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Now enjoy this message. OK, tonight to this morning.
Not tonight. We're going to talk about
possessing your soul. This is such a huge subject in
the Kingdom of God. You know when you get
transferred out of the the domain of darkness and into the
the Kingdom of of His son, we get born again.
Our spirits are brand new. And then?
One week, one month, one year later, we keep going around
these same, these same mountains.
We keep going around these same strongholds in our mind.
We keep going around these same loops and and we we're like time
out. I thought I was a brand new
person. I thought I was a brand new
creature and you are. Your spirit is brand new, but
God is not going to do anything about your mind or your body.
You have to do it. Everything that you need is
supplied for you, and we're going to look at what strategy
you need to do to possess your mind.
Because this body right here, man, there's so many great
things happening in our body. But the scripture says that we
should be of 1 mind and one spirit, one love, one heart, one
passion, one mind. It says one mind multiple times.
How do we get in one mind? It has to do with your thoughts,
your thought life, What you think is a very, very big deal.
A very big deal. So let's first start in Luke 21
verse 19. It says in your patience.
Possess ye your soul. You know what's amazing about
this scripture is that the whole part before it and after it is
talking about, these are the signs of the the, the last days.
This is what's going to happen. You know, families will be
against families, nation against nation.
There's going to be earthquakes, famines.
All these things are going to happen right in the smack middle
of that. It says in your patience.
Possess ye your soul. And then it goes on to it says
give us some more in time realities but but that is right
in the middle of it. Why is that a big deal?
Because no matter what happens in this world, what's going to
happen in these last days, you've got to have control of
this. This is going to determine your
destiny, how you think in the Kingdom of God.
And so when you went home, when you got born again, whether it's
years ago, whether it was last week, you looked in the mirror,
you didn't look any different, but you've got God in you,
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
But now you've got to do something to change this.
And and this is for all of our new believers in here, but all
of our mature believers, because you're always renewing your
mind. You're always doing it.
So hook up with me as we as we dive into this.
So when when it says in your patience, possess your soul,
that word, patience does not mean that you're just sitting on
the couch watching the hurricane watching.
You know, you're not just sitting there going, God's going
to change my thinking. Now it doesn't work like that.
That word, patience, means in your steadfastness, in your
activeness, in your constant endurance.
And it means to bear bravely and calmly so in your steadfastness,
in your your your courage, your your being brave.
You have to possess your soul. You have to do it.
And that's why the scripture, you've heard me say this one to
a bunch of times, be anxious for nothing but in everything, with
prayer and Thanksgiving, it doesn't matter what comes to
you. You've got to learn this, this
choice of victory every single day.
Every day. Nobody chooses it for you.
You have to choose it every day. And then it goes on in Luke 2124
and it says, but take heed to yourself, lest your hearts be
weighed down with carousing or drunkenness.
Now I trust none of us are doing that, but it also says the with
the cares of this life. Don't let your heart be weighed
down with the cares of this life and that day.
Come on you unexpectedly. In other words, take heed to
your soul. Take heed to what you're
thinking. You know you think thousands of
thoughts every day, every day. How do you capture those?
We're going to talk about it Romans chapter 12 verses one and
two, says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God that you present your bodies.
Remember, he's he's not going to do it.
You got to do it. Present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable
service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed. By the renewing of your mind
that you would prove what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of God. So it says don't be conformed
but be transformed. The only way that you're going
to know the will of God is if you're being transformed, if
you're repenting, if you're changing your.
We've heard that word many, many times from up here.
Change your thinking. Repentance means to change your
thinking. You're always changing your
thinking. God's not going to do it.
He's equipped you to do it first, Thessalonians chapter 5,
verse 23 says. Now may the God of peace himself
sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit, soul and body
be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spirit, soul and body. Spirit, soul and body.
Your thought Life. One choice.
Every single day affects all three parts of your being,
spiritual, emotional, and physical.
We have a tendency to separate our body if we kind of think
it's separate, and then we have our spirit man, and then we have
our mind over here that we know we kind of need to get a hold
of. But all three of those work in
unity together, and the way that you think affects your health.
