WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:04.966 You don't have to stand back up, but just lift your Bibles up, wave them around live stream audience. 00:00:04.966 --> 00:00:10.419 I trust that you're staying with us and lift your Bibles, get your Bibles out. 00:00:10.419 --> 00:00:12.246 Let's say this together say Heavenly Father. 00:00:12.246 --> 00:00:15.367 I'm intentionally here on Sunday morning. 00:00:15.367 --> 00:00:24.588 This is my custom to come to church on a regular basis because I admit I don't know everything. 00:00:24.588 --> 00:00:27.728 I still have a need to be taught the Word of God. 00:00:27.728 --> 00:00:36.283 I'm learning fresh truth and I'm being reinforced with the truth that I already know. 00:00:36.283 --> 00:00:42.649 Like a seed, it's being watered so that it will grow stronger in my life. 00:00:42.649 --> 00:00:57.508 It'll have more influence, not just only in my life, but the Word of God that I receive has influence around those with whom I'm associated in Jesus' name. 00:00:57.508 --> 00:01:00.128 Amen, amen, amen. 00:01:02.783 --> 00:01:04.777 Let's go to 2 Corinthians, please. 00:01:04.777 --> 00:01:05.861 This morning Chapter. 00:01:05.861 --> 00:01:08.510 We'll go with 2 Corinthians 4. 00:01:08.510 --> 00:01:16.504 First, how many of you are believing that this is the greatest year yet? 00:01:16.504 --> 00:01:16.605 Amen. 00:01:16.605 --> 00:01:26.072 Second, 2 Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 3. 00:01:29.060 --> 00:01:29.843 Paul is writing. 00:01:29.843 --> 00:01:42.447 He said but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. 00:01:42.447 --> 00:01:51.608 Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them. 00:01:51.608 --> 00:02:42.467 And then in 2 Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 4, or verse 3, I'll say verse 3, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 00:02:42.467 --> 00:02:49.228 And I wanted to bring a message today entitled Winning the Battle of the Mind. 00:02:49.228 --> 00:02:53.146 Winning the Battle of the Mind. 00:02:53.146 --> 00:03:04.086 You know, 2020 is our greatest year yet and it represents our inheritance, individually and collectively. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:25.564 And, as we've been discussing now for a number of weeks almost three and a half months, we've been talking about this that in order to possess our inheritance, it was possessed by dispossessing satanic squatters, you know, entities that are there that have to be kicked out. 00:03:25.564 --> 00:03:34.929 I mean, the promised land stood for it, the inheritance, and Israel couldn't just walk in and possess their promised land. 00:03:34.929 --> 00:03:40.747 They had to get rid of the people that lived there, because God had said you know what? 00:03:40.747 --> 00:03:54.008 You haven't done right, you haven't lived right, so I've given your land to Israel, and so there is a dispossession that has to take place, a disinheriting has to take place. 00:03:54.008 --> 00:04:07.487 There is a warfare and these trespassers, these poachers, these squatters are often just simply contrary thoughts. 00:04:07.487 --> 00:04:25.247 There are thoughts and imaginations and strongholds that Paul talked about that can hinder your dispossessing the entities that are holding up your blessings. 00:04:25.247 --> 00:04:29.547 I mean, god's already granted all of them to you. 00:04:29.547 --> 00:04:33.367 He told Israel over and over I have given you the land. 00:04:33.367 --> 00:04:36.045 But yet there was a warfare, wasn't there? 00:04:36.045 --> 00:04:43.026 There had to be a contest, they had to contend for that land, they had to go in, they had to kick out and of course, god helped them do it. 00:04:43.026 --> 00:04:48.509 They conquered nations that were bigger and mightier than they were more skillful in warfare. 00:04:48.509 --> 00:04:59.081 But he said hey, the weapons of your warfare, they're not like of this world, they're supernatural, they're mighty through me, amen. 00:05:00.781 --> 00:05:11.600 And so Old internal dialogues you know what I mean by internal dialogue Some kind of thought pattern that goes through your mind. 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:17.853 You tell yourself, day in and day out, a certain thing that's negative. 00:05:17.853 --> 00:05:31.990 Old thought patterns that are thoughts of defeat, thoughts of victimhood, thoughts of failure, the would or could or should or regret. 00:05:31.990 --> 00:05:40.139 Listen, I've been pastoring a long time and when people you know come to us and they need help. 00:05:40.139 --> 00:05:42.387 Most of the time it's bad thinking. 