THE OPEN MIND: THE GATEWAY TO TRANSFORMATION

We map the link between humility and transformation, showing how fear builds closed minds while openness invites light, context, and renewal. We ask hard questions about tradition, teachability, and the courage to let Scripture reshape us, then offer practical steps and declarations.

• fear as the architect of closed minds
• renewing the mind versus policing the heart
• choosing voices that challenge and stretch
• tradition compared with truth in context
• new wine and new wineskins as revelation
• teachability, humility, and honest questions
• opening specific life areas to receive more
• discomfort reframed as opportunity for growth
• four practices to keep the mind open
• daily declarations that align belief and action

Father, open my mind. Father, open my mind. Expand my understanding. Stretch my heart. Stretch my heart. I choose humility. I choose humility over stubbornness. I choose hunger. I choose hunger over pride. I choose truth over comfort. My mind is open. My heart is ready. And I receive everything you have for me.

Chapters

• 0:00 The Open Mind Thesis
• 2:12 Fear’s Role In A Closed Mind
• 5:28 Voices We Let Shape Us
• 8:26 Renewing The Mind, Not Just The Heart
• 12:20 Tradition Versus Truth
• 16:05 New Wine Needs New Wineskins
• 19:20 Humility, Questions, And Context
• 23:05 Staying Teachable And Connected
• 27:20 Who Actually Enters The Kingdom
• 31:15 Openness Over Perfection
• 34:36 Practical Ways To Stay Open
• 40:00 Declarations And Expectation

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:00

The title of this is The Open Mind, The Gateway to Transformation. You know, there's always a gateway where we want to get to. This is the gateway. Having an open mind is the gateway to transformation. Now, I want you to really listen to how I start this today. And listen to this quote, this statement here. God can only feel what is open.

unknown: 0:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 0:28

God can only feel what is open. Now think about that for a minute. A closed mind is like a locked door. There ain't nothing getting in there. It's locked. But an open mind is like an open heaven. If I've got an open mind, God can begin to show me things. God can begin to speak some things into me. God can begin to bring some revelation into my life that wasn't there before, not because God didn't want it to be, but because I had a closed mind. I wasn't open to receive it. I wasn't ready for it yet. We have to be in a position to where we're ready for things. And I because I believe most people, they don't, it's not that they reject God. That's not what it's about. Most people believe in God. So it's not that they're rejecting God Himself. I think the truth is most people reject anything that doesn't fit with what they already believe. Whatever their core belief is, if it comes up against it, boom, boom, boom, I reject. Because I have that core belief. Okay? And that's exactly what the kingdom does. Think about it, the kingdom doesn't enter through being stubborn. It enters through being open. God isn't looking to force anything into us, but he does invite us to receive. And the moment we crack open our minds, just a little bit, that's all I'm asking people. It really is. I'm getting to that point now. We went out, me and my brother went out to Douglas Chapel yesterday. He spoke yesterday, and we went out there. I'll be speaking out there in public march. But he said the same thing when he got up and spoke yesterday. He said, all I'm asking you is just to think. Just to think a little bit outside the box of what you're used to. How you're used to thinking. So the moment we crack our minds open just a little bit, that's when the light starts coming in. Okay? We've got to open our minds up. Now I want you to think about this. What if the only thing that was standing between you and your next level is not a person, it's not a circumstance, but it's the unwillingness that you may have to hear things and to speak things a little bit differently. See, too many times we blame it on people. We blame it on situations and circumstances, and we blame it on pastors, and we blame it on churches, and we blame it on everything that we can blame it on. Instead of just looking and saying, forget all that, maybe it's just my unwillingness to open up my mind to hear and to see something different that's going on.

SPEAKER_00: 3:30

Amen.