It affects your emotions. It affects everything.
I'm not a doctor, but I'm going to act like one for just a
second. Through your five senses,
Through your five senses, you, you get all kinds of information
and it hits your frontal lobe. It's just coming at you all the
time, whether it's trials or or circumstances in your life.
Whatever it is, it's it's hitting you.
It's right here. After it goes there, it goes
straight to this main organ. I think it's called the
hypothalamine. And that affects everyone of
your systems, your inflammatory system, your endocrine system,
your your everything, every system that you have in your
body. Debbie's shaking her head
because she's a nurse. She could probably tell me all
of them. It affects everything.
So what you do when those things come right then is hugely
important that you don't just take the thought that came to
you that was negative, that mountain that just landed in
front of you, and you go, oh. Man, I guess we're not going to
make it. I guess we're not going to be
able to pay that because that's what that's what hit me just
then. So I guess that's the truth.
Oh, choose this day. Choose this day.
What you're going to, what you're going to decide.
Life or death, Blessing or cursing.
It's your choice every day. And it's not a choice you made
the day, you just the day you got born again.
It's the choice you make every day, all day.
Because I can make that choice when I wake up in the morning,
but then I can get to work and something happen and I need to
make that choice again. You're always making it.
If you want to be victorious in life, you've got to conquer
this. You have to conquer it.
So you think your thoughts are a big deal?
They're huge. They affect everything.
So what's the plan for our soul according to scripture?
Third, John Two says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all
things and be in health just as your soul prospers.
So it's saying you're going to be in health if your soul is
prospering, emotional and physical and mental health if
your soul. You want to talk about mental
health in here? God, God, God's got your mental
health. If you'll just yield to him, he
will wash and change everything up here so that you're not going
around the same mountains, the same loops all the time.
You know it. We could all, we could all say,
Yep, man, I I keep dealing with that same thing every year, that
same cycle, that same. We shouldn't be in cycles.
We should not be going around the same mountain all the time.
Our marriages shouldn't be stinking up every year.
We should be changing, going from faith to faith, from glory
to glory, changing, being transformed all the time.
You ought to be able to look back and go, man.
I'm not where I was, thank God. But I'm also not where I'm going
to be. I mean you, you ought to have a
moment every day and just go, oh, thank you, Lord, for for
what you brought me out of. Thank you, Lord, for what you've
delivered me out of a heart of Thanksgiving is huge.
And we'll talk about that. So that word, soul there in that
scripture is your psyche. It's your thoughts and and when
it says it's supposed to prosper, you're supposed to be
successful in your thought life well off.
And you're deciding. You're thinking you're you're
feeling. It's a peaceful way.
The scripture says you should have a sound mind, a peaceful
mind. You know if you're at peace or
not. You know if you have joy on the
inside. You know if there's stress.
You know one thought. It's happened to me before, more
than once. A thought will come and all of a
sudden your heart will go like that, just from a thought.
You think your thoughts don't affect you and your physical
body. They affect everything.
You've got to be purposeful every day, and it's not hard.
The scripture says today you you've got to do everything you
can just to enter into his rest. It's what he's done for you.
What is that REST? That rest is that I'm seated.
I know where I'm seated in heavenly places.
I'm I'm far above all rule and authority and power and dominion
and every name that's named. But there's a war happening, you
know, There's more than one heaven, and there's a war
happening in the heavens, a spiritual war.
And those fiery darts, he's accusing you day and night, day
and night. And he's not going to stop.
So you better understand what what battle you're fighting, But
you're fighting from a place of victory.
All you got to do is speak the word.
All you got to do is rejoice when you face those trials of
many kinds. OK, let me stay focused.
It's a peaceful way. I want to read that scripture to
you in a different translation. Dear friend, I pray that you're
doing well in every way and that you're healthy.
Just as your soul is healthy, what good is it to inherit this
Kingdom of God that the Father has so gladly given his children
if we're not enjoying every bit of it, getting to embrace every
bit of it? And it's not just for us, it's
so that we can bring this freedom to people outside of
here. When we're at West Augustine,
whatever we're doing, dining with dignity, whatever we're
doing in in our community and the world and the nations so
that we're free, so that we're not the freaks that people will
look at that are in church and are not free.
