime in us, we had alittle hallelujah.
So here I see a couple ofthings that you brought out.
You brought out that thespiritual mind is a weapon.
Yes, on instrument for warfare.
Would you agree for that?
Absolutely, it's a weapon ofwarfare, it warfare.
The weapons of our warfare arenot cornal, they are mighty,
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through God, pulling down ofstrongholds bringing every
thought into prison.
I'll snatch a thought and throwit in jail.
Quick, get out of my head, inthe name of God.
I need something positive in myhead and I'll let you go ahead.
And you've also brought out hownegative or worldly thinking is
what creates mental.
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Yes absolutely, your thinking isgoing down a certain trajectory
because negative thinking hasyou going down that path, has
your life going down that path.
So worldly thinking andnegative thinking creates mental
strongholds.
Worldly thinking and negativethinking creates mental
strongholds.
And when I think about worldlythinking, I think about the
parable of the sower who sowed aseed and it got choked out by
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the weeds.
And Jesus explained that theweeds was the cares of the world
that choked out the word.
And so we have to be carefulhow worldly we allow our mind to
get.
Not that God don't want you tohave nice things.
You live in America.
You live in America.
If you listen to this, inAmerica, I mean, come on now.
We are a successful, powerful,wealthy country.
I mean, so it's all around you.
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So it's all around, so you canhave some to what I'm supposed
to do, act poor amongst all thiswealth.
No, god uses wealth in theearth because it says I'm
thinking fast and I can tellmoney answered, all good things.
I'm trying to lay a point outhere.
But you can get so worldlythinking and so, in a rhythm of
car house this bigger, biggerbrand name that it could put you
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in a prison, it could take youdown negative thinking because
you're anxious that you can'thave those things fast enough.
So moderate that.
Let all things be done inmoderation, for the Lord is at
hand, so we want to be mindfulabout that.
Let all things be done inmoderation, for the Lord is at
hand, so we want to be mindfulabout that.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I was going to say and the reality is is that we
have to remember that thingsdon't make us who we are.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Come on now.
God has already done that, OK.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
God has already done that.
And the moment that you get I'mtelling you, the moment you get
that revelation, the momentthat you step over into the
revelation of who God says youare, I don't care what you have
or do not have, it is not goingto redefine what God has defined
.
So the stuff, when you, I'mtelling you, when you get that
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revelation, you will be able toshut down any of the desires of
worldly identification, becauseyou will understand that I can
have.
I can have a 5,000 foot crib Isaid crib, I went back.
I can have a helicopter and ayacht.
I can have a 15 carat ring onmy finger with 12 cars in my
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garage.
And it does not redefine whoGod says I am.
Because there is nothing in thisworld that can create a value
greater than the value that Godhas already given me.
There is nothing greater thanthe love of God.
What?
There is nothing greater thanthe blood of Jesus.
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What are you saying?
No house, no car, no stuff, noname brand, no, none of it, none
of it, none of it.
You have to see.
See, my mentality is is that Idefine the thing.
The thing that define me.
Thank you, because the house isjust a house until the
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anointing on your life.
Make it a home.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Come on you understand what I'm saying, Girl
.
You said it.
You understand what I'm saying?
The?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
clothes don't even look named brand until the
anointing of you get in theclothes.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Come on, it's just a shirt until I put it on Child
look here.
My God Okay, Girl who name onit.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
My God Include my own .
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It don't look as good as it does when it's on me.
That's it, I like that.
I like that, and that's notarrogance.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's confidence in Jesus, and sometimes it's an
escape, because I remember whenour children were growing up, we
were raising four kids at thesame time and we were like a
middle income family and we weremad.
It was hard trying to buy themall the brand name stuff that
they wanted, and we used to takethem to Ross and TJ Maxx,
walmart.
They'd be complaining and oneday I finally decided to say
look, let me tell you something.
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I said do you?
I don't.
I said I don't buy expensivesuits.
I said because the suit don'tmake me, I make the suit.
So I needed a way out from themBrand name clothes and stuff to
help them start seeing.
You make it.
Don't desire for it to make youor depend on it to make you.
You make it.
That's right.
Come on, somebody.
That's real.
You might have a little poloman on your shirt and I got a
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little kangaroo or something onmine, a turtle, a turtle on mine
.
But let me tell you somethingwhen I match it up with these
pink socks and these beige pants, come on this pink and beige
belt, come on.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to make it.
You know it's not going to makeme, anyway.
So we want to go then toanother portion of this passage
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of scripture, when it talkedabout that we take these
thoughts captive.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
And we are pulling down the stronghold.
A stronghold is a fortifiedplace.
It is a thought that is sofortified in your mind that it
almost take therapy to get itout, because a fortified place
in a city was in the furthestrecesses of the city, where the
king and queen and the royalty,the politicians, hid out during
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war, because it was the mostprotected place and it was the
last place of defense before theenemy get in and take the city.
And so it's a stronghold isalso is a reflection of a
historical place, because whenyou build a city, you build a
stronghold almost first toprotect the king.
So it's almost like the oldestbuilding is historical, all the
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history is in it, all thelineage of kings is in it, and
so that's what the enemy triesto do Use history and things in
our past that's passed down, hasbeen built up, as a negative
thought and use the verystronghold that we have that we
think is securing us to kill us.
Take it away, shabbat.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I was thinking about the stronghold and how it
creates, how we get tricked Intohaving confidence In that wrong
thought, that we are soconvinced that we begin to have
confidence that I'm never goingto be anything.
I'm never going to be anything,I'm never going to amount to
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anything.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I'm going to be like this person.
I got to have this attitude,like my mom and my grandma.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
It is, it is, it is.
We are confident, confident inthat wrong thought.
Oh my God that it is.
It is almost impossible tobelieve that we can live without
it.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Oh my God, all right, so you're talking about.
So here you know what that'scalled.
This is how I'm labeling it.
I'm labeling that as falsereasoning.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
False reasoning is a stronghold.
It is.
The reason is false becauseit's not based on the word of
God.
That's right, which makes itreasoning and not truth.
Yep, it is.
The reason is false becauseit's not based on the word of
God.
That's right, which makes itreasoning and not truth.
Yep, come on, it is.
So we develop these reasoningsthat are false, and they become
sometimes the driving forcebehind our personality.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Absolutely, we have to ask this question, apostle.
We have to ask this question.
Who told you that?
Oh my God, that's my goquestion.
Who told you that?
Oh my God, that's my go to?
Who told you that?
If, if that thought keepsreoccurring in your mind, you
have to, you have to askyourself who told me that?
And if it's not Jesus, if it'snot found in the word of God,
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then it's a lie, wow, and youhave to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Oh, you're right in the word, as usual, you're
always in the word, without evenquoting the scripture.
And so I want to take them to,uh, first Corinthians, uh,
chapter one, and I want to lookat verse 18 through 21,.
Uh, verse 18 through 21.
And then, uh, uh, if you want,we could jump into Isaiah 29 and
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14.
But here, ladies and gentlemen,in 1 Corinthians, chapter 1,
verse 18, it says for themessage of the cross is
foolishness to those who areperishing, but to us who are
being saved, it is the power ofGod.
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Are you here?
We're back to that power again.
It says for it is written Iwill destroy.
Listen to what God says, listento this.
This is a powerful, kingly,military statement.
He says I will destroy thewisdom of the wise what?
Watch this and bring to nothingthe understanding of the
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prudent and this, this logicthat is based on man or what
some person in your life haspassed down to you, or some
philosophy that we're holding onto and gripping on to, and it's
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developing the bad thoughtpatterns and negative thought
patterns and constructingentitlement and ego and idolatry
in our minds.