00:05:42.387 --> 00:05:57.435 It's those kinds of thoughts that hold people captive, and until you dispossess those things from your mind and clean your mind of those kinds of evil thoughts. 00:05:57.435 --> 00:06:07.252 Sometimes we think of evil thoughts as impure thoughts and stuff like that, but really anything that goes against the Word of God is evil. 00:06:07.252 --> 00:06:09.387 Amen. 00:06:09.387 --> 00:06:16.740 And so the whole world and the world system is programmed. 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:19.168 How many of you have figured this out? 00:06:19.168 --> 00:06:22.870 It's programmed to think negatively, isn't it? 00:06:22.870 --> 00:06:27.906 I mean, it's just how the world why is that passed? 00:06:27.906 --> 00:06:29.204 Well, because of the fall. 00:06:29.204 --> 00:06:31.588 They had everything. 00:06:31.588 --> 00:06:32.980 Adam and Eve had it all. 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:34.084 They were in charge. 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:38.028 And here comes an entity that's negative. 00:06:38.028 --> 00:06:41.144 He's called the father of lies. 00:06:41.144 --> 00:06:48.451 And he comes and he accuses God to Eve and said oh yeah, half God said. 00:06:48.451 --> 00:06:51.045 In other words, god's a liar. 00:06:51.045 --> 00:06:58.947 You know he didn't want you to touch that tree, because you know when you touch that tree you're going to become just like him. 00:06:58.947 --> 00:07:00.204 You'll have as much power as he does. 00:07:00.204 --> 00:07:12.944 See, he's a liar, he's been the father of lies, he's the author of lies and a huge percentage of people walking around out there are bound by those lies and it's a negative way of thinking. 00:07:15.971 --> 00:07:29.156 And if we're not, you know, observant, if we're not dedicated, those ways of thinking can leak into the church, they can leak into our thinking. 00:07:29.156 --> 00:07:34.329 Paul called it the God of this age and somebody said, yeah, the devil. 00:07:34.329 --> 00:07:43.617 Well, yeah, it's the devil's behind that, but the God of this age is he's really not talking about the devil per se the God of this age, little G that he talks about. 00:07:43.617 --> 00:07:50.310 The God of this world, that's blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest the glad of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine under them. 00:07:50.310 --> 00:08:11.100 That God of this age is all that floating mass of opinions and thoughts and maxims and speculations and hopes and impulses, aims and aspirations that are at any time current in the world. 00:08:11.100 --> 00:08:17.269 It's the negative way the world has been programmed. 00:08:17.269 --> 00:08:24.350 Yes, the devil's behind it, but this way of thinking blinds the minds of those. 00:08:24.350 --> 00:08:28.261 Paul said if our gospel is hidden, it's hidden. 00:08:28.261 --> 00:08:30.350 So, in other words, the gospel is the word. 00:08:30.350 --> 00:08:47.330 So if the word is hidden to anybody, if the word, if you don't have revelation of what God said about you, even though you're a believer and you're saved and born again, but that same God of this age can blind your mind and make you blind to what God has already given you. 00:08:47.330 --> 00:08:53.297 Are you with me now and make you susceptible to doubting what God said? 00:08:53.297 --> 00:08:58.674 What in the world? 00:08:58.674 --> 00:09:02.350 Thoughts, opinions, maxims, what's that talking about? 00:09:02.913 --> 00:09:04.443 Well, how about Trump? 00:09:04.443 --> 00:09:05.309 Derangement syndrome? 00:09:05.309 --> 00:09:08.350 That's one example that's right hot off the press. 00:09:08.350 --> 00:09:09.836 I mean these people are nuts. 00:09:09.836 --> 00:09:14.350 I mean he can't do anything right, not one thing good that he does. 00:09:14.350 --> 00:09:16.350 Does he get credit for? 00:09:16.350 --> 00:09:18.243 What is that, the God of this age? 00:09:18.243 --> 00:09:19.350 Why? 00:09:19.350 --> 00:09:21.249 Because they are in a panic. 00:09:21.249 --> 00:09:25.606 They can't stand the thought of losing their kingdom. 00:09:25.606 --> 00:09:26.350 They've had it for quite a while. 00:09:26.350 --> 00:09:34.982 I mean, they've had it all planned out how they're going to kill the church and stop God and the propagation of the God. 00:09:34.982 --> 00:09:36.386 Make no mistake about it. 00:09:36.386 --> 00:09:38.495 It's not Trump that they hate, it's us. 00:09:38.495 --> 00:09:45.381 Have you noticed how boldly are about the voters? 00:09:45.381 --> 00:09:47.735 They don't want any voting. 00:09:47.735 --> 00:09:52.726 If they ever get back in charge, you can forget about the voting booth. 