SPEAKER_01: 3:33

Could it be that there's some areas in our lives where we've mistaken comfort for truth? We've got content. We've got settled in a place. And it's comfortable. It really is. We've all been there. But maybe that comfort zone and that place of contentment has left me in a place to where it's closed my mind up and I can't receive anything new. 2 Timothy 1 and 7 tells us that God did not give us a spirit of fear. Now we all know that verse. We all, I'm sure, probably everybody in this room at some point in your life have quoted that verse. He did not give me a spirit of fear. And you stand on it, you believe. But think about this. A closed mind is built by fear. A closed mind is built by fear. What do I mean? People often shut themselves up off for new ideas, new perspectives, or new possibilities because they're afraid. What are they afraid of? They're afraid of being wrong. They're afraid of changing. They're afraid of losing control over what little control they think they have. They're afraid of confronting something that's uncomfortable. So fear is in there. I don't care how many times we quote from 2 Timothy. We still allow fear to come in at times. A closed mind doesn't come from confidence. Confident people don't walk around closed-minded. Confident people, successful people, walk around with an open mind and they listen to other people. I don't care if you like Donald Trump or you don't like Donald Trump. But he is somebody who surrounds himself with very smart people. Okay? Why? Because he knows that these smart people are going to make him look really good. Any successful businessman does that. Any good, successful person that runs a business or anything else surrounds himself with good people. We've got to surround ourselves with people who are going to speak some things into us. We're some people who are going to speak the same things we are speaking and that God is speaking. It's one thing. Me and Ben talked about this till then, and I'm just I just thought about it because when I looked at him, I thought about him saying this to me. But this is for everybody. We have to pay attention to who we're listening to. I'm talking about on the outside. I know internet, you can have ministry 24-7. You can go listen to anybody you want to listen to. But is that person bringing the message that we're receiving? I've got people that I used to love listening to. I grew a lot from them. I grew during certain seasons. And they picked me up and they lifted me and they took me to another level. But now, where I'm at now, those same people, I don't, I don't, they don't grow me anymore. I still want to listen to them because they're great preachers. But they don't really grow anything in me anymore because their message is a little bit different than where I'm at. Not that their message is wrong, it's just it's a little bit different. So it's not really pushing me to the next level. I'm listening to people now. I want to listen to somebody who's going to challenge my thinking. Who's going to provoke me to say, what do you mean now was that is there more to it than what I've been thinking? Is there more to this verse than what I've been looking at? So a closed mind does not come from confidence, it goes from protecting myself. When someone is scared or someone is being challenged, it always feels safer just to cling to that familiar belief and reject anything new that's coming. We see that all the time. If you haven't seen that, then you're not taking anything out of here, taking it out there. Because if you take it out there, then you're going to see what I'm talking about. Okay? Again, we use wisdom. If I go to speak at another, you know, a men's conference or something and it's a different denomination. I'm smart enough to use wisdom. I don't just go in there and start teaching all some of the deeper stuff that we talked about. But I'm also not going to shy away from it either. Because they need to see there's a difference. Paul said clearly in Romans 12 and 2. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We misquote this verse, so we don't misquote it with misunderstanding. We quote it the right way, and then we start talking about somebody being saved or not in their heart. This ain't got nothing to do with the heart. This is talking about the mind. This is talking about thinking right here. Not believing or not, you know, anything like that. This is talking about the way I think. Being transformed by renewing of your mind. See, a closed mind, I believe, reduces God's voice down to the size of our comfort zone. We always say it, God, I want to hear your voice. Speak to me. God, I want to hear you. And he is speaking. But if we take that voice and we we keep moving it down to my level of understanding of my comfort zone, it begins to look really small. Why can't I just have an open mind and say, I can't, I may not believe that, I may not understand that, but I'm going to take it, put it on the shelf, and I'm going to look back at it instead of just shooting out as that's not biblical. There's a lot of stuff that's biblical that we've just misinterpreted over the years. We just look at it the wrong way. That's all of us. So transformation, as it talks about in Romans 12 and 2, right there, transformation doesn't happen because we attend church. Nobody's been transformed just because they've got uh you know perfect attendance in Sunday school. It comes when our mind is open enough for God to renew it. We have to open up our mind to be renewed. Too many people have allowed fear to make them defensive instead of teachable. And that's a bad place to be. I don't care if somebody's not even really getting, you know, understanding a lot. As long as somebody can remain teachable.