God said I'm going to tear allof that down.
So he really talks in amilitary powerful way.
He said where'm going to tearall of that down?
So he really talks in amilitary powerful way.
He said where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer of thisage?
Has not God made foolish thewisdom of this world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did
not know God.
Look, the world was so wise, wesaw wise that they killed Jesus
, didn't even know he was theson of God.
The world through wisdom didnot know God.
Look, the world was so wise, wesaw wise that they killed Jesus
, didn't even know he was theson of God, and he kept telling
them that he was and he keptdoing miracles.
So let's look at how wise weso-called human beings are.
I'm performing miracles.
I'm delivering people.
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We're turning water into wine,blind people getting their sight
back.
I'm laying hand on the I done,raised two dead people and you
sit up here still don't believeI'm a son of God.
You're going to kill me and sayI'm a false prophet.
Come on in here Somebody.
Look at how wisdom, how wisewe're not.
It says wisdom of God.
The world through wisdom didnot know God.
It pleased God through thefoolishness of the message
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preached to save those whobelieve.
Oh, soullessness of the messagepreached to save those who
believe.
Oh my God, that's so powerfulwhen you talk about false
reasoning and we're not as wiseas we think.
Summary we need the word Goahead.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Pastor, I was just getting ready to say can we be
humble enough to say I'm justnot that smart.
I'm just not that smart, I'mnot as smart as I maybe give
myself credit.
I'm not as smart as I think.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Come on, I can't outwit.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I can't outsmart.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
God Come on.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I'm not so such a much.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm really not all that and abag of chips.
The only that I am is in ChristJesus, and that makes me the
bombcom.
You know what I'm saying.
So I think if we can be humbleenough just to say you know what
?
I really ain't that smart.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know.
So let's talk about this.
Let's talk about wisdom that webelieve is passed down and you
know the way we do things.
That's passed down and we thinkit's so smart.
Here recently, two blackteenage girls just solved a 200
year old Pythagorean theoremmathematical problem that they
have not been able to solve.
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Mathematicians in 200 yearshave not been able to solve.
It have not been able to solveit.
Two young girls got into acompetition to win $500 in a
Catholic church.
They were in a Catholic schooland solved a 200-year-old
Pythagorean theorem mathematicalproblem, I think, either using
trigonometry or statistics, andthey've gone viral all over the
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world.
All over the world.
But for 200 years, all thesesmart people who tried and said
it wasn't possible yeah, thatshows.
Yeah, we're not as wise as wethink.
We're not as smart as we think.
We're not as wise as we think.
Yep, come on somebody.
Yep, that's just a sample.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Yeah, we, we, we, yeah, we're not as wise as we
think.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, I think about Jeff Bezos and I think about how
his boss told him you're goingto walk away from this job and
go start some kind of onlinebookstore.
Have you lost your mind?
Look, look at how much wisdomhe thought he was passing down
to Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos would have listened.
He would have never made it toone of the richest men in the
world and provide so manyservices all around the world
through Amazon.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Absolutely Going back to that question.
Who said that you know what I'msaying?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Who said I couldn't do that and let me show you
because some people might belike well, jeff Bezos, how do
you tie that into spiritualityand biblicalness?
Look at how God got the gloryof Jeff Bezos life.
Because Jeff Bezos turnedaround and gave a hundred
million dollars to Van Jones,who fights for reform in
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politics, reform for the poor,the disadvantaged and minorities
, gave his nonprofit a hundredmillion dollars to use it,
however you need to.
He deals with social justice,prison reform.
So God and Van Jones love Godand Van Jones talk about.
He said God, you know he givesGod credit for who he is.
Okay, but I'm just trying tomake a point here that we really
understand.
I went over, but I understand.
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Do you have Isaiah?
Do you have Isaiah?
This will be our last passageof scripture.
I'll let you teach this andclose us out.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Therefore, once more, I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder.
The wisdom of the wise willperish, the intelligence of the
intelligent will vanish, oh my.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
God, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.
That's powerful.
There's still a lot of smart,intelligent people in this world
.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Absolutely Because that's a gift from God.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Absolutely, and the gifts are without repentance.
But listen, look at how dumb,dumbed down our society has
gotten when it comes to morality.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Oh gosh, Right and wrong yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Justice.
What is truth?
Yeah, the lines are so blurred.
The lines are so blurred, ohgosh.
Seem like they so dumb theydon't need somebody can do
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something to hide their hand,act like they didn't even see
them do it.
This is still a good man.
This is still a good woman.
We just saw what they did.
What are you talking about?
You're trying to fool me, toput a blinders right over my
eyes while my eyes are open.
Yeah, yeah, that's what Godsaid he was going to do Confound
the wise.
So we need to have becometransformed by the renewing of
our mind with the word of Godand take those thoughts captive.
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And so we have been talkingabout how to identify we did
that, yeah and how to conquernegative thinking patterns.
We're out of time not out ofwhere we could go so much deeper
in this but I think we've.
We've laid a strong foundationfor you in this time we have on
this podcast.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Can we talk just briefly?
Yes, yes, other ones defeathigh minded thinking which is
which is really ridding ofarrogance.
You know, and again, I thinkthe way to work through that is
to work on being humble.
You know to work on beinghumble.
When you find yourself as aperson who is humble, you don't
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have to worry about arrogancebecause you understand that
everything I am is because ofwhat God has done in my life.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Everything.
I can't take credit because inand of myself I'm a hot mess and
a wreck, but but when Iidentify any good thing, it came
from God.
The scripture says that everygood and perfect gift comes from
God.
So everything that I've beenallowed to do, everything that
the opportunity to, to lovesomebody, to give to, to be a
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good person, a decent person,whatever God by the spirit is
helping me to do that, and itnever says we can't.
So when you really think aboutand break that thing down, how
can I be arrogant?
Because I'm not responsible forany good thing that comes out
of me, and so we have to be sureto defeat high-minded thinking.
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I like the scripture that talksabout not thinking more highly
of yourself than you should Seeyou can do that so easy when
you're an humble person.
When you're humble, you fallright in line with that, Like I
ain't nothing more than who Godsaid I am and I'm not trying to
prove anything to anybody.
I just want to be who God saysthat I am.
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Amen and then the other one istake control of our thoughts,
and that goes back.
I think you said somethingabout it a little bit ago.
We have to participate in thisfight back.
I think you said somethingabout it a little bit ago.
We have to participate in thisfight.
We can't just sit back andglaze through life with allowing
all of these thoughts, of allthoughts of present, with all
that's going on in the world, toconsume our mind and just take
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it.
We've got to fight back and wedo that by rehearsing the word
of God.
Place negative worldly thinkingunder lock and key, by
obedience to practicing the mindof Christ.
I think we were on this someyears ago and it was like what
would Jesus do?
See people just took it as justlike a quick little something to
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say.
But what about when we sit withthat for a little while?
What about when we really doponder, in this moment, when I
want to cuss somebody out, whenI want to fight somebody, I want
to run in the back ofsomebody's car because they did
something crazy?
What about if we really take amoment and say, but what would
Jesus do?
What do I know about hischaracter through what I've read
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in the scriptures and my ownexperience with him?
What would he do?
He would not want me to cussthem out.
He would not be the one to cussthem out.
He would not run into the backof the car.
He wouldn't do those things.
So what about if we startsitting with that, you know, to
help rid of and get rid of thosenegative thoughts Like I got to
get them back?
Well if, if Jesus thought likethat, he would have never made
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it to the cross, yeah Right,when they were beating on him,
he would have dealt with themimmediately.
You know what I'm saying.