00:09:52.726 --> 00:09:53.350 They'll get rid of it. 00:09:53.350 --> 00:09:55.976 They'll find a way to get rid of it and call it the Constitution. 00:09:55.976 --> 00:09:59.434 They change the meaning of all the words. 00:09:59.434 --> 00:10:04.298 Are you with me now, pastor? 00:10:04.298 --> 00:10:05.350 I can't believe you brought in politics. 00:10:05.350 --> 00:10:12.136 Well, I'm not bringing in politics, I'm just bringing out the things of this world, the God of this age and this is what we've got to deal with. 00:10:12.136 --> 00:10:16.052 We better wake up, amen. 00:10:18.671 --> 00:10:22.597 Man made climate change as if driving your Cadillac. 00:10:22.597 --> 00:10:33.701 Isn't it funny that they all preach about carbon footprint but they fly everywhere on private jets, right everywhere in a limousine. 00:10:33.701 --> 00:10:37.078 But oh, you've got to have a unicycle. 00:10:37.078 --> 00:10:41.673 Bicycle's too much rubber, too much carbon footprint Get a unicycle. 00:10:41.673 --> 00:10:42.878 Be next a unicycle. 00:10:42.878 --> 00:10:47.796 Drinking a clown going down the highway, all these bike lanes everywhere. 00:10:47.796 --> 00:10:48.991 When we've got choked. 00:10:48.991 --> 00:10:52.821 Our traffic is choked down to where we can't even go down the street. 00:10:52.821 --> 00:10:55.565 They're making the sidewalks wider. 00:10:55.565 --> 00:11:12.876 Downtown I just read about it they're making the sidewalks on a huge 20 block area that's clogged with traffic and they're going to make the sidewalks wider and they're going to have more pedestrian and bicycle lanes and they're going to cut down the lanes for traffic. 00:11:12.876 --> 00:11:15.474 They don't care. 00:11:15.474 --> 00:11:18.697 And then, finally, you get so frustrated that you will buy a unicycle. 00:11:23.115 --> 00:11:30.296 God of this age, thoughts and words are connected. 00:11:30.296 --> 00:11:35.294 It's why it's so important how you're thinking, because how you think affects what you say. 00:11:35.294 --> 00:11:42.320 How you think, it affects what you say. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:47.019 Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 00:11:47.019 --> 00:11:52.330 So if you entertain these thoughts that are fueled by the God of this age. 00:11:52.330 --> 00:11:54.350 What's going to happen to your confession? 00:11:54.350 --> 00:11:56.337 You're going to begin to talk like the world. 00:11:56.337 --> 00:12:04.941 You're going to begin to speak like the world, not all at once, but what the initial thing it's going to do is, it's going to cause you to halt between two opinions. 00:12:05.630 --> 00:12:20.592 In church you might have a good confession and a good, you might say the right things, but then when you get around these other people, you tend to kind of go their direction, because you care about what people think of you and you think, gosh, I can't say that they think I'm crazy. 00:12:20.592 --> 00:12:28.350 Well, they already do. 00:12:28.350 --> 00:12:29.494 News flash, they already do. 00:12:29.494 --> 00:12:32.432 Proverbs 23-7,. 00:12:32.432 --> 00:12:34.197 As the man thinketh in his heart, so is he. 00:12:34.197 --> 00:12:48.350 So your thoughts impact your words, they impact your confession of faith negatively, because we already know that faith is a switch that turns on the power of God. 00:12:48.350 --> 00:12:56.350 If there's any power that's going to rid our land of the poachers and the trespassers, it's got to be supernatural power. 00:12:56.350 --> 00:13:00.350 We don't have the natural power to do that. 00:13:00.350 --> 00:13:03.299 These are supernatural entities. 00:13:03.299 --> 00:13:06.350 But yet what affects that is just a simple thought. 00:13:06.350 --> 00:13:16.279 A simple thought can begin to affect negatively what you say about yourself, what you say about the situation. 00:13:16.792 --> 00:13:17.875 In Mark, chapter four. 00:13:17.875 --> 00:13:26.350 Jesus said the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the lust of other things, entering in choke the word and it becomeeth unfruitful. 00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:29.667 We have a word from heaven that says that 2020. 00:13:29.667 --> 00:13:33.158 We're going to look back on it and say this is the greatest year of my life. 00:13:33.158 --> 00:13:36.330 What could derail that statement? 00:13:36.330 --> 00:13:43.721 Well, I'll tell you what can derail it is meditating on the things of this world and getting it down into your mind. 00:13:43.721 --> 00:13:49.320 First, and you begin to speak it, and now you're sewing it down into your spirit. 