There's a lot of people that are in sitting in churches.
And walk out and they're no different.
And it's it's no different. And like in the Old Testament
saw, David came and he played for him and there was an
anointing and he had a piece when David played and then he
and then David left and he was tormented again.
Church people do that. We should not do that.
This place that we come into is our our safe haven.
We shut the door. We get a prescription for for
our lives. We we get in here and we learn
the word and we we find out what to do and how to overcome.
And then we go out there and we do it and we live it.
This is every day. God, it's you I live for.
Not just Sundays and Wednesdays. It's every day a mind loop.
Let me let me just explain that a a loop in your mind.
You know how when your dog goes outside and makes a track in
your yard, that's what your thoughts do.
They make a loop inside your brain and it affects every
chemical in your body, every chemical.
We got to get out of these loops.
We got to quit going around this same race track.
We got to start dealing with it. And you have the Holy Ghost.
You have discernment. If you're born again,
Spearfield, and you've got the you've got the Holy Ghost on the
inside, within you and upon you, and he's talking to you every
day, he's talking to you. Are you yielding to what he's
saying? OK, let's go to 2nd Corinthians,
chapter 10, verses 3 through 5. It says, for though we walk in
the flesh, we do not war. This is the battle I was talking
about. For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war according to the flesh.
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in
God, mighty in God. Let me say that again, because
when I say the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they
are actually mighty in God, Something inside you ought to be
like. Yes, yes, they're mighty.
The, the, the weapons that I have are mighty in God.
Let me read it again. I'm going to give you another
chance. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but mighty. In God For the yes, Amen.
For the pulling down of stronghold.
You don't have to have a stronghold in your mind.
For the pulling down of strongholds, casting down
arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to
the obedience of Christ, let me read an Amplified.
For though we walk in the flesh as mortal man, we are not
carrying on our spiritual warfare according to the flesh
and using the weapons of man. The weapons of our warfare are
not physical weapons of flesh and blood.
Our weapons are divinely. Powerful for the destruction of
fortresses. Some people have fortresses in
their mind. We are destroying sophisticated
arguments. I I know a few people have have
those sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud
thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of
God. And we are taking every thought
captive and and every purpose captive to the obedience of
Christ. That's our job.
Take every thought. Captive.
You have to understand the war that you're fighting.
It's in your mind, In your mind. The Bible is clear that we
should not be ignorant of the devil's devices.
Second Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11 says lest Satan should
get an advantage of us. For we are not ignorant of his
devices or his evil purpose. We're not ignorant of it.
His devices let me read it to you in a different in a
different translations. But I fear lest somehow as a
serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Was that was a different scripture?
Yes, the first one was Second Corinthians 211.
This one was Second Corinthians 11/3.
So sorry. So I fear less.
Somehow, as a serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, that your
minds would be corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ. Now I want to read that one in
the Amplified, but I'm afraid that even as the serpent
beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and
led astray from the simplicity of your sincere and pure
devotion to Christ. His end goal that the enemy his
His end goal is to steal your mind, to destroy it for you to
We sang. The first song that we sang said
The chains are broken. Are the chains broken?
Spiritually speaking, they are. But are but are you doing what
you need to do every day to make sure these chains are broken?
Revelation, chapter 12, verses 10 and 11.
It says. Then I heard a loud voice saying
In heaven. Now salvation and strength in
the Kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come
for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God.
Day and night has been cast down, and they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.
And they did not love their lives to the death.
This scripture shows us he is the accuser of the brethren
night and day. But it also says, you overcome
him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of your testimony.
That is not for you to get up here and talk about where you
been. Testimony.
That word, the the word of your testimony means what you're
declaring this raining resonance that's coming out of your mouth.
What you're saying that God says.
That's the word of your testimony.
So you overcome by the blood of the lamb and by what you're
saying, by what you're believing, by what you're
meditating on. That's how you're overcoming day
and night, day and night. He's always accusing you
condemnation, guilt. You're never going to break free
from this. He's always throwing those fiery
darts at you. When are you going to rise up?