So we've got to remember thatit's not just the same, but it
should be something that wouldcontemplate, something that we
really think about what wouldJesus do.
And then the last one practicalexample replace anxious
thoughts with God's promises andaffirmations.
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Moment of transparency.
One of the things that theenemy has been fighting me with
lately is being anxious, and oneof the things that I've been
fighting the enemy with is God'sword, and the reality is is
that God's word works If youwork it.
It's not enough for us to quotethe scripture.
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We have to apply the scripture.
It's not enough for us to sitand listen to the word of God,
to even read the word of God Atsome point.
We have got to learn application.
And we've got to apply thisthing in order to be built up in
our most holy faith and inorder to be able to come against
the strongholds in our mind.
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Nobody else can do that for us.
God has given us power, he'sgiven us ability.
We've got to take the reins onthis thing so that we come out
the winners that he already saidwe are, because scripture says
we are conquerors, and more thanconquerors, in Christ Jesus.
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I can't do this thing withouthim.
I can't do it outside of him.
I got to get over in him Right,and then I'll be able to
accomplish it Right.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
That is so good, that is so good, wow, that is so
good.
And what I, what I would justtag on to that is that, yes, we
teach this, we teach withanointing, which makes it appear
that teaching for us is simple,but we know that application of
the word of God can bechallenging.
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Absolutely and it's notchallenging because just in the
practice of it itself, applyingthe word itself is not
challenging.
It's trying to apply it in themidst of storms and fights and
battles.
So it is what's coming at usthat makes you know, applying
the word of God difficult attimes and challenging at times,
and so nobody gets it rightevery time.
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Nobody is perfect.
It's a process.
Growth is a process One day up,one day down, one week up, one
week down, one month up, onemonth down Sometimes and we
understand that.
So don't beat yourself over thehead.
Listen to this episode over andover a few times.
Make sure you get clarity onwhat we were saying.
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And we love you, god loves you,and there are other people
around you that love you, and wewant to see you become your
best version of who God hascalled you to be.
So don't take this teachingwith pressure, but do take it
with some sense of truth, thereality that in order to grow
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and get better, we have toparticipate and we have to take
control of our thought life.
Speaker 2 (56:06):
Yeah, we have to have rehearsal time.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
We have to have rehearsal time.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
How many things have you walked into?
And you weren't 100%.
You had either an interest or amild desire and you had a
little bit of skill.
Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
And you went anyway, yeah, and you tried out and you
did your best, and then, themore you did it, the better at
it you became.
Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
To me, that's Christianity.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
The more you pray, the better at it you'll get.
Yeah, the more you fast, thebetter at it.
You became To me that'sChristianity.
The more you pray, the betterat it you'll get.
The more you fast, the betterat it.
The more you focus on shiftingyour thoughts, the better at it
you'll get.
We get better along the way.
We get better along the way,but we have to start.
We have to start because, ofthe urgency.
Because, of the urgency.
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Yeah, because of the urgency.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
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Amen Amen.
Speaker 1 (59:12):
Wait a minute.
You got something you want tosay.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
I I felt the Spirit of the Lord, say as you change
your mind, he'll draw thosethings to you that your heart is
going to learn.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Amen.
Yep, that's good Amen.
All right, I received that formyself too.
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Thank you so much.
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Let's will you go ahead andpray over this, this session,
and then our audience, and thenI'll do the housekeeping stuff
right after that.
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Absolutely Great, thank you.
So if you guys would join me inprayer.
Father, we bless and thank youand give you all glory honor and
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We thank you, Lord, God, forblessing us to see yet another
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I pray God, that those who arelistening, wherever they are,
God that they can touch andagree that they are grateful for
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Thank you, lord, god, for healthand strength and peace and joy.
Thank you, god, for mercy andgrace and provision.
God, thank you, god, forprotection of all of us.
God, we just bless your holyand righteous name.
Now, as always, god, we askthat you would intervene.
I want to ask that you come inthe room, god hallelujah, that
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That, at the end of this, god,that your people will be edified
and that the enemy will indeedbe horrified because your people
are going to stand up and moveforward in the things that
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realm.
We give you the glory, we giveyou the honor, we give you the
praise.
Have your way in this episodeand every episode.
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Speaker 1 (03:10):
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today.
So today we have a powerhousesession in store for you today.
Now, this series that we havebeen in, unlocking the Secrets
to a Winning Mindset, and wetagged on through biblical
principles, biblical wisdom hasbeen amazing.
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Unlocking the Secrets to aWinning Mindset through biblical
wisdom, it's been amazing sofar.
We can't get out of this series.
So today is part four, so stickwith us all the way through
till we're done.
I don't know how many partsit's going to have, but today is
part four because our mind iseverything.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I was sitting here thinking that very thing.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The power of having our minds regulated is life
transforming.
If we get our minds right,everything else will fall into
place.
You know what I mean and so youknow it's no wonder that we're
we have so many parts to thisparticular series, because it's
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so vital and it's so important.
And you know we're in the monthof May and I believe May is
mental health month.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So when you?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
think about the mindset.
Sometimes it is in that placethat we're attacked so greatly,
because the enemy knows that ifhe can get your mind, he can get
everything else, if he can keepus distracted, keep us stressed
, keep us filled with anxiety,keep us fearful all of those
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different things then we will beprohibited in movement.
We won't flow and do the thingsthat we normally do.
We won't engage people, wewon't engage relationships.
We won't even buildrelationships because we will
completely be bogged down, soit's no wonder that this
particular series, that God hasus really delving deep into this
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because it's so vital, it's soimportant and I think if we get
our minds wrapped around thereality that our mindset
determines so much in our life,I think we will take charge.
I want to say take charge andtake authority over the way we
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think and the type of mindsetthat we have.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Which is critically important.
I just want to add this caveatto our discussion on today.
In some of my research with DrCarolyn Leaf, and even following
some of my research with DrCarolyn Leaf, and even following
some of the research of DrAnita Phillips in the arena of
neuroscience, what researchsuggests is that negative
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thoughts form like tree branchesin our minds in our brain, not
our mind.
Our brain and what people don'tunderstand is negative thoughts
form these protein-like stems,like branches in our mind.
So the more we think negative,the more those negative thoughts
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actually root in our mind andbegin to form these stems of
negativity like tree branches inour brain.
So they are stuck there.
So we always find ourselvesgoing back to a base nature of
negative thinking because thesetree like stems come on, have
rooted in our minds literally asprotein, literally as protein.
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And what happens is we have toput in more and more positive
thoughts which push thenegatives up to the top, and
it's like they pop and burst,you know.
So the negative is replacedwith a positive.
But you have to put positivethoughts in to get negative
thoughts out.
And so we have to understand,from a science perspective, from
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a spiritual perspective, from apractical perspective and from
a life skills perspective, thatyou're thinking, your thought.
Life is everything.
It is how you decide, how youthe Bible even says as a man
think it.
Yeah, it didn't say it, didn'teven Well, as a man think it in
his heart.
So is he?
Yeah.
So the outcomes in our life'teven Well as a man thinking in
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his heart, so is he?
Yeah.
So the outcomes in our lifeoftentimes is based on what
we're thinking.
What we're thinking and whatwe're allowed to read.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Absolutely.
And I thought Absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
This series is everything, especially in this
world in which we live in rightnow.
So our subtopic today is how toidentify and conquer negative
thinking patterns Absolutely,how to identify them and grab
those suckers and conquer them.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, I wanted to share this and just because I'm
hopeful that it helps someone.
I think one of the mostpowerful things that I've done
in my life is made a consciousdecision that I didn't want to
continue to be a negativethinker.
That's good.
That was one of the mostpowerful things.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then the key word you said was conscious.