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:53.881 Now and now, your spirit is your land and it's not going to bring up a crop. 00:13:53.881 --> 00:13:57.053 Are you with me now? 00:13:57.053 --> 00:14:09.280 My concern for you and for me, is that we take authority over our thought life today, discipline our thoughts and keep our words consistent. 00:14:11.429 --> 00:14:21.035 You ever heard about anybody that says well, you know so and so, yeah, I'm just yeah, I don't have a filter, I just talk, I just speak what I see, I just don't have a filter. 00:14:21.035 --> 00:14:23.020 And that's kind of what? 00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:26.275 Little children, some of these little children, they don't have a filter either. 00:14:26.275 --> 00:14:28.995 They'll just tell you what they see and it's pretty embarrassing. 00:14:28.995 --> 00:14:37.416 Sometimes One of my grandchildren says pops, teeth or ecru. 00:14:37.416 --> 00:14:45.961 They picked up the word ecru, like beige, and say my teeth were not white, they were yellow and they used a color, ecru. 00:14:45.961 --> 00:14:47.269 I didn't know what they were talking about. 00:14:47.269 --> 00:14:51.820 Little, you know little, and that was just a nice way of saying pop your teeth or yellow. 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:58.395 They don't have a filter, they just tell you exactly what they see no filter. 00:14:58.395 --> 00:15:01.690 But when an adult does that, what does it mean? 00:15:01.690 --> 00:15:07.710 It means that they're a doofus, that their mama didn't teach them manners. 00:15:07.710 --> 00:15:09.249 It means they're immature. 00:15:09.249 --> 00:15:11.509 Don't be, don't be saying well, I just don't have a filter. 00:15:11.509 --> 00:15:14.261 Well, no, you don't want a filter. 00:15:14.261 --> 00:15:16.110 That's right. 00:15:17.357 --> 00:15:23.899 I remember I was probably four or five years old and I was the youngest of four and a house of six. 00:15:23.899 --> 00:15:24.322 We had my. 00:15:24.322 --> 00:15:26.626 Well, how many did we have? 00:15:26.626 --> 00:15:33.629 Four kids to seven, so my parents, my grandmother and my three siblings. 00:15:33.629 --> 00:15:37.149 So I had a brother, older brother and two older sisters. 00:15:38.360 --> 00:16:04.289 So it's a Friday night or a Saturday night and I'm sitting on the couch and I think my mother was sitting on one side of me and my sisters were getting ready for a double date and these two boys came to the door and they came in and greetings and everything, introductions were made, and one of them came over and shook my hand this is Wallace shook his hand and then Richard, and they were twins, but they didn't look like twins. 00:16:04.289 --> 00:16:10.090 They're fraternal twins, I found out later, but they looked similar but they weren't identical twins. 00:16:10.090 --> 00:16:14.207 So, richard, this is Richard. 00:16:14.207 --> 00:16:27.605 And so I'm sitting on the couch and he stuck his hand out and I said, hi, spotty and a spoil, I'm a spoil brat, I'm the youngest. 00:16:27.605 --> 00:16:30.078 Okay, I'm indulged. 00:16:30.078 --> 00:16:32.870 You know everything I want I get. 00:16:32.870 --> 00:16:35.438 I had no filter. 00:16:35.438 --> 00:16:41.586 You know my mother would slap the others if they said anything like that but me. 00:16:41.586 --> 00:16:44.586 I just, and so hi, spotty, and he looked around. 00:16:44.586 --> 00:16:48.369 He was just what, spotty. 00:16:48.369 --> 00:16:48.470 What? 00:16:48.470 --> 00:16:49.690 When did he call me spotty? 00:16:49.690 --> 00:16:50.889 Oh, spots on your face. 00:16:50.889 --> 00:16:52.195 He had acne. 00:16:52.195 --> 00:16:52.355 Say. 00:16:52.355 --> 00:16:57.485 And I, boy, what a way to start the evening on your double date. 00:16:57.485 --> 00:16:59.809 Say what, what a wonderful. 00:17:01.434 --> 00:17:06.469 So this guy dropped out of the running pretty early. 00:17:06.469 --> 00:17:12.089 The other guy wound up, you know, marrying my younger older sister. 00:17:12.089 --> 00:17:15.134 They got they married Well. 00:17:15.134 --> 00:17:16.959 So he married into the family. 00:17:16.959 --> 00:17:22.260 So his twin brother is kind of around and he hated my guts from that time on. 00:17:22.260 --> 00:17:42.642 I mean, he had no use for me when I'm 14, I had a new football and I kicked the football through his plate glass window on the side of his brand new house, knocked the window out and there were just a lot of things that happened over life that he just did not like me at all. 00:17:42.642 --> 00:17:50.060 He had no use for me, spotty and so no filter will get you in trouble. 