unknown: 10:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 10:30

That's one of the things I pray all the time. I said, Lord, let me always remain teachable. Don't ever let me get to a point where I think I know it all and I think I've got it all together. Because you're in a bad place then. I always want to remain teachable. And that's where, you know, you get to a place and God will connect you to somebody else. And sometimes it's just Facebook, but I mean, you know, there's somebody he'll connect you to or whatever. And you're like, you start drawing off of them, y'all start communicating a little bit. What's he doing? He's connecting you with somebody different. That's what keep pushing you, keep making you think. Jesus didn't just come to, we say this all the time, he didn't just come to forgive us of our sins. There's a lot of things Jesus came for. One of them, I think, is to uh open our minds up. He came to open our minds. He walked among people who knew all the scriptures, but yet didn't recognize them. That's the same for us today, too. This is not just, you can't just use that story talking about 2,000 years ago. It's the same for us today. We can have all the Bible knowledge in the world. You can quote these scriptures frontwards and backwards. But if we're not open-minded to what the Holy Spirit is showing us, it's going to lead to blindness. There's blind Christians. That doesn't mean they're not saved. It doesn't mean they don't know scripture. They've spent scripture out. But they're blind to the truth. Well, because our scripture has become just tradition a lot of times, too. Jesus didn't come to fight with people whose minds were closed. I told you, he's not going to force himself. He went and he found, even in his day, he went and he found those who were willing to listen. He would just walk right by them. Go back and read stories. He would walk right by them. And then he would get to the ones who were willing to listen. He had an open mind. He found tax collectors. He found old fishermen. He found outsiders. He found people who were unclean. See, these were the people who actually entered the kingdom. Now you notice they weren't dead. But yet they entered the kingdom. So that should help you thinking right there that we're not talking about heaven right there. We're talking about entering the presence of the kingdom of heaven here on earth. So these were the people who actually entered the kingdom. And here's the thing: you can memorize the Bible and still miss Jesus. It's great to know verses. I'm not knocking that. But just knowledge of the verses don't break relationship with Christ. So you can still memorize the verses and miss it, but you cannot stay open-minded to the Holy Spirit and miss it. Because the Holy Spirit's always going to run in. So if you're open-minded and listening for the Holy Spirit, you cannot miss Jesus. So I want to ask yourself. You can ask yourself this. Do I want to be in line traditionally more than I want to be transformed? That's a hard question for some people to ask. Do I want to be in line in lockstep with everybody else just because it's to tradition? Or do I truly want to be transformed? If Jesus brought a new revelation into my life today with a new perspective, would I receive him or would I resist him? Because it's not what everyone else is saying. I mean, I know all of us in our minds we're going to say, oh, oh, I would, of course I would receive him. But are we? Are we receiving everything that he's breeding? Or are we rejecting what the Holy Spirit's saying and grabbing on to tradition? It's tough. We've got to realize that being open-minded is humility. It's not doubt. And that's one of the things that I think hears us sometimes and stops people from really opening their minds up, is they've been taught so much scripture and tradition that they think if I think just a little bit about outside of this, then I'm doubting the Word of God. I'm being rebellious. I'm turning my back. I'm backsliding. I don't see it as that. I see it as humility. When people think that they have an open mind and ask questions, we sometimes get uh put down for that. I do. I ask a lot of questions. I love asking questions to people. Not to try to trick them, not to try to prove them wrong, but just to provoke them to think. Think through that verse a little bit. Think about what Jesus was actually saying 2,000 years ago that really does not apply to me today. He was talking to a certain group of people in a certain time for a certain reason. That's the context of the verse. I can't take that and apply it to me today and get an accurate understanding of it. But some people believe if I do that, then I'm just going against the word of God. So if people think having an open mind and asking questions is the same as doubt, rebellion, or weakness, to me that's wrong. And it's causing people to not want to ask questions, to not want to question Bible verses. But biblically, openness is, again, it's humility. It's the willingness to be honest enough to sit there and say, Lord, I don't know at all. Maybe I misunderstood some scripture. Teaching. I hope, I pray, that the majority of what you're getting and learning is not from me, but it's from the Holy Spirit. I hope something I say is provokes you to go look into some verses and dive a little deeper into it. To do what? To allow the Holy Spirit, to open your mind, that allows the Holy Spirit to now come in. I promise you, he's going to teach it a lot better than I can. He's going to show you a lot better than I can. But I have to, I have to be willing to open my mind up. If I shoot everything else down, because I think it's rebellion, then really what I do is I stop the Holy Spirit from ministry. Maybe there's some things I don't know yet. And the Holy Spirit is just wanting to give it to me so bad, but I'm closed off. Psalm 119, verse 130. I want you to look at this. It says, the entrance