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
God.
Yes, it's made a consciousdecision that I didn't want to
continue, because I used to be anegative thinker and I felt,
like you know, there is thisI've heard I heard this said
recently how sometimes we getenergy from negativity and I can
remember being that personwhere if it was negative, I
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gained energy from that.
And it's wild now because when Ithink about it now, it's like
whoa, because I'm such adifferent type of thinker now.
And I think that if anyonelistening, if you struggle with
a negative thinking pattern, Iwant to encourage you to start
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with making the decision thatyou don't want to continue in
that type of pattern anymore andI believe that once you make
that conscious decision, youwill be more willing to do the
work that's required to come outof that and into a more healthy
, a healthier thinking pattern,a more positive thinking pattern
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.
But I think it really doesstart with I no longer want to
do this or be this person, and Iknow that was one of the things
that I did.
I heard myself and when I heardmyself saying something, it
reminded me of someone else andI said in that moment I don't
want to be that person.
That's not who I want to be,and so I began to gain some
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commitment towards being abetter version of myself.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That is so good.
As you were talking, I began toenvision what an atmosphere
looks like for a person who is anegative thinker.
And I saw this disheveled room,like, like like a house and the
bedroom and the kitchen and theliving room and everything was
so disheveled.
Room like a house, and thebedroom and the kitchen and the
living room and everything wasso disheveled.
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And it was what I saw at thetime was like children
everywhere running and loud andthe TV on.
And I came up with these.
I thought of three just labelsthat I see when a person has
developed a life around negativethinking patterns.
And those three words are thiscasualties, chaos and conflict.
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Conflict meaning that always incontention with with rules,
with people you know, withprocesses, you know so.
So that's that conflict thing.
And then the chaos is thatdisheveled things are always
disheveled around you Argumentsthis that no organization can
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get life structured, bills areout of whack.
And then, finally, casualtiescan't hold on to good
friendships.
You know friendships always die.
Casualties can't hold on togood friendships.
You know friendships always die, die, die.
You know what I mean.
Those three things to me youshould look out for because if
that's happening, especially asa trifecta in your life.
You've got to know that youhave some negative thinking
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patterns that you really need toaddress.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Absolutely, and what I felt the Lord impress upon my
heart to also add to what you'resaying, is that you know that
this is where you are when theopposite of that is happening
and you're uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So when there's no chaos, you set out to create
chaos.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
When there's not.
What was another one of yourwords?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Casualties when there's not conflict.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's the one that really hit me.
Where there's not conflict.
You feel uneasy and you feellike something's wrong.
And so you do things to createconflict, and so what I thought
the Holy Spirit say is that is aclear indication that you are a
negative thinker, because whenthere's calm and when there's
peace, you're uncomfortable.
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Wow, wow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's in my book.
That is very good.
In my book, 21 Principles ofChange, I did this deep analysis
and research on how thecaterpillar transforms into a
butterfly, because it alignswith the psychology of how human
beings change a bad habit to agood habit.
And the first point isawareness.
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And what you just outlined andcommunicated so eloquently and
so clearly is that you have topractice awareness.
That point you brought up wasan awareness point.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Amen, oh, that's so good yeah, go ahead Go ahead.
No, you go.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
No, I mean, it's like you said.
If you, you have to be aware,if you see that calm bothers you
, peace bothers you, goodwilltoward men bother you.
I mean, if everything comes,you just got to bust up and go.
Ham, yeah, come on now.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's, that's a problem.
That's awareness.
You feel energy and alive whenthere is chaos when there is
conflict when there arecasualties.
Those are indications thatyou're a negative thinker and
it's time for change.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I like that.
I like that.
That was good.
You know that's almost like acognitive intelligence.
You know we've got emotionalintelligence, coaching
intelligence, relationalintelligence.
You know that that could becognitive intelligence.
You know how cognitive are youof your thinking?
Absolutely, and it goes intoemotional intelligence, because
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emotional intelligence isself-awareness, self-management
and social responsibility.
How do you handle relationships?
So those are the three majorcomponents of emotional
intelligence.
So once you start practicingthat awareness, you are coming
into a space where you know youAbsolutely and when you know you
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, you got to deal with you.
You do.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You do, or at least you should.
You should you know, becausehow do, how do we start a
treatment plan for something wedon't even know?
Is there?
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right, you know Right .
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So once we become aware of it, then we can start
looking at what the treatmentplan options are and then go
down that path.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, I like you should and you must.
Yeah, because should and mustkind of remind me of some
coaching principles that I usewith coaching leaders, from this
intelligent leadership model,which talks about my job is to
help show you who you mustbecome in order to perform what
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you must perform.
See, it's one thing to help youbecome who you think you need
to become.
It's another for me, as anexpert, to analyze where you are
and where you want to be andtake you through some of these
strategic, proven principles.
Then I have to paint a pictureback to you of who you must
become.
I get what you're saying whoyou want to become but let me
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add to that from expertise toshow you who you must become,
because who you must become mayrequire some disciplines and
skills that make youuncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, all right.
So we are here in secondCorinthians.
We are in chapter 10.
If you've got a Bible orsomething, I want you to go
there.
If not, we're going to give youabout 10 seconds here to grab a
Bible and a bunch of maybedriving, maybe whatever.
So here we are.
We are in second Corinthians,chapter 10.
I love this passage ofscripture and we're going to
start with verse three.
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Pastor, if you want to readthat, my dear, you can.
Three through five is where Iwant to start.
Three through five, because Idon't want to take up all the
voice time on this show youheard me, you heard me.
You heard me.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So 2 Corinthians right.
2 Corinthians 10, beginningwith verse 3, says For though we
live in the world, we do notwage war as the world does.
The weapons we fight with arenot the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they havedivine power to demolish
strongholds.
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That's the.
I think this is the NIV.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
To demolish for the heaven.
Okay, can you do five?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
remember yes we demolish arguments and every
pretension that set sets itselfup against the knowledge of God,
and we take captive everythought to make it obedient to
Christ Boy.
That's so good, go ahead,that's so good.
Hallelujah my God, hallelujahJesus, hallelujah, that's good,
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okay, go ahead, no, no.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
As I listen to that, I think about the reality that I
have power over what is tryingto suppress me.
Yeah, what is trying to crushme.
I think about when Paul said weare hard pressed on every side
yeah.
And this is a good word for thistime and season of life that we
live in.
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We're hard pressed on everyside, but here's the deal we are
not crushed.
And the reason we are notcrushed is because of Christ's
power that dwells in us.
Now think about that.
Without Christ's power dwellingin me, I can become crushed.
By watch this, not thecircumstantial things that's
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going on around me, see, thoseare just things happening.
It's how I'm processing them,absolutely so even when Paul
says we are hard pressed onevery side and not crushed,
there is an implication.
Coded away in that statement isthe reality of mental warfare,
because I could be hard pressedwith things going on around me.
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But if could be hard pressed,you know, with things going on
around me but if it's notbothering me at all, then that,
then that's the proof that I'mnot crushed.
But so so so if circumstancesdidn't have the capacity to get
into my head, I wouldn't bedefeated by them anyway.
So so that's this reality thatthere are a lot of forces and
powers and issues, problems,traumas and responsibilities and
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information and assaults andattacks that are going on around
me, swirling in the atmosphereevery day, just like little
microscopic pieces of stuffthat's in the air, that we
cannot see.
Those are principalities andpowers that are swirling in
every city, every region, onevery street, in every community
, because it's invisible.
It's spirits in the atmospherefighting and warring against us.
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But what I must accept andrealize and walk in and believe
and this is really good for,because sometimes you could be
strong at this and sometimes youcould be weak at this.