00:17:53.809 --> 00:17:57.855 Decades later I had the privilege of leading him in the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:17:57.855 --> 00:17:59.796 He got filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:17:59.796 --> 00:18:05.778 We buried the hatchet finally, after all those years Thank God it wasn't in my forehead, but anyway. 00:18:05.778 --> 00:18:11.912 But we're gonna have to discipline what we say out of our mouth. 00:18:11.912 --> 00:18:16.355 We're gonna have to be, and the only way to do that is to discipline our thought life. 00:18:16.355 --> 00:18:25.715 And so, looking at 2 Corinthians, chapter 10, verse four, it talks about strongholds. 00:18:25.715 --> 00:18:37.266 The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God. 00:18:37.266 --> 00:18:39.205 In other words, we have supernatural weapons. 00:18:40.460 --> 00:18:46.288 And then it goes and it says casting down imaginations, in verse five, and every high thing that exalts itself. 00:18:46.288 --> 00:18:51.665 And then finally it goes into the bringing into captivity every thought. 00:18:51.665 --> 00:19:02.270 So essentially, that gives you the progression of what the God of this age and the devil behind it wants to accomplish when he throws a thought at you. 00:19:02.270 --> 00:19:03.424 You know not every thought. 00:19:03.424 --> 00:19:08.428 One thing you need to learn is not every thought that comes from you has originated with you. 00:19:08.428 --> 00:19:11.266 It didn't come from you. 00:19:11.266 --> 00:19:16.026 You are a spirit being, you are in Christ, you are born again. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:30.650 So that thought, whatever it was, well, commit suicide or turn in to you know, run off the, run into the cones in the middle of the freeway and hit the that little part there in the middle. 00:19:30.650 --> 00:19:32.728 You know, commit suicide. 00:19:32.728 --> 00:19:34.507 Come here and tell y'all kind of things. 00:19:34.507 --> 00:19:43.982 Run out in front of traffic or he'll lie to you and tell you that everybody's against you and all this kind of thing. 00:19:43.982 --> 00:19:52.845 So these thoughts, if they're unchecked, will then turn into an imagination, turn into a videotape. 00:19:52.845 --> 00:19:56.586 The thought starts to multiply. 00:19:56.586 --> 00:20:02.949 As you let the thought sit there and you don't deal with it, it's gonna add and it's gonna the next progression. 00:20:02.949 --> 00:20:08.150 Then, if you didn't do anything, the enemy will say, ah, they let that thought rest there. 00:20:08.150 --> 00:20:11.644 So let's just keep it going here, let's add a little to it. 00:20:11.644 --> 00:20:22.708 Now it becomes an imagination and it's a little more of a challenge to get rid of an imagination, because you've let the thought go and you didn't answer the thought with the word of God. 00:20:22.708 --> 00:20:30.079 That's all you have to do is take the word of God when the thought comes and just turn it back and it's over. 00:20:30.682 --> 00:20:35.773 Listen, a thought that is not spoken dies with no influence. 00:20:35.773 --> 00:20:46.929 But if you speak, the thought and oh my goodness, and you tell somebody, oh, I'm gonna have thoughts of suicide, no, you didn't have thoughts of suicide, it was your. 00:20:46.929 --> 00:20:48.380 This came from outside. 00:20:48.380 --> 00:20:57.220 Quit giving all this power to an entity that's outside of you, that's right. 00:20:57.220 --> 00:20:58.684 I didn't have that thought. 00:20:58.684 --> 00:21:07.943 This, right here, is worth coming to church for Quit taking ownership of every thought that comes across your mind. 00:21:07.943 --> 00:21:11.862 Oh, I'm like, oh, that's a terrible thought, that's an impure. 00:21:11.862 --> 00:21:13.267 Oh, I wish I hadn't thought. 00:21:13.267 --> 00:21:16.265 You didn't think it, it came from outside. 00:21:16.265 --> 00:21:20.683 Quit condemning yourself for a thought that you didn't originate. 00:21:22.769 --> 00:21:24.339 Some people equate thoughts with sin. 00:21:24.339 --> 00:21:28.380 They think immediately, when they had a bad thought about something, that it's a sin. 00:21:28.380 --> 00:21:30.737 No, it's not a sin unless you do something about it. 00:21:30.737 --> 00:21:34.909 You act on it, there's your sin. 00:21:34.909 --> 00:21:36.854 But the thought. 00:21:36.854 --> 00:21:42.426 You turn it back, it becomes an imagination and you don't do it Anything with it then. 00:21:42.426 --> 00:21:44.334 Then it becomes what a stronghold. 00:21:44.334 --> 00:21:48.479 One of the ancient papyrus. 00:21:48.479 --> 00:21:54.840 The meaning of that word is prison, I mean. 00:21:54.840 --> 00:21:56.386 It has bars and gates on it. 