of your words. Listen to this. The entrance of your words gives light. Keep in mind, I always teach this, but it's important that when you look at certain words in the Bible, that you have a foundational understanding of what they mean. When we're talking about light, anytime we see the word light, we're talking about wisdom and understanding. When we're talking about darkness in the Bible, we're talking about ignorance. Ignorance is just simply not knowing. There's many, many topics that I am absolutely ignorant of. I don't know anything about it. You better go to somebody else that specializes in that area. But it says the interest of your words gives life, it gives understanding to the simple. I would tell myself, he gets that. That's too deep for me. The entrance of his words gives light, it gives understanding to the simple. I have to allow the Holy Spirit to speak, but I have to have an open mind for English. So ask yourself this. When was the last time God corrected something that I believed? I don't have to think very long about that. Probably this morning. Do I have leave room for God to do bigger, to be bigger than my doctrine? Go back to this verse just a minute. I want to leave this out. This is so important. The entrance. Look at that word. The entrance. Light and truth need access. What does that say? Entrance. If there was nowhere to enter, I have no access. It needs access. And if your mind is closed off, the light can't get in. The wisdom can't get in. The understanding can't get in. That's why I say we don't have to go full-fledged, finish, work out there's a boat. But we do need to drop a few seeds. Why? Because if they don't hear it, they're going to keep believing that whatever they believe, even if it's wrong, it's the only thing. I believe everybody should have the opportunity to hear a different, something a little bit different. Let the Holy Spirit help them decide what's right and wrong to divide the truth. But if that's all they got, then that's why we're going to keep believing. That's why I think it's really important for us as forerunners to not just keep this message inside these walls, but to actually go out when opportunity is given and present it. And share some of it. Matthew 9 and 17. These only a couple of verses I have, but Matthew 9 and 17. Most of us know this, but I want to get on because it's so important we're talking about this. It says, nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Or else the wineskins break, the wine is filled, the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. I've heard this total so many times. I've taught on it many times. You cannot put old new wine into old wineskins. What is that talking about? New wine here, we're not talking about alcohol here. What we're talking about is revelation. When you go back and figure this out. This is talking about the revelation that the Holy Spirit brings. Old wineskins is my old way of thinking. I can't put anything new into my old way of thinking. Something's got to give. Hence the importance of us going out doing it. If it's never challenged, then just keep living with the old wineskin. I have to be willing to go out and challenge and provoke things. Many of us are praying for more from God. Most people when they pray, they pray that somewhere in their prayer, God, give me more, show me more, tell me more, teach me more. Yet we're still trying to hold on with everything in our old framework. We use the word, some people use different words. We use the word deconstruction a lot, which means we're deconstructing the past belief system, the past framework. Some people don't like to use the word deconstruct, they use the word reconstruct. They're reconstructing something new. Either one you use, I mean you've got to tear down the old before you can build up the new. So either way you want to look at it, I don't, to me, it don't make a difference which one you use. I've always used the word deconstruct because you've got to get rid of some of this old to allow space for some of the new. So here's a question for just for you to reflect on. What if God wants to give you something new, but I'm still clinging to something old? Have I mistaken tradition for truth? I'm always going to challenge you with whatever your belief system is, whatever your framework that you stand on. Is it the truth of the gospel or is it tradition? It's not questioning your salvation. I'm not questioning anything about whether you're born again or whether you're not. I'm not questioning whether you're going to heaven one day or whether you're not. I'm just saying is what you're basing everything on. Is it the truth of the word of God or is it tradition that's been passed down by man? Does that make a difference? The finished work demands an open mind. That's what I love about the finished work of Christ. That's what drew me to it. I put a post online yesterday just because I was scrolling through Facebook memories and all that kind of stuff to come up. It had one on there from back in 20, I think it was 2012 or 2013, sometime. And it was a message that I was just wrote something on you are not who you think you are, you know, whatever. Understand your identity of Christ. So this is not a message we just started teaching when we got connected with Tommy Miller. Tommy brought a lot into it, believe me. But we've been preaching identity a long time. I've been teaching identity for a long time. Because my background's counseling, so I understood a little bit about understanding who we are, not saying you're this or saying you're that, truly understanding what God has created in you. And that's the reason I posted it, because it's not new. And a lot of times we're hearing people today say, Oh, y'all got that new message y'all trying to preach. No, brother, we're going back to the original message. It's new to you, maybe, but it's not new. They taught this back in the first century church.