I go through being strong at itand being weak at it, but what
I know is I have a power on theinside of me.
Yes, sir, you got to help mebecause I'm preaching a little
bit.
I got a power.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Preach worthy, really .
That's why I got that On theinside of me that makes me like
Neo in the Matrix.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
When the Matrix, when he finally saw who he was and
bullets was coming at him andagents were coming at him and he
was bending over backwards anddodging everything and blowing
everything out of the wateruntil he came into his
superpower.
And when he came into hissuperpower he started flying.
He was flying above the agents,flying above the bullets,
flying above the warfare.
And that's how it is.
When we tap into the superpowerof Jesus Christ on the inside
of us, we begin to soar like theeagle above the problems, above
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those thoughts that's trying tochain us and be like legion on
the inside of us and cause us tohide and run into the dark
places in tombs and cutourselves with rocks and have
this pain psychology going on inour life where we hurt
ourselves to feel good.
Come on, pastor, pull me outpull me out.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I mean, I love everything you said and it's so
real because, as you weretalking about, you know Neo in
the movie.
It made me think about theflexibility, how we have to
learn how to be flexible, wehave to learn how to move, how
we need to move and do what itis that we need to do, Because
sometimes in our journey asChristians we get stuck.
We want to pray the sameprayers and we want to do things
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the same way all the time andthink that's how God is going to
keep showing up.
But there are some fights andthere are some battles and there
are some things that we gothrough that's going to require
us to go deeper in our prayer.
It's going to cause us to startfasting and praying.
It's going to shift us.
It has to shift us, but we'vegot to be willing to be flexible
.
And then I love how you talkedabout he went from that to
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flying and it definitely made methink about the Eagle and how
the reality is is that whenstorms come, we know Eaglesagles
fly high.
Yes, they do, and it made methink about when things happen
to us.
The enemy's intent is for us togo low.
Yes, the enemy's desire is thatwe wrap ourself up in a ball, go
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over in the corner and sit downand cry somewhere and don't do
anything, don't even activatethe power that we have or get
mad at God Wow, one of the other.
The goal of the assault is totake us down, take us back, but
ultimately to take us out.
And so, as you were saying that, it made me, it's like I could
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see it.
The reality is is that thestorm comes so we can rise up?
Yeah, good God of mercy, itcomes so that we can rise.
Glory be to God, but see becausewe've not been taught, that
we've not been trained, thatwe've been stuck in a little bit
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of some other stuff where wedon't really see storms and we
don't see the battles.
We don't see the fights as Godsees them.
So when I was, when I read thescripture, one of the things I
thought about, the first thingthat I thought about is
perspective, and when ourperspective is not right, then
we won't confront the fightright, because we're looking at
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it as a why.
Me and God is looking at itlike I'm raising you up, oh, my
God.
As a matter of fact, what Ihear the spirit of the Lord
saying is that a lot of times.
Thank you, jesus.
Is that the fight?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
glory to God I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I forgot.
I forgot y'all were here.
Look here.
Oftentimes, the fight comes as aresult of a prayer that you
prayed and you don't even knowit.
Lord, use me.
What, oh my God?
And then a fight showed up,lord, lord, expand my territory.
Lord, make me great.
Lord, help me to walk thisthing out that you placed on the
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inside of me.
See, we think it's going tocome a certain way.
But when you learn a little bitmore about God, you understand
that he used the unusual thingsto answer the prayers that we
pray.
So what the Holy Ghost of Godjust hit me with is that a lot
of the fights are a result ofthe prayers that you prayed and
he's answered.
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Wow, because how do I know?
It's just like what you talkedabout, neo.
How did he know he had abilityuntil the threat showed up?
It's not until the threatshowed up, you know.
Let me just say what the goodbishop said.
He said that Goliath took Davidto the next level.
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Jesus, it was the confrontingof a thing bigger than you Come
on, that showed you how muchgreater than it you are.
That's so good Jesus Jesus.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
That is so good, my God.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And so we have to be mindful Not to get.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We have to be mindful not to get this is good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
We have to be mindful not to get angry at God when
the fights show up.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Because he's working something.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Even in that.
So we have to have the rightperspective.
That's powerful Because thisverse five it says we take
captive every thought to make itobedient to Christ.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So if I don't have the right perspective, I'm not
thinking about this thing theright way.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Right, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I need to shut that down.
Take it into captivity that'sgood and align it with that of
Christ Lord.
What you saying about this?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What are you doing?
Help me to see what you'redoing in this, so that I don't
get thrown completely off,emotionalize myself to death and
be totally angry.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Because of this situation that is so good.
I have to say that that is sogood.
My God, I'm going to try toknow well, I mean, I think, I
think, so, I think, I think whatyou said brings us right into
one of our first points hereyeah, is is the realness of
spiritual warfare yeah you knowthat.
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That's really what you just laidout is that you know we're
praying about things and god isanswering, and sometimes you
answer through a test.
You know a storm shows up or atest shows up, then of course
you have the enemy that's tryingto put out our light and
silence our voice.
Come on that we don't show theworld the love of Christ and his
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grace and his power too.
So many of us are familiar withthis love, but we think it
stops there.
We don't know, we don'tunderstand the power that dwells
in us, the Holy Spirit, thepower of God dwelling in us, and
you're bringing us right intothat.
And so that means that we haveto deal with this, we have to
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debunk and destroy anddeconstruct this spirit of
entitlement, that we don't haveto engage in the battle of
positive and negative thinkingmy Lord.
Like we could just cruisethrough life and I don't have to
address it.
I could think how I want tothink.
It's my mind.
I ain't saying that I can justkeep this in my head.
No, it's coming out.
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But the key is to transform bythe renewing of your mind.
It is putting healthy food,healthy thoughts, is healthy
food.
Right, it's like puttinghealthy food in your body.
You're putting healthy thoughtsin your mind as a meal for the
day, as your food for the day,so that your brain is getting a
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quote, unquote iron and calciumand vitamin C and D and vitamin
E and and all your, your youknow your fish oils and your
brain gets that through what youput in your mind and the
beginning of that is putting theword in your mind.
Cause the word is like leaven oryeast in dough.
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You put a biscuit that's gotyeast in it in the oven.
It's going to rise, and youtalked about that ego rising.
How we rise against negativethoughts is transformed by the
renewing of our mind, by thisword, and when those negative
thoughts come, we rise abovethem with a word from God.
And so in 1 Timothy 1, verse 18and 19, there's a passage of
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scripture that kind of bringsout what I'm talking about,
about engaging in this spiritualwarfare and this good and bad
thoughts, and it says here firstTimothy, chapter one, verse 18,
paul talking to Timothy.
He said this charge I commit toto you, son Timothy, according
to the prophecies previouslymade concerning you, boy, I'm
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trying not to preach, butthere's a prophecy over your
life concerning you, and it'sgood.
It's not a prophecy of doom andgloom, but there's a word
hanging over your life that yourgreat, great grandmama prayed
in, your mama prayed in, yourauntie prayed in.
Somebody has spoken as aprophecy over you from God
himself.
That's good.
That's you, the head and notthe tail.
That's okay.
I need to stop.
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That's good.
He says that you by them.
You may know.
Let me make sure I'm sayingthis right.
I charge you, son Timothy,according to the prophecies
previously made concerning you,that by them, those prophecies,
you may wage the good warfare,having faith and a good
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conscience, which some havingrejected and this is what I talk
about, that spirit ofentitlement Some have rejected
concerning the faith havingsuffered shipwreck.
So he's saying you know, there'sa prophecy over your life, but
you got to get into.