When are you going to stand up and say no more?
I'm taking captive that thought and I'm putting it underneath
the obedience of the word of God.
That's not who God says I am. God, you said this.
You said I'm an overcomer. You said I have the joy of the
Lord. You said your peace guards my
heart and my mind. You said that God, You said, He
said to put him in remembrance of His word.
And it's not because he forgot it.
He didn't forget it, but you should be saying it.
He's not ever going to weary of hearing it.
You're activating things when you say it.
You got to speak it. Ephesians, Chapter 6, Our
strategy. Let's jump into this.
You ought to be like. You ought to be like ooh, I'm
ready for this. Because when I get out of here,
I'm going to conquer some stuff. I'm going to conquer some
thoughts that I've been dealing with for a while.
Ephesians Chapter 6 for our wrestling match.
I'm going to tell you part of it in a different translation.
It says for our wrestling match is not against persons with
bodies. My wrestling match is not
against you. It's not against my family.
Your wrestling match is not against people.
Your wrestling match is against what's going on in that heavenly
realm, the one that he has dominion of.
That's where your wrestling match is, so let's read it.
If he's in Chapter 6. Finally, my brethren, be strong
in the Lord and in the power of His might.
It's the unseen. The unseen is way more real than
what you see, way more real than what you see in the power of His
might. And put on the whole armor of
God that you may be able to stand against the Wiles of the
devil for we do not. Sometimes we don't put on our
armor. And that's the problem.
When I was a kid, I ran out of the house without my shirt on
and I was horrified because I realized I was just a little
girl. So in a big deal, I guess.
But but I I ran out and was like, oh, shirt on.
I cried. I ran back home.
We leave. We leave like that.
We leave our houses like that naked, without our, without our
armor on. For we do not wrestle against
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age, and
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
places he's organized. But you know he didn't get all
that on his own. He came from heaven.
We know where he came from and all his little angels, and he's
got an organized little system. He's running.
We ain't scared against the rulers of the darkness of this
age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly
places. Therefore, therefore, therefore
this is what it's there for. Therefore take up the whole
armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil
day. We all have evil days.
Not just talking about the last days.
We all have evil days. You have some days that try to
be evil. We got a lot of amens on that
that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and
having done all to stand, stand there for why?
Why does it have to tell us to stand so many times?
Stand there for having girded your waist with truth, having on
the breastplate of righteousness.
And this is the righteousness of God by faith.
This is the one that you received by faith through grace,
through Christ alone. OK, who you are in Christ, this
breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with
the preparation of the gospel of peace, and above all, above all,
above all the shield of faith with which you will be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the evil one, all of them, all
of them, all the fiery darts, and take the helmet of salvation
and the sword of the Spirit. You know salvation is your
absolute deliverance in every area.
That's what salvation is delivered in your mind,
delivered and everything. But you have to apply it and
take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which
is the word of God, praying always with all prayer and
supplication in the spirit, being watchful to this end with
all perseverance and supplication for all the Saints.
Remember 2nd Corinthians 10 that we already read, versus 3
through 5? For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but they're mighty in God, this is the
battle that we're fighting, putting on our armor.
We're going to look at ways that we can do this.
The problem is that we as believers, we know Christ is in
us, but we fail because we don't act on the word every single
day. We get caught up in our
schedules, caught up in our lives, caught up with our kids,
caught up in what we're doing, caught up with emotions, and
we're not actually allowing our minds to be transformed.
So Psalms 13 two says, It says don't take counsel in your soul.
Such a great scripture. You have a choice to make.
When thoughts come to you, they're going to take them
captive or you're just going to let them, let them sit there.
When I was a kid, a bird flew over my head and actually pooped
and and I did clean it. I didn't stay there and let it,
let it stay in my hair. I cried.
I freaked out. But, but sometimes things are
coming all the time and we just we just melt into it.
We just receive it. Maybe that's how I am.
That's how my mom was that's how my dad was.
