Why You Can't Break Free (what Christians don't know)

Not everything you’re fighting is a demon.

For many Christians, the “spiritual warfare” they’re battling is actually a *mental pattern*—things like **trained (learned) helplessness**, cognitive biases, and internal narratives shaped by past pain, church culture, and unhealed experiences.

In this video, I unpack how we often over-spiritualize what’s really happening *between our ears* and unknowingly give our power away. We say things like “the enemy is busy” or “God will deliver me one day,” while quietly believing we’re helpless and hopeless to actually change.

Here’s the truth:

👉 Not everything is a stronghold that needs to be “prayed away.”
👉 Some of what you’re calling “spiritual warfare” is a *cognitive pattern* that can be understood, retrained, and renewed.
👉 God created your mind, brain, nervous system, and emotions—and He invites you to partner with Him in renewing them.

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If you’re tired of repeating the same cycles, calling it “sin,” “spiritual warfare,” or “the devil attacking,” but nothing is changing… this is for you.

I created a **free “Mind Traps & Faith Gaps” Mindset Manual** to help you:

* Identify some of the most common cognitive biases Christians experience
* Understand how these *mind traps* keep you stuck, small, and spiritually exhausted
* Bridge the *faith gap* between what you say you believe and what you actually experience day to day
* Get simple, practical steps to start renewing your mind and partnering with God for real transformation

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Don’t just pray about cycles you were created to break.

Learn what’s happening in your mind. 
Partner with the Spirit. 
Walk in the freedom Christ already paid for.

Transcript

Treveal C.W. Lynch (00:01)
We think that it's a demon. We think that it's a stronghold. We think that we're engaging in spiritual warfare. And all the while, it's really just something called trained helplessness, a cognitive pattern where...

based upon past experiences and environments, things that we've gone through, things that have been done to us, we've mentally trained ourselves to believe that we're helpless and even to some degree that we're hopeless. We feel as though we're not able to make the necessary changes in our lives that we desire to see. And within our faith,

We spiritualize it. The devil is attacking me. The enemy is busy. God's going to deliver me. God's going to one day heal me. And it's a pattern of putting the blame and putting the responsibility on someone else, on something else.

and it numbs our ability to be aware and to be receptive of the idea that it's simply something that has been trained over time and it's something that we can take responsibility for retraining and rewiring.

I have a passion for Christians to understand that not all things are demonic, not all things are evil, not all things are the devil, not all things... ⁓

It's something for us to wait for God to do, for God to show up and show out for.

hear me, those concepts have their time and their place.

But there's also a time and a place for us to evolve and grow and mature in the idea that some of these things are very human, very common, very practical, and that God has given us an ability to address these matters.

within ourselves as we grow and develop in our ability to

to relate to ourselves in a nurturing, ⁓ a responsible, in a mindful, in a intentional, purposeful manner.

learning to truly appreciate what's going on in here and to appreciate where scripture says that we ought to be transformed by the renewal of what's going on in here. you are a Christian and you are dealing with

these recurring patterns and you may have called them sin you may have labeled it spiritual warfare but whatever you've labeled it it's not working it's not getting any better I'm not here to tell you that I know exactly what you're facing specifically but what I can tell you is someone who is a Christian for 25 years someone

who has had to take therapy, someone who has ⁓ been in many positions and roles within the church, someone who has dealt with a lot of trauma and drama in my past, experienced a lot of hurt, a lot of suffering, a lot ⁓ of abuse. I can testify and I can tell you that not everything is a...

some evil, dark, demonic, spiritual stronghold and warfare and it just needs to be prayed out. You just need to be delivered from it. And I guess those words can be...

can be used interchangeably. guess some of those words would be applicable, but in the context that I'm talking about today, it's going from over-spiritualizing things and just making everything about this one day, some day deliverance, this magical, mystical deliverance that only God can and will do at some point in your future, and it gives you permission to shrink back and to devalue yourself and to devalue your ability

to move forward versus acknowledging that there are some very practical things that are going on between our ears, some things that we can grow in our awareness of, appreciation for, and navigation of, learning to navigate the inner world, right? And being able to gain greater mastery over our...

over our inner world ⁓ in partnership with the spirit, in partnership with Christ, in partnership with God. Right? It's not leaving God out. It's not edging God out. It's saying that I acknowledge that God created the mind. God created the brain, the nervous system, emotions. All of this is God.

And it can be learned, can be leveraged, can be integrated. Your psychology can be integrated into your theology in such a way that empowers you to truly live.

out the purposes for which God has created you for to align and to operate within the potential and to maximize that potential that God's created you with and then to achieve all that God has made possible for you which includes for some of you the very peace of mind that you so desperately desire and you deserve but some of us we don't feel deserving we've been trained to not be deserving

and to feel that we are helpless and hopeless in our attempt to realize that peace of mind outside of some future tense deliverance. And I'm just here to say no. No, that's not always the case. Your deliverance can happen now, today, through you owning

and you accepting responsibility over the mastery of your inner world in partnership under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, God of Christ. So hear me and hear me good. This is not a elimination of Christ. It is a integration of the conscious, of the cognitive functions that are

already happening within you and God placed them there. So if you want true deliverance, then some of this can simply be learned, practiced, trained, right? Trained deliverance, practiced deliverance, moment by moment, day by day.

Walking in operating in living in breathing in moving in the freedom That comes from understanding your inner world if that sounds like you Right down below in this description go ahead and click that link grab my free resource if You're watching on social media head over to my bio Click the link there and grab my free resource here

I've put together some of the most common cognitive biases to get you started to help you grow in your awareness and your appreciation and your application of these biases of these cognitive patterns that are already happening within you. I labeled it mind traps and faith gaps. Okay. These are mental traps. They will keep you trapped. They will keep you bound. They will keep you stuck.

if you are not aware of them, of the fact that they're even there, what they are specifically, how they work, and how you can begin to use them to your advantage rather than your disadvantage. And then the faith gap part is just simply bridging the gap.

between some of these ⁓ spiritual terms and terminologies that we utilize that kind of mask and cover up what's really happening. And so there's been this disconnect, there's been this gap that's happened. And because of that...

We've been wanting to live the life that we read about in the Bible. We're wanting to walk out of church on Sunday mornings and live this amazing life. We're on our jobs throughout the week wanting to experience these breakthroughs. ⁓ But there's a gap in our faith. And I believe that a part of that gap, which I believe that I am called to help to bridge

and to feel in that gap I believe a part of that is understanding the cognitive patterns and the the workings of our inner world I think it's going to empower you, going to equip you it's going to give you some language around these concepts some simple ways to begin practicing these things so that again

You can stop doing the things that you don't want to do and you can start doing the things that you want to do because each and every one of you are full of purpose, full of potential and designed, divinely designed to fulfill a great realm and scope of possibilities. So I want to see you.

I want to see you do it. Alright? So again, click the link in the description or head over to my bio depending on the social media platform you're watching this on. Until next time, I love you guys and praying for you guys and I believe in you guys. Remember, let's continue ⁓ to build, to build that relationship with ourselves, right?

The better you can relate to yourself, the better you can create for yourself and those around you. God bless you.