That's good that God has instore for you, that's a perfect
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plan that God had in store foryou, for destiny and purpose
that he has laid out from thefoundation of the world.
But what you have to do isengage in this conscious battle,
this good fight of faith inyour head that some have
abandoned doing.
They done rejected the wholegood fight of faith.
Because we don't wrestle, notagainst flesh and blood, like we
read in our first passage ofscripture, when we read about
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that in 2 Corinthians, chapter10.
We're not wrestling againstflesh and blood, but we must
deal with our own thoughts andbring them into captivity and be
conscious of the way we'rethinking, so that we can get to
faith and not all these otherthings that are trying to
convolute our thinking process,absolutely, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That takes me to something that I felt like the
Lord shared with me yesterday.
I was talking to him about theplans that he has for us that
are good and not evil, and youknow I'm a proponent of saying
back to God his word.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I do that, right right, right, you know what I'm
saying.
Lord in your word.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You said in your words you know not that he needs
to be reminded, but I enjoyhaving that dialogue with the
Lord and as I was thinking onhis plan being good and not evil
, I could feel an idea of peoplechallenging that you know, well
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, I'm going through this or thishappened to me, and so forth
and so on, and immediately whatI believe God showed me was my
plans for you are good, butpeople are imperfect.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
That's it.
That's real good.
I hope y'all caught that.
I hope y'all saw that she wentin.
I hope y'all caught that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I hope y'all saw that she went in.
Do you know how delivering thatis?
I just made that word up.
Do you know how free that is?
Because when things our livesare bumpy and that's everybody
we all have bumpy lives.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We might as well quit lying, quit trying to make your
life perfect and you give it up.
Just give it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
And I just believe that there is conversation that
happened where people are sayingGod, why did you do this to me?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
And I believe that the revelation is that God is
saying no, remember, my plansare good, Even when I go back to
the garden right my plansthey're good, but people are
imperfect and so a lot of thethings.
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when you think about the thingswe've gone through, it is the
result, oftentimes, of adecision that somebody else made
, you know who maybe didn't knowthe Lord, who maybe, whatever,
I don't know, you know what I'msaying and, as a result, we got
caught in the crossfire.
I feel the Holy Ghost of Godand the reality is is that that
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doesn't intimidate God?
It's never intimidated.
It didn't intimidate him whenEve offered Adam the fruit.
It didn't intimidate himbecause he had a plan.
So there's nothing that'llhappen.
At the end of the day, my plansare good for you and I'm still
going to give you a way out,even when man contaminates my
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plan.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, that is so good .
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Jesus.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, you took me back to the origin of firsts,
that is a principle.
That's a life principle.
The origin of firsts yes, it'salmost like Maya Angelou said
when people show you who theyare the first time, believe them
.
And so the origin of firsts youwere talking about God in the
garden.
So if we look at the origin offirsts, who you saw God show up
as the very first time is who heis through and through.
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He showed up good in thebeginning, he showed up good in
the middle with sending Jesus,and he shows up good at the end
when he comes back.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Oh, he's good, I mean you see good, come on, I'm
preaching these good things.
Oh my God, I mean like you seeprovision, you see positioning,
you see promise, you see powerJesus hallelujah.
You see prophecy glory be theGod All in the garden.
And then he sent Jesus so wecan get back to that position.
Come on, come on now to thatposition.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Come on, come on now.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Okay, yeah, he good coming through.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Okay, he just good, go ahead and say we both had a
little chime in us, we had alittle hallelujah.
So here I see a couple ofthings that you brought out.
You brought out that thespiritual mind is a weapon.
Yes, on instrument for warfare.
Would you agree for that?
Absolutely, it's a weapon ofwarfare, it warfare.
The weapons of our warfare arenot cornal, they are mighty,
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through God, pulling down ofstrongholds bringing every
thought into prison.
I'll snatch a thought and throwit in jail.
Quick, get out of my head, inthe name of God.
I need something positive in myhead and I'll let you go ahead.
And you've also brought out hownegative or worldly thinking is
what creates mental.
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Yes absolutely, your thinking isgoing down a certain trajectory
because negative thinking hasyou going down that path, has
your life going down that path.
So worldly thinking andnegative thinking creates mental
strongholds.
Worldly thinking and negativethinking creates mental
strongholds.
And when I think about worldlythinking, I think about the
parable of the sower who sowed aseed and it got choked out by
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the weeds.
And Jesus explained that theweeds was the cares of the world
that choked out the word.
And so we have to be carefulhow worldly we allow our mind to
get.
Not that God don't want you tohave nice things.
You live in America.
You live in America.
If you listen to this, inAmerica, I mean, come on now.
We are a successful, powerful,wealthy country.
I mean, so it's all around you.
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So it's all around, so you canhave some to what I'm supposed
to do, act poor amongst all thiswealth.
No, god uses wealth in theearth because it says I'm
thinking fast and I can tellmoney answered, all good things.
I'm trying to lay a point outhere.
But you can get so worldlythinking and so, in a rhythm of
car house this bigger, biggerbrand name that it could put you
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in a prison, it could take youdown negative thinking because
you're anxious that you can'thave those things fast enough.
So moderate that.
Let all things be done inmoderation, for the Lord is at
hand, so we want to be mindfulabout that.
Let all things be done inmoderation, for the Lord is at
hand, so we want to be mindfulabout that.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I was going to say and the reality is is that we
have to remember that thingsdon't make us who we are.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Come on now.
God has already done that, OK.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
God has already done that.
And the moment that you get I'mtelling you, the moment you get
that revelation, the momentthat you step over into the
revelation of who God says youare, I don't care what you have
or do not have, it is not goingto redefine what God has defined
.
So the stuff, when you, I'mtelling you, when you get that
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revelation, you will be able toshut down any of the desires of
worldly identification, becauseyou will understand that I can
have.
I can have a 5,000 foot crib Isaid crib, I went back.
I can have a helicopter and ayacht.
I can have a 15 carat ring onmy finger with 12 cars in my
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garage.
And it does not redefine whoGod says I am.
Because there is nothing in thisworld that can create a value
greater than the value that Godhas already given me.
There is nothing greater thanthe love of God.
What?
There is nothing greater thanthe blood of Jesus.
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What are you saying?
No house, no car, no stuff, noname brand, no, none of it, none
of it, none of it.
You have to see.
See, my mentality is is that Idefine the thing.
The thing that define me.
Thank you, because the house isjust a house until the
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anointing on your life.
Make it a home.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Come on you understand what I'm saying, Girl
.
You said it.
You understand what I'm saying?
The?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
clothes don't even look named brand until the
anointing of you get in theclothes.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Come on, it's just a shirt until I put it on Child
look here.
My God Okay, Girl who name onit.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
My God Include my own .
Speaker 1 (38:18):
It don't look as good as it does when it's on me.
That's it, I like that.
I like that, and that's notarrogance.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's confidence in Jesus, and sometimes it's an
escape, because I remember whenour children were growing up, we
were raising four kids at thesame time and we were like a
middle income family and we weremad.
It was hard trying to buy themall the brand name stuff that
they wanted, and we used to takethem to Ross and TJ Maxx,
walmart.
They'd be complaining and oneday I finally decided to say
look, let me tell you something.
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I said do you?
I don't.
I said I don't buy expensivesuits.
I said because the suit don'tmake me, I make the suit.
So I needed a way out from themBrand name clothes and stuff to
help them start seeing.
You make it.
Don't desire for it to make youor depend on it to make you.
You make it.
That's right.
Come on, somebody.
That's real.
You might have a little poloman on your shirt and I got a
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little kangaroo or something onmine, a turtle, a turtle on mine
.