SPEAKER_00: 26:58

Right.

SPEAKER_01: 26:59

You want to talk about new? What you're teaching is only 200 years old. What we're teaching went all the way back to the very beginning, so who's new? I wouldn't say I've got to them, but that's what I want to say sometimes. Let's look at your dates and look at my dates, and let's compare them. You're preaching the new age message, because that's what we're getting used of. No, this is original. This is what the first century church, the historians, the very first ones, this is what they taught. This is what Jesus taught. This is what he taught his disciples go out into the world and teach this. Not some of this old stuff that we're teaching now. They never, never, ever said it. Traditional religion tends to shrink God. Revelation enlarges me. Where have I let tradition limit what Christ has already accomplished in my life? That's a question that sometimes I think I've got to be, I don't have to ask other people that question. That's a question I've got to be willing to ask myself. I've got to be real. David, he says, Search me, O Lord. We've got to become David sometimes. We've got to say, Search me, God. If I got some tradition in me that is not the truth of what you said, search me and help bring some revelation to me. I'm not saying at the end, let me say this. I'm not saying all the traditional stuff taught is wrong. It's not wrong. It's really a lot of it's really good stuff for me to do what live a moral life. But I can't put it off as the gospel. I can't say, well, Jesus taught this because he did it. If I'm going to say Jesus taught this, I better go in the Bible, be able to go to the Bible and show where he told her that. Not just saying it. That's what I mean by tradition. If I'm just saying it because somebody too many years ago said it, and now this one said it, now this one said it, it's tradition. It sounds good. It sounds scriptural. Only problem with that is it's not in the Bible. That's a I say that's a little bit of a problem there. I should be able to show it in scripture. Scripture should support scripture. Scripture don't always support tradition. So Jesus said, He who has ears can hear and let him hear. That's about provoking. That right there is provoking. Those who have an ear, they don't hear. And he hit me one day, and I said, Well, how are they gonna hear if we don't speak? We gotta speak. We can't be scared because our message is just a little bit different. It's not as, I promise you, when you truly understand, it's not as different as you think it is. Really not. It's just a different perspective of it. So all we're doing is breaking away some of the stuff that we have taken the truth and we surrounded it with other stuff. We're just chipping away, breaking down, deconstructing the other stuff. So we can do what? Get back to the truth. That's it. It's not all that good. We're not teaching a different gospel. I talked about it a little bit less. We're not teaching a different gospel. We're not teaching a different Bible. We're not talking about a different God or a different Jesus. If it's different to you, respectfully I would say you need to read your Bible. If you see what we're saying is different. Because you misunderstand. Jesus said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear. Now we gotta understand, too, he wasn't talking about physical ears here. That's not what it was about. He was talking about openness. Those who have an open mind. He's not looking for perfect people. Number one, they're not out there. I remember when me and Cindy first met, I tried to convince her how close to perfect I was. It didn't work out well. She seen right through that line. What long she realized this dude's got some problems. No, none of them so perfect. I don't want perfect people in here because I don't want to have to fight with you all the time and tell you how wrong you are. And that's what that's what would happen. I would rather have people in here who have messed up and admit that I've messed up and that I've got some issues in my life, and that I'm still struggling with some stuff. There's still some things that I deal with every day when I wake up that I battle with. Maybe it's a battle in my mind that leads to a battle in my life. I'm not worried about the lifeboard yet. Let's get to the battle in the mind. Because if we can change that, then the lifeboard will take care of itself. But I want people that's just open enough to say, I got some issues. But you know why people won't do that? Because the church condemns it. Not us. We're not going to do that. I want people that can walk in here and just say, dude, I got some stuff messed up. I got some stuff going on, and it's not real spiritual, and I don't feel close to God, and I feel condemned a lot, and I just feel like that. I'm not who I need to be. Boom, that's what we want. Why? Because they're open. They're opened up. You know what you can pour into that? A