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:58.426 A stronghold, think about Jericho. 00:21:58.426 --> 00:22:00.767 Jericho was in the Promised Land. 00:22:00.767 --> 00:22:01.924 It had to be eliminated. 00:22:01.924 --> 00:22:03.424 They had to conquer Jericho. 00:22:03.424 --> 00:22:05.627 It was the greatest city in the known world at that time. 00:22:05.627 --> 00:22:07.688 It's right across the Jordan River. 00:22:07.688 --> 00:22:09.727 When they crossed, they had to get rid of Jericho. 00:22:09.727 --> 00:22:10.863 And what did they have? 00:22:10.863 --> 00:22:14.626 Well, it had walls 15 foot thick where they had chariots running across the top of it. 00:22:14.626 --> 00:22:18.570 They had soldiers in the chariots with bows and arrows. 00:22:18.570 --> 00:22:23.924 They had to make sure that they could fire down on anybody that would try to come and scale the walls and try to come in the front gates. 00:22:23.924 --> 00:22:25.344 It was protected. 00:22:25.344 --> 00:22:29.049 There was more to it than just the walls and the structure. 00:22:29.049 --> 00:22:36.787 There were entities inside it that were designed to protect its place, and that's what you have in your mind. 00:22:36.787 --> 00:22:38.299 You have a stronghold Now. 00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:46.586 You didn't deal with the thought, now you didn't deal with the imagination, and now you have demonic entities now that are in charge of that stronghold. 00:22:46.586 --> 00:22:54.209 They're gonna try to defend the territory that it's taking in your mind and it's gonna take a little doing to get rid of that. 00:22:54.209 --> 00:22:54.560 Now. 00:22:55.443 --> 00:22:59.970 Sometimes you need a little help, sometimes the anointing up here in the front of the church. 00:22:59.970 --> 00:23:01.665 But if you're too proud to come up here. 00:23:01.665 --> 00:23:05.061 Oh, I can't go up there. 00:23:05.061 --> 00:23:05.944 Yes, you can. 00:23:05.944 --> 00:23:08.711 You can get free. 00:23:08.711 --> 00:23:10.005 You don't have to live bound. 00:23:10.005 --> 00:23:14.421 Amen, all right. 00:23:14.421 --> 00:23:15.444 Is this helping anybody? 00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:18.145 Amen, the weapons of our warfare. 00:23:18.339 --> 00:23:20.548 That word warfare is a very interesting word. 00:23:20.548 --> 00:23:30.866 It means apostolic lifestyle, with all its arduous duties and like a soldier. 00:23:30.866 --> 00:23:32.270 What do you mean, pastor? 00:23:32.270 --> 00:23:34.047 Apostolic life, what does that mean? 00:23:34.047 --> 00:23:35.464 It means taking land. 00:23:35.464 --> 00:23:47.186 The apostolic is all about pioneering and taking land that's in the hands of someone that doesn't belong to them, and you have to take that back. 00:23:47.186 --> 00:23:59.288 So, for instance, when the Amalekites came through Ziklag and stole the women and the children and all the stuff, and David said, you know, shall we pursue them? 00:23:59.288 --> 00:24:07.827 And God told him yeah, pursue, and you shall surely overtake and recover all that was an apostolic lifestyle. 00:24:07.827 --> 00:24:09.926 That was a warfare. 00:24:09.926 --> 00:24:12.768 He took back what the enemy stole. 00:24:12.768 --> 00:24:15.384 That's apostolic. 00:24:15.384 --> 00:24:22.029 That's what that word means, and it really means exactly what we're encountering right now. 00:24:22.029 --> 00:24:27.708 We're taking back what the enemy has stolen in our inheritances. 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:30.709 He has walled us off from what God said we could have. 00:24:30.709 --> 00:24:32.747 God said we could have better health. 00:24:32.747 --> 00:24:35.248 God said we could have more supply. 00:24:35.248 --> 00:24:38.710 God said we could have, you know, peace in our homes. 00:24:38.710 --> 00:24:40.768 God said our marriages can be stronger. 00:24:40.768 --> 00:24:43.489 God said our children can get saved at a young age. 00:24:43.489 --> 00:24:55.896 God said God has got a whole heap full of things that he wants to do, but they're not gonna happen until we it engage taking the land back that we've given up. 00:24:55.896 --> 00:24:58.451 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:24:58.510 --> 00:25:07.752 Glory to God, we have supernatural weapons, taking ground, possessing it by dispossessing. 00:25:07.752 --> 00:25:12.204 You're gonna have to have a contest that the devil thinks it's his but it's not yours. 