But let me tell you somethingwhen I match it up with these
pink socks and these beige pants, come on this pink and beige
belt, come on.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to make it.
You know it's not going to makeme, anyway.
So we want to go then toanother portion of this passage
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of scripture, when it talkedabout that we take these
thoughts captive.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
And we are pulling down the stronghold.
A stronghold is a fortifiedplace.
It is a thought that is sofortified in your mind that it
almost take therapy to get itout, because a fortified place
in a city was in the furthestrecesses of the city, where the
king and queen and the royalty,the politicians, hid out during
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war, because it was the mostprotected place and it was the
last place of defense before theenemy get in and take the city.
And so it's a stronghold isalso is a reflection of a
historical place, because whenyou build a city, you build a
stronghold almost first toprotect the king.
So it's almost like the oldestbuilding is historical, all the
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history is in it, all thelineage of kings is in it, and
so that's what the enemy triesto do Use history and things in
our past that's passed down, hasbeen built up, as a negative
thought and use the verystronghold that we have that we
think is securing us to kill us.
Take it away, shabbat.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I was thinking about the stronghold and how it
creates, how we get tricked Intohaving confidence In that wrong
thought, that we are soconvinced that we begin to have
confidence that I'm never goingto be anything.
I'm never going to be anything,I'm never going to amount to
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anything.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I'm going to be like this person.
I got to have this attitude,like my mom and my grandma.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
It is, it is, it is.
We are confident, confident inthat wrong thought.
Oh my God that it is.
It is almost impossible tobelieve that we can live without
it.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Oh my God, all right, so you're talking about.
So here you know what that'scalled.
This is how I'm labeling it.
I'm labeling that as falsereasoning.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
False reasoning is a stronghold.
It is.
The reason is false becauseit's not based on the word of
God.
That's right, which makes itreasoning and not truth.
Yep, it is.
The reason is false becauseit's not based on the word of
God.
That's right, which makes itreasoning and not truth.
Yep, come on, it is.
So we develop these reasoningsthat are false, and they become
sometimes the driving forcebehind our personality.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Absolutely, we have to ask this question, apostle.
We have to ask this question.
Who told you that?
Oh my God, that's my goquestion.
Who told you that?
Oh my God, that's my go to?
Who told you that?
If, if that thought keepsreoccurring in your mind, you
have to, you have to askyourself who told me that?
And if it's not Jesus, if it'snot found in the word of God,
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then it's a lie, wow, and youhave to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Oh, you're right in the word, as usual, you're
always in the word, without evenquoting the scripture.
And so I want to take them to,uh, first Corinthians, uh,
chapter one, and I want to lookat verse 18 through 21,.
Uh, verse 18 through 21.
And then, uh, uh, if you want,we could jump into Isaiah 29 and
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14.
But here, ladies and gentlemen,in 1 Corinthians, chapter 1,
verse 18, it says for themessage of the cross is
foolishness to those who areperishing, but to us who are
being saved, it is the power ofGod.
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Are you here?
We're back to that power again.
It says for it is written Iwill destroy.
Listen to what God says, listento this.
This is a powerful, kingly,military statement.
He says I will destroy thewisdom of the wise what?
Watch this and bring to nothingthe understanding of the
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prudent and this, this logicthat is based on man or what
some person in your life haspassed down to you, or some
philosophy that we're holding onto and gripping on to, and it's
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developing the bad thoughtpatterns and negative thought
patterns and constructingentitlement and ego and idolatry
in our minds.
God said I'm going to tear allof that down.
So he really talks in amilitary powerful way.
He said where'm going to tearall of that down?
So he really talks in amilitary powerful way.
He said where is the wise?
Where is the scribe?
Where is the disputer of thisage?
Has not God made foolish thewisdom of this world?
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For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did
not know God.
Look, the world was so wise, wesaw wise that they killed Jesus
, didn't even know he was theson of God.
The world through wisdom didnot know God.
Look, the world was so wise, wesaw wise that they killed Jesus
, didn't even know he was theson of God, and he kept telling
them that he was and he keptdoing miracles.
So let's look at how wise weso-called human beings are.
I'm performing miracles.
I'm delivering people.
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We're turning water into wine,blind people getting their sight
back.
I'm laying hand on the I done,raised two dead people and you
sit up here still don't believeI'm a son of God.
You're going to kill me and sayI'm a false prophet.
Come on in here Somebody.
Look at how wisdom, how wisewe're not.
It says wisdom of God.
The world through wisdom didnot know God.
It pleased God through thefoolishness of the message
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preached to save those whobelieve.
Oh, soullessness of the messagepreached to save those who
believe.
Oh my God, that's so powerfulwhen you talk about false
reasoning and we're not as wiseas we think.
Summary we need the word Goahead.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Pastor, I was just getting ready to say can we be
humble enough to say I'm justnot that smart.
I'm just not that smart, I'mnot as smart as I maybe give
myself credit.
I'm not as smart as I think.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Come on, I can't outwit.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
I can't outsmart.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
God Come on.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I'm not so such a much.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm really not all that and abag of chips.
The only that I am is in ChristJesus, and that makes me the
bombcom.
You know what I'm saying.
So I think if we can be humbleenough just to say you know what
?
I really ain't that smart.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
You know.
So let's talk about this.
Let's talk about wisdom that webelieve is passed down and you
know the way we do things.
That's passed down and we thinkit's so smart.
Here recently, two blackteenage girls just solved a 200
year old Pythagorean theoremmathematical problem that they
have not been able to solve.
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Mathematicians in 200 yearshave not been able to solve.
It have not been able to solveit.
Two young girls got into acompetition to win $500 in a
Catholic church.
They were in a Catholic schooland solved a 200-year-old
Pythagorean theorem mathematicalproblem, I think, either using
trigonometry or statistics, andthey've gone viral all over the
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world.
All over the world.
But for 200 years, all thesesmart people who tried and said
it wasn't possible yeah, thatshows.
Yeah, we're not as wise as wethink.
We're not as smart as we think.
We're not as wise as we think.
Yep, come on somebody.
Yep, that's just a sample.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Yeah, we, we, we, yeah, we're not as wise as we
think.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, I think about Jeff Bezos and I think about how
his boss told him you're goingto walk away from this job and
go start some kind of onlinebookstore.
Have you lost your mind?
Look, look at how much wisdomhe thought he was passing down
to Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos would have listened.
He would have never made it toone of the richest men in the
world and provide so manyservices all around the world
through Amazon.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Absolutely Going back to that question.
Who said that you know what I'msaying?
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Who said I couldn't do that and let me show you
because some people might belike well, jeff Bezos, how do
you tie that into spiritualityand biblicalness?
Look at how God got the gloryof Jeff Bezos life.
Because Jeff Bezos turnedaround and gave a hundred
million dollars to Van Jones,who fights for reform in
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politics, reform for the poor,the disadvantaged and minorities
, gave his nonprofit a hundredmillion dollars to use it,
however you need to.
He deals with social justice,prison reform.
So God and Van Jones love Godand Van Jones talk about.
He said God, you know he givesGod credit for who he is.
Okay, but I'm just trying tomake a point here that we really
understand.
I went over, but I understand.
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Do you have Isaiah?
Do you have Isaiah?
This will be our last passageof scripture.
I'll let you teach this andclose us out.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Therefore, once more, I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder.
The wisdom of the wise willperish, the intelligence of the
intelligent will vanish, oh my.
Speaker 1 (48:35):
God, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.
That's powerful.
There's still a lot of smart,intelligent people in this world
.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Absolutely Because that's a gift from God.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Absolutely, and the gifts are without repentance.