lot. But when they're hiding it, they're closed off and doing all that on Saturday, but coming to the church on Sunday and hiding. Nah, open up. Just be honest. Because I guarantee you, it may not be the same thing we're doing, but we all got problems. We all got issues. It's just a little bit different. So openness is important. People who can learn, who can grow, who are ready to say, Lord, expand me. That's what I want. I'm ready to grow, Lord, but I got promise. Lord, I want more of you, but I got some issues. I love that. I love it. Somebody comes in and starts telling you how long they've been in church and how many Sunday school classes they've taught and how close they are to the pastor. No disrespect. I don't really want that. I want the people that are struggling and admit it and are open-minded enough to allow God to come in. Because when God comes in and changes that, that's powerful. When you open, when you when your mind opens, love expands. Judgment shrinks. Grace becomes clear. Revelation deepens. Fear weakens. And transformation becomes natural. We don't have to force it anymore. I've already told you we can't force transformation. Can't do it. I don't care how bad you want it for somebody. Can't force it. You can encourage them. You can support them. You can be there. But you can't force it. You can't force transformation. You can't force awakening. But you can plant seeds. You can offer suggestions. You can ask questions. So we have to make sure that we're we are hearing God instead of just hearing what's familiar with what we're familiar with. So I'm going to end right here. How do I keep an open mind? How do I open my mind up? Or if I am already there and I'm doing it a little bit, but I want to open it up more, how do I do that? Got four simple things here. Assume God still has more to teach you. Don't be annoyed all. You don't know it all. I don't know it all. Don't act like you do. So assume that God still has more to teach you. And there are areas in your life. If there's areas in your life where you've stopped expecting God to speak, then you've closed off the area. Well, I won't ask you questions. I'll tell you that I've been in places in my life where, man, God is over here in this area, He is just blessing me. It seems like every time I take a step, I'm stepping into a new blessing. And then there's areas in this part of my life where it's like He's just beating me up every day. And I'm like, God, if you can bless me here, why are you not blessing me here? And God finally said back one day and said, It ain't me, it's you. Because you're open over here and you're closed over there. And it's the truth. We're open. Listen, when your back starts home, you're open for healing. I'm telling you, back pain and knee pain and stuff like that will open your mind up to that He is a God who heals. Amen. But then when my light bill's due, and it's$275, and I only got$300. I know the Bible says he's a this and he's that, but I really can't let go of this. So see, I close myself off over here, even though he just healed my back over there. Think about that. So it's not we can be open in one area and closed off in another. Don't mess this up and try to put this together with what one sin is just like any other sin. No, we're not talking about that. You can't say because I'm closed off here, my whole life's closed off. I don't subscribe to that. I believe you can be closed off in one place and open in another. And what do we want to do? We want to go in there and open up every area that we can. Every area of your life opened up. You may be blessed here and struggling here. Let's open that place of struggle up. Let's get you the same faith and the same understanding here that you have in this other area. Because it's going to change your life. Also, treat discomfort as opportunities. Ask yourself, what truth is God trying to reveal through my discomfort? Just because it's bad, don't always mean it's the devil. Now, I've never been one that believed that God causes bad things to happen. I believe that is outside of his nature. So some people would say, well, God's put this on them to try to help them grow. I don't believe that. I've never believed that. I can prove that to you scripturally as well. Again, when you step in the boat and the storm started coming. And then they was waiting on God and everything, and he woke up and he said, Beast, be still. Well, if God calls it, Jesus just rebuked the Father. They're one. That can't happen. God don't cause back. I don't think God just, you know, all of a sudden, one day is just sitting there and says, Heart attack, heart attack, cancer, cancer, that's not the God I worship. Life happens. Things happen in life. I can't explain it. I wish I could. I can't, I don't have an answer for it. But we can't blame this on God. But what I can do is I can take those discomforts and I can turn them into a Romans 8 28 moment. All things work together for the