I I guess that's that's probably how I am.
You know that those those hereditary genes in you
medically, you know, where people say well, so and so had
cancer and and maybe I'm going to get it, you know those genes
are not activated unless you activate them.
And you activate them by thinking on them you're
redeemed. You're redeemed by the blood of
the lamb. And by saying I'm redeemed from
all sickness and all cancer and anything that that tries to
come, I don't care if my granny had it.
You don't have to be in the same.
You're not in the same bloodline.
You don't have to be in the same generational curses.
Psalm 13, two. How long shall I take counsel in
my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
We need to ask ourselves that question.
How much more am I going to keep taking counsel in my soul?
Well, this is how I feel and you don't understand.
You don't understand what I'm going through.
There is nothing new under the sun, so you really can't have
that excuse. Anything that comes to you is
common to man. Everybody.
Jeez, everybody's been through it.
Do not take counsel in your own soul.
Having sorrow in your heart. How long will our enemies be
exalted out No more. You have to say no more.
You have to walk out of here today and go.
I'm going to apply these principles.
I'm going to apply the word every day #1.
Live by decision every day, every day by the word and the
Spirit. Not by your own soul, your own
feelings, your own circumstances.
Live by decision every single day.
Let's look at David. David is such a great example to
look at. Let's look at him in First
Samuel chapter 30. Think about what you would do in
this circumstance now. It happened when David and his
men came to Ziglag on the third day that the Amalekites had
invaded the South and Ziglag and attacked Ziglag and burned it
with fire and had taken captive the women and those who were
there. So David was off on a some
military thing and this is what happened while he was gone.
The women, they had taken, the women and the children who were
there from small to great. They did not kill anyone, but
carried them away and went their way.
So David and his men came to the city, and there it was burned
with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters
had been taken captive. Then David and the people who
were with him lifted up their voices, and they wept until they
had no more power to weep. And David's two wives, I don't
know how to say her name. And Abigail had been taken
captive, And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke
of Stoningham. So then they they turned on him,
for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the
people was grieved, and every man for his sons and daughters.
But David strengthened and encouraged himself into the Lord
his God. Can you imagine?
Do you think he had any emotions?
I mean, it says he does. Do you think he had any?
What was dealing with any emotions of fear do you think
Shatter at Meshach and a Bendigo didn't have any fear?
You think I didn't feel anything?
You think all these Old Testament stories that sometimes
we read and go, wow, what would we do?
Sometimes we we're a little bit more carnal than we want to
think we are. We read these Old Testament
stories and go, oh gosh, what would I do in that circle?
You think they didn't deal with the same emotions that you would
deal with, but it said he strengthened and encouraged
himself in the in the Lord Paul and Silas in the jail.
You think they wanted or felt like singing praises and
thanking God? This is your victory, church.
This is your victory every day, no matter what's in front of
you. What are you going to do?
He strengthened and he
encouraged himself in the Lord. Oh, we got to meditate on the
faithfulness of God. Can you go from a trial or
despair or grieving to just thanking God?
Oh, yes you can, and you should. You should.
You must. It's actually an act of your
will. Your victory every day is an act
of your will. You have to live by decision.
You cannot just que sera sera. Whatever happens is going to
happen. You can't live like that and and
and overcome in the Kingdom of God.
Psalm 4211. David, again, why are you cast
down, oh, my soul? And why are you disquieted
within me, hoping God, for I shall yet praise him the help of
my countenance. And my God, this is how you
overcome. You have to tell your soul.
Why are you so sad? What's wrong with you, God, you
said this. This is how you overcome.
I'm going to put my hope in God, soul.
Why are you so depressed? Why are you so sad?
God, I thank you, Lord, that your joy is my strength.
Thank you, Lord, that I'm quickened today to do what
you've called me to do. Thank you, Lord, that you're
moving the obstacles out of my way.
Thank you, Father. That you provided everything
that I need in Christ Jesus. That's how you win.
David knew how to do it. We how much more who have the
Holy Ghost within and upon us? Psalm 9419.