00:25:12.204 --> 00:25:18.939 He's been used to having his way and you're gonna have to teach him and he's gonna have to learn the hard way. 00:25:18.939 --> 00:25:23.998 And if you don't do it, there's nobody can. 00:25:23.998 --> 00:25:26.153 I Can't do it for you. 00:25:26.153 --> 00:25:27.282 I can, I can agree with you. 00:25:27.282 --> 00:25:37.376 I Can have an anointing to where, underneath that anointing, you know, together we can believe and and God can change things From what they've been. 00:25:37.376 --> 00:25:38.105 Are you with me now? 00:25:40.509 --> 00:25:42.192 He said there in second Corinthians 10. 00:25:42.192 --> 00:25:44.155 He said our weapons are mighty through God. 00:25:44.155 --> 00:25:47.430 They're not carnal or not of the flesh, they're supernatural. 00:25:47.430 --> 00:25:51.795 And so it begs the question what are they? 00:25:51.795 --> 00:25:57.910 They're not knives, they're not spears, they're not guns. 00:25:57.910 --> 00:25:59.253 What are they? 00:25:59.253 --> 00:26:06.555 Well, the first one is the very first one is that the Word of God. 00:26:06.555 --> 00:26:12.076 Thesians 6 says the Word of God is a sharp, two-edged sword. 00:26:12.076 --> 00:26:18.352 The Word of God, like a sharp, two-edged sword. 00:26:18.352 --> 00:26:18.973 I'm tell you that's. 00:26:18.973 --> 00:26:21.644 It's not only defensive, it's offensive. 00:26:21.644 --> 00:26:24.429 We're gonna have to take the offense. 00:26:24.429 --> 00:26:27.012 It's not enough to defend ourselves. 00:26:27.012 --> 00:26:29.916 We've got to take the fight to the enemy. 00:26:32.684 --> 00:26:39.525 So when you're praying, god can begin to reveal certain things To you that need to be addressed. 00:26:39.525 --> 00:26:43.740 He's not gonna give it everything to you, because you might be tempted to be overwhelmed. 00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:48.313 If he showed you the entire Battle, you might get intimidated. 00:26:48.313 --> 00:26:50.337 No, he's gonna show you one thing at a time. 00:26:50.337 --> 00:27:08.484 Hopefully, deshaun Watson today, when they were playing Kansas City in the divisional playoffs, hopefully our illustrious coach is gonna have a game plan that will allow him to have success early throwing the football. 00:27:08.484 --> 00:27:14.611 And in other words, he here's the first pass, it's right over here, it's a completion and this pass over here is a completion. 00:27:14.932 --> 00:27:21.316 And then three, three passes, and and just just little you know just little successes grills your confidence. 00:27:21.316 --> 00:27:31.368 Don't get out there on the first play from scrimmage and fade back and throw the ball 79 yards down the field and have an incomplete pass, because that's not success. 00:27:31.368 --> 00:27:34.777 Let's, let's, let's take, and that's what God will do. 00:27:34.777 --> 00:27:38.157 God will show you something you can have victory over right now. 00:27:38.157 --> 00:27:41.548 And once you have that victory, oh then you get strong. 00:27:41.548 --> 00:27:42.130 Now you so. 00:27:42.130 --> 00:27:42.791 Glory to God. 00:27:42.791 --> 00:27:44.355 I don't have anything to be intimidated about. 00:27:44.355 --> 00:27:47.230 I praise God, that wasn't so bad. 00:27:47.230 --> 00:27:50.611 God's got a plan for you. 00:27:50.611 --> 00:27:53.567 The sword of the spirit. 00:27:53.627 --> 00:27:55.530 Number two the name of Jesus. 00:27:55.530 --> 00:27:58.496 The name of Jesus is above every name. 00:27:58.496 --> 00:28:05.097 Every thought must bow, every thought must bow to the name of Jesus. 00:28:05.097 --> 00:28:07.290 I Mean sometimes. 00:28:07.290 --> 00:28:09.336 You know you don't have time to mess around with a thought. 00:28:09.336 --> 00:28:11.684 Thought comes to you in the name of Jesus. 00:28:11.684 --> 00:28:12.328 Get out of here. 00:28:12.328 --> 00:28:13.396 That doesn't come for me. 00:28:13.396 --> 00:28:14.545 I refuse that thought. 00:28:14.545 --> 00:28:18.816 It's just that simple. 00:28:18.816 --> 00:28:23.190 It's not hard, but it takes Faithfulness. 00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:23.673 It takes. 00:28:23.673 --> 00:28:25.244 You know you've got. 00:28:25.244 --> 00:28:28.875 You can't just go through life letting stuff pile up. 00:28:28.875 --> 00:28:29.848 Are you with me now? 00:28:29.848 --> 00:28:35.608 And of course, the last one is the major supernatural weapon is the Holy Ghost. 00:28:35.608 --> 00:28:39.894 Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. 00:28:39.894 --> 00:29:03.388 Now I'm telling you, when you begin to take authority, your rightful place of authority at the right hand of Jesus, and you begin to rule and reign from your place of authority, you start ruling and reigning over your thought life and you begin to demand those thoughts leave you, and if you do have imaginations or if you do have an internal dialogue that you've allowed to run for a lot of your years, I'm telling you don't get intimidated. 