good. To those who love the Lord and recall according to his promise. I can take the world. Times of my life and use them as a stepping stool. Or I can let them be an anchor. They can drag me down and they can keep me down there. Or I can use that thing as a stool and I can keep going to the next level. What's the difference, my perspective? That's it. How am I going to choose to see it? Third thing, don't be afraid to ask questions. You're not being rebellious. God is not dissatisfied with you if you ask him a question. I think he likes it. Because if you ask questions, man, the Holy Spirit always starts to speak. He will speak. The last thing, let scripture, let scripture reshape you. What verse have I read? And I can quote. But I've never allowed it to confront you. Maybe I've taken scripture and I've turned it a little bit and I've shaped it into a way that's not confrontational. And I think we've done that a lot. We've turned scripture around to what we wanted to say, what we wanted to say. We can't do that. Scripture's already there. The meaning of the scripture is already there. Our job is to find out what the true meaning of that scripture is. You know, everybody just gets me everybody to say, well, that's your interpretation, bro. I got my interpretation. Well, guess what? There's only one true interpretation. Now, it could be you're wrong, it could be I'm wrong, could be we're both wrong. There's only one true interpretation. So my goal is not to prove you wrong, my goal is to get to the truth of the interpretation. What could God really be? What was really meant by this verse? I believe if we do those four things, it'll keep our minds open. Biggest one is ask questions. Ask questions to yourself and ask questions to other people. Let's end today, interesting. Let's end today a little bit different than we want to do. Normally I just say a little prayer and we'll be done. But I want to do today a little bit different. Especially since today is what I have anyway. And we talk about being the kind of people who speak things out. I want you to end today just repeating. Repeating after me again. Let's just say it together. Father, open my mind. Father, open my mind. Expand my understanding. Stretch my heart. Stretch my heart. I choose humility. I choose humility over stubbornness. I choose hunger. I choose hunger over pride. I choose truth over comfort. My mind is open. My heart is ready. And I receive everything you have for me. If we just got up every day and said that, because that's word. Now you can find just some specific scriptures if you want to to put in there with. But what am I doing? I mean, I'm I'm I'm decreeing that there's certain things in my life. I choose this, I choose that. It's just declarations that I'm going to make over my life. And then I'm going to begin to take the verses that he's already spoken. I'm going to begin to speak those verses. The verse, the Bible says, by his stripes we are healed. Think about the difference and how we change that. How the little change messes it up. Still sounds scriptural. Instead of saying, Lord, your word says, by his stripes I am healed. I claim that right now. I believe that, and I expect that to happen in my body. I spoke his word. That was confession. But if I kneel this owner and say, Lord, if it be your will, will you heal me? Totally opposite of what I just said. It's already his will. Why are we going to ask him that? How can we know it's his will? Because that's what it says in the Bible. Old Testament is will. His old will, his new will. It's already, we know it's his will to heal us. It is his will that we should not be walking around sick. So we know that already. So I'm not going to ask him if it be your will. I'm going to say, This is what you say, and I'm going to repeat it back to you. I'm going to confess this. I'm going to keep speaking this until what? Until I see the manifestation of it. Some people manifest a lot quicker than others do. But we've got to keep speaking. But little words. Because I mean that sounds very, very, very supernatural when I walk up and say, Lord, if it be your will, heal me. It's really not even biblical at all. But it goes against what scripture says. Little stuff like that. So that's what I mean with that wicked plant sings. And just say, hey, no, we should say the same thing in here. Maybe we want to get a manifest. We have an opportunity. I don't know what 2026 is going to look like, but I know it's going to look good. It's going to look better than this. I'm all going to create now. We're going to leave this building in 2026. We're leaving this building in 2026. Somehow. We're not going to be homeless, we're going to a new. Somehow we're going to get into a new building in 2026. It's going to happen. We've got to all believe it. And we've got to find those verses in there that speak on these things. Again, we're a forerunner in this area. So I believe you're going to open this and do it.