In the multitude of my anxieties within me your comforts delight
my soul. It doesn't matter what anxieties
come to you. His comforts will will give you
peace in your soul. But every day you've got to
choose. Let me read.
I already said it, but let me read Deuteronomy 30.
See, I've said today before you Life and good, death and evil.
In that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk
in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, his
judgments that you would live and multiply, and that the Lord
God would bless you in the land which you go to possess.
But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, that's a
big statement. But if your heart turns away so
that you do not hear and are drawn away and worship other
gods and serve them, I announced to you today that you shall
surely perish. You know, we read that the
worship other, the gods and stars.
Then we think, well, I don't, I don't really have any idols
because we think that's such a I got to have a statue at home or
something. There's a lot of things that
become idols in our lives, a job, a relationship, money.
If you're empty in any kind of way and you don't deal with it,
something will become your idol. You will try to put your
security in someone or something to fix you.
And it will never fix you. Never, never fix you.
James, Chapter One. I didn't finish reading, dude.
Army 30I got caught up. Okay, let me finish reading it.
If your heart turns away so you do not hear and are drawn away,
and worship other gods and serve them.
I announced to you today that you will surely perish.
You shall not prolong your days in the land in which you cross
over the Jordan to go in and possess.
Now they went in and possess the land.
But he says, you're not going to live long in it and you're not
going to do well in it. Just because you've come into
the land, you've come into the Kingdom of God, does not mean
you're going to prolong your days or you're going to have
victory in it. Unless you choose, unless you
live on purpose. And like, unless you make that
decision every day, I call heaven and earth to you as a
witness today against you. And I almost want to say that
the the and me wants to say to you right now.
I call heaven and earth as a witness today against you.
That I've I didn't say before you laugh and death He did That
I've said before you life and death, blessing and cursing,
therefore choose life. That both you and your
descendants may live. That you may love the Lord your
God, that you'll obey His voice and you may cling to him.
For he is your life and the length of your days, and that
you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your father's
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give them.
James. Chapter One, my brethren, my
cistern, count it all joy when you fall into various trials
knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
That's all you need to know. You can leave now.
That's all you need to know. That's all you got to know right
there. Count it all.
Joy, he's not counting it for you.
You have to count it. And it says that as long as I
know that when trials come, it's just testing my faith.
And it's producing perseverance. You ought to jump at those
trials. You ought to be like, bring it
on. I'm not moved.
Ha ha ha. That's how you want to face
stuff. But we we curl up in a ball.
But let patients have its perfect work, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to
all, liberally and without reproach, and it will be given
to Him. Man, you don't know what to do,
ever. God knows He'll tell you.
All you have to do is ask him. All you have to do is ask him.
But let him ask him. Faith with no doubting.
For here doubts, is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by
the wind. The doubting is here.
It's right here, driven and tossed by the wind.
For let not that man suppose that he'll receive anything from
the Lord, for he's a double minded man and stable in all his
ways. You know, the Bible talks about
so many different kinds of minds in Scripture, positive and
negative. Number two.
You got the first one right. OK, #2 meditate day and night.
These are this is your prescription.
You're in control of your soul, your emotions, your mind.
Joshua 1/8 This book of the law shall not depart from your
mouth. It shall not come depart from
your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night,
that you may observe to do according to all that's written
in it. For then you'll make your way
prosperous, and then you'll have good success.
Philippians, chapter 4, verse 8. Finally, brethren, whatever
things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are
just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely.
Whatever things are of a good report, if there's any virtue,
if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on that.
Meditate on these things, the things which you learned and
received and heard and saw me these do, and the God of peace
will be with you. Psalms 1.
Meditate day and night, day and night, day and night.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the ungodly,
or what the ungodly thinks, nor stands in the path of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in this law in his
word he meditates day and night. That man shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in its
season, and whose leaf does not wither.
And whatever he does will prosper.
Whatever he does will prosper. You know, Psalm 92.
I don't have that in my notes, but it's It talks about again in
old fruit, in in old fruit. In old age, you'll still bear
fruit. We ought to always be bearing
fruit, no matter what our age is.
Always be growing, always be changing.
