1. Identify the biggest stronghold holding you back.
1.1. Not good enough
1.2. My past is too bad
1.3. Can’t trust
1.4. Always battle weight
1.5. Not good w/money
1.6. Can’t close God
1.7. Never job love
1.8. All relationships break down
1.9. Negative Thoughts
1.9.1. Changing chemical makeup brain
1.10. Every thought creates a neurochemical change in our body
1.11. Positive
1.11.1. urge rewarding neurotransmitters
1.11.1.1. Dopamine Legal reward
1.11.2. Positive hit
1.11.2.1. Chemical buzz.
2. Neural Pathways
2.1. Billions pathways/roads in your brain
2.2. More often you think a though
2.2.1. Easier think again
2.2.2. Default
2.3. Stronghold
2.3.1. Wrong Thought Patterns
2.3.2. Stuck in rut
2.4. Negative, Critical
2.4.1. Creating unhealthy
2.4.2. unhelpful neuropathways
2.4.3. Capture
2.4.4. Create new path in brain
2.5. Frustrating day work
2.5.1. Pause
2.5.2. Pray
2.5.3. Hug
2.6. Feel bad self
2.6.1. Walk
2.6.2. Workout
2.7. Bored
2.7.1. Scroll thru IG,
2.7.2. Jealous
2.7.2.1. Rock Church
3. Identify biggest stronghold holding you back
3.1. Not loveable
3.2. Never good enough
3.3. Don’t deserve anything good
3.4. Always be broke
3.5. Haves
3.6. Have nots
3.7. I’m the not
3.8. Helplessness
3.8.1. Helplessness
3.8.2. Worthlessness
3.8.3. Pointlessness
3.9. Identify stronghold. Name it. You cannot defeat what you cannot define
4. Name the truth that demolishes that stronghold
4.1. John 8:32 (NLT) 32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
4.1.1. Know the truth
4.1.2. Embrace truth
4.1.2.1. Open the door
4.1.2.2. Be free
4.2. 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV) 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
4.3. Greek
4.3.1. Take captive
4.3.2. War term
4.3.2.1. Capture w/Spear
4.3.2.2. Sword
4.3.3. There are appeals to the language of military installations (v 4) and soldiers’ campaigns (v 5: αἰχμαλωτίζοντες)—these terms seem drawn from the “wars of the Maccabees”
4.4. 2 Peter 1:3 (NLT) 3 By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.
4.4.1. Time
4.4.2. Patience
4.4.3. Energy
4.4.4. Wisdom
4.4.5. People
4.4.6. Resources
5. The Bible has your back.
5.1. Can do all things thru X
5.1.1. Weak/Strong
5.2. Not attractive
5.2.1. Don’t like look
5.2.1.1. Fearfully wonderfully made
5.3. Miserable
5.3.1. Joy of the Lord is my strength
5.4. Feel all alone
5.4.1. My God is with me.
5.4.1.1. Never leave me
5.5. Victim
5.5.1. Overcomer
5.5.1.1. Not who enemy says
5.6. Life moving direction
5.6.1. What comes into mind
5.6.1.1. Comes out life
5.6.2. Cannot have positive life
5.6.2.1. Negative mind
5.6.3. Capture the lies
5.6.3.1. Replace truth
5.7. Don’t stay locked in a prison
5.7.1. When Jesus holds the keys
5.7.1.1. Set free
6. Message Video
7. Do you have an ongoing war in your mind?
8. Most of life’s battles are won or lost in your mind
8.1. God’s Word power
8.2. Transform and RENEW
8.3. 2 Corinthians 10:3–4 (NLT) 3 We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. 4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
8.3.1. Ochuroma
8.3.1.1. Military Stronghold
8.3.1.2. Fortress built highest peak city
8.3.1.3. Reinforced w/wall up to 20 feet thick
9. QR
10. What does our spiritual enemy do?
10.1. Shapes your thinking
10.2. One thought at time
10.3. Prison of lies
10.3.1. There's no one you can trust
10.3.2. You're never going to succeed
10.3.3. You are always going to be broke
10.3.4. Never good marriage
10.3.5. God doesn’t hear prayers
10.3.6. Nobody cares about you
10.3.7. You're never going to make a difference
10.3.8. You won't amount to anything
11. 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV) 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
11.1. Our lives are always moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts.
11.2. Science/Bible agree
11.2.1. Cognitive Behavior Psychology
11.2.1.1. shows Relational challenges
11.2.1.2. Eating disorders
11.2.1.3. Addictions
11.2.2. Some forms of anxiety
11.2.2.1. Direct result of toxic thinking
11.2.2.2. The Bible already told us that...
11.2.2.3. Proverbs 23:7 (NLT) 7 They are always thinking about how much it costs. “Eat and drink,” they say, but they don’t mean it.
11.3. The life we have is a reflection of the thoughts we think
11.3.1. What we think determines who we become.
11.3.1.1. Think you can’t
11.3.1.1.1. Probably won’t
11.3.1.2. Dwell problems
11.3.1.2.1. Overwhelm you
11.3.1.3. Feel like victim
11.3.1.3.1. Become one
11.3.1.4. Think can
11.3.1.4.1. Probably will
11.3.1.5. Look solutions
11.3.1.5.1. See some.
11.3.1.6. Believe overcome X
11.3.1.6.1. Can
11.3.1.7. The life we have is a reflection of the thoughts you think
11.3.2. THOUGHT AUDIT
11.3.2.1. 1-10
11.3.3. No matter
11.3.3.1. What you do
11.3.3.2. What have
11.3.3.3. Who know
11.3.3.4. What buy
11.3.3.5. Where you live
11.3.3.6. Where you travel
11.3.3.7. You cannot have a positive life when you have a negative mind
11.4. Knowing your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts, are excited about the direction your thoughts are taking you?
11.4.1. Change thinking