00:29:03.388 --> 00:29:05.991 I'm telling you right now the name of Jesus, make that thing bow. 00:29:05.991 --> 00:29:13.175 Winning the battle of the mind brings us into our inheritance. 00:29:13.175 --> 00:29:14.393 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:29:14.393 --> 00:29:16.730 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:29:16.730 --> 00:29:18.489 Praise God. 00:29:19.045 --> 00:29:27.108 While I was preaching, I paused just for a second, but I could hear in the spirit realm some of you have identified. 00:29:27.108 --> 00:29:33.516 Just while I was preaching, you've identified some major thing that has held you captive. 00:29:33.516 --> 00:29:38.012 It's been something that you've had to deal with. 00:29:38.012 --> 00:29:49.349 I don't know if somebody told you something about yourself when you were a child and it stuck with you a negative thing, a bad thing, and it sometimes parents. 00:29:49.349 --> 00:29:50.314 They don't know any better. 00:29:50.314 --> 00:29:51.268 They've been abused. 00:29:51.268 --> 00:29:59.011 Sometimes they can be verbally and physically abusing and we're not here to try to trash them. 00:29:59.011 --> 00:30:01.891 But I'm saying a lot of times things are planted in your mind. 00:30:01.891 --> 00:30:05.391 Well, I got saved since then, I know, but your mind didn't get saved. 00:30:05.391 --> 00:30:12.048 Your spirit got saved, but your mind has to be renewed and that's a process. 00:30:12.048 --> 00:30:14.913 Your whole life is gonna be spent. 00:30:14.913 --> 00:30:16.612 You don't have to get saved ever again. 00:30:16.612 --> 00:30:18.189 But your mind, I mean. 00:30:19.192 --> 00:30:26.592 Peter said receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your soul. 00:30:26.592 --> 00:30:29.373 Say your soul, your mind, your will, your intellect. 00:30:29.373 --> 00:30:31.632 There is a saving of that. 00:30:31.632 --> 00:30:34.053 In other words, what do I mean by being saved? 00:30:34.053 --> 00:30:38.414 It needs to be reprogrammed with a proper thought life. 00:30:38.414 --> 00:30:42.211 God said my ways are higher, your ways, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. 00:30:42.211 --> 00:30:46.211 And so he didn't say that for us not to be able to have those thoughts. 00:30:46.211 --> 00:30:51.233 He just said you've got to attain those, you've got to discipline yourself to think higher. 00:30:51.233 --> 00:30:57.430 Come on, lift your hands right now. 00:30:57.430 --> 00:30:59.313 There's an anointing. 00:30:59.313 --> 00:31:02.271 There's an anointing for you to get written out. 00:31:02.271 --> 00:31:05.114 All of us could answer this, just about all of us. 00:31:05.345 --> 00:31:17.775 But I'm talking about something that's really held you captive I mean it's been something just when you and God and your private life and it makes you feel bad, it depresses you and you don't let yourself think about that. 00:31:17.775 --> 00:31:19.592 You know better than to meditate. 00:31:19.592 --> 00:31:30.112 But sometimes, when circumstances are against you, sometimes those thoughts come and they make you feel bad, they make you feel lower than low. 00:31:30.112 --> 00:31:35.854 I'm telling you we just open the altar to you right now because there's an anointing to end that right now. 00:31:35.854 --> 00:31:38.748 Come on up here, if that's you Now. 00:31:38.808 --> 00:31:39.731 Just every little thing. 00:31:39.731 --> 00:31:40.970 I'm not talking about every little thing. 00:31:40.970 --> 00:31:45.854 I'm talking about something that's in your life, that's major, that's held you back and you know it. 00:31:45.854 --> 00:31:53.335 It came to you when I was preaching and you said to yourself I am not putting up with this another day. 00:31:53.335 --> 00:31:56.926 I am not agreeing with that thought pattern another day. 00:31:56.926 --> 00:31:59.513 I am not gonna have it in my life. 00:31:59.513 --> 00:32:14.836 I will not be held captive by this stronghold and what this anointing is is the Holy Ghost helping you take authority, helping you to remove it. 00:32:14.836 --> 00:32:22.068 Praise God, thank God for the Holy Ghost, thank you, jesus. 00:32:22.068 --> 00:32:29.648 Those of you that are sitting out there, those of you that are on the live stream perhaps that applies to you on live stream just touch the screen. 00:32:29.648 --> 00:32:33.926 The same anointing that's here will help you and the rest of us. 00:32:33.926 --> 00:32:36.348 Just stretch your hands out this direction. 00:32:36.348 --> 00:32:39.604 Let your love and compassion flow this way.