Because right here, because you're transforming this,
because you're choosing every day whom I'm going to serve
every day, who are you going to serve?
The reason we don't conquer is not a power issue.
It's a strategy and a discipline issue.
The power is there. You've got the power.
I wanted to. I wanted to bust out.
You've got the power. You have that.
It's the strategy and it's the discipline to do it every day.
Every day. Isaiah 26, three and four.
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
you because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever.
For Yahweh, the Lord is your everlasting strength.
He'll keep you in perfect peace if you'll keep your mind on him
all the time. You can walk through death, you
can walk through trial, you can walk through no matter what
comes to you. And you can have peace because
that peace surpasses your understanding.
This is not a worldly peace. This is God's peace and and and
it doesn't even you can't even comprehend it.
I have peace. I remember my dad passed away
and God, the Holy Ghost told me he was going to pass.
So I knew I was prepared. And so the supernatural peace
that covered me had such a peace didn't mean I didn't cry.
When you go through things and you grieve, even in counseling,
there's stages of grief. There's things that we go
through, but we ought not to still be in those stages a year
later, two years later, we ought to be coming out of those
things. God doesn't want you to stay in
that. Stay heavy.
OK, #3, you got to say so. You got to say so.
You overcome by the word of your testimony, by speaking the word
of God out. Psalms 1070.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good and his mercy endures
forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say
so Who has redeemed from the hand of the enemy?
Remember what we did, the blessings and the curses.
Remember in Deuteronomy 28 when it said that they would be smite
with madness, that they would have astonishment of heart, all
of those things. You're redeemed from all that,
but you've got to say so. So when heaviness comes, when
depression comes, when fear comes, you've got to say
something. God, you didn't give me a spirit
of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound, sound
mind. You have to say something.
If we keep on reading down in verse eight of that of that
passage, it says, oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord
for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children
of men. For he satisfies the longing
soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
And the last point I want you to have is #4, Thanksgiving and
praise. You have to be purposeful every
day to give thanks. I almost always want to mention
Romans chapter one, and it's not in my notes.
But the scripture says although they knew God, they did not
honor him as God, nor were they thankful.
And so he gave them over to a debased mind.
A debased mind. You're not thankful, you're not
going to yield. Then the powers of darkness have
have access to you. They weren't thankful and they
didn't honor him as God. Psalm chapter 80.
Lord, oh Lord, how excellent is your name and all the earth who
have set your glory above the heavens?
Listen to verse two. And I want to tell you what it
means. It says out of the mouth of
babes and nursing infants, you have ordained strength or
ordained praise. That is not just talking about
babies. That's talking about his
creation. That's you.
That's me. So it says out of the mouth of
you, out of the mouth of my creation.
I have ordained praise because of the enemies, so that you will
silence the enemy and the Avenger.
Do I need to say that again out of the mouth of my creation?
I have ordained praise and strength because of the enemies,
so that you will silence the enemy and the Avenger.
When you give him praise and you thank him because of what his
word says, it silences the plan of the enemy for your life, his
voice and your life. It makes it null and void.
And he's ordained you for that. He's ordained you to praise.
He's ordained you to be thankful.
A thankful heart, the veggie tale says, is a happy heart for
real. And I used to sing.
We used to sing. I sing it mainly to our girls
when they were little. Because thankful heart is a
happy heart. Be glad for what you have.
That's an easy way to start. So I would sing that to them
like all the time, every day. Do you remember that, Coco?
Yeah, So. So it cultivated some
thankfulness and there's there's thankfulness in our home.
And you ought to be like that with everybody that you're
around. I love you.
I'm thankful for you. Thank you and mean it, mean it.
Okay Psalm 42. I'm wrapping up here.
Psalm 42. When David asked why he was, he
was downcast When we read that scripture earlier, he said For
yet, I will still praise you. Why are you downcast so much?
No matter what I'm going through for yet, I will still give you
praise no matter how I feel. First Thessalonians, chapter 5,
verses 16 through 18. In the midst of your emotions,
you have to choose life. You have to choose the word.
You have to choose praise if you want to be free, if you truly
want to be free first, that's only in chapter 5.
Verses 16 through 18 says rejoice.
Always pray without ceasing in everything give thanks and
everything give thanks. How do you do that?
How do you do that when you have, if you have a bill that
you can't pay? Are you saying thank you, Lord,
that I have a bill I can't pay? No.
You're saying thank you, Lord, that you provide all my needs.
I'm not in denial, and we're not acting it to be weird.
I I have the bill. It's.
I see the bill. It's there.
I don't have the money for it. But, God, you said I have the
money for it. You said that you meet every one
of my needs. So thank you, Lord, that you're
providing that. And I'm not going to worry one
bit Now, if you don't have a job, get a job.
If I can just say you can't just sit on, you know, there's
there's natural laws that you got to do.
Okay, rejoice, always pray without ceasing, and everything
give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.
For you clausions. 315 And let the peace of God rule in your
hearts, to which also you were called in one body.
And be thankful, be thankful. 1st Corinthians 1557.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through our Lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians chapter
5, verses 19 and 20 says, speaking to one another in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord. You know it's OK to sing
everywhere. Whether you can sing or not is
irrelevant. It's OK to sing.
You should have a song in your heart every day.
I wish we would have pulled up the video when when a song was
playing on the church hall and I walked out of the bathroom.
It was a charity Gale and I and that my favorite part.
And Anjali was coming and we went at the same time.
Just because it was in there. You got to have a song in you.
You ought to be singing. You ought to be able to dance.
You ought to be able to have fun.
You ought to have this at home, not just when you're here.
Did I finish reading? Ephesians 5 versus 19 and 20.
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord and
giving thanks always. If you're getting water
baptized, you can be dismissed to go change.
Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm 103 Bless the Lord Oh my
soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord Oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
You better not forget who forgives all your iniquities and
heals all your diseases. Who redeems your life from
destruction, and who crowns you with loving kindness and tender
mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things so that
your youth is renewed like the Eagles.
Oh, you can refuse to be troubled.
You can refuse to yield to life circumstances.
You know, in Psalm 23, it says he was seated at the table in
the presence of his enemies. His enemies were there, and
they're they're always there shooting those fiery darts.
But I. But he stayed seated at the
table. And that's what you have to do.
You have to stay seated at the table every day and know that
those trials that come to you, they're they're under your feet.
You have dominion, You have authority.
You have the power on the inside of you, but you have to choose
it every day. Choose life.
Choose dominion. Choose what God says over what
your circumstances say. Romans chapter 8, verses 5 and
six For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on
the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the
Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually
minded is life and peace. And the last scripture marked
1230 says, And you shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, all your
heart, all your soul and all your mind, and with all your
strength. This is the first commandment.
We have got to possess our soul. We have got to take dominion in
our thought life. When you come down here for a
healing line or wherever you are, if you come down here for
anything and you get hands laid on you for sickness, in that
moment you received the healing. But if you walk away and a
symptom comes at you and you go, I don't think I got it.
You nullified it all. And so sometimes when people
come up for things or get hands laid on them for something you
want to say, okay. Now listen, this is what you got
to do. If you really want to conquer
it, you have to believe that what happened right here
happened by faith. It's done.
We're drawing a line in the sand.
Whatever thing it is today that you need to draw a line in the
sand, I'm. I'm not like my family.
The curse of the poverty is broken.
Mental illness is broken. We can help you find some
scriptures. You can do it on your own.
Get you some scriptures to stand on every single day, live it out
on purpose. Be purposeful, say it, speak it,
declare it, and then thank him. Thank him that it's done.
Thank you, Lord, that you've delivered me.
You've delivered me out of that heaviness, out of that
depression, out of that poverty, whatever it is, That's what you
have to do every day if you're going to have the victory.
So next time we have a service where where some of us take off
running, I'm going to be like they conquered right here.
I've been seeing them go around that same, that same mountain.
They did it. We can't do it for you, but you
have everything you need to do it, everything you need.
Now I want to make a call for anyone who has not made Jesus
Lord. That is the greatest decision to
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