1. Declarations Over You!
1.1. You are strong and mighty.
1.1.1. You have the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwelling inside of you
1.1.2. You are a weapon of righteousness in a world of darkness
1.2. You are not your past. You are not what you did.
1.2.1. You are who God says you are
1.2.2. He says you are forgiven
1.2.3. He says you are redeemed
1.2.4. He says you are free
1.3. You are not a hostage to your unhealthy thoughts.
1.3.1. The weapons you fight with are not the weapons of this world.
1.3.2. You have divine power to demolish strongholds
1.4. You have the mind of Christ directing your thoughts.
1.4.1. You have the word of God guiding your steps.
1.5. Worry is not your master.
1.5.1. You trust in God
1.5.2. His peace guards your heart
1.5.3. Guards your mind
1.5.4. Guards your soul in Christ Jesus
1.6. Your God has not given you a spirit of fear, but a Spirit of power, of love and of a sound mind.
1.7. The Lord is your helper. You will not be afraid.
1.8. You are not a slave to your habits.
1.8.1. You are not a prisoner to an addiction
1.8.2. You have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the kingdom of God’s light
1.9. Your God will bless you abundantly, so that in all things, and at all times, having all you need, you will abound in every good work.
1.10. Nothing can separate you from God’s love
1.10.1. Not death
1.10.2. Not demons
1.10.3. Not the present nor the pas
1.10.4. No power on earth will ever separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord
1.11. Most of life’s battles are won or lost in your mind
1.12. The Battle Rages But You have Won the War
2. What truth demolishes that stronghold?
2.1. Scriptural truth
2.1.1. Write it
2.1.2. Think it
2.1.3. Confess it
2.1.4. Until you believe it
2.2. Creating new neural pathways
2.2.1. Renewing mindw/truth
2.3. Struggling to Know God’s Will
2.3.1. My life belongs to God
2.3.2. Daily I seek him and daily he directs my steps
2.3.3. I know his voice and he leads me to his perfect will
2.4. Lack confidence
2.4.1. My confidence is in Christ and Christ alone
2.4.2. Because his Spirit lives within me, I can do everything he calls me to do
2.5. Fighting lustful thoughts
2.5.1. I’m not a slave to lustful thoughts
2.5.2. Because God has purified my mind, I will honor him with my eyes and thoughts.
2.5.3. My God is faithful
2.6. Find comfort in food
2.6.1. When I’m stressed, I turn to God, not food
2.6.2. I come to Jesus because he is what I need
2.6.3. In Him, I find strength and comfort
2.7. Battling worry
2.7.1. Because of Christ, I’m not anxious about anything.
2.7.2. cast my cares on God because he cares for me
2.7.3. I have the peace of God dwelling in my heart and ruling my mind.
3. Your life is always moving in the direction of your strongest thoughts
3.1. If you don’t control what you think. Never control what you do
3.2. Take Your Mind Back
3.2.1. Meditate on truth
3.3. Write it
3.3.1. Think it
3.3.2. Confess it
3.3.3. Until you believe it
4. QR
5. How do we conform
5.1. Pride and ego are patterns of this world.
6. Intro vid
6.1. Great theologian
6.1.1. Jackie Chan
6.1.1.1. (The Karate Kid)
6.1.2. “Your focus needs more focus.”
6.1.3. "There is only one person you need to control"
6.2. Romans 12:2 (NIV) 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
6.2.1. Romans 12:2 (NIV) - The tactic 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
6.2.2. you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
7. What stronghold is holding you back?
7.1. Wrong mindset hostage?
7.2. Identify where you have the wires crossed
7.2.1. Never get out of debt
7.2.2. Always struggle health
7.2.3. Never meaningful job
7.2.4. I can’t overcome this addiction
7.2.5. Never feel close to God
7.2.6. Never going to get married.
8. Neural pathways
8.1. Experience new
8.1.1. Brain creates Neural Pathway
8.1.1.1. The little brain in my hand
8.1.2. Programming brain
8.1.2.1. Baby smiles
8.1.2.1.1. Mom smiles back
8.1.2.1.2. Smiling good
8.1.2.2. Baby touches hot stove
8.1.2.2.1. Ouch
8.1.2.2.2. Baby wants sucker
8.1.3. Mind battlefield
8.1.3.1. Most of life’s battles won or lost in mind
8.1.3.2. 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.
8.1.4. Your life is always moving in direction of your strongest thoughts.
8.1.4.1. What comes into your mind
8.1.4.1.1. Comes out in your life
8.1.4.2. Cannot have a positive life with a negative mind
8.1.4.3. Your emotions are a thermometer
8.1.4.3.1. Your thoughts are a thermostat
8.1.5. How do we train our minds
8.1.5.1. Philippians 4:8 (NLT) 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
8.1.5.2. Write it on your hand
8.1.5.3. Memorize scripture
8.1.5.4. The 4 line prayer
8.1.5.4.1. Money/Blessing
8.1.5.4.2. Disappointed in how something turned out? Remind yourself what is important.
8.1.5.4.3. Need to repent or feeling arrogant?
8.1.5.4.4. Wanting to bless someone? Angry with someone? Need to forgive someone? Feeling jealous of someone?
9. Discipline of Meditation
9.1. (New age) One w/universe.
9.2. Definition of meditation
9.2.1. To engage in mental exercise;to focus one’s thoughts.
9.3. Psalm 1:2 (NIV) 2 but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.
9.4. Psalm 1:3 (NIV) 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
9.5. God invented meditation not Buddha
9.5.1. Eastern meditation
9.5.2. Empty mind
9.5.3. Christian meditation
9.5.4. Fill mind truth
9.5.5. Fix mind
9.6. הגה
9.7. Training my mind to focus
9.7.1. Focus is a skill
9.8. Mind Drifts
9.8.1. Generally to the lies
9.8.1.1. Can’t
9.8.1.2. Won’t
9.8.1.3. Not