But listen, look at how dumb,dumbed down our society has
gotten when it comes to morality.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Oh gosh, Right and wrong yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Justice.
What is truth?
Yeah, the lines are so blurred.
The lines are so blurred, ohgosh.
Seem like they so dumb theydon't need somebody can do
(49:19):
something to hide their hand,act like they didn't even see
them do it.
This is still a good man.
This is still a good woman.
We just saw what they did.
What are you talking about?
You're trying to fool me, toput a blinders right over my
eyes while my eyes are open.
Yeah, yeah, that's what Godsaid he was going to do Confound
the wise.
So we need to have becometransformed by the renewing of
our mind with the word of Godand take those thoughts captive.
(49:41):
And so we have been talkingabout how to identify we did
that, yeah and how to conquernegative thinking patterns.
We're out of time not out ofwhere we could go so much deeper
in this but I think we've.
We've laid a strong foundationfor you in this time we have on
this podcast.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Can we talk just briefly?
Yes, yes, other ones defeathigh minded thinking which is
which is really ridding ofarrogance.
You know, and again, I thinkthe way to work through that is
to work on being humble.
You know to work on beinghumble.
When you find yourself as aperson who is humble, you don't
(50:16):
have to worry about arrogancebecause you understand that
everything I am is because ofwhat God has done in my life.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
Everything.
I can't take credit because inand of myself I'm a hot mess and
a wreck, but but when Iidentify any good thing, it came
from God.
The scripture says that everygood and perfect gift comes from
God.
So everything that I've beenallowed to do, everything that
the opportunity to, to lovesomebody, to give to, to be a
(50:43):
good person, a decent person,whatever God by the spirit is
helping me to do that, and itnever says we can't.
So when you really think aboutand break that thing down, how
can I be arrogant?
Because I'm not responsible forany good thing that comes out
of me, and so we have to be sureto defeat high-minded thinking.
(51:05):
I like the scripture that talksabout not thinking more highly
of yourself than you should Seeyou can do that so easy when
you're an humble person.
When you're humble, you fallright in line with that, Like I
ain't nothing more than who Godsaid I am and I'm not trying to
prove anything to anybody.
I just want to be who God saysthat I am.
(51:27):
Amen and then the other one istake control of our thoughts,
and that goes back.
I think you said somethingabout it a little bit ago.
We have to participate in thisfight back.
I think you said somethingabout it a little bit ago.
We have to participate in thisfight.
We can't just sit back andglaze through life with allowing
all of these thoughts, of allthoughts of present, with all
that's going on in the world, toconsume our mind and just take
(51:49):
it.
We've got to fight back and wedo that by rehearsing the word
of God.
Place negative worldly thinkingunder lock and key, by
obedience to practicing the mindof Christ.
I think we were on this someyears ago and it was like what
would Jesus do?
See people just took it as justlike a quick little something to
(52:10):
say.
But what about when we sit withthat for a little while?
What about when we really doponder, in this moment, when I
want to cuss somebody out, whenI want to fight somebody, I want
to run in the back ofsomebody's car because they did
something crazy?
What about if we really take amoment and say, but what would
Jesus do?
What do I know about hischaracter through what I've read
(52:32):
in the scriptures and my ownexperience with him?
What would he do?
He would not want me to cussthem out.
He would not be the one to cussthem out.
He would not run into the backof the car.
He wouldn't do those things.
So what about if we startsitting with that, you know, to
help rid of and get rid of thosenegative thoughts Like I got to
get them back?
Well if, if Jesus thought likethat, he would have never made
(52:55):
it to the cross, yeah Right,when they were beating on him,
he would have dealt with themimmediately.
You know what I'm saying.
So we've got to remember thatit's not just the same, but it
should be something that wouldcontemplate, something that we
really think about what wouldJesus do.
And then the last one practicalexample replace anxious
thoughts with God's promises andaffirmations.
(53:20):
Moment of transparency.
One of the things that theenemy has been fighting me with
lately is being anxious, and oneof the things that I've been
fighting the enemy with is God'sword, and the reality is is
that God's word works If youwork it.
It's not enough for us to quotethe scripture.
(53:42):
We have to apply the scripture.
It's not enough for us to sitand listen to the word of God,
to even read the word of God Atsome point.
We have got to learn application.
And we've got to apply thisthing in order to be built up in
our most holy faith and inorder to be able to come against
the strongholds in our mind.
(54:04):
Nobody else can do that for us.
God has given us power, he'sgiven us ability.
We've got to take the reins onthis thing so that we come out
the winners that he already saidwe are, because scripture says
we are conquerors, and more thanconquerors, in Christ Jesus.
(54:25):
I can't do this thing withouthim.
I can't do it outside of him.
I got to get over in him Right,and then I'll be able to
accomplish it Right.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
That is so good, that is so good, wow, that is so
good.
And what I, what I would justtag on to that is that, yes, we
teach this, we teach withanointing, which makes it appear
that teaching for us is simple,but we know that application of
the word of God can bechallenging.
(54:55):
Absolutely and it's notchallenging because just in the
practice of it itself, applyingthe word itself is not
challenging.
It's trying to apply it in themidst of storms and fights and
battles.
So it is what's coming at usthat makes you know, applying
the word of God difficult attimes and challenging at times,
and so nobody gets it rightevery time.
(55:18):
Nobody is perfect.
It's a process.
Growth is a process One day up,one day down, one week up, one
week down, one month up, onemonth down Sometimes and we
understand that.
So don't beat yourself over thehead.
Listen to this episode over andover a few times.
Make sure you get clarity onwhat we were saying.
(55:40):
And we love you, god loves you,and there are other people
around you that love you, and wewant to see you become your
best version of who God hascalled you to be.
So don't take this teachingwith pressure, but do take it
with some sense of truth, thereality that in order to grow
(56:02):
and get better, we have toparticipate and we have to take
control of our thought life.
Speaker 2 (56:06):
Yeah, we have to have rehearsal time.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
We have to have rehearsal time.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
How many things have you walked into?
And you weren't 100%.
You had either an interest or amild desire and you had a
little bit of skill.
Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
And you went anyway, yeah, and you tried out and you
did your best, and then, themore you did it, the better at
it you became.
Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
To me, that's Christianity.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
The more you pray, the better at it you'll get.
Yeah, the more you fast, thebetter at it.
You became To me that'sChristianity.
The more you pray, the betterat it you'll get.
The more you fast, the betterat it.
The more you focus on shiftingyour thoughts, the better at it
you'll get.
We get better along the way.
We get better along the way,but we have to start.
We have to start because, ofthe urgency.
Because, of the urgency.
(56:55):
Yeah, because of the urgency.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
That is so good.
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and being in this space with us.
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We want to pray for ourlisteners and our viewers all
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God, touch, heal, deliver,minister, set free, oh God, in
the name of Jesus, thosespecific requests that they have
been lifting up to you.
Someone has been crying out toyou, god, for change.
(58:48):
Oh my God, and I hear thespirit of the Lord saying that
God is saying he's trying to getyou to change by renewing your
mind.
If your thinking can, canchange, everything about your
life will change.
If you change your thinking,you will change your life.
This is the word of the Lordfor you and this is your daily
bread.
God bless you.
We'll see you next time righthere, on daily bread.
Speaker 2 (59:09):
Amen Amen.
Speaker 1 (59:12):
Wait a minute.
You got something you want tosay.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
I I felt the Spirit of the Lord, say as you change
your mind, he'll draw thosethings to you that your heart is
going to learn.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
Amen.
Yep, that's good Amen.
All right, I received that formyself too.
Amen God bless you y'all.
We'll see you next time.
Bye